![]() ![]() When soldiers arrived at her mountain monastery, destroying everything in their path, Kunsang and her family fled across the Himalayas only to spend years in Indian refugee camps. There was a saying in Tibet: "When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth." The Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 changed everything. She married a monk, had two children, and lived in peace and prayer. Though simple, Kunsang's life gave her all she needed: a oneness with nature and a sense of the spiritual in all things. One of the country's youngest Buddhist nuns, she grew up in a remote mountain village where, as a teenager, she entered the local nunnery. Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom ![]()
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![]() ![]() That doesn’t mean we weren’t plagued by doubts along the way. We wanted our list to reflect the breadth of world cinema and of our tastes, but we also didn’t want to placate or pander or allow fear of Film Twitter or Outrage Twitter (or any Twitter) to weigh on our process. Picking the movies we love the most, while being mindful of variety and inclusivity, significance and staying power, was difficult (we know: world’s smallest violin). And we did not consider anything from 2022 it just felt too soon (translation: after the forever-long awards season, we needed a breather from talking about Tár, Everything Everywhere All at Once and the rest of ’em). Our only parameters: All six of us had to love, like or at least respect every film on the list. ![]() Countless emails and a few long Zoom meetings later, we had our list. We tallied up the points, and then hashed it out from there. The films with the most yeas - about 80 - advanced to the next round. Everyone voted “yea” or “nay” on each of those titles. In the spirit of transparency, our methodology went something like this: We all offered up titles we thought were worthy of consideration (an initial list of well over 100 movies). We thought it as good a time as any to look back at the films that have, to us, stood the ever-unfolding test of time. But we’ve arguably already lived through 100 years’ worth of upheaval, progress, pain, destruction, hope and heartache in the world - not to mention the film industry - since 2000. Sure, we’ve yet to hit the quarter-century mark, when these sorts of lists tend to start landing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, the book becomes a struggle between Heaven and Hell, with Alizon's fate hanging in the balance. Mother Demdike, a powerful witch, and her clan face rival witches, raise innocent young Alizon Devi as their own, and try to corrupt Alizon despite her innocent ways. Dying, Paslew curses Demdike's offspring - who become the titular 'Lancashire Witches.' The rest of the book set in the 17th century. Years later, granted the powers of a warlock, he returns in the guise of Nicholas Demdike to witness Paslew's execution for treason. When a Cistercian monk, Borlace Alvetham, is falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned to death by his rival, Brother Paslew, he sells his soul to Satan and escapes. The Lancashire Witches begins in the 16th century, in Lancashire, England. Ainsworth's last masterpiece, The Lancashire Witches proved a best-seller in its day and influenced many contemporary authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first thing NTB does is dispel a number of commonly held assumptions. Beginning as an inquiry into the frequently used phrase ‘rape culture’, a phrase that is little understood, Gay hopes that Not That Bad will inspire a movement, because naming and shaming powerful perpetrators like Harvey Weinstein is not in itself enough to ensure lasting change. This anthology of personal essays asks one of the harder questions about rape: ‘What is it like to live in a culture where it often seems it is a question of when, not if, a woman will encounter some kind of sexual violence?’ A survivor of a gang rape who spent most of her life telling herself the experience wasn’t that bad – she survived, didn’t she? – Roxane Gay knows all about the self-harm women do when they minimise their experiences of the sexual violence that permeates our culture, society and law. ![]() Tags: Ally Sheedy/ Aubrey Hirsch/ Claire Schwartz/ Elissa Bassist/ Happy Valley/ Jill Christman/ Roxane Gay/ Sarah Wainwright/ VL Seekįeminist Roxane Gay brings together dispatches from the front lines of rape culture. ROXANE GAY (Editor) Not That Bad: Dispatches from rape culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first volume in a major new translation of In Search of Lost Time, co-edited by Brian Nelson and Adam Watt.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Principally focused on the narrator's childhood, this volume lays the foundation of Proust's extraordinary literary edifice. Immersed in themes of time, memory, identity, art, sensation, love, and jealousy, the narrator embarks on the story of his life and the paths he takes towards fulfilling his vocation as a writer. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable first-person narrator-protagonist. The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. 'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment.' Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With dystopian novels now all over my radar, I was so happy to see what The Forsaken had to offer. Survival may seem impossible, but Alenna is determined to achieve it anyway. ![]() Desperate, she and the other prisoners concoct a potentially fatal plan to flee the island. The life expectancy of prisoners on The Wheel is just two years, but with dirty, violent, and chaotic conditions, the time seems a lot longer as Alenna is forced to deal with civil wars for land ownership and machines that snatch kids out of their makeshift homes. But Alenna can’t help but stand out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to The Wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet-having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. A thought-provoking and exciting start to a riveting new dystopian trilogy.Īs an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was pretty sure that he’d fooled his parents into thinking the night before that he and his sister Katherine had just run down the street to their friend Chip’s house for a few minutes. Jonah had just gotten home from a long, secret trip the night before as he stepped into the living room, he was lecturing himself: Just don’t say or do anything to make Mom or Dad suspicious. The man-a total stranger-was standing in the Skidmore family’s living room on Tuesday morning when Jonah came downstairs before school. Jonah saw the man before the man saw him. ![]() ![]() Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released in 2D cinemas and IMAX formats in the United States on 11 July 2007 and in the United Kingdom on 12 July, by Warner Bros. The film's budget was reportedly between £75 and 100 million ($150–200 million). Post-production on the film continued for several months afterwards to add in visual effects. ![]() Its story follows Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as the Ministry of Magic is in denial of Lord Voldemort's return.įilming took place in England and Scotland for exterior locations and Leavesden Film Studios in Watford for interior locations from February to November 2006, with a one-month break in June. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and the fifth instalment in the Harry Potter film series. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Michael Goldenberg, based on the 2003 novel of the same name by J. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scrupulous and exhaustive in its fidelity to its sources, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources is presented in a narrative style that is easily comprehensible, yet authentic and inspiring in its use of language, reflecting both the simplicity and grandeur of the story it tells. Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophet’s life, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. ![]() Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Represents the final updates made on the text before the author’s death in 2005.Contains original English translations from 8th and 9th century biographies, presented in authoritative language.Includes important additions about the prophet’s spread of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states. ![]() A revised edition of the internationally acclaimed biography of the prophet ![]() ![]() Informatie over de Onderzoekschool Politieke geschiedenis Academic director: prof. Annejet Landman Huygens ING Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185 Amsterdam 1Ģ 1. Self-evaluation Dutch national Research School for Political History (Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis OPG) Samenstelling verslag Dr. Report on the Dutch national Research School of Political History VIII. Objectives PhD and ReMa training Research School of Political History VII. Overzicht buitenpromovendi Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis VI. Overzicht promovendi Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis V. Overzicht research masters Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis IV. ![]() Overzicht onderwijsactiviteiten Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis A. Overzicht onderwijsactiviteiten 1 januari december Overige mededelingen 4. ![]() ![]() 1 Jaarverslag 2018 Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis 1 januari december 2018 Inhoudsopgave: 1. ![]() |