![]() ![]() ![]() Though this "format" of brash youngster going against the King/establishment has become a bit cliche in structure (see all Tom Cruise movies where he plays same character repeatedly) I still enjoyed this early Tevis. In beating Fats he became the best in the country. When it is over, Eddie knows a great deal more about big-time pool, about money, and about himself. Bert knows talent without character is nothing and stakes Eddie to a climactic all-or-nothing rematch. It takes an interlude with Sarah, an alcoholic and a born loser, to bring the lesson home, and the shrewd advice and backing of Bert, a professional gambler, to put it into practice. Eddie's final painful loss teaches him that nerve alone isn't enough - guts, stamina, and character make the difference between winners and losers. ![]() Eddie and Fats pit nerve against skill in a fantastic match over an unbroken 36 hours. Hustling suckers in small towns for good stake money was practice for his goal, and when he felt ready he went to Bennington's pool hall in Chicago to find Minnesota Fats. To Fast Eddie Felsen, a young pool hustler, there was only one thing that mattered: to make the big time and the big money in the world of pool by beating the best in the country. ![]()
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![]() However, L’automédication ou les mirages de l’autonomie reveals that taking pharmacotherapy into one’s own hands allows only a partial escape from the rule of profit and professionals, as the self-management of disorders continues to be based on a clinical rationale. David’s latest book, Pharmageddon, documents the riveting and terrifying story of how pharmaceutical companies have hijacked healthcare in America and the life-threatening results. He contrasts Dumit’s account of pharmaceutically dominated forms of life and Healy’s advocacy of a return to a prelapsarian medical practice not yet corrupted by big pharma with Sylvie Fainzang’s study of self-medication. Elsevier Health Sciences, Medical - 344 pages. It is the authors’ treatments of the role of drugs in changing conceptions of health and care, which attract Meyers’ interest. In both David Healy’s Pharmageddon and Joseph Dumit’s Drugs for Life, reviewer Todd Meyers finds much evidence for the prioritizing of financial gain over social need, but also expresses fatigue with the corresponding indignation. ![]() ![]() The predominance of corporate interests has provoked a social scientific literature often quite critical of contemporary pharmaceutical practices and their cultural incorporations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, with some of these cats, you can just tell they are thinking “why do i have to be owned by such a massively cheesy douchebag?”Īnd with some others, you want to shout: “learn how to hold a cat properly, asshole!!”Īnd this one might need to be fed a little lessīut in some of the pictures, you can tell they really love their kitties, and it is sweet to see these metal dudes able to pause the tough guy image and just snuggleĪnd just to keep it interesting, there’s this guy, who didn’t read the memoīut mostly – yay for cats! and yay for something i never would have thought i needed to own, but now do. The adorable photo series published in Metal Cats by Alexandra Crockett sets out to change all that by getting famous musicians to pose with their adorable kittens and show off their softer sides. not that i’m super-into metal – i would be surprised if i had heard of even five of these bands. While slinking about in the middle of the night and stalking prey into the early hours of the morning might have convinced our medieval. History shows us that they have been genuinely misunderstood. 'Our relationship with cats has come a long way. i love it when a book knows i want to see something before i know it myself. From Metal Cats by Alexandra Crockett, published by powerHou Photography by Alexandra Crockett. ![]() ![]() ![]() |a Piggie (Fictitious character : Willems) |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01894977 ![]() |a Gerald (Fictitious character : Willems) |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01893897 ![]() |a JUVENILE FICTION |x Animals |x Elephants. |a Cooperativeness |0 sh85032227 |v Juvenile fiction. |a Piggie |c (Fictitious character from Willems) |0 id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2020087010 |v Juvenile fiction. |a Gerald |c (Fictitious character from Willems) |0 id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2020086846 |v Juvenile fiction. |a Garden State Children's Book Awards, 2010. |a While Piggie is determined to fly Elephant is skeptical, but when Piggie gets a little help from others, amazing things happen. |a 57 pages : |b color illustrations |c 24 cm. ![]() |a New York, New York : |b Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group, |c 2007. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Colour of Magic (which Pratchett described as “an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns”) kicked the series off in 1983 and before his death in 2015 he published a further 40 novels a handful of short stories and even a few non-fiction books expanding on his ever growing and increasingly popular creation. ![]() His books were often comic in nature and his most popular work remains the series chronicling the Discworld, a huge flat disc floating through space on the backs of four giant elephants which, in turns, stand on the shell of a god-like star turtle Great A’Tuin. Indeed, in the 1990s, Pratchett was the best-selling British writer of any genre, selling over 85 million books in 37 languages. Rowling whose work is clearly indebted to his vast body of work. For many years, Terry Pratchett was Britain’s foremost writer of fantasy fiction, until the rise of J.K. ![]() ![]() Twain uses Tom's adventures to explore the themes of childhood, friendship, and the conflict between social norms and personal freedom. Tom will also take up an adventurous ride in his life where he will run away from home, search for buried treasure, and play pirates with his best friend, Huckleberry Finn (We know where heard that name). Readers will see Tom facing the challenges of growing up in a small town that includes attending school, dealing with bullies, and falling in love for the first time. However, he is also resourceful, intelligent, and fiercely independent which makes the story even more interesting. ![]() The story is interesting because the mischievous and adventurous character of Tom always gets into trouble. The novel tells the story of a young boy named Tom Sawyer living in a small town located on the banks of the Mississippi River. First published in 1876, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a novel by Mark Twain set in the mid-19th century. ![]() ![]() She came home and joined the State Department as a clerk. She spent three years in Europe, becoming fluent in French, German, Spanish and Italian. She was born in 1906 and like her mother was ambitious but directed her ambition “t oward a career and exploring the world rather than bagging a feckless husband.” At age twenty, after one year at Radcliffe and one at Barnard, she moved to Paris and enrolled in the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. Virginia Hall was the daughter of a wealthy Baltimore banker and a social-climbing mother. Purnell writes, “women were…subjected to the worst forms of torture the depraved Nazi mind-set could devise.” Quote from a former member of the SOE in war-time Franceīesides being a gripping tale of the Resistance in France during the Second World War, this is the story of Virginia Hall, an American woman, with an artificial leg, who operated behind enemy lines at a time when being a female in a combat zone was unusual, let alone one who was disabled. “If caught,” Ms. The nerve strain and fatigue, the all-demanding alertness of living a lie, theseĪre to meet, accept and control. ![]() “‘ There are endless nightmares of uncertainty,’ explained one. ![]() “A Woman of No Importance,” Sonia Purnell ![]() ![]() The lighting is coming from a candle set on the ground, which is the only thing keeping the "folk" at bay. The bag she's holding, to her, has more importance than her own life, which is why it's so prominant and her face is not. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Everything about the book-the setting, her mind, the metaphores-had to do with cellars. Margo Lanagan (Goodreads Author) (shelved 18 times as selkies) avg rating 3.68 4,290 ratings published 2009. She's a spooky girl who chopped her weird silvery hair short and pretended to be a boy, while her entire life revolved around the cellars she practically lives in. It made the main character seem like a vulnerable or spooked little girl. I was very surprised and pleased by the book.īut the cover art sucked. ![]() The way she thinks is just so totally.interesting. ![]() ![]() The book was The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley, a really terribly interesting book from the point of view of one such "folk keeper." Not a typical story in the least, it really is like reading the journal of and getting inside the head of a very spooky little individual. This was done the first semester of my junior year. ![]() ![]() On its own it improves over Paramount’s old DVD significantly and there is no contest when comparing those two. Though some long shots aren’t as sharp as others (which is also the same on StudioCanal’s Blu-ray) the image delivers acrisp black-and-white picture loaded with fine-object detail, nicely rendered grain, and excellent textures, all leading to a very pleasant, film-like image. ![]() The good news is that Criterion’s high-def version is, at the very least, comparable to the standard Blu-ray found in StudioCanal’s release. If my praise towards this presentation comes off even a wee bit underwhelmed it’s only because I have already seen StudioCanal’s 4K UHD release of the title, which looks unbelievably good, just rich in texture and detail, and accompanied by gorgeous blacks and whites, superb grayscale, and excellent looking film grain. That picture looks incredible and it was always going to be hard for a high-def/1080 version to live up to it, which StudioCanal’s included (region B locked) Blu-ray showed itself. ![]() Criterion is using StudioCanal’s recent 4K restoration, which was in turn scanned from the 35mm original camera negative. Feeling like it has been a long time coming, The Criterion Collection gets around to releasing David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, presenting it on Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 on a dual-layer disc with a 1080p/24hz high-definition encode. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elagabalus forced leading members of Rome's government to participate in religious rites celebrating Sol Invictus, which he personally led. He replaced Jupiter, head of the Roman pantheon, with a new god, Deus Sol Invictus, which in Latin means "the Sun, Undefeated God". ![]() Elagabalus' name is a Latinized form of the Semitic deity El-Gabal, a manifestation of the Semitic deity Ēl. During his reign, he showed a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos. ![]() Elagabalus is one of the most controversial Roman emperors. 203– March 11, 222), born Varius Avitus Bassus and also known as Varius Avitus Bassianus Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, was a Roman emperor of the Severan dynasty who reigned from 218 to 222. Septimius Severus, with Geta and CaracallaĮlagabalus or Heliogabalus (c. ![]() |