![]() At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. ![]() "America's funniest science writer" ( Washington Post ) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Bodies had been stolen from graves for nocturnal subterranean feasts, they said. “The rats, the old men whispered, were messengers between this world and the grim and ancient caverns far below Salem. ![]() As the editor behind Lit Hub’s film and TV newsletter, What to Watch (*cough* subscribe here), I consider it my duty to bring you the source material behind literary adaptations-so here’s where you can read the gooey, gross, very good stories that feature in Cabinet.Įpisode 2: “Graveyard Rats,” based on a short story by Henry Kuttner If you, like me, spent the weekend squirming while watching Guillermo del Toro’s new anthology horror series, Cabinet of Curiosities, on Netflix, you might also have noticed that all the episodes but one start with a hat tip toward the author of the short story that inspired it. ![]() ![]() Among those interviewed were poet Allen Ginsberg and folk musician Dave Van Ronk, both of whom died before the film was completed. The project began to take shape in 1995 when Dylan's manager, Jeff Rosen, began scheduling interviews with Dylan's friends and associates. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack) were released that same month. A DVD version of the film and accompanying soundtrack album ( The Bootleg Series Vol. The film was first broadcast on television in both the United States (as part of the American Masters series on PBS) and the United Kingdom (as part of the Arena series on BBC Two) on September 26–27, 2005. ![]() ![]() The title of the film is taken from the lyrics of Dylan's 1965 single " Like a Rolling Stone". This period encapsulates Dylan's rise to fame as a folk singer and songwriter where he became the center of a cultural and musical upheaval, and continues through the electric controversy surrounding his move to a rock style of music. ![]() ![]() The film focuses on the period between Dylan's arrival in New York in January 1961 and his "retirement" from touring following his motorcycle accident in July 1966. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan is a 2005 documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th-century American popular music and culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, I’m very, very glad - I’m very honoured. How does it feel to have been chosen for The London Book Fair? It’s a story about the kidnapping of activists in 1998, several months before president Soeharto resigned, before the reformation: 22 students were kidnapped, and only 9 people were released. ![]() ![]() ‘Laut’ means the sea, but it’s also the name of the character. John McGlynn was the translator and he translated the title as The Sea Speaks His Name. My most recent novel, published at the end of last year, is called Laut. My first ‘adult’ novel is called Pulang, is been translated into 5 languages including English. I was a fiction writer first, and then after college I studied in Canada to become a journalist. My first short story was published in a children’s magazine when I was 12 years old, so I’ve been writing for a long time. I actually started writing when I was kid. We discuss form, Indonesian Identity and what it's like to have another writer in the family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Flashman books were also praised by critics for their storytelling flair and attention to historical detail. I wanted Basil Rathbone to kill Errol Flynn.” “I was always on the side of the villain when I was a child and went to the movies. ![]() “People like rascals they like rogues,” Fraser told the British Broadcasting Corp. A vain, cowardly rogue, Flashman nonetheless emerged from each episode covered in glory, rising to the rank of medal-garlanded brigadier general.įraser thought his antihero’s appeal was not surprising. In the book and 11 sequels, Flashman fought, drank and womanized his way across the British Empire, Europe and the United States, playing a pivotal role in the century’s great historical moments. The novel imagined Flashman - the bullying schoolboy of the 19th century classic “Tom Brown’s Schooldays” - grown up to become a soldier in the British army. ![]() ![]() This sharply-designed book with a 32-page full-colour section is packed with rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and an examination of female madness, both onscreen and off. Named after the U.S.-retitling of Carlos Aured's The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, House of Psychotic Women is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens. Unlike her male counterpart - 'the eccentric' - the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. ![]() House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus, he’s hiding a your-life-is-over-if-you’re-caught secret: he’s the creator of an anonymous gossip cartoon, and he’s on the verge of getting caught. After his family’s annual trip to visit his father in Singapore is cancelled, Henry decides he doesn’t want to be cooped up at home with his overprotective family and BFF turned NRFF (Not Really Friend Forever). And he definitely CAN’T take a journey halfway around the world all by himself! But that’s exactly his plan. ![]() He’s not allowed to go anywhere without his sister/chaperone/bodyguard. In Fly on the Wall, a moving and hilarious diary-style illustrated novel from the award-winning author of Pie in the Sky, a twelve-year-old boy goes on a (forbidden) solo adventure halfway around the world to prove his independence to his overprotective family.A Best Book of the Year for Kirkus, Booklist, Chicago Public Library, and School Library Journal! Henry Khoo’s family treats him like a baby. ![]() ![]() Gaunts Ghosts Wikipedia ~ Gaunts Ghosts is a series of novels written by Dan Abnett It is a military science fiction series set in the Warhammer 40000 universe As of 2019 the series spans 16 novels which document the efforts of the Tanith First a highly skilled yet unappreciated light infantry regiment of the Imperial Guard during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade The Saint A Gaunts Ghosts Omnibus by Dan Abnett ~ ColonelCommissar Ibram Gaunt and the men of the Tanith FirstandOnly are at the heart of this struggle their specialist scouting role earning them the nickname the Ghosts ![]() Gaunts Ghosts The Saint Abnett Dan 9781844164790 ~ Dan Abnett is a multiple New York Times bestselling author and an awardwinning comic book writer He has written over forty novels including the acclaimed Gaunt’s Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies His Horus Heresy novel Prospero Burns topped the SF charts in the UK and the US ![]() ![]() The Saint A Gaunts Ghosts Omnibus ~ ColonelCommissar Ibram Gaunt and the men of the Tanith FirstandOnly are at the heart of this struggle their specialist scouting role earning them the nickname the Ghosts ![]() ![]() ![]() Being able to focus on finishing the book, Rizal had finally completed it by Main Biarritz. Rizal then went on to write the novel in Paris, and then in Brussels where distractions were less and the cost of living was cheaper. He continued working on it, making some revisions, in London in 1888. ![]() The novel was thus written against the background of threats and oppressions he and his family suffered because of the Noli and the so-called Calamba agrarian trouble. Rizal started writing El Filibusterismo in October 1887 in Calamba during his first homecoming. Its commonly known English alternative title is ‘The Reign of Greed’. Commonly nicknamed ‘El Fili’ or simply ‘Fili’, the novel was written also in Spanish. ‘ El Filibusterismo’ is Jose Rizal’s second novel written as the sequel of his ‘Noli Me Tangere’. ![]() ![]() ![]() The few magicians who could still open the doors grew more rare as time passed and now, only three Antari are known in recent memory-Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard of Grey London, and Holland Vosijk, of White London.īut barely a glimpse of them have been seen in the last seven years-and a new Antari named Kosika has appeared in White London, taking the throne in Holland's absence. Until the magic grew too fast and forced the worlds to seal the doors between them in a desperate gamble to protect their own. Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. Prepare for tangled schemes and perilous adventures with friends old and new in The Fragile Threads of Power. ![]() Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, opens another door to a new fantasy series set in the dazzling world of Shades of Magic. ![]() |