![]() And with ‘The Age of Homespun’ she has truly outdone herself. “Ulrich is a supremely gifted scholar and writer. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here. Tickets are $15 for Museum members, $20 for non-members, and $10 for students (does not include Museum admission). ![]() At 7:30 p.m., Ulrich will be available by the Museum store to sign copies of her books. The discussion will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. At the Museum, Ulrich will revisit the Revolutionary era with an emphasis on the power of ordinary objects to enhance our understanding of the past. ![]() ![]() In The Age of Homespun, first published in 2001, Ulrich uses domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–to trace the history of New England and offer profound insights into American life and culture. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of early America and the history of women Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary University Professor emerita at Harvard University, will join the Museum of the American Revolution on Thursday, Maat 6 p.m. to reflect on her pioneering work The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth, during Women’s History Month. Part of Museum’s Popular “Read the Revolution” Speaker Series ![]()
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![]() ![]() This was an impulsive buy and one that I regret purchasing. I hadn’t enjoyed a Robin Schone book since The Lady’s Tutor which was published way back in 1999. So this book already had a head start to win my affections but it didn’t. My track history with Ms. Scandalous Lovers didn’t have much going for it outside the book. Hate the title and my expectations were rather low. Also, I can’t say that it was worth the wait either because I read/skimmed to the end. Foolish ness on my part to be so impulsive. I just saw it and bought it. ![]() The Men and Women’s Club by Robin Schone was at one time, an anticipated novel. I remember saying that I would wait but I didn’t. ![]() I wasn’t exactly eager to read her next book as I’d read and discarded quite a few of her previous titles. I consider that a fair statement after enjoying one book by her and a couple of novellas. Once upon a time, I was a Robin Schone fan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur. ![]() When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. ![]() His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ĭarolyn wanted to go to college and study medicine, but when her father went to seek permission for her to go to college, the condition was that she marry Merril Jessop. She also learned from her grandmother to take great pride in her church's tradition of plural marriage. ![]() She learned how to work around her mother's mood swings and observed how other children responded to spanking, so as to mitigate some of the violence. She observed conflict between her parents over celebrating Christmas and the effect of her surroundings and the strictness of the sect on her mother's mental condition and on her mother's relationship with her husband. She experienced life with a mother who suffered from depression and was violent with her children. Her childhood was affected by the sect's suspicion of outsiders, the division that took place in that FLDS in the 1970s and '80s and by the increasing strictness of the sect her family belonged to. It discusses Jessop's upbringing in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) polygamous community. Escape is a book by Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer. ![]() ![]() ![]() He later re-joined New Worlds magazine from the year 1976 to the year 1996. From the year 1964 to 1971, Michael Moorcock served as an editor of New Worlds magazine, an exceedingly controversial British Science fiction magazine. He later became an editor for Sexton Blake Library. In the year 1956, Michael Moorcock became the editor of Tarzan Adventures, a fete that he achieved when he was only sixteen years old. According to Michael Moorcock, the first three books that captured his imagination include The Apple Cart, The God of Mars and the Constable of St. Moorcock has published numerous literary novels with his famous work being the Elric Saga. Michael Moorcock is a well-established English author, who specializes in the fields of fantasy and science fiction. ![]() ![]() I learned that star Richard Carlson wasn’t such a nice guy in real life. I learned that Natural Vision, the original company behind the first wave of 3-D cameras, wanted a percentage of the profits from any film that used its equipment, so the resourceful camera department at Universal built their own 3-D rig. ![]() I learned so much about this seminal film that I did not know before. The book’s coverage of It Came from Outer Space is as exhaustive as it is entertaining. Because the Terrors book covers only eight films (the first half of the 1950s there’s a follow-up book in the works), because there exists more plentiful production records for the ’50s films, and because Weaver has interviewed so many more participants, each film gets a whopping 135 pages devoted to it. ![]() It’s the follow-up to his earlier, indispensable Universal Horrors, which discusses every horror film made by Universal Studios during its heyday in the 1930s and ’40s. Lately I have been enjoying the book Universal Terrors by Tom Weaver. Blazing across the night sky and sailing over the desert comes one of the best and most influential science-fiction films of the 1950s! ![]() ![]() Many of these characters and their children intersect over the years as the historical events in the storyline allow. There are also Manchu warriors in supporting roles. A eunuch named Lacquered Nail becomes close to the Empress Dowager Cixi. Trader’s estranged cousin, Cecil Whiteparish, is a missionary who has second thoughts about the British in Asia. There’s a Hakka pirate-turned-British informant named Nio and his relative Mei-Ling, a sister-like figure. Trader is kicked out of Canton with the rest of them in 1839 and finds refuge in Macao. He works alongside the real life characters of William Jardine, James Matheson and Charles Elliot. The novel begins with a fictional English character named John Trader, down on his luck and massively in debt, who connects with opium dealers. His latest is titled China and spans the last seventy years of the Qing Dynasty: which covers the Opium Wars, Taiping and Boxer Rebellions, and Pu Yi’s ascension to the throne as the last emperor. ![]() ![]() They dig deeply into a specific place and he focuses on a certain period. Edward Rutherfurd is known for massive historical novels usually set in cities like New York, Paris and London. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each queen is closely linked to the respective quadrant that she rules, governing the citizens within it with the help of a personal advisor. The book’s title refers to the four queens that rule the nation of Quadara, so named because it is divided into four quadrants, each boasting its own unique culture and specialties. ![]() And there’s not much more I can say about that without spoiling the plot, but suffice it to say, it made things very interesting indeed. Then again, it’s not often that I encounter a YA debut that completely takes me by surprise, which immediately made this one special-and I loved that it didn’t turn out the way I expected.įirst of all, this story is really more of murder mystery-but with a twist. Wow, Four Dead Queens was pretty great, and if you’ve followed my reviews for a while, you probably know that’s not praise I bestow on YA too lightly, especially when it comes to debuts. This does not affect the contents of my review and all opinions are my own. I received a review copy from the publisher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kevin Hart is an award-winning actor, a comedian, and a number one New York Times bestselling author. But as Marcus discovers, nothing great ever is-and if you want your dream to come true, you’ve got to put in the hustle to make it happen.Ĭomedy superstar Kevin Hart teams up with award-winning author Geoff Rodkey and lauded illustrator David Cooper for a hilarious, illustrated, and inspiring story about bringing your creative goals to life and never giving up, even when nothing’s going your way. So he’ll need help, from his friends, his teachers, Sierra, the strong-willed classmate with creative dreams of her own, even Tyrell, the local bully who’d be a perfect movie villain if he weren’t too terrifying to talk to. until he realizes he can turn the story of the cartoon superhero he’s been drawing for years into an actual MOVIE! There’s just one problem: he has no idea what he’s doing. Marcus is NOT happy to be stuck in after-school film class. Perfect for readers of James Patterson's Middle School series and Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate series. ![]() Stand-up comedian and Hollywood box-office hit Kevin Hart keeps the laughs coming in an illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy who has big dreams of making a blockbuster superhero film. ![]() ![]() We must desire to get better at something that matters and have the mindset and prepare ourselves for the work necessary to be high performers. In addition to autonomy, we must move toward mastery in our personal lives as well as our organizations. But ouside forces-included the very idea that we need to be managed have conspired to change our default setting and turned us into Type X.” We’re meant to be autonomous individuals, not individual automatons. Pink states, “We’re born to be players, not pawns. Giving people autonomy over their task, time, technique and the team helps ignite Type I behavior. ![]() ![]() ![]() So what drives Type 1 behavior? Pink introduces the three nutrients to nourish Motivation 3.0: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. This third motivational driver means we do things because they are interesting, we want to learn and because we want to make a contribution. In the April Ambassador Update Pink challenged us to think beyond the traditional carrot and stick approach of motivation to what we calls Motivation 3.0, or Type I behavior. ![]() Over the last couple of months the Alliance Ambassador’s have been reviewing Daniel Pink’s book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. “The most deeply motivated people not to mention those who are most productive and satisfied, hitch their desires to a cause larger than themselves.” Daniel Pink ![]() |