![]() ![]() De Waal analyzes the energy politics of the region, the "Five-Day War" between Georgia and Russia and recent political changes in all three countries. De Waal begins with a historical overview, then focuses his attention on recent history, and in particular, on the three conflicts over Nagorny Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia. Over the last few years, the South Caucasus region has captured international attention again because of its role in disputes between the West and Russia, its unsolved conflicts and it's a role as an energy transport corridor to Europe. ![]() Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the breakaway territories that have tried to split away from them constitute one of the most diverse and challenging regions on earth, impressing the visitor with their multi-layered history, ethnic complexity, and seemingly intractable conflicts. In this new updated version of The Caucasus, Thomas de Waal introduces readers to this complex region. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I had always thought that I controlled my destiny. The dance he and I have begun, is getting more complicated as our worlds are being shaken from all sides, and the visions of the future are frightening, and nothing like I had ever pictured for myself or those I care for. With each touch and word, he pulls my heart closer to himself and at the same time he is trying to keep me at arm’s length. Ryder’s secrets are dangerous and devastating. The people I thought I could trust have betrayed me and the one person I should absolutely not trust is taking me deeper and deeper into his world. More Fae are dying, and I feel as if time is running out for us to find all of those responsible and put an end to the killings. ![]() Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy/Paranormal/Erotica Romance/ MFĪdam and I are both going through identity crises of epic proportions as we Transition from who we were, and discover who we were meant to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() I haven’t watched the entire thing (I’m a slave to creating content for you people!) but what I have seen is pretty durn good. Download or stream Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods (2010) with Grant Morrison, Patrick Meaney for free on hoopla. ![]() He has a new book-book out, called Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human, which means it’s a good time to check out this documentary about the man and his use of magic, his use of drugs and his use of superheroes. ![]() With Jason Aaron, Abigail Bader, Amber Benson, Karen Berger. I get that Batman pays better, but I’d like to see him get back to more adult, more philosophical, more mind-fucking stuff on a regular basis. Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods: Directed by Patrick Meaney. Morrison’s output has been a touch dodgy of late - while his Batman: RIP arc was shockingly well done, Final Crisis was sort of junk and he’s spending way too much time in the DC Universe instead of doing personal, weird work like The Filth. The comic book writer is my personal favorite (ever? Possibly ever), and I believe his series The Invisibles is simply the greatest use of the comic book medium to date. Grant Morrison is sort of the Scottish Jodorowsky, except with fewer films under his belt. ![]() ![]() ![]() I held out hope for this version because it was getting a do-over with the help of an editor. #noshame) and unfortunately I didn’t really like it back then either. I shouldn’t be surprised because I bought her self-published version when it first came out (my BFF Nicole and I were big fans of her YouTube channel, TwiCurls, and met her back in 2009 to get our copies signed. I’ve actually put off writing this review for a few weeks (and even debated not writing one at all) because I love Kiera and I want to like everything she does. ![]() I really wanted to like this book, but I just didn’t. But for the first time in a lifetime of following the rules, Kahlen is determined to follow her heart. Handsome, caring, and kind, Akinli is everything Kahlen ever dreamed of.įalling in love with a human breaks the Ocean’s rules. ![]() Kahlen is resigned to finishing her sentence in solitude…until she meets Akinli. Though a single word from Kahlen can kill, she can’t resist spending her days on land, watching ordinary people and longing for the day when she will be able to speak and laugh and live freely among them again. To repay her debt, she has served as a Siren ever since, using her voice to lure countless strangers to their deaths. Years ago, Kahlen was rescued from drowning by the Ocean. From Kiera Cass, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series, comes a sweeping stand-alone fantasy romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Furiously Happy is a book about mental illness, but under the surface it's about embracing joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. Jenny's first book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, was ostensibly about family, but deep down it was about celebrating your own weirdness. And terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.Īs Jenny says: "You can't experience pain without also experiencing the baffling and ridiculous moments of being fiercely, unapologetically, intensely and (above all) furiously happy." It's a philosophy that has - quite literally - saved her life. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. 1 (FIVE YEARS 1) Published By University Press Of Florida 9780813054360, 9780813053059 Latest Documents Most Cited Documents Contributed Authors Related Sources Related Keywords Fury in the Promised Land Furiously Funny 10.5744/florida/9780813054360.003.0005 2018 Author (s): Terrence T. In her new book, Furiously Happy, she explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. us / fjr.i.s.li / uk / fj.ri.s.li / furiously adverb (ANGRY WAY) B2 in a very angry way: 'Get out of here' she shouted furiously. In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a particularly tender section filled with domestic details of their early marriage, Kidd imagines the young couple’s mutually supportive partnership even as Jesus’s call to ministry grows stronger. A young bearded man helps her up, causing her to feel an “odd smelting” in her thighs.Īfter Nathaniel suddenly dies from an illness, Ana meets Jesus, the man from the marketplace, and the two bond over their status as outcasts-Ana as a “widow” and Jesus as a child of dubious parentage. Overcome with despair while meeting Nathaniel for the first time in a marketplace, she grows faint and falls. Once Ana turns 15, however, she is forced to hide away her parchments and scrolls and, despite her protests, her parents arrange for her betrothal to the much older Nathaniel ben Hananiah. When I was finally able to read the Scriptures for myself, I discovered (behold!) there were women”). ![]() As a child in Sepphoris, Ana recounts, Matthias allowed her to pursue scholarly interests, and she was drawn toward documenting the stories of Biblical matriarchs (“Listening to the rabbis, one would’ve thought the only figures worth mentioning. In a richly imagined first-person narrative, Ana, the only daughter of Herod’s chief scribe, Matthias, tells of her origins as a writer and her life with Jesus. The latest from Kidd ( The Secret Life of Bees) proposes an audacious premise: Jesus of Nazareth was married, and his wife was a writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1962 he returned to government service as superintendent of an experimental branch at Waltham Abbey concerned with research and development of entirely new structural materials, most of which were based on 'whiskers'. He later became head of the plastic structures sections at Farnborough and developed a method of construction in reinforced plastics which is now used for a number of purpose in aircraft and rockets.For several frustrating years he worked in industry on the strength of glass and the growth of strong 'whisker' crystals. He designed the sailing rescue dinghies carried at one time by most bomber aircraft. On the outbreak of the Second World War he moved to the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, where he worked on wooden aircraft, plastics and unorthodox materials of all kinds. ![]() He took a degree in naval architecture at Glasgow University and worked in wood and steel shipyards, intending to design sailing ships. ![]() ![]() I set out to identify species and learn about where and when they appear each year. Since they do not endanger health or jeopardize agriculture, there is little research money for studying them. I worked with those scientists for the next 18 years, and became aware of so many species during that time. Did your role in discovering synchronous fireflies jump-start your research? Females located on the ground respond with a dim single or double flash to the male who catches her fancy, even though many males might see the reply and visit to begin courtship. Then all of the males repeat their flash trains, over and over and all together, for up to three hours. We call it a flash-train, where males in flight flash six times in rapid succession, followed by six seconds of darkness. How would you describe the pattern of the synchronous fireflies found in the Smokies? However, I was certain that we had been watching synchronous displays at Elkmont for years! I contacted the scientists named in the article, who visited our little corner of the Great Smoky Mountains the following summer and confirmed the existence of Photinus carolinus, now North America’s best-known synchronous firefly species. ![]() In 1991, I read an article in Science News that reported there were no synchronous fireflies in the western hemisphere. ![]() ![]() When did you realize that the “Light Show” was something special? ![]() ![]() ![]() Waters moved into feature filmmaking by the late 1960s, producing two films- Mondo Trasho (1969) and Multiple Maniacs (1970)-that started to circulate on college campuses and in countercultural screening venues outside of Baltimore. ![]() After briefly attending New York University, where he was expelled for drug use, he returned to Baltimore and began making low-budget independent short films with local friends and collaborators-works that emphasized scandalous imagery, camp humor, and winking social transgression. A rebellious high schooler, Waters formed close friendships with fellow queer adolescents and social misfits and would hitchhike to New York City where he saw influential works of 1960s-era underground filmmaking. ![]() He was raised in the suburb of Lutherville, Maryland, and developed an early adolescent interest in the exploitation movies screened at local drive-ins. One of the most influential and idiosyncratic American independent filmmakers of the last fifty years, John Waters was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 22 April 1946. ![]() ![]() Rarely do we have the space to have sprawling country gardens, plus your allotment kitchen garden, and that's a lot of work.” ![]() “Ultimately we have only gardens of a certain size. “Edimentals is a way of making the most out of your ornamental space,” said designer Harry Holding. Items on the menu foraged from the garden include fennel sauerkraut and tomatoes dressed in oregano oil and nasturtium.Īn exhibition garden designed for charity School Food Matters is made up of 80 per cent edimental varieties, including lesser known species such as king's spear plant, a yellow flower which has sweet leaves and roots that are nutty when cooked, alongside more typical varieties such as radishes and lettuces. ![]() ![]() Its kitchen is manned by the show’s first chef in residence, Sam Buckley, who served up lunch to Chelsea pensioners on Monday. ![]() |