![]() ![]() The text starts abruptly with al-Haykal al-awwal الهيكل الأول as follows: Paper, script and front cover point to a Mamluk origin, perhaps the 8th/14th century. ![]() Only the original of the front cover is preserved it has in the centre an ornament filled with flowers and remnants of a geometrical frame of which each corner and the middle of every side is provided with a small triangle consisting of three geometrical points. Thick brownish and spotted paper, in part damaged, worm-eaten and rubbed, in a few cases with some loss of text the first page is replaced by a later hand who wrote on the inside of the front cover. 118 folios 7×9 cm 5 lines vocalized muhaqqaq محقق, chapter-headings in thuluth ثلث and written in yellow ink, as can be found in Mamluk manuscripts of the 8th/14th century: compare David James, Qur'ans of the Mamluks (London 1988). ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments The football factory book![]() ![]() After the war, he married a concentration camp survivor and is trying to cope with her recent death. The language used is hard-hitting but imaginative, as Tommy's frustration and outspoken views on life in modern-day Britain delve into a range of subjects, including class, patriotism, prejudice, poverty, and the political system.Įqually as important to the novel's structure is the presence of pensioner Bill Farrell, a former soldier who fought in the Second World War and was decorated for his bravery. Major battles take place with Chelsea's traditional enemies, among them Tottenham and Millwall, and the book's authenticity has often been commented upon. The principal character/narrator is Tommy Johnson, whose internal monologues allow the reader an inside view of football hooliganism and the adrenaline highs involved. ![]() ![]() The Castle of Otranto was written in 1764 during Horace Walpole's tenure as MP for King's Lynn. ![]() The novel was inspired by a nightmare Walpole had at Strawberry Hill House (18th-century engraving of the gothic villa pictured). The novel initiated a literary genre that would become extremely popular in the later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and George du Maurier. Claiming he saw a ghost in the nightmare-which featured a "gigantic hand in armour"-Walpole incorporated imagery from this into the novel, and also drew on his knowledge of medieval history. Walpole was inspired to write the story after a nightmare he had at his Gothic Revival home, Strawberry Hill House, in Twickenham, southwest London. The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music, and the goth subculture. ![]() ![]() Set in a haunted castle, the novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. ![]() In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – A Gothic Story. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Supernova book marissa meyer![]() ![]() ![]() After a period of superpowered destruction and terror known as the Age of Anarchy, the world has entered a time of peace, thanks to the superhero collective known as the Renegades. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, the Renegades books follow the adventures of two teenagers, Nova and Adrian, in an alternate version of Earth where a number of people, known as prodigies, have superpowers. ![]() Archenemies had to be one of my favourite young adult books of last year, so I was pretty eager to check out the final book in the series. Supernova is the third and final book in Meyer’s Renegades trilogy, which started in 2017 with Renegade and continued last year with the incredible Archenemies. Lies, betrayal, anarchy! Acclaimed author Marissa Meyer brings her epic young adult series, the Renegades trilogy to an end with Supernova, an electrifying and outstanding book that I had an absolute blast reading. Publisher: Feiwel and Friends (Trade Paperback – 29 October 2019) ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Difficult Women by Roxane Gay![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And I guess that’s just an obsession of mine. … I do try to put good men into my stories, but there are more bad men than good. And so, you know, I think it’s because I have an amazing father and amazing brothers - it’s knowing how many good men are out there that allows me to explore the men who are difficult, who make horrible decisions. My dad is always like, “What did I do?” And I’m like, “Nothing!” He’s - my dad’s amazing. The men in these stories are oftentimes not great men. It could absolutely be called Difficult Men. On the book’s messed up fathers and abusive boyfriends … I love exploring that sort of danger of who do you trust, who do you turn to when you never know who’s a predator and who is promising? She’s an engineer, which is a male-dominated field, and so she and women who are in that field are often grappling with being a professional and acting professionally and having the men around them see them as a personal conquest and as dating fodder, rather than a colleague with whom they can be professional. On “North Country,” a story about a woman engineer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments John L. Lewis by Robert H. Zieger![]() ![]() Performing a similar role for Philip Murray, Lewis's successor, Pressman guided the new labor federation through the perils of wartime labor policy and the turbulent post-war economic reconversion. Lewis's legal strategist during the CIO's successful campaign to unionize the mass production industries in the United States in the 1930s. labor law, and to the history of the New Deal–Fair Deal era. This book chronicles Pressman's fascinating public life and examines his contributions to the rebirth of the American labor movement, to the development of U. Working among the movers and shapers of American politics, he was also one of the most highly-placed, though covert, adherents of communism in public life during the New Deal–Fair Deal years. As the nation's most prominent labor lawyer during a period of ascending labor power, Lee Pressman served as General Counsel of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1933 to 1948. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Chew on this eric schlosser pdf![]() ![]() ![]() And should be commended for the fact that even in the face of such overwhelmingly bad news, it doesn't completely lose its sense of humor." The San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle "With its discussion of alternatives. ![]() Read this, and you have had your last Happy Meal." 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Kunkel (a cake name if ever there was one) and Edward J. The three Cs have been around since 1922, when Harry A. A cake company - in Baltimore - that I don't know about? And because I am, in addition to a cake junkie, a chronic chronicler, I took the truck's picture.īefore I discovered the truck, I hadn't noticed the brand name of the unglamorously packaged one-dollar pound cakes stacked in a freestanding display at the end of the bread aisle at Shoppers food market: Capitol Cake Company. I stared at it for a few minutes, contemplating commas, before I realized what it said: Capitol Cake Co., 1-800-EAT CAKE. One morning, I was driving to the University of Baltimore, planning a lecture for my two composition classes about punctuation, not thinking at all about, you know, it, when I stopped at a traffic light behind a truck bearing a blue and gold logo and phone number. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was an extraordinary moment in modern history-and Now I Know Who My Comrades Are takes us beyond the Middle East to the next major civil rights battles between the Internet and state control.Star dissidents such as Cuba's Yoani Sánchez and China's Ai Weiwei are profiled. In 2011 ordinary Egyptians, many armed with little more than mobile phones, helped topple a thirty-year-old dictatorship. ![]() It's a new phenomenon, but one that's already brought about significant political change. In her groundbreaking book, Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground, Emily Parker, formerly a State Department policy advisor, writer at The Wall Street Journal and editor at The New York Times, provides on-the-ground accounts of how the Internet is transforming lives in China, Cuba, and Russia. As one blogger put it, "Now I know who my comrades are." Online, people discover that they are not alone. ![]() Authoritarian governments try to isolate individuals from one another, but in the age of social media freedom of speech is impossible to contain. And in Russia, a lone blogger rises to become one of the most prominent opposition figures since the fall of the Soviet Union. In Cuba, authorities unsuccessfully try to silence an online critic by sowing seeds of distrust in her marriage. In China, university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim. ![]() ![]() ![]() And where Sophie is, can the Wizard Howl and fire demon Calcifer be far behind? ![]() The king and his daughter are desperate to find the lost, fabled Elfgift-so desperate that they’ve even called in an intimidating sorceress named Sophie to help. She has encountered a terrifying beast called a lubbock, irritated a clan of small blue creatures, and wound up smack in the middle of an urgent search. Its single door leads to any number of places-the bedrooms, the kitchen, the caves under the mountains, the past, and the Royal Mansion, to name just a few.īy opening that door, Charmain has become responsible for not only the house, but for an extremely magical stray dog, a muddled young apprentice wizard, and a box of the king’s most treasured documents. But Great-Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland, and his house bends space and time. Looking after Great-Uncle William’s tiny cottage while he’s ill should have been easy. That aspect aside, I do plan on eventually reading “House of Many ways” and am excited to see if familiar characters appear in that story as well.Ĭharmain Baker is in over her head. ![]() |