As a member of the Constituent Assembly, Jawaharlal Nehru played a crucial role in the making of the Indian Constitution as a debater, lawyer, leader and politician. Nehru also established our parliamentary government. He was the first prime minister of independent India and played a vital role in the fight for independence in the year 1947. Jawaharlal Nehru, lovingly addressed as Pandit (teacher) Nehru was born on November 14, 1889, in Allahabad. He travelled the world, extensively building diplomatic rapport with foreign nations. As President of India, he duly acted as per the Constitution, independent of any political party. He was a comrade of Mahatma Gandhi early in the noncooperation movement for independence and was president of the Indian National Congress. Prasad was a politician, lawyer and journalist and was also the first President of India. He was one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. Rajagopalachari was an accomplished writer who made lasting contributions to Indian English literature and also composed music. C Rajagopalachari was born in 1878 in Thorapalli, Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of India after Lord Mountbatten left India. C Rajagopalachari was an Indian lawyer, independence activist, politician and writer.
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Radway's provocative approach combines reader-response criticism with anthropology and feminist psychology. Radway questions such claims, arguing that critical attention ""must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading."" She examines that event, from the complicated business of publishing and distribution to the individual reader's engagement with the text. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular culture. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers.
But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. "From New York Times bestselling author of the "twisty-mystery" (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware-this time, set at sea. Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life, Kinch now finds his fate entangled with Galva's. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants. Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path.īut today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark. Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized battle ravens, and assassins who kill with deadly tattoos, Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief begins a "dazzling" (Robin Hobb) fantasy adventure unlike any other. Along with his firsthand knowledge of the text and how he means it to be conveyed, Buehlman uses nuance, inflection, and a casual way of saying outrageous things to continually tickle the funny bone." ( AudioFile Magazine) "This irreverent fantasy is narrated superbly by author Christopher Buehlman. Sorry, I’ve been re-watching the first season of Arrow recently. I managed to make it to a deserted island - or, what I thought was a deserted island, but it turns out you couldn’t go three feet without running into escaped prisoners or Australian ASIS or insane doctors bent on finding a super soldier serum…wait…wait, no that’s Oliver Queen. Care to fill in some details for us?Ĭaitlen Rubino-Bradway I’d have to say I had a pretty privileged upbringing, one I probably didn’t appreciate fully until I one fateful weekend, when I headed out on the family yacht with my father and the ship mysterious sank in the North China Sea. Jessica Greenlee Your Goodreads biography is a little sparse. Here, she talks with FangirlNation’s Jessica Greenlee about reading fairy tales, the future of Ordinary Magic, collaborating with her mother, and other writerly details. Caitlen Rubino-Bradway is the author of Ordinary Magic and the co-author of Lady Vernon and Her Daughter, which she wrote with her mother, Jane Rubino. Note: This book was previously published with another publisher and has been extensively revised and expanded. And Dean has no remorse whatsoever about killing anyone that stands between him and the man he's falling for. But when danger arrives on their doorstep, Dean's training as an assassin comes in handy, especially when Poppy is kidnapped by the same men that held him in the first place. And Dean doesn't have the heart to deny the man, even when taking care of Poppy turns into a full-time job. He is also scared out of his mind and clinging to Dean like a second skin. Poppy is sweet and innocent and about as sexy as he could possibly be. What's crazier than that? When Dean goes to the place where he's supposed to pick Marcus up, he finds something else altogether. His other friends are missing and the agency he works for is a complete mess. His friend, Gage, has mated with the cat king of a pride. He's also pretty damn sure that he has stepped into a crazy world. He just had to find Marcus's friends and let them know that they are being led into a trap.and then go back to hell. If he can save Marcus, Poppy knows that he will have done at least one good thing in his life. The only bright spot he has seen in years is another prisoner being held in the cell next to him. Poppy lives in hell and has for as long as he could remember. The first sign is a chisel … which we can approximately pronounce as ‘ab’ … I enjoyed the in-depth view of Egyptian life, but some readers may find it slow going, particularly in parts that talk about the difficulty of reading and translating heiroglyphs: The verb is written with three phonetic signs. The Darnells weave a delightful story about these two rulers. While doing so, they changed the face of Egyptian art and architecture. The images, the gold funerary mask of his son Tutankhamun (King Tut) and the painted bust of his wife Nefertiti, are among the most recognizable in the world, right up there with Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.”Īkhenaten and Nefertiti transformed Egyptian solar worship from polytheism to monotheism. He established the world’s first monotheist religion. Even the backdrops of the scenes are based on actual paintings and bas-reliefs on the walls.Īkhenaten and his wife Nefertiti have been portrayed in widely differing accounts and depicted as an incestuous tyrant or an innovator who affected nearly every aspect of Egyptian life. Each chapter opens with a scenario that is fictional but derived from known facts about the subjects. Like The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women, Egypt’s Golden Couple is part history, part archeology, and part fiction. I have always been fascinated by Egyptology, so I particularly enjoyed this book. The Darnells, a husband and wife team of Egyptologists, combine scholarship, suspense, and adventure in Egypt’s Golden Couple. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps-which have come to be simply ignored. Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: physics has been in crisis since 1927. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. As you read these words, copies of you are being created. As a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself. Now Cerys carries a small bit of the curse-the magic-in her blood, a reminder of the day she lost everything. Cerys knows this all too well: When she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. Ashley Poston, acclaimed author of Heart of Iron, returns with a dark, lush fairy tale–inspired fantasy for fans of Sara Raasch and Susan Dennard. It is a remarkable and uncommon combination of breadth and depth, even among the many brilliant writers in the world of science. Besides writing popular books, he actively publishes peer-reviewed research, and his written scientific articles in fields as diverse as astrobiology, physics, chemistry, and biology. In all of his books, he brings the highest quality scientific and scholarly research, often from vastly different fields, into a coherent, intellectually original, and exciting story. Ball has written books on subjects as diverse as the history of China (The Water Kingdom), physics, chemistry, biology, music ( The Music Instinct) and Chartres Cathedral ( Universe of Stone). If you’ve read any of Ball’s remarkable books, you might have noticed something I found extraordinary, which led to the question that began our conversation. Beyond Weird: Why Everything you Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics Is Different. |