![]() ![]() “Though many anticipated disaster, and the atmosphere was frantic after hundreds were trampled to death due to bottlenecks while Stalin’s body was on display, this was a failure of crowd control rather than that of leadership. The team that took over the leadership of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin proved to be surprisingly cooperative and efficient, according to Sheila Fitzpatrick, professor at University of Sydney, who talked about Stalin’s team in a lecture hosted by CEU’s Department of History on October 14. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() After attending Oxford, where she became the first woman to ever edit that university's newspaper, Cooper worked as a reporter and feature writer for London's Sunday Times her first boss was James Bond creator Ian Fleming.Ĭooper wrote her first book for young readers in response to a publishing house competition "Over Sea, Under Stone" would later form the basis for her critically acclaimed five-book fantasy sequence, "The Dark Is Rising." The fourth book in the series, "The Grey King," won the Newbery Medal in 1976. ![]() As a child, she loved to read, as did her younger brother, who also became a writer. Susan Cooper was born in 1935, and grew up in England's Buckinghamshire, an area that was green countryside then but has since become part of Greater London. Susan Cooper's latest book is the YA novel "Ghost Hawk" (2013) ![]() ![]() The Kader Asmal Excellence Award seeks to recognise educators who, in their work, demonstrate the key values that were a hallmark of Prof Asmal‘s leadership: The Minister of Basic Education sends to all Members of the Executive Council (MEC) an invitation to submit names of outstanding educationists who fit the profile for the Minister’s consideration. ![]() The inception of the Kader Asmal Excellence Award enables the Minister to honour an outstanding educator embodying some of the core values that Professor Asmal stood for and at the same time honour Professor Asmal for his contribution to the development of education in this country. ![]() Professor Kader Asmal introduced the National Teaching Awards (NTA) scheme during his term of office in the Ministry of Education in 2000 and they are now in their twentieth year of implementation. In 2011 the Minister of Basic Education, Mrs A Motshekga, launched the Kader Asmal Excellence Award in honour of Professor Kader Asmal for his contribution to education and to society broadly. Information Guide Nomination form Introduction ![]() ![]() We gladly take your used books and will be happy to write a receipt for tax purposes. to assistĭo you have books on the shelf or a new book that you have read and don’t know what to do with? The Pathfinder Community Library will take them! A large percentage of our collection is due to the wonderful generosity of our citizens. If you would like to learn more about the Nook, a staff member will be available on Wednesday, Sept. ![]() These Nooks were made possible by a grant from the Lake County Community Foundation. We have three new Nook tablets available for use in the library. Donations are tax deductible and we will gladly write a receipt to you! There are plenty of spaces left on our “Giving Tree.” If you would like to donate to the Pathfinder Community Library and be added to our donor tree, see a staff member for more information. Due to severe budget cuts, our library is struggling and we are grateful for any item listed that you can help out with. ![]() ![]() This book lists items that are needed to run our day to day operation. We have put a “Wish Book” together at the Pathfinder Community Library. ![]() ![]() In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. ![]() As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart!Īlice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease-only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. ![]() ![]() The book describes an attempt to renew the ecosystem, after decades of intensive agriculture of some 1,400 hectares owned by Tree’s husband Charlie Burrell at Knepp in West Sussex. ![]() “We have reduced the forest to a wasteland,” says the eponymous hero: “How shall we answer our gods?” That such despoliation has accelerated in recent decades is now a familiar idea, but I recommend anyone prone to despair to read Wilding – for Isabella Tree’s apparently quixotic tale of Exmoor ponies, longhorn cattle, red deer and Tamworth pigs roaming free on an aristocratic estate is a hugely important addition to the literature of what can be done to restore soil and soul. L ament for the human destruction of the non-human world dates back to at least The Epic of Gilgamesh, which was written in about 2100 BC. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her father’s book, House of Horrors” hangs over her head and has for her entire life.īaneberry Hall is a character itself. She wants to fix the house up and sell it to someone - finally ridding herself from the nightmare that has followed her for years. She’s not been in the house since she was 5 years old - and not since her family ran away in terror after less than a month. Maggie comes back to Baneberry Hall reluctantly. House of Horrors is part ‘'House on Haunted Hill” part “Amityville Horror”. There’s…”Home Before Dark” and then there’s “House of Horrors”. Does this tell you everything you need to know - absolutely not. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound-and dangerous-secrets hidden within its walls?” - okay - sure. The blurb for this book “In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. ![]() ![]() Scream, Rosemary’s Baby, Friday the 13th, Halloween - they are classics for a reason - and Riley’s book are destined to be the same. There’s suspense, there’s thrilling elements, there’s hints of pop culture - of classic horror novels and movies. Since reading an early copy of Final Girls, I’ve anxiously waited for the next book because these are the types of books that I love. I’m very likely ‘Riley Sager’s’ #1 fan girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() She just hoped Iko would be back soon with its replacement.Ĭinder was the only full-service mechanic at New Beijing’s weekly market. Having loathed the too-small foot for four years, she swore to never put the piece of junk back on again. ![]() A sense of release hovered at the end of those wires-freedom. A spark singed her fingertips and she jerked away, leaving the foot to dangle from a tangle of red and yellow wires. Tossing the screwdriver onto the table, Cinder gripped her heel and yanked the foot from its socket. By the time it was extracted far enough for her to wrench free with her prosthetic steel hand, the hairline threads had been stripped clean. Her knuckles ached from forcing the screwdriver into the joint as she struggled to loosen the screw one gritting twist after another. THE SCREW THROUGH CINDER’S ANKLE HAD RUSTED, THE engraved cross marks worn to a mangled circle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Colonna herself returned to Ischia, to the court presided over by her aunt by marriage, Costanza D'Avalos, where the well-stocked library and lively court environment probably helped to encourage her own literary aspirations. The marriage was celebrated in 1509 on the island of Ischia, off the coast of Naples, and the couple briefly resided together in the Neapolitan countryside before D'Avalos left on the first of the many military campaigns against the French that were to occupy him for the rest of his life. Her work went through numerous sixteenth-century editions, but these tailed off after the 1560s and subsequent editorial neglect belies her status at the forefront of literary production by secular women in the Renaissance.īorn into the powerful Roman Colonna clan in 1490 (some sources say 1492), second child of Fabrizio Colonna and Agnese di Montefeltro, Colonna was betrothed at a very young age to Francesco Ferrante D'Avalos, the Marquis of Pescara, in a political manoeuvre that established an alliance between the Colonna and the Spanish throne of King Ferdinand D'Aragona. ![]() Vittoria Colonna, certainly the most renowned and successful woman writer of her age in Italy, was widely admired by her peers for her impeccable Petrarchan verses and her public image of unimpeachable chastity and piety. Portrait Biographic Details Digitized Texts Editions of Works ![]() ![]() ![]() The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. Government is at best but an expedient but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. ![]() Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe - “That government is best which governs not at all” and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have. I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least” and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. ![]() Original title: Resistance to Civil Government ![]() |