![]() ![]() ![]() The great influence of Indian civilization on Southeast Asia is barely mentioned, if at all. Students learn very little about thriving Indo-Roman trade or the exploits of ancient Odiya merchants who pioneered sea routes across the eastern Indian Ocean. ![]() For instance, Indian textbooks say almost nothing about the country’s rich maritime history beyond a passing reference to Chola naval raids on Southeast Asia. Moreover, history is not just about the rise and fall of empires but also about other streams of history. This absurd imbalance needs to be corrected. Unless you live in the northeast, you may never have heard of the Ahom kings who ruled Assam for 600 years and even defeated the Mughals. The average Indian student, for instance, will learn almost nothing about the great Satavahana, Vijayanagar or Chola empires of southern India. Indian history is mostly written from the perspective of Delhi or at most northern India, as if the rest of the country barely existed except as mere provinces. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Upon graduation in 1988, he began working freelance for clients in music, entertainment, and publishing. After graduating in 1983, he worked as an Art Director at the Colorado Institute of Art until the desire to do more illustrative work found him in Pasadena, California, attending The Art Center College of Design. Greg Call studied graphic design at the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver. ![]() He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University. Ridley Pearson is the best-selling author of eighteen novels, including The Kingdom Keepers Cut and Run The Body of David Hayes The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer Beyond Recognition Parallel Lies and No Witnesses. Along with Ridley Pearson, he is the co-author of Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Escape from the Carnivale, and Cave of the Dark Wind. Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize - winning author of more than a dozen books, including Dave Barry's Money Secrets Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys Dave Barry Slept Here Big Trouble and Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments A Weaver's Garden by Rita Buchanan![]() ![]() ![]() Every kind of wool yarn from unspun roving (as a warp!) to worsted or woolen singles, to plied woolens or worsted, to novelties. Mainly, I learned about yarn and time.Rita weaves with every kind of fiber and yarn style you can imagine. While the focus of Rita’s videos is handspinning, I learned so much about weaving while watching her work. She spins and weaves her own placemats, table runners, napkins, aprons, kitchen towels, bath towels (handwoven terry cloth!), shirts, jackets, blankets, pillow cases – in short, she lives in an environment of beautiful handmade cloth, all made to her own specifications. ![]() Rita, having retired from a fine career in writing and editing about fiber and gardening in order to spend all her time actually working with fiber and gardening, is arguably the most productive maker of handspun textiles in the developed world. I* recently had the pleasure of working with master spinner-knitter-weaver Rita Buchanan on a couple of videos:* How I Spin and In Praise of Simple Cloth (due out in November). ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments The Swan Book by Alexis Wright![]() ![]() This was the place where they kept faces plucked from the World Wide Web by Army intelligence looking at computers all day long, searching for brown- and black-coloured criminals, un-assimilables, illegal immigrants, terrorists – all the undesirables those kind of people. ![]() ![]() What was a post office? The girl had listened. “If you leave here, you know what is going to happen don’t you? People are going to stop and stare at you the very instant they see the colour of your skin, and they will say: She is one of those wild Aboriginals from up North, a terrorist they will say you are one of those faces kept in the Federal Government’s Book of Suspects.īella Donna said that even though she had never seen this book for herself, she had heard that it had the Australian Government’s embossed crest on the cover, and was kept at the Post Office where anyone could study it. ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments Fables storybook love![]() ![]() In the late 1990s Willingham reestablished himself as a prolific writer. ![]() He also produced the pornographic series Ironwood for Eros Comix. He contributed stories to Green Lantern and started his own independent, black-and-white comics series Coventry which lasted only 3 issues. However, for reasons unknown, the series had trouble maintaining an original schedule, and Willingham's position in the industry remained spotty for many years. He first gained attention for his 1980s comic book series Elementals published by Comico, which he both wrote and drew. In the late 1970s to early 1980s he drew fantasy ink pictures for the Dungeons & Dragons Basic and Expert game rulebooks. ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments Life is strange vol 5 coming home![]() ![]() The series has spawned a comic series set after one of the original game's possible endings, and an in-universe book detailing life at the fictional Blackwell Academy.įollowing the critical and commercial failure of their 2013 action-adventure game Remember Me, French game developer Dontnod Entertainment was forced to restructure and reinvent themselves. ![]() Additionally, a remastered collection of the original game and its prequel, was released in February 2022. A third main installment, Life Is Strange: True Colors, was released in its entirety on 10 September 2021. The sequel Life Is Strange 2 and its spin-off The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit were developed by Dontnod and released between 20. It was followed by prequel, Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, which was developed by Deck Nine and released in three episodes throughout 2017, with a downloadable content (DLC) bonus episode released in early 2018. Created by Dontnod Entertainment, the series debuted with the eponymous first installment, which was released in five episodes throughout 2015. ![]() Life Is Strange is a series of primarily episodic graphic adventure games published by Square Enix's External Studios. ![]() ![]() Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family’s ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. ![]() Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who’s dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life-he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. “Tana French’s best and most intricately nuanced novel yet.” - The New York TimesĪn “extraordinary” (Stephen King) and “mesmerizing” ( LA Times) new standalone novel from the master of crime and suspense and author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher.įrom the writer who “inspires cultic devotion in readers” ( The New Yorker) and has been called “incandescent” by Stephen King, “absolutely mesmerizing” by Gillian Flynn, and “unputdownable” ( People) comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Named a New York Times Notable Book of 2018 and a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Amazon, The Boston Globe, LitHub, Vulture, Slate, Elle, Vox, and Electric Literature ![]() ![]() Just Like Home…Jesus Christ on a burning bike! A story that defied the rules of reality, but do you think it cares? Nope, the rule book was torn up and buried. It’s a meteorite crashing into your orbit and turning your world upside down. ![]() Vera must face them and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes. There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House. He insists that he isn’t the one leaving notes around the house in her father’s handwriting. ![]() A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back and is slowly stripping Vera’s childhood for spare parts. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he'd built for his family.Ĭoming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren’t alone. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories - she's come back to the home of a serial killer. “Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. Just Like Home is a darkly gothic thriller from nationally bestselling author Sarah Gailey, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House as well as HBO's true crime masterpiece I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary, Mystery & Detective, General, Thrillers, Supernatural Published by Hodder & Stoughton on July 21, 2022 This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ![]() ![]() I received this book for free from the Publisher in exchange for an honest review. ![]() 5/17/2023 0 Comments Her body and other![]() ![]() Kardashian later addressed getting to a place where other people’s comments about her body didn’t affect her state of mind. “Sometimes I think, ‘Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?'” “This time, the focus is really on being a mom and being present, knowing my priorities,” she continued. “I definitely pushed myself too hard.”įor the Poosh founder, becoming a mother changed her relationship with her body. “I was working out and not eating enough,” she admitted to Us Weekly in 2012, following her second child’s birth. She welcomed daughter Penelope in 2012 and son Reign in 2014.Īt the time, Kardashian opened up about putting too much pressure on herself to lose her baby weight. ![]() ![]() The reality star expanded her family with long-term boyfriend Scott Disick in 2009 when she gave birth to son Mason. Over the years, Kourtney Kardashian has been candid about how motherhood influenced her body evolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not until The Last Wish Illustrated Edition published by Orbit Books and Gollancz came out a few months ago that I finally took the plunge to start reading the series. More than six years have passed since I first finished The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and I’ve wanted to know more about the characters, magic, and world I felt invested in. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt remains one of the best open-world role-playing games I’ve played, and even though it has been years since I finished the game, I still think about my 100+ hours of adventure with the game. ![]() Similar to millions of gamers-now readers-around the world, I heard about The Witcher book series through the video games adaptation. The Last Wish made me feel like I was reading Geralt doing his side quests in the game. Published: 7th December 2021 by Orbit (US) and Gollancz (UK) Genre: Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy Review copy was provided by Gollancz in exchange for an honest review. ![]() |