![]() Even Wikipedia does not know how Ruskin inspired e.g. ![]() The Ruskin networks and the greatest transformation of our timeĭo you know the John Ruskin Networks and their relevance for the greatest transformation of our time, the transformation of the British Empire into the Commonwealth? Do not worry, if not. The multiple challenges of the future will not let us fail without deep impact. ![]() If we are not able to establish transformational grasroot networks at scale the consequence of a lack of transformational "net skills" of the grasroots perhaps will be a tragedy. John Ruskin inspired others to establish the "Ruskin Networks" as platforms for the successful top down transformation of the British Empire, John Stepper invented Working Out Loud (WOL!) and inspired the "WOL Circles" as grasroot networks for bottom up transformation at scale within companies and beyond. Both represent the idea of the power of networks and "net-skills". ![]() Is John Stepper the new John Ruskin? This question is not easy to answer, especially if you do not know John Ruskin or John Stepper -). ![]()
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![]() ![]() The following is the list of 244 poems attributed to Philip Larkin. See also: Category:Poetry by Philip Larkin Some of these poems have now been included in "The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin," edited by Archie Burnett. Since 1988 many other unpublished, and as yet uncollected, poems have come to light. To help differentiate between these published and unpublished poems in our table all poems that appear in the 2003 edition's appendices are listed as Collected Poems 2003 of course, they also appear in the 1988 volume. The previous 1988 edition contains everything that appears in the 2003 edition and additionally includes all the known mature poems that he did not publish during his lifetime, plus an appendix of early work. They, along with the contents of the four published collections, are included in the 2003 edition of his Collected Poems in two appendices. Philip Larkin (1922–1985) also published other poems. The Less Deceived (November 1955, dated October). ![]() The list of poems by Philip Larkin come mostly from the four volumes of poetry published during his lifetime: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with her taxidermy mouse collection than her own granddaughter. ![]() But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. He promises, through secret “assignments,” to bring the rain everybody is praying for. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. Now it’s an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen–year–old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Terrifying, resplendent, and profoundly moving, this book will leave you changed." -T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girlsĭrought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. “Imagine if Annie Proulx wrote something like White Oleander crossed with Geek Love or Cruddy, and then add cults, God, motherhood, girlhood, class, deserts, witches, the divinity of women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's only the absence of a more multicultural cast that keeps this from being a truly global paean to God's creation. Young Germanic peasants work and play, harvesting, baking, and, in a solemn spread dedicated to Sister Death, mourning a deceased woodland animal. As Paterson expresses thankfulness to God for various forces of creation ("We praise you for our Sister Earth, who declares your mother love for us"), debut artist Dalton offers delicately detailed, loosely symmetrical cut-paper tableaus, set against black backdrops and framed by birds' nests, willow trees, vines, and branches. ![]() so that his words could be understood by all." Similarly, Paterson, the current national ambassador for young people's literature, does a fine job of making the canticle more catholic than Catholic (no mention of mortal sin), while maintaining a traditional tone and hewing to the structure of the original, which appears at book's end. An editor's note mentions that Francis composed the canticle "in his local Umbrian dialect. In Brother Sun, Sister Moon, award-winning author Katherine Paterson re-imagines a hymn of praise originally written by Saint Francis of Assisi in 1224. Artwork and verse alike give a nod toward the Europe of centuries past in this reimagining of Saint Francis's song of thankfulness and praise, which dates to the 1220s. ![]() ![]() ![]() As for this new princess, she is much younger, seemingly embroiled in a strange time warp story (It does explain why she has changed so much from issue to issue), and senses that something is wrong, though she doesn’t know exactly what that is. Straczynski definitely goes for the total reboot of Wonder Woman here, breaking completely from the previous continuity though he doesn’t try to pretend that the old Diana never existed, but weaves her different incarnations into this tale. Well, after finishing this one and simmering on it for a while, I have to say I like it – with a few “buts.” Sure, I’d read less-than-stellar reviews about this series, but I was willing to give Straczynski the benefit of the doubt until he showed me my trust was misplaced. I was cool with whatever – as long as the re-boot was well-thought out, had an interesting story, and treated this iconic hero with the respect she deserved. All I’m saying is that – while I’m a long-time fan of Diana – I didn’t come into this one having any preconceived notions about what the creative team could or could not do. ![]() Okay, I have to be honest here: I don’t consider myself a diehard Wonder Woman fan. ![]() ![]() ![]() The study formed the very basis of all his work on the subject and has resulted in several articles, represented in this volume, on such creativity-related concepts as problem solving versus problem finding, the personality of the artist, the influence of the social context, creativity as a social construction, developmental issues and flow. His first extensive study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago enabled him to observe, test and interview fine art students drawing in a studio. Firmly grounded in that history, yet extending it in new directions, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi started his life-long study on artistic creativity. The chapters in this volume trace the history of the study of creativity back to the days of Guilford and research on IQ and Jacob Getzels’ work on creativity and intelligence. ![]() Unconventional and unorthodox in his approach, Csikszentmihalyi chose the topic of creativity as a field of study believing it would help him be a better psychologist and advance his understanding of how to live a better life. Starting with his seminal 1964 study on creativity up to his 2010 publication in Newsweek, the volume spans over four decades of research and writing and clearly shows Csikszentmihalyi’s own development as an academic, psychologist, researcher and person. This first volume of the Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi represents his work on Art and Creativity. ![]() ![]() Yet when Selestra touches Nox in her very first prediction, their fates become entwined, and death seeks to take both their souls. And though thousands have tried, nobody has ever beaten death.Ī soldier in the King's army, Nox is an unlikely candidate for the Festival, but, driven by revenge, he is determined to steal the King's immortality and kill the entirety of his court, starting with Selestra. Outrunning your fate earns a wish and the chance to steal the King's immortality. ![]() ![]() Return to the world of TO KILL A KINGDOM for a dark and romantic fantasy adventure about a young witch groomed to steal souls for an immortal king and the reckless, rebellious boy to whom her fate is tied.įor sixteen years, Selestra has been trapped in her tower on the Floating Mountain, preparing to take her mother's place as the King's Witch, who foretells deaths in the Festival of Predictions. Princess of Souls: from the author of To Kill a Kingdom, the TikTok sensation! ![]() ![]() ![]() There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there wasīeauty, there was wine. The prince had provided all theĪppliances of pleasure. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The external world could take care of itself. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses ofĭespair or of frenzy from within. The courtiers, having entered, broughtįurnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's ownĮccentric yet august taste. ![]() Seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys. His presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to Progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.īut the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. ![]() The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon theįace of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. There were sharp pains,Īnd sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. Blood was its Avator ] and its seal - the redness and the horror of blood. No pestilence had ever been soįatal, or so hideous. T HE “Red Death” had long devastated the country. ![]() ![]() Throughout it all, bonds of love and fealty are stretched and tested as the endearing and quirky residents of this once-idyllic community weigh the covenants they keep against the secrets that threaten to tear them apart. Was it an accident, or was Watson murdered? As the scorching summer gives way to an early fall, suspects in the potential homicide abound, and everyone seems to be keeping secrets. ![]() Questions swirl about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of the town nemesis, Gerald Watson. Six weeks have passed since the fateful unfolding of events at the town's Fourth of July celebration. ![]() ![]() Independent Publishers Awards (IPPY) Bronze Medalist in Mid-Atlantic Best Regional FictionĬovenant continues the beloved saga of the residents of Jericho, a sleepy town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, where life and love have as many twists and turns as a winding mountain road. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also reiterates the strength in solidarity, and emphasizes the idea that collective voice has great power to make change. This trauma often leaves the voiceless in its wake, but Anderson illuminates the ways in which victims can heal and find a new voice. Anderson weaves her way through the stark landscape of lives, particularly her own, that were riddled with violence and abuse. Yet the poem ends with possibility and promise: the birth of a baby on the side of the road during the liberation from Holocaust concentration camps. She starts the collection with “in the name of love,” a poem that opens with a jarring image of a violent death: a young man’s head sliced in two by a machine (7). In truth, it is a collection that lyrically describes the terrible tragedies that can render victims mute. Anderson begins the collection of poems with the declaration that the work is “the story of a girl who lost her voice and wrote herself a new one” (1). These are the voices of the survivors who reached out to Anderson after her publication of the novel SPEAK, the survivors to whom she dedicates her work SHOUT. SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson is a poetic memoir written in response to the onslaught of voices unearthed by her work SPEAK. ![]() The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Halse Anderson, Laurie. ![]() |