![]() ![]() Next, she asked it to tell the neighbor’s age thirty-three distinct raps followed. “Count fifteen,” she commanded, and the mysterious presence obeyed. “Now count five,” she ordered, and the room shook with the sound of five heavy thuds. While Maggie and Kate huddled together on their bed, their mother, Margaret, began the demonstration. The neighbor, skeptical, came to see for herself, joining the girls in the small chamber they shared with their parents. Every night around bedtime, they said, they heard a series of raps on the walls and furniture-raps that seemed to manifest with a peculiar, otherworldly intelligence. ![]() On a late March day in 1848, Margaretta “Maggie” Fox, 14, and Kate, her 11-year-old sister, waylaid a neighbor, eager to share an odd and frightening phenomenon. One of the greatest religious movements of the 19 th century began in the bedroom of two young girls living in a farmhouse in Hydesville, New York. ![]()
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She then spent ten years researching human evolution before publishing The Aquatic Ape (published by Souvenir Press as a revised edition, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis) in 1982. ![]() Elaine Morgan has made The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis a plausible alternative to conventional theories of evolution and The Descent of Woman first set out an understanding of who humans are and where they came from.Įlaine Morgan was best known as a writer for television until the publication of The Descent of Woman in 1972, which became an international bestseller. This lively, informative book sets out to solve the riddle of our origins its answer is controversial. ![]() Starting with her demolition of the Biblical myth that woman was an afterthought to the creation of man, Elaine Morgan rewrites human history and evolution. On its first publication in 1972 it sparked an international debate and became a rallying-point for feminism, changing the terminology of anthropologists forever. The Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role of women in human evolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() Veronika Decides to Die is loosely based on the author’s experiences in mental institutions. How and why is this happening? That is what the story is about. The head psychiatrist at the hospital is trying to perform an experiment, which concerns Veronika in some manner. Within the walls of a mental hospital, Veronika falls in love with a person suffering from schizophrenia. She wakes up in a hospital where she is told that the pills have shortened her life span and that she has only a few days to live. After taking sleeping pills, she awaits her death which does not arrive. However, she is not happy with her life and decides to committ suicide. She has a good job, a string of boyfriends and a family that loves her. The story revolves around Veronika, a young Slovenian woman who has everything that a woman in the prime of her life would want. ![]() 'Veronika Decides to Die' is a beautiful tale of hope and happiness. ![]() ![]() Nigger, Hesitate,” and “You’se Just A Little Still You’se Mine, All Mine.” The latter was billed as a children’s lullaby. The Howley, Haviland Company of New York, produced sheet music for the songs “Hesitate Mr. ![]() It was not rare for sheet music produced in the first half of the 20th century to use the word nigger on the cover. In 1939, Agatha Christie, the popular fiction writer, published a novel called Ten Little editions sometimes changed the name to Ten Little Indians, or And Then There Were None, but as late as 1978, copies of the book with the original title were being produced into the 1980s. ![]() Ten Little Niggers 5 was also the name of a 1939 Agatha Christie novel, whose cover showed a Golliwog lynched, hanging from a noose. 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Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championships. The men’s varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that’s been decades in the making. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. As a kid, his friends called him “Stick” and every basketball game he played ended in pain. ![]() And the hero always wins.īut Gene doesn’t get sports. Gene understands stories-comic book stories, in particular. In his latest graphic novel, New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches. ![]() |