![]() ![]() The number of published sermons is staggering, Rable said. Of particular interest to Rable were the many published sermons from preachers in a variety of denominations and religious newspapers, which published many articles about the war. Rable researched and wrote this volume over the course of nine years he relied extensively on primary sources, including journals, politicians letters and denominational records. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, stated that the book is brilliant and groundbreaking Rables engrossing study of the role of religion in the Civil War will stand as the definitive religious history of Americas most divisive conflict. Rables book is titled Gods Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War, published by the University of North Carolina Press. People asked themselves, why did all this carnage occur? What did it mean? Should the war continue? To what end? And they sought answers in religion. This is war beyond what anyone could imagine in the spring of 1861 when it began. It is a source of morale and a source of meaning. ![]() Religion was an important part of their motivation, its an important part of sustaining the war effort, and it helped people justify the horrendous sacrifices that the war required. Summersell Chair in Southern History at UA. Many Americans interpreted the causes and the course and the consequences of the war in religious terms, said Dr. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It’s weird that she never wants to hang out with her dad. But she can’t tell anyone she’s being sexually abused by a spirit that sometimes inhabits her father’s body.ĬOURTNEY: And she still doesn’t know it’s. And she’s so self-flagellating, which is hard to read because you know what’s happening and none of it is her fault. ![]() MEGAN: Spoiler alert for a book that was published in 1990. They steal all this coke, Bobby shoots the guy, she runs away, goes to the cabin for the first time, and has the big orgy. It was probably nine in the morning, and I was getting chills waiting for the bus.ĬOURTNEY: It’s super creepy! And I didn’t really realize-the day her cat dies goes on forever. I recommend the audiobook, because all the parts where BOB shows up in her diary, Lee reads as BOB and it’s fucking terrifying. I definitely spent a lot of time just like, “Oh, I’m so worried about you, Laura Palmer.”ĬOURTNEY: Yeah. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kristen Stewart's Next Project Is a "Stoner Girl Comedy" With Fiancée Dylan Meyer: "It's Really F**king Stupid"īrian Cox's Surprising First Words to Meryl Streep: "I Never Liked You" Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Full Monty' On FX/Hulu, An Unfocused Sequel Series To The 1997 Film Natasha Lyonne Reveals She Almost Didn't Star in 'But I’m a Cheerleader' After Clea Duvall Told Her, "You're Not This Type of Person"ġ2 Best Movies to Stream on Prime Video This Father's Day Treat Williams Showed All Parents of Gay Children How to Love Their Kids in ‘The Christmas House’ ![]() ![]() Shop Disney: Marvel, Star Wars, More Pride Collections for Pride Month 2023 Let’s Get Loud! 7 Movies to Stream on Netflix in Celebration of Pride Month 2023ħ LGBTQ+ TV Shows to Stream in Honor of Pride Month 2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Nintendo Power was a bit more favorable in its review of the game, giving it 3 out of 5. Marc Nix of IGN described the game as "pat and boring, but also silly in difficulty at times since there's little guiding your path and no real clue to the strategy." He gave it a score of 3.0 out of 10. ![]() This one is only accessible via a hardcoded password.Ĭritical reception of the game was generally low. The gameplay takes the player through four missions, but a secret fifth mission was discovered in 2016. With it, they become Animorphs, the unlikely champions in a secret war for the planet. Little is currently known about the game's development history. When Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, and Marco stumble upon a downed alien spaceship and its dying pilot, they're given an incredible power - they can transform into any animal they touch. The game was developed by American studio Runny-Fun and published by Ubi Soft. Which animal did Rachel morph during the battle Answer: Elephant Rachels elephant proved very useful during the battle. For example, snakes crawl up walls, fish swim, and bird morphs take to the air. Who narrates this book Answer: Jake In the first book of the series, Jake narrates as the group is given their powers, learns about the Yeerk invasion (hence the title), and decides to use their new abilities to fight. Sometimes, the player can use the animal's acquired skills outside combat. In a manner similar to the Pokémon video games, the object of Animorphs is to fight and defeat various animals and aliens in order to gain the morph (DNA) of that creature. The game operates in a series of turn-based battles during combat. One of the Animorphs in coyote morph prepares to fight a Hork-Bajir. ![]() ![]() ![]() They weren’t brought to space for astronaut training, but to learn a new, highly classified brain-sync technology that allows them to manipulate matter and quantum bound, or teleport. While learning all about the new technologies and taking classes in mobility-otherwise known as flying with jetpacks-Jasper befriends the four other students in his pod and finally feels like he has found his place in the world. But then Jasper and his new friends learn that they haven’t been told everything about Earth Force. After being bullied back on Earth, Jasper is thrilled to have something new and different to do with other kids who are more like him. ![]() Now they’ve brought together the first team of cadets, called Bounders, to be trained as high-level astronauts. Twelve-year-old Jasper is part of this team being sent out into space. Summary: Thirteen years ago, Earth Force-a space-military agency-discovered a connection between brain structure and space travel. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Torn Generation” Chinese Science Fiction in a Culture in Transition” by Chen Qiufan and Ken Liu “The Worst of All Possible Universes and the Best of All Possible Earths: Three-Body and Chinese Science Fiction” by Liu Cixin and Ken Liu “Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse” by Xia jia “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” by Xia Jia Anyone with an interest in international science fiction will find Invisible Planets an indispensable addition to their collection.įor more Chinese SF in translation, check out Broken Stars. To round out the collection, there are several essays from Chinese scholars and authors, plus an illuminating introduction by Ken Liu. Some have won awards, some have garnered serioius critical acclaim, some have been selected for Year’s Best anthologies, and some are simply Ken Liu’s personal favorites. ![]() The thirteen stories in this collection, including two by Cixin Liu and the Hugo and Sturgeon award-nominated “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, add up to a strong and diverse representation of Chinese SF. Invisible Planets is a groundbreaking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Invisible Planets, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu-translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu-is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Le Guin (1929–2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, Theodore Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book Awards a Newbery Honor and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prizes, among others. Lewis, and has helped make Le Guin one of the most distinguished fantasy and science fiction writers of all time. ![]() Complex, innovative, and deeply moral, this quintessential fantasy sequence has been compared with the work of J.R.R. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere. ![]() Now they must join forces again, to help another - the physically and emotionally scarred child whose own destiny remains to be revealed. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him not by choice.Ī lifetime ago, they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan-she, an isolated young priestess, he, a powerful wizard. The Nebula Award and Locus Award-winning fourth novel in the beloved Earthsea series by Ursula K. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It got me thinking how the comics biography has gone from strength to strength in recent years, from books on Richard Feynman, 2 books on the Beatles ( Baby’s in Black and The Fifth Beatle) Box Brown’s upcoming Andre the Giant, Primates– a joint recollection of the work of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, and a lot more. ![]() Yesterday in the shop (I work at a comics store), we got the new biography of Vincent Van Gogh in (which focuses on his stay in Provence, and looks utterly gorgeous, by the way), written and illustrated by Barbara Stok, and published by Self Made Hero. ![]() The venture has been pretty successful, with the books critically well-received in addition to Drewscape’s Monsters gaining an Eisner nomination, and Ten Sticks winning the bronze International Manga award. Liew began work on the the Charlie Chan biography when Singaporean publishers, Epigram Books, introduced their new comics line with the simultaneous release of 4 titles: Ten Sticks and One Rice, Scengapore, Monsters, Miracles and Mayonnaise and The Girl Under the Bed. ![]() ![]() ![]() With both of his parents dead, he's being raised by his older brothers Darry (Patrick Swayze) and Sodapop (Rob Lowe). Thomas Howell) is a promising student in a bad situation. As if sensing the over-emotionalism of the original cut, Coppola also jettisons some of his own father's music score in favor of period radio rock 'n roll, in the tradition of American Graffiti. The additions lend greater depth and breadth to the story and characters while changing the overall look of the picture – both the beginning and conclusion are now different. ![]() This new DVD reinstates over two reels of footage cut for the original theatrical release. The resulting movie retains all the problems of earlier delinquency movies underneath its overproduced melodramatics. Coppola boosts the book's modest graces up to the level of a mini-epic, hyping the drama into the 'Gone With the Wind' of teen gang tales. His first post-genius movie is The Outsiders, from an intimate and sensitive novel about displaced teens struggling in a gang environment in Oklahoma. The director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now found himself in the same commercial riptide other directors had to endure, having to come up with a hit to stay solvent. Francis' Coppola's currency as a great filmmaker has dwindled in recent years, but the fallout began a quarter of a century ago when his Zoetrope empire crumbled with the box office failure of One from the Heart. ![]() ![]() Now in its fourth year, the program seeks to more deeply examine the concept of folly while continuing to challenge architects to create a fully realized public space. The program includes the design, realization, and exhibition of a public work, including a two-month on-site studio residency. This program was established in 2011 to explore the intersections and divergences between architecture and sculpture through the framework of an architectural folly. The Architectural League and Socrates Sculpture Park invite emerging architects and designers to submit proposals for Folly, an annual design/build studio program during March and April 2015 leading to a public exhibition at Socrates opening in early May 2015. Sheila Kennedy, Kennedy & Violich Architecture John Hatfield, Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park ![]() ![]() The winning entry, “Torqueing Spheres” by Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim, will open to the public on May 17, 2015. ![]() A project organized by The Architectural League and Socrates Sculpture Park ![]() |