But how dangerous is pink and pretty, anyway? Being a princess is just make-believe eventually they grow out of it . . . And commercialization has spread the message faster and farther, reaching girls at ever-younger ages. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as the source of female empowerment. Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Peggy Orenstein, acclaimed author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Schoolgirls, offers a radical, timely wake-up call for parents, revealing the dark side of a pretty and pink culture confronting girls at every turn as they grow into adults.
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This collection of twelve stories ranks among the finest volumes of British ghost stories of all time and is presented here with a new introduction by Melanie R. Her total output numbers over 150 volumes with the bulk of her work under the Bowen pseudonym. Included in this volume are some of her most famous stories, including ‘The Crown Derby Plate’, a classic in which a woman gets more than she bargained for when she purchases a set of old plates at an estate sale, ‘Kecksies’, an unsettling tale in which it is unclear exactly who is dead and who is not, and the title story, ‘The Bishop of Hell’, which tells of a defrocked clergyman who promises to reveal the secrets of the afterlife from beyond the dead. Marjorie Bowen (pseudonym of Mrs Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long née Campbell), was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history and biography. i-vii viii-x 11 12-230 231-232: blank note: last leaf is a blank, original green cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. Her most enduring work is her tales of the ghostly and supernatural, her favorites of which she collected in 1949 under the title The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories. This is an anthology of stories of the supernatural written by Marjorie Bowen who had a natural talent for this type of writing about the mysteries of the. Bowen, Marjorie (pseudonym of Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell Long). Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) was a prolific author of some 150 books and counted Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, and Graham Greene among her many admirers. When it’s discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all human worlds from faster than light travel forever, three individuals - a scientist, a starship captain and the Empress of the Interdependency - are in a race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. The Flow is eternal - but it is not static. It’s a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars. The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man's War. Your most treasured possession is the creative reputation of your agency.The Duke of Wellington never went home until he had finished all of the work on his desk.It is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.Most original thinking isn’t even verbal…We must be able to escape from the tyranny of reason The creative process requires more than reason. Creative people are especially observant, and they value accurate observation (telling themselves the truth) more than other people do.The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.Top man’s principle job is to create an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work.Make yourself indispensable and you’ll never be fired.He taught me exorbitant standards of service He knew that it was demoralizing for professionals to work alongside incompetent amateurs. Pitard praised very seldom, but when he did, we were exalted to the skies. However, in the midst of her grief, her Lasso of Truth stopped working! Start down the rabbit hole as dark secrets from Wonder Woman's past unravel her present! Flashing back between Year One and the current day, Greg Rucka and illustrators Liam Sharp and Nicola Scott weave together an epic of the Amazon Warrior, the likes of which have never been seen!"- Member ofĪssigning source Provided by publisher Cataloging source DLC Language eng Summary "After suffering an unimaginable loss, Diana must rebuild her mission as Earth's ultimate protector and champion. Label Wonder Woman : Rebirth deluxe edition Title Wonder Woman Title remainder Rebirth deluxe edition Statement of responsibility Greg Rucka, writer Liam Sharp, Nicola Scott, artists Laura Martin, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Jeremy Colwell, colorists Jodi Wynne, letterer, Jenny Frison, collection cover artist Creator Their physical organism, if organism it can be called, is quite unlike either the human or the Martian. The eldila are very different from any planetary creatures. He had met the creatures called eldila, and specially that great eldil who is the ruler of Mars or, in their speech, the Oyarsa of Malacandra. Who could imagine that a little farther on in that quiet landscape I should meet and shake by the hand a man who had lived and eaten and drunk in a world forty million miles distant from London, who had seen this Earth from where it looks like a mere point of green fire, and who had spoken face to face with a creature whose life began before our own planet was inhabitable?įor Ransom had met other things in Mars besides the Martians. The few houses and the clumps of red or yellowish trees were in no way remarkable. The gloomy five-o'clock sky was such as you might see on any autumn afternoon. The flat heath which spread out before me (for the village lies all behind and to the north of the station) looked an ordinary heath. As I left the railway station at Worchester and set out on the three-mile walk to Ransom's cottage, I reflected that no one on that platform could possibly guess the truth about the man I was going to visit. Another saying we all know is to never judge a book by its cover. We’ve all heard the adage not to take candy from strangers. I had no idea how much I would like this book. Stott, the not- so- ordinary ice cream truck driver, has a few tricks of his own. White is not the only magician in town in search of the ancient artifact rumored to be a fountain of youth. Purposefully, she invites the kids on a special mission to retrieve a hidden talisman under Mt. Her confections have magical side effects. However, the gray- haired, grandmotherly Mrs. (Imagine what your pet would say!) Four young friends, Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon, are befriended by Belinda White, the owner of a new candy shop on Main Street. Or candy that gave animals temporary human intelligence and communication skills. What if there were a place where you could get magical candy? Moon rocks that made you feel weightless. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. A med school dropout, she's come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire to care for her father, dying from a mysterious brain disease. Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she's lost her way. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best. It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. |