![]() ![]() became a one-stop source of an astonishing range of eclectic spiritual material that resonates with the intellect, and the subconscious." Hall was ordained a minister in the Church of the People on May 17, 1923, and "a few days later, he was elected permanent pastor of the church." Hall delved deeply into "teachings of lost and hidden traditions, the golden verses of Hindu gods, Greek philosophers and Christian mystics, and the spiritual treasures waiting to be found within one's own soul." Less than a year later, Hall booked his first lecture, and the topic was reincarnation.Ī tall (6', 4"), imposing, confident and charismatic speaker who soon took over as preacher of the Church of the People in 1919, at Trinity Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles, he read voraciously on "comparative religion, philosophy, sociology and psychology," and "seemingly overnight. In 1919 Hall, who never knew his father, moved from Canada to Los Angeles, California, with his maternal grandmother to reunite with his birth mother, who was living in Santa Monica, and was almost immediately drawn to the arcane world of mysticism, esoteric philosophies, and their underlying principles. Hall, a dentist, and Louise Palmer Hall, a chiropractor and member of the Rosicrucian Fellowship. Hall was born in 1901 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, to William S. He is best known for his 1928 work The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Manly Palmer Hall (Ma– August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The smooth, untextured pages allows for beautiful blending or gradient techniques with coloured pencils, or are perfect for pens, allowing the nib to glide evenly over the surface without feathering. Experienced colourers and newcomers alike will delight in this creative journey into an inky new world.įor Lost Ocean Johanna has picked a crisp ivory paper that accentuates and complements your chosen colour palette. ![]() With intricate pen and ink illustrations to complete, colour and embellish, readers will meet shoals of exotic fish, curious octopuses and delicately penned seahorses, visit coral reefs and barnacle-studded shipwrecks, and discover intricate shells and pirate treasure. With Lost Ocean, ink evangelist Johanna Basford invites colour-inners of all ages to discover an enchanting underwater world hidden within the depths of the sea. 'Consider trading in your yoga mat for a set of markers and peruse the gorgeous gardens of Basford's imagination' - The Huffington Post 'The colourists have a queen, and her name is Johanna Basford' - New York Magazine The deep, beautiful world of the Lost Ocean Coloring Book takes you on an inky underwater adventure with illustrations to complete, color and embellish. Also features a large double-sided pull-out poster to colour and keep. From the international bestselling illustrator and Queen of Colouring Johanna Basford comes a beautiful colouring book that takes you on a magical journey beneath the waves. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is set in Amsterdam in the 17th century, at the height of the city's outbreak of "tulip mania". This chain of events hardly fosters a sense of anticipation, yet the film has a lot going for it, starting with the beguiling nature of Moggach's narrative and the timelessness of its theme. Disgusted by a lacklustre response to footage shown at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Weinstein shelved the film, finally releasing it this year with next to no publicity.ĭane DeHaan, Christoph Waltz and Alicia Vikander. Stoppard had been retained and Swedish actress Alicia Vikander and rising American star Dane DeHaan were now the leads. ![]() ![]() His heyday was already behind him but there was still room for hope.īritish television's Justin Chadwick had been signed to direct the film. Nine years later, having shed $23 million of its $48 million budget, it was put back together by Harvey Weinstein. Then England tightened its tax concessions and the whole confection melted away. Credit: Roadshow Filmsīack in 2004 when an adaptation of novelist Deborah Moggach's well-loved book was first conceived, Steven Spielberg was to produce and John Madden, his reputation still burnished by the success of Shakespeare in Love, was to direct from a Tom Stoppard script with Jude Law and Keira Knightley as leads. Tulip Fever with Dane DeHaan and Alicia Vikander. ![]() ![]() ![]() Carroll avoids going through all the different interpretations of quantum mechanics in detail, and only provides short summaries. The book is also notable for what it does not contain. ![]() “Something Deeply Hidden” is an enjoyable and easy-to-follow introduction to quantum mechanics that will answer your most pressing questions about many worlds, such as how worlds split, what happens with energy conservation, or whether you should worry about the moral standards of all your copies. It takes something to convince yourself that this is reality, but if you want to be convinced, Carroll’s book is a good starting point. Most remarkably, the many worlds interpretation implies that in every instance you split into many separate you’s, all of which go on to live their own lives. Instead, he argues, if we only take quantum mechanics seriously enough, then “many worlds” are the logical consequence. But with his new book, Sean Carroll wants to convince you that it isn’t weird at all. ![]() Of all the weird ideas that quantum mechanics has to offer, the existence of parallel universes is the weirdest. ![]() Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime ![]() ![]() Dark and Stormy Knights (2010) “Gods Creature” - Kitty #0.6 (Cormac).Running with the Pack (2010) "Wild Ride" - Kitty #0.5 ( GR).Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance (2009) "The Temptation of Robin Green" - Kitty #0.4.Halloween: Magic, Mystery and the Macabre (2013) "Unternehmen Werewolf" - Kitty #0.?.Secret History of Vampires (2007) "A Princess of Spain" - Kitty #0.?( GR) - Kitty #0.?."Kitty's Greatest Hits" ( short story collection ).Genre Key: UF=Urban Fantasy, RUF=Romantic Urban Fantasy, Noir-UF=Noir Urban Fantasy, YA-UF=Young Adult Urban Fantasy, UF-SF=Urban Fantasy/Sci-Fi, UF-Hor=Urban Fantasy-Horror, PA-UF=Post-Apocalyptic-UF, Dys-UF=Dystopian Urban Fantasy, Mil-UF=Military-Urban Fantasy, SP=Steam Punk, PNR=Paranormal Romance ![]() Werewolves, vampires, fairies, wizards, ghosts, djinn, shifters, psychics, skin walker. ![]() She received a BA from Occidental College, after which she went on to work too many jobs to count until she went back to school to receive her MA from University of Colorado at Boulder. Vaughn was born into a military family and has lived all over the U.S. Carrie Vaughn's Virtual Playgound About the Author ![]() ![]() Then students start disappearing-kidnapped from their rooms at night, leaving trails of blood. Having nearly overrun the territory of Nebrask, the Wild Chalklings now threaten all of the American Isles.Īs the son of a lowly chalkmaker at Armedius Academy, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students study the magical art that he would do anything to practice. Rithmatists are humanity's only defense against the Wild Chalklings-merciless creatures that leave mangled corpses in their wake. ![]() Chosen by the Master in a mysterious inception ceremony, Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. ![]() More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson: his debut novel for the young adult audience ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As he becomes more comfortable with his darker side, he discovers even more darkness inside him. I’m not sure if his character actually changed, or if it’s just me, but Jazz’s inner struggles felt less like a distraction from the plot and more like an essential part of the novel. Jazz and I didn’t get on too well in book one, but I liked his POV this time around. Yet I needn’t have worried because Game takes the idea presented in I Hunt Killers and brings it to a new level. I was rather hesitant heading into Game as the moment I picked it up all the things I disliked about I Hunt Killers came flooding back to me. So Jazz and his girlfriend, Connie, hop on a plane to the big city and get swept up in a killer’s murderous game. The Hat-Dog Killer has the Big Apple–and its police force–running scared. And now, when a determined New York City detective comes knocking on Jazz’s door asking for help, he can’t say no. In an effort to prove murder didn’t run in the family, Jazz teamed with the police in the small town of Lobo’s Nod to solve a deadly case. I Hunt Killers introduced the world to Jazz, the son of history’s most infamous serial killer, Billy Dent. ![]() ![]() ![]() The excitement begins when he discovers a cryptic treasure map in Billy Bones' chest when the secretive Billy succumbs to a fatal heart attack. Set in 18th century England and told entirely from Jim Hawkins' youthful perspective, the novel portrays how he is drawn unwittingly into the dark deeds of pirates and buccaneers on the English coast. Right from the racy opening chapter where the young hero Jim Hawkins encounters a mysterious guest, Billy Bones, at the Admiral Benbow Inn run by his widowed mother, the tale carries the reader off on an edge-of-the-seat roller-coaster ride of non-stop action and drama. A heady mix of thrills, mystery, atmosphere and memorable characters, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is a classic adventure story that has enthralled both young and old alike ever since it was first published in 1883. ![]() ![]() ![]() I involve, moreover, theoriesīy Joan Rivière, René Girard, Eve Sedgwick, and Judith Butler. In contrast to earlier studies which interpret Schwarzenbach's texts biographically, I seek to use Diamond’s contemporary model indebted to queer studies. In the end of the novel, the main protagonist forms a queer family together with other characters who do not fit into cultural gender norms. The dichotomy between male and female becomes ever more instable, just as the labels hetero–, homo– and bisexual fall apart. Genders as well as homo– and hetero–sexual orientations, thereby exceeding culturally fixed borders. Schwarzenbach’s characters can thus be called “multi–sexual” as they meld both Novel Flucht nach oben (1933), in which the dichotomy of male and female is proven invalid, gender role models become obsolete, leading to the protagonist's deep uncertainty about his identity. ![]() Schwarzenbach's texts are populated by feminine men and masculine women, a genderswitching that can be interpreted as breaking apart the categories of gender and sexuality. She thereby, already in the 1930s, imagined something akin to the recent investigative work by Lisa Diamond on gender and sexual fluidity. ![]() The Swiss author Annemarie Schwarzenbach created literary figures that resist beingĬlassified according to a gender binary and heterosexual norm. ![]() ![]() Cassie Raven isn’t Kay Scarpetta or Temperance Brennan – high-profile, rich, preppy MEs with lots of letters after their names. Some of that sense of hope comes from the fact that ‘Body Language’ isn’t a typical forensics lab thriller. If ‘Body Language’ had a scent, it would be formaldehyde, decomp and tears and yet, as I read it, my main reaction was to feel uplifted and hopeful. Much of the novel was spent with our main protagonist, Cassie Raven, slicing up dead bodies in an unglamorous morgue and most of the rest was spent trying to track down a disturbingly cold-blooded killer. The odd thing is that, from a content point of view, ‘Body Language’ shouldn’t have been a book that made me smile and feel better about the world. I’m already looking forward to the next one’. I’m glad it’s the first book in a series. ![]() At the end of the book, I thought, ‘I enjoyed that. It swept me along, made me smile, and piqued my curiosity enough that I found myself looking forward to returning to it whenever I had to put it aside to deal with the demands of real life. I’m not sure why I enjoyed ‘Body Language’ as much as I did. ![]() |