![]() ![]() limited budgets."-Rick Steves, Europe Through the Back DoorĪbout the Author Cynthia Harriman is a writer and a self-employed marketing consultant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. ![]() "Finally there is a get-down-and-dirty manual for traveling with kids in Europe! is fun to read and filled with practical tips for traveling families. Look inside for invaluable tips on: - Accommodations and restaurants- Customs and cultural differences- Language skills- Hostels, camping, and home exchange- Recommended sites and activities- Finding affordable fun for the entire family ![]() Inside you'll find all the insider information a family needs to survive and get the most out of a trip to Europe. ![]() About the Book From planning and survival tips to youth hostels, restaurants, camping, language, and renting homes, this guide makes it possible to take the kids to Europe safely and, perhaps more importantly, sanely.īook Synopsis From planning and survival tips to youth hostels, restaurants, camping, language, and renting homes, this guide makes it possible to take the kids to Europe safely and, perhaps more importantly, sanely.įrom the Back Cover The Overseas Travel Guide for Thinking Families Can an eight-year-old have fun in Paris? Can you entertain a teenager in Madrid? Will an extended family vacation to Europe be a unique and rewarding experience? Absolutely, says Cynthia Harriman, who has gathered the wisdom gained from months of travel abroad with her family into this comprehensive and essential guide. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bornstein was excommunicated from the church in 1982 and branded a “subversive person.” In exile she’s found her voice as a liberated, post-op, transsexual lesbian icon-though, of course, Bornstein bucks labels like these every chance she gets. Born in 1948 on the Jersey Shore to a loving mother and a dad who was “a macho, macho man,” Bornstein left theater school in Massachusetts at the age of 22 on a spiritual journey that culminated in a 12-year stint in the Church of Scientology’s Sea Org, an elite group of members who were based on ships and functioned like a religious order. “I identify as neither male nor female…I’m neither straight nor gay,” wrote transgender performer and author Kate Bornstein in her seminal 1994 book, Gender Outlaw. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1984, he was hired to work for George Lucas on several of his animation projects. ![]() (He also took zoology classes at Harvard University.)ĭuring college, he began doing freelance animation scripts for Filmation, and a number of other studios. He attended Emerson College in Boston, where he earned a BFA degree in creative writing. He attended the Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California on an art scholarship. In early 2004, Dini went on to write and story edit the popular ABC adventure series Lost. He also developed and scripted Krypto the Superdog and contributed scripts to Animaniacs (he created Minerva Mink), Freakazoid, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics series, including Star Wars: Ewoks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond and Duck Dodgers. Paul Dini is an American television producer of animated cartoons. ![]() ![]() ![]() Attwood alludes to the lack of woman by creating four main female characters Miranda, Anne-Marie, Estelle, and the old lady who Felix rents his isolated cottage from. In his version there is only a single female character. Shakespeare’s version of Miranda is deprived of freedom, growth, individuality, and confined to the imprisonment of her own body. However, Felix and Miranda have a relationship based off of the symbolism of love. Prospero in The Tempest expects nothing but obedience from Miranda and in return he gains structure and routine. Through Hagseed she sheds light on how women are imprisoned by social restrictions, confining them to nurturing and nursing. Attwood concerns herself with woman’s dignity throughout the novel. However, the idea is more literal in the novel compared to the play. ![]() One main motif that carries out through both texts is the idea of imprisonment vs. Being composers of different time periods, Shakespeare and Atwood hold different values and perspectives on particular issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() You know, it's funny 'cuz you think you know a character. We see a lot of his past - it's heart breaking and devastating but we live it with him. This isn't just Hopeless from Holder's POV, this is his story during Hopeless, his story before Hopeless, and his story apart from Hopeless. You need to understand just how much I mean those words. Losing Hope took me through all the same emotions of Hopeless but they were magnified because every single thing that happened now carried the weight of the emotion you already knew from Hopeless PLUS the new emotions created by all the new things we learned in Losing Hope about Holder. But if you piece it together with Hopeless, you just get EVERYTHING. It's not just an alternate perspective, it's actually a whole different part of the story entirely. I felt this book with every single part of my heart and soul. Everything he experienced, I went through it with him. I thought I already loved Dean with all my heart, but now I love him more. Losing Hope was just absolute, beautiful perfection. ![]() I can't stop living, breathing and feeling this story. ![]() ![]() ![]() When her sister puts a name-obsessive compulsive disorder-to Maggie's behaviors, the suggestion further ups her anxiety. ![]() ![]() Maggie is already overwhelmed by her older sisters' academic prowess, and she develops a constant fear of making mistakes, assuaged only by rituals such as toggling light switches and rolling a 20-sided die for direction. But the transition also brings new worries, including bullies in the halls and a mysterious monster lurking on school grounds. By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5thĭespite her initial concerns, sixth grade starts strong for Maggie Sankhar: she makes a new friend who shares a love of her favorite book series, joins a school RPG club that plays her favorite game, and discovers a newfound passion for science. ![]() ![]() ![]() You do need to ask the Cosmos for a life.” Maggie looked at him, and he had to look away from the pity he saw in her eyes. “Now you’re beginning to understand,” he said. But it seemed this time he was on his own. To you, we are little more than sacks of shit and blood.”ĭave waited to see if Jane would interject, stand up for him once more. ![]() You rationalize the pain you inflict with your bad attitude by seeing your victims as empty shells. “An anomaly brought about by the necessary complexity of the biochemical systems required to maintain our bodies.” The basic laws of physics and chemistry are enough for life to find a way.”ĭave looked at Jane, then quickly away again. There’s plenty of evidence that nature doesn’t need an organizing principle. So arguing for the existence of a maker just moves the discussion back a step you’re still postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation. “Any god capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world must already be hugely complex in the first place. ![]() ![]() After a stakeout ignited a brutal moment of violence, he’s been busted down to Department Q, a basement office that handles cold cases. But I won’t say whether this angry cop finally grins, nor will I supply any other spoilers about this expertly plotted Nordic noir.Īdmittedly, Morck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) has cause for his surliness. So bad that by the end of “The Keeper of Lost Causes,” you may fear that his stone face will split down the center if he forces himself to smile. Here are reviews of the other films in the trilogy, “The Absent One” and “A Conspiracy of Faith.”ĭetective Carl Morck has one mood, and boy, it’s bad. ![]() This pitch-black series, with its brooding protagonist, may draw comparisons with “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” but consider this: The stories are even sharper. ![]() ![]() The film adaptations of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Nordic crime novels were a hit in Denmark, and now all three, known as “The Department Q Trilogy,” are being released on Friday in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() His resume features top posts as Def Jam, Island Def Jam Music Group, Warner Music Group, 300 Entertainment and now, YouTube. To me, these are many of the same qualities that make City of Hope’s mission to transform the future of cancer care across all communities so impactful.”Ĭohen began his career as a road manager for Run DMC and the Beastie Boys, before taking on a variety of leadership roles across the music business, from management to the highest-level C-suites. Open to making mistakes, making big bets, unpopular decisions and being comfortable with change that is how culture shifts and how breakthroughs happen. “My career has been shaped by a contrarian point of view. ![]() ![]() “If you have the opportunity to give a gift back to the industry you love, with an organization like City of Hope, whose doctors and scientists’ passion for helping others is so extraordinary, it’s a no-brainer,” Cohen said. ![]() Once he takes a spin at the podium, Lyor will join a list of previous recipients that includes Shelli and Irving Azoff, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Coran Capshaw, Eddy Cue, Clive Davis, Lucian Grainge, Allen Grubman, Quincy Jones, Rob Light, Monte and Avery Lipman, Doug Morris, Mo Ostin, Bob Pittman, Jon Platt and Sylvia Rhone, among others. Hailey Bieber Launches YouTube Cooking Show ![]() ![]() ![]() We always have the best time at the Goodwins’.Īnnie bends over and whispers to the rubber duck in her lap. It’s the one occasion in the year our whole family looks forward to. Their two smart sons Sam and Nathan are near Callie’s age they have interesting friends as well as great taste in wine and food and art. They call it their “blues banishing bash.” They’re a perky family who live next door on the left. The party is the Goodwins’ January tradition. Annie is small for nine and people often assume she is younger. ![]() I worry about her physically, my fragile second child, in a way I don’t about Callie. ![]() She doesn’t like things too salty or sweet or sour, and her favorite stories are ones in which nothing happens. Annie won’t bathe at a temperature warmer than blood. ![]() Her lips move, some secret song only for the plastic animals that bob around her. Annie sits cross-legged in the tepid water. The shadows of bare sycamore branches lie sharp across the white tile. She is in the bath and the window is a blue square of winter sky. I find the first blister on Annie the morning of the Goodwins’ party. IT’S THE CHICKEN pox that makes me sure-my husband is having another affair. ![]() |