![]() A Revised Interpretation of the Melqart Stele (KAI 201). Where Is the Devourer? A Reappraisal of the Arslan Tash II Plaque in Its ANE Context. Transmission and Mortal Anxiety in the Tale of Aqhat. Patrons, Brokers, and Clients at Late Bronze Age Ugarit. A Critique of the Counter-Argument for yaqtul Preterite in Ugaritic. Ugaritic Alphabetic Text Cross-Referencesġ. The thirty-seven essays by colleagues and former students reflect the wide range of Professor Pardee’s research interests and include, among other topics, new readings of inscriptions, studies of poetic structure, and investigations of Late Bronze Age society. ![]() ![]() Pardee, Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and one of the preeminent experts in Northwest Semitic languages and literatures, particularly Ugaritic studies. ![]()
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I have writer friends who don’t want to teach and wouldn’t begin to know how to teach-it’s just not their thing. ![]() Joshua Henkin: I think you’re always learning up, down, and sideways. Mitzi Rapkin: As a writer and an artist, how much do other writers help you grow? And you’re also a teacher-how do you learn there? ![]() ![]() Men in uniform with classified information, deadly secrets, and unforgiving orders. Men with dark desires, weak wills, and evil intents. There are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. ![]() But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. 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Plus an interesting plot that took the tired trope of body swapping and tweaked it by making both the impetus for the gender switcheroo and the choice of victim (Ianto Jones) original, funny, and maybe just a tad enlightening. ![]() I originally got this because I wanted something a little more light-hearted, and as Torchwood proper can sometimes skimp on the more LOL-y moments, this seems to fit my mood. ![]() ![]() ![]() From your 1st wedding anniversary to your 100th wedding anniversary, we've translated the anniversary gift table into a coin collecting gift table. It's like putting money in the bank to collect interest. ![]() Why give cotton underwear when you can give collectable paper money with cotton bolls on it? Not only will you delight your spouse with a gift that he or she will love, giving a gift of collectable coins is an investment in your future. If you are married to a coin collector, why not give coins on your wedding anniversary? 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Michael and Stella begin what is supposed to be a contractual arrangement but end up with feelings for each other. She then decides to hire a male escort, Michael who is to teach her how to be a better lover. ‘The Kiss Quotient’ is about Stella Lane who is Autistic and doesn’t have any luck with dating or sex. Being a debut, it is forgivable especially as her second book shows so much growth in the writing style and character development. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the same experience as I had with ‘The Bride Test’. Also, this book won the Goodreads 2018 award for best romance novel so my expectations were high. ![]() It happened to be the second title in the series so I decided to go back and read the first book before proceeding to the third. 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Galgut moves fluidly among accounts of every single major and minor character, his prose unbroken by quotation marks or italics, as though narrated from the perspective of a ghost who briefly possesses every person. The promise is buried along with Rachel, only to be unearthed years later when subsequent family deaths force the Swarts to recollide for the rituals of mourning. ![]() Nobody else pays any mind: Amor is 13 years old at the start and functionally voiceless in her family. Only Amor, the youngest daughter, cares about her mother’s dying wish-that Salome, the Swarts’ domestic servant, receive full ownership of the house where she lives with her family, though under apartheid law, Black people are not legally allowed to own property in White areas. Her husband, Manie, and three children, Anton, Astrid, and Amor, are all walloped by different incarnations of grief. ![]() Three decades of South African sociopolitical history are woven into a saga of loss and missed opportunity that upends a dysfunctional Afrikaner family living outside Pretoria. ![]() ![]() ![]() When German former prisoner of war Harry Arno Franz wrote to her in November 1947, he mentioned her 15th birthday. Although she gave her date of birth in Who's Who and elsewhere as 21 November 1934, she was born in 1932 and her birth was registered in the first quarter of 1933. ![]() ![]() Her parents were Richard Bainbridge and Winifred Baines. Biography Early life īeryl Bainbridge was born in Allerton, Liverpool, and brought up in nearby Formby. In 2008, The Times named Bainbridge on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She was described in 2007 by Charlotte Higgins as "a national treasure". Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 19 she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool. ![]() |