![]() ![]() For instance, the transcendental ideologies of self-reliance and individual freedom appear to contradict with ethics at the workplace, thereby revealing the philosophical thinking of civil disobedience. However, it is convenient to analyze the story from a philosophical point of view. ![]() Many scholars have attempted to use different approaches to determine the cause of Bartleby’s character and its real-life implication, including philosophical, religious and ethical analysis of the character. ![]() Throughout the story, Bartleby’s character changes from a polite, cool and firm scrivener to a ‘difficult-to-understand’ person who refuses to take his tasks at the office by using a simple phrase “I would prefer not to” (Wells 38). Written in 1853, Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby the Scrivener: A story of Wall Street” portrays the character of Bartleby, a “scrivener” hired to work in the narrator’s law office. ![]()
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![]() There are no perfect individuals here even though some may seem so on the surface. The characters (there are quite a few) are well developed and complicated people. To top it off, a Hollywood true crime writer has come to cover the story and he has designs on Ellen. ![]() She’s pitted against a hot shot attorney from Minneapolis with whom she has personal history and a judge who has a super sized ego. What seems to be an open and shut case turns into anything but. ![]() She’s been handed the case involving Garrett Wright who Mitch Holt arrested for the assault of Megan O’Malley and the abduction of Josh Kirkwood. The story continues with the State’s Assistant City Attorney Ellen North at the forefront. However, I liked the book even though it had some issues. I’ll start off by saying I’m not a fan of having to read two books to figure out the resolution to a mystery. ![]() This is the follow up to the first book in the Deer Lake series. ![]() ![]() ![]() This absence is simultaneously regarded as a symptom of the specific concentration of Marx’s critique of political economy on issues of economics, and of the need to supplement his reconstruction of the comprehensive process of capital leading to his reconstruction of the economic surface of modern capitalist societies by other dimensions of material reproduction, as in the dimensions of gender, of ecology, and geography. The missing elaboration of the cycle of metamorphoses undergone by variable capital and labour power is reconstructed on the level of Marx’s analysis of the metamorphoses of capital, on that of the comprehensive process of capital, as well as in the transition to the economic surface of the trinity formula. ![]() This leads him to identify a deeper absence of ‘living labour’ in Marx’s dialectical presentation of the forms of reproduction of capital, as it dominates modern societies. The issue of the forms of reproduction of labour power, which Marx skipped in his drafts for Volume II, raises issues of both gender and ecology for an adequate analysis of the comprehensive reproduction process of capital in Volume III. Wolf investigates the consequences of the missing elaboration of the reproduction of labour power for the enlarged reproduction of capital. ![]() ![]() ![]() (For instance, he interviews Cobain's drug-addicted ex-babysitter, Cali, and some of her girlfriends, yielding a depressing she-said-he-said of Kurt's final days.) Conspiracy theorists will speculate about the conditions under which Cross gained access to Cobain's private journals. ![]() The many unenlightening observations are often painted thick with sensationalism other times, Cross trawls the bottom for sources whose credibility and relevance are dubious at best. about his constant abuse at the hands of Aberdeen's rednecks" and harboring an aversion to fame. "Even in this early stage of his career, Kurt had already begun the process of retelling his own story in a manner that formed a separate self," writes Cross as he carefully dispels some of Cobain's self-made myths, including claims of living under a bridge, "tales. It simply makes you want to be so sad") and malt liquor, punk rock–adorned angst to the tawdry details of his drug addiction. ![]() Instead, Cobain's story, culled from more than 400 interviews with friends, family and colleagues and exclusive access to Cobain's unpublished diaries, sounds wholly ordinary, from boilerplate adolescent bitterness about his parents' divorce ("I hate Mom, I hate Dad. Unfortunately, Cross, former editor of the Rocket, a Northwestern music and entertainment weekly, never proves his claim. ![]() "And there had never quite been a rock star like Kurt Cobain," Cross eulogizes in this celebrity biography. ![]() ![]() ![]() which] digs into class differences, emotional baggage, and the reality of dealing with aging parents ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). ![]() Strong characters and relatable situations elevate Layne's bighearted contemporary. ![]() ![]() Now they find themselves engaged in a battle-of-wills that will either consume or destroy them. Oliver used to torment Naomi when they were children, and as a ridiculously attractive adult, he's tormenting her in entirely different ways. The worst offender is her new neighbor, Oliver Cunningham-the grown son of the very family Naomi's mother used to work for. Now, as the strongminded, sassy CEO of one of the biggest jewelry empires in the country, Naomi finally has exactly what she wants-but it's going to take more than just the right address to make Manhattan's upper class stop treating her like an outsider. Booklistįrom the author of the New York Times bestselling Stiletto and Oxford series, the first in a sizzling new series following the unlikely friendship of three Upper East Side women as they struggle to achieve their dreams and find true love and happiness in the city that never sleeps.įor as long as she can remember, Bronx-born Naomi Powell has had one goal: to prove her worth among the Upper East Side elite-the same people for which her mom worked as a housekeeper. Perfect for readers who love the dishy women's fiction of Candace Bushnell. ![]() ![]() I like the more direct translation of the Japanese title ( Suna no onna): "Sand woman." Because while The Woman in the Dunes sounds like something kinda gothic and kinda literary and magical, "Sand woman" conjures up images of an antlion or something, and I think that's a lot closer to what Kobo Abe was trying to convey. A lot of that probably has to do with the Cannes prize-winning 1964 film. ![]() ![]() This is one of the most well-known Japanese literary novels to Westerners, at least before Haruki Murakami became the Japanese Stephen King. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where, Sisyphus-like, they are pressed into shoveling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village. ![]() One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() This 112-page edition of the first Phase includes a cover gallery and original character designs by Mad Max and Zaucer of Zilk artist Brendan McCarthy. Clever, snappy, visceral, and witty, Zenith is a satire on the pop music culture of the late 1980s, on politics, and on the superhero genre. ![]() Yet as the world’s only superhero, he doesn’t realise that he is at the centre of a dark conspiracy that could wipe out the entire universe. ![]() Zenith was the world’s first “Superbrat” – a vain, self-obsessed, egotistical pop singer whose only interests are girls, partying, and where he is in the music charts. Association underscores urgent call for CMS to stop blocking access to FDA-approved treatments. Publication date: October 2014 - July 2015īefore The Filth, before All-Star Superman and Doom Patrol, there was Zenith! The first chapter of Grant Morrison Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s breakout superhero series, Zenith: Phase One, is being published simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic in a gorgeous hardback edition with a brand new cover by Yeowell. Alzheimer’s Association Statement on Donanemab Phase 3 Topline Data Release. ![]() ![]() ![]() He searched the streets of Urumqi every day, with the help of a team of locals, by posting flyers, interviewing residents, and spreading the word online. But Leonard was so affected by the dog, he launched a crowdfunding campaign and travelled to China to find her. Shortly after the race, Gobi went missing. Leonard has chronicled the experience, and the ensuing whirlwind adventure to adopt Gobi, in Finding Gobi¸ released Tuesday. ![]() The dog, who would later be named Gobi, tailed Leonard for nearly 128 km and captured the world’s attention online. Stray pup races alongside man throughout seven-day ultra-marathon “It was then that I started to realize I had a real deep feeling for her and the bond was really forming.” “I went to these races trying to win them but I stopped as I went halfway through a river crossing because she was yelping and whining and barking,” said Leonard, 41, of Edinburgh, who completed the race in 2016. ![]() He knew, as he turned back to carry the dog across, he’d reached a “turning point.” On Day 3, halfway through a river crossing, he heard yelps and saw the dog standing on the riverbank, unable to follow. Dion Leonard had just begun the second stage of the Gobi March, a 250-kilometre race through the Gobi Desert in China, when he noticed a stray dog was following him. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Grandmother knits snow-white mittens that Nikki takes on an adventure. In her distinctive style, Jan Brett brings the animals to life with warmth and humor, and her illustrations are full of visual delights and details faithful to the Ukrainian tradition from which the story comes. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny brown mouse and what happens next makes for a wonderfully funny climax.Īs the story of the animals in the mitten unfolds, the reader can see Nicki in the borders of each page, walking through the woods unaware of what is going on. One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. ![]() ![]() When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing. The bestselling modern classic, in a sturdy board book edition perfect for little hands. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wretched Waterpark is an interesting middle-grade mystery with a gothic water park setting. When Wil goes missing, rule following, cautious Alexander and competitive, brave Theo will have to work together to solve the mystery of Fathoms of Fun. And the owner disappeared under bizarre circumstances, lost to the Cold, Unknowable Sea-the wave pool. The few people they encounter are very, very odd. ![]() ![]() The waterslides are gray tongues extending from horrible gargoyle faces. Instead of cabanas, guests rent mausoleums. ![]() The twins are determined to make it a good vacation, though, so when Aunt Saffronia suggests a waterpark, they hastily agree.īut Fathoms of Fun is not your typical waterpark. She’s not exactly well equipped to handle children. Twelve-year-old twins Theodora and Alexander and their older sister Wilhelmina Sinister-Winterbottom don’t know how they ended up with their Aunt Saffronia for an entire summer. Synopsisįrom New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White comes her middle grade series debut! Part Scooby Doo, part A Series of Unfortunate Events, and entirely genius! Meet the Sinister-Winterbottom twins, who solve mysteries at increasingly bizarre summer vacation destinations in the hopes of being reunited with their parents-or at the very least finally finding a good churro. Disclaimer – Many thanks to PRH International for eARC via NetGalley. ![]() |