![]() ![]() The Nothing is portrayed as a hole with evil red eyes, which belongs to that of a white wolf, and is the television version of Gmork. In the animated series, the Nothing is a recurring villain. In the process, Bastian learns valuable lessons and gains many magical friends like the wooden Bark Troll, the luckdragon Falkor and many others.ĭifferences between the TV series and the film Plot Ī young boy named Bastian helps yet again the Childlike Empress and her people of Fantasia, an imagination land that can be accessed and influenced through a magic neverending book called The Neverending Story, because the horrifying Nothing and other villains like the evil sorceress Xayide still threaten it. The series is loosely based on Michael Ende's book, The Neverending Story (1979). In Canada, it also aired on Family Channel. It aired for one season (1995–1996) on HBO, and ran for 26 episodes. ![]() The Neverending Story is an animated television series, produced by CineVox Entertainment and animated by Ellipse Animation and Canadian Nelvana Limited. Canadian TV series or program The Neverending Story ![]()
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![]() ![]() But few people know much about Koch Industries and that’s because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way.įor five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading in all these commodities. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. ![]() Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. Shortlisted for the 2019 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award ![]() ![]() Many have seen echoes in the novel of Chesterton's own longstanding and very public debates over religion with his friend, George Bernard Shaw. The real antagonist is the world outside, which desperately tries to prevent from happening a duel over "mere religion" (a subject both duelists judge of utmost importance). ![]() Turnbull, as well, is presented in a sympathetic light: both duelists are ready to fight for and die for their antagonistic opinions and, in doing so, develop a certain partnership that evolves into a friendship. Lynette Hunter has argued that the novel is more sympathetic to Maclan, but does indicate Maclan is also presented as in some ways too extreme. Much of the rest of the book concerns the dueling, figurative and somewhat more literal, of a Jacobite Catholic named Evan Maclan and an atheist Socialist named James Turnbull. A part of this section was quoted in Pope John Paul I's Illustrissimi letter to G. The novel's beginning involves debates about rationalism and religion between a Professor Lucifer and a monk named Michael. Chesterton, The Ball and the Cross/Manalive/The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton. The first chapters of the book were serialized from 1905 to 1906 with the completed work published in 1909. ![]() ![]() ![]() The title refers to a more worldly and rationalist worldview, represented by a ball or sphere, and the cross representing Christianity. ![]() ![]() ![]() A former staff attorney with a public interest law group, Levine now devotes her time to writing, lecturing, and teaching. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She has worked in film and television, taught adults and immigrant teenagers in special education and ESL programs, and served a law clerkship with Chief Judge Joseph Lord, U.S. She has a Master's degree in political science from the University of Chicago and a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law. ![]() degree in Politics from Brandeis University, graduating Magna cum laude. I enjoy learning new things and meeting new people, even if they lived 200 years ago."Įllen Levine was born in New York City. "Writing nonfiction lets me in behind the scenes of the story. Although she enjoys writing both fiction and nonfiction, most of Ellen's books for young readers have been nonfiction. Ellen Levine's books have won many awards and honors, including the Jane Addams Peace Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, even after discovering the wreck which lies in two large parts, research has shown that the Titanic did not break above the surface. Even though the last survivors off the Titanic claimed to have seen it split, it was agreed that the ship had sank intact. The conditions of the wreck were unknown, as it would be physically impossible to raise any part of the ship, as it lies now. The novel Raise the Titanic! was released in 1976, the film in 1980 both before the wreck had been identified. The wreck of the Titanic was not found until 1985 despite numerous attempts to discover it since 1912. My recent post regarding films about the Titanic omitted this monstrosity sterling piece of film making, something which a fellow blogger at above blog (seriously check it out!) has asked me to rectify. Unless of course you’re considering actually watching Raise the Titanic! in which case, do please read on and realise your folly. ![]() If you have not discovered The Head That Launched A Thousand Books I suggest you go there now, it is certainly far more worthwhile than reading this review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Judy is a longtime advocate of intellectual freedom. She serves on the boards of the Author's Guild the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators the Key West Literary Seminar and the National Coalition Against Censorship. ![]() She is the founder and trustee of The Kids Fund, a charitable and educational foundation. Other recognitions include the Library of Congress Living Legends Award and the 2004 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. in education from New York University in 1961, which named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1996, the same year the American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A. She receives thousands of letters a year from readers of all ages who share their feelings and concerns with her. More than 80 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into thirty-one languages. She has also written three novels for adults, Summer Sisters Smart Women and Wifey, all of them New York Times bestsellers. ![]() ![]() Adults as well as children will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Blubber Just as Long as We're Together and the five book series about the irrepressible Fudge. She has spent her adult years in many places doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. ![]() ![]() ![]() The poet is honored with more than 1250 monuments in Ukraine, and at least 125 worldwide, including such capitals as Washington, Ottawa, Buenos Aires, Warsaw, Moscow and Tashkent. A multitude of translations of Shevchenko’s verse into Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages, as well as Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, and many others attest to his impact on world culture as well. ![]() That figure does not include Kobzars released before and after both in Ukraine and abroad. There is no reliable count of how many editions of the book have been published, but an official estimate made in 1976 put the figure in Ukraine at 110 during the Soviet period alone. The first editions had been censored by the Russian czar, but the book still made an enduring impact on Ukrainian culture. Masterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine's rich cultural heritage.Īs a foundational text, The Kobzar has played an important role in galvanizing the Ukrainian identity and in the development of Ukraine’s written language and Ukrainian literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed shares tips such as: He developed his unique method over years of observing social dynamics and interacting with women in clubs to learn how to overcome the guard shield that many women use to deflect come-ons from "average frustrated chumps." Now he has written the definitive handbook on the art of the pickup. Mystery gained mainstream attention for his role in Neil Strauss's New York Times bestselling exposé, The Game. "One of the most admired men in the world of seduction" (The New York Times) teaches average guys how to approach, attract and begin intimate relationships with beautiful womenįor every man who always wondered why some guys have all the luck, Mystery, considered by many to be the world's greatest pickup artist, finally reveals his secrets for finding and forming relationships with some of the world's most beautiful women. ![]() ![]() Sometimes, it will blast readers with pain and sympathy towards the main characters, especially towards Astrid. This book is poison, which will penetrate into readers slowly and gradually, fill all their thoughts and bring discord into the familiar and balanced mechanism, which people call life. The subtle philosophy of each phrase evokes the desire to parse the novel into quotes. There is a stunning, incredible and profound story about the life of women in the “world of men”. ![]() Readers will want to praise Janet Fitch and her work for the incredible depth and the story, which is described in the book “White Oleander”, because it is very exciting and even absorbing. Many different feelings can appear in our souls. However, this novel is not so much about death, as about life, the struggle for life against death naturally, many thoughts and questions can appear in the mind of readers. After reading, you will not perceive the relationship between mother and daughter as before, because Ingrid and Astrid will never be the same people regardless of whether they were good or bad before. The book is so frank and shrewd that it just breaks something in the reader. The book is about childhood and growing up alone, when a child does not have somebody who would support and give some advices. ![]() ![]() “ White Oleander” is a novel by American author Janet Fitch. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() The carving-up of a civilization into pieces labelled "nations" is, I believe, something peculiar to students of modern Western history, and, with them too, this present practice of theirs is only recent. This practice of dealing in civilizations instead of nations is taken for granted by orientalists, ancient-historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. ![]() Examples of extinct civilizations are the Greco-Roman and the Ancient Egyptian. Examples of other living civilizations besides the Western Civilization are the Islamic and the Civilization of Eastern Asia, centring on China. The history of the United States, for instance, or the history of Britain, is, as I see it, a fragment of the history of Western Christendom or the Western Christian World, and I believe I can put my finger on a number of other societies, living or extinct, that are of the same species. These seemed, and still seem, to me to be fragments of something larger, and I found this larger and more satisfying unit of study in a civilization. I was led into this quest by finding myself dissatisfied with the present-day habit of studying history in terms of national states. In the first volume of A Study of History, I start by searching for a unit of historical study that is relatively self-contained and is therefore more or less intelligible in isolation from the rest of history. ![]() |