English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature. Works include Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's poet laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland, part of the scenic region in northwestern England known as the Lake District. His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was captain, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
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American author Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton achieved significant literary acclaim during her career, garnering comparisons to luminaries like Henry James and Ambrose Bierce. This collection of spine-tingling gothic tales will please fans of the genre who don't want to sacrifice literary quality when it comes to scary stories.
Misfortune, hardship and betrayals are the order of the day for Anna's Life.Growing up and being part of a severely dysfunctional family only added more misery to her life. But how did she overcome them all to eventually carving out a successful path for herself as a young adult, amidst the many challenges she has been through; and keeps enduring. Is left to be desired.Guarantee to take you on a roller coaster of emotions; this story will undoubtedly inspire you to be the best you can be. As you overcome whatever life challenges you maybe going through presently; or will come across later in life.
In the "The Bell Curve", the second volume of Sanderson's Chronicles, David Sanderson's battle begins on the first day of school. It's going to be a steep "Learning Curve" for him, his friends, his adversary Alois Jacobs and all of the people who are determined to stop him from getting the grades to pass. It's a no holds barred battle up and over the "Bell Curve" that touches everyone and leaves no one unscarred.
Eight-year-old Melanie Bell seems to be about the only sane person in her small, American town and her sole ambition for the day is to rocket off to planet ZamZam so that her best friend, Mr. Bristol (a cowardly, see-through monkey), can get home to his family. Standing in her way is her home-bound Mommy who can never seem to post enough selfies, the local bullies' sadistic pyromania, the mayor's motorcycle-riding tax-collector's murderous jealousy of Melanie's receipt of 'smiley faces, ' and lastly, the mayor himself, who is responsible for Melanie having never experienced the joy of laughter.Luckily for Melanie and Mr. Bristol, their town is visited by three, heroic interlopers (an ancient shop-keeper, an anthropomorphic calico-cat-captain and a vaudevillian rabbit-man who calls himself the Bard) in a magical bookstore with a secret room in the basement known as the Story Salon. With the help of a mysterious, wish-granting cabinet, these five extraordinary freedom-fighters embark on a series of hysterical and heart pounding adventures, all while being entertained by modern fables provided by the loud-mouth Bard, who dreams big and worries little. When all seems lost, it's up to Melanie to concoct the master plan, but can she alone short the circuits of this tyrannical society and learn to laugh along the way?
Maeve Fitzgerald's life was turned upside down in an instant. Now she has quit her job as a police officer, sold her condo and left the city behind. She moves to a small town and buys a lonely old house by the sea. As she settles in, happy and content to start her new life, she gazes out of her bedroom window one quiet night and sees a little girl playing in her moonlit garden...alone. She soon realizes that she is no ordinary little girl...
Can his Christmas spirit banish her ghosts of Christmas past?Stephanie Neufeld despises Christmas cheer. How can she get into the spirit when the season only reminds her of a childhood she'd rather forget? But when the nurse agrees to cover a co-worker's shift to avoid the town Santa Claus parade, she doesn't expect her first patient to be her high school crush-the guy who once ghosted her after a single date.Noel Butler can't just sit around for the holidays with a busted leg. Instead, he concocts a new challenge: make the attending nurse he almost dated fall in love with Christmas. Since she won't speak to him, playing Secret Santa won't entangle his fiercely guarded heart. Will it?While Noel's selfless dedication to helping some fostered teenage twins melts Stephanie's icy reserve, she can't help but feel his Santa hat isn't his only secret. When old wounds reopen, will fear keep Noel and Stephanie frozen in the past... or can they discover a warm new reason to celebrate the season?Every Bell that Rings is the second standalone title in the sweet and clean Peace Country Romance series. If you like second chances, small towns, big heart, and a bit of grit along with your joy-filled white Christmases, you'll love this wholesome love story.Pre-order now to reserve your copy Equivalent movie rating of PG-13 for mild language and intense themes related to addictions recovery, childhood sibling death, off-page physical assault, and past domestic abuse.
This full-colour book presents an array of work by Langlands & Bell ranging from their Traces of Living (first made in 1986) to a major new work conceived for Soane’s iconic Library-Dining Room that explores the temporal and cultural relations emanating from the idea of the 18th-century Grand Tour. In a long-form interview, the artists shed light on their four-decade-long artistic collaboration, which seeks to locate evidence of the relationships between people, from the personal to the political, and to reveal the poetry and beauty in the world. Presented at a moment when some cultural commentators argue that we have entered a ‘post-truth’ era, Langlands & Bell: Degrees of Truth reflects on architecture’s capacities to bear witness to the technological, political, economic and cultural relationships that define contemporary society. This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Soane Museum, presents the breadth of the artists’ work, which ranges from film, video and digital media projects to sculpture, installation and full-scale architecture. From the found objects gathered in the early 1980s from the rubble and detritus of Whitechapel, to the slick hyper-determined buildings of the tech giants of Silicon Valley, both book and exhibition explore the disconnects that exist between ideas and narratives that buildings, objects and images are intended to convey and those they inadvertently reveal or which are acquired over time.
Mary Bell, William et Lafaine: La vie des enfants en Amerique / adapte de l'anglais par P.-J. Stahl et de Wailly; illustrations de L. FroelichDate de l'edition originale: 1895Collection: Bibliotheque d'education et de recreationCe livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curve for the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century. Following a review of the reception of The Bell Curve and its place in the campaign to end affirmative action, Professor Tucker analyses Herrnstein’s concept of the “meritocracy” in relation to earlier 20th century eugenics and the dramatic increase in economic inequality over the past 30 years. Tucker demonstrates how, contrary to The Bell Curve’s predictions, the reallocation of these huge sums was neither rational nor beneficial for society. The book moves on to situate The Bell Curve within contemporary politics and shows how it can be seen to have played a role in the 2016 US election. This compelling analysis will appeal to scholars and those with an interest in the history of scientific racism, the history of psychology and the sociology of knowledge and science.This is an open access book.
NASA’s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with the Soviet Union. This was never more evident than on the epic suborbital MR-4 flight of Liberty Bell 7 with astronaut Virgil (‘Gus’) Grissom piloting the spacecraft to a successful splashdown, followed by the premature blowing of the craft’s explosive hatch. After a hurried exit and struggling to stay afloat, he could only watch helplessly as the recovery helicopter pilot valiantly fought a losing battle to save the sinking capsule. That day NASA not only lost a spacecraft but came perilously close to losing one of its Mercury astronauts, a decorated Korean fighter pilot from Indiana who might one day have soared to the highest goal of them all, as the first person to set foot on the Moon. For the first time, many of those closest to the flight of Liberty Bell 7 and astronaut Gus Grissom offer their stories and opinions on the dramatic events of July 21, 1961, and his later pioneering Gemini mission. They also tell of an often controversial life cut tragically and horrifically short in a launch pad fire that shocked the nation.
