![]() ![]() This tale of secret identities, violent sexuality, and dark crimes stands in stark contrast to the genteel detective stories then popular in English literature. Themes of deviance and sado-masochism are central to Beast in the Shadows (Inju), a tale from the height of Rampo’s grotesque period, which appeared in serial form between August and October, 1928. The Black Lizard herself is a master criminal and femme fatale, whose charged relationship with detective Akechi and unconcealed sadism have inspired shuddering admiration in generations of readers… It features Rampo’s main detective character, Akechi Kogorō: a figure who combines elements of Poe’s Auguste Dupin with the gentleman adventurers of British golden age detective literature. ![]() The Black Lizard (Kurotokage) first appeared as a magazine serial, published in twelve monthly installments between January and December, 1934. ![]() ![]() The Black Lizard (黒蜥蜴, Kuro-tokage) was originally published in 1934īeast in The Shadows (陰獣, Injū) was originally published in 1928Įnglish translations published as a collection in 2006 ![]()
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![]() ![]() A gift that might just change the nature of their relationship, and their lives, forever.Ī fast-paced Regency-era story of love, lust, magic, and obsession by the dynamic new voice of romance, California Dawes. a gift that has the power to link them in unseen-but definitely felt-ways. Then Christopher brings home a special gift for her on her birthday. Now at eighteen, she has returned to Crossfox Hall as a woman grown and eager to step out into the world to make a match for herself. She arrived on his doorstep at age sixteen, tragically orphaned and looking for a new home… and he immediately shipped her off to boarding school so that she might finish her education while staying safely out of his reach. ![]() ![]() Verity Gibbs is the beautiful, lively, intelligent ward of the brooding perpetual bachelor and arcanist, Christopher Windham. A passionate young woman of an alternate-world Regency England and a rich arcanist who doesn’t trust his own dark desires… ![]() ![]() ![]() He brings this to the attention of his boss, unsure if it is simply a home movie or actually something which should elicit concern. Jeremy investigates, watching the tapes in question, and finds bizarre footage of people in a shed with sacks over their heads. At first, Jeremy is not all that concerned, but a few days later, another customer arrives and says the same thing about a copy of She's All That. One day, while Jeremy is working at the Video Hut, a customer brings in a tape of the movie Targets and says that there is something on the tape that should not be there. Jeremy lives with his father, and the two of them still mourn the loss of Jeremy's mother, who died in a car accident six years ago. ![]() His father suggests some work in construction which could offer him steady full-time work and perhaps a career he can retire from. He has been contemplating going back to school, attending the local community college. He is at a crossroads in his life: he finished high school a few years back and has been working at this job for about six years. The story opens with the perspective of Jeremy Heldt, a 22-year old who works at the local Video Hut. In John Darnielle's sophomore novel, Universal Harvester, he explores the quiet Midwestern town of Nevada, Iowa. The following version of this book was used to create this Study Guide: Findley, Ally. ![]() ![]() ![]() He proposes a combination of a diet low in sugar and processed foods and intermittent fasting to limit insulin spikes, reduce insulin levels and, consequently, lower weight. He identifies excessive insulin, which is stimulated by persistently high levels of glucose, as the ultimate cause of obesity.įung contends that dieters fail because they regard meal portions and exercise routines with hawk-eyed scrutiny while the real culprits of obesity-meal content and timing-go unaddressed. In his view, obesity is a multifactorial disease with carbohydrates, calories, sugar, and insulin resistance converging to create the hormonal imbalances that lead to weight gain. ![]() He argues that conventional advice to eat less and move more fails because it ignores the multifactorial nature of obesity, and because the body has an efficient homeostatic mechanism that moderates changes in caloric intake and expenditure to maintain a set weight. ![]() ![]() In the book The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss, Jason Fung chronicles the ballooning of the obesity epidemic from the 1970s to date and proposes a hormonal theory of obesity that sheds light on obesity as a hormonal imbalance disorder rather than a caloric imbalance disorder. A Complete Summary of The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss ![]() ![]() ![]() An Age of License: A Travelogue (2014, Fantagraphics, ISBN 9781606997680). ![]() She refers to him as "Pal" in her writing, short for Palindrome, for privacy reasons. Knisley gave birth to her first child on June 13, 2016. At the time of his proposal to her, they had been separated for three years after a five year relationship. Knisley became engaged to designer John Horstman. She is a 2014 recipient of the Alex Awards. She was awarded the 2007 Diamond in the Rough scholarship for her CCS application comic, Heart Seed Snow Circuit. Knisley holds an MFA ('09) from the Center for Cartoon Studies. ![]() While there, she contributed to and edited the comics section of the school newspaper, FNews. Knisley holds a BFA ('07) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. the pleasure Knisley takes in food and company is infectious." Comics critic Douglas Wolk described it as "a keenly observed letter back home. It received positive reviews in several publications, such as USA Today and. Knisley's drawn travel journal French Milk was published through Simon & Schuster in October 2008. Her work is often autobiographical, and food is a common theme. Lucy Knisley (born January 11, 1985) is an American comic artist and musician. ![]() ![]() However, the many adaptations of Jack Finney’s 1954 novel The Body Snatchers remain unique in that they highlight decades of evolving American fears despite depicting the same premise of an alien infiltration of human society.ĭon Siegel’s original 1956 adaptation, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, contextualizes its narrative within Cold War Era concerns. The recent rise of ‘Digital Horror’ movies, such as Tragedy Girls and We're All Going to the World's Fair, has emerged alongside the growing ubiquitous use of social media and harmful internet cultures. Self-referential comedy horror films, such as Shaun of the Dead and the Scary Movie franchise were particularly successful in the wake of 9/11 as American audiences sought brevity in the wake of a national tragedy. The Golden Age of the Slasher subgenre in the 1980s is seen as both a rejection of the Reagan era rise of neoconservatism, while internalizing sexist ideas by creating the trope of the virginal 'Final Girl’. ![]() ![]() Throughout cinematic history, the horror genre has frequently reflected contemporary anxieties, framing monstrous creatures and bloodthirsty villains as metaphors for ongoing dilemmas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, she seeks to present “the dramatic and human elements of his story, to show the warmth, spirituality and joyousness, for which his people loved him, his foibles, his implacable will and something of his complexity” (ix, x). ![]() For instance, Hill, Donna ( Joseph Smith: the First Mormon ) Google Scholar, who produced the first major biography of Mormonism's founder since Fawn Brodie's, avoids conclusions about Smith's authenticity as a prophet. Most scholars remaining outside the above categories do so not by positing a new theory regarding Smith, but by focusing on questions other than the truth or falsity of Smith's claims. Virtually everyone else who takes a published stand holds either the second view (e.g., Arbaugh, George, Revelation in Mormonism ) Google Scholar or the third ( DeVoto, Bernard, “The Centennial of Mormonism,” American Mercury ) Google Scholar. 2 The bulk of practicing Mormons adopt the first position (scholarly examples are found in Reynolds, Noel, ed., Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins ) Google Scholar. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Garrett turns up after four years of no contact, wanting to take Wendy with him to California, she blankly acquiesces. Josh and Louie are devastated Wendy’s grief is compounded by guilty memories of typically teenaged sullenness and meanness. ![]() Maynard’s chapters on the apocalyptic day when Janet doesn’t come home-and on the surreal subsequent waiting period-are flatly descriptive. Maynard ( Where Love Goes, 1995, etc.) rushes into the breach with the story of a 13-year-old girl whose mother is killed on September 11, 2001.Īs it begins, former dancer Janet (good enough to have understudied in A Chorus Line) is an executive secretary at a company on the World Trade Center’s 87th floor, divorced from Wendy’s irresponsible father Garrett and happily remarried to wonderful, domestic, bass player Josh, father of Janet’s four-year-old son Louie. ![]() ![]() Very much like Onion in The Good Lord Bird, Cathy Williams successfully poses as a man to find her way out of the particular hell reserved for young black girls of this period. "My real life, the one I was meant to have, did not start until an August night in 1864, three years into the war, when I watched the only world I'd ever known burn to the ground and met the man who was to be my deliverance and my damnation, the Yankee general Philip Henry Sheridan." In her 10th novel, Bird ( Above the East China Sea, 2014, etc.) delivers a high-energy page-turner that combines vividly re-created historical figures and events with a wild mustang of a plot and an embattled secret love, the last of which fans will recognize as a specialty of this author. ![]() ![]() Lightly based on the true story of a freed female slave who posed as a man, joined the army, and served with the Buffalo Soldiers, this rollicking epic marches fearlessly from the Civil War South to the sunburned edge of the Western frontier. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's the story of the origins of information in the tunnels of MIT and the "idea factory" of Bell Labs, in the "scientists' war" with Nazi Germany, and in the work of Shannon's collaborators and rivals. ![]() It's the story of a small-town boy from Michigan whose career stretched from the age of room-sized computers powered by gears and string to the age of the Apple desktop. ![]() Now, Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman bring Claude Shannon's story to life. His work gave mathematicians and engineers the tools to bring that world to pass. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as objectively as any physical object. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution. Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. ![]() |