![]() ![]() ![]() how some of the deadliest diseases are linked to sugar.how one single root forever changed sugar.From origins on Pacific islands, to becoming front and center of a lucrative industry, sugar has a hold over our health – and our lives – in a way most of us don’t fully realize. Let’s look deeper at just how sugar took over and influenced much of our diet. How did sugar become so pervasive, and what does this mean for our health? In fact, sugar has changed from once being a luxury ingredient for kings to now a staple in the American diets, whether we’re aware of it or not. It’s obvious that sugar is in chocolate, soft drinks, and candies – but how many of us know that it’s also in our yogurt, chips, sauces, frozen dinners, and even sushi? Has The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes been sitting on your reading list? Pick up the key ideas in the book with this quick summary. ![]()
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Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I. This sweeping new novel, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. The runaway bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. ![]() ![]() The Russian translation of this Latin grimoire was published in 2019. The book has yet to be published in English translation in its entirety. As Kieckhefer notes, by the four- teenth century necromancy had become a major hobby for underemployed clergy or uni- versity students awaiting ordination. Portions of the text, in English translation, are presented in Forbidden Rites as well, embedded within the author's essays and explanations on the Munich Manual in specific and grimoires in general. Richard Kieckhefer edited the text of the manuscript in 1998 under the title Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century. Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century (1997) Theology in Stone: Church Architecture From Byzantium to Berkeley (2004) There Once Was a Serpent: A History of Theology in Limericks (2010) References edit 'Kieckhefer, Richard ( 1946- )'. Pages 130 to 133 include a list of 11 demons, similar in part to the one from Ars Goetia. The text, composed in Latin, is largely concerned with demonology and necromancy. ![]() The Munich Manual of Demonic Magic or Liber incantationum, exorcismorum et fascinationum variarum is a fifteenth-century grimoire manuscript. ![]() Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History. Kors, Alan Charles., and Edward Peters, eds. ![]() Magic circle from the Munich Manual of Demon Magic Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many consider it the best of the fantasy master’s novels. ![]() First published in 1993, it was Zelazny’s last book prior to his untimely death. It is brave, devoted Snuff who must calculate the patterns of the Game and keep track of the Players-the witch, the mad monk, the vengeful vicar, the Count who sleeps by day, the Good Doctor and the hulking Experiment Man he fashioned from human body parts, and a wild-card American named Larry Talbot-all the while keeping Things at bay and staying a leap ahead of the Great Detective, who knows quite a bit more than he lets on.īoldly original and wildly entertaining, A Night in the Lonesome October is a darkly sparkling gem, an amalgam of horror, humor, mystery, and fantasy. All manner of participants, both human and not, are gathering with their ancient tools and their animal familiars in preparation for the dread night. ![]() Loyally accompanying a mysterious knife-wielding gentleman named Jack on his midnight rounds through the murky streets of London, good dog Snuff is busy helping his master collect the grisly ingredients needed for an unearthly rite that will take place not long after the death of the moon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lee's range of genres and settings is impressive, but there's something about his meticulousness that keeps me at a distance. All of his movies - among them Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain, even Hulk - center on emotions that bump up against rigid codes of behavior - emotions that can't be suppressed and finally erupt. Lee is a director whose works I've admired more than loved. He shares his boat and its dwindling food supplies with a man-eating Bengal tiger. He's the lone survivor of a shipwreck that killed the crew, his family and a variety of zoo animals his father was transporting to North America for sale.Īctually, Pi is the lone human survivor. Director Ang Lee has a surprising affinity for the Indian hero of Life of Pi - that's his name, Pi, and he's seen at several ages but principally as a 17-year-old boy adrift on a lifeboat in the South Pacific. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It would prove to be a life-altering experience. Three years later, when she was 25 and still searching for a career, Brown enrolled in Bank Street’s Cooperative School for Student Teachers. She graduated in 1932 and moved back to New York to live with her parents, dividing her time between various sports and day jobs. Brown attended Hollins College in Virginia, where she enjoyed the social life and athletics but struggled to find herself academically. ![]() She and her siblings (an older sister, Roberta, and a younger brother, Benjamin) spent their childhood at various boarding schools, and despite her father's concern that education would be wasted on the girls, all three went to college. Margaret Wise Brown was born in 1910 to moderately wealthy but distant and bickering parents. Goodnight Moon's style reflects real childhood semantics. ![]() Here are a few things you might not have known about Margaret Wise Brown's sparse classic. Goodnight Moon is a deceptively simple children’s book that falls somewhere between a going-to-sleep narrative and a lullaby-and yet it remains one of the most universal cultural references even all these decades later. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of Ginsberg's lines - including the first, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" - still resonate. Hoary censorship is alive and well, though San Francisco has come a long way since the "Howl" heresy trial. The judge found City Lights founder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, not guilty of obscenity though by the rules of today's FCC the four-letter words would result in a stiff fine. "Ah Carl, while you are not safe I am not safe," Ginsberg wrote in his epic poem "Howl", published by City Lights and tried in a San Francisco courtroom. Unfortunately, his friend and fellow homosexual, Carl Solomon, did suffer the indignities of electrical-shock therapy. Fortunately, they didn't shock him with jolts of electricity. In the 40s, Ginsberg's doctors aimed to break his deeply ingrained sexual orientation. "I'm a homosexual," he told his therapist Dr. In the 50s, Ginsberg came out of the closet because of his experience at Langley Porter. Nonetheless, he'd have felt at home today in gay San Francisco. ![]() Allen Ginsberg, the Beat poet, never married, never defended the institution of marriage and never defined himself as gay. ![]() ![]() ![]() The real trick is keeping her own gifts secret from her mother: because while Marguerite's powers may be a sham, Anna possesses a true ability to sense people's feelings and foretell the future.īut as Anna's powers intensify, she experiences frightening visions of her mother in peril, which lead her to explore the abilities she's tried so long to hide. ![]() ![]() For Anna, the illegitimate daughter of Harry Houdini-or so Marguerite claims-handcuffs and sleight-of-hand illusions have never been much of a challenge. A gifted illusionist, Anna assists her mother, the renowned medium Marguerite Van Housen, in her stage show and séances, easily navigating the underground world of magicians and mentalists in 1920s New York. ![]() ![]() Unlike other books by Zelazny, such as Lord of Light or the series The Chronicles of Amber, this novel is more poetic in style, and contains less straightforward action. ![]() Consequently, Zelazny dedicated the novel to Delany. Delany heard about it from Zelazny, Delany convinced a Doubleday editor to demand that Zelazny give him the manuscript. He never intended it to be published, but when Samuel R. He wrote it in present tense, constructed an entire chapter in poetry, and made the concluding chapter into the script of a play. Elements of horror and technology are mixed, and it has points in common with Cyberpunk.Ĭreatures of Light and Darkness was originally conceived and written as nothing more than a writing exercise in perspective by Roger Zelazny. ![]() Some have god-like powers, or perhaps are gods - the names and aspects of various Egyptian Gods are used. The novel is set in the far future, with humans on many worlds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Young intern Dr Jill Raney becomes suspicious after several unusual and fatal cases crop up on the same day. ![]() But in the Madison Hospital Medical Center, a highly respected hospital ward and fertility treatment research facility, bad things are happening to would-be mothers and newborn babies. Maternity wards of hospitals are usually joyous places, filled with new life. This debut novel by JA Schneider is a promising addition to the canon. Written by JA Schneider - Michael Crichton, Robin Cook and Tess Gerritsen, make way for a new kid on the block in the field of medical thrillers. ![]() |