![]() Weiss, International Studies, University of Oregon, Author of Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s Rights in Pakistan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices (Oxford University Press, 2020) This is an important contribution to our understanding of choices women make within patriarchy in South Asia and how they can eke out some power by doing so. Professor Agha deftly shows that when women make choices to accommodate others, this is often actually a strategy they can use to gain some semblance of power. ![]() As poverty and social insecurity are at the foundation of why women must acquiesce to patriarchal control, she shows how they often adopt survival strategies to enable their agency to gain societal approval within prevailing strict patriarchal boundaries. Elaborating on gendered power relations in a little-known area of Pakistan, Nadia Agha explores how women in the cultural context of Khairpur actively participate in mitigating their own subordination by ‘playing by the cultural rules’ and hence ensure their economic survival. ![]()
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![]() Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE, was a British neurologist residing in the United States, who has written popular books about his patients, the most famous of which is Awakenings, which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject." 作者简介 They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities whose limbs have become alien who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Their search for a rescue plan takes them down the Nile river in Africa, where they’ll have to navigate everything from Egyptian pyramids in the desert to wet-and-wild jungles-not to mention life-threatening encounters with wilderness diseases, angry hippos and some seriously bad guys-in order to find the treasure and save the day.īooktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The sequel to James Patterson’s Treasure Hunters is another hilarious, hair-raising adventure for the First Family of Action!īick Kidd and his globe-trotting siblings Beck, Storm and Tommy may have completed their first treasure hunt after their father was lost at sea, but their kidnapped mother is still in the hands of nasty pirates. Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! ![]() ![]() The memoirs conclude shortly after the coup in 1972 that overthrew his close friend Salvador Allende, Chile's first democratically elected president, as Neruda himself battled cancer. After a year in hiding, he escaped on horseback over the Andes, then to Europe and Asia. Neruda, a communist, was driven from his senate seat in 1948, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. From there, his memoir follows his travels as a globetrotting Chilean consul-including a stint in Spain during its civil war, and in Mexico, where he attracted attention for aiding a man suspected of conspiring to assassinate Leon Trotsky-and his short-lived service as a Chilean senator. A motherless, pensive child in the wild, he began writing poems long before quitting the countryside for Santiago, where he spent his bohemian student years. ![]() The classic memoir of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, now expanded with newly discovered material Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Dune’ remains one the best pieces of science fiction ever written, and the book catapulted Frank Herbert’s writing career. Protagonists: Paul Atreides, Alia Atreides, Jessica.Antagonists: Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Shaddam IV, Padishah Emperor of The Known Universe.Climax: The story’s climax occurs when Paul and the Fremen defeat the Harkonnen and Sardaukar troops, and Alia kills the Baron of House Harkonnen.Setting: Planet Caladan, Planet Arrakis. ![]() Point of View: Third-person perspective.Herbert, who came as a reporter, documented everything concerning the encroachment and later created an article that was never published. Frank Herbert wrote ‘Dune’ inspired by what he saw and documented when covering the extent of damage caused by the encroaching desert in Florence, Oregon, in the late 1950s. Book Inspiration: The inspiration for Frank Herbert’s novel came from a battle between man and nature.With precision and complex storytelling at its core, ‘Dune’ remains one of the best novels in existence. Being a book written in 1965, the importance of ‘Dune’ cannot be overstated as it has been the building block of some of the best science-fiction stories in history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fans of the series, or of Star Wars, will hit warp speeds to grab a copy of this one. Praise for The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett 'Chock-full of customarily quirky fun.' Kirkus Reviews 'Fans of the series will relish the side drawings goofy humor, the new puppets to make, and the cliff-hanger promising more to come.' School Library Journal 'Angleberger delivers another clever, funny crowd-pleaser. The message isn't bad either: uniting for the greater good and standing up for one's beliefs. "Angleberger delivers another clever, funny crowd-pleaser. "Fans of the series will relish the side drawings' goofy humor, the new puppets to make, and the cliff-hanger promising more to come." ![]() Praise for The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett With this latest episode in the explosively popular Origami Yoda series, Tom Angleberger proves once again that he has his finger puppet squarely on the erratic pulse of middle-school life" ( Washington Post). ![]() United, can they defeat the FunTime Menace and cope with a surprise attack from Jabba the Puppett? But some crises are too big for Origami Yoda to handle alone: Form a Rebel Alliance the students must. Instead, it's driving everyone crazy with its obnoxious videos of Professor FunTime and his insidious singing calculator! When Principal Rabbski cancels the students' field trip-along with art, music, and LEGO classes-to make time for FunTime, the students turn to Origami Yoda for help. Dwight's back-and not a moment too soon, as the gang faces the FunTime Menace: a new educational program designed to raise students' standardized test scores. Dark times have fallen on McQuarrie Middle School. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the leading dragonriders and holdlords must act to contain the lust for land and power of Toric, Lord Holder of the South. Readis pursues his briney friendships nonetheless, reporting his findings to the computer, Aivas, which is attempting to guide the humans to a new era by freeing Pern forever from the devastating, life-consuming Thread. But, though his interest is shared by the young dragonrider T'Lion and his dragon, Gadareth, it is forbidden by his mother, who has feared the unusual ever since she was kidnapped by outlaws because of her ability to hear and talk with dragons. When a boy, Readis, is rescued by ``shipfish'' and realizes that they can talk, he develops a lifelong obsession with the fascinating creatures. ![]() In this latest addition to McCaffrey's popular Pern series (Chronicles of Pern: First Fall, etc.), the humans of Pern are reunited, after eons of noncontact, with the intelligent dolphins who had originally settled the planet with them. ![]() ![]() Which one of the strangers at the rest stop was driving the van? Could it belong to the magic man Ashley (apparently, it’s a male name too) or dim-witted rodent-face Lars or the traveling pair Ed and Sandi, on their way to celebrate Christmas with family? Everything changes when Darby braves the brutal blizzard outside for a while and tries to find a cell signal, only to find a kidnapped child in the back of a van instead! ![]() Instead, she finds herself snowed in at a dingy rest stop with no cell phone reception and four complete strangers. She was hoping to get ahead of the snowstorm to get home to Utah where her dying mother was having surgery. ![]() Darby Thorne, a college student with a complicated relationship with her mother, finds herself on a highway in Colorado in the middle of a blizzard. ![]() ![]() In so doing they will inevitably start to connect more with the characters and events taking place. In order to re-tell the story your child will have to digest the information in the story, reflect on it and then reproduce it in their own way. One way of doing this is by asking your child to re-tell a story which you have just read to them, or which they have just read on their own. If we, as parents, want to help our children become good readers, we can help them to discover these connections and read more deeply into books. Making connections is one of the key reading strategies children can use to enable them to better process the words and ideas which they read about. Good readers grasp the mood of the story, anticipate upcoming events, reflect on past events and become emotionally involved in the text. ![]() They connect with the characters in the story, the situations the characters find themselves in and the setting in which the story takes place. Good readers think actively as they read and make connections with what they are reading. ![]() Connecting through play with "Where The Wild Things Are" ![]() ![]() A profound and mesmerizing work, written as if the author's very life were at stake. Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death. A profoundly serious, gripping and hugely readable work written as if the authors very life were at stake. Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. In A Death in the Family Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now * ![]() ![]() One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, an addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood, family and grief. ![]() |