![]() ![]() Great Neck was a very intellectual, very ambitious group of people who were well-educated. He was willing to sacrifice whatever it would take to reclaim our heritage. “We had never lived in a Jewish neighborhood in our lives and it was important to my father for us to have an upbringing in a Jewish community as much as possible. We moved to Long Island and lived in Westbury, East Meadow and then moved to Great Neck, where it was primarily Jewish,” Deborah says. “My father decided we really needed to come to America to be Jewish. Army during World War II in Germany and had been shaped by what he saw during the holocaust. He attended Harvard and had been a military intelligence officer for the U.S. Deborah’s father Aaron was a business man in retail who had a great investment in Jewish life. ![]()
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He subsequently won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was heavily influenced by John Ruskin and Walter Pater, whose aestheticism was taken to its radical extreme in Wilde's work. ![]() He was born to a middle-class Irish family (his father was a surgeon) and was trained as a scholarship boy at Trinity College, Dublin. Flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde had a reputation that preceded him, especially in his early career. ![]() ![]() ![]() The journal addresses medical oncology, surgery, radiotherapy, paediatric oncology, basic research and the comprehensive management of patients with malignant diseases.ĬA provides cancer care professionals with up-to-date information on all aspects of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. ![]() Annals of Oncology is an international journal at the forefront of its field, publishing articles on innovative cancer treatments, translational research relating to oncology and precision medicine. The official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology and the Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO). ![]() ![]() ![]() Her novels espoused what came to be called Objectivism, a philosophy that champions capitalism and the pre-eminence of the individual. Still occasionally working as a screenwriter, Rand moved to New York City in 1951 and published Atlas Shrugged in 1957. ![]() Her novel The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and eventually became a bestseller. ![]() Petersburg, Russia, emigrated to America with her family in January 1926, never to return to her native land. ![]() Hugely influential and grand in scope, this story of a man who stopped the motor of the world expounds Rand's controversial philosophy of Objectivism, which champions competition, creativity and human greatness.Īyn Rand (1905-82), born Alisa Rosenbaum in St. For her John Galt is the enemy, but as she will learn, nothing in this situation is quite as it seems. With the US economy now faltering, businesswoman Dagny Taggart is struggling to get the transcontinental railroad up and running. Opening with the enigmatic question 'Who is John Galt?', Atlas Shrugged envisions a world where the 'men of talent' - the great innovators, producers and creators - have mysteriously disappeared. A towering philosophical novel that is the summation of her Objectivist philosophy, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the saga of the enigmatic John Galt, and his ambitious plan to 'stop the motor of the world', published in Penguin Modern Classics. ![]() ![]() It was therefore with a great deal of pleasure that I read Susanne Alleyn’s recently republished spin on the classic, A Far Better Rest, which imagines the story through Sydney Carton’s eyes and turns him into a participant in revolutionary events. Who can deny that the book’s opening is one of the best in English literature and its last line ain’t bad either, but, as a French historian attempting to teach it, I have cursed the clichés Dickens so brilliantly entrenched about the Old Regime and French Revolution. But aside from a stage production in Greece this summer, no new version of A Tale of Two Cities is in the works. The BBC has already aired its new Great Expectations and adaptation of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This year marks the bicentenial of Charles Dickens’s birth and the event is being celebrated around the globe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike most horror films Candyman is low on special-effects but still delivers hair raising suspense and surprising shocks, primarily with its creative imagery. Director Bernard Rose’s (Paperhouse, Immortal Beloved) adaptation has given the narrative an underlying intelligence and believability. It is the story of a graduate student’s investigation into a grisly urban legend with distinct racial and social undertones. ![]() Brown, Caesar Brown, Terrence Riggins, Gilbert Lewis, Rusty Schwimmer, Baxter Harris, John Rensenhouse, Mika Quintard, Doug MacHugh, Carol Harris, Stanley DeSantis, Diane Peterson, Michael Wilheim.Ĭandyman started out as The Forbidden, a short story written by the acclaimed horror/fantasy author Clive Barker. Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams, DeJuan Guy, Marianna Eliott, Theodore Raimi, Ria Pavia, Mark Daniels, Lisa Ann Poggi, Adam Philipson, Eric Edwards, Carolyn Lowery, Barbara Alston, Sarina Grant, Latesha Martin, Lanesha Martin, Michael Culkin, Bernard Rose, Glenda Starr Kelly, Kenneth A. ![]() ![]() Given the opportunity, kids can ask questions that help them to think their way through tough problems that adults haven’t been able to figure out - problems like the theft of a Vermeer painting! In writing Chasing Vermeer, I wanted to explore the ways kids perceive connections between supposedly unrelated events and situations, connections that grown-ups often miss. We asked many questions, visited many museums in the city, and set off a number of alarms - by mistake, of course. One year my class and I decided to figure out what art was about. I began teaching 3rd grade at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. When our kids started school, we moved to Chicago. My husband and I met and were married on Nantucket, lived there year-round for another 10 years, and had our two children there. I surprised myself by writing two books of ghost stories, stories collected by interviewing people. The Met has five Vermeer paintings and the Frick three, so Vermeer and I have been friends for many years.Īfter studying art history in college, I moved to Nantucket Island, in Massachusetts, in order to write. By the time I was a teenager, I sometimes stopped at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Frick Museum after school, just to wander and look and think. I was born in New York City and grew up playing in Central Park, getting my share of scraped knees, and riding many public buses and subways. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her books have been translated into twenty languages and are available in over twenty countries. Her stories and especially her characters, Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby, have proven popular with young readers. Her first book, Henry Huggins, was published in 1950. She worked for a short time as Children's Librarian in Yakima, Washington, before moving to California.Ĭleary began her writing career in her early thirties. in library science, was bestowed by the University of Washington in Seattle in 1939. in 1938 from the University of California at Berkeley. Before long however Cleary had learned to love books, and as a child she spent a good deal of her time in the public library.Ĭleary attended Chaffey Junior College in Ontario, Ca. ![]() Ironically, this internationally known author of children's books struggled to learn how to read when she entered school. Her family lived on a small farm in McMinnville, Oregon, before moving to Portland. ![]() Presents young Henry Huggins and his amiable dog, Ribsy, in episodes involving Henry's efforts to curb Ribsy's canine instincts.ģ sound discs (2:75 hrs.) : digital 4 3/4 in.īeverly Cleary was born on April 12, 1916. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, when he was just six, he moved with his parents to Germany. Other favorite classic books from Eric Carle include The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybug, From Head to Toe, and many others.Įric Carle was the creator of more than seventy picture books for young readers.Įric Carle was born in New York, USA. Eric Carle’s classic, colorful collages of baby animals and their mothers will delight and comfort young readers.ĭoes a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? is a warm and approachable book to use in the classroom, to cuddle up reading with a little one, and to give as a baby shower or Mother's Day gift. Swim with a baby dolphin calf in the deep blue sea. Watch little cubs prance around mother lion. Meet the little joey bouncing in mother kangaroo’s pouch. ![]() Bright collage illustrations and simple text reinforce the theme that everyone has a mother, and every mother loves her child. ![]() From Eric Carle, the New York Times bestselling author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Grouchy Ladybug, comes a reassuring tale of a mother’s love for her child.ĭoes a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? answers curious kids who wonder whether lions, bears, and monkeys have mothers, too. ![]() ![]() ![]() I spent a couple years galloping around looking for lichen and fantasizing about boy reindeer. “When I was a little girl I wanted to be a reindeer-the flying kind. I hear the police are real picky about having things sticking out of your trunk." "Hold on," Lula said, pulling a red flowered scarf from her coat pocket, tying the scarf on Harp's foot like a flag. We carefully closed the lid on Harp's knees and secured the lid with a piece of rope Lula had in her trunk. Harp had full rigor and wouldn't bend, so we put him in the trunk headfirst with his legs sticking out. "Forget about the runs and help me with this body!" Lula grabbed hold of the head end of the blanket, and I grabbed hold of the foot end. ![]() "I'm gonna definitely have the runs," Lula said. No matter how much violent death I saw, I would never get used to it. I jumped back, squeezed my eyes closed tight and exhaled. I spread the blanket on the ground beside Elliot Harp, took a deep breath, hooked my fingers around his belt and rolled him onto the blanket. "I suppose that'd be all right," Lula said. Then we could pick him up without actually touching him." "How about your blanket? We could wrap him up in the blanket. “ "This won't be so bad," I said to her, making an effort at convincing myself. ![]() |