![]() ![]() Given the series’ foundational belief in the car as an extension of the person, it’s surprising that it hasn’t done more with car hacking. ![]() Like pretty much everything in the Fast/Furious franchise, this scenario is the result of a kernel of truth exploding into an inverted corn endosperm of hard-to-believe size and impossible-to-resist butteriness. ![]() The carnage blocks the path of the Russian minister of defense’s limousine, allowing Vin Diesel to pop by with a power saw and steal a briefcase full of nuclear codes. The Fate of the Furious doesn’t really get crazy until the movie’s villain, played by Charlize Theron, tells her hacker minions to “make it rain.” A few obedient keystrokes later and empty cars are flinging themselves from a high-rise parking garage onto the streets of Manhattan. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But Texas would remain unmistakably Texas, because Texans “have been made different by the crucible of history they think and act in different ways, according to the history that shaped their hearts and minds. In the twentieth century oil would emerge as an important economic resource and social change would come. ![]() He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state’s readmission to the Union after the War. Its all here-the original peoples, the Spanish explorers, the Mexican. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. Lone Star is seven hundred sixty-seven pages of fascinating stories about Texas. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. ![]() Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider’s look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. An insider’s history of Texas that examines the people, politics, and events which have shaped the Lone Star State, from prehistory to the modern day ![]() ![]() ![]() The weekend events begin Friday, March 28, when author Andrew Ward presents a lecture "There's Room Enough: The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Dissemination of African American Culture," at 4:30 p.m. Atkinson Forum in American Studies at Cornell. The weekend of programs marks the inaugural David R. ![]() Those tickets are available at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office, on campus, and at the Clinton House box office, 116 N. Although all of the events during the weekend are free and open to the public, tickets are required for the Jubilee Singers' Saturday night concert. in Alice Statler Auditorium on the Cornell campus. The weekend culminates with a free public performance by the 18-voice Fisk Jubilee Singers Saturday, March 29, at 8 p.m. ![]() There will be a weekend of celebration, March 28 and 29 - including a free public lecture, workshop and an open concert - as Cornell welcomes the legendary Fisk Jubilee Singers to Ithaca. ![]() ![]() ![]() We have eliminated as much plastic as possible from all our packaging and products. We have signed up to the United Nation's Race to Zero campaign and are committed to ensuring our business not only has a minimal impact on the world but indeed has a positive one. ![]() If you've chosen one of our items as a gift, enter the recipient's address at checkout and we'll send it straight to them. 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With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. ![]() ![]() ![]() The lines used by De Kretser are: "But surely it would have been a pity/ not to have seen the trees along this road,/ really exaggerated in their beauty/." The theatrical exaggeration of the travel experience (especially when we return to tell travellers' tales). He didn't seem to mind borrowing the word from the Greek or more likely the French language. He later shifted its meaning to include Jews and it took on an anti-Semitic meaning. In the 1950s Stalin gave the word, kosmopolity, together with the word cosmopolite, a derogatory sense, so as to strengthen the national spirit of Russia or the Soviet Man and it became a crime to be influenced by "Western" thinking, arts, or fashions. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle…"įoster was using cosmopolitan to mean a personality style or a future intellectual type into which we will ultimately all be shaped as we abandon nationality and become global or, as the Oxford defines it – being free from national limitations or attachments. The Forster quote, which comes first, is, "Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. The epigraphs lightly duel with each other. The title is homage to Elizabeth Bishop's poem of the same name which De Kretser quotes as one of two epigraphs, the second being from E M Forster's Howard's End. Michelle de Kretser's book is named – with cruel precision as it turns out – Questions of Travel. ![]() ![]() ![]() So bad that I fail to come up with a single positive thing to convey about it. So terribly bad that I'm on the verge of upping ratings for all the other books residing on my *wtf-did-i-just-read* shelf. even for a high school, bully, mafia romance □ (not necessarily in that order). *Sigh* Dat book was so inexplicably bad, guys. Say hi, Mattie✨) among all the mocking my *slipping through the fingers* sanity 5 stars, but no such luck. I've gone out of my way trying to find a single negative review for this *sighs* mess (besides the one 1-star review from my friend. ![]() I feel insane ✌️ because I've n e v e r come across such an objectively bad book with such an insanely good average rating. One question is currently bugging my mind: how is it even possible that this book (at the time of writing this review, which is 22nd July 2021) has 20❗ one-star ratings AGAINST 1516❗ five-star ratings? □ Sorry in advance, no hard feelings ✨□□♀️ĭNF at around ~50% since self-love hasn't been canceled yet. ![]() |