![]() These changes give the new mother personal empowerment, physical strength, and an intuitive sense of her baby's needs, and they prepare both partners for the pleasurable mutual dependency that will ensure a mother's care and protection and her baby's survival. This is not just a good feeling the post-birth hormones that suffuse the brains of a new mother and her baby also catalyse profound neurological changes. When birth is undisturbed, our birthing hormones can take us into ecstasy – outside (ec) our usual state (stasis) – so that we enter motherhood awakened and transformed. This system, which I am calling undisturbed birth 1, has the evolutionary stamp of approval not only because it is safe and efficient for the vast majority of mothers and babies, but also because it incorporates our hormonal blueprint for ecstasy in birth. However, our women's bodies have their own wisdom, and our innate system of birth, refined over one hundred thousand generations, is not so easily overpowered. ![]() This has led to the erroneous belief that human birth is an intrinsically faulty system, and that modern women have lost the ability to give birth. In modern Western countries, including Australia and the UK, rates of obstetric intervention have reached extreme levels, such that very few mothers and babies experience labour and birth without drugs and procedures to assist or hasten the process. Sarah Buckley shows us what is stopping birth working ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, Mortimer turns to all classes and all experiences and takes the reader on a magnificent and fascinating journey back to a character-filled society with its own delights and dangers. Like many contemporary historians, Mortimer believes in social history, reconstructing the past in order to understand how it was lived and not simply by kings, queens, monks, lawyers and nobles, those who have left records of their deeds and desires for us to absorb and through which we judge them. ![]() ![]() In other words, he places the reader in the moment, advising you where to go, what to see, how to behave, speak, dress and what to expect should you happen to have the good fortune to be transported back to not-so-merry old England in the 1300s.Īfter my second reading of this book in less than a year, I wish I had access to Dr Who’s Tardis because, with Mortimer’s well-thumbed book under my arm, I would head straight for Exeter, where the book opens, prepared for the ordure of the aptly named, Shitbrook, the breath-taking sight of the cathedral, avert my eyes from the remains of criminals clinging to the gallows, and be careful not to stare at the bright and strange clothes the people are wearing, while tripping along the cobbles, one hand firmly on my money so a cut-purse does not take it. Historian Ian Mortimer does something really interesting with this book: he sets out to recreate the period (the Twelfth Century) as if he were writing a travel book for tourists as opposed to researching and explaining a forgotten time. ![]() ![]() ![]() The final version of ‘ The Cat in the Hat’ only uses 236 words, a solid representation of the list. The vocabulary in the novel was inspired by a list of words that all young children should know. He was determined to write a book for six/seven-year-olds that made them want to read it. They were overwhelmingly boring, Hersey believed, as did Geisel. In it, the writer John Hersey criticized the normal “school primers” that young kids were made to read, such as those featuring Dick and Jane. Geisel noted personally that he wrote the book in response to a Life magazine article titled “Why Do Students Bog Down on First R? A Local Committee Sheds Light on a National Problem: Reading”. The main one, which has likely become apocryphal at this point, fits in perfectly with the reader’s image of Theodor Geisel. The origins of ‘The Cat in the Hat’ have several different explanations. Finally, in the end, the cat comes back with his huge cleaning machine and gets everything sorted right before the children’s mother gets home. ![]() As if to remedy the problem, he brings in Thing One and Thing Two, who only make the mess worse. As the fish predicted, the cat falls, making a huge mess of everything he was holding. The story takes place in a short period of time, starting out with the cat barging into Sally and her brother’s home and showing off his balancing skills. Seuss is a light-hearted children’s book that describes the antics of the cat in the hat. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Firon the sorcerers capture the royal seat in Balarat and control the princedom through young Prince Tirel. ![]() Other princedoms, such as Grib and Fessenden, have so far remained neutral, but ambitious and/or devoted Princes try to rouse their fathers and their people. Goddess Keep is guarded by the Devr'im in Andry's absence. The Dorvali resistance mounts raids on the enemy, preventing them from joining the forces on the Continent, and Kierst-Isel remains secure. The southern princedoms are slowly being reclaimed, although many lives are lost, including Prince Kostas of Syr and Rihani of Ossetia. ![]() High Princess Meiglan and Rislyn are taken captive, but Andry, who had been travelling from Goddess Keep, saves Jihan. Meanwhile, Pol's wife and daughters are attacked by the Vellant'im. Rosseyn tells Pol of his past and teaches him more about his sorcerous heritage. An ancient sorcerer, Lord Rosseyn, is trapped within the mirror. As he and his mother, Sioned, try to uncover more about the invaders, they discover hidden secrets within an ancient mirror that had belonged to Sioned's old friend, Camigwen. Pol is torn between anger and guilt at his father's death and relief that he can finally act out against the invading Vellant'im. It is the second novel in the Dragon Star trilogy. The Dragon Token is a 1992 fantasy novel by American author Melanie Rawn. ![]() ![]() As the doctor’s investigation progresses, we delve deeper into Elsie’s memories leading up to the tragic night that left several people dead and a grand house in ruins. Elsie doesn’t think the doctor will believe her frightening, supernatural story, and she certainly doesn’t want to recount it, but telling the tale seems like her best option. There are only a few ways this new inquest can turn out- in a death sentence for the crime that Elsie might have committed, in a transfer to a more permanent asylum, or in her release from suspicion and medical observation. He reminds her that she arrived at the hospital under questionable circumstances, and announces that the police are asking him to help clear up the mystery of what happened that day. In the novel, Elsie is visited by a new doctor in the mental hospital where she’s been living for several months. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It would’ve been ideal to get around to all of my horror reviews before the end of October, but I want to incorporate more horror into my regular reading anyway, so I suppose reviewing out of season is a good warm-up! 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Sister Benedetta Carlini (Virginie Efira) has baroque visions of Jesus, bleeds copiously from stigmata wounds, and succumbs to the wiles of a gorgeous neophyte named Bartolomea (Daphne Patakia) who fingers Benedetta’s bum during services. Brown’s biography Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, Benedetta is exactly what you’d expect. ![]() So, it seems inevitable that he would eventually make a movie about horny nuns. In 2008, he published a theological text, Jesus of Nazareth. Over the course of his career, Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven has transitioned from sneered-at trash master to auteur, with “guilty pleasure” films like RoboCop, Total Recall, Showgirls, and even Starship Troopers garnering him reconsideration by cinephiles as a visionary of subversion. ![]() ![]() Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him on a journey through Sicily's past and into one family's darkest secrets. ![]() There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-sized terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious têtê à têtê with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowĪndrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic take on Sicilian life. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A.J. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood - altogether transporting. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. ![]() Synopsis: “You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeremy Schaap is the author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Man. “A remarkable job of tackling a complex subject and bringing it to life.” - John Feinstein “Add even more luster to the indelibly heroic achievements of Jesse Owens.” - Ken Burns ![]() With incisive reporting and rich storytelling, Schaap reveals what really happened over those tense, exhilarating weeks in a “snappy and dramatic” work of sports history ( Publishers Weekly). Drawing on unprecedented access to the Owens family, previously unpublished interviews, and archival research, Jeremy Schaap transports us to Germany and tells the dramatic tale of Owens and his fellow athletes at the contest dubbed the Nazi Olympics. It is also the intimate and complex tale of one remarkable man’s courage. ![]() The story of Jesse Owens at the Berlin games is that of an athletic performance that transcends sports. ![]() At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four gold medals, single-handedly falsifying Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy. This New York Times best-selling author’s account of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin offers a “vivid portrait not just of Owens but of ’30s Germany and America” ( Sports Illustrated). ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps it's obvious to everyone else, but one didn't quite ask until now, and so sees only now what could be said to be a common factor, a key, so to say, that connects very diverse works of Hilton. It isn't until the revelation to the protagonist that one knows one has, definitely, read this half a century ago, because that sentence is unique : "I hope I haven't been so damned tactful that you're going to ask me what all this has got to do with you."". ![]() ![]() What a pleasure this is, revisiting Hilton, even if - to begin with - one has forgotten if one read this one amongst the various loved ones by Hilton. ![]() |