![]() ![]() In a journey that will take him across the length and breadth of ancient India, Shiva searches for the truth in a land of deadly mysteries-only to find that nothing is what it seems. ![]() Unknown to Shiva, a master puppeteer is playing a grand game. Even the perfect empire Meluha is riddled with a terrible secret in Maika, the city of births. The Vasudevs-Shiva's philosopher guides-betray his unquestioning faith as they take the aid of the dark side. A kingdom is dying as it is held to ransom for a miracle drug. The evidence of the malevolent rise of evil is everywhere. Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary, His vengeance and the path to evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. ![]() The sinister Naga warrior has killed his friend Brahaspati and now stalks his wife Sati. ![]()
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![]() Stories like Whitman’s are not uncommon: legal cases involving brain damage crop up increasingly often. Whitman’s intuition about himself-that something in his brain was changing his behavior-was spot-on. In humans, activity in the amygdala increases when people are shown threatening faces, are put into frightening situations, or experience social phobias. Female monkeys with amygdala damage often neglected or physically abused their infants. In the 1930s, the researchers Heinrich Klüver and Paul Bucy demonstrated that damage to the amygdala in monkeys led to a constellation of symptoms, including lack of fear, blunting of emotion, and overreaction. By the late 1800s, researchers had discovered that damage to the amygdala caused emotional and social disturbances. The amygdala is involved in emotional regulation, especially of fear and aggression. This tumor, called a glioblastoma, had blossomed from beneath a structure called the thalamus, impinged on the hypothalamus, and compressed a third region called the amygdala. ![]() He discovered that Whitman’s brain harbored a tumor the diameter of a nickel. Whitman’s body was taken to the morgue, his skull was put under the bone saw, and the medical examiner lifted the brain from its vault. ![]() After one session I never saw the Doctor again, and since then I have been fighting my mental turmoil alone, and seemingly to no avail. I talked with a Doctor once for about two hours and tried to convey to him my fears that I felt overwhelming violent impulses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They track his footsteps to Vienna, Austria, where Mozart lived. SummaryĪt the end of The Maze of Bones, Amy and Dan end up finding a piece of music written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As usual with Gordon Korman, the book did not disappoint. I was extremely excited for the release of One False Note all the way back in 2008, and watched the premier video (which was an hour long) probably a dozen times. He is an amazing author, lately becoming an expert at writing adventure books. The 39 Clues is a multi-author series and Gordon Korman is a great person to write the second book in the series. Relatives like Irina Spasky, who is an ex-KGB agent and stores poison in her fingernails. Unfortunately, they are up against their vicious relatives. In the first book, The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan, we met Amy and Dan Cahill, two young kids who suddenly find themselves in a hunt for the most powerful secret in the world. In One False Note, Gordon Korman continues the exciting series, The 39 Clues. ![]() ![]() ![]() This paper borrowing a critical perspective of Gothic tradition and theory of the sublime, tries to analyze the Gothicism in this novel to detect its aesthetic feature. It presents terrifying atmosphere, the dark plot, and man’s psychological terror to reveal the process of disintegration and annihilation of human mind, thus offering readers specific aesthetic perception through psychological shocks. The Fall of the House of Usher is Poe’s classical piece of this type. Con- sequently, he adopts Gothic technique in a composition, taking a full advantage of Gothic subject matter, plot and elements and lingering on violence, murder, insanity and collapse. He stands alone with his aesthetic taste and writing principle, engaged in the morbid theme of nightmare, death, crime and evil. Received 27 December 2014 accepted 15 January 2015 published 22 January 2015Įdgar Allan Poe is one of the most unique writers in America. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). Air Force Logistics College, Xuzhou, ChinaĮmail: © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Without his help, Mimi will never be able to bake something impressive enough to propel her to gastronomic fame.ĭrawn into the woods behind her house by a strangely familiar song, Mimi meets Vik, a boy who brings her to parts of the forest she’s never seen. But when Mimi’s dad returns from a business trip, he’s mysteriously lost his highly honed sense of taste. Plus, it’ll start her on the path to becoming a celebrity chef like her culinary idol, Puffy Fay. Eleven-year-old Mimi Mackson dreams of winning a local baking contest to finally prove she’s not the least talented member of her large Inidan-American family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (His melancholy excursions include cruising a video arcade and a boat ramp in nearby Gainesville, places he’s visited for the past couple of decades.) Earl is a retired accountant and widower, and their common interests-books, music, “fine furniture,” picking blueberries-have bound them through the years as they remember friends of theirs who have died from AIDS and the narrator cared for his ailing parents. The 60-something unnamed narrator strives to hold onto a long, lingering friendship with Earl, who’s 20 years older, and reflects with bittersweetness on losses, past loves, and the indulgences of desire and lust. The geographical and emotional landscape of contemporary rural Florida is at the core of this majestic and wistful rumination on ageing, loneliness, and mortality from Holleran ( Dancer from the Dance). ![]() ![]() ![]() A squirrel enters and asks the bear if he has seen a rabbit wearing a hat. ![]() After a page turn, we see the bear sitting on a rustled patch of ground, wearing the red pointy hat. He accuses the rabbit of stealing his hat. Upon recollecting that his hat was red and pointy, the bear snaps to a realisation and runs back to the rabbit. A deer comes upon the despondent bear and asks him what his hat looked like. The rabbit answers negatively and defensively, ending "Don’t ask me any more questions." The bear then moves on to ask a turtle, a snake, and an armadillo. ![]() The bear then asks a rabbit who is wearing a red pointy hat. He asks a fox and a frog if they have seen it, but neither has. Plot Ī bear laments his lost hat, and sets off to find it. The book was published by Candlewick Press in September 2011. It was Klassen's first book as both author and illustrator. I Want My Hat Back is a 2011 children's picture book by author and illustrator Jon Klassen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For twelve years King Hrothgar’s mead hall (feasting hall, also the residence of a lord and his followers), was attacked and ravaged by Grendel, presumably because he couldn’t stand their celebrations. When King Hrothgar and his people were terrorized by the monster, Grendel, Beowulf sailed to Zealand with fourteen warriors in order to pay his father’s debt. The Danish king Hrothgar generously paid the weregild, and had Ecgtheow swear an oath. Ecgtheow had previously slain a man from another clan, and apparently, because the victim was from a prominent family, the weregild ( man price – a value placed on every being and piece of property, that had to be repaid if property was stolen or someone was injured or killed as restitution by the offender) was set too high, and so Ecgtheow was banished and had to seek refuge among the Danes. In this Germanic myth, Beowulf was the son of king Ecgtheow. Later the poem was named after the Scandinavian hero Beowulf, and the author was titled “The Beowulf Author”. The story of Beowulf is a retelling based on the original Old English, untitled poem, written by an unknown author. ![]() ![]() Ben's butt might look great in a crystal ball vision, but that's as far as it goes. He's handsome, but he's also bossy and irritating and orders her around. ![]() The biggest problem, however, is warlock Ben Magnus, her employer's nephew and the most arrogant, insufferable, maddening man to ever cast a spell. And sure, there was that issue with the black cat Reggie would prefer to forget about. The new job has a few perks - great room and board, excellent pay, and she's apprenticing to a powerful witch. Instead, she’s applying to be an actual familiar for an actual witch. When Reggie Johnson answers a job ad in the paper, she’s astonished to find that she’s not applying to work at her favorite card game, Spellcraft: The Magicking. It’s one hex of an attraction in this romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Jessica Clare. PopSugar ’s Romance Novels for When You Need a Little SpiceĬulturess ’ April Romance to Have on Your Spring TBR Goodreads’ Most Anticipated April Romances ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This one having success, Maurice Leblanc is encouraged to write the continuation, in several short stories. It was the first short story featuring Arsène Lupine. The first short story of this collection was published in July 1905 in the newspaper Je sais tout. Georges Descrières portrayal of Arsène Lupin showed more similarity to Graf Yoster than to Maurice Leblancs original. ![]() Originally published in Je sais tout, a popular French magazine, these stories launched Leblanc’s career as a leading international writer of crime fiction. ![]() It was only loosely based on Maurice Leblancs novels. Arsne Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (1907) is a collection of short stories by Maurice Leblanc. But this accomplished man of the world is also an anarchist at heart who plays with social conventions with marvelous insolence.Īrsène Lupine, gentleman-burglar is a collection of short stories written by Maurice Leblanc and recounting the adventures of Arsène Lupine. Arsène Lupin is a French TV show which was co-produced with German, Canadian, Belgian, Dutch, Swiss, Italian and Austrian TV stations. His intelligence, his culture, his talents as an illusionist between Fregoli and Robert-Houdin are at the service of an astonishing nerve. Slender, elegant, refined, seductive, Arsène Lupine, gentleman-burglar by trade, is the model of the "Belle Epoque" dandy. The collection, brings together the works that inspired the original NETFLIX series, directed by Louis Leterrier as well as the Hero, Assane Diop, performed by OMAR SY. ![]() |