This meant that they had to serve as wives to LRA commanders and fighters, and were forced to have children with these “bush husbands” to build what Kony saw as a new and pure Acholi nation. Teenage girls, like Grace and Evelyn, served as soldiers and were forced into conjugal slavery. In captivity, they constantly faced violence from both the rebels and the Ugandan army hunting the LRA across northern Uganda and South Sudan. These children received military training and were forced to carry heavy loads of ammunition and other material through bush and mountains, walking for days on end with little food or water. Tens of thousands of children were abducted and forced into the ranks of the rebel army led by military and spiritual leader Joseph Kony. In Uganda, the LRA waged war against the government for over 20 years, from the mid‐1980s onward. While sexual violence is commonly seen as an unfortunate consequence of conflict, it is in fact often a central strategy of war. Their experiences reveal important dimensions of conflicts that are too often ignored. Women’s and girls’ stories are crucial to understanding what makes and sustains wars.
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She has outspokenly criticised the concept of GDP, the economic measure that became a foundation of the United Nations System of National Accounts (UNSNA) following World War II. Since 2006, Waring has been a Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Public Policy at AUT in Auckland, New Zealand, focusing on governance and public policy, political economy, gender analysis, and human rights. Through her research and writing she is known as the principal founder of the discipline of feminist economics. She is best known for her 1988 book If Women Counted, and she obtained a D.Phil in political economy in 1989. Marilyn Waring CNZM is a New Zealand feminist, former politician, author, academic, and activist for female human rights and environmental issues. “It’s not that she was distant or even cold,” The Queen’s former private secretary, Martin Charteris once said of the late monarch. The Queen and Prince Philip were famously “hands-off” with Charles and sister Anne - far more than with the younger Andrew and Edward. Little has influenced him more than his childhood. Royal confidante Giles Brandreth believes the older, remarried Charles “now feels complete”: He’s made his mistakes, had his scandals, caused embarrassments, been prey to puppet masters, lived through the ups and downs of wildly-fluctuating opinion polls, learned to trust his own mind, loved, lost, rebelled. Between these two coronations, over those seven decades, his every choice has been overshadowed by the same question, how will this affect me as future King? Only now - years after most his age have retired - does he get to stop auditioning for the part and finally start his job.Īll that waiting has however also shaped the type of king he will be. In Part 2, Talisman, we are in 1680 where Maria decides to go find John Hathorne, the love of her life. He goes back to where he comes from, Massachusetts, and Maria is left alone to raise their baby daughter, Faith. She meets John Hathorne and from here everything goes south. Maria finds herself on a ship taken to Curaçao, a Dutch Island where she is to work for the Jansen family of Willemstad until she is sixteen.Ī familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. Heartbreaking moments follow after a woman named Rebecca knocks on Hannah’s door. She teaches Maria how to help those who need healing. Throughout the chapters Hannah teaches Maria about the different kinds of magic, she is not only her teacher but also acts as her mother. In Part 1, Transformations, we are taken back to 1664 where Hannah Owens discovers an abandoned child in the snow accompanied by a black crow which Maria (the baby) names Cadin, her familiar. I haven’t watched the film, so the Owens family is new to me. Magic Lessons written by Alice Hoffman is the prequel to Practical Magic written in 1995 which was later adapted to a film with the same name. Ticket are $25 and are available at /people-of-the-book-2021-22. When you think of Jewish food, a few classics come to mind: chicken soup with matzo balls, challah, maybe a babka if you’re feeling adventurous. There is a thrill in reading and cooking from a book by someone you can hardly keep up with. Cohen said he tapped into his meticulous test kitchen skills to ensure each dish was 'written as clearly as possible' to help 'the home cook feel as confident as possible. Cookbook author Joan Nathan said Cohen “is the creative, youthful future of Jewish food. 'Jew-Ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch' includes an array of thoughtfully curated, delicious dishes. He has built a following of nearly 600,000 followers. His conversation will be presented at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Rd., Sarasota, in a partnership with the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee’s People of the Book series.Ĭohen refers to himself as a “nice Jewish boy,” and his work in the kitchen has been described as reinventing food from his Ashkenazi heritage and drawing “inspiration from his husband’s Persian-Iraqi traditions to offer recipes that are modern, fresh and enticing for a whole new generation for readers.” It is described as a cookbook “for Jews who love food and foodies who love Jews.” He will be talking about his book “Jew-ish: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch” at 7 p.m. Cookbook author Jake Cohen has built a large following online for his twists on classic Jewish recipes. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed in 1920 when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring detective Hercule Poirot, was published. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.Ĭhristie was born into a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. A writer during the " Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End since 1952. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE ( née Miller 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Most fascinating of all, I had read that octopuses are smart. It can weigh as much as a man and stretch as long as a car, yet can pour its baggy, boneless body through an opening the size of an orange. Here is an animal that has venom like a snake, a beak like a parrot, and ink like an old-fashioned pen. I knew little about octopuses-not even that the correct plural is not octopi, as I had always believed (it turns out you can’t put a Latin ending-i-on a word derived from the Greek, like octopus). Her name was Athena, but I didn’t know that then. I had a date with a giant Pacific octopus. On a rare, warm day in mid-March, when back in New Hampshire the snow was melting into mud, and in Boston, everyone else was strolling along the harbor or sitting on benches licking ice cream cones, I quit the blessed sunlight for the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium. A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness “The latest inclusion in the modern canon of Japanese women authors’ surreal feminist work, puts a distinctly sci-fi spin on the concept.” “These strangely prescient stories are perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, George Saunders, and Philip K. “The stories chosen for this collection showcase an author whose interest in alienation and despair as well as playful literary exploration parallels the work of other ’70s SF titans such as Joanna Russ or Thomas Disch … Essential reading not only for those interested in Japanese SF, but for anyone interested in spiky, beautiful, and bleak literature.” “Eagerly awaited … readers to worlds both familiar and unfamiliar, indulging our fantasies and fears of the future … Dark and slightly absurdist, this collection is a poignant rumination on the despair and isolation of modern society.” “Weird and wonderful, unique and unsettling … You won’t put this one down.” “If you’re into Kōbō Abe and prefer Ryū Murakami to Haruki you’ll not (as the title of this inaugural translation of Suzuki into English suggests), be bored.” Jessica Esa, Metropolis Japan (“5 Japanese Novels to Read in 2021”) “Suzuki is a daring writer and these stories will show the English-language world what she is made of.” The "new" home in Coopersberg, Pa., is not far from the vinyl-sided suburban abode that the Grogans-John, Jenny, Patrick, 16, Connor, 15, Colleen, 11, Woodson, Gracie (an "older and calmer Lab") and three new kittens-had outgrown. It's just starting to feel like our own house now." "We moved in two parts: We moved half the stuff before the book tour. He's just weeks back from the tour promoting his new book, "The Longest Trip Home," and finishing up the move into his family's renovated 1790 stone farmhouse. "I'm surrounded by boxes and junk," Grogan says, when he returns to the phone. (In case you've missed the hyper-marketing that rivals the famous Marley's intensity, the movie opens on Christmas Day.) Grogan adopted Woodson off the set of "Marley & Me," the film interpretation of Grogan's best-seller starring Jennifer Aniston as Grogan's wife, Jenny, Owen Wilson as the columnist/author and Woodson, of course, who had the task of playing a Labrador pup. This is a new home his family has just moved into. To be kind, he could be marking territory. For some reason, the 9-month-old, housebroken yellow Lab has run downstairs, having confused the basement for his own personal restroom. In this case, "duty" is Woodson, the "Marley & Me" author's newest four-legged family member. We're on hold while John Grogan runs down to the basement. After being born and raised in Junction City, Oregon, she shifted to Oakland, California after growing up and joined to the Mills College for completing her academic studies. Apart from these novel series’, she has written a dew other series’ as well. Kate is particularly famous for writing down the Crown of Stars series and the Jaran series. This move brought a lot of success in her career as she went on to make huge sales of her novel copies. Hence, Rasmussen became Kate Elliott in the year 1992 and began writing fantasy novels. But, after a few moderate successes, the publishers stopped publishing her novels as they were looking for fresh name. In the beginning, she used to write science fiction novels under her original name. Kate was born in the year 1958 in Junction City, Oregon, United States. She has flourished in her writing career with a number of widely popular novel series’. Rasmussen for writing interesting novels based on the science fiction, romance, young adult, and fantasy genres. Kate Elliott is the pseudonym used by the successful American author Alis A. Magic: The Gathering - Ravnica - War of the Spark: 1 (By:Greg Weisman) Journey Into Nyx: Godsend, Part II (By:Jenna Helland) Theros: A Godsend Novel (By:Jenna Helland) Scars of Mirrodin: The Quest for Karn (By:) Zendikar: In the Teeth of Akoum: A Magic: The Gathering Set Novel (By:) |