![]() ![]() Their books are easy to read and full of interesting facts. It’s a very good overview of medieval technology and it made me want to go away and find out more about a few things. I’ve enjoyed all the books I’ve read by Frances and Joseph Gies and this one was no different. The book finishes in the fifteenth century with Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci and Gutenberg. By then there had already been many advances in Europe, mostly to do with water in the form of improvements to ships and waterwheels. The Chinese were more advanced technologically than the Romans in many areas and much of what the Romans left behind them was allowed to fall into disuse.Įventually information started coming from China and, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the translations of works by Greek scientists arrived in Europe via the Muslim world. The book opens with a survey of the technology that was available in Europe at the beginning of the Middle Ages, mostly left by the Romans, and there’s also a visit to China to look at what was available there. The subtitle is Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages, but it’s more even than that. This one, however, has a much broader perspective. Some of the others are about daily life in a village, a town and a castle. Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel is one of a series of books written about the Middle Ages by Frances and Joseph Gies. ![]()
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I wish some events that where left out where actually told. The world was exquisite and I really felt like I could get lost in the details. ![]() The characters (main and supporting) where all relatable and likeable. The elements where a bit predictable most of the time but overall there was more then enough originality worked into the best parts of this trope to make it absolutely addictive. However, this one shocked me with how skilfully woven the plot became. I've read/ listened to a lot of stories with the same plot. ![]() * Ok, so let just get this out of the way, yes this is another book with the trope about a contest to win the perfect guy of your dreams (it's even royalty in this one). Fear not, it is indeed a what it claims to be, although there is a little action, adventure, and whit thrown in to keep things interesting. And while it is a beautiful cover, it reminded me more of a Japanese horror story then the MxM Romance it claimed to be. I admit that more often then not I am drawn to a book more by a pretty cover then anything else. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even after the "outfitter murders," as they have been dubbed by the local press after the discovery of the two more bodies, are solved, Joe continues to investigate, uneasy with the easy explanation offered by the local police.Īs Joe digs deeper into the murders, he soon discovers that the outfitter brought more than death to his backdoor: he brought Joe an endangered species, thought to be extinct, which is now living in his woodpile. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die in. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. ![]() Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden-especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way-is far from popular. The first novel in the thrilling series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series-now streaming on Paramount+ ![]() ![]() As the other reviewer noted, the more faithful among us will find it moving. She keeps a diary and it is this which becomes the great testament of her faith after her death. Therese, the youngest, goes into her vocation post-puberty. The mother dies and one by one, the girls go into religious vocations. The family is close knit, visits the nunnery regularly, dresses and eats well but their lives are centered around the church. The message therefrom is one of overriding faith. ![]() ![]() Having said that, I found the film to be very strange there are certainly two ways you can take it: one, you can be moved by the demonstrations of faith and piety which prompts a whole family of 4 middle class young women of country gentry stock to become religious. As cinema, it's "amateur night at the movies," but as a practicing Roman Catholic, it's easy to overlook the gaps, shortcomings and fumblings in light of its subject. It's hard to be objective about this film. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'd been scrupulously careful to keep my thought about her to myself she had not done the same. ![]() ![]() She better not speak to-" I heard this: "It's not that bad." No sooner had I formed the silent thought, "God, a people person. One such person stepped into the lift, pushed the button for her floor, then took a step back and angled her body so that she was not quite facing me, but neither was she looking straight ahead at the seam where the doors meet, as common American Elevator Etiquette dictates.Įven out of the corner of my now suspicious eye I was able to register the "I'm a people person" body language such a stance suggested. So complete was this state of psychological collapse, it even followed me into elevators.Īs I stood in a hotel elevator one afternoon on my way back to my room, it stopped on that floor with all the conference rooms, where they keep the people with name tags. This awakening arrived convincingly disguised as the most miserable and debilitating period of my life- a life that would now be trimmed short from the disease of ruination. Several years ago when the relationship I assumed was both nearly perfect and my last turned out to be neither and ended car- off - cliff style, I experienced an unexpected and profound personal awakening. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Years later, as an adult herself, Barbara followed in the footsteps of her radical heroine – dissatisfied with the limitations of life as a respectable married woman, she walked out of her house one day and simply disappeared. The book went on to become a million-copy bestseller. But she slips away once more, following her wild heart out of the door and far away…īarbara Newhall Follett was just thirteen years old when she published The House Without Windows in 1927. Her heartbroken parents follow her at first, bringing her back home to ‘safety’ and locking her up in the stifling square of the house. Little Eepersip doesn’t want to live in a house with doors and windows and a roof, so she runs away to live in the wild – first in the Meadow, then by the Sea, and finally in the Mountain. The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett and Jackie Morris Summary: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything from her relationship to her father, to the way in which she outed herself, to DADT, to Sophie, to her drunken stupor, to her training everything Kate has done in the decade and change since that eleven month run stems from those same stories. For eleven months back in 2009 and into 2010, Kate Kane took over Detective Comics. she exists and is gay and jewish) in 2006, but really it was Rucka who would go on to write what is unanimously considered to be her foundational and character-defining text: Batwoman: Elegy. 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The Ravenna-based artist Nicola Samorì fears death and the decay of faces and bodies and tells us so without too many mysteries, while trying to probe the unknowable, especially in relation to the sacred. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. 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