![]() ![]() ![]() Melanie Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness tags: allism, autism, autistic, social-norms 6 likes Like Part of the autistic experience is not being believed. In so doing, they demonstrate how an autistic rhetoric requires the reconceptualization of rhetoric's very essence. Autistic traits, taken together, represent everything that allistics devalue in an audience or social exchange. Contending that autism represents a queer way of being that simultaneously embraces and rejects the rhetorical, Yergeau shows how autistic people queer the lines of rhetoric, humanity, and agency. Using storying as their method, they present an alternative view of autistic rhetoricity by foregrounding the cunning rhetorical abilities of autistics and by framing autism as a narrative condition wherein autistics are the best-equipped people to define their experience. They also critique early intensive behavioral interventions-which have much in common with gay conversion therapy-and questions the ableist privileging of intentionality and diplomacy in rhetorical traditions. She is the author of Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Duke UP, 2017) and her writing on disability can also be found in Journal of. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies scholarship and its reification of the neurological passivity of autistics. Remi Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity-neuroqueerness-rather than an impairment. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This programme is intended to test her skill, endurance and fibre to their limits in order to unleash powerful, potentially lethal latent human abilities. Here, in the small Cornish coastal town in rural England she struggles to adapt to ‘normal’ life and eventually, not knowing where else to turn, she enlists in a top-secret scientific research programme. Any ‘deviant’ behaviour including homosexuality or lesbianism is punishable in a manner worse than death–the perpetrators are forcibly ‘reset’.Īfter her final and devastating tour on The Front, Samantha returns home. In a dystopian future, after a decade of war, the United Kingdom is on its knees, ruled by strict martial law. Samantha Fielding, an emotionally scarred ex-war hero, enrols into a top-secret scientific research programme for all the wrong reasons. ![]() ![]() Of all the experiments, of all time…love still remains the most dangerous! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1290 or 1292 the Polos accompanied a Mongol princess, a future consort for the Persian emperor Arghun Khan, on her voyage to Persia. In 1274 or 1275 they arrived in the emperor's summer capital Shang-tu, followed him to his winter capital Ta-tu (today's Beijing) and lived in China in the emperor's service for 16 or 17 years. ![]() In 1271 his father left to return to Mongolia, and Marco accompanied him.Īt the Strait of Hormuz the Polos decided against a risky sea voyage and began their long journey over land. The Mongol emperor Kublai Khan had given Marco's father letters for the pope, in which he asked for one hundred men "acquainted with the Seven Arts" to augment the cultural standing of his court. His grandfather and father had already travelled widely in pursuit of their business, and Marco Polo was already 15 when his father returned from Mongolia in 1269 and met his son for the first time. Marco Polo belonged to a merchant family of Venice who had gained wealth through trade with the Middle and Far East. Science, civilization and society Marco PoloĮuropean merchant and traveller, b. ![]() ![]() * Medical terms and concepts translated into everyday language * Unbiased, up-to-date information and best practices Beat Your A-Fib helps patients and their families look beyond the commonly prescribed drug therapies that only manage the disease, but do not cure it.īeat Your A-Fib: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Cure offers: His book is written for the newly diagnosed patient and any A-Fib patient who doesn't want to wade through medical texts and research journals to understand their disease. Steve Ryan, PhD, a former A-Fib patient, addresses all these issues. Patient information is often out-of-date, incomplete or biased toward a specific pharmaceutical or treatment much information about new treatment options is written in the language of scientists and doctors. Many experience side effects from the common drug therapies or simply do not want to live on medication a cure for their A-Fib hasn't been discussed.ģ. Their "quality of life" has deteriorated they are scared or frightened.Ģ. ![]() ![]() Many patients suffering from Atrial Fibrillation have three strikes against them:ġ. ![]() Ryan, PhDĪtrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) seen by physicians. Beat Your A-Fib: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Cure by Steve S. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to the October 20-26, 1997 edition of the trade paper Variety, characters and situations which McClory claimed he owned included: S.P.E.C.T.R.E. This movie was basically made because of remake rights owned by executive producer Kevin McClory relating to Thunderball (1965). When the final results were in, this movie, and Sir Sean Connery, ended up losing the "Bond vs. rentals, while this movie had $28.2 million in U.S. The article also stated that, according to the studios, Octopussy (1983) had $34.031 million in U.S. It also listed Octopussy (1983)'s worldwide gross at $187.5 million, and this movie's worldwide gross at $160 million. gross at $67.9 million, and this movie's U.S. Variety quoted figures from MGM and Warner Brothers that listed Octopussy (1983)'s U.S. According to a press release from Variety in 1985, this was not the case. Most industry analysts predicted that this movie would win out at the box office, due to the return of Connery, more press, and a significantly larger production budget than Octopussy (1983). Bond" or "Battle of the Bonds" showdown at the box office. Because the movies starred Sir Roger Moore and Sir Sean Connery, each equally recognized to the movie-going public as James Bond at the time, much of the talk in the press was of a "Bond vs. This movie was released four months after Octopussy (1983). ![]() This Warner Brothers movie was intended to go head-to-head with the official Eon Productions Bond film, Octopussy (1983) at the box office. ![]() ![]() ![]() He uses a style known as polysyndeton ( ). I had a real issue with the prose McCarthy uses in All the Pretty Horses. I know this is a technique used by authors but I’ve never came across it before. McCarthy doesn’t use speech marks in his dialogue. ![]() I felt the Mexican sun on my back and sweat ran down my face. I was completely submerged in the world he created. I think his descriptions were very vivid. ![]() It fits McCarthy’s novel quite well but is still quite obscure. I think All the Pretty Horses is a great title. This is the second proper ‘literary’ novel I’ve read and neither impressed me. All the Pretty Horses could easily have been written by a different author. I had high expectations because I thought The Road was great. McCarthy just didn’t ‘do’ it for me with this one. I was very disappointed overall with All the Pretty Horses. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid in blood. It tells the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself the last bewildered survivor of generations of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he ever imagined. ‘All the Pretty Horses’, the first novel of the Border Trilogy, published in 1992, was an international bestseller, winning both the National Book Award and the National Critics Circle Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really wished we could see more of Lady Sarnai and the Emperor Khanujin. Hard work combined with determination will pay off.People are not always who they seem at first glance. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() The strongest impression created by Grant’s underwhelming book has been to make me recall my feelings when I first read Noel Pearson’s pioneering revisionist account of the nature and causes of entrenched indigenous disadvantage: what a tragedy, but what a relief! There, finally, set out in Pearson’s landmark series of essays, lectures and commentary pieces in the early-to-mid-2000s, was an explanation for indigenous disadvantage that enabled those of good faith to discuss the subject openly, honestly and-most importantly-escape any suggestion of indulging in racial stereotyping and victim-blaming.ĭuring the prime ministership of Paul Keating in the first half of the 1990s, attempts to draw attention to the social problems that plagued many indigenous communities had been shut down by condemning any mention of these issues as “racist”. ![]() If you read Stan Grant’s much-publicised new book, Talking to My Country, it is as if the transformation of the indigenous debate and major policy shifts of the past fifteen years had never happened. ![]() ![]() She thought she’d finally taken control of her life. She thought she’d finally defeated the Reestablishment. The heart-stopping third installment in the New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series, which Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City.Īn instant New York Times bestseller! Juliette and Warner’s story continues in the electrifying fourth installment of Tahereh Mafi’s bestselling Shatter Me series. As she struggles to understand the past.Ĭalling all fans of Tahereh Mafi’s New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series! This gorgeous paperback bind-up includes Shadow Me and Reveal Me. ![]() ![]() Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. The devastatingly romantic fifth novella in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series, chronicling the events after Imagine Me. Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me trilogy, this book collects her two companion novellas, Fracture Me and Destroy Me. ![]() Shatter Me Series Collection 9 Books Set By Tahereh Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched ![]() ![]() ![]() The story follows the adventures of three friends as they journey down an enchanted river, solving riddles and puzzles along the way, in their village’s annual race. His debut work, "The Enchanted River Race," published in December 2012 by Icasm Press, is an early chapter book targeted at ages six and up. After dabbling with short stories geared toward adults, he turned his focus toward writing children’s books. Caldric Blackwell is the author of the early chapter book "The Enchanted River Race," the picture book "The Boy Who Couldn’t Cry Wolf," and two middle grade books, the "The Missing Alchemist" and "The Sacred Artifact." Blackwell began writing fiction while studying English and psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. ![]() |