![]() ![]() In April 1781 Lord Cornwallis ( Figure 1) cited saving his army from another Carolina fever season as one of the main reasons for his decision to move north to Virginia and his fateful encounter at Yorktown that October.Įarl Cornwallis, Commander of British Forces in the South, 1780–81. Despite winning another key victory at Camden, British forces in the region sustained heavy casualties from disease in the summer and fall of 1780. To secure control over the Lower South required keeping thousands of their soldiers in what was then the unhealthiest region of British North America. Yet Clinton's southern strategy seriously undermined the health of his forces, and may have cost the British the war. It began well, with Sir Henry Clinton's capture of Charleston in May. It was the British that suffered the most significant losses from the region's fevers, however, particularly during the campaign of 1780. American military leaders mounted several costly and fruitless summer campaigns against British forces in Florida and Georgia. ![]() Yet that knowledge did not stop them from doing so. From the outset of the American War for Independence, military leaders on both sides recognized the perils of warm weather campaigning in the feverish lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice–save the woman he loves, or everyone else?–while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. ![]() One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. She believed she knew every horror, and was beyond surprise. ![]() Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. The highly anticipated, thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer, from National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() For him, the pattern/matter dualism represented one version of a deep conceptual structure which can be found in other iterations, such as form/substance, mind/matter and culture/nature.Ī similar dualism structures our concepts and experience of architecture: we perceive built space as bodily experience and conceive it, abstractly, in the form of symbolic and iconographic languages, and various kinds of cognitive mappings. The anthropologist, cyberneticist and ecologist Gregory Bateson (1904-80) observed that matter (what things are made of) and pattern (how they are organised) have tended to be treated as distinct disciplinary areas of study within the dominant traditions of Western thought. Now his thinking and writing could offer an essential guide to the future of architecture and urbanism In the 20th century, the diverse work of Gregory Bateson was hugely influential in many fields. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would ask that they write about the things that they are thankful for and why. ![]() Once I finished the story I would send the children back to their seats, to start on a new page, about how they feel now. While reading this story I would use my voice to let the students hear the sadness in my voice to emphasize the realness and reality of this story. Next, I would have my students come to the carpet and listen to this story. I would have them write them down and then ask them questions about the things they choose, as a whole group discussion. I would ask my students first before reading this story, what are the things that they are thankful for that they have and are able to do. This is is a very real depiction of our world, it explains to children and adults of all ages the real-world issues that are occurring now. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was a cowboy and one with a sombrero, one with a Santa hat and one playing a violin. The cover was so cute with all of the snowmen lined up in different clothes. Recommended to anyone who read and enjoyed Snowmen at Night, as well as to anyone looking for fun Christmas stories told in rhyme. ![]() Caralyn Buehner's text, meanwhile, depicts a heartwarming array of traditional Christmas activities, highlighting the importance of communal celebration. It also contains hidden images that young reader/listeners can hunt and find. Mark Buehner's artwork here is especially lovely, capturing the mysterious beauty of snowy nights and the festive appeal of holiday lights. Like the first picture-book about those snowy figures and their surprising nighttime adventures, Snowmen at Christmas pairs an engaging read-aloud text in rhyme with bright, colorful illustrations. ![]() From decorating the Christmas tree in the town square to joining in a round of carols, the snowmen know how to mark the season, returning to their daytime places with a special holiday glow in their hearts. ![]() "I think that while I'm snug in bed / Dreaming of Christmas treats, / The merry snowmen slip away / And hurry through the streets." And so the young boy-narrator of this second rhyming picture-book about the nighttime adventures of snowmen enters into another magical dreamscape, in which he imagines the many fun activities snowmen engage in, whilst celebrating Christmas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once she understands the secrets the vultures conceal, she must decide between abandoning the birds of prey or risk turning her loved ones into nothing more than meals to be devoured."Sara Tantlinger's To Be Devoured capitalizes on our macabre preoccupation with the uglier side of nature, with love that topples into obsession, and with madness that is strangely beautiful in its barbarity. ![]() However, the desire to taste dead flesh, to stitch together wings of her own and become one with the flock sends Andi down a twisted, unforgivable path. Fawning, but even the therapist cannot help her comprehend the secrets she's buried beneath anger-induced blackouts.Her girlfriend, Luna, tries to help Andi battle her inner darkness and infatuation with the vultures. Fascination morphs into an obsessive need to know what the vultures know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and invite her to come understand the secrets hiding in their banquet of decay. ![]() What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. ![]() ![]() And they are sovereign because nobody is able to claim authority over this community”. These communities can be considered imagined “as both limited and sovereign”, they are limited by “boundaries, beyond which lie other nations” (Anderson, 1991, 6). A nation from the Anderson’s point of view is imagined as its members will never know major part of their fellow-members, hear of them or meet them, however each of them recognize belonging to their community. However, the members hold some mental image of affinity in minds - for instance, people feel the nationhood with the other members of nation participating in a large event of a separate “imagined community” (Anderson, 1991, 6). This community differs much from a factual one as it is based, not on regular face-to-face interaction of the members of this community. Anderson gave a new definition of nation he defines it like “an imagined political community imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” (Anderson, 1991, 6). ![]() ![]() ![]() Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests.Ī tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do. ![]() And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. ![]() But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest – not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.) ![]() When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world. A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorwayīeneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Something that’s wonderful about any alternative film poster, is the opportunity to then re-watch the film with the poster artist’s creation held in mind, looking for the clues and ideas that inspired the work and led the creation of the poster. “Anthony Powell did the costumes here and he went on to do them for Death On The Nile, but that’s way more tasteful and I love the ridiculously flamboyant prints and shoulder pads he flung all over these amazing women as they run around an island being so very properly British and sinister.” Talking of the costumes in the film, Biddy Maroney of WBYK had this to say: It’s a compelling angle to explore, and this first in the print series is a highly refreshing composition of colour and form, full of intrigue and mysterious undertones. Where previously Black Dragon Press worked with Johnny Dombrowksi, who delivered a fantastic trilogy of prints that focused on the locations within the films, this teaming up with WBYK finds the Australian design duo coming at the series from the direction of costume design and the fashion of the era. This poster is the first in a series of three screenprint editions, which for the gallery is a repeat visit to the Agatha Christie classics. Evil Under the Sun is a new screenprint edition by WBYK, commissioned and published by Black Dragon Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is an appealing read to young readers because it shows them that it is possible to take their natural curiosities and turn them into deeper learning by leading inquiry based investigations independently. ![]() Through a combination of the "4Cs", Cricket and Shilo are able to successfully devise and carry through a plan to save the migrating bats. The young school age characters in this story embody four core 21st century skills and competencies: creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. On a walk the next day, they encountered an unsettling discovery that they'd never forget…seven dead bats! Their gut tells them that it is the newly installed wind turbines causing the damage, but, to be sure of their theory, the inquisitive children begin their own investigation. ![]() ![]() One night, as they are outside around a campfire, they notice small dark bodies zipping past above them-bats! Initially panicked and frightened at the unexpected sight, they quickly ran inside to escape the flying mammals. It was good that they didn't find any dead bats, but why didn't they? Was Tyler right-did the bats fly higher when it was windier? Was it because they could avoid the turbine easier when it was spinning faster? That didn't make sense.Īs the end of summer nears, Cricket McKay and her best friend, Shilo, are spending time at Grandpa McKay's farm. Later that afternoon the girls sat on the porch, bored and worried. ![]() |