![]() When this dream collapsed he became, by turns, an ally of German imperialists, a notorious French lover, an angry Austrian monarchist, a calm opponent of Hitler, and a British spy against Stalin. Coming of age during the First World War, Wilhelm repudiated his family to fight alongside Ukrainian peasants in hopes that he would become their king. Snyder offers an indelible portrait of an aristocrat whose life personifies the wrenching upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century, as the rule of empire gave way to the new politics of nationalism. In this exhilarating narrative history, prize-winning historian Timothy D. He spoke the Italian of his archduchess mother, the German of his archduke father, the English of his British royal friends, the Polish of the country his father wished to rule, and the Ukrainian of the land Wilhelm wished to rule himself. ![]() He could handle a saber, a pistol, a rudder, or a golf club he handled women by necessity and men for pleasure. Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress. ![]()
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![]() Edvard Brandes wrote that it "makes the reader want to join the fight against hypocrisy and reaction." Ī young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As a result of The Red Room, Strindberg became famous throughout Scandinavia. While receiving mixed reviews in Sweden, it was acclaimed in Denmark, where Strindberg was hailed as a genius. In this novel, Strindberg reflects his own experiences of living in poverty while writing this novel during February to November 1879. ![]() ![]() A satire of Stockholm society, it has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. ![]() The Red Room ( Swedish: Röda rummet) is a Swedish novel by August Strindberg that was first published in 1879. ![]() ![]() Chapters cover the notion of secure encryption, randomness, block ciphers and ciphers, hash functions and message authentication codes, public-key crypto including RSA, Diffie-Hellman, and elliptic curves, as well as TLS and post-quantum cryptography. The book is suitable for a wide audience, yet is filled with mathematical concepts and meaty discussions of how the various cryptographic mechanisms work. This is a book for readers who want to understand how cryptography works in today’s world. Serious Cryptography is the much anticipated review of modern cryptography by cryptographer JP Aumasson. You can read this before Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption written by Jean-Philippe Aumasson which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption by Jean-Philippe Aumasson ![]() ![]() What is surprising is to see it done so well, and so thoughtfully. So much is often left out of the lengthy production that becomes an author’s first novel that it provides at least some place to find one’s footing in the rush toward the next. It is not surprising in our sequel-saturated moment to see an author return to prior material that so powerfully (and, of course, profitably) resonated with readers and critics. ![]() ![]() In Cleanness, Greenwell accomplishes much the same feat, but with important differences that reveal both that he has much more he wants to tell us and his striking savviness as an author navigating the art trade of contemporary publishing. What Belongs to You is a fine novel, imbued with Greenwell’s rare gift for matching languorous, perceptive prose - or, rather, prose that captures the minutiae of perception and the fault lines of our knowledge of self and others - with a story that remains engaging from start to finish. In that first novel, Greenwell explored the dense complexity of power, shame, and desire in the relationship between an American expat teaching in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the street tough to whom he becomes increasingly, inconveniently attached after their first meet in the bathrooms beneath the National Palace of Culture in the capital city. ![]() THE MOST HOTLY ANTICIPATED queer title of the new decade (though it is only January, dear), Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness offers a familiarly impressive follow-up to his widely acclaimed 2016 debut novel, What Belongs to You. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an eerie, effervescent, addictive, delicious offering. Salvant can go seemingly anywhere as a vocalist, raconteur and producer. Her songwriting resonates as instantly preeminent her covers of Kate Bush, Sting, and Gregory Porter are rapturous and its production with creative collaborator Sullivan Fortner, fresh and flawless. Salvant’s expanding further into the fullness of her artistry through such an astonishing project almost took my breath away. It’s less of an album and more of an experience in the ways Sgt Pepper’s or What’s Going On conjured. I was about ¼ of the way through Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Ghost Song when I realized this was easily going to be one of my favorite albums of 2022… and it just kept blowing me away as it unfolded. Best wishes for a gracious 2023 and I’ll see you soon. ![]() What’s a year without reflection? Or a million best-of lists?Īs we close out another 365 days, I hope that this list of a few of my favorite things brings you some joy and discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() But given that Johns' run ended back in 2013, what makes this new book so special? Haven't Green Lantern collections been readily available to new readers for years at this point? Yes, but with one significant caveat. And even several years after its conclusion, the impact of Johns' work is still being felt in the DCU. It really is the perfect jumping-on point for anyone interested in characters like Hal, Sinestro, Carol Ferris and Atrocitus. (Image Credit: DC Comics)In short, Johns' Green Lantern run is bold, ambitious and expertly crafted while still being completely accessible to newcomers. ![]() And on top of everything else, Johns proved that Sinestro is one of the greatest villains in superhero comics.Īrt by Ethan Van Sciver. Through stories like The Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night, Johns and his collaborators introduced an entire spectrum of Lantern Corps and greatly expanded the mythology fueling the Green Lantern Corps. ![]() This is the run that managed to not only redeem Hal Jordan following his corruption as Parallax, but make him a more dynamic and exciting hero than ever. Whether you judge it by its sheer quality of its lasting impact on the larger franchise, Johns' Green Lantern run has rightfully become the gold standard for Green Lantern stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() So I’m thinking he wasn’t meant to be a Ravenel initially, but whatever, he is now. In book #3, literally everyone who runs into Ransom (our hero) immediately marvels over how his eyes are THE EXACT SHADE of Ravenel Blue, and they’re all like, “Dude, I bet you’re totally related to them.” And yet, when Ransom was first introduced in book #2, Helen - supposedly one of his relatives - doesn’t notice his eyes at all. I mean, besides the fact that the original 4 protagonists were clearly Devon, Helen, Pandora, and Cassandra and/or West (possibly together! I WANT TO BELIEVE). This book is pretty clearly not one of the original planned 4. Intrigue is afoot! You’d think they wouldn’t have given the “bombs and assassination” book a hot pink cover, but who am I to question the mysterious ways of Avon Books. If you’ve forgotten the last book (and I wish I could!): After 200 pages of Pandora and Gabriel acting weird and boring me to death, a bomb plot showed up in the last five chapters. ![]() If you can stretch your memory all the way back to 2015, you’ll recall that this was supposed to be a 4 book series, but whatever. ![]() Also, the model is pretty, but she just…lacks the “chill lady doctor who casually threatens to castrate men” vibe, you know?Īnyway, so here we are on book 4/6 of the Ravenels series. I think I knew a couple of girls who went to prom in that dress. ![]() Dude, the covers of this series just get worse and worse. ![]() ![]() ![]() The colony, it transpires, was once settled by a sect devoted to the mad Russian monk Rasputin, but there is even more hiding in the past than Frank’s team is aware of. ![]() Frank must determine if the thawed remains still carry the deadly virus in their frozen flesh and, if so, ensure that it doesn’t come back to life.įrank and his handpicked team arrive by helicopter, loaded down with high-tech tools, prepared to exhume history. ![]() A century later, acts of man, nature, and history converge on that same forbidding shore with a power sufficient to shatter civilization as we know it.Īrmy epidemiologist Frank Slater is facing a court-martial, but after his punishment is mysteriously lifted, Slater is offered a job no one else wants-to travel to a small island off the coast of Alaska and investigate a potentially lethal phenomenon: The permafrost has begun to melt, exposing bodies from a colony that was wiped out by the dreaded Spanish flu of 1918. Nearly one hundred years ago, a desperate young woman crawled ashore on a desolate arctic island, carrying a terrible secret and a mysterious, emerald-encrusted cross. ![]() ![]() ![]() This edition was noticeably different from the Olympia Press edition because it was based on an earlier 1958 manuscript in Allen Ginsberg’s possession. obscenity laws a complete American edition did not follow until 1962 and was titled Naked Lunch. It was originally published as The Naked Lunch in Paris in July 1959 by Olympia Press, but due to U.S. The stories come from Burroughs’ own experiences and his addiction to drugs (heroin, morphine, and while in Tangier, “ Majoun”- a strong marijuana confection-, as well as a German opiate called Eukodol, of which he wrote about frequently). Burroughs stated that the chapters, or “routines” as he calls them- are a collection of loosely-connected vignettes and intended to be read in any order which follow the adventures of junkie William Lee, who takes on various aliases from the U.S. Burroughs, was originally published in 1959 and is included in Time magazine’s “100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He can also be a bit of a hypocrite, though he is quick to recognize this and improve his behavior. Despite being empathetic, however, Gregor is sometimes quick to anger, oftentimes butting heads with Luxa and Ripred. He is quiet and not particularly outgoing at school, which leads to others believing he is stuck up. He is extremely family-oriented, taking up much of the burden after his father went missing and going on Sandwich's quests in order to ensure their safety. Based on these hints, it can be assumed that Gregor most likely possesses dark skin, dark hair, and brown eyes. ![]() Additionally, in Gregor the Overlander, two rats named Fangor and Shed comment that Gregor looks very similar to his father, saying that their "shade" matches. Later on, it is stated that both Lizzie and Boots have brown hair. Luxa comments that Boots' skin "must require much light" and that she has never seen a human with brown eyes before. In The Code of Claw, however, Gregor's skin is described as being absolutely riddled with scars from all his time in the Underland. Gregor is not described with much detail other than the fact that he is both tall and lanky. 4.3 Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods. ![]() |