![]() Her father, Talford Middleton, was raised on a large Iowa farm, which was lost to a bank not long after his father's accidental death in 1926. Gaskin was born to an Iowa Protestant family ( Methodist on one side, Presbyterian on the other). She is known for the Gaskin Maneuver, has written several books on midwifery and childbirth, and continues to educate society through lectures and conferences and spread her message of natural, old-age inspired, fearless childbirth.Įarly life and family Family ![]() Ina May Gaskin ( née Middleton born March 8, 1940) is an American midwife who has been described as "the mother of authentic midwifery." She helped found the self-sustaining community, The Farm, with her husband Stephen Gaskin in 1971 where she markedly launched her career in midwifery. ![]() The Right Livelihood Award, Tennessee Perinatal Association Recognition Award, ASPO/Lamaze Irwin Chabon Award ![]()
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![]() He also knows she’s more valuable than any fire in the night sky. Kyon Ensin’s secrets number the stars he knows more about Kricket's gifts than anyone and plans to possess her because of them. ![]() But, when he and Kricket lie together under the stars of Ethar, counting them all may be easier than letting her go. What he’s learning of Kricket and her existence away from her true home only confirms his theory. Trey Allairis hates Earth and doubts that anyone from his world can thrive here. With her 18th birthday fast approaching, she dreams of the day when she can stop running and find what her heart needs most: a home. ![]() Well versed at dodging caseworkers from Chicago’s foster care system, the past few years on her own have made Kricket an expert at the art of survival and blending in. ![]() All she wants is a home, but can she find one.UNDER DIFFERENT STARS Kricket Hollowell is normally not one to wish upon stars she believes they’re rarely in her favor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Episode #402-“Failure in the Saddle: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joe Wheeler, and the Failure of the Confederate Cavalry During the Chickamauga Campaign” by David A Powell.Episode #404-“Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy” by Earl J Hess.Episode #405-“General James Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial Soldier” by Jeffry D Wert.Episode #406-“William S Rosecrans and the Union Victory: A Civil War Biography” by David G Moore.Episode #407-“Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater” by the American Battlefield Trust.Episode #408-“Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era” by James M McPherson.Episode #409:”The Chickamauga Campaign: Glory or the Grave” by David A Powell.Episode #410-“The Civil War in the East: Struggle, Stalemate, and Victory” by Brooks Simpson and “The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi” by Earl Hess.Episode #412- “George Henry Thomas: As True as Steel” by Brian Steel Wills.Episode #413-“The Chickamauga Campaign: Barren Victory” by David A Powell. ![]() ![]() For the first time, he describes his heartbreak and years of struggle in the wake of their deaths. In this historic memoir, Ted Kennedy takes us inside his family, re-creating life with his parents and brothers and explaining their profound impact on him. Senate, where he began a fascinating political education and became a legislator. Kennedy, recounted here in loving detail. As a young man, he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother John F. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected. The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story - of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events. ![]() In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. More Magazines are here - Check them out!. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How do we process the overload? The implication is that we can't. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition, you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc - so news drowns in a great sea of information.”Īlthough Numero Zero takes place in 1992, Eco may as well be describing our current journalistic landscape of hot takes and click bait. Or this: “The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. ![]() It’s hard, in our age of media consolidation and corporate ownership, not to read that exchange without a little shiver, a little chill. he’s our majority shareholder, as they say.” “You’re saying we have to check whether or not the Commendatore is going to like each article?” a character asks Domani’s editor, an amiable hack named Simei. ![]() Indeed, news itself is not the issue rather, power is. What Eco is saying is that it doesn’t matter, particularly, what the truth is, that this is not why people turn to news. ![]() ![]() Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the Rome diocese. “We give authorizations to productions that are compatible with religious sentiment,” said the Rev. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are also where cardinals are murdered and mutilated in two of the more gruesome scenes in “Angels and Demons.” Requests to film on location in Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria, churches that are homes to paintings by Caravaggio, sculptures by Bernini and a chapel designed by Raphael, were refused. “I say the more films they produce in Rome, the better.” Other groups, like the Roman Catholic Church, which sees its authority as being undermined in both Brown best sellers, have been less receptive. The story takes place in some of the most magnificent spots in Rome, including the Pantheon, Piazza Navona and Piazza del Popolo. Patrizia Prestipino, head of Rome’s provincial department of tourism, said, “A film like this could relaunch American tourism,” which has dropped by 6 percent this year from the same period last year (largely because of the weak dollar). Now Romans are wondering if the film of “Angels and Demons,” based on the 2000 predecessor to “The Da Vinci Code,” will do the same for their city. Brown’s last book-turned-movie, “The Da Vinci Code,” spawned hordes of tourists, toting well-thumbed novels, traipsing around France, Scotland and elsewhere to unravel its mysteries. ![]() ROME As Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and the rest of the cast and crew of “Angels and Demons” wrap up filming, the Dan Brown effect is on many minds here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This lust for national purity (a mono-ethnic, mono-cultural Britain) pre-dates the construction of whiteness at the wake of the transatlantic slave trade. ![]() Naturally, any non-white person is figured as a trespasser as soon as they dare to set foot inside its boundaries. It is a dangerous dream weaponised by nationalists, from folk musician Cecil Sharpe in the nineteenth century to the rhetoric of the pro-Brexit UK Independence Party and its former leader Nigel Farage in recent years, using folklore and fear tactics to permeate the British psyche and coax the public into believing that a mythical, white ‘idyll’ is the place where Britain’s national purity can be found. That ‘memory’ is not really a memory at all, but a nostalgic dream of a white, virgin landscape void of people of colour. One big reason for this is the fact that rural Britain holds a meaningful space in Britain’s collective memory. ![]() But if these spaces are the pride of Britain, why did a Ramblers Report reveal that Britons of BAME backgrounds made up only 1% of National Park visitors in 2020? The green and pleasant land, rural Britain, with its valleys and orchards, rolling hills and chocolate box villages, can be best encapsulated in the National Parks which stretch from Snowdonia in the West to Loch Lomond in the North. ![]() ![]() Never mind jealous detractors: virtuosity is its own reward. Her exhilarating synthesis of the classic and the modern, frivolity and fate - “Pnin” meets “The O.C.” - is a poetic act of will. And in Pessl’s case, Nabokovian doesn’t need scare quotes. “She’s the latest in a long, long line to suffer from ‘Hot Young Author Chick’ Syndrome,” one blogger grumbled another wrote in a headline, “It’s Not About Marisha Pessl’s Looks and Money - Is It?” and asked if the book would have been snapped up so quickly if Pessl hadn’t had such a “drool-worthy author photo.” But don’t hate her because she’s beautiful: her talent and originality would draw wolf whistles if she were an 86-year-old hunchbacked troll. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the news came out that a distractingly pretty actress, playwright and Barnard College graduate named Marisha Pessl, only 27, had sold her first book (which she also illustrated) - a “Nabokovian” thriller about an intellectual widower and his precocious daughter - for a substantial sum, the pick-a-little, talk-a-little publishing blog brigade went into conniptions. Whoever coined the phrase “everybody loves a winner” probably wasn’t one. ![]() ![]() NASA had such confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. ![]() She was only the second woman pilot admitted to the Air Force’s elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot’s wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots. The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. ![]() ![]() ![]() In less than a decade, they’ve produced four hit seriesKate Daniels, the rustic fantasy saga The Edge, the magical Hidden Legacy books, and the wildly creative Clean Sweep. It’s smart, vicious, and lethal, and putting herself between this creature and her neighbors might just cost her everything. Ilona Andrews, the pseudonym for Andrew and Ilona Gordon, husband-and-wife team behind the hugely popular Kate Daniels series, are an incredibly productive duo. ![]() But the enemy she’s facing is unlike anything she’s ever encountered before. Before long, she has to juggle dealing with the annoyingly attractive, ex-military, new neighbor, Sean Evans-an alpha-strain werewolf-and the equally arresting cosmic vampire soldier, Arland, while trying to keep her inn and its guests safe. ![]() Under the circumstances, "normal" is a bit of a stretch for Dina.Īnd now, something with wicked claws and deepwater teeth has begun to hunt at night.Feeling responsible for her neighbors, Dina decides to get involved. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave the grounds because she’s responsible for the deaths of millions and someone might shoot her on sight. But Dina is.different: Her broom is a deadly weapon her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. ![]() |