![]() ![]() ![]() Each person was responsible for doing their part, whatever that part was. Unlike the ancient Greek belief system, the ancient Romans believed that achieving peace and harmony in society required maintaining a positive relationship with the gods and goddesses by all to achieve that equilibrium, as the gods and goddesses walked among us daily. It has been compiled to assist those interested in learning more about the cultus deorum Romanum and related Roman culture, both ancient and modern, and has been designed to be of practical use by the religio practitioner and reference guide for the non-practitioner. This work is a compilation of writings, articles, opinions and beliefs from many practitioners of the Religio Romana in Nova Roma, the global Roman Reconstruction effort in our modern age. Not a congregational religion, the cultus deorum Romanum is a religious system based on individual practices, household and ancestor worship, and religion of the state. It is a guide for the practitioner of the cultus deorum Romanum, the ancient Roman religious system as practiced in the modern time. ![]() The Religio Romana Handbook: A Guide for the Modern Practitioner, 2nd Edition, is the first volume in the series, “The Modern Roman Living Series,” by Lucius Vitellius Triarius. ![]()
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![]() The ability to develop athletes that can think the game and execute their skills at speed is what makes the great coaches great. The head is where the art + science of effective coaching comes in. Now coaching the head is another ball game (pun only slightly intended). It takes very little time and effort to come up with a formula for coaching the feet. In some ways, it’s like painting by numbers. The main character in The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay is Peekay. Those four W’s are so important and are what get to the essence of game intelligence (or what I like to call ‘game sense’).Īs a basketball coach, teaching the technical skills, a new offensive set, or an out-of-bounds play isn’t the hardest part. Free Essay: The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world. Where they struggle though, and where we as coaches still struggle, is in teaching the WHO, WHEN, WHERE and WHY. Many basketball players are good at the HOW. ![]() In reflection, it’s funny to think about how this quote has shaped my approach as an athlete and now as a teacher-coach. It’s from a book called: The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. Just stumbled across the quote above… I jotted down on, what is now, a tattered piece of paper from some 25 years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() His teenage novel, Faerie Wars, also rocketed to international success, achieving best-seller status in more than 20 overseas editions, was voted No 1 Top Ten Teenage Pick in the United States and was listed as a New York Times Best Seller title.Įqually prolific in the adult market, Herbie has a powerful reputation for challenging conventional assumptions with penetrating intelligence and a clear, easy style. His keen eye for novelty, both in technology and market development, made him among the very first writers to create adventure gamebooks and his GrailQuest series was an international bestseller. Herbie has an well-established career writing for the children's market - from zany picture books to teenage fiction and from game books to school curriculum non-fiction. Herbie Brennan A professional writer whose work has appeared in more than fifty countries, Herbie Brennan is enjoyed by children and adults alike - sales of his books already exceed 7.5 million copies.Ī professional writer whose work has appeared in more than fifty countries, Herbie Brennan is enjoyed by children and adults alike - sales of his books already exceed 7.5 million copies. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm sorry if you read them in the wrong order, but if you did, it's better than you admit it now, come to grips, and move on with your life knowing the truth. ![]() Truth be told, I've read books written this year that have ten times the sexism this one does.Īlso, I'd like to make it clear that this is the FIRST book of the Narnia Chronicles. And in my opinion, it only needs a little slack. But honestly, this book was written 60 years ago, and you need to cut it a little slack because of that. And there were a few slight pieces of sexism that I ignored, skipped over, or re-worded on the fly. The British slang will be a stumbling block to some. ![]() And when you're reading a book aloud, it becomes really obvious.) (That's become a particular peeve lately. Also there's not a lot of dead space or trashy empty dialogue that just seems to be there to take up space. I've read a lot of books to my little boy these last couple years, and I can honestly say that This book is among the best. I don't know how easy it is for y'all to access the record of those here on Goodreads, but if you're looking for a detailed account of my thoughts on the book, you can look there. This is the first book where I chronicled my thoughts as I read through it with my son. ![]() ![]() Our main protagonist is a spunky girl named Julia who has a vast imagination and explores the world around her through the lens of her camera. Julia and the Art of Practical Travel takes readers across 1960s America. But will they find Julia’s mother and a place to call home? (description from Goodreads) ![]() ![]() ![]() On the road, Julia and her aunt meet a cast of peculiar characters, including guitar-strumming hippies in Greenwich Village, a legendary voodoo queen in New Orleans, the honorable proprietor of the World’s End Cattle Ranch in Texas, and the colorful sheriff of Gold Point, Nevada (population: 1), who also happens to be the town’s mayor, fire chief, and reverend. They bring with them only the most practical travel things-silver candlestick holders, a few Oriental carpets, some steamer trunks, and Julia’s beloved Brownie camera, which she will use to document their journey across 1960s America. When her grandmother dies and the once-majestic family estate is sold, eleven-year-old Julia Lancaster and her aunt Constance must take to the road to find Julia’s long-lost mother. Page Length: 192 pages (hardcover edition) Genre: Middle Grade, Travel, Fiction, Historical “Julia and the Art of Practical Travel” by Lesley M. ![]() Book Review: “Julia and The Art of Practical Travel” by Lesley M. ![]() ![]() It is still the heart of many things, though the empire has wilted somewhat in the years since its first bloom, as empires do. The city is called Yumenes, and once it was the heart of an empire. The end begins in a city: the oldest, largest, and most magnificent living city in the world. It’s one vast, unbroken continent at present, but at some point in the future it will be more than one again. ![]() Naturally this land’s people have named it the Stillness. Like an old man lying restlessly abed it heaves and sighs, puckers and farts, yawns and swallows. Ordinary, except for its size and its dynamism. Mountains and plateaus and canyons and river deltas, the usual. ![]() Let’s try the ending again, writ continentally. What she thinks then, and thereafter, is: But he was free.Īnd it is her bitter, weary self that answers this almost-question every time her bewildered, shocked self manages to produce it: The world has already ended within her, and neither ending is for the first time. ![]() ![]() She will cover Uche’s broken little body with a blanket-except his face, because he is afraid of the dark-and she will sit beside it numb, and she will pay no attention to the world that is ending outside. There is a thing she will think over and over in the days to come, as she imagines how her son died and tries to make sense of something so innately senseless. LET’S START WITH THE END of the world, why don’t we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.įirst, a personal ending. ![]() ![]() But the core idea of the darkness ( Dunkelheit) of poetry wasn’t really developed in the Büchner Prize address, better known under its title, The Meridian. This necessitated a speech, and several of the assembled thoughts and formulations for the lecture were adapted into what became his most important statement on his poetics and on his life as a poet. It is often assumed that this amounted to a dismantling of German, a way of writing it that worked against its natural proclivities and patterns, but in fact it is at least as accurate to say that Celan worked with and in German, revealing expressive seams and veins that had hitherto lain neglected.Īround 1960 Paul Celan began making notes for a lecture on the “darkness or obscurity of the poetic,” which was soon superseded by his being awarded the 1960 Büchner Prize, Germany’s main literary award, which he accepted. ![]() In the postwar years until his suicide in 1970, he extended conceptions of what poetry could be and do, drawing radical conclusions as to what it meant to continue the tradition of the German lyric even though he was using the language of those who had murdered his mother and father and attempted to eradicate his people entirely. ![]() He has long represented a kind of absolute of what poetry is capable of, and stands as an exemplary figure for other poets, many of whom have incorporated aspects of his work into their own. ![]() ![]() If the Romanian-born poet Paul Celan were a compass point, he would be north. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() When her newly remarried mother moves the family to Paragon Island, to a house that is rumored to be haunted, Skyla finds refuge in Logan Oliver, a boy who shares her unique ability to read minds. Sixteen year-old, Skyla Messenger is a dead girl walking. “Most addictive book for me since Sookie!” – Amazon Review Addison Moore’s Ethereal (Celestra Series Book 1) Destined to be with Diogo yet aching for Tristan’s forbidden love, Eva must somehow choose between them, or fate will choose for her. But Eva has a vision of another… When the ship founders in a storm off the coast, Tristan, a local boy, saves her life and steals her heart. ![]() Her mother reveals that her destiny lies with Diogo, the shipowner’s volatile son. On the voyage home to the Azores Islands, Eva accepts the pagan name of Arethusa but learns too late that her life will mirror the Greek nymph’s tragic end. Artemis Rising left me breathless and spellbound. ![]() ![]() Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she'll cope - and find work - back on the outside, she meets new patient Alex. ![]() Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like 'something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting'. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.' 'I don't think you can even call this a drug. ** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry ** ** THE NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING CULT CLASSIC NOVEL ** ![]() |