Watch the overview video for Vergil's Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6īoyd's edition of selections from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6 of Vergil's Aeneid is designed for high school or undergraduate use, and the 923 lines covered by this book reflect the most recent requirements for the Advanced Placement Latin exam. Online grammatical appendix and grammatical index, including newly revised sections: "Vergil's Meter" and "Rhetorical Terms, Figures of Speech, and Metrical Devices".Four black-and-white illustrations by Thom Kapheim.General introduction on Vergil's life, works, and influence. It includes all the required Latin selections from Vergil's Aeneid for the 2012–2013 AP* Latin Curriculum.Ĭlick here to download the readability report This text-an updated and revised version of selected passages from Pharr's Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI-is designed for college and high school Advanced Placement* courses.
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Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond. The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when gays and lesbians were criminals, psychiatrists saw them as mentally ill, churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with hatred. In “the most comprehensive history to date of America’s gay-rights movement” ( The Economist), Lillian Faderman tells this unfinished story through the dramatic accounts of passionate struggles with sweep, depth, and feeling. The fight for gay and lesbian civil rights-the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heart-breaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers-is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. The sweeping story of the struggle for gay and lesbian rights-based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day. “This is the history of the gay and lesbian movement that we’ve been waiting for.” - The Washington Post Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, "Palace Of Desire" is the unforgettable story of the violent clash between ideals and realities, dreams and desires. The second volume of the highly acclaimed "Cairo Trilogy" from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Lorne M. In Palace of Desire, his rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork. It is impossible without you to create hierarchy, canon so important for the science of the coming millennium, so necessary to construct “Beads game” on the place where today we observe a mixture of strange fantasies called physical concepts. But my words are also for venerable scientists of my own generation. Creative work is the only way for a person to experience this feeling. I believe that something like this is felt by a woman who keeps healthy and crying baby against her breast after a long and difficult pregnancy and childbirth. What can be more worthy? And what can give greater joy of life? I have lived my life, and I can say: neither money, nor power, nor even love (I do not even speak about wine and drugs) can give you the wonderful, keen feeling that embrace a person when the heap of discrepant and seemingly unrelated facts suddenly find just proportion, simplicity, and you begin feeling harmony of the universe. You will have space to develop, and subject to think over. The very foundation of modern physics has collapsed, and its edifice is tumbling down. Your life will not be devoted to specification of the hundredth digit of a well-known constant. My words are to you, student and postgraduate. And any such challenge is addressed first of all to the youth cognizant of the laws of nature for the first time, and therefore potentially more inclined to perceive non-standard ideas. This book was conceived as a challenge to the crestfallen conformism in science. |