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Black athena by martin bernal6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal links a wide range of areas and disciplines-drama, poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of "modern scholarship." But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this "Aryan model." They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers-Aryans-from the North. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century-chiefly for racist reasons. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. ![]() Makoto shinkai tenki no ko6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() When his ferry to the city is hit by a rainstorm, he is saved by Keisuke Suga. Pic 3 and 10 are generated with clip skip 1 and upscaled with clip skip 2. In June 2021, first year high schooler Hodaka Morishima escapes Kzu-shima in order to get away from his troubled home life to Tokyo. Should actually work on most anime models and on NeverEnding Dream.Ĭlip skip 2 should be better, but careful as some of the examples are using Clip skip 1 because I forgot the setting from another test I was making. It works most accurately on AnyLoRA and I've offset it so that it works at 1 weight. While it obviously overfitted on the main cast, it won't get characters accurately 100% of the time without a character specific LoRA/TI. Keep in mind this is not a character lora. See the example images and final comparison. (mind the dot), tenki no ko, and kotonoha no niwa respectively. Trigger word is shinkai makoto and contains substyles that are each triggered with kimi no na wa. Requested on Discord, this was trained on my hand selected and tagged dataset of anime screencaps. Do you like what I do? Consider supporting me on Patreon □️ or feel free to buy me a coffee ☕ Makoto Shinkai style LoRA Includes substyles for Your Name, Weathering With You and The Garden of Words. ![]() Strange the dreamer duology6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() So now you probably want to know what I think of this book, right? Unfortunately, it’s impossible to find the right words. This is the perfect chance for Lazlo, but he is in no way prepared for what awaits them in the city he has always dreamt about. One day, a delegation arrives, led by the mythical Godslayer, looking for people to accompany them to Weep and to help solve a mysterious problem. He spends his days between books, while wondering about the lost city of Weep. ![]() Lazlo Strange is an orphan and junior librarian. What if I didn’t like it as much as everyone else? So when I bought this book, it ended up on my pile of unread books for a few months. Have you ever been nervous about reading a book? I sure have! I had heard so many good things about Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor that I was afraid of picking it up. ![]() Station eleven audio book6/12/2023 ![]() Is creating a new species to survive the aliens that have already taken over the best key to survival, and what does it mean to be human? Rebecca Lowman narrates this story of family, loss, and moral ambiguity as the last humans on earth fight to avoid extinction. ![]() Villages pop up throughout the continent, with one focused on creating an ice-adapted species, the hope for the future. Check out these great titles available on audio lasting less than 10 hours. ![]() Once the small percentage of survivors arrive, they realize that to keep mankind going, they will need creatures more suited to living in the cold than humans. When aliens invade in 2023 and demand all citizens who want to live get to Antarctica in 30 days, humanity scrambles to decide who to save and how to get them to the South Pole. Station Eleven Audible Audiobook Unabridged Jack Hawkins (Narrator), & 2 more 59,963 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Winner of the Arthur C. Cold People is his most recent book, and it takes the idea of post-apocalyptic living to a mostly unexplored territory: Antarctica. ![]() I read the Child 44 trilogy series years ago and knew I would pick up anything Tom Rob Smith put in the world. ![]() The killer angels shaara6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Maxwell and starring Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, and Martin Sheen the score was composed by Randy Edelman. The Killer Angels was adapted into the classic 1993 film ‘Gettysburg’ directed by Ronald F. a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.” “A book that changed my life… I had never visited Gettysburg, knew almost nothing about that battle before I read the book, but here it all came alive” (Ken Burns). The book depicts the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, and the days leading up to it: June 29, 1863, as the troops of both the Union and the Confederacy move into battle around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and July 1, July 2, and July 3, when the battle was fought. James McPherson wrote, "This is my favorite historical novel. The Killer Angels reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. The novel by Michael Shaara published in 1974 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction a year later (Gale, 2016). This book was written for much the same reason” (Shaara). The Killer Angels is a well-known book that is obligatory for studying in American schools because it explores one of the most significant events in the history of the United States. “Stephen Crane once said that he wrote The Red Badge of Courage because reading the cold history was not enough he wanted to know what it was like to be there, what the weather was like, what men’s faces looked like. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. ![]() Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Boldly signed by Michael Shaara on the front free endpaper. First edition of Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. ![]() Two for the dough by janet evanovich6/11/2023 ![]() While looking for Kenny, Stephanie also searches for 24 caskets stolen from Spiro Stiva, heir apparent of Stiva's Mortuary and also a high-school buddy of Kenny's. ![]() When the old friend is shot again, fatally, Stephanie reluctantly joins forces with her sexy enemy and love interest, Trenton homicide cop Joe Morelli. Sassy, brassy Stephanie Plum, the bounty hunter from Trenton, N.J., introduced to acclaim in last year's One for the Money, returns to track a bond jumper through her blue-collar neighborhood known as the ``burg.'' A local funeral home, a slimy undertaker and mutilated corpses figure large in the search for Kenny Mancuso, who, having shot an old high-school friend in the knee, posted bail with Stephanie's boss, her cousin, and then disappeared. ![]() Hate to love you tijan6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() I groaned, tipping my head back and marching past him to the passenger door. “I didn’t till now.” My mind was going to race with that thought. “What’s the verdict, Clarke? Having second thoughts? Thinking maybe this is all a ruse to kill you?” Shay opened his door, but when I didn’t move to follow Kristina inside, he paused, irritation flashing for a brief second in his smoldering eyes. There wasn’t a case where someone could get too much help. And it was a smart idea to study with others. I did not want to go to Shay’s house, but he said Linde was there. I had an irrational urge to pull her back and slip back there myself. It was a two-seater so Kristina was able to climb into the back seat. I didn’t know what I was expecting him to drive, but I stopped short when he unlocked the doors and the lights flashed. Not to mention that I’d have to see my roommate if she was in the room. We could run into Casey or the others, and they’d want to know where we were going. If we took my car, I’d have to go back to my dorm room. I glanced to Kristina, but she shook her head. ![]() Do you trust me enough for a ride? Or are you going to follow me to the house?” “My car is parked around the corner in the library parking lot. ![]() Jrr tolkien the rings of power6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The first prose work Tolkien ever wrote about Middle-earth was the story “Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin” in The Book of Lost Tales, and it is there that the orcs first make their appearance in Tolkien’s world, as creatures made by “Melko” (later Morgoth) out of mud and slime, with hearts of granite. But in all that span, one of the most difficult and persistent problems that continually disturbed his created world was the problem of the origin of the orcs, and it is reflected in the history of his writings all the way from his very earliest works until his death. This collection of mythic and legendary material that would later be compiled and assembled into The Silmarillion (and the later 12-volume History of Middle-earth collection) was revised, edited, and sometimes entirely rewritten by Tolkien multiple times over the years, and was left ultimately unfinished upon his death. And launching his bark like a silver sparkĭown the sunlit breath of Day’s fiery Death ![]() The Trial by Franz Kafka6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() At 34, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which would lead to his death seven years later. During his lifetime, Kafka is estimated to have burned at least 90% of everything he wrote, though he consented to publish The Metamorphosis at age 32. He had several passionate love affairs but never married. Kafka's letters and journals reveal that he was tortured by a sense of his own inadequacy, sexually and socially, though to others he came off as quiet and intelligent. He studied law and got a job at an insurance company at age 24, though he resented having to work to pay the bills. He attended elementary school, gymnasium, and university within a few blocks of his birthplace. He preferred to speak and write German, as his family did, though most residents of Prague spoke Czech, a significant division both culturally and politically. Kafka was born in Prague, the first of six children in a family of middle-class Jews. ![]() |