![]() ![]() ![]() Unabashedly honest and exceptionally intelligent, Jane possesses a sound strength of character beyond her years that equips her to weather the vicious storm. ![]() With the premature passing of Jane's adolescent cousin, and Henry's successor, King Edward VI, comes a struggle for supremacy fueled by political machinations and lethal religious fervor. The child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she is merely a pawn in a dynastic game with the highest stakes, Jane Grey was born during the harrowingly turbulent period between Anne Boleyn's beheading and the demise of Jane's infamous great-uncle, King Henry VIII. ![]() It is the story of Lady Jane Grey-"the Nine Days' Queen"-a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of the religious and civil unrest that nearly toppled the fabled House of Tudor during the sixteenth century. I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir's enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In particular, this paper points out the need for bottom-up initiatives based on the co-design of physical and digital interfaces and their components to create symbols and icons with a higher degree of universality. ![]() Starting from the user-centred methodological process applied in the development of the Universal Interface Language tool, one of the main outcomes of the INDIMO EU project (Inclusive Digital Mobility Solutions), this paper presents a methodological path that can provide UX/UI designers, developers and service providers with a practical guide to defining a proper set of accessible and inclusive icons as part of the user interface, be it digital or physical. ![]() Challenging the acceptance of what have been defined as universal and standard pictograms, this paper promotes a conceptual approach to improve non-textual communication in digital mobility and delivery services, to ensure that different types of people may access content in an intuitive manner, overcoming language, cultural, physical and cognitive barriers. ![]() ![]() Violet takes on the care and entertainment of young Seeley, who has troubling accidents after Dorian brings him to stay. ![]() Violet also has an unusual talent, to communicate with, and summon, bees. ![]() Anna Bess's different attitude starts to change that. Though Laney (now a young mother) is also a slave, Violet does not treat her as one and avoids thinking about that part of their lives. She also takes responsibility for her eight-year-old cousin Seeley (heir to a large property), who is sent to live with them.Īfter her mother's death, Violet was raised by a slave, Aunt Permilla, and grew up with Permilla's blood kin Laney as a close confidante and friend. He married the widow Sluder, leaving Violet to deal with a stepmother addicted to laudanum and her spoiled daughter Anna Bess. Seventeen-year-old Violet is still grieving over the death of her beloved twin brother Rush in the war, when her father sets off to fight, after a sudden wedding. But it's new and fresh in many different ways, even aside from the paranormal element that's key to the plot. The Mirk and Midnight Hour by Jane NickersonĪt first you think The Mirk and Midnight Hour (whose title is taken from The Ballad of Tam Lin) is same old, same old - a YA historical in which a young Southern belle falls for a wounded Union soldier. ![]() ![]() When Wiccans powers spiral out of control, the team sets out to find the one. ![]() Acclaimed TV veteran Allan Heinberg and superstar artist Jim Cheung’s complete YOUNG AVENGERS collaborations - in a single Omnibus for the first time! When the original Avengers disband, costumed teens Patriot, Asgardian, Hulkling, Iron Lad, Hawkeye and Stature unite to fill the gap. Twin brothers Wiccan and Speed of the Young Avengers are boys without a past. ![]() ![]() Just curious, what did you like about it that it changed your life. I saw that movie, I thought it was very good. Technology created the problem but it's also ultimately the solution. ![]() How do you break the curse? Herbert's answer is 'technology'. So it's very much a story of hydraulic despotism, of the natural resource curse. Paul recognized first that Dune is not merely a central position worth holding, but _the_ source of power in that universe, control over Dune means control over the universe. Fremen culture has been shaped by the oracles, their religion, traditions and prophecies were planted to suit the aims of the oracles. Paul Atreides is not merely a "white man who fulfils a persistent colonial fantasy", he didn't arrive in a vacuum. The central theme as I'd see it is the domination of humans by 'oracles' - creatures with access to resources that dominate by both predicting and shaping the future. The first 3 (including Dune) explore the Muad'Dib's rise to power and his new imperial system, book 4 is his son's very long reign and books 5-6 explore the dissolution of that system over the centuries. ![]() Dune is a fine work and stands on its own pretty well, but Kunzru gets fixated on the first one and misses out on the depth of the latter books. ![]() |