![]() Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner. In 1898, Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. For a short time he was active in local politics, serving on the London County Council. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. He wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. In these works Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.Īn ardent socialist, Shaw was angered by what he perceived to be the exploitation of the working class. Nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. ![]() George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. ![]()
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But when we got there and added the type treatment for the title, something just *clicked.* I think somehow the placement of the title makes it feel as though you’re looking through a kind of portal, perhaps. ![]() When I first saw it, I liked it tremendously, but we still had some tweaking to do - don’t get me wrong, the image was gorgeous from the start, but we had to fine-tune it a bit to make sure that London looked futuristic enough, and Russia old-school enough, without the images being too busy. Let’s start with the elephant in the room: how to die for is the cover for this book? What did you think when you first saw it? A time and space thriller packed with action, danger and romance, A Thousand Pieces of You is one of our most anticipated books of the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Such convulsions of piety, they will say, are not sane. To some readers I may consequently seem, before they get beyond the middle of the book, to offer a caricature of the subject. 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At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our vocabulary needs expand way beyond “happy”, “angry” and “sad,” which are most people’s go-to words when describing their feelings.Īs humans, we all have many different emotions every day so this book is extremely relatable. A term from the coaching world that I’ve always liked came to mind when I was reading about this book: “Name it to tame it.” When we can name our feelings it helps to tame it, or feel more control over it. When we can label our emotions and identify them properly, we’re more equipped to have effective conversations and find constructive ways to feel better. The main purpose of this book, and the research she did for it, is to help people to build up and expand their language around emotion. ![]() jealousy) and explains how they can be misused. 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