![]() ![]() ![]() Not that she doesn’t have things to be upset about: Her husband is a brutal bore and she hasn’t had a child yet, which hasn’t kept her husband from having an illegitimate one with Sarah, Manon’s slave. As narrator of this latest from Martin ( Salvation, 2001, etc.), Manon is a daring choice in that she’s little more than a petulant child and her racial attitudes aren’t what we would call enlightened, making her hardly someone to sympathize with. On a sugar plantation in Louisiana sometime before the Civil War, Manon Gaudet sulks about the house, unaware of the tensions building around her. ![]() A slave rebellion is about to erupt, and all one woman can think about is her failing marriage. ![]()
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![]() This promotes the extraction of water from the ultrafiltrate, and allows mammals to live in some of the driest environments on Earth. Mammals produce urea from ammonia, and concentrate the urea in the urine to a high extent. Mammals have even more derived nephrons, which contain an extended loop, called the loop of Henle. Reptiles and birds excrete uric acid, which is a more concentrated form of ammonia. ![]() Ammonia is toxic in the bloodstream, and must be removed. Fish and other primitive vertebrates excrete ammonia as a byproduct of protein reactions. ![]() Vertebrates are the only group to have developed kidneys, which is mostly used to conserve water in terrestrial environments. The glomerulus is the specialized configuration of capillaries within the nephron that make kidneys possible. The ultrafiltrate travels through the various loops of the nephron, where water and important molecules are removed, and into a collecting duct which drains into the bladder. This substance, lacking the blood cells and large molecules in the bloodstream, is known as an ultrafiltrate. Ultrafiltration occurs when blood pressure forces water and other small molecules through tiny gaps in capillary walls. The nephron functions through ultrafiltration. ![]() A nephron is used separate to water, ions and small molecules from the blood, filter out wastes and toxins, and return needed molecules to the blood. A nephron is the basic unit of structure in the kidney. ![]() ![]() ![]() And protection from the undead comes at a cost, one that Arlo is forced to pay when he is stolen by the Prince of Death.Īrlo finds himself tangled in a web of secrecy, family politics and unbridled magic when he comes face to face with the impending doom… his truth. It has been many years since the vampiric disease spread wildly across Darkmourn, making humans a rarity. Forced by the bitter Queen to partake in the Choosing, he discovers a single person who can resist the deadly grace of his touch. Faenir Evelina is scorned for the murder of his family. Especially if the dangers come in the form of elves from a realm beyond that of the human world.Įlf. To uphold the promise he made to his parents, ensuring the protection of his sister from the world and its dangers. Arlo Grey will do anything to fend off the sickness that longs to destroy him. King of Immortal Tithe is a standalone in the Darkmourn Universe. From the bestselling author Ben Alderson comes a fantastical and spicy reimagining of the Hades and Persephone tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() To revitalize history by unifying and humanizing the great body of historical Durant spent over forty years writing the critically acclaimed eleven-volume Story of Civilization, the later volumes with the help of his wife, Ariel. He sought He and his wife were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, and he was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. ![]() Will Durant (1885–1981) was an award-winning American writer, historian, and philosopher. “Their gifts are accuracy, clarity, and the organization of a huge amount of material into a lively narrative.” The birth of Romanticism and the dawning of a new age ofĪctive democracy and a rising middle class, laying the foundation for a new Russia, his exile to Elba, his escape and reconquest of the throne, and his ultimate defeatĪt Waterloo by the combined forces of Europe Napoleon’s fall-his army’s destruction in the snows of Military student to emperor and commander of the largest army in history Napoleon’s meteoric rise-from provincial Corsican Saint-Just-all cut down by the reign of terror they inaugurated The revolution’s leaders Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, The French Revolution-from the storming of the Bastille to ![]() Wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy. The Age of Napoleon, the eleventh and final volume of the Story of Civilization, surveys the amazing chain of events that Civilization by Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant ![]() ![]() ![]() In the course of the past decade, I have drafted, and in part published, a series of topical essays involving Queen Victoria as symbol, as personality, and as actor on the political stage, and this paper constitutes a consideration of yet another facet of her world. Yet, when one reflects on the fact that the best-known wedding and the most traumatic funeral of the twentieth century both involved the British monarchy in a very immediate fashion, then one can hardly contend that that institution is of no account in modern cultural history. ![]() ![]() To a surprising degree, indeed, the subject has been left to non-professionals or to non-historians. 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Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: Summer Stage by Meg Mitchell Moore. ![]() ![]() ![]() His fiction freely employs shifting narrative vantages and the stream of consciousnes Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language novelists of the 20th century, and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.īorn in England while his Australian parents were visiting family, White grew up in Sydney before studying at Cambridge. Home again, White published a total of twelve novels, two short story collections, eight plays, as well as a miscellany of non-fiction. The pair returned to Australia after the war. Publishing his first two novels to critical acclaim in the UK, White then enlisted to serve in World War II, where he met his lifelong partner, the Greek Manoly Lascaris. 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