David has taught history and other subjects at the university, college and high school levels, and has received numerous teaching awards and recognitions.ĭavid is President of the International Napoleonic Society, having served as Executive Vice-President and Editor-in-Chief from 1996 until 2008. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Olympia, Washington, USA. His other interests include Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar/Ancient Rome, and the French Revolution. For over twenty years he has written and lectured about Napoleon and other historical topics. David Markham is an internationally acclaimed historian, Napoleonic scholar and award-winning author.
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The Hamilton cast recording spent 10 weeks atop Billboard 's Top Rap Albums chart and became the eleventh-biggest album of the 2010s. It earned the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for a record 16 Tony Awards and won 11, including Miranda's first win for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Miranda gained still wider recognition for writing the script, music, and lyrics for Hamilton, which has been acclaimed as a popular culture phenomenon since its 2015 Broadway premiere. The stage musical was adapted into a film released in June 2021. The production was a critical and commercial success, winning the Tony Award for Best Musical and Tony Award for Best Original Score, and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Miranda made his Broadway debut in 2008 in the musical In the Heights, in which he starred and wrote the music and lyrics. His awards include three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, five Grammy Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, an Annie Award, a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a Pulitzer Prize. He is known for creating the Broadway musicals In the Heights (2005), and Hamilton (2015), and the soundtracks for the animated films Moana (2016), Encanto, and Vivo (both 2021). Lin-Manuel Miranda ( / l ɪ n m æ n ˈ w ɛ l m ɪ ˈ r æ n d ə/ born January 16, 1980) is an American songwriter, actor, singer, filmmaker, and playwright. The chapters are not so much histories of individual rooms but rather act as springboards for exploring particular topics as varied as germs, ice, lighting, the construction of the Eiffel Tower, salt, cotton and much much more. About half of the chapter devoted to the kitchen, for example, is about Mrs Beeton where any number of different stories could have been chosen instead. For this reason, ‘At Home’ felt like quite a quick read in spite of the size of the book because there are some chapters where it feels like Bryson has barely scratched the surface. The book never drags as there is an awful lot of information crammed in from epic amounts of research – the bibliography and index alone take up 68 out of the 700 pages in the book. ‘At Home’ covers an ambitious amount of history without ever being overwhelming or tedious and Bryson’s characteristically dry humour makes it a thoroughly entertaining read. As well as exploring how the modern idea of the home has developed over history both in its architecture and our daily habits, each chapter covers a different room in the house – the kitchen, the dining room, the cellar (even the fusebox) and the stories behind how we live. The subtitle of ‘At Home’ by Bill Bryson is ‘A Short History of Private Life’ – in other words, a history of all aspects of domestic life including eating, cleaning and sleeping and so on. People panic and pray in their desperation to the Machine, but it’s no good: man, the narrator tells us, is ‘dying in the garments that he had woven’. Then the whole communication system shuts down. From there, everything gets worse, with lecturers reassuring everyone that things are sufficient and the population should just carry on without sleep or clean air or light.Įventually, as things descend further, there is, Forster’s narrator tells us, ‘hysterical talk’ of ‘measures’ and ‘provisional dictatorship’. Eventually, just as the population had accepted ‘good enough’ as an acceptable standard for everything in their lives, people come to accept these flaws (such as smelly bath water, imperfect poetry, and sullied music recordings) as part and parcel of their lives.įorster’s narrator tells us that the event which triggered the ‘collapse of humanity’, however, was when people’s beds failed to materialise in their rooms when they were summoned. She starts school at Foxfire, the school for Elvin nobility. She is forced to leave her human family behind and stay with an Elvin couple, Grady and Edaline Ruewen, who later adopt her. He tells her that she is an elf, a race with dozens of genetic-based "special abilities" (her telepathy among them), and she must move to the Lost Cities, a hidden civilization where elves and other fantasy races live. She lives in San Diego, California until a teenager with the same power, Fitz Vacker, contacts her. The series tells the story of Sophie Foster, a twelve-year-old high school senior with the ability to read minds. The seventh book in the series, Flashback, had a first printing of 150,000 copies and Shannon Messenger's three-week tour to promote the book drew crowds of 200-700 people per event. The series first charted following the release of the 5th installment, Lodestar, on the week of November 20, 2016. The first book in the series was an Association for Library Service to Children tween recommended read in 2013. Keeper of the Lost Cities is an upper- middle-grade fantasy series by Shannon Messenger that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of ten weeks. ( November 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please clean it up to conform to a higher standard of quality, and to make it neutral in tone. This article may be written from a fan's point of view, rather than a neutral point of view. |