About the BookA live video was shared on social media when Mike Brown was murdered that I have not seen since the day it was shared.I saw the officer shoot him in the head after he was already laid out on the ground from being shot while running away. This heartless treatment could not have been committed upon an unarmed human being who was seen as a person, like a neighbor or even just a familiar face from the neighborhood. What or who did the police and the county prosecuto...

Pemberton traces the early lives of the Terry sisters, each of whom pursued acting at a young age. Ellen, the most famous, became one of England's leading actresses, celebrated for her Shakespearean roles alongside Sir Henry Irving. The book explores her magnetic presence on stage, her collaborations with Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, and her ability to bring deep emotional resonance to her performances, which captivated audiences and critics alike. Pemberton also provides insights into El...

Freezing a Mother-in-Law is a light-hearted one-act farce by T. Edgar Pemberton that explores the humorous tensions and misunderstandings within family relationships. The play centers on a young couple dealing with the overbearing presence of the husband's mother-in-law, whose meddling and domineering behavior create comedic conflict.The story takes an absurd turn when a misunderstanding leads to a plan to "freeze" the mother-in-law—both metaphorically and literally. This outrageous scheme...

I know that to the majority of people who merely regard the theatre as a place for occasional recreation, it is a subject for amazement that others can exist who, not belonging to the theatrical profession, take an absorbing and lasting interest in the stage, and in those actors and actresses who have made its past history glorious, as well as in the artists who adorn and make it a delight in the present. I wonder how many of us truly realise the weight of Charles Dickens's words: "If any ...

In "Freezing a Mother-in-Law; or, Suspended Animation: A Farce in One Act," T. Edgar Pemberton deftly crafts a comedic narrative that dissects familial tensions and societal norms through the lens of farce. The play unfolds in a single act, employing sharp wit and clever dialogue to explore the absurdities inherent in domestic relationships, particularly those relating to in-laws. The literary style is characterized by humorous wordplay and exaggerated situations, reflecting the Victorian ...

In "Freezing a Mother-in-Law; or, Suspended Animation: A Farce in One Act," T. Edgar Pemberton crafts a clever comedic narrative that artfully blends elements of farce with social commentary. The play unfolds in a single act, allowing for intense character dynamics and rapid-paced wit. Drawing on the theatrical conventions of the late 19th century, Pemberton employs exaggerated situations and misunderstandings to illustrate familial tensions and societal norms surrounding marriage and auth...

One of Mormondom’s premier poets came from a stone tenement in the slums of Glasgow. Taking readers back to John’s early years, the book recreates early nineteenth-century Scotland, providing an analysis of the social milieu in which he existed, interspersed with autobiographical accounts of his own youthful experiences, including the death of his father, John’s apprenticeship to a weaver at age nine, and his efforts at self-education. As his story continues, we see his bright hopes become re...

The Willie Handcart Company offers new insights into the experiences of this group, which sailed from Liverpool, England, in May 1856 and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley five months later. With limited funds and resources, these faithful Latter-day Saints pulled their belongings in handcarts over the Mormon Trail and endured some of the most severe hardships of all those who gathered to Zion.On September 7, for example, after the best oxen were lost in a stampede, flour wa...

Nicotine is the major factor in the continuation of the smoking habit among humans. On December 2-4, 1985, under the sponsorship of the Tobacco and Health Research Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, leading scientists from around the world whose research efforts have focused on the role of nicotine in the tobacco habit participated in an International Symposium to provide the most comprehensive and ~xtensive coverage of this topic so far. The material discussed was in the forefront of man's...

REAL LIFE CLINICAL CASES FOR THE COURSE EXAMS AND USMLE STEP 1"This extremely useful book reinforces the relationship between basic science and clinical medicine for students. It will help them either review or learn basic physiology as it applies to medicine, which should strengthen their diagnostic and therapeutic skills. 3 Stars."--Doody's Review ServiceYou need exposure to clinical cases to pass course exams and ace the USMLE Step 1. Case F...

These lectures will not be concerned with history as a record of wars and political changes; they will have little to tell of battles, murders, and sudden deaths. Instead, we shall try to discover and throw light on the cyclic movements of the Human Spirit. Back of all phenomena, or the outward show of things, there is always a noumenon in the unseen. Behind the phenomena of human history, the noumenon is the Human Spirit, moving in accordance with its own necessities and cyclic laws. We m...

The truth is, that ye ken naething about our hill country, or Hielands as we ca’ them. They’re a kind of wild world by themselves, full of heights and howes, caverns, lochs, rivers and mountains, that it would tire the very deevil’s wings to flee to the tap of them. And the folk are clean anither set frae the likes of huz; there’s nae bailie-courts amang them—nae magistrates that dinna bear the sword in vain. Never another law hae they but the length of their dirks; the broad-sword’s pursu...