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This new translation offers fresh insight into a cornerstone of political thought, which is further illuminated by a comprehensive introduction and notes.Ībout the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Also included in this edition is Rousseau's Discourse on Political Economy," a key transitional work between his Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract. Rousseau's concepts of "the general will" as a mode of self-interest uniting for a common good, and the submission of the individual to government by contract inform the heart of democracy, and stand as its most contentious components today. Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. He owns a video store called Max Overdrive that has recently begun selling magically procured versions of films that never came to be, like David Lynch's version of Return of the Jedi. He spent years in Hell, fighting demons in the Devil's own gladiator pits. But it also had brains, guts and a deliciously blackened heart.Īcross six novels, James Stark, aka Sandman Slim - a self-described "mangy nephilim" - has wormed his way into my flimsy excuse for a soul. It boasted all the requisites of an urban fantasy: Magic, demons, vampires and a half-human/half-angel protagonist. But Sandman Slim instantly gripped me in a way no other urban fantasy had. Granted, Kadrey wasn't the first to do this Jim Butcher's massively popular Dresden Files series helped pave the way a few years earlier. It was urban fantasy mixed with hard-boiled detective fiction. Unlike Metrophage, though, Sandman Slim wasn't cyberpunk. Turns out Kadrey wrote Metrophage - a book I'd heard about but never actually got around to reading - back in the '80s, during the golden age of cyberpunk. Six years ago I picked up a book called Sandman Slim by an author, Richard Kadrey, whose name was only vaguely familiar to me. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Killing Pretty Author Richard Kadrey Martin graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in English. She lived in various foreign capitals as a child, as her father, a United Nations economist, was frequently transferred. Martin spent a significant part of her childhood in Washington, where she still lives and works, graduating from Jackson-Reed High School Class of 1955. Jacob married Helen Aronson in 1935, and they moved to Washington, D.C., where Martin was born in 1938. In 1925, he received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, in economics. He immigrated to the United States in 1912. Her father was born in 1898 in Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Poland. Martin is the daughter of Helen and Jacob Perlman, both Jewish. Judith Martin (née Perlman born Septem), better known by the pen name Miss Manners, is an American columnist, author, and etiquette authority. She pleaded her mother to dress her up in boys clothing and let her go to the University of Mexico, but she refused on account of her age. She would often punish herself for not learning fast enough by cutting off her hair. She learned to read before the age of three. Juana learned with great ease and triumphed in anything she did. It was her grandfather who inspired her to seek intelligence. Her father was always absent from her life. She was born to an illiterate mother who ran her own hacienda. Juana Ramirez de Asbaje was born in Mexico in the year 1648. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in her library Miguel Cabrera via Wikimedia Commons Juana defended her right to knowledge and she made sure that her ideas were made known to everyone. When she was told to be quiet, she would not back down. Juana broke this silence that was expected of her and made a yell that rocked a nation. She made a deep impact in the world, by being a female intellectual in a world where most women led a life of servitude and silence. Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz is one of them. To overcome the obstacles that are put in your way to victory is to triumph. To rise above this is to go beyond what is expected of you. It takes great inner strength to become someone in a world where you are oppressed and looked down upon by those who hate you or envy you. They fight for what is right, even if they are persecuted and silenced. Heroes are people who often go against what is expected of them. Adolf Hitler had Salten's books banned in 1936. Life in Austria became perilous for a prominent Jew in the 1930s. Disney released its movie based on Bambi in 1942. In 1933, he sold the film rights to Sidney Franklin for $1,000, who later transferred the rights to the Walt Disney studios. It was translated into English in 1928 and became a Book-of-the-Month Club hit. His most famous work is Bambi, which he wrote in 1923. In 1927 he became president of the Austrian P.E.N. He wrote film scripts and librettos for operettas. He also wrote for nearly all the major newspapers of Vienna. He was soon publishing, on an average, one book a year, of plays, short stories, novels, travel books, and essay collections. In 1900 he published his first collection of short stories. In 1901 he founded Vienna's first, short-lived literary cabaret. He became part of the Young Vienna movement (Jung Wien) and soon received work as a full-time art and theater critic in the Vienna press. He also began submitting poems and book reviews to journals. When his father went bankrupt, Felix had to quit school and begin working in an insurance agency. Many Jews were immigrating into the city in the late 19th century because Vienna had finally granted full citizenship to Jews in 1867. When he was three weeks old, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. He was born Siegmund Salzmann in Budapest, Hungary. There is more than one author with this Name.įelix Salten was an Austrian writer. Definitely picking this one up! And, with variants covers from New Mutant alumni Bob Mcleod and new kid/mutant on the block, Martin Simmonds, who’s own style certainly complements that of Sienkiewicz. Here’s a preview of this week’s issue and I am immediately transported back to another age. The return of Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz to The New Mutants with The New Mutants: War Child #1 taking a look back at a never-before-told story set in the era of the original series. 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