Question: Who is the author of Alice?

Answer: Judith Hermann

Melanie Benjamin (author)

New American Library in 2007. In addition to her two contemporary novels, Melanie also contributed an essay to the anthology IT'S A BOY and maintained a popular mom blog called The Refrigerator Door. Under the pen name Melanie Benjamin (a combination of her first name and her son's first name), she shifted genres to historical fiction. Her third novel, Alice I Have Been, was inspired by Alice Liddell Hargreaves's life. Published in 2010 by Delacorte Press, Alice I Have Been was a national bestseller and reached the extended list of The New York Times Best Seller list. In 2011, Benjamin fictionalized another historical female. Her novel The

New Adventures of Alice

New Adventures of Alice is a novel by John Rae, written in 1917 and published by P. F. Volland of Chicago. It is, according to Carolyn Sigler, one of the more important "Alice imitations", or novels inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice books. The book opens with a little girl, Betsy, wishing for another Alice book. She passes into a dream, and finds in the attic a book which begins with Alice reading Mother Goose rhymes to her kittens, leading to further adventures. The book features black-and-white line drawings as well as colour plates by the author, who was known for his portraits of Carl Sandburg and Albert Einstein.

Go Ask Alice

Although Go Ask Alice has been credited to an anonymous author since its publication, and was originally promoted as the real, albeit edited, diary of a real teenage girl, over time the book has come to be regarded by researchers as a fake memoir written by Beatrice Sparks,      possibly with the help of one or more co-authors. Despite significant evidence of Sparks' authorship, a percentage of readers and educators have continued to believe that the book is a true-life account of a teenage girl.

Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive escapism. Attributed to "Anonymous", the book is in diary form, and was originally presented as being the edited "real diary" of the unnamed teenage protagonist. Questions about the book's authenticity and true authorship began to arise in the late 1970s, and Beatrice Sparks it is now generally viewed as the author of the found manuscript-styled fictional document. A therapist, Sparks went on to write numerous other books purporting to be real diaries of troubled teenagers. Some sources have also named Linda Glovach as a co-author of the book. Nevertheless, its

Go Ask Alice

In a 1998 New York Times book review, Mark Oppenheimer suggested that Go Ask Alice had at least one author besides Sparks. He identified Linda Glovach, an author of young-adult novels, as "one of the 'preparers'—let's call them forgers—of Go Ask Alice", although he did not give his source for this claim. Publishers Weekly, in a review of Glovach's 1998 novel Beauty Queen (which told the story, in diary form, of a 19-year-old girl addicted to heroin), also stated that Glovach was "a co-author of Go Ask Alice".

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems "Jabberwocky" (1871) and "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense.

Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher. Alice Liddell, the daughter of Christ Church's dean Henry Liddell, is widely identified as the original inspiration for "Alice in Wonderland", though Carroll always denied this.

An avid puzzler, Carroll created the word ladder puzzle (which he then called "Doublets"), which he published in his weekly column for "Vanity Fair" magazine between 1879 and 1881. In 1982 a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works.

Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel "The Color Purple". Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry. She has faced criticism for alleged antisemitism and for her endorsement of the conspiracist David Icke.

Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold (born September 6, 1963) is an American author. She is known for her novels "The Lovely Bones" and "The Almost Moon", and a memoir, "Lucky". "The Lovely Bones" was on "The New York Times" Best Seller list and was adapted into a film by the same name in 2010. Her memoir, "Lucky", sold over a million copies and describes her experience in her first year at Syracuse University, when she was raped. Anthony Broadwater, who was incorrectly identified as the perpetrator by Sebold (and via a faulty method of hair analysis), ultimately served 16 years in prison. He was exonerated in 2021, after a judge found serious issues with the original conviction.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.

It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.<ref name="Time"/><ref name="published"/> It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating a new era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her given name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knew.

The book has never been out of print and has been translated into 174 languages. Its legacy covers adaptations for screen, radio, art, ballet, opera, musicals, theme parks, board games and video games.<ref name="Alice industry"/> Carroll published a sequel in 1871 entitled "Through the Looking-Glass" and a shortened version for young children, "The Nursery "Alice"", in 1890.

Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro (; ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."

Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction", or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov." Munro has received many literary accolades, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the contemporary short story",

Works based on Alice in Wonderland

descendant of Alice Liddel, Alyssa Gardner, who finds out the truth about the dark secrets of Wonderland. (ISBN: 1419704281) ; 2015 – The Chronicles of Alice horror trilogy by Christina Henry Alice (2015) (ISBN: 9780425266793), Red Queen (2016) (ISBN: 978-0425266809), Looking Glass (2020) (ISBN: 9781984805638) ; 2015 – After Alice by Gregory Maguire (ISBN: 978-0060548957) ; 2015 - Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland (2015, Snowbooks, ISBN: 978-1909679597) ; 2017 – The Secret Way of Alice by Travis Arias, is an introduction to the process of spiritual development in the form of commentaries and explanations of the ideas, symbols and characters found in Lewis Carroll's “Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland”.

Alice (name)

Alice Adams (1926–1999), American author ; Alice Albinia (born 1976), author ; Alice Birch, British playwright and screenwriter ; Alice Cary (1820–1871), poet ; Alice Childress (1916–1994), American novelist and playwright ; Alice Arnold Crawford (1850–1874), American poet ; Alice Turner Curtis (1860–1958), American writer ; Alice Williams Brotherton (1848–1930), American writer ; Alice May Douglas (1865–1943), American poet, author, editor ; Alice Flowerdew (1759–1830), English teacher, hymnwriter, religious poet ; Alice Fulton (born 1952), poet and author ; Alice Greenwood (1862–1935), British historian, teacher and writer ; Alice Hoffman, author of Practical Magic ; Alice Emma Ives (1876–1930), American dramatist, journalist ; Alice Eleanor Jones (1916–1981), American science fiction writer and journalist ; Alice MacDonell (1854–1938), Scottish poet ; Alice Marriott

The Alice B Readers Award

Jae (author) ; Malinda Lo ; Caren J. Werlinger

Alice Becker-Ho

Alice Becker-Ho (also Alice Debord) (Born August 6, 1941), is the author of Les Princes du Jargon (Paris: Gallimard, 1993), as well as numerous works of poetry.

Alice and the Lost Novel

Alice and The Lost Novel is a 1929 collection of two essays by American author Sherwood Anderson. The book was first published in a limited edition of 530 copies by London publisher Elkin Mathews and Marrot. It consists of two autobiographical pieces.

Alice Oseman

Alice May Oseman (born 16 October 1994) is an English author of young adult fiction. They secured their first publishing deal at 17, and had their first novel, Solitaire, published in 2014. They are also the author of Radio Silence, I Was Born For This, Loveless, and the web comic Heartstopper. Their novels focus on contemporary teenage life in the UK and have received several awards – Inky Awards and United By Pop Awards.

Starting with Alice

Starting With Alice is the first book in the trilogy of prequels of the Alice series written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. It was released on September 1, 2002 and documents the ups and downs of Alice's third-grade year.

Alice Henderson (novelist)

Alice Henderson is an American author currently residing in San Francisco.

Automated Alice

Automated Alice is a fantasy novel by British author Jeff Noon, first published in 1996. The book follows Alice's travels to a future Manchester city populated by Newmonians, Civil Serpents and a vanishing cat. The book was written as both the third book in the Vurt series and the "trequel" to the famous Lewis Carroll books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

Peter Phillips (author)

Alice, Where Art Thou? (Date uncertain) ; Shaggy Dog Story (1980)

A New Alice in the Old Wonderland

A New Alice in the Old Wonderland is a fantasy novel written by Anna M. Richards, illustrated by Anna M. Richards Jr., and published in 1895 by J. B. Lippincott of Philadelphia. According to Carolyn Sigler, it is one of the more important "Alice imitations", or novels inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice books. A New Alice features Alice Lee, an American girl with a coincidental name, visiting Wonderland and meeting all the characters she knows from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). It is illustrated with 67 drawings by the writer's daughter, closely "after" the originals by John Tenniel. The Preface, pp. 5–6 in the first edition,

Robin Stevens (author)

Mystery and Mayhem: Twelve Deliciously Intriguing Mysteries (2016) ; Return to Wonderland: Stories Inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice (2019)

Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

author, because the stories which it was based on had been told spontaneously. In 1933, Anthony Goldschmidt introduced "the modern idea of Carroll as a repressed sexual deviant", theorizing that Alice served as Carroll's representation in the novel; Goldschmidt's influential work, however, may have been meant as a hoax. Regardless, Freudian analysis found in the books symbols of "classic Freudian tropes": "a vaginal rabbit hole and a phallic Alice, an amniotic pool of tears, hysterical mother figures and impotent father figures, threats of decapitation [castration], swift identity changes". Described as "the single greatest rival of Tenniel," Walt Disney created an influential representation of Alice in his

Alice (novel series)

The Alice novel series, which includes 28 books, has 2.5 million copies in circulation. Naylor’s ability to narrate Alice McKinley’s life as she ages across 28 books is highlighted by Edie Ching, an instructor who specializes in children’s literature at the University of Maryland, who remarks: “The fact that Phyllis could write a series in which her main character went from childhood to adulthood over time — and in each book was fully realized at that particular stage of her life — shows her depth and talent as a writer.” In 2003, the Alice novel series, according to the Baltimore Sun, was the most controversial novel series because of the illicit sexual content. The American Library Association’s list from 2000-2009 states that the books in

Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice was originally published by Prentice Hall in 1971 as the work of an unnamed author "Anonymous". The original edition contained a note signed by "The Editors" that included the statements, "Go Ask Alice is based on the actual diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user....Names, dates, places and certain events have been changed in accordance with the wishes of those concerned." The paperback edition first published in 1972 by Avon Books contained the words "A Real Diary" on the front cover just above the title, and the same words were included on the front covers of some later editions. Upon its publication, almost all contemporary reviewers and the general public


Question: Who is the author of Skin?

Answer: Mo Hayder

Answer: Beatrice Clare Dunkel

Answer: Clare Damaris Bastin

Answer: Candy Davis

Answer: Theo Clare

Answer: Clare Dunkel

Skin (Dekker novel)

Tagline: Don't trust your eyes, at all. Skin is a contemporary Christian fiction science fiction/horror novel released in April 2007 by Ted Dekker. Dekker's novel, Skin was published by Thomas Nelson with the purpose to connect the Circle Trilogy, the Project Showdown books, and an upcoming series of books.

Don De Grazia

Don De Grazia is a professor of Fiction Writing at Columbia College in Chicago, and is the author of the novel American Skin. Prior to publishing his first novel, he worked as a factory worker, bouncer and soldier. He lives in Chicago. American Skin was originally published in the UK in 1998 by Jonathan Cape and in 1999 by Scribner.

Margaret Mascarenhas

She was the author of the novels Skin and The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos. Skin, a diasporic novel, moves from a bar in California to life in a Goan village, and has formed part of post-colonial academic discourse around the world since it was published by Penguin in 2001. Skin has been described as a "story of a contemporary woman who traces her cross-continental family diaspora which originates with the Portuguese slave trade in India in the 17th century." It has been translated into French and Portuguese. The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos was selected for the Indie Next List and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick in 2009. Her poetry and sketch collection, Triage--casualties of love and sex was released in 2013.

Skin and Other Stories

Skin and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Roald Dahl. It was published in 2000 by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Putnam Books. Many of these stories first appeared in the Dahl book, Someone Like You, and also includes the story "The Surgeon", originally published in Playboy magazine in 1986.

Skin Folk

Skin Folk is a story collection by Jamaican-Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson, published in 2001. Winner of the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Story Collection, it was also selected in 2002 for the New York Times Summer Reading List and was one of the New York Times Best Books of the Year.

Skin (short story)

Skin (short story)

"Skin" is a macabre short story written by author Roald Dahl.
It was first published in the May 17, 1952 issue of "The New Yorker", and was later featured in the collections "Someone Like You", published in 1953, and "Skin and Other Stories", published in 2000. It was adapted for television as part of Anglia Television's "Tales of the Unexpected", broadcast on March 8, 1980.

The Skin I'm In

The Skin I'm In

The Skin I'm In is a realistic fiction novel written by Sharon G. Flake. It was published by Hyperion Books on January 3, 2000. It depicts the story of seventh-grader Maleeka Madison who has low self-esteem because of her dark brown skin color. The novel's themes include self-love, self-esteem, the power of friendship, bullying and body image. The anniversary edition was released in October 2018.  In 2021, Sharon Flake published a sister novel, "The Life I'm In", following the character Charlese Jones.

Black Skin, White Masks

Black Skin, White Masks

Black Skin, White Masks () is a 1952 book by philosopher Frantz Fanon. The book is written in the style of autoethnography, in which Fanon shares his own experiences while presenting a historical critique of the effects of racism and dehumanization, inherent in situations of colonial domination, on the human psyche. There is a double process that is economic and internalized through the epidermalization of inferiority.

The violent overtones in Fanon can be broken down into two categories: The violence of the colonizer through annihilation of body, psyche, culture, along with the demarcation of space. And secondly the violence of the colonized as an attempt to retrieve dignity, sense of self, and history through anti-colonial struggle.

Anthropodermic bibliopegy

Anthropodermic bibliopegy

Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. , The Anthropodermic Book Project has examined 31 out of 50 books in public institutions supposed to have anthropodermic bindings, of which 18 have been confirmed as human and 13 have been demonstrated to be animal leather instead.

Skin in the Game (book)

Skin in the Game (book)

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (acronymed: SITG) is a 2018 nonfiction book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former options trader with a background in the mathematics of probability and statistics.

Taleb's thesis is that skin in the game—i.e., having a measurable risk when taking a major decision—is necessary for fairness, commercial efficiency, and risk management, as well as being necessary to understand the world. The book is part of Taleb's multi-volume philosophical essay on uncertainty, titled the "Incerto", which also includes "Fooled by Randomness" (2001), "" (2007–2010), "The Bed of Procrustes" (2010–2016), and "Antifragile" (2012). The book is dedicated to "two men of courage": Ron Paul, "a Roman among Greeks"; and Ralph Nader, "Greco-Phoenician saint".

Skin (Hayder novel)

Skin (2009) is a novel by British writer Mo Hayder. The novel is the fourth to feature her series character Jack Caffery.

Skin in the Game (book)

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (acronymed: SITG) is a 2018 nonfiction book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former options trader with a background in the mathematics of probability and statistics. Taleb's thesis is that skin in the game—i.e., having a measurable risk when taking a major decision—is necessary for fairness, commercial efficiency, and risk management, as well as being necessary to understand the world. The book is part of Taleb's multi-volume philosophical essay on uncertainty, titled the Incerto, which also includes Fooled by Randomness (2001), The Black Swan (2007–2010), The Bed of Procrustes (2010–2016), and Antifragile (2012). The book is dedicated to "two men of courage": Ron Paul, "a Roman among Greeks"; and Ralph Nader, "Greco-Phoenician saint".

Skinned (novel)

Fellow YA fiction author Scott Westerfield said Wasserman's debut novel was "A spell-binding story about loss, rebirth, and finding out who we really are inside...intense and moving."

The Third Skin

The Third Skin is a 1954 thriller novel by the British writer John Bingham. It was released in the United States three years later in 1957, published by Dodd Mead with an alternative title Murder Is a Witch.

Michail Paweletz

Dayan Kodua (publisher), Susanne Dorn (author): My Black Skin: Schwarz. Erfolgreich. Deutsch. Verlag seltmann+söhne, Berlin/ Lüdenscheid 2014, ISBN: 978-3-944721-00-2.

The Skin We're In (book)

A magazine article that partly inspired The Skin We're In.

Bare Skin

Bare Skin (Gola koža) is a bestseller novel by Zlatko Topčić, published in 2004. Topčić also wrote the drama of the same name (2007) and the screenplay for the multiple award-winning feature film The Abandoned (2010; working title: Bare Skin), about the same theme.

C.E. Poverman

“Poverman takes us to new places, new cities of the imagination. He is adept, surprising, sometimes harsh, and frequently very funny—a real discovery. In 1977, he took a position at the University of Arizona at Tucson and published his first novel, Susan, with Viking. In 1980, he published his second novel, Solomon's Daughter, also with Viking. That same year he married the photographer Linda Fry. Their son, Dana, was born in 1983 and their daughter, Marisa, in 1987. In 1986, he published his third novel My Father in Dreams. Poverman’s second story collection, Skin was published in 1992. In the Winter 1992 issue of The Georgia Review, Greg Johnson wrote that Skin

Second Skin (adventure book)

Second Skin is a BBC Books story adventure book written by Richard Dungworth and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Tenth Doctor. This is part of the Decide Your Destiny series which makes you choose what happens in the books.

Under the Skin (novel)

Under the Skin is a 2000 science fiction novel by Michel Faber. Set in northern Scotland, it traces an extraterrestrial who, manifesting in human form, drives around the countryside picking up male hitchhikers whom she drugs and delivers to her home planet. The novel, which was Faber's debut, was shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Award. It was later loosely adapted into a 2013 film of the same name directed by Jonathan Glazer.

Leo Rubinfien

Shomei Tomatsu / Skin of the Nation. 2004. Rubinfien was co-author. ; Garry Winogrand. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yale University, 2013. Rubinfien was editor and Author. Photographs by Garry Winogrand.

Chris Spence (educator)

Skin I'm in: Racism, Sports and Education (Fernwood Publishing Company, 2000, ISBN: 978-1-55266-017-1) ; On Time! On Task! On a Mission! (Fernwood Publishing Company, 2002, ISBN: 978-1-55266-094-2).

Metal Skin

The novelisation of Metal Skin was written by Jocelyn Harewood and published by Text Publishing in 1995. Harewood follows the film closely however the book explores other sides of the characters: Joe's inner rage at his brain-damaged father and his love for what his father has been; Savina's destructive witchcraft; Dazey's moments of self-awareness and higher motives. It was published as an e-book in November 2012 and made available on Harewood's website.

Emergency Skin

Emergency Skin is a science-fiction novelette written by N. K. Jemisin. The story was first published by Amazon Original Stories as part of the Forward short fiction collection in September 2019. The story was well received, and it was awarded a Hugo Award, an Audie Award (for the audiobook), and an Ignyte Award in 2020.

The Skin We're In (book)

The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power is a book by Desmond Cole published by Doubleday Canada in 2020. The Skin We're In describes the struggle against racism in Canada during the year 2017, chronicling Cole's role as an anti-racist activist and the impact of systemic racism in Canadian society. Among the events it discusses are the aftermath of the assault of Dafonte Miller in late 2016 and Canada 150. The work argues that Canada is not immune to the anti-Black racism that characterizes American society. Due to an error by the publisher, the initial printing of the book's cover did not include word "Black" in the subtitle. The mistake was later corrected. The book won the Toronto Book Award for 2020. In 2021, the book was nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.


Question: Who is the author of The Techniques of Democracy?

Answer: Herbert Croly

Answer: Herbert David Croly

Liu Yu (political scientist)

In 2009, Liu published Details of Democracy, a collection of essays originally written for her blog on the subject of American democracy. The book aspired to introduce the daily mechanisms of democracy to a Chinese audience, explaining processes such as the passing of bills and the practice of labour strikes from a relatable position of stories and anecdotes, rather than "abstract jargon". Details of Democracy became a bestseller and made Liu famous, gaining her a reputation as "China's de Tocqueville". It became a cornerstone of Chinese liberal thought, respected for its open support of democracy couched in "creative allusions, roundabout references, and ironic wit" to avoid

Dirk Berg-Schlosser

SAGE Handbook of Political Science (ed. with Bertrand Badie and Leonardo Morlino), 3 vol., SAGE, London, 2020. ; Political Science – A Global Perspective (with Bertrand Badie and Leonardo Morlino), SAGE, London, 2017. ; Mixed Methods in Comparative Politics, Palgrave, 2012. ; International Encyclopedia of Political Science (ed. with Bertrand Badie and Leonardo Morlino), 8 vol., SAGE, Los Angeles, 2011. ; Aktuelle Methoden der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft (with Lasse Cronqvist), Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen, 2011. ; Democratization – The State of the Art (ed.), Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen & Farmington Hills, 2nd ed., 2007. ; Poverty and Democracy (with Norbert Kersting), ZED Books, London, 2003. ; Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft,

Frank M. Bryan

Bill Kauffman has called Bryan's book Real Democracy "the definitive work on town meeting," and has written that: Bryan was a legendary character at the University of Vermont, where he taught political science: he is the horny-handed son of toil who does regression analysis, the regular-guy intellectual who prefers the company of “working-class people ... the old Vermonters.” The irrepressible Bryan has made a major contribution to his field (and his country, which is Vermont) with Real Democracy (University of Chicago Press), his magnum opus, the most searching and sympathetic book ever written about the town-meeting democracy of New England. The book is a veritable four-leaf clover of academia: a witty work of political science written from a defiantly rural populist point of view. Some of his other books include All Those In Favor: Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community, The Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale (with John McClaughry), ''OUT! The Vermont Secession Book (with Bill Mares), and Real Vermonters Don't Milk Goats''.

Christopher Phillips

of after reading an article about Sautet while teaching in the Mississippi Delta. In his penultimate book "Constitution Café", Phillips details a journey across the US promoting discussions with a version of the Socratic Method that he developed for the Socrates Cafés, combined with the Jeffersonian idea of democratic freedom and inclusiveness. He has since worked on the Declaration Project, a comprehensive collection of declarations of independence, causes, rights, and principles from across the ages and continents, as well as the Constitutional Cafe and the Democracy Cafe initiatives that discuss constitutional changes in the United States. Phillips also founded a for-profit consulting service, Socrates Group.

Daniel Ziblatt

Daniel Ziblatt (born 1972) is an American political scientist and a professor at Harvard University with a research focus on comparative politics, democracy and democratization as well as the politics and political history of Western Europe. Since 2018 he has been Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of the book Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy. In 2018, Ziblatt also published How Democracies Die with fellow Harvard professor Steven Levitsky. The book examines the conditions that can lead democracies to break down from within, rather than due to external events such as military coups or foreign invasions. How Democracies Die received widespread praise. It spent a number of weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and six weeks on the non-fiction bestseller list of the German weekly Der Spiegel. The book was recognized as one of the best nonfiction books of 2018 by The Washington Post, Time, and Foreign Affairs.

Deliberative democracy

Deliberative democracy

Deliberative democracy or discursive democracy is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision-making. It adopts elements of both consensus decision-making and majority rule. Deliberative democracy differs from traditional democratic theory in that authentic deliberation, not mere voting, is the primary source of legitimacy for the law. Deliberative democracy is closely related to consultative democracy, in which public consultation with citizens is central to democratic processes.

While deliberative democracy is generally seen as some form of an amalgam of representative democracy and direct democracy, the actual relationship is usually open to dispute. Some practitioners and theorists use the term to encompass representative bodies whose members authentically and practically deliberate on legislation without unequal distributions of power, while others use the term exclusively to refer to decision-making directly by lay citizens, as in direct democracy.

The term "deliberative democracy" was originally coined by Joseph M. Bessette in his 1980 work "Deliberative Democracy: The Majority Principle in Republican Government".

Democratic socialism

John Dewey

John Dewey

John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

The overriding theme of Dewey's works was his profound belief in democracy, be it in politics, education, or communication and journalism. As Dewey himself stated in 1888, while still at the University of Michigan, "Democracy and the one, ultimate, ethical ideal of humanity are to my mind synonymous." Dewey considered two fundamental elements—schools and civil society—to be major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality. He asserted that complete democracy was to be obtained not just by extending voting rights but also by ensuring that there exists a fully formed public opinion, accomplished by communication among citizens, experts and politicians, with the latter being accountable for the policies they adopt.

Dewey was one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the fathers of functional psychology. His paper "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology," published in 1896, is regarded as the first major work in the (Chicago) functionalist school of psychology. A "Review of General Psychology" survey, published in 2002, ranked Dewey as the 93rd-most-cited psychologist of the 20th century.

Dewey was also a major educational reformer for the 20th century. While a professor at the University of Chicago, he founded the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to apply and test his progressive ideas on pedagogical method. Although Dewey is known best for his publications about education, he also wrote about many other topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, art, logic, social theory, and ethics.

Participatory democracy

Participatory democracy

Participatory democracy, participant democracy or participative democracy is a form of government in which citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies that affect their lives, rather than through elected representatives. Elements of direct and representative democracy are combined in this model.

Laboratories of democracy

Laboratories of democracy

Laboratories of democracy is a phrase popularized by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in "New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann" to describe how "a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." Brandeis was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

This concept explains how within the federal framework, there exists a system of state autonomy where state and local governments act as social laboratories, where laws and policies are created and tested at the state level of the democratic system, in a manner similar (in theory, at least) to the scientific method. An example today would be the legalization of marijuana in Colorado despite the fact that it is illegal federally.

The Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that "all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." This is a basis for the "laboratories of democracy" concept, because the Tenth Amendment assigns most day-to-day governance responsibilities, including general police power, to the state and local governments. Because there are 50 semi-autonomous states, different policies can be enacted and tested at the state level without directly affecting the entire country. As a result, a diverse patchwork of state-level government practices is created. If any one or more of those policies are successful, they can be expanded to the national level by acts of Congress. For example, the Massachusetts legislature established a health care reform law in 2006 that became the model for the subsequent Affordable Care Act at the national level in 2010, or the various concealed carry state reciprocity agreements that motivated the subsequent proposed federal Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017.

From Dictatorship to Democracy

From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dictatorship and to prevent the rise of a new one. The book was written in 1993 by Gene Sharp (1928-2018), a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts. The book has been published in many countries worldwide and translated into more than 30 languages. Editions in many languages are also published by the Albert Einstein Institution of Boston, Massachusetts. its current primary English-language edition is the Fourth United States Edition, published in May 2010. The book has been circulated worldwide and cited repeatedly as influencing movements such as the Arab Spring of 2010–2012.

Wilson Carey McWilliams

on McWilliams's thought was the book Democracy in America by the French theorist Alexis de Tocqueville, and like Tocqueville, McWilliams commended to modern liberal democracy the arts of association and a chastening form of religious faith. McWilliams was also a prolific essayist, whose works appeared in Commonweal and other journals. His essays on American elections from 1976-1998 were collected in two volumes, The Politics of Disappointment (1995, Chatham House) and Beyond the Politics of Disappointment (2000, Chatham House). In 2011, two edited collections of his essays were published, co-edited by Patrick J. Deneen and his daughter, Susan J. McWilliams. The books were entitled, respectively, Redeeming Democracy in America (University Press of Kansas, 2011) and The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader (University Press of Kentucky, 2011).

Josephat Obi Oguejiofor

Oguejiofor has written and co-written numerous books and journal articles. In 2001, he authored a book, The Philosophical Significance of Immortality in Thomas Aquinas. It was reviewed in The Review of Metaphysics by Leo J. Elders, who wrote, "Much research went into this clear and well-written book and the author shows a good acquaintance with the relevant literature." Oguejiofor has written on the subject of democracy and governance. In one essay, "Democracy and Social Movements: In Search of the Democratic Ideal", he specified three characteristics necessary for democracy to remain feasible in a given society. He wrote that the society must have a system to change the government, that people must be able to vote and to pursue political goals in such a system, and that citizens must feel connected with that system.

Jean-Paul Gagnon

Published by Macero Dominatus in 2007, ‘Mitigating Democracy and ‘A Question on Reason’ critiques international democratic processes. Gagnon uses a mix of political concepts to offer a practical methods to improve the democratic process.

Dirk Berg-Schlosser

Opladen (co-author and co-editor with Ferdinand Müller-Rommel), 4th ed., 2003. ; Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe 1919-39. Comparative Analyses (co-author and co-editor with Jeremy Mitchell), Palgrave, London, 2002. ; Perspectives of Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe (ed. with Raivo Vetik), Columbia University Press, New York, 2001. ; Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft, Verlag C.H. Beck, München, 7th. edition 2003, (with Theo Stammen); Czech edition: Prague, 2000. ; Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919-1939 - Systematic Case Studies (Co-author and co-editor: Jeremy Mitchell), Macmillan, London, 2000. ; Perspektiven der Demokratie - Probleme und Chancen im Zeitalter der Globalisierung (ed. with Hans-Joachim Giegel), Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., 1999. ; Empirische

David Collier (political scientist)

Elman and Henry E. Brady. The Political Methodologist: Newsletter of the Political Methodology Section 11, No. 1 (Fall 2002): 20–21. ; "Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research," with Robert Adcock. American Political Science Review 95, No. 3 (Sept. 2001): 529–46. ; "Regimes and Democracy in Latin America", with Gerardo L. Munck. Special Issue of Studies in Comparative International Development 36, No. 1 (Spring 2001): 3–141. ; "Democracy and Dichotomies: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices about Concepts" Annual Review of Political Science, 1999. ; "Democracy with Adjectives," with Steven Levitsky. World Politics 49, No. 3 (1997): 430-51. ; "Insights and Pitfalls:

Aki Orr

without politicians" can eliminate corruption. Orr wrote and distributed two major works on direct democracy, Politics without Politicians, an outline of the central tenets of direct democracy, and Big Business, Big Government or Direct Democracy: Who Should Shape Society?, a history of the 20th century viewed in terms of the conflict between state and private control of the economy, a conflict that he regarded as the defining feature of the epoch. He argued that a system of direct democracy is the only viable alternative to "big government states" or "big business states", both of which he viewed as oppressive forms of governance.

The Case for Democracy

The Case for Democracy is a foreign policy manifesto written by one-time Soviet political prisoner and former Israeli Member of the Knesset, Natan Sharansky. Sharansky's friend Ron Dermer is the book's co-author. The book achieved the bestsellers lists of the New York Times, Washington Post and Foreign Affairs. In the book, Sharansky and Dermer argue that the primary goal of American foreign policy, as well as that of the free world, should be the expansion of democracy. The book advocates a moral foreign policy based on belief in the universality of freedom and human rights. Sharansky and Dermer argue that nations that respect their citizens will also respect their neighbors. The book is sub-titled, The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror. The authors express passionate and controversial arguments against any compromise on the road to freedom. It has been read and famously endorsed by former United States president George W. Bush. Other members of his administration, including former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have also read the book.

Amy Gutmann

Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 168–199. ; ’’Identity and Democracy: A Synthetic Perspective,’‘ in Ira Katznelson and Helen V. Milner, Political Science: State of the Discipline, W.W. Norton: New York, 2002, pp. 542–567. ; ’’Deliberative Democracy Beyond Process,’‘ with Dennis Thompson, Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2002, pp. 153–174. ; ’’Can Publicly Funded Schools Legitimately Teach Values in a Constitutional Democracy? A Reply to McConnell and Eisgruber,’‘ in S. Macedo and Y. Tamir, eds., Moral and Political Education, New York University Press, 2002, pp. 170–198. ; ’’Civic Minimalism: Cosmopolitanism, and Patriotism: Where Does

John McGowan (professor)

that account of democracy in four subsequent books: the first on Hannah Arendt's productive critique of today's diminished understanding of politics; the second on the role of intellectuals in contemporary society; the third his articulation of the principle values and commitments of the "American liberalism" of FDR and John Dewey, and the fourth his return to the pragmatist philosophical tradition to offer the case for liberal democracy. In all these works, he is concerned with how democracy has been understood and in how it has been lived on the ground. McGowan blogs at his personal website, Public Intelligence. Current Publications include:

Democracy and Totalitarianism

The basis of the book was a series of lectures Aron gave in 1957 and 1958 at Sorbonne University. It is republished in France regularly and has been translated into many languages, including Russian (1993).

Notes on Democracy

Writing for The Saturday Review of Literature Walter Lippmann described the book as a "tremendous polemic" which "destroy[s] by rendering it ridiculous and unfashionable, the democratic tradition of the American pioneers" and likens Notes on Democracy to The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Notes on Democracy

Notes on Democracy is a critique of democracy. The book places political leaders into two categories: the demagogue, who "preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots" and the demaslave, "who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself." Mencken depicts politicians as "men who have sold their honor for their jobs."

Democracy and Its Critics

Democracy and Its Critics is a book in American political science, written by Robert Dahl. The book was published by Yale University Press in 1989. In the following years Democracy and Its Critics won the 1991 Elaine and David Spitz Book Award and the 1990 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award. In the book, Dahl "examines the most basic assumptions of democratic theory, tests them against the questions raised by its critics, and recasts the theory of democracy into a new and coherent whole. He concludes by discussing the directions in which democracy must move if advanced democratic states are to exist in the future."

Ronald Dworkin

; Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006. ; The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc. New York: New York Review Books, 2008. ; Justice for Hedgehogs. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011. ; Religion Without God. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013. The Philosophy of Law (Oxford Readings in Philosophy). Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. ; A Badly Flawed Election: Debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy. Ed. New York: New Press, 2002. ; From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition: Essays in Honor of Janos Kis. Ed. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2004. Author  Editor


Question: Who is the author of Death in Five Boxes?

Answer: John Dickson Carr

Answer: John Carr

Death in Five Boxes

Death in Five Boxes

According to Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor, "As usual, Carter Dickson's plot is extremely complicated and it depends on a variety of gimmicks, most of which are barely plausible. One good one is the method of poisoning the White Lady cocktails without anybody's going near the shaker or the glasses.  For the rest, the dialogue is in the worst style of false excitement and byplay, particularly the part allotted to the egregious Sir Henry Merrivale, who calls everybody "son" and yells "shut up" whenever he is stumped.  The early portion is dull, the middle chaotic, and the end interminable."

Death in Five Boxes

Dr. John Sanders, a serious young forensic scientist, is stopped by a pretty young girl late at night. Marcia Blystone asks him to accompany her to the top floor of a four-story building, to the apartment of Mr. Felix Haye, because she is afraid to go up alone. Before they reach the apartment, he finds an umbrella-swordstick with bloodstains on it, and they are immediately stopped by a clerk from the Anglo-Egyptian Importing Co. Ltd., one floor below Mr. Haye's flat. He mentions grumpily that Haye and his guests have been laughing uproariously and stomping their feet on the floor. When the couple finally enters Haye's flat, they find the host

Death in Five Boxes

all of them, yet someone has managed to poison them. Chief Inspector Masters brings in Sir Henry Merrivale to investigate the bizarre circumstances. At the offices of Charles Drake, Haye's lawyer, they find the evidence of five small boxes, all empty. They are each labeled with a name—the three guests, the clerk, and someone named "Judith Adams", who turns out to be a deceased author who wrote a book on legendary dragons. It takes all Sir Henry's ingenuity to work out the tangle of relationships and motives and reveal not only who stabbed Felix Haye, but also poisoned the cocktails and how—and why Judith Adams is the key to it all.

The Wrong Box (novel)

The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson. The others were The Wrecker (1892) and The Ebb-Tide (1894). Osbourne wrote the first draft of the novel late in 1887 (then called The Finsbury Tontine), Stevenson revised it in 1888 (then called A Game of Bluff) and again in 1889 when it was finally called The Wrong Box. A film adaptation, also titled The Wrong Box, was released in 1966, and a musical in 2002.

Death in Five Boxes

Death in Five Boxes

Death in Five Boxes is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale and his associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters.

1938 in literature

1938 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1938.

Pandora's box

Pandora's box

Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem "Works and Days". Hesiod reported that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing physical and emotional curses upon mankind. Later depictions of the story have been varied, while some literary and artistic treatments have focused more on the contents than on Pandora herself.

The container mentioned in the original account was actually a large storage jar, but the word was later mistranslated. In modern times an idiom has grown from the story meaning "Any source of great and unexpected troubles", or alternatively "A present which seems valuable but which in reality is a curse".

Drop to His Death

Drop to His Death

Drop To His Death (also published under the title "Fatal Descent") is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, who published it under the name of Carter Dickson, in collaboration with John Rhode. It is a locked room mystery.

Carl McCunn

Carl McCunn

Carl McCunn (January 25, 1947 – December 18, 1981) was an American wildlife photographer who became stranded in the Alaskan wilderness and eventually died by suicide when he ran out of supplies.

The Red Box

The Red Box is the fourth Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. Prior to its first publication in 1937 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., the novel was serialized in five issues of The American Magazine (December 1936 – April 1937). Adapted twice for Italian television, The Red Box is the first Nero Wolfe story to be adapted for the American stage.

Jonathan Morris (author)

The Memory Box (2013) ; Death World (2013) ; The Vienna Experience (2015)

The Big Book Of

Published in 1995 and written by Bronwyn Carlton, the Big Book of Death begins by providing the inside story on execution methods — from drawing and quartering to the electric chair. From there it moves on to bizarre suicides, weird deaths, burial methods, and the great beyond. The reader learns the origin of the guillotine, visits cryogenically preserved bodies, and even sees how cheese can be used as a murder weapon.

5

The Famous Five is a series of children's books by British writer Enid Blyton ; The Power of Five is a series of children's books by British writer and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz ; The Fall of Five is a book written under the collective pseudonym Pittacus Lore in the series Lorien Legacies ; The Book of Five Rings is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi circa 1645 ; Slaughterhouse-Five is a book by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II

Death Merchant

Rosenberg wrote two non-fiction books for Paladin Press (Assassination: Theory and Practice and Behavior Modification: The Art of Mind Murdering) with Camellion as the narrator/listed author.

The Devil in Amber

is actively seeking the "Lamb of God", which Sal claims to have found. The meeting is interrupted when Sal Volatile is murdered and Box knocked senseless. On waking, Box discovers that he has been framed for murdering Sal during a lover's quarrel. Percy Flarge informs him that the Royal Academy has ordered that Box is to be given no assistance by their organisation and that Box is to be charged (and presumably executed) for the murder of Sal Volatile. With the assistance of Rex, a gay bellhop who Box initiated during the early chapters, Box boards the Stiffkey, an old tramp freighter

George Pitcher

Pitcher has contributed numerous articles in newspapers and magazines, usually on business topics and public ethics, including The Guardian and the New Statesman. His first novel, A Dark Nativity, was published by Unbound in 2017. His book, A Time To Live: The Case Against Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia was published in July 2010 by Lion Hudson. In 2002, Wiley published his work The Death of Spin, an indictment of the superficiality of business and politics. In 1989, he published The Public Faced: Your Message and the Media with Charles Stewart-Smith, illustrated with the Alex cartoon strip.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet In Heaven is a 2003 novel by Mitch Albom. It follows the life and death of a ride mechanic named Eddie who is killed in an amusement park accident and sent to heaven, where he encounters five people who had a significant impact on him while he was alive. It was published by Hyperion and remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for 95 weeks.

Blackbox (novel)

A stowaway dies on board a flight.

The Monster in the Box

The Monster in the Box is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell, published in 2009. The novel is the 22nd in the Inspector Wexford series.

Walter B. Gibson bibliography

Five Ivory Boxes (1942) ; Death About Town (1942) ; Legacy of Death (1942) ; Judge Lawless (1942) ; The Vampire Murders (1942) ; Clue for Clue (1942) ; Trail of Vengeance (1942) ; The Murdering Ghost (1942) ; The Hydra (1942) ; The Money Master (1942) ; The Museum Murders (1943) ; Death's Masquerade (1943) ; The Devil Monsters (1943) ; Wizard of Crime (1943) ; The Black Dragon (1943) ; The Robot Master (1943) ; Murder Lake (1943) ; Messenger of Death (1943) ; House of Ghosts (1943) ; King of the Black Market (1943) ; The

A Box of Nothing

A Box of Nothing is a novel by Peter Dickinson published in 1985.

Ian Caldwell

Ian Mackinnon Caldwell is an American novelist known for co-authoring the 2004 novel The Rule of Four. His second book, The Fifth Gospel, was published in 2015.

The Famous Five (novel series)

parodies the writing style of Enid Blyton; five children witness the collapse of Roman imperialism and their friends and family are slaughtered by 9000 invading Vikings. Website The Daily Mash reported a lost Blyton manuscript titled "Five Go Deporting Gypsies". A spoof series of five books written by Bruno Vincent was published in November 2016. The books are titled Five Give Up the Booze, Five Go Gluten Free, Five Go On A Strategy Away Day, Five Go Parenting and Five on Brexit Island. Vincent went on to write several more titles in the series: Five at the Office Christmas Party, Five Get Gran Online, Five Get On the Property

Peter Boxall (academic)

Peter Boxall is a British academic and writer. He is Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Sussex. He works on contemporary literature, literary theory and literary modernism. Boxall is notable as the editor of the well-established journal of literary theory, Textual Practice, for his editorship of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and The Oxford History of the Novel, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940, and for his work on contemporary fiction, most notably Twenty-First-Century Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Value of the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2015).


Question: Who is the author of The Wizard in Wonderland?

Answer: Jean Ure

The Wizard in Wonderland

The Wizard in the Wonderland is the 1991 sequel to The Wizard In the Woods and the second book in the wizard trilogy by Jean Ure.

Michael Hague

& Winston, 1985) ; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985) ; A Child's Book of Prayers (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985) ; The Legend of the Veery Bird by Kathleen Hague (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985) ; Numbears: A Counting Book by Kathleen Hague (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1986) ; Out of the Nursery, into the Night by Kathleen Hague (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1986) ; Enchanted World Series ; Seekers and Saviors (1986), vol. 12 ; Fabled Lands (1986), vol. 13 ; Michael Hague's World of Unicorns (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1986), revised as Michael Hague's Magical World of Unicorns

Jane Mendelsohn

make Stephen King’s pages turn.” Kirkus Reviews also praised the book: “Invoking a battery of analogues favoring the pop-culture heroines of Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Lolita, and Halloween, Mendelsohn isolates her plucky heroine so fearfully via sparse paragraphs and an underpeopled world that even the most preposterous threats leap out of the move frame to fuel a shriek of pure paranoia. Must reading for anybody who thinks teenagers today have gotten bloated with entitlement: a scarlet will-o’-the-wisp fantasy in which adults and adulthood aren’t stupid stiffs but agents of unimaginable evil.” American Music, published in 2010, tells the story

John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland is a novel by Charles Geake and Francis Carruthers Gould, written in 1904 and published by Methuen & Co. of London. It is a political parody of Lewis Carroll's two books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). The book features 48 drawings after the originals by John Tenniel which were drawn by Francis Carruthers Gould. It is critical of the economic politics of the day, which John Bull tries to make sense of. A number of notable British politicians are identified in the book. Joseph Chamberlain is the Prefferwense, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, and the Knave of Hearts; Arthur Balfour is the March Hare and Humpy Dumpy; the Earl of Rosebery is Tweedle-R., Henry Campbell-Bannerman is Twee-C.-B., Jesse Collings is the White Rabbit, and the Duke of Devonshire is the Dormouse.

Lewis Carroll

unfinished manuscript to Macmillan the publisher, who liked it immediately. After the possible alternative titles were rejected – Alice Among the Fairies and Alice's Golden Hour – the work was finally published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 under the Lewis Carroll pen-name, which Dodgson had first used some nine years earlier. The illustrations this time were by Sir John Tenniel; Dodgson evidently thought that a published book would need the skills of a professional artist. Annotated versions provide insights into many of the ideas and hidden meanings that are prevalent in these books. Critical literature has often proposed Freudian interpretations of the book as "a descent into the dark world of the

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a tornado. Upon her arrival in Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

The book was first published in the United States in May 1900 by the George M. Hill Company. In January 1901, the publishing company completed printing the first edition, a total of 10,000 copies, which quickly sold out. It had sold three million copies by the time it entered the public domain in 1956. It was often reprinted under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the successful 1902 Broadway musical adaptation as well as the classic 1939 live-action film.

The ground-breaking success of both the original 1900 novel and the 1902 Broadway musical prompted Baum to write thirteen additional Oz books which serve as official sequels to the first story. Over a century later, the book is one of the best-known stories in American literature, and the Library of Congress has declared the work to be "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale."

The Wizard in Wonderland

The Wizard in Wonderland

The Wizard in the Wonderland is the 1991 sequel to "The Wizard In the Woods" and the second book in the wizard trilogy by Jean Ure.

Yellow brick road

Yellow brick road

The yellow brick road is a fictional element in the 1900 children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by American author L. Frank Baum. The road also appears in the several sequel Oz books such as "The Marvelous Land of Oz" (1904) and "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" (1913).

The road's most notable portrayal is in the classic 1939 MGM musical film "The Wizard of Oz", loosely based on Baum's first Oz book. In the novel's first edition the road is mostly referred to as the "Road of Yellow Bricks". In the original story and in later films based on it such as "The Wiz" (1978), Dorothy Gale must find the road before embarking on her journey, as the tornado did not deposit her farmhouse directly in front of it as in the 1939 film.

Tin Woodman

Tin Woodman

Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodman, also known as the Tin Man or—mistakenly—the "Tin Woodsman," is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. Baum's Tin Woodman first appeared in his classic 1900 book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and reappeared in many other subsequent Oz books in the series. In late 19th-century America, men made out of various tin pieces were used in advertising and political cartoons. Baum, who was editing a magazine on decorating shop windows when he wrote "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", was reportedly inspired to invent the Tin Woodman by a figure he had built out of metal parts for a shop display.

Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Political interpretations of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of America in the 1890s. Scholars have examined four quite different versions of Oz: the novel of 1900, the Broadway play of 1902, the Hollywood film of 1939, and the numerous follow-up Oz novels written after 1900 by Baum and others.

The political interpretations focus on the first three, and emphasize the close relationship between the visual images and the story line to the political interests of the day. Biographers report that Baum had been a political activist in the 1890s with a special interest in the money question of gold and silver (bimetallism), and the illustrator William Wallace Denslow was a full-time editorial cartoonist for a major daily newspaper. For the 1902 Broadway production Baum inserted explicit references to prominent political characters such as President Theodore Roosevelt.

The Wizard of the Emerald City

The Wizard of the Emerald City (Волшебник Изумрудного Города) is a 1939 children's novel by Russian writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov. The book is a re-narration of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Baum's name is sometimes credited in the book (in the appendix by Volkov, which is found in some editions, where Volkov describes the origins of his book). The names of most characters are changed, some elements of Baum's novel are removed, and some new elements are added. In 1959 a new edition of the book was published, significantly revised by the author. This edition first featured illustrations by artist L.V. Vladimirsky and became popular in the 1960s, leading to five sequels: Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers (1963), The Seven Underground Kings (1964), The Fiery God of the Marrans (1968), The Yellow Fog (1970), and The

Robin Stevens (author)

Mystery and Mayhem: Twelve Deliciously Intriguing Mysteries (2016) ; Return to Wonderland: Stories Inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice (2019)

Laura Miller (writer)

In 1995, Miller helped to co-found Salon.com and in 2000 she edited The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors with Adam Begley. In 2008 she authored The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia, a book about C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series, her enchantment with it as a child, and her disenchantment with it as an adult after realizing its heavy use of religious themes. In 2016, Miller edited Literary Wonderlands, a literary encyclopedia chronicling the history of fiction. Currently she is Slate's Books and Culture columnist.

A Scientist in Wonderland

A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble is an autobiography by Edzard Ernst. Ernst writes about being a homeopathic patient in childhood and, later, a homeopathic practitioner. His doubts about the practice eventually lead him to reject it, and he becomes an outspoken critic of the alternative modality.

Scott Meyer (author)

Magic 2.0 is a comic fantasy series of books written by Scott Meyer. The series so far consists of six novels, “Off to Be the Wizard”, “Spell or High Water”, “An Unwelcome Quest”, “Fight and Flight”, “Out of Spite, Out of Mind”, and "The Vexed Generation" which were published by publisher 47North. The series follows Martin Banks, a programmer from 2012, who uses a computer file that allows him to alter reality to time travel to medieval England where he joins a community of other computer programmers posing as wizards.

Gerald Duckworth

In 1898, Duckworth founded the publishing company which bears his name, Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd, in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. In his first year, 1898–1899, he published Henry James's In the Cage; Leslie Stephen's English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century; Jocelyn by John Sinjohn, a pseudonym of John Galsworthy; a translation of August Strindberg's Der Vater; and Mother Goose in Prose, the first children's book by L. Frank Baum, and the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. (Baum's most famous work, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was published in Chicago a year later.) Edward Garnett (whose son David would marry Duckworth's niece Angelica Bell) was Duckworth's reader for nearly twenty years. The firm published W. H. Hudson, Charles M. Doughty, D. H. Lawrence,

Tim Burton's unrealized projects

Stage adaptation Walt Disney Theatrical was in early talks with Burton and screenwriter Linda Woolverton to develop Alice in Wonderland as a Broadway musical. Woolverton authored the screenplay for Disney's The Lion King and is also the Tony Award-nominated book writer of Beauty and the Beast, Aida, and Lestat. Burton would have also rendered the overall designs for the stage musical. Woolverton would have adapted her screenplay for the stage production. Direction and choreography would have been done by Rob Ashford. The musical was aiming to make its world-premiere in London.

List of fantasy authors

Moon ; Lewis Carroll, (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 1832–1898) author of Alice in Wonderland ; Angela Carter, (1940–1992) author of Shadow Dance ; Lin Carter, (1930–1988) editor of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series and author of The Wizard of Lemuria ; Sebastien de Castell, author of Traitor's Blade and sequels ; Vittorio Catani, (1940–2020) ; Beth Cato, (born 1980) ; Juraj Červenák, (born 1974) ; Mark Chadbourn, (born 1960) author of The Age of Misrule series ; Soman Chainani, (born 1979) author of The School for Good and Evil  series ; Jack L. Chalker, (1944–2005) author of Midnight at the Well of

Wonderland (novel)

Wonderland is a 1971 novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the fourth in the so-called Wonderland Quartet. It was a finalist for the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and it has been called one of the author's best books. Wonderland follows the character Jesse Vogel from his childhood in the Great Depression to his marriage and career in the late 1960s. Oates later wrote that Jesse is a protagonist who does not have an identity unless he is "deeply involved in meaningful experience", a theme that allowed her to address both what she calls "the phantasmagoria of personality" and the faceless nature of

Alexander Volkov (writer)

The first of these books, The Wizard of the Emerald City, is a loose translation of the first Oz book, with chapters added, altered, or omitted, some names changed (for example, Dorothy becomes "Ellie", Oz is renamed "Magic Land" (Волшебник Изумрудного города), and Toto can talk when in Magic Land), and several characters given personal names instead of generic ones. Baum's name is mentioned in the first of Volkov books but the Soviet Union paid no royalties to the Baum estate. First published in 1939 in the Soviet Union, the book became quite popular; and in the 1960s Volkov also wrote his own sequels to the story.

Literary Wonderlands

Gulliver's Travels, 1726 Jonathan Swift ; The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground, 1741 Ludvig Holberg ; The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, 1863 Charles Kingsley ; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 Lewis Carroll ; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, 1870 Jules Verne ; Erewhon, 1872 Samuel Butler ; The Ring of the Nibelung, 1876 Richard Wagner Treasure Island, 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson ; Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, 1884 Edwin A. Abbott ; Looking Backward: 2000-1887, 1888 Edward Bellamy ; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889 Mark Twain ; The Time Machine, 1895 H. G. Wells ; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900 L. Frank Baum

The Wizard in Wonderland

The plot details the reunion of junior wizard Ben-Muzzy and his friends Joel and Gemma. They visit Wonderland on Ben-Muzzy's magic broomstick, however their fun is interrupted when a race known as the Airy Fairies steals the broomstick. Now the three friends must retrieve it before it is missed by the other wizards.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll (a pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as a prime example of the literary nonsense genre. Its play with logic gives the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. One of the best-known works of Victorian English fiction, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had huge influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. The book has never been out of print and has been translated into at least 97 languages. Its legacy covers adaptations for stage, screen, radio, art, ballet, theme parks, board games and video games. Carroll published a sequel in 1871 entitled Through the Looking-Glass and a shortened version for young children, The Nursery "Alice", in 1890.

Gathering 4 Gardner

Martin Gardner's prolific output as a columnist and writer—he authored over 100 books between 1951 and 2010—put him in contact with a large number of people on a wide range of subjects from magic, mathematics, puzzles, physics, philosophy, logic and rationality, to G. K. Chesterton, Alice in Wonderland, and the Wizard of Oz. As a result, he had a large following of amateurs and professionals eager to pay tribute to him, but many of them had only infrequent contact with each other. Moreover, Gardner was famously shy, and generally declined to appear at any events honoring him. In the early 1990s, Atlanta-based entrepreneur and puzzle collector Thomas M. Rodgers (1943–2012), a friend of Martin Gardner's, conceived a plan to create a gathering of people who shared Gardner's interests, especially puzzles, magic, and mathematics. Rodgers invited the

Kate Greenaway Medal

+ 	Anthony Browne, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, an edition of the 1865 classic by Lewis Carroll ; – 	Penny Dale, Wake Up Mr. B! (Walker) @ ; +	Roberto Innocenti, The Adventures of Pinocchio (Creative Education), an edition of the 1883 classic by Carlo Collodi ; +	Alan Lee, Merlin Dreams, by Peter Dickinson + 	Helen Oxenbury, We're Going on a Bear Hunt (Walker), retold by Michael Rosen – 	Nicola Bayley, The Mousehole Cat (Walker), by Antonia Barber ; –	Roberto Innocenti, A Christmas Carol (Creative Education), an edition of the 1843 classic by Charles Dickens ; + 	Tony


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Transcension (novel)

Transcension was first published in the United States on 19 February 2002 by Tor Books in hardback format. In March 2003 it was republished in paperback format. Transcension won the 2002 Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel and was a short-list nominee for the 2003 Ditmar Award for best Australian novel but lost to Sean Williams' and Shane Dix's Echoes of Earth.

Transcension (novel)

Emma Lee Benedict

Emma Lee Benedict (after marriage, E. L. B. Transeau; November 16, 1857 – February 3, 1937) was an American magazine editor, educator, and the author of several books of prose and poetry. She was a pleasant, logical and forcible speaker and writer in her special line of educational and scientific topics, particularly third-wave temperance, and was in frequent demand as an instructor at teachers' institutes.

Steven G. Kellman

ends up writing the novel in which he appears. Loving Reading: Erotics of the Text (1985) is a study in reader theory that explores the analogy between reading and making love. In two books, The Translingual Imagination (2000) - which Peter Bush in the Times Literary Supplement called “a passionately eloquent narrative of a new translingual world behind the English Curtain" - and Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (2003), Kellman surveyed the phenomenon of writers who write in more than one language or in a language other than their primary one. He provided further reflections on literary translingualism in Nimble Tongues (2020). His biography of the author of

Salomon Isacovici

a Romanian and Latin American Jew. However, its publication was delayed by a dispute about the book's principal authorship and status as a novel or autobiography. Isacovici asserted that the book was his memoir, and that he had hired Rodriguez to improve the Spanish text. Rodriguez threatened legal action, stating that the book was fictionalized, incorporated some of his own memories, and argued he was the main author and should be credited as such. The controversy has been critiqued as an example of literary usurpation and as an attempt to cast doubt on a Holocaust survivor's experience. The English translation was published in 1999 with Isacovici and Rodriguez listed as co-authors.

The Singularity Is Near

The Singularity Is Near

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 non-fiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.

The book builds on the ideas introduced in Kurzweil's previous books, "The Age of Intelligent Machines" (1990) and "The Age of Spiritual Machines" (1999). This time, however, Kurzweil embraces the term "the Singularity", which was popularized by Vernor Vinge in his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity."

Kurzweil describes his law of accelerating returns which predicts an exponential increase in technologies like computers, genetics, nanotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence. Once the Singularity has been reached, Kurzweil says that machine intelligence will be infinitely more powerful than all human intelligence combined. Afterwards he predicts intelligence will radiate outward from the planet until it saturates the universe. The Singularity is also the point at which machines' intelligence and humans would merge. Kurzweil spells out the date very clearly: "I set the date for the Singularity—representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability—as 2045".

Transcension (novel)

Transcension (novel)

Transcension is a 2002 science fiction novel by Damien Broderick. It follows the story of lawyer Mohammed Kasim Abdel-Malik who after being killed his body is placed in cryonic suspension his mind is used as a source for an artificial intelligence, Aleph.

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Copyright on religious works

copied something created by another worldly entity." Maaherra lost the case at this level, on the argument that the members of the receiving group had been given an original direction to the writings by selecting and formulating their questions, thus fulfilling the obligation of creative effort required to gain copyright under U.S. law. This was later overturned on the grounds that the Urantia Foundation was not the author, and that the sleeping subject, sometimes highly controversially called a channeler, was legally considered the author, and that the Urantia Foundation thus could not file a valid copyright renewal. Four years later, in 1999, Harry McMullan III and the Michael Foundation published a book, Jesus–A New Revelation, which included verbatim 76 of the 196 papers included in The Urantia

Spalding–Rigdon theory of Book of Mormon authorship

An 1885 book printed by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church) said it contained the wording of the original, previously unpublished work, and was a "verbatim copy of the original now in the Library of Oberlin College. Ohio; including correspondence touching the Manuscript, its preservation and transmission until it came into the hands of the publishers."

Marc Scarpa

With the media attention from Beyond 2000, Scarpa was given the opportunity to produce a project called Agrippa - The Transmission. This new project was an offshoot project of Agrippa (a book of the dead), the 1992 literary and technology collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr. For this project, the collaborators produced a book containing text that smudged when touched and photos of the genetic code of a fruitfly. An encrypted disc was included at the back of the book and automatically self-destructed after one reading. The participatory nature of the book ensured that no two

Stanley M. Horton

; Tongues and Prophecy: How to Know When a Gift of Utterance is in Order ; Acts: A Logion Press Commentary ; Perspectives On Spirit Baptism: Five Views (with Ralph Del Colle, H. Ray Dunning, and Larry Hart) ; Missions in the Age of the Spirit by John V. York (Stanley M. Horton Th.d General Editor), 2000. Logion Press. ISBN: 978-0-88243-464-3 ; Psalm in Your Heart (with George Wood) ; A Commentary on I and II Corinthians ; The Ultimate Victory: An Exposition of the Book of Revelation ; Into All Truth: A Survey of the Course and Content of Divine Revelation ; Modern English Version Bible ( Stanley M. Horton Th.D Senior Editorial Advisor) (with James Linzey Chief Editor), 2014. Passio. A prolific writer, Horton authored and co-authored numerous books:

Alden Brooks

Aside from a novel, Escape (1924), Brooks wrote extensively on the Shakespeare authorship question, and in 1937 produced a preliminary volume, Will Shakspere: Factotum and Agent, in an attempt to prove that Shakespeare did not write the works attributed to him. In this book, Shakespeare is considered to be a pseudonym, and the sonnets are attributed to Thomas Nashe, Samuel Daniel, Barnabe Barnes and some other editorial hand. A contemporary scholar reviewing Brooks's ideas commented that although "there is absolutely no evidence to support any of his statements [this] disturbed neither Brooks nor his publishers." Six years later, he fulfilled his earlier promise of identifying the supposed real author

Drummond Percy Chase

He is most well known for his translation of the Nicomachean Ethics. He is the author as D. P. Chase D.D. of Constitutional Loyalty and other Words Necessary for these Times, published by Rivingtons, London in 1886. According to the publisher of that book he is also the author of The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans. With William Charles Salter, Principal of St Alban Hall, Chase also wrote Education for Frugal Men at the University of Oxford: An Account of the Experiments at St. Mary's and St. Alban's Halls (Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker, 1864).

Christopher McKitterick

Transcendence (Hadley Rille Books, November 5, 2010 )

Rob Gerrand

Transmutations (Editor, Outback Press ), ; Fortress (novel, Bookman Publishing 1993) ; Rewrite Your Life! (self-help, co-written with Eve Ash, Penguin Books 2002) ; Rewrite Your Relationships! (self-help, co-written with Eve Ash, Penguin Books 2004) ; The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: a Fifty Year Collection (editor, Black Inc. 2004)

Dorothy L. Sayers

known by his literary pseudonym Frank Morison. He wrote the best-selling Christian apologetics book Who Moved the Stone? which explored the historicity of the trial, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Sayers later relied on his book when she composed the trial scene of Jesus in her play The Man Born to Be King. As an advertiser, Sayers' collaboration with artist John Gilroy resulted in "The Mustard Club" for Colman's Mustard and the Guinness "Zoo" advertisements, variations of which still appear today. One example was the Toucan, his bill arching under a glass of Guinness, with Sayers' jingle: "If he can say as you canGuinness is good for youHow grand to be a ToucanJust think what Toucan do" Sayers is also credited with coining the slogan

Criticism of copyright

Lawrence Liang, founder of the Alternative Law Forum, argues that current copyright is based on a too narrow definition of "author", which is assumed to be clear and undisputed. Liang observes that the concept of "the author" is assumed to make universal sense across cultures and across time. Instead, Liang argues that the notion of the author as a unique and transcendent being, possessing originality of spirit, was constructed in Europe after the Industrial Revolution, to distinguish the personality of the author from the expanding realm of mass-produced goods. Hence works created by "authors" were deemed original, and merges with

Thomas Blount (lexicographer)

A Gentleman for his divertissement writes a Book, and this Book happens to be acceptable to the World, and sell; a Bookseller, not interested in the Copy, instantly employs some Mercenary to jumble up another like Book out of this, with some Alterations and Additions, and give it a new Title; and the first Author's out-done, and his Publisher half undone...." Phillips retorted by publishing a list of words from Blount that he contended were "barbarous and illegally compounded." The dispute was not settled prior to Blount's death, thus granting a default victory to Phillips. Regardless, Glossographia went through many editions and even more reprintings, the latest of which was in 1969.

In Praise of Copying

The book was published in 2010 by Harvard University Press and is licensed under the Creative Commons license by-nc-sa (Attribution–Noncommercial–ShareAlike).

Eric Eldred

Eric Eldred (born 1943) is an American literacy advocate and the proprietor of the unincorporated Eldritch Press. Eldred was lead plaintiff in Eldred v. Ashcroft, a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, but lost in the US Supreme Court in 2003 with the lawyer Lawrence Lessig. He co-founded Creative Commons and served on its board of directors. Eric Eldred has been described as a former computer programmer and systems administrator, a Boston writer, and a New Hampshire-based technical analyst. He is an independent scholar and first published online all of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, as well as scanning many works for Project Gutenberg and others.

Santiago David Távara

Mr Tavara is the author of the book: Obama, el duro no se pudo

William Freke

to make a recantation in the four courts of Westminster Hall, and to find security for good behaviour during three years. In 1703 he describes himself as 'master in the holy language' and 'author of the New Jerusalem,' a work (printed about 1701) which has not been traced. His 'Divine Grammar' and 'Lingua Tersancta' have no publisher, and only the author's initials ('W. F. Esq.') are given. He expounds his dreams, furnishing classified lists of their topics and interpretations. The 'Lingua Tersancta' is in fact a dictionary of dreams, in which the language is often as coarse as the images. He adhered to his conviction of the divine authority of bishops and of the scriptures;