![]() ![]() The prefaces clarify the text’s purpose, then the Introduction traces the development of the proletariat, particularly through technological advancements that reshape both society and the dynamic between property holders and the working class. ![]() In discussing the fundamentally incompatible interests of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, Engels aims to provoke his readers to demand social change as a last attempt to prevent workers from taking matters into their own hands and triggering a new French Revolution. The “savage” conditions to which the proletariat was reduced motivated Engels to write an account of his observations and unmask the hypocrisy of his fellow members of the elite, who purposefully hid their employees’ terrible situation, maintaining that the working class in England lived well. Employed as a representative of his father’s German manufacturing firm in Manchester, Engels witnessed firsthand how the emerging capitalist mode of production lead to a systematic exploitation of workers by the upper-middle class. ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments The time machine penguin classics![]() ![]() It's frivolous, histrionic, masturbatory. Yikes! It makes you think, how long has it been since we had an end-of-the-world scenario that assumed our natural decline? Whether it's nuclear war or aliens or climate change or the matrix, present-day eschatology is all apocalypse, all the time. It's interesting that it was that final future fantasy that stuck with me the most: the Morlocks and Eloi as a generic, if vivid, SF binary-opp society (and me getting all the details wrong), but the red dead sun, the slow-moving crabs, the slow fading of the last vestiges of the first heat of Creation and that polyp-like creature flopping and dying in the endless snow. Show More to think about it much and simply remembered this as one of the books my dad bribed me to read when I was a kid, the future world as magical and dark, and the further future as deeply chilling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She started drawing as a very young child, making up stories about the characters she created and her drawings have appeared in many different types of books, including fairy tales and nursery rhymes, animal stories and folk tales, published throughout the world. ![]() A native of London, Williams was educated at the Wimbledon School of Art and University of London. Jenny Williams is a hugely talented illustrator whose style is recognisable at a glance. 'It is in the nature of books, that they have the capacity to make you feel powerful about what you can alter and achieve in your life' - Margaret Mahy Appointed to the Order of New Zealand in 1993, Mahy also won many global prizes for children's writers, including the Carnegie Medal and the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. She is the author of more than 150 titles, which have been translated into many different languages and sold around the world. Margaret Mahy (1936-2012) is one of New Zealand's most celebrated children's writers. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments David levithan books in order![]() ![]() As described by Frank Bruni of The New York Times, "A. Plot summary Įvery Day is about the story of A, a genderless person who wakes up occupying a different body each day of a sixteen-year-old living in the East Coast. The story "Day 3196" was released as part of one of the exclusive international editions of Someday. ![]() A companion novel titled Another Day was released on August 25, 2015, and a sequel titled Someday was released in 2018. Ī prequel novella only available digitally titled Six Earlier Days was released on November 26 of the same year. ![]() Every Day is a New York Times bestseller. It was published on August 28, 2012, by Knopf Books for Young Readers and is recommended for ages 14–18. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-bookĮvery Day is a young adult romance and fantasy novel written by American author David Levithan. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Polaris rising![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My first (still trunked) novel was an urban fantasy, but it taught me a lot about structure, plot, and relationship-building. I wrote fanfiction way back in the day, so writing novels was kind of a natural progression. I’ve always been creative and I’ve always loved to read. And while they would be right, writing software also requires a great deal of creativity to come up with new solutions and work around limitations. If you asked most people, they would say software engineering is a very left-brain type of work: logic and formulas and rigid calculations. Hi, and thank you so much for having me! I currently write romantic science fiction full-time, but as you said, I started my career as a software engineer. Welcome to the blog, Jessie! Please tell us a little bit about yourself and how you went from software engineer to published author! ![]() Last month I read and LOVED Jessie Mihalik’s science fiction romance, Polaris Rising ( you can read my review here), the first book in her Consortium Rebellion series, and I’m thrilled to have her visit the blog today! Please give a warm welcome to Jessie! ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments A well behaved woman novel![]() ![]() Furthermore, this also lets Alva act in unexpected ways. What this does and what I found admirable about the choice is that it allows readers to come to their own conclusions about Alva. ![]() However, we also see a less decorous side of her personality, one that is both spoiled and self-centered. On the one hand, Fowler portrays Alva's enormous inner strength and intelligence, as well as grace and generosity that make her a force to be reckoned with and admired. Once that happens, the story moves steadily forward, giving us a portrait of a very determined woman, with whom the author appears to have a certain love-hate relationship. Vanderbilt's eye, and get him to propose to her. Therese Anne Fowler begins her novel with Alva trying to catch William K. Alva was the person who changed all of that (see Beyond the Book). ![]() The marriage was a political one despite Alva's family's relative penury, they had enough social cachet to be considered worthy of the higher echelons of society, whereas the Vanderbilts, despite their enormous wealth, were considered nouveau riche and unworthy of high society. The full title of A Well-Behaved Woman includes the subtitle A Novel of the Vanderbilts which is mostly accurate, but in truth this story is more specifically about Alva Erskine Smith, who married into the Vanderbilt family to save herself and her sisters from their family's failing fortunes. ![]() Vanderbilt may have solved Alva Smith's financial problems, but it was her own tenacity that gained her and this wealthy family recognition in society. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The lovely Kate offers to help-using her social position to gain access to the members of the upper crust, now suspects in a murder. When Charles hears from a colleague of a very similar mysterious death a year ago to the date, also a young woman, he begins to suspect poisoning and feels compelled to investigate. By morning, the poor young woman will be dead. ![]() Charles, Kate, and her father rush to the neighbors' home, where Miss Christiana Lugoson lies unconscious on the floor. They are having the best of times when a scream shatters the pleasant evening. Invited to dinner at the estate of the newspaper's co-editor, Charles is smitten with his boss's daughter, vivacious nineteen-year-old Kate Hogarth. In the winter of 1835, young Charles Dickens is a journalist on the rise at the Evening Chronicle. On the eve of the Victorian era, London has a new sleuth. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Jackal Group’s Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady will executive produce the adaptation alongside SK Global Co-Chairman Sidney Kimmel, President of Global Television Marcy Ross, and co-CEO’s John Penotti and Charlie Corwin. I’m so thankful for their embrace of my work and I greatly look forward to sharing the results of our collaboration with viewers throughout the globe.” “And so it’s with a great sense of joy that I partner with accomplished companies SK Global and The Jackal Group, who are committed to presenting content that is international in origin and spirit and can be appreciated by people in all parts of the world. ![]() “Although set in Japan, the themes I have explored in my work are universal – love, loss, memory, friendship, regret and redemption,” said Kawaguchi. 'Crazy Rich Asians' Co-Writer Peter Chiarelli To Pen 'Fat Leonard' U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s 1959, and FBI agent Daniel Hawthorne Is assigned to investigate what is believed to have been an attempt to assassinate Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev while he was on a recent visit to the US. The leads are multi-faceted, flawed but likeable men, and their romance is a very slow burn that evolves organically from the tentative and then genuine friendship that grows between them it’s quietly understated yet full of longing and boasts some truly beautiful moments of poignancy and real, complex emotion. It’s extremely well-written, and the author does an amazing job of exploring the cultural and ideological differences between the societies in which the two men live in a way that is thought-provoking without being preachy or didactic. ![]() ![]() Aster Glenn Gray’s Honeytrap is a compelling and unique story that charts the development of the unlikely relationship between an American FBI agent and a lieutenant in the Red Army (and possible KGB agent) over a period of around thirty-five years. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments X-Men by Greg Pak![]() ![]() He collected his screenplays in the book Robot Stories & More Screenplays, whose foreword was written by David Henry Hwang. Pak wrote and directed the feature film Robot Stories. His short film "Asian Pride Porn", starring playwright David Henry Hwang and director Michael Kang, was licensed to Atom Films. ![]() ![]() Pak's New York University (NYU) student film, Fighting Grandpa, which centered on his Korean grandparents, won the gold medal at the 25th Student Academy Awards. He then entered New York University's graduate film program. In 1991, he went to study history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar with the intent of becoming a politician. He studied political science at Yale University, where he wrote for the campus humor magazine, The Yale Record, and was a member of the Purple Crayon improvisational group. Pak was born in Dallas, Texas, to a Korean-American father and a Caucasian mother. ![]() In 2019, Pak began writing Star Wars comics for Marvel. Pak is best known for his work on books published by Marvel Comics, including X-Men (most notably X-Treme X-Men), several titles featuring the Hulk (including Planet Hulk, which was one of the storylines eventually adapted into the film Thor: Ragnarok), and Hercules. Greg Pak is an American comic book writer and film director. ![]() |