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John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938, in Providence, Rhode Island [1]) is an American author and historian.His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction, [2] the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, [3] the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, [4] and the John K. Fairbank Prize of the ...
The John W. Campbell Letters with Isaac Asimov & A.E. van Vogt, Volume II (1993) Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction , (2018) is a history of the era known as the golden age of science fiction shepherded by Campbell and a biography of Campbell himself written by ...
John William Nevill Watkins (31 July 1924 – 26 July 1999) was an English philosopher, a professor at the London School of Economics from 1966 until his retirement in 1989 and a prominent proponent of critical rationalism.
"Twilight" is a science fiction short story by American author John W. Campbell. It was originally published in 1934 in Astounding Stories and apparently inspired by H. G. Wells' article The Man of the Year Million. [1] In 1970, it was selected as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards ...
War Without Mercy: Race & Power In the Pacific War is a 1986 history book written by John W. Dower and published by W. W. Norton & Company. [1] The book covers the views of the Japanese and their Western adversaries during the Pacific War, with a particular focus on the United States.
An Experiment with Time is a book by the British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher J. W. Dunne (1875–1949) about his precognitive dreams and a theory of time which he later called "Serialism". First published in March 1927, the book was widely read.
John Frow (born 13 November 1948 in Coonabarabran, Australia) is an Australian writer of literary theory, narrative theory, intellectual property law, and cultural studies. He is currently a professor of English at the University of Sydney .
The Power Elite is a 1956 book by sociologist C. Wright Mills, in which Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of the American society and suggests that the ordinary citizen in modern times is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those three entities.