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The Book of Life is a 2014 fantasy novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness, the third book in the All Souls trilogy.As the sequel to the 2012 bestseller, Shadow of Night, it follows the final steps in the story of Diana Bishop, a historian who comes from a long line of witches, and Matthew Clairmont, a long-lived vampire, as they unlock the secrets of an ancient manuscript.
The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975.. Abbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench," often used as a verb, has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to ...
The Book of Life is a 2014 American animated fantasy adventure comedy film [7] [8] [9] directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez in his feature directorial debut and written by Gutierrez and Doug Langdale. It was distributed by Reel FX Animation Studios. Guillermo del Toro, Brad Booker, Aaron D. Berger, and Carina Schulze produced the film. [1]
An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre [69] Paul Avrich: Non-fiction: Biography Anarchism in the United States: 1978 The Eye of the Heron [70] Ursula K. Le Guin: Fiction: Science fiction Anarcho-pacifism, Oligarchy: 1980 The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States [71] Paul Avrich: Non-fiction
Anarcho-communist Albert Meltzer acknowledged "Marx's quite sensible analysis" that anarchism was the movement of formerly self-employed, independent-minded, individualistic, intrepid, advanced craftsmen and artisans who had been ruined by capitalistic industrialization or even war and then driven to factories; even so, they refused to subject ...
Only some decades after the Paris Commune of 1871 and the wave of anarchist terrorism of the 1890s, and not long after the General Strike of 1906 organized by the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), Paris was a hotbed of anarchist debate and organizing, with ongoing bitter disagreements between the anarcho-individualists (such as the ...
Living My Life is the autobiography of Lithuanian-born anarchist Emma Goldman, who became internationally renowned as an activist based in the United States. It was published in two volumes in 1931 ( Alfred A. Knopf ) and 1934 (Garden City Publishing Company).
Anarchist Portraits is a series of biographical studies about the American anarchist movement written by Paul Avrich over twenty years. At the time, Avrich was the foremost scholar of the history of anarchism. He intended his vignettes to reflect the character of the anarchist movement through the lives of individual participants from the late ...