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"Chapter I: Ignorance is Strength", and "Chapter III: War is Peace" of "The Book" are titled with The Party's slogans; O'Brien later refers to chapters featuring a programme for deposing the inner party. Chapter II, presumably titled "Freedom is Slavery" after the remaining inner party's slogan, is not detailed in the novel.
[33] He also refused a proposal from the American Book of the Month Club to release an edition without the appendix and chapter on Goldstein's book, a decision which Warburg claimed cut off about £40,000 in sales. [33] [34] Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on 8 June 1949 in the UK; [33] [35] [36] Orwell predicted earnings of around £500.
Vol. 1, Arts de faire' (1974). The 1984 English translation is by Steven Rendall. The book is one of the key texts in the study of everyday life. The Practice of Everyday Life re-examines related fragments and theories from Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein to Bourdieu, Foucault and Détienne, in the light of a proposed theoretical model.
Reasons and Persons is a 1984 book by the philosopher Derek Parfit, in which the author discusses ethics, rationality and personal identity.. It is divided into four parts, dedicated to self-defeating theories, rationality and time, personal identity and responsibility toward future generations.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center is a 1984 book about feminist theory by bell hooks.The book confirmed her importance in radical feminist thought. The "margin" in the title refers to hooks' description of black women as existing on the margins and their lives hidden from mainstream American society as well as not being part of mainstream feminist theory. [1]
A book store located at 709 West Smith Street in Orlando, Florida from 1991 to 1995 was named Alobar Books, after the main character in the book. [ 3 ] Project Bandaloop , [ 4 ] a multi-dimensional dance company founded in 1991 by Amelia Rudolph, was named after the Bandaloop from Jitterbug Perfume .
Heretics of Dune is a 1984 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the fifth in his Dune series of six novels.. Set 1,500 years after the events of God Emperor of Dune (1981), the novel finds humanity on the path set for them by the tyrant Leto II Atreides to guarantee their survival.
The use of contradictory names in this manner may have been inspired by the British and American governments; during the Second World War, the British Ministry of Food oversaw rationing (the name "Ministry of Food Control" was used in World War I) and the Ministry of Information restricted and controlled information, rather than supplying it; while, in the U.S., the War Department was ...