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William Hofmann
William Hofmann (1924–1995) was an artist who illustrated books in the late 1950s and the 1960s. Books The works he illustrated include: *''The First Easter'' (1959) by Peter Marshall (author), Peter Marshall *''Five World Biographies'' (1961) edited by Leon Edel, Elizabeth S. White, Madolyn W. Brown *''Four English Biographies'' Harcourt Brace & World, Inc, (1961) by J. B. Priestley, and O. B. Davis *''The Blue of Capricorn'' (1962) by Eugene Burdick *''Indian Uprising'', Houghton Mifflin (1962) by George Cory Franklin *''The Last Portage: The Biography of a Man Caught Between Two Worlds of the Frontier—Born a White, Raised an Indian'' (1962) by Walter O'Meara *''Hero of Trafalgar: the Story of Lord Nelson'' (1963) by A.B.C. Whipple *''Backtrack (western novel), Backtrack'' (1965) by Milton Lott *''Time Was'', Folkways Press (1965) by John Foster West *''Phaëthon'' (1966) by Merrill Pollack *''Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths'' (1966) by Bernard Evslin *''Poems to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Marshall (author)
Peter Hugh Marshall (born 1946) is an English author of over a dozen works of philosophy, history, biography, travel writing, and poetry. He is best known for his 1991 history of anarchism, ''Demanding the Impossible'', and his 1984 biography of William Godwin. Early life and career Peter Marshall was born in Bognor Regis, England, on 23 August 1946 to the horse trainer William and Vera Marshall. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of London in 1970 and his master's and doctorate from the University of Sussex in 1971 and 1977, respectively. During his studies, Marshall taught English for a year in Dakar, Senegal, served two years in the British Merchant Navy, and was a University of London tutor in philosophy and literature, which he continued after receiving his doctorate. In 1981, he became a tutor in philosophy at the University College of North Wales, where he continued until 1990 and published books on William Godwin, William Blake, Tanzania, and Cuba. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Tract Of Time
''A Tract of Time'' is an antiwar novel from 1966 by Smith Hempstone Smith Hempstone (February 1, 1929–November 19, 2006) was a journalist, author, and the United States ambassador to Kenya in 1989–93. He was a vocal proponent of democracy, advocating free elections for Kenya. Biography Hempstone atten ..., that covers the time period about 1960, when there was an attempted coup of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Even as the United States backed Diem's government during the war, its American advisers worked with the Montagnard people who opposed Diem, to help them fight the Viet Cong, whom they also opposed. The book follows one CIA operative, Harry Coltart, as he works with the Montagnard mountain tribesmen in the Central Highlands. Harry is initially successful in getting the Montagnards to fight against the Viet Cong, but then the Montagnards are betrayed and South Vietnamese troops are sent in. Harry has to be rescued as the Montagnards join the Vie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Clayton Johnson
George Clayton Johnson (July 10, 1929 – December 25, 2015) was an American science fiction writer, best known for co-writing with William F. Nolan the novel ''Logan's Run'', the basis for the MGM 1976 film. He was also known for his television scripts for ''The Twilight Zone'' (including "Nothing in the Dark", "Kick the Can", " A Game of Pool", and " A Penny for Your Thoughts"), and the first telecast episode of ''Star Trek'', entitled "The Man Trap". He also wrote the story and screenplay on which the 1960 and 2001 films ''Ocean's Eleven'' were based. Early life Johnson was born in a barn in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was forced to repeat the sixth grade, and dropped out of school entirely in the eighth. He briefly served as a telegraph operator and draftsman in the United States Army, then enrolled at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) under the G.I. Bill, but quit to return to his travels around the U.S., working as a draftsman, before becoming a writer. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William F
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan's Run
''Logan's Run'' is a science fiction novel by American writers William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Published in 1967, the novel depicts a dystopic Malthusianism future society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of everyone reaching the age of 21. The story follows the actions of Logan, a ''Sandman'' charged with enforcing the rule, as he tracks down and kills citizens who "run" from society's lethal demand—only to end up "running" himself. Plot The introduction to the book says: In the world of 2116, a person's maximum age is strictly legislated: 21 years, to the day. When people reach this ''Lastday'' they report to a ''Sleepshop'' in which they are willingly executed via a pleasure-inducing toxic gas. A person's age is revealed by their ''palm flower'' crystal embedded in the palm of their right hand that changes color every seven years; yellow (age 0–6), then blue (age 7–13), then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Nicole
Christopher Robin Nicole (born 7 December 1930) is a prolific British writer of over 200 novels and non-fiction books since 1957. He has written as Christopher Nicole and also under several pseudonyms including Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He also wrote under the pen name Max Marlow when co-authoring with his wife, fellow author Diana Bachmann. Biography Personal life Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, in British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer. Both his parents were Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Destruct
Operation Destruct is a 1969 spy novel by Christopher Nicole written in the context of the Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ... and contests in international espionage between the West and the Soviet Union. In his first novel, British intelligence assigns Agent Jonathan Anders to investigate the death of their agents aboard a Russian trawler. Agent Jonathan Anders promptly finds himself entangled in an international misadventure—with the Russians trying to exterminate him and the British police pursuing him for murder. He becomes involved in a contest against the Russian agents, survives an attempt on his life, and becomes aware of a Soviet plot to poison a lot of people. On the way to investigate the hold of a Russian trawler sunk near Guernsey, he mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George R
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-year-old pig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houghton Mifflin
The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , ''asteriskos'', "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as star (as, for example, in ''the A* search algorithm'' or '' C*-algebra''). In English, an asterisk is usually five- or six-pointed in sans-serif typefaces, six-pointed in serif typefaces, and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten. Its most common use is to call out a footnote. It is also often used to censor offensive words. In computer science, the asterisk is commonly used as a wildcard character, or to denote pointers, repetition, or multiplication. History The asterisk has already been used as a symbol in ice age cave paintings. There is also a two thousand-year-old character used by Aristarchus of Samothrace called the , , which he used when proofreading Homeric poetry to mark lines that were duplicated. Origen is kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth Abides
''Earth Abides'' is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and the emergence of a new culture with simpler tools. Set in the 1940s in Berkeley, California, the story is told by Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains to find almost everyone dead. ''Earth Abides'' won the inaugural International Fantasy Award in 1951. It was included in ''Locus'' Magazine's list of best All Time Science Fiction in 1987 and 1998 and was a nominee to be entered into the Prometheus Hall of Fame. In November 1950, it was adapted for the CBS radio program ''Escape'' as a two-part drama starring John Dehner. Plot "Part I: World Without End" While working on his graduate thesis in geography in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Ish is bitten by a rattlesnake. As he heals from the bite in a cabin, he gets sick with a disease similar to measles, and he lapses in and out of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include ''For My People'' (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and the novel ''Jubilee'' (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War. Biography Walker was born in Birmingham, Alabama, to Sigismund C. Walker, a minister, and Marion (née Dozier) Walker, who helped their daughter by teaching her philosophy and poetry as a child. Her family moved to New Orleans when Walker was a young girl. At the age of 15, she showed a few of her poems to Langston Hughes, on a speaking tour at the moment, who recognized her talent. She attended school there, including several years of college, before she moved north to Chicago. In 1935, Walker received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
