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A Vindication of Monsters

Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

by Lucy Sussex, Nancy Holder, Sara Karloff, Lisa Morton, Carina Bissett, Michele Brittany, Donald Prentice Jr, Ciarán Bruder, Piper Mejia, Anthony P Ferguson, Claire Fitzpatrick, Leslie S Klinger, Lee Murray, Jason Franks, Robert Hood, H K Stubbs, Matthew R Davis, Grant Butlier, Octavia Cade ...

In 1797 an extraordinary visionary died, leaving behind a grieving husband, a two-year-old daughter, and a newborn. The woman was Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Fanny Imlay, and her baby Mary Godwin, who, through many trials and tribulations, grew up to become the remarkable Mary Shelley, creator of one of the most important books in literature: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus. While ... Read more

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In 1797 an extraordinary visionary died, leaving behind a grieving husband, a two-year-old daughter, and a newborn. The woman was Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Fanny Imlay, and her baby Mary Godwin, who, through many trials and tribulations, grew up to become the remarkable Mary Shelley, creator of one of the most important books in literature: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus. While
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X-Dimensional Assassin Zai Through the Unfolded Earth

by Jason Franks ...

Zai is an international assassin who's in it for the travel. So, when his new agency starts to send him on assignment to places that do not exist, it's a dream come true. Crooked accountants, faerie industrialists, hero scientists, down-at-heels gods, secret police chiefs. A hidden continent colonised by refugees from sunken Atlantis, a secret space station, an aerostatic city-state, a post ... Read more

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Zai is an international assassin who's in it for the travel. So, when his new agency starts to send him on assignment to places that do not exist, it's a dream come true. Crooked accountants, faerie industrialists, hero scientists, down-at-heels gods, secret police chiefs. A hidden continent colonised by refugees from sunken Atlantis, a secret space station, an aerostatic city-state, a post
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Faerie Apocalypse

by Jason Franks ...

A dark door to the Faerie world unleashes an apocalypse. Over the centuries, the Faerie Realms have drifted away from the mortal world, but for some, the Doors will open. For some, there is a Way to travel there, if they want it badly enough. If they dream it hard enough.In this era, only lovers, poets, and madmen can access the Realms of the Land—and for good reason. A succession of mortals ... Read more

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A dark door to the Faerie world unleashes an apocalypse. Over the centuries, the Faerie Realms have drifted away from the mortal world, but for some, the Doors will open. For some, there is a Way to travel there, if they want it badly enough. If they dream it hard enough.In this era, only lovers, poets, and madmen can access the Realms of the Land—and for good reason. A succession of mortals
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Assassins' Canon

by Edwin Rydberg, Ken Goldman, Tyson Young, Jonathan Shipley, Douglas A. Van Belle, J. A. Powell, Ron Savage, Peter James McGuire, Suzzanne Myers, S. C. Hayden, Mark Onspaugh, Zachary Thede, Camille Alexa, G. Elmer Munson, Yvonne Pronovost, Michael Amos, Charlotte Bond, Murphy Edwards, Monique Frangi, Christopher Roy Denton, Megan Arkenberg, Karla Cruz, Jason Franks ...

Few images evoke a more powerful or frightening reaction than that of the assassin.Silently creeping into your room while you sleep, they plunge a pick deep inside your brain, or fill your snoring nostrils with poisonous vapour. Or perhaps skilled fingers from the shadows strike a vital point during mid-step; the coroners say it was a heart attack.Assassins are people to be feared, no doubt. But ... Read more

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Few images evoke a more powerful or frightening reaction than that of the assassin.Silently creeping into your room while you sleep, they plunge a pick deep inside your brain, or fill your snoring nostrils with poisonous vapour. Or perhaps skilled fingers from the shadows strike a vital point during mid-step; the coroners say it was a heart attack.Assassins are people to be feared, no doubt. But
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A Political Companion to Herman Melville

Edited by Jason Frank ...

Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist ... Read more

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Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist
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The Democratic Sublime

On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly

by Jason Frank ...

The transition from royal to popular sovereignty during the age of democratic revolutions--from 1776 to 1848--entailed not only the reorganization of institutions of governance and norms of political legitimacy, but also a dramatic transformation in the iconography and symbolism of political power. The personal and external rule of the king, whose body was the physical locus of political authority ... Read more

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The transition from royal to popular sovereignty during the age of democratic revolutions--from 1776 to 1848--entailed not only the reorganization of institutions of governance and norms of political legitimacy, but also a dramatic transformation in the iconography and symbolism of political power. The personal and external rule of the king, whose body was the physical locus of political authority
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Constituent Moments

Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America

by Jason Frank ...

Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied. In Constituent Moments, Jason Frank explores this dilemma of authorization: the grounding of democratic ... Read more

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Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied. In Constituent Moments, Jason Frank explores this dilemma of authorization: the grounding of democratic
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Publius and Political Imagination

by Jason Frank ...

Series series Modernity and Political Thought
Jason Frank’s Publius and Political Imagination is the first volume of the Modernity and Political Thought series to take as its focus not a single author, but collaboration between political thinkers, in this very special case the collective known by the pseudonym: Publius. Frank's revisionist reading of The Federalist Papers—perhaps the most canonical text in American political thought—counters ... Read more

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Jason Frank’s Publius and Political Imagination is the first volume of the Modernity and Political Thought series to take as its focus not a single author, but collaboration between political thinkers, in this very special case the collective known by the pseudonym: Publius. Frank's revisionist reading of The Federalist Papers—perhaps the most canonical text in American political thought—counters
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The Revenge of the Dwarves

by Markus Heitz ...

Series Book 3 - The Dwarves
Though hailed a hero by his people, the course of life has not run smooth for the battle-weary Tungdil the dwarf. But there is no rest for this warrior yet -- as he must now find the strength to face the most formidable enemy the kingdom has ever encountered . . .A new evil has risen from the depths of the earth to terrorize the land of Girdlegard. Monstrous creatures -- half-orc, half-élfar -- ... Read more

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Though hailed a hero by his people, the course of life has not run smooth for the battle-weary Tungdil the dwarf. But there is no rest for this warrior yet -- as he must now find the strength to face the most formidable enemy the kingdom has ever encountered . . .A new evil has risen from the depths of the earth to terrorize the land of Girdlegard. Monstrous creatures -- half-orc, half-élfar --
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The Passions and the Interests

Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

by Albert O. Hirschman, Jeremy Adelman ...

Series series Princeton Classics
In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation ... Read more

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In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation
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The Rhetoric of Reaction

by Albert O. Hirschman ...

With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been arguing against progressive agendas and reforms for the past two hundred years. He draws his examples from three successive waves of reactive thought that arose in response to the liberal ideas of the French ... Read more

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With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been arguing against progressive agendas and reforms for the past two hundred years. He draws his examples from three successive waves of reactive thought that arose in response to the liberal ideas of the French
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White Staff

by Robert Thomas ...

Locked away in an ancient dungeon in a solitary fortress, the last remaining person that holds a memory of the once powerful kingdom of Euwold breathes slowly in his fetid prison. The magic that holds him prisoner is powerful but it can not control his mind. For three centuries he has searched without success for someone, anyone who can accept his thoughts and free him from his forced exile.One ... Read more

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Locked away in an ancient dungeon in a solitary fortress, the last remaining person that holds a memory of the once powerful kingdom of Euwold breathes slowly in his fetid prison. The magic that holds him prisoner is powerful but it can not control his mind. For three centuries he has searched without success for someone, anyone who can accept his thoughts and free him from his forced exile.One
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