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Stieg Larsson
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Karl Stig-Erland Stieg Larsson was a Swedish journalist and writer. He is best known for writing the Millennium trilogy of crime novels, Larsson lived much of his life in Stockholm and worked there in the field of journalism and as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism. He was the second best-selling author in the world for 2008, the third novel in the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest, became the most sold book in the United States in 2010, according to Publishers Weekly. By March 2015, his series had sold 80 million copies worldwide, Stieg Larsson was born on 15 August 1954, as Karl Stig-Erland Larsson, in Umeå, Västerbottens län, Sweden, where his father and maternal grandfather worked in the Rönnskärsverken smelting plant. Suffering from arsenic poisoning, his father resigned from his job, due to their cramped living conditions there, they chose to let their one-year-old son, Stieg, remain behind with his grandparents. Stieg lived with his grandparents until the age of nine, near the village of Bjursele in Norsjö Municipality, Larsson lived with his grandparents in a small wooden house in the country, which he loved. He attended the school and used cross-country skis to get to and from school during the long. Larsson was not as fond of the environment in the city of Umeå. In 1974, Larsson was drafted into the Swedish Army, under the conscription law and his mother Vivianne also died early, in 1991, from complications with breast cancer and an aneurysm. On his twelfth birthday, Larssons parents gave him a typewriter as a birthday gift, Larssons first efforts at writing fiction were not in the genre of crime, but rather science fiction. In his first fanzines, 1972–74, he published a handful of short stories. In early June 2010, manuscripts for two stories, as well as fanzines with one or two others, were noted in the Swedish National Library. This discovery of what was called unknown works by Larsson generated considerable publicity, Larssons first name was originally Stig, which is the standard spelling. In his early twenties, he changed it to avoid confusion with his friend Stig Larsson, the pronunciation is the same regardless of spelling. While working as a photographer, Larsson became engaged in political activism. He became a member of Kommunistiska Arbetareförbundet, edited the Swedish Trotskyist journal Fjärde internationalen and he also wrote regularly for the weekly Internationalen. Larsson spent parts of 1977 in Eritrea, training a squad of female Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front guerrillas in the use of mortars and he was forced to abandon that work, having contracted a kidney disease. Upon his return to Sweden, he worked as a designer at the largest Swedish news agency, Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå
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Millennium (novel series)
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Millennium is a series of best-selling and award-winning Swedish crime novels, created by Stieg Larsson. Larsson planned the series as having ten installments, but due to his death in 2004. All of them were published posthumously, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2005, The Girl Who Played with Fire in 2006, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest in 2007. The series was printed in Swedish by Norstedts Förlag, with English editions by Quercus in the United Kingdom. The books have since been translated and published by publishers in over fifty countries. As of March 2015,80 million copies of the three books have sold worldwide. A fourth book, The Girl in the Spiders Web, commissioned by the publisher Norstedts to continue the series, was published in August 2015, the book is based on Larssons characters and was written by the Swedish author and crime journalist David Lagercrantz. Days later, wracked with guilt, he begged her forgiveness — which she refused, the incident, he said, haunted him for years afterward, and in part moved him to create a character with her name who was also a rape survivor. In the only interview he ever did about the series, Larsson stated that he based the character on what he imagined Pippi Longstocking might have been like as an adult, another source of inspiration was Larssons niece, Therese. A rebellious teenager, she wore black clothing and makeup. The author often emailed Therese while writing the novels to ask her about her life, both women were killed at the hands of men or as victims of honor crime. To Larsson, there was no difference, and the violence against women highly affected and inspired him to take action against these crimes through his writing. Seen in this light, Stieg couldnt have had any better therapy for what ailed his soul than writing his novels, people who knew Larsson, such as Baksi and Anders Hellberg, a colleague of Larssons in the 1970s and 1980s, were surprised that he wrote the novels. Hellberg went so far as to suspect that Larsson is not the author of the series. His partner, Gabrielsson has been named as the most likely candidate and she later claimed she had been misquoted. In 2011 Gabrielsson expressed anger at such accusations and clarified, The actual writing, but the content is a different matter. There are a lot of my thoughts, ideas and work in there, having begun writing the first book in summer 2002, Larsson waited until he had finished the first two and most of the third before submitting them to Swedish publishers. Baksi suggested he might have written the first chapter in 1997, Norstedts commissioned Steven T. Murray to undertake the English translation
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Vietnam War
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It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The war is considered a Cold War-era proxy war. As the war continued, the actions of the Viet Cong decreased as the role. U. S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, in the course of the war, the U. S. conducted a large-scale strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam. The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam and they viewed the conflict as a colonial war and a continuation of the First Indochina War against forces from France and later on the United States. The U. S. government viewed its involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam and this was part the domino theory of a wider containment policy, with the stated aim of stopping the spread of communism. Beginning in 1950, American military advisors arrived in what was then French Indochina, U. S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with troop levels tripling in 1961 and again in 1962. Regular U. S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965, despite the Paris Peace Accord, which was signed by all parties in January 1973, the fighting continued. In the U. S. and the Western world, a large anti-Vietnam War movement developed as part of a larger counterculture, the war changed the dynamics between the Eastern and Western Blocs, and altered North–South relations. Direct U. S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973, the capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities, estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from 966,000 to 3.8 million. Some 240, 000–300,000 Cambodians,20, 000–62,000 Laotians, and 58,220 U. S. service members died in the conflict. Various names have applied to the conflict. Vietnam War is the most commonly used name in English and it has also been called the Second Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict. As there have been several conflicts in Indochina, this conflict is known by the names of its primary protagonists to distinguish it from others. In Vietnamese, the war is known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ. It is also called Chiến tranh Việt Nam, France began its conquest of Indochina in the late 1850s, and completed pacification by 1893. The 1884 Treaty of Huế formed the basis for French colonial rule in Vietnam for the seven decades
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Far-right politics
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Far-right politics are right-wing politics further on the right of the left-right spectrum than the standard political right. Far-right politics often involve a focus on tradition, real or imagined, as opposed to policies, right-wing populism, a political ideology often combines laissez-faire, nationalism, ethnocentrism and anti-elitism is often described as far-right. Right-wing populism often involves appeals to common man and opposition to immigration, far-right politics include but are not limited to aspects of authoritarianism, anti-communism, and nativism. Claims that superior people should proportionally have greater rights than people are sometimes associated with the far right. The far right has historically favoured an elitist society based on its belief in the legitimacy of the rule of a supposed superior minority over the inferior masses. However, right-wing populist ideologies which are described by commentators as far-right often use appeals to the common man as opposed to the appeals of the elites. Far-right politics sometimes involves anti-immigration and anti-integration stances towards groups that are deemed inferior, hence, far right politics is associated with Othering. According to Christina Liang, this field is especially peculiar about its terminology. Each label carries with it a specific understanding of family of political parties as well as a particular set of assumptions regarding their origins. In an extensive survey of the literature, academic Cas Mudde found 26 definitions of right-wing extremism that contained 57 different ideological features, there is also debate about how appropriate the labels fascist or neo-Fascist are. Mudde lists nativism, authoritarianism, and populism as core elements of populist radical right political parties, in the United States, the term hard right and Alt-right have been used to describe groups such as the Tea Party movement and the Patriot movement. The term has also used to describe ideologies such as Paleoconservatism, Dominion Theology. The German political scientist Klaus von Beyme describes three phases in the development of far-right parties in Western Europe after World War II. From 1945 to the mid-1950s, far-right parties were marginalised, and their ideologies were discredited due to the recent existence and defeat of Nazism. Thus in the immediately following World War II, the main objective of far-right parties was survival. From the mid-1950s to the 1970s, the so-called populist protest phase emerged with sporadic electoral success, the most common demand-side theories are the social breakdown thesis, the relative deprivation thesis, the modernisation losers thesis and the ethnic competition thesis. The rise of political parties has also been viewed as a rejection of post-materialist values on the part of some voters. This theory which is known as the reverse post-material thesis blames both left-wing and progressive parties for embracing a post-material agenda that alienates traditional working class voters, another study argues that individuals who join far-right parties determine whether those parties develop into major political players or whether they remain marginalized
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Seven Stories Press
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Seven Stories Press is an independent American publishing company. Centered in New York City, the company was founded by editor Dan Simon in 1995, Seven Stories Press publishes works of the imagination and political titles by voices of conscience. Seven Stories believes publishers have a responsibility to defend free speech. And Andri Snær Magnasons LoveStar and The Story of the Blue Planet, upcoming translations include Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh and The Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel. Launched in 2000, Seven Stories’ Spanish-language imprint, Siete Cuentos Editorial, upcoming Spanish translations include Charles C. The new imprint from Seven Stories Press was launched in 2012 and combines social justice and good storytelling to an audience of young adults. Triangle Square supports the struggle for justice and restoration of the environment, kids rights. Triangle Square titles include The Story of the Blue Planet by Andri Snær Magnason, Trevor by James Lecesne, kennedy Journalism Award in Cartoon for The Beginning of the American Fall and Code Green. Originally commissioned by the Cartoon Movement, The Beginning of the American Fall is now available through Seven Stories,2001 — Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Independent Press of the Year Seven Stories Press official site Book Depository article naming Seven Stories Independent Publisher of the Week
