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About the Author
Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, Norway, and a Research Associate of the Science and Research Centre of the Republic of Slovenia, in Koper. Born in London, England, she earned her undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Stanford University, her MA in International Relations from the University of Arkansas, and her Ph.D. in Political Science at UCLA in 1981. She is the author of 15 scholarly books (three of which have been published in Croatian translations) and editor or co-editor of 39 books (38 published and one in production). She is also the author of two novels, Café Bombshell: The International Brain Surgery Conspiracy (2008) and The Curse of the Aztec Dummy: A Nebraskan Chronicle (2017), and five collections of humorous verse, among them Make Marzipan, Not War: Crazy rhymes for crazy times (2013), Is the Moon the Center of the Universe? A reassessment of many things in humorous verse (2017), and The Magic Lily Pad and Other Stories (2023).
The book illustrator, Christine M. Hassenstab, is a Retired Attorney. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, she earned her B.S. in Biology from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, her B.A. in History from the University of Washington, her J.D from Golden Gate University School of Law in 1984, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2010. She is the author of Body Law and the Body of Law: A Comparative Study of Social Norm Inclusion in Norwegian and American Laws (2015) and co-editor of four scholarly books.
THE ADVENTURES OF ATHOS THE CHIPMUNK & OTHER TALES
Sabrina P. RametNew Academia Publishing/SCARITH, 2026
144 pages
ISBN 979-8-9991798-4-5 hardcover
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About the Author
Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, Norway, and a Research Associate of the Science and Research Centre of the Republic of Slovenia, in Koper. Born in London, England, she earned her undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Stanford University, her MA in International Relations from the University of Arkansas, and her Ph.D. in Political Science at UCLA in 1981. She is the author of 15 scholarly books (three of which have been published in Croatian translations) and editor or co-editor of 39 books (38 published and one in production). She is also the author of two novels, Café Bombshell: The International Brain Surgery Conspiracy (2008) and The Curse of the Aztec Dummy: A Nebraskan Chronicle (2017), and five collections of humorous verse, among them Make Marzipan, Not War: Crazy rhymes for crazy times (2013), Is the Moon the Center of the Universe? A reassessment of many things in humorous verse (2017), and The Magic Lily Pad and Other Stories (2023).
The book illustrator, Christine M. Hassenstab, is a Retired Attorney. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, she earned her B.S. in Biology from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, her B.A. in History from the University of Washington, her J.D from Golden Gate University School of Law in 1984, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2010. She is the author of Body Law and the Body of Law: A Comparative Study of Social Norm Inclusion in Norwegian and American Laws (2015) and co-editor of four scholarly books.
THE ADVENTURES OF ATHOS THE CHIPMUNK & OTHER TALES
The Adventures of Athos the Chipmunk & Other Tales consists, as the title makes plain, of two parts. The first part recounts the adventures of Athos, a chipmunk living in Sonoma County, California. His adventures include his traveling to the moon with his magician friend Murva, and his joining Columbus-the-chipmunk in sailing across a local pond to “discover” a small island they then call “America”. The second part consists of 57 short-shorts. Some of them are magical in nature, such as little Sally’s success, at age 6, in getting inside a rainbow and being enclosed in shafts of red, green, yellow, and blue. Others may be read as celebrations of life, such as the tale “Hyenas make the best audiences” and “Liechtenstein is the best country.” Still others are clearly borderline, such as the tale of a husband and wife who, after having all of their teeth knocked out in bar fights, have a hologram taken of the teeth of a zinjanthropus, found in a local paleological museum, and projected inside their mouths, and the tale of the Archaeological Detective Agency whose detectives spend their time solving crimes committed in the ancient Sumerian Empire, which existed from 5500 BCE until 1800 BCE. There are also pure fantasies, such as Captain Gulliver Puchner’s mission to Mars, where he discovered the architectural remnants of an ancient Roman settlement and encountered a small robot talking in Latin.
Praise
“These unusual adventures will teach you a thing or two about life and liberty in California and elsewhere, chipmunk rights, fish, breakfasts, and moon travel. Their picaresque protagonist may be small, but he is surprisingly well travelled. Athos’ views are unorthodox. His judgments are unexpected. And he brings acorns.”
— Torbjørn L. Knutsen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, the Norwegian University of Science & Technology