Determined to bring a war instigator to justice, John Wells confronts obstacles in the form of political resistance, CIA agendas, and meddling by foreign interests before embarking on a high-risk solo mission.
NOIRLATHOTEP 2: MORE TALES OF LOVECRAFTIAN CRIME features six all-new stories by the writers of Psycho Drive-In that push the boundaries of what you can do with the concept of Lovecraftian Mythos-inspired crime fiction.Dan Lee kicks us off with "Little Girls and Other Nightmares" as a hard-boiled detective's job to find a little girl is complicated by her very possessive mother.Then we move to "Dust Devil" by R. Mike Burr, where small-town hostilities spiral into mind-shattering devastation for everyone involved.Then Alex Wolfe's "Devil in the Machine" takes us back to the days shortly before her NOIRLATHOTEP 1 story, to discover the backstory of a very intriguing, and mind-addled, hacker.Rick Shingler then takes us into the "Belly of the Beast" as an intrepid reporter mistakenly believes that getting the scoop of a crime boss's notorious past is the most important thing that's going to happen to him on that day.Paul Brian McCoy is up next with "The Stuff Nightmares are Made Of" - a 1920s riff on The Maltese Falcon, Indiana Jones adventures, and the Cthulhu Mythos, with a healthy dose of sex and drugs thrown into the mix.We round out the collection with John E. Meredith's novella "Watching, Waiting" which tells both the past and future history of the world through the eyes of a professor who discovered a little too much truth in the course of his studies.
Breathless, gripping, up-all-night reading' Nora Roberts. A mysterious stranger. A deadly task. A dark secret hidden for sixty years... When State Trooper Skottie Foster moves back home to rural Kansas, she's hoping for a new start. But then a chance encounter on a snowy highway changes everything. Travis Roan is a Nazi hunter, and he needs her help. Roan suspects this isolated region is home to infamous World War Two villain Rudolph Bormann. As they encounter immediate resistance from the deeply suspicious community, it soon becomes clear that Bormann's new life in America is every bit as sinister as his awful past. But neither Roan nor Foster imagines how dangerous - and how personal - their task will become... ***SEE WHAT BESTSELLING AUTHORS ARE ALREADY SAYING ABOUT THE WOLF*** "Deft prose, a steady drip of suspense, a blood-soaked secret from another time... My prescription? Purchase and consume immediately" Gregg Hurwitz, no.1 bestselling author of Orphan X 'The perfect storm of a story: a can't-put-it-down-until-I find-out-what-happens-next thriller' Lorenzo Carcaterra, New York Times bestselling author of Sleepers ** Published in the USA as Saint of Wolves and Butchers **
In the spring of 1900, Katie O'Hare returns to Sweetwater Springs ten years after being orphaned by a murderous act that left her with nothing but an old pocket watch and scattered memories. Reluctantly she begins to fall for Tyler Reynolds, a rugged young cowboy with a troubled past. As their romance deepens, they find themselves tragically connected to a secret that puts their love and their lives in danger.-------When a teaching job brings Katie back to Sweetwater, she is forced to confront the difficult memories of her past. Determined to succeed, she is more than grateful when Tyler offers his comfort and strength allowing her to find happiness again. As her trust in him grows she begins to reveal her painful memories.Tyler harbors a shameful secret and when an opportunity to protect the beautiful young school teacher presents itself, he jumps at the chance for redemption. With a seemingly unforgivable past and little to offer her, he tries to avoid a serious relationship, but there is something about her he can't resist.When a birthday gift and an old pocket watch spark a startling confession, the difficult truths of their past and the realization of how closely their lives are intertwined will force them to work together to now survive the one enemy they will face tonight.
Explores the history of artificial intelligence, from its conceptual origins in seventeenth-century philosophy to its modern-day impact upon science and technology, war, and the entertainment industry.
This study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe's four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New Sun.
Challenging History in the Museum explores work with difficult, contested and sensitive heritages in a range of museum contexts. It is based on the Challenging History project, which brings together a wide range of heritage professionals, practitioners and academics to explore heritage and museum learning programmes in relation to difficult and controversial subjects. The book is divided into four sections. Part I, ’The Emotional Museum’ examines the balance between empathic and emotional engagement and an objective, rational understanding of ’history’. Part II, ’Challenging Collaborations’ explores the opportunities and pitfalls associated with collective, inclusive representations of our heritage. Part III, ’Ethics, Ownership, Identity’ questions who is best-qualified to identify, represent and ’own’ these histories. It challenges the concept of ownership and personal identification as a prerequisite to understanding, and investigates the ideas and controversies surrounding this premise. Part IV, ’Teaching Challenging History’ helps us to explore the ethics and complexities of how challenging histories are taught. The book draws on work countries around the world including Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, England, Germany, Japan, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, South Africa, Spain and USA and crosses a number of disciplines: Museum and Heritage Studies, Cultural Policy Studies, Performance Studies, Media Studies and Critical Theory Studies. It will also be of interest to scholars of Cultural History and Art History.
Liberty and character play vital roles in the functioning of free societies, but we often overlook both. Alex Adams gives them the attention they deserve in this memoir, highlighting his adventures and missteps in seeking to promote liberty and justice. His insights will particularly resonate with his fellow scientists and engineers, who may recognize themselves in various parts of the story—or see alternate ways to deal with problems. The author’s intent is to highlight the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of human behavior to come to conclusions about how we’ve arrived at our current state, where we are likely headed, and how we should think about our lives. Throughout the book, he promotes the value of freedom even while recognizing that many have difficulty managing it. Even so, he cautions everyone against authoritarian government as it stunts personal growth and inevitably leads to corruption. Join the author as he shares the lessons he’s learned over a long career and urges everyone to reject party politics in Freedom Is Not Free.
Organic Chemistry: The Name Game: Modern Coined Terms and their Origins is a lighthearted take on the usually difficult and systematic nomenclature found in organic chemistry. However, despite the lightheartedness, the book does not lose its purpose, which is to serve as a source of information on this particular subject of organic chemistry. The book, arranged into themes, discusses some organic compounds and how they are named based on their structure, makeup, and components. The text also explains the use of Greek and Latin prefixes in nomenclature and many other principles in nomenclature. The book also includes an appendix that contains very useful information on nomenclature, such as the etymology of certain element and chemical names, numerical prefixes, and the Greek alphabet. The text is not only for students who wish to be familiarized with a different style of organic chemistry nomenclature, but also for professors who aim to give students an enjoyable yet memorable learning experience.
This study offers a historicization of the 2010s in British theatre with a focus on the representation of systemic violence, exploring productions that engage with concerns of protest, climate crisis, neoliberalism, racism and gender-based violence. It offers a range of case studies from established and emergent playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Martin McDonagh, Anders Lustgarten, Lucy Kirkwood, Ella Hickson, Jasmine Lee-Jones, debbie tucker green, Zinnie Harris, and Travis Alabanza. Productions of their work in the 2010s are analysed through a framework of cultural theory, philosophy, and theatre and performance studies that offer insightful conceptions of violence and performativity. Central to this book is the belief that theatre has the ability to depict issues of systemic violence in thoughtful and valuable ways, drawing on the medium's specific relations between creatives, texts, spectatorship and audiences to mindfully engage participants in the most pressing societal and cultural concerns of their time.
Our minds are severely limited in how much information they can extensively process, in spite of being massively parallel at the visual end. When people attempt to track moving objects, only a limited number can be tracked, which varies with display parameters. Associated experiments indicate that spatial selection and updating has higher capacity than selection and updating of features such as color and shape, and is mediated by processes specific to each cerebral hemisphere, such that each hemifield has its own spatial tracking limit. These spatial selection processes act as a bottleneck that gate subsequent processing. To improve our understanding of this bottleneck, future work should strive to avoid contamination of tracking tasks by high-level cognition. While we are far from fully understanding how attention keeps up with multiple moving objects, what we already know illuminates the architecture of visual processing and offers promising directions for new discoveries.
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