After crashing on Earth in separate ships, two lots of spacemen battle each other in 1880s Arizona, even taking part in the historic gunfight at the OK Corral. One lot are the nasty Kra'agh, the other descendants of the 16th century Lost Colony of Roanoke, saved from starvation by aliens who took them to space.
A typical hardworking man and his fiancee are living together in the heart of East New York, trying to save money so they can move to a better place. When his fiancee is viciously taken from the home, he becomes a one-man army to take on a notorious drug lord who holds her captive and is also known as a ghost. Suddenly, their lives change in two different directions, and all hell breaks loose.
An anthology of 31 essays by the philosophically gifted selected by the editors as historically significant to the "post" in postmodernism, exhibiting the shift away from documentation and interpretation to an exploration of significance. The collection begins with Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes, traveling into 19th century social theory with Marx and Nietzsche, the challenges to those theories presented by Dewey and Kuhn, and the deconstruction of modernity with Foucault, Derrida, and Cornel West. In the final section, Habermas and Benhabib (among others) respond to postmodernism, taking us into the post postmodern contexts of the future. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
From the writings of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to comics like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Lady Mechanika, the detailed and imagination-fueled steampunk movement has excited fans worldwide. Set in an original, sprawling steampunk world, Lantern City explores everything we love about the genre and what it takes to change a person's place in the world."--Publisher annotation.
One doesn't, in practice, always get the benefit of doubt. A defendant may well find himself guilty until proven innocent. In this book, the author attempts to win the reader over to his innocence, by giving an account and explanation of himself. Thus, he tells his thoughts and experiences which he feels might be relevant to the accusation against him. There is no actual legal case. But on a purely personal level, he feels he is misunderstood, and so is motivated to explain himself. The book suggests that a defendant might do well to take the stand in his own behalf, rather than allow the prosecution to do all the work of presenting evidence. This would be true, though, only if the defendant were truly innocent.
Skinjob paperback edition. A novel by Bruce McCabe. Skinjob is a fast-paced thriller set in the boardrooms, brothels, churches, alleyways and dark places of the near future.
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