Explore one of history’s most notorious maximum-security prisons through these tales of mayhem and madness. As “animal factories” go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and mobsters. Peer in on America’s first vampire, accused of sucking his victims’ blood five years before Bram Stoker’s fictional villain was even born; peek into the cage of the original Prison Demon; and witness the daring escape of John Hunt Morgan’s band of Confederate prisoners.
From the author of "The Goldston Chronicles" comes a collection of nine short pieces that examine life under the most extreme and mundane of circumstances. James D. Dailey takes us through battlefields, buffalo roundups, and friendships, musing as he goes about how things are and how they should be.
Never Trust a Russian is a novel of love, hate, deception and treachery set against the sprawling backdrop of Western Russia. The story begins in Baku on the Caspian Sea and follows three brothers as they flee the ravaging Bolsheviks. They travel with Anarchists, Boatmen and Gypsies across a landscape of turmoil and death. The tale is based upon one family’s journey to America.
In Earth Tilt, Book IV: The Search for Brother Dennis, the world is recovering from massive disruption, but there's a long way to go for complete restoration. Susan Darby and her husband J.J. have come through the turmoil and adjusted to a new way of living in Paradise Valley, Virginia. But there's no electricity, no telephones or telegraph, and sporadic mail delivery comes by horse from across the altered landscape. When Susan receives a message that her brother, Dennis Kingsley, has been imprisoned on false charges and may face execution, she and J.J. embark on a rescue mission. Together they journey across a North America that has been thrown back into the conditions of the nineteenth century, depending on horse-drawn wagons and unreliable train service with passengers pressed into service as guards against bandits. Governments are fragmented, and town militias are not always available to keep the peace. It's nearly impossible to know who they can trust. As their supplies dwindle, finding Dennis proves more difficult than they ever imagined. Will they be successful in their quest? And if they are able to rescue him, can they persuade Dennis to return home, or will they join his rebellion?
In the not-too-distant future, cataclysmic climate changes have thrown the entire world into darkness. All trappings of civilization--law and order, technology, homes, shops, towns, cities--are suddenly gone. The survivors must use their common sense, moral judgment, and determination not only to overcome the great turmoil and loss, but also to prevail against those who would take advantage of the power vacuum left in the disaster's wake. Although it describes momentous historical events, The Goldston Chronicles is ultimately about people--and the resilience of the human spirit.
Maus decides to take over the world. He gets close but one man, Mike, stands in his way, so he conquers him and ends up offering to share the glory in the conquest of the world. Mike agrees and they take over the world. They then introduce a series of products that are aprovena to make one able to function without sleep. The result is that, without sleep, the mind goes into a robotic mode where it does only what needs to be done to stay alive. Leon and Faizah Wizen come along with a few friends and create what is known as WTF (whereas the freedom), a clan set out to take over Mike and Maus. Leon and Faizah die in an unfortunate car accident and so WTF is left to their fourteen-year-old. The story follows the paths of Mike; Maus; Leon; Faizah; and Hollis, Leonas son.
In the not-too-distant future, cataclysmic climate changes have thrown the world into darkness. All trappings of civilization--law and order, technology, homes, shops, towns, cities--are suddenly gone. The survivors must use their common sense, moral judgment, and determination not only to overcome the great turmoil and loss, but also to prevail against those who would take advantage of the power vacuum left in the disaster's wake. Although it describes momentous historical events, "Earth Tilt" is ultimately about people . . . and the resilience of the human spirit.
In The One Voice of James Dickey, Gordon Van Ness skillfully documents James Dickey's growth from a callow teen interested primarily in sports to a mature poet who possessed literary genius and who deliberately advanced himself and his career. The letters from 1942 through 1969 depict Dickey gradually establishing a self-identity, deciding to write, struggling to determine a subject matter and style, working determinedly to gain initial recognition, and eventually seeking out the literary establishment to promote himself and his views on poetry. The letters also portray a complex personality with broad interests, acute intelligence, and heightened imagination as well as a deep need to re-create his past and assume various roles in the present." "From Dickey's extensive correspondence, Van Ness has selected not only those letters that best reveal the chronological development of Dickey's career and his conscious efforts to chart its course, but also those that portray his other interests and depict the various features of his personality. The letters are grouped by decade, with each period placed in perspective by a critical introduction. The introductory sections offer a psychological understanding of Dickey's personality by identifying the needs and fears that affected his actions. They also explain the American literary and cultural scene that Dickey confronted as he matured. Together, the letters and commentary yield a sense of Dickey's complex personality - both the man as a writer and the writer as a man - while arguing that he remained "one voice."" "Because how a writer writes - the appearance of a writer's words on a page - makes a statement, the letters are reproduced here without alterations. There are no silent deletions or revisions; the original spelling and punctuation have been preserved. Dickey's letters gathered in The One Voice of James Dickey portray a poet's consciousness, chronicling its growth and revealing its breadth. They do not contain the whole truth, but they are what we have."--Jacket.
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Since the September 11 terrorist attacks--considered one of the worst intelligence failures in US history--the many agencies that constitute the homeland security enterprise have aggressively developed their intelligence capabilities and activities. Jeffrey Dailey and James Phelps provide a comprehensive introduction to the nature of intelligence, its structures, roles, and missions, in the context of homeland security. This accessible text: • Covers the full gamut of agencies involved in homeland security • Tackles difficult ethical issues • Discusses specific threats--ranging from drug trafficking and money laundering to bioterrorism and the challenges of Covid-19--and how they are dealt with by the intelligence community • Looks at how intelligence for national security can be applied to domestic security • Addresses the realities of intelligence sharing among federal, state, and local organizations. Enriched with numerous case studies of both successes and failures, the book has been carefully designed to meet the needs of students focusing on homeland security, intelligence, criminal justice, policing, security management, and related fields.
James Dickey: The Selected Poems is the first book to collect James Dickey's very best poems. Like many visionary poets of the ecstatic imagination, Dickey experimented in a wide variety of literary styles. This volume brings together the finest work from each of the periods in Dickey's extremely controversial career. For over three decades, until his death in 1997, Dickey was one of the nation's most important poets; these are the poems that brought him a popular readership and critical acclaim.
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