The story of Ty Chase, lawman, bounty hunter, and warrior for the law leads the reader through the perils faced by Chase and his fellow lawmen as they bring killers and thieves to justice. This volume includes Ride the High Ridge, The Great Divide, Desperado, and Switchback Mountain.
Dr. Jake Redmond is a nuclear physics professor at Ole Miss (University of Mississippi), Oxford, MS. Redmond's doctoral work as a student there centered on the search for the Higgs boson particle, an elementary particle initially theorized in 1964, the theoretical building block of all matter. His current project seeks to explain and control gravity by manipulation of subatomic electrical charges. The device through which Redmond hopes to accomplish this is called the Spherical Electro Magnetic Pulse Generator (aka SHEMP; Redmond is a Three Stooges fan). Shemp uses high heat, extremely intense pulsed magnetic fields, and high atmospheric pressure in attempts to permanently saturate matter magnetically. Redmond theorizes that ferrous matter which is thus treated might even become weightless, and that some materials will become extremely dense. As successes are being realized in the laboratory, the accidental creations of several new elements are hailed by the scientific community. The work is brought to a halt when a much more serious accident happens. During a dangerous experiment involving the superheating of a block of metal, strange things begin happening. Gravity bends and sound is blocked, Einsteinian color shifts in the room lighting are accompanied by a gravity pulse that transforms both the test piece and the man. When he is found unconscious inside of the pressure chamber by first responders, Redmond is taken to the state's northern burn unit in Corinth. He lingers on the edge of a coma and is pronounced dead a number of times before finally beginning an amazing recovery. When he is able to recount the incident, it is realized that the metal test piece has vanished. Video shows that it has somehow comingled with the tissues of his body. Side-effects become immediately apparent. Besides a persistent metallic taste in his mouth and a discoloration of his eyes, he has a dramatic metabolic increase, weight gain, and densification of his body's tissues. He is increasingly able to attract and repel objects at will. He begins to notice that his body is becoming more and more impervious to pain and injury, and he has become INDESTRUCTIBLE.
This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true north of the modern moral compass. Contributors to this volume consider various aspects of this virtue, by comparison with what came before and with attention to its development from early to late modernity, and up to the present.
New Orleans, LA: After going public with his fantastic creation, a perpetual motion wheel, Bill Murphy struggles through difficult circumstances, finding that certain people are interested enough to kill for it. He takes the precaution of going into hiding until he is able to get a better feel for the public's reaction to his find. His suspicions are quickly legitimized by the actions of mob-connected individuals. Murphy and his wife remain in hiding while being pursued across America by unrelenting killers until help comes through unexpected sources and Murphy finally joins forces with the man he had once considered his worst enemy.
3000 years ago there came a plague among the 12 tribes of the Manding people of the coast of West Africa. Thousands died a horrible death as helpless survivors watched. Desperately they boarded ships and sailed west for another land. They sailed thousands of miles before they finally saw land. They believed that they were free from it and all remembrance of it was purged from their lore for fear that to speak of it could cause its return. The legends faded. Visitors came from far away telling of a great priest whose followers were said to become immortal, but unbelievers would see the eternal fire. The legends of the plague resurfaced and mingled with that of the priest said to be the Son of the One True God. The elders forbade to speak his name saying that it would anger the gods and the plague would return. The plague did return. Using infected mummies from ancient Peruvian burial tunnels, one man's quest for vengeance brings the world to panic amid an epidemic of spontaneous human combustion.
Terence P. Jeffrey is a nationally syndicated opinion columnist for Creators Syndicate. This is a collection of the very best of Terence P. Jeffrey from 2014
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