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Author | : Ray Cummings |
Publisher | : eStar Books |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1612101046 |
Red Sensua's knife came up dripping-and the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom of the fourth dimension.
Author | : Ray Cummings |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494857530 |
Red Sensua's Knife Came up Dripping-and the Two Adventurers Knew that Chaos and Bloody Revolution Had Been Unleashed in that Shadowy Kingdom of the Fourth Dimension. (A Complete Novel.)
Author | : Ray Cummings |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2022-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1667660373 |
Red Sensua's knife came up dripping—and the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom of the fourth dimension.
Author | : Michael Barkun |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 080783470X |
Compares the imagined threat of terrorism in America to the reality of terrorist threats, arguing that "unseen dangers" and destruction fantasies in popular culture contribute to a disproportional sense of fear and a cumbersome homeland security bureaucracy.
Author | : Dean Koontz |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2002-02-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1440620172 |
“Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen King They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...
Author | : Loren Fossum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Grief |
ISBN | : |
Inspired by the works of Josh Ritter and Michel Gondry, Phantoms of Reality is a science-fiction story set in the American South. Avery's life has been defined by the loss of her father when she was three. Her mom, Helena, never learned to cope with the loss, and the grief drove her to develop omniscient dreaming, an experimental therapy technique. She secretly teaches Avery the practice and tries to use Avery to see her dead husband again. As Avery grows older, and Helena's grief begins to fade, there is hope for a relationship between them, until Avery discovers the real goals of Helena's research. When tragedy strikes again, Avery is forced to confront her own understanding of the past, living in her father's shadow, and what it means to say goodbye.
Author | : V. S. Ramachandran |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 1999-08-18 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0688172172 |
Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in God, how we make decisions, deceive ourselves and dream, perhaps even why we're so clever at philosophy, music and art. Some of his most notable cases: A woman paralyzed on the left side of her body who believes she is lifting a tray of drinks with both hands offers a unique opportunity to test Freud's theory of denial. A man who insists he is talking with God challenges us to ask: Could we be "wired" for religious experience? A woman who hallucinates cartoon characters illustrates how, in a sense, we are all hallucinating, all the time. Dr. Ramachandran's inspired medical detective work pushes the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier -- the human mind -- yielding new and provocative insights into the "big questions" about consciousness and the self.
Author | : Christian Kiefer |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-04-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0871408872 |
One of the Millions' "Most Anticipated" Books of 2019 Torn apart by war and bigotry, two families confront long-buried secrets in this haunting American novel of World War II and Vietnam. In the panoramic tradition of Charles Frazier’s fiction, Phantoms is a fierce saga of American culpability. A Vietnam vet still reeling from war, John Frazier finds himself an unwitting witness to a confrontation, decades in the making, between two steely matriarchs: his aunt, Evelyn Wilson, and her former neighbor, Kimiko Takahashi. John comes to learn that in the onslaught of World War II, the Takahashis had been displaced as once-beloved tenants of the Wilson orchard and sent to an internment camp. One question has always plagued both families: What happened to the Takahashi son, Ray, when he returned from service and found that Placer County was no longer home—that nowhere was home for a Japanese American? As layers of family secrets unravel, the harrowing truth forces John to examine his own guilt. In prose recalling Thomas Wolfe, Phantoms is a stunning exploration of the ghosts of American exceptionalism that haunt us today.
Author | : Jacques Bonnet |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2012-07-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1468301853 |
“A charming book full of erudition and wit” that explores the human impulse to accumulate books (Literary Review). Jacques Bonnet, a lifelong accumulator of books ancient and modern, lives in a house large enough to accommodate his tens of thousands of volumes, as well as some overspill from the libraries of his friends. While his musings on the habits of collectors from the earliest known libraries are learned, amusing, and instructive, his advice on cataloging may even save lives. Ranging from classical Greece to contemporary Iceland, from Balzac to Moby-Dick and Google, Phantoms on the Bookshelves is a blend of memoir, history, and love letter that will be a lasting delight for all who treasure books.
Author | : Robert Ruby |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466885165 |
It is a place both mythic and all too real, a place thought to be the site of one of our oldest human settlements and known to be a center of ancient cultures and annihilating conflicts. It sits at the bottom of a malarial valley, the lowest place on the surfact of the earth--"the overheated, earthen basement of the world," as Robert Ruby describes it. And yet, long before the world's modern religions began scrapping over its bones, Jericho was home to waves of colonization and floods of destruction. Fought over by the succeeding epochs of ancestors, the place we call Jericho is as old as the first remnants dated at 9,000 B.C.--and as current as the daily headlines. In this unorthodox biography of the first eleven thousand years in the life of a legend, Robert Ruby takes us back through time to those early settlements, then forward to the often crude but ultimately successful latter-day attempts to locate Jericho, to unearth and map and catalog its history. Beginning with the geography of place, he weaves together his own intimate knowledge of modern-day Jericho with stories of the lives and work of those explorers and archaeologists of the past whose courage often bordered on madness and whose dedication sometimes seemed the purest kind of human folly. Soldiers, scholars, engineers, adventurers--dilettantes and professionals alike, they were all dreamers drawn to this parched and dusty spot where so much of human history took place. Matching biblical accounts to araeological evidence, sifting myth from science, phantoms from reality, Robert Ruby teases out the complex strata of the past, helping us to make sense of what exists today. With the flair of a novelist and the enthusiasm of an amateur archaeologist, he offers a tale that is part detection, part epic adventure. Above all, he gives us a work of great literary panache: witty, fact-filled, and uterly, subversively compelling.