The Valiant Runaways

The Valiant Runaways
Author: Gertrude Atherton
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1776586093

Though originally intended for younger audiences, The Valiant Runaways is a rip-roaring action-adventure tale that will ensnare the interest of readers of all ages. Roldan Castanada is a young man who has strong opinions about everything and who is not inclined to take orders he doesn't agree with. But when he's conscripted as a soldier in the conflict between U.S. and Mexico over control of California, Roldan's attitude begins to change.

The Valiant Runaways

The Valiant Runaways
Author: Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2018-03-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9783337507084

Julia France and Her Times

Julia France and Her Times
Author: Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434483681

A facsimile reprint of Atherton's 1912 novel.

Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927

Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927
Author: Nina Baym
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-08-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0252078845

Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists, poets, memoirists, and historians such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley. Nina Baym mined literary and cultural histories, anthologies, scholarly essays, catalogs, advertisements, and online resources to debunk critical assumptions that women did not publish about the West as much as they did about other regions. Elucidating a substantial body of nearly 650 books of all kinds by more than 300 writers, Baym reveals how the authors showed women making lives for themselves in the West, how they represented the diverse region, and how they represented themselves. Baym accounts for a wide range of genres and geographies, affirming that the literature of the West was always more than cowboy tales and dime novels. Nor did the West consist of a single landscape, as women living in the expanses of Texas saw a different world from that seen by women in gold rush California. Although many women writers of the American West accepted domestic agendas crucial to the development of families, farms, and businesses, they also found ways to be forceful agents of change, whether by taking on political positions, deriding male arrogance, or, as their voluminous published works show, speaking out when they were expected to be silent.

Runaway Horses

Runaway Horses
Author: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307834301

The second novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility—and “a modern masterpiece” (The Baltimore Sun)—narrated by a judge in Osaka who believes he has met the successive reincarnation of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. In 1932, Shigeuki Honda has become a judge in Osaka. Convinced that a young rightist revolutionary, Isao, is the reincarnation of his friend Kiyoaki, Honda commits himself to saving the youth from an untimely death. Isao, driven to patriotic fanaticism by a father who instilled in him the ethos of the ancient samurai, organizes a violent plot against the new industrialists who he believes are usurping the Emperor’s rightful power and threatening the very integrity of the nation. Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a conspiracy — a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war.

Runaway Science

Runaway Science
Author: Nick Redfern
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2023-01-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1578598427

Will computers come to dominate man? Will advanced technology, robots and artificial intelligence enhance or destroy our future … and thereby changing us forever!?! Learn about the history, the menace and opportunities of technology—as well as possible futures—in this one-of-a-kind book! Is technology running amok or is it serving as a helping hand? Is it a threat or a benefit? Runaway Science: True Stories of Raging Robots and Hi-Tech Horrors presents the ominous, and some encouraging, stories of how technology has shaped our past and might shape our future. It dives into the question of mankind’s future. An exhilarating and troubling read, it looks at whether robots and technology are a threat or a boon to humanity. Its investigations include … Robocops and robots in the police force Robots replacing people in the workplace The high tech of ancient times Clones, androids, modified humans, cyborgs, designer babies, and half-human robots CIA plots to control our minds The sentient internet Monitoring our every move with microchip implants The threat of unfathomable alien intelligence and technology The singularity of uncontrollable and irreversible supplanting of human intelligence with technological intelligence Science fiction and science fact—and how science fiction foreshadowed the future Clandestine technological dangers and government mind-control plots Robotic limbs, androids and half-humans The prospect of uploading our minds into computers to ensure immortality Whether robots will rise up and cause humans to become extinct And much, much more. With more than 100 photos and illustrations, this riveting read is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. Ponder the possibilities with this examination of the menace of robots, artificial intelligence, and technology of the past, present, and future. Exciting and worrisome, Runaway Science looks at past horrors and future dangers of technology!