A fiction anthology featuring 36 amazing tabloid tales from a rock band with Satan as its manager to 2,437 UFOs in New Hampshire. Written by some of the zaniest minds in science fiction and fantasy--such as Dennis McKiernan and Kristine Kathryn Rusch--these better-than-true originals are sure to grab readers' imagination.

In Iron Age Ireland, Maeve, the fierce, willful youngest daughter of King Eochu of Connacht, is caught in a web of lies after rebelling to avoid fosterage with another highborn family and an arranged marriage.

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A mysterious knight arrives in New York City from another world searching for a dangerous dragon, which threatens to take over the city

As Himiko traverses ancient Japan in order to free enslaved members of her clan, she encounters members of many other tribes and emerges as the leader who will unify them.

Until she stumbled upon the Divine relief temp Agency, ilana Newhouse was having a hard time finding a summer job. Apparently, a t-shirt that reads "orC: the other green Meat" isn't appropriate for an interview. but when she reports for her first day as a temp, ilana discovers why Divine relief isn't shy about hiring someone a little left of ordinary. ilana is temping for the extraordinary greek mythological goddesses, the Fates. the three Fates are responsible for spinning, measuring, and cutting all the life-threads on the planet. ilana will be working--literally--with life and death. Now her summer is going to be less about surviving a stuffy office and more about avoiding a catastrophe!

Steal from the real Carl Sherwood had always dreamed of being a swashbuckling hero. Alas, buckling that old swash is not so easy when the word "computer geek" could have been coined for you. And what's the use of being the sharpest AI software wizard at Manifest Inc. - purveyor of andromechs to the gentry, and the big player in virtual reality - when your social life consists of a VR suit and a six pack? But if Carl's real life scenario is a bust, his VR life is getting richer by the minute. Deep in the company computing system lurk the components of Carl's special baby, "The Sherwood Game, " complete with its welf-aware main character, Robin Hood. Carl tells himself he's just working all the bugs out before he reports the results to his boss, but the truth is, he could sooner part with a chunk of his own flesh and blood. Which is what Robin will make him do before this game is done...

When TV star Suzannah Piper is killed in a tragic car accident, many publicly grieve but few genuinely mourn. But investigative journalist Lucy Strong mourns. When Lucy first arrived in London, it was Suzannah who helped her realize her dream. But as Lucy starts to uncover the secret life that Suzannah kept even from her, she realizes that her friend was playing a dangerous game, and soon her own life is under threat. . . "From the Paperback edition.

"Inspired by Marcel Duchamp's archived letters, Duchamp versus Einstein is a science fiction novelette spanning some of the most monumental events of the 20th century, and bringing together two of the most transformative figures of the era in art and science for a surreal chess match that could reshape history."--Amazon.com.

We are taught in civics class that the Constitution provides for three basic branches of government: executive, judicial, and legislative. While the President and Congress as elected by popular vote are representative, can they really reflect accurately the will and sentiment of the populace? Or do money and power dominate everyday politics to the detriment of true self-governance? Is there a way to put "We the people" back into government? Ethan Leib thinks there is and offers this blueprint for a fourth branch of government as a way of giving the people a voice of their own. While drawing on the rich theoretical literature about deliberative democracy, Leib concentrates on designing an institutional scheme for embedding deliberation in the practice of American democratic government. At the heart of his scheme is a process for the adjudication of issues of public policy by assemblies of randomly selected citizens convened to debate and vote on the issues, resulting in the enactment of laws subject both to judicial review and to possible veto by the executive and legislative branches. The "popular" branch would fulfill a purpose similar to the ballot initiative and referendum but avoid the shortcomings associated with those forms of direct democracy. Leib takes special pains to show how this new branch would be integrated with the already existing governmental and political institutions of our society, including administrative agencies and political parties, and would thus complement rather than supplant them.

This classic, originally published in 1938, was reprinted in 1969 for a new generation by Berg Publishers. From the new introduction by Harold J. Berman: "That this book--written six decades ago--is without question an extraordinary book, a remarkable book, a fascinating book, has not saved it from relative obscurity. It is directed against conventional historiography, and for the most part the conventional historians have either ignored it or denounced it . . . [It] is a history in the best sense of the word. Although it embodies original scholarship of the highest professional quality, it is written primarily for the amateur, the person of general education, who wants to know where we came from and whither we are headed. But it is also a theory of history: how history should be understood, how historians should write about it . . .. Out of Revolution interprets modern Western history as a single 900-year period, initiated by total revolution . . . and punctuated thereafter by a series of total revolutions that broke out successively in the different European nations . . .. Rosenstock-Huessy was a prophet who, like many great prophets, failed in his own time, but whose time may now be coming."

""Life is Movement"" is a book written by Eugen Sandow, a renowned German bodybuilder and fitness expert. The book is a comprehensive guide to physical reconstruction and regeneration of the human body. It emphasizes the importance of movement and exercise in maintaining a healthy and fit body. The book is divided into several chapters, each focusing on a specific aspect of physical fitness. The first chapter discusses the importance of physical training and its impact on overall health. The following chapters cover topics such as breathing, posture, nutrition, and the benefits of different types of exercise.Sandow also provides detailed instructions on various exercises and workout routines, including weightlifting, calisthenics, and gymnastics. He emphasizes the importance of proper form and technique to avoid injury and maximize results.In addition to the practical advice, ""Life is Movement"" also includes philosophical and motivational insights. Sandow argues that physical fitness is not only important for health but also for personal development and success in life. He encourages readers to embrace a healthy lifestyle and to strive for excellence in all areas of their lives.Overall, ""Life is Movement"" is a valuable resource for anyone interested in physical fitness and health. Sandow's expertise and passion for fitness are evident throughout the book, making it an inspiring and informative read.This book describes the only natural, radical and permanent method of curing, preventing and eliminating disease and is dedicated by the author to the medical profession throughout the world. Sandow devoted assiduous study to the subject of the influence of scientific physical movement upon the wonderful cellular life of the body, and especially to the influence of physical movement, scientifically applied and carried out, upon the conscious evolution of new and better cells. This volume is the outcome of these studies, and its chief object is to show how such physical movement can reconstruct tissue that is diseased, replacing it with new and healthy tissue, and how, by applying it from childhood, we may prevent and even eradicate disease altogether. Illustrated.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Sandow on Physical Training is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The distinguished contemporary Jewish philosopher, teacher, and editor, Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz, examines the responses of Jewish thought to the challenge of the modern world. This book celebrates the achievement of the thiinkers who responded to the unprecedented challenge modernity issued to Jewish faith. Large numbers in our community doubt God's existence, are skeptical about the revelation of the Torah, and cannot believe that the Jewish people has a unique role in human history. By studying the ideas of our great modern philosophers, wven when one disagrees with them one is stimulated to think more keenly about one's own Judaism.

A book of ethical wisdom applied to contemporary life

This memoir, a young poet's tragicomic account of crossed loves and rebellions as he grows from boy to man under the vigilant eyes of the state in the Soviet Union between the 1950s and 1970s, can be approached as a bildungsroman. It is set in Tallinn, Riga and Moscow (with episodes in Uzbekistan, Moldavia, and the Ukraine) and, apart from this author's own story, deals with the experiences of young people of that period, their friendships and attempts to form erotic/romantic attachments, as well as their search for national--Baltic, Jewish, Russian--identity while being watched and sometimes interrogated by the secret police. It also includes some reconstruction of the author's family history: expulsion from Spain, the Magician of Prague, the renowned historian Simon Dubnov. The volume progresses from the demonstration of two seven-year-old boys' against Stalin and Lenin, in Tallinn, in the mid-1950s to a dramatic and doomed love affair with a woman married to an army colonel who attempts to shoot the author as the latter is about to make his final exit from the country, with the KGB on his tail, in the early 1970s. While raising a number of important historical and contemporary issues, the memoir is also an involving narrative, a visually descriptive story, varied and engrossing, involving philosophical, theological, and detective elements; popular and literary culture; countries and languages; high seriousness and undercutting irony.

In this critical survey, the author, who is one of the best informed and most perceptive amongst Marxist scholars, examines both Marx's positive ethics of the truly human man freed from alienation and Marx's materialist critique of moralities as class-bound ideologies. He considers the contributions of Marx's disciples, in the Soviet Union and the western world, and argues that Marxism has conflated a number of ethical positions -- the ethics of self-realisation, utilitarianism, ethical relativism, evolutionary ethics and an unexamined ethic of self-determination and cooperation. Whatever its defects may be, Marxism has helped to point the way to a sociology of morals and to an understanding of the connection between man and society.

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Architecturally Speaking is a comprehensive book written by Eugene Raskin that delves into the world of architecture. The book covers a wide range of topics related to architecture, including the history of architecture, architectural styles, building materials, and the role of the architect in society. The book is divided into several chapters, each of which focuses on a specific aspect of architecture. The first chapter provides an overview of the history of architecture, tracing the evolution of architecture from ancient times to the present day. The second chapter explores the different architectural styles that have emerged over the centuries, including Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modernist styles. The third chapter delves into the materials used in architecture, including wood, stone, brick, and concrete. The fourth chapter focuses on the role of the architect in society, discussing the ethical and social responsibilities of architects and the impact of architecture on society. The book also includes numerous illustrations and photographs that help to bring the concepts discussed in the text to life. Overall, Architecturally Speaking is a must-read for anyone interested in architecture, whether they are students, professionals, or simply enthusiasts.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.