A flu virus emerges in Mumbai, India. For weeks, no one is concerned. After all, the flu appears every year. But this virus is different. It has one unusual symptom. Some of those infected with the virus become enraged. They become violent and destructive. As the virus progresses, the Rage, as it is being called, begins to concern world governments. Something has to be done to stop it. Mick Delaney, CEO of the pharmaceutical company Immutrends is called on by the president of the United St...

This is the author speaking. I haven't the slightest idea what it's about that's why I wrote it.

At the funeral of his old friend Jeff, who has committed suicide, Simeon, a poet in New York City, reencounters his old lover Liliana, who had also been Jeff's girlfriend and whom he has not seen for thirty years. Over drinks at the bar of the nearby Café Purgatorio, a long conversation ensues, trying to make sense of their three youths and what followed from them, again and again twisting together and pulling apart the circular trail of their steps and missteps. The more obsessively these...

Public expression in the United States has become increasingly coarse. Whether it’s stupid, rude, base, or anti-intellectual talk, it surrounds us. Popular television, film, music, art, and even some elements of religion have become as coarse, we argue, as our often-disparaged political dialogue. This book’s contention is that the U.S. semantic environment is governed by tactics, not tact. We craft messages that work—that perform their desired function. We are instrumental, strategic commu...

500,000 years before ancient men lit fire, alien beings, possessed of technology beyond all comprehension, discovered planet earth. What they found and had been seeking, was a bounty of resources: water, minerals, food, plants, and animals. Their discovery warranted an investment in engineering and infrastructure. To that end, they designed and built a series of underground complexes which resembled cross-like domes, structures they would use as both a base and laboratory for their plans. ...

The founders of Immutrends, Mick Delaney, Grant Tracer, and Emily Adkins, design and build a nearly impenetrable underground complex in Western Montana called the Core. Inside that complex are over 150 people of all disciplines and skills. There is enough food, water, and resources to last over 20 years. As the pandemic caused by Morphgen advances, the Core, led by vaccinologist Emily Adkins, begins developing a serum to counteract the virus Morphgen has released. But Morphgen counters wit...

When Earth Dimension 2 is threatened by aliens, Dr. Farrow enlists a small group of enhanced humans to engage them. War ensues.

The unexpected end of the protracted conflict has been a sobering experience for scholars. No theory had anticipated how the Cold War would be terminated, and none should also be relied upon to explicate its legacy. But instead of relying on preconceived formulas to project past developments, taking a historical perspective to explain their causes and consequences allows one to better understand trends and their long-term significance. The present book takes such perspective, focusing on t...

The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests were typically determined by the political and social debates in scholars’ native countries. In this book, leading Russian and American scholars analyze the problems arising from these intersections of ...

The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union interacted after World War II. Amid the Cold War division of Europe into Western and Eastern blocs, several long-time neutral countries abandoned neutrality and joined NATO. Other countries remained neutral but were still perceived as a threat to the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence. Based on extensive archival research, this volume offers state-of...

Language is not for God, but for man to get beyond his primitive feelings…"In Frederick Mark Kramer's They Shall Not Pass: A Novel of Manhattan and Madrid, the interior ruminations of disembodied, anonymous voices twist together in slow, constant alternation, and we gradually come to know four main figures: Jacobo, an American who fought in the Spanish Civil War and then returned to New York; Esmeralda, the woman he loved in Spain, who unbeknownst to Jacobo later ...

Armand Bayou Illustrated - A Life on the Bayouis the story of a person and a place. It is a naturalist's chronicle exploring the local ecology and natural history of the Bayou City's most beautifully preserved waterway. It offers a unique perspective into the natural world and its wildlife from someone who has made a life's work of conservation and environmental education.The story weaves Texas coastal ecology, wildlife and a memoir of observing the natural world for more t...