In these ten stories, Steve Clark guides us through an urban terrain of relationships--marital and filial, romantic and bitter--exploring loss and longing in a timeless but modern cityscape. A man leaves his wife in bed with the flu and takes a walk through his past, encountering the dead and living, the real and surreal, on his last day alive in Paris. A couple, who've married each other three times, break up at an iconic New York piano bar. A wife casually confesses to a nonchalant husba...

As the US Left struggles to define a vision and plan for 21st century socialism, it can benefit from post-Marxist insight in three vital realms: cultural hegemony, class analysis, and state power.

I can't stand it when I can figure out the ending before I'm half way through a book or a movie. Here is a challenge for you. You won't in my book. Two army buddies think they are going after a man eating Grizzly. They soon learn their not. The FBi thinks they are going after a serial killer. They find out the hard way it isn't. A lesson learned when it comes after them. There are over 700 911 calls a year in Yellowstone National park. For years this area has been plauged by these strange ...

Since Donald Trump's 2024 election, the Democrats have been rightly damned for their failure to stand up for the interests of the nation's working class majority.On the outs now and enduring Trump's autocracy, many Democrats insist on changing their party's stance. Too frequently, however, their alternative is some vague resurrection of the New Deal, the social contract that got the nation -- and, in many ways, the world -- out of the Great Depression and World War II and, then, gi...

In these ten stories, Steve Clark guides us through an urban terrain of relationships--marital and filial, romantic and bitter--exploring loss and longing in a timeless but modern cityscape. A man leaves his wife in bed with the flu and takes a walk through his past, encountering the dead and living, the real and surreal, on his last day alive in Paris.A couple, who've married each other three times, break up at an iconic New York piano bar. A wife casually confesses to a nonchalant husban...

After roughly 500 years on earth, industrialism has reached the limits of its sustainability. Ecological destruction in combination with economic and social polarization has brought civilization to the brink of a new dark age. Deforestation, species extinction, oil depletion, climate change, food insecurity, epidemics, migrations and soaring violence – these now are the markers of our planet's future.Already bearing down in the harshest possible way on millions of the world's peopl...

In this extraordinary and bold book, S.H. Clark explores and constructs a history of poetic misogyny. For the first time, a wide range of English poetry by men is examined for evidence of the articulation of heterosexual masculine desires.But Clark goes beyond a straightforward oppositional model of reading the male canon, to ask how we read this work 'after feminism', and whether it is possible to value these texts as misogynist texts in the light of feminist theory?Sord...

Most Blue Jays fans have taken in a game or two at Rogers Centre, remember where they were when Joe Carter hit his World Series–winning home run in 1993, and took in every moment of the Jays' historic 2015 postseason run. But only real fans know who spent two decades as the team's BJ Birdy mascot, can name the opposing player who was once jailed for hitting a seagull with a thrown baseball at Exhibition Stadium, or how long it takes to open the Rogers Centre roof. 100 Things Blue Jays ...

When Jose Bautista homered and flipped his bat in the 2015 playoffs, Blue Jays frenzy reached a fever pitch not seen since Joe Carter’s 1993 World Series home run.Those two home runs still bring tears and chills to Jays fans. And each season, each game, each at bat holds triumphs, heartbreaks and surprises of its own.In Bat Flip, editor Keith McArthur curates the very best writing about the Toronto Blue Jays, from the tragic postscript to Doug Ault’s 1977 opening day heroic...

Only Fools and Horses - The Official Inside Storytakes us behind the scenes to reveal the secrets of the hit show and is fully authorised by the family of John Sullivan, the show's creator and writer. The book is based on dozens of one-to-one interviews conducted by author Steve Clark with the show's stars including Sir David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst and key members of the production team.

In hard times, dissention mounts.The old social contract flounders and cannot be revived.Reaction asserts itself.Rising forces seek liberation.Danger and risk intensify.Opportunity beckons.Such is our time. In Digging Out—Global Crisis and the Search for a New Social Contract, two brothers from the social and environmental justice movements open the debate over the next social contract, identifying its strategic aims and political agenda. Theirs i...

When an accomplished university professor is arrested and sentenced to jail, he experiences firsthand the criminal justice system, a deliberately indifferent healthcare system, and the challenges felons face while trying to rebuild a life after their sentence is over. A Past That Lies Before Me is a raw, honest narrative about Steve Clark’s encounter with the legal system and the people he got to know in jail. It is also an exposé about adjusting to an alien world within the corrections sy...