There are echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand, plus graphic violence and heart-stopping action set pieces, but what lifts South above many recent examples of the subgenre is Owen's pared-down prose, slick narrative and the sensitive depiction of Dyce and Vida's relationship. - GuardianSouth takes place in a USA ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses e...

Guardian's Book of the Month, 2018'[With] echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand...' Guardian on SouthIf a virus doesn't kill you, the South will...The USA has been ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South. While the South has been devastated by disease - the North has emerged victorio...

This investigative reporter's six year journey behind the velvet ropes of Manhattan's infamous nightclub scene is "[an] addictive exposé" ( Elle ).In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on "Special K," a new designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally notorious Limelight, a decrepit church converted into a Manhattan disco, where pulse-...

First published in 1938, this is a collection of four Oriental tales, including 'Five Merchants Who Met in a Tea-House,' and 'Doctor Shen Fu,' a tale of a Chinese alchemist who possesses the elixir of life.These beautiful and exotic series of Oriental fantasies, set in a China of the imagination, are brought to life by author Frank Owen's brilliant descriptive passages that embroider his tales.

Hells Angels and fallen televangelist Ted Haggard. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, gay sex clubs, college campuses, and military battlefields. In this fascinating book, Frank Owen traces the spread of methamphetamine—meth—from its origins as a cold and asthma remedy to the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture.Meth is the latest "epidemic" to attract the attention of law enforcement and the media, but like cocaine and heroin its roots are medi...

"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!

Weird Tales' launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While pulp magazines had been around for some time, 'Weird Tales' was the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural fiction. 'Weird Tales' single-handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer did readers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror have to seek out single stories in otherwise mundane magazines; now they had a magazine all of their own that published only the stories the...

"Atlantic City. Casinos. Freizeitparks. Museen. Und ... das Bauunternehmen der Familie Black, die in dieser Stadt das Ruder in der Hand hält. Genau deshalb hat Owen Black nicht vor, irgendetwas an seinem Leben zu ändern. Er genießt den Reichtum, er mag seinen Platz im Vorstand und liebt es, das Imperium seiner Familie zu leiten und zu lenken. Wohl strukturiert ist jeder seiner Schritte geplant. Diskret genießt er die Freuden des Lebens, schafft es, durch seine vermeintlich arrogante Art, s...

This text offers a major reassessment of the life and thought of the distinguished 19th century industrial philanthropist and educational reformer, Robert Owen. In a period when Owen's radical new visions for learning and teaching, adult and vocational pedagogy and social transformation are receiving fresh and global attention, Robert Davis and Frank O'Hagan place Owen's thought right at the heart of the Enlightenment advocacy of popular, democratic mass education. Tracing both the ancestr...

Dieser Band enthält folgende Western: Und dann schlägt dir die Stunde, McQuade (Pete Hackett) Salbeibusch-Justiz (Pete Hackett) Die Rache des Jonathan Randall (Pete Hackett) Todestrail (Pete Hackett) Grainger und die Knochensucher: Western (Frank Maddox) Das rote Halstuch (George Owen Baxter) Im Herzen der Rocky Mountains (G. A. Henty) Jonathan Randall zügelte sein Pferd und starrte auf die Ansammlung von Häusern, Hütten und Schuppen in der Senke, die sich am Fuß des Hügels erstreckte, auf...

**Test your quote IQ! Who said this?“I think, therefore I am.”**A. Marcus AureliusB. Gautama BuddhaC. René DescartesD. Nicolas CageWith hundreds of witticisms, musings, disses, words of inspiration, and canny observations, all wrapped up in the form of an addictive game with different ways to play, Who Said That? Is the most fun you can have while actually getting smarter. Or to put it another way, where else would you find Albert Einst...

A comprehensive coverage of the physical properties and real-world applications of magnetic nanostructuresThis book discusses how the important properties of materials such as the cohesive energy, and the electronic and vibrational structures are affected when materials have at least one length in the nanometer range. The author uses relatively simple models of the solid state to explain why these changes in the size and dimension in the nanometer regime occur. The...