For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as well as conventions of the art. Bad television-predictable, commercial, exploitative-simply yields to the forces. Good television, like the character of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fights them. Fighting the Forces explores the struggle to create meaning in an impressive example of popular culture, the television series phenomenon Buffy the Vam...

"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!

Olivier POT, Ronsard et Panurge à Ganabim ; Richard M. BERRONG, Non est solum sophista quis loquitur. Further Thoughts on Rabelais's Presentation of Linguistic Mastery in Gargantua ; Tonino TORNITORE, Parole gelate prima e dopo Rabelais : fortuna di un topos ; Cathleen M. BAUSCHATZ, "Une description du jeu de paulme soubz obscures parolles": the Portrayal of Reading in Pantagruel and Gargantua ; Peter L. GILMAN and Abraham C. KELLER, Who is Pantagruel ? ; John LEWIS, Rabelais and the Disci...

This paper provides a description and analysis of recent developments in international capital (banking and bond) markets and an assessment of market conditions and prospects for financing flows, in particular

Donald Allchin was an ordained priest in the Church of England, an historian, ecumenist, and contemplative theologian. The essays, poems, and memoires in this book represent what his Christian vision has brought forth in the lives of the contributors. You will meet poets, historians, bishops, archbishops, monks, priests, lay persons, and scholars. You will taste the rich ecumenical dialogue between Donald's Anglican heritage, Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Roman Catholic Church, and church...

This paper provides a description and analysis of recent developments in international capital markets and an assessment of the prospects for private financing flows, in particular to the developing countries.

"Continuing from Deathlands 142: Into Delirium.One Nation Under Sod.Washington DC was hardest hit in the nukecaust that heralded the Deathlands era. But beneath the crater of radioactive ruins, a functioning city of survivors is crafting a culture that plans to reshape America. Ryan Cawdor and his companions enter into this enclosed, underground world and find an ordered and progressive society based on the tenets of the US Constitution.But as they settle into this ...