Deep Down Things: Essays on Catholic Culture explores common threads that characterize Catholicism. The contributors look successively at: Catholic culture and everyday life of the parish and of work, at Catholic culture and the imaginative life of poets and fiction writers, and at Catholic culture and postmodern life where individual conscience, skepticism, and relativism challenge Church authority and faith itself. They do so while looking for foundational components that persist and com...

Ideas die at the hands of journalists. This is the controversial thesis offered by Michael McDevitt in a sweeping examination of anti-intellectualism in American journalism. A murky presence, anti-intellectualism is not acknowledged by reporters and editors. It is not easily measured by scholars, as it entails opportunities not taken, context not provided, ideas not examined. Where Ideas Go to Die will be the first book to document how journalism polices intellect at a time when t...

Theoretical physics and foundations of physics have not made much progress in the last few decades. Whether we are talking about unifying general relativity and quantum field theory (quantum gravity), explaining so-called dark energy and dark matter (cosmology), or the interpretation and implications of quantum mechanics and relativity, there is no consensus in sight. In addition, both enterprises are deeply puzzled about various facets of time including above all, time as experienced. The...

Boris Badger wakes to find a winter wonderland full of ice and snow, and adventure.Boris makes some new friends and learns a new skill. Along with Kuth the Raven,they untangle not one, but two mysteries, as they explore the cold dark forest.Raven tells another tale.

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is no mystery what he wants, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." He wants this latter objective to be largely completed by 2035. China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class" goal. Beginning with an exploration of why China...

This is the second book in the series "Boris Badger". Boris, Jack and Raven take the old Grandmother's [Savta's] fall harvest of pumpkins and cider to the market. Raven tells a tale on the way, before they run into trouble - a big storm and a cart stuck-in-the-mud. With teamwork and fellowship, they make a successful journey to deliver the goods. They marvel at the sights and smells of the market before trekking home again. In the process, the old saying "when you...

This is the first systematic study of modern China's military campaigns and the actual fighting conducted by the People's Liberation Army since the founding of the People's Republic. It provides a general overview of the evolution of PLA military doctrine, and then focuses on major combat episodes from the civil war with the Nationalists to the last significant combat in Vietnam in 1979, in addition to navy and air operations through 1999. In contrast to the many works on the specifics and...

Introducing Boris Badger, Raven, Babushka and Jack the donkey. Boris and Raven share breakfast. Raven tells a story. Badger and Raven embark on an adventure to obtain a birthday present for Jack. Babushka and her two dogs intervene. Boris and Raven learn a lesson.

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 27: July 2017Mike Resnick, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by: Stephen Lawson, J.P. Sullivan, Jody Lynn Nye, Edward M. Lerner, Rachelle Harp, Lou J Berger, Michael Swanwick, Leena Likitalo, Paul Di Filippo, Kay Kenyon, Gregor Hartmann, Gordon Eklund, Jack McDevittSerialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan SlonczewskiColumns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benfor...

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class" goal.Beginning with an exploration of why China is seeking to become such a major maritime power, author Michael McDevitt first ex...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 47: November 2020Lezli Robyn, EditorMartin Shoemaker, Assistant EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by: Andrea Stewart, Nancy Kress, Michael Swanwick, J. Scott Coatsworth, Mike Resnick & Jean-Claude Dunyach, Barb Galler-Smith, Joe Haldeman, Dantzel Cherry, by John Haas, Jack McDevitt, Larry HodgesSerialization: Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker

The interior is the often overlooked side of the human condition. What is outside and beyond our own familiar selves garners the attraction of the senses to see something new. While all eyes focus on the external, a simmering world of the odd and unique grow in what we thought was familiar, being to alter what we knew as truth, and begin to creep into our everyday consciousness. This is the Immanent World - the limitless creation that exists within the human collective while it looks elsew...