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...

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.

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. ...

Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first bo...

When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the Warsaw Pact was a robust military alliance. It was capable of waging a large-scale war in Europe and was an instrument of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, keeping orthodox Communist regimes in power. The alliance over the years had also become an effective mechanism of political coordination and consultation. In April 1985, the Warsaw Pact leaders met in Warsaw and renewed the Pact for another thirty years. Yet onl...

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...

The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a “global Cold War” are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, but first and foremost the Cold War was about the standoff in Europe. The Soviet Union established a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe in the mid-1940s that later became institutionalized in the Warsaw Pact, an organization that was offset by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) led ...

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...

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...

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 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...