Figuring the Contemporary in US Popular Cinema, 1967-2022: Genre, History, Event explores how popular film offers us frameworks through which to historicize the present and to imagine alternative futures in the opacity of the contemporary moment.This book offers an original way to interpret the contemporary as form, presenting the idea of contemporaneity as historical concept and not simply as "period" in the temporal sense. It explores how we might histor...

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent, and is a major text of Hinduism. Its discussion of human goals (artha or 'purpose', kama or 'pleasure', dharma or 'duty', and moksha or 'liberation') takes place in a long-standing tradition, attempting to explain the relationship of the individual to society and the world (the nature of the 'Self') and the workings of karma.

As the last Holocaust survivors bear witness in an age of deepfakes, avatars, and artificial intelligence (AI), the authenticity of witness is at stake as never before. Holocaust XR examines immersive and extended reality (XR) technologies through the lens of testimonial methodology, ethics, representation, and authenticity.Written by a principal architect of the field of immersive testimony—Dimensions in Testimony, The Last Goodbye, IWalk—this v...

The Plan presents a layman's perspective of God's Plan for man derived from His Word.The Plan of God for man presents two separate Creations for man's existence: this present Creation and a Creation yet to come, where man inherits the eternal consequences of his choice.The Plan offers details of this divine Plan supported by Scripture references to expand the reader's assessment of their merit. It offers perspectives from the Word of God that the reader ma...

This book offers an analysis of the United States’ conventional military buildup during the final decade of the Cold War.Departing from a historiography largely focused on strategic arms and summit diplomacy, the work examines how the modernization of non-nuclear forces formed an integral part of Ronald Reagan’s broader Cold War strategy. It shows that the revitalization of conventional forces was not ancillary to diplomacy but a central pillar of a policy that sought to negotiate ...

She signed a contract to pretend she loved him.She never planned to mean it.Vera Morozova does not believe in billionaires. She believes in documentation. As one of the sharpest antiquities attorneys in America, she has spent four years building an airtight legal case around a Byzantine imperial artifact worth millions — a case that could finally clear her grandmother's name after thirty-five years of deliberate erasure.Then Nikolai Sorokin walks into a Manhattan auc...

The book describes, in careful and full detail, the challenges that minority or people of color, especially African Americans encountered while growing up and starting their careers in the American South during the decades of the 1950s and 60s and again, quite often throughout their lives and careers well into the 1970s, 80s, 90s and further into the 2000s. Challenges that thwarted their efforts in trying to seek or achieve some semblance of the American dream afforded " ordinary" American...

In a world torn by hatred, hope becomes the greatest act of defiance as the lives of three men are forever connected through a series of unforeseen events. Hungry, rejected, and weighed down by responsibility, a young missionary, Elder Gordon, vows to trust God’s hand in the foreign streets of Germany a year before the start of World War I. Violin shop owner, Joseph treasures his family’s Munich shop, but Kristallnacht shatters more than glass. As tension erupts in the streets, Joseph batt...

You may think you are eating a healthy diet, but are you truly getting the nutrition your body needs daily for good health and longevity? The truth is most Americans are missing out on critical nutrients our bodies need to function, heal, and thrive. We are also consuming unhealthy levels of added sodium, sugar and saturated fat. The result? Low energy. Poor brain function. Early onset of disease and aging. You should also know that over the long term being consistently undernourished incr...

Watchers on the Wind is the story of two young men, Samuel C Rogers (Mark) and Will Daniels, 1961 graduates of Bergman High School in Bergman, Nebraska, who set out on a travel adventure to California. They find jobs in Northern California at the RBA Ranch, run by a woman named Ruby Belle Anderson, who is not much older than the boys. Both of them are attracted to her, but she is too committed to her work to be sidetracked by a couple of "boys".At the ranch, Will, who is a good athl...

"Her mercy died along with the fragments of innocence, while light ruptures and darkness hungers..."In a fractured world where justice is carved from blood and shadows.Valerie, a morally grey assassin, walks a razor's edge-consumed by violent chaos, cloaked in shifting darkness and burning fury.Bound to a fragile ally's light yet hunted by a ruthless witch and a shadow-veiled man.Battling enemies seen and unseen, she questions the price of v...

A Psychological Historical MysteryBetween the Soviet Union and KampucheaIn the course of her university studies, Isabella develops a genuine interest in twentieth-century history.What begins as academic curiosity leads her first to Stalin's Soviet Union, and later to the history of the Khmer Rouge — a subject that fascinates her with its complexity and unanswered questions.While looking for additional reading online, she com...