A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams.When Oli arrives at now-forgotten sci-fi icon Marianne's door, he's looking for an autograph – and maybe a friend. Marianne's hoping for the phone to ring, for her best friend to see her differently, for her turn at something more substantial than a half-remembered role on a cult TV show.As they start to explore each other's worlds, they begin to discover what every good relationship needs: time and space....

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO FIND THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR OWN LIFE, WHEN EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVED WAS A LIE?Joe always thought his past was set in stone. That changes when a stranger appears and forces him to question everything. Arrested for a crime he cannot remember and confronted with the existence of a twin brother he never knew, Joe finds himself drawn into a world of buried secrets and painful truths.As he searches for answers, J...

In 1914, most of the world is focused on The Great War, but a much quieter story is taking place in a remote mountain region in northern California and western Nevada with the tale of two twelve-year-old boys and a legendary, wild horse from the desert. The stallion, Meshuga—part mustang and part giant Percheron draft —is a stallion so strong that he becomes a mythical, inspirational fable. Meshuga is destined to compete in a long-distance race through the mountains and valleys against the...

When Pinocchio chose to live with truth he was transformed from a puppet into a "real boy." But when that process is reversed, human beings who embrace the lies in a conspiracy theory transform themselves into puppets for the author of those lies. In The Reverse Pinocchio Effect, a computer forensic investigator describes four mistakes he has observed people making that place them fully under the control of a propagandist, who then manipulates them through those lies.This ...

This historical analysis of the 1937 Chicago Steel Strike demonstrates how it revealed systemic oppression and inspired the larger progressive movement.On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers and labor rights supporters gathered on the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic Steel. By the end of the day, ten marchers had been mortally wounded and more than one hundred badly injured, victims of a terrifying police riot that came to be known as the Memo...

Through moments of social protest, policy debate, and popular mobilization, this book follows the campaign for economic democracy and the fight for full employment in the United States. Starting in the 1930s, Dennis explores its intellectual and philosophical underpinnings, the class struggle that determined the fate of legislation and the role of left-wing civil rights activists in its revival.Demonstrating how the campaign for full employment intersected with movements for women'...

"Golden Roses" is a unique work of 130 verslets. It is sure to be quality reading. And thank you for adding the booklet to your poetry library.

Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions. Other contributors examine the anti-labor movement against a backdrop of larger forces, such as the intersection of race and ethnicity with anti-labor activity, and anti-unionism in t...

The story of the friendship between two women: a survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake-now a young deputy county coroner in Arizona-and a Whiskey Row saloon girl from Prescott, Arizona. Together they learn about their two very different worlds as they unravel a murder that leads them on a wild chase to San Francisco and back to Arizona-all to stop the assassination of Theodore Roosevelt atop a high dam on the tenuous eve of Arizona's statehood. Along the way, they collect a remarka...

In Australia, an elderly couple with an interest in astronomy spots an unexpected comet, soon dubbed Henwood 1. Theres a bit of panic but not much as the comet is expected to miss Earth. Instead, it smashes into the moon and vaporizes. But when it dissolves, it emits a pathogen that travels to Earth and infects the population.Den is a Viet Nam veteran, changed by what he saw as a sniper and helicopter pilot in the war. As people begin to die around him, he struggles to surviveat an...

The Sundays of author Dennis Michael Vincents youth were not spent in a church building; he admits to attending church only about a dozen times during his childhood. Instead of knowing God, Vincent ran from him. And, then, at age eighteen, God chased Vincent down and saved him.In God is Real in My Life, he shares the story of his life and offers a testimony to the difference God has made in his life. With both stories from his past and poetic asides, Vincent provides a host of exam...

A veteran sergeant of police in west auckland, discovers a dvd that was allegedly recovered from a helicopter wreck in 1982. this seemingly impossible fact leads to a double homicide that occurred in 1954. what is the connection between the disappearance of a pair of tourists in 2008, a kidnapping,a case of stolen identity and an accident at the site of a large hadron collider?