One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at least of the crime of which they stand accused. But The Case of Comrade Tulayev, unquestionably the finest work of fiction ever written about the Stalinist purges, is not just...

Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917–1919. Serge’s tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I. When the flames of revolution suddenly erupt in Russia and Spain, Europe is “burning at both ends.” Although the Spanish uprising eventually fizzles, in Russia the workers, peasants, and common soldiers are able to take power and hold it....

**"[An] impressive work . . . an entertaining pop history"—**The Wall Street JournalFrom the author of The Genius of the System**, the classic tale of Hollywood’s first golden age, comes the story of its last.**Thomas Schatz returns us to an era when a newly enriched movie industry rediscovered its creative energy, and indie went mainstream without losing its edge.Between 1989 and 2004, all the old...

Huna philosophy is about learning to become a conscious cocreator with the Universe. Hawaiian shaman King uses Kahuna healing methods to help us access the hidden energy of life, develop powers of concentration, and make friends with the deepest aspect of our being. Learn how your Higher Self, or aumakua, is contacted in the dream dimension. Get in touch with the Mana, the hidden energy of life. Develop higher powers of concentration by utilizing the tikis, created images of sight, sound, ...

Imagine this… You've planned everything perfectly for your sixth anniversary, hoping to make it a special day. But then your beloved stands you up, leaving you heartbroken and alone at home.Later, your best friend calls with some shocking news—she saw your boyfriend with another woman in his car while she was stopped at a traffic light. You ask her to follow them, and she provides you with the location of his vehicle.In a fit of anger, you grab your trusty ...

This cyborg never expected to become an instant father.***Surge is fascinated with newly manufactured offspring. He has studied them extensively, was one of the few medics present when the very first freeborn cyborg entered the universe.He's currently assigned to a battle station with an all-male crew. The probability of tending to an offspring is a dismal 0.0000 percent.That changes when an unknown ship ventures into the sector they're protecting.Nu is a...

Thanksgiving.The time of year where family and friends come together to enjoy each other's company, eat a bit of turkey, and maybe catch a football game or two.Or, maybe it's the time of year where you end up at your ex's mother's house under false pretenses and have to sit through dinner with his family, his new girlfriend, and his fine ass cousin with the gold grill that may or may not have just given you an orgasm that your body could barely handle.Shoot...at lea...

An eyewitness account of the world-changing uprising—from the author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary. "A truly remarkable individual . . . an heroic work" (Richard Allday of Counterfire).Brimming with the honesty and passionate conviction for which he has become famous, Victor Serge's account of the first year of the Russian Revolution—through all of its achievements and challenges—captures both the heroism of the mass upsurge that gave birth to Sov...

Universal Predator is the incredible inside story of Esther Rockett's campaign to expose Serge Benhayon, the multimillionaire leader of Universal Medicine — a female-focused 'esoteric healing' enterprise marketing dubious services like Esoteric Breast Massage.Esther recounts her creepy first encounters with the former tennis coach and self-styled guru that lead her to investigate and blog about his operations. Her efforts to uncover his lucrative industry ...

Isabelle Huppert's modernist performance style illustrated through detailed readings of key films, demonstrating her immense social impact.Isabelle Huppert's oeuvre constitutes perhaps the most significant feminist body of work to have emerged in the wake of the second wave of the women's movement, a period of intense social change. The emphasis on autonomy, or the "anti-victim," which comes to define Huppert's persona, is supported by a modernist style of performa...

"I got her and everything that comes with her. All the good, bad, and crazy, I'll be taking. Anything she needs, consider it hers and with her in my life, I'll forever be whole." — Genesis WashingtonPutting herself first is what Jordana Evans knows how to do best. She's at the top of her game in her career and no longer haunted by memories of her past threatening to steal her joy. In her mind, being in love is a want, not a need, and she's...