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Ein Mann. Zwei Welten. Eine Entscheidung. Sex, Drogen und Alkohol - für den New Yorker Nachtclub-Manager Bobby Green und seine Freundin Amanda ist das Leben eine einzige Party. Bobby träumt davon, eines Tages seinen eigenen Club zu besitzen. Dafür drückt er beide Augen zu, wenn die Russen-Mafia den Club für Drogengeschäfte nutzt. Und nur Amanda weiß, dass sein Vater und sein Bruder Joseph erfolgreiche Polizisten sind. Nach einem Mordanschlag a...

Images in the Pines is more than a book of photographs and poems. It is a book of memories of life in East Texas in the late 1800s and early 20th Century. Newton County, as this book illustrates, is unique within itself, yet so similar to all of East Texas in its history, its culture and its people. Even if you didn't grow up here, you'll find that these photographs and poems will rekindle memories and images of a simpler time, a time where th...

The purpose of this companion volume to our text is to provide instructors (and eventu­ ally students) with some additional information to ease the learning process while further documenting the implementations of Mathematica and ODE. In an ideal world this volume would not be necessary, since we have systematically worked to make the text unambiguous and directly useful, by providing in the text worked examples of every technique which is dis...

Three recent and commercially successful series of novels employ and adapt the resources of popular fantasy fiction to create visions of religious identity: J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials and Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins' Left Behind series. The act of creating fantasy counter-worlds naturally involves all three stories in the creation of what Mike Gray terms "transfigurations of transcendence": hopeful alb...

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Centuries from now, when the Cold War is as remote as the War of Roses and the passions of our time have faded into footnotes, humanity will still remember July 16, 1969, the day the first human beings departed from earth bound for a landing on the moon. Angle of Attack turned out to be a story of ordinary people organized for an extraordinary purpose. It is an anthem to human cleverness, and it is a vivid reminder of what we are capable of wh...

Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) ist nach einem Selbstmordversuch wieder bei seinen Eltern eingezogen. Um Stabilität in sein Leben zu bringen, verkuppeln sie ihn mit der liebenswerten Sandra (Vinessa Shaw). Leonard lässt sich darauf ein, doch dann lernt er die schöne Nachbarin Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow) kennen und verliebt sich verzweifelt in sie. Schließlich muss er die unmögliche Entscheidung zwischen Vernunft und Verlangen treffen¿

Why is our highest penalty held to the lowest standards?

By 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable. The control room crew, overwhelmed by flashing alarms and klaxon horns, is at a loss. The memo that would have warned them was never sent. Originally published in 1982, this factual, riveting thriller was the first account of...

Spanning three decades, "Busted" tells readers about the lost war, charting the violence, chaos, and corruption that the War on Drugs has spawned. It includes frontline reporting from all over the world, literary journalism, public records, and commentary from the left and right. Contributors include Gore Vidal, William Buckley Jr., and a jailhouse interview with General Manuel Noriega by Oliver Stone.