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TARPEIA: Book Two in The First Vestals of Rome trilogy Rome is a city on the edge. A bold retelling of the legend of Tarpeia, a priestess destined to be swept up in the danger of Rome's earliest days, and whose name would give rise to the Rome's most dreaded site -- the Tarpeian Rock. It is 753 BCE and the new city of Rome exists on the edge of a knife. The young King Romulus reels from the loss of his mother's counsel, turning to his fa...

AMATA: Book Three in The First Vestals of Rome trilogy The gripping, unsparing tale of Amata, the first true Vestal Virgin of Rome, whose choices would shape the Vestal Order for centuries to come. It is 716 BCE, over thirty years since the founding of Rome. The city's war-like nature has made it the "tyrant of Latium, " and King Romulus's hardened nature has caused the fledgling Vestal order to fall into disrepute. But as crisis strikes a...

RHEA SILVIA: Book One in The First Vestals of Rome trilogy Without her, there would be no Rome. An unflinching, breathtaking retelling of the story of Rhea Silvia, fated by the gods to play a spectacular part in the mythos of Rome -- the mother of Romulus, Rome's legendary founder. It is 772 BCE, nearly two decades before the birth of Rome. The city of Alba Longa and its king, Numitor, reign supreme. But Numitor's children, Princess Rhea...

These poems in "Light, Float, Sit, Watsu Virtually: Bodymind Electricity Sings to Me at Harbin Hot Springs & Other Traveling Poems, " many written at Harbin or on the road to or from it, travel the globe from the Harbin warm pool, with a focus on meditation, to Cuttyhunk Island ('I kissed your back' & 'The bell was sailing off Canapitsit'), to India, and back to Santa Cruz, California. Most were written in 2012 and 2013. I'd like to dedicate t...

Twenty-two stories, selected by editor Donna Scott from disparate places, that represent some of the best science fiction published anywhere in 2019: stories of heroism, stories of loss, stories of wonder. In this volume you will encounter tales in which creatures are cut off from their loved ones, someone is trapped with an abuser, a bird sings, weeds grow where we hope for a garden, we consider what our alternative selves might be doing, we ...

An anthropology of Harbin Hot Springs, virtual Harbin, the 1960s forward, counterculture, virtual worlds and information technology The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, Internet studies' researchers, academics interested in the "virtual, " and people with a fondness for the 1960s. My book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Li...

This little book of poetry, "To the Dance or the Pools? Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual Reality, " explores Harbin Hot Springs in a radically new way, - both actually and virtually, and physically and digitally. I wrote many of these poems while I was doing anthropological fieldwork in 2010 & 2011 for my Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, both while at Harbin, and while on the ...

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With a foreword from Ken MacLeodContributions from: Pippa Goldschmidt Laura Lam Russell Jones Alastair Bruce Sean McMahon Elsa Bouet Beth Biller Tacye Phillipson Catherine Heymans Matjaz Vidmar Afterword from Colin R McInnes Scotland has big plans for its space industry in the next decade: opening Europe's first orbital spaceport, expanding further its satellite research and manufacturing industry, and developing a £4 billion space industry by...

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Editor Donna Scott has selected the very best short fiction by British authors published during 2017. Twenty-two stories, from established names and rising stars of genre fiction.Introduction - Donna Scott Blinders - Tyler Keevil In the Night of the Comet - Adam Roberts The Walls of Tithonium Chasma - Tim Major 3.8 Missions - Katie Gray Over You - Jaine Fenn The Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped in a Prison You Make for Yourself - Matt Do...

The new quarterly journal from the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo will be a forum for the discussion of subjects in Middle East and American studies, law, migration, communications, and gender. Featuring a wide range of international contributors, he Cairo Review will not restrict itself to Middle East issues, but will also provide commentary and analysis from within the region on a variety of to...

This new quarterly journal from the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo is a forum for the discussion of subjects in Middle East and American studies, law, migration, communications, and gender. Featuring a wide range of international contributors, The Cairo Review does not restrict itself to Middle East issues, but also provides commentary and analysis from within the region on a variety of topics. I...

This new quarterly journal from the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo is a forum for the discussion of subjects in Middle East and American studies, law, migration, communications, and gender. Featuring a wide range of international contributors, The Cairo Review does not restrict itself to Middle East issues, but also provides commentary and analysis from within the region on a variety of topics. I...

This new quarterly journal from the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo is a forum for the discussion of subjects in Middle East and American studies, law, migration, communications, and gender. Featuring a wide range of international contributors, The Cairo Review does not restrict itself to Middle East issues, but also provides commentary and analysis from within the region on a variety of topics. I...

In this collection of fourteen essays, Anne Scott MacLeod locates and describes shifts in the American concept of childhood as those changes are suggested in nearly two centuries of children's stories. A social historian and literary critic of genuine insight, MacLeod has helped to pioneer an approach to American culture through the children's literature that arises from it: "When I read books written for children", MacLeod comments in her pre...