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Operation Anaconda and Beyond" provides a controversial look at events that have affected the United States and many other countries throughout the world since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the United States Pentagon. This fictional book was written before most of the events had actually taken place and details the fate of modern day's two most terrifying men. Following the United States Military men in action, it d...

Operation Anaconda and Beyond" provides a controversial look at events that have affected the United States and many other countries throughout the world since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the United States Pentagon. This fictional book was written before most of the events had actually taken place and details the fate of modern day's two most terrifying men. Following the United States Military men in action, it d...

This story has, with justice, been called "the most famous fantastic mystery of them all" since it first appeared in the famous pulp magazine ARGOSY in 1921."The Blind Spot" is an interdimensional gateway to another world, which coexists with our world but does not interfere with it. When communication is established between the worlds, the results are nothing short of startling!

This story has, with justice, been called "the most famous fantastic mystery of them all" since it first appeared in the famous pulp magazine ARGOSY in 1921."The Blind Spot" is an interdimensional gateway to another world, which coexists with our world but does not interfere with it. When communication is established between the worlds, the results are nothing short of startling!

In a land where nothing is as it appears and there are no words for the phrase 'I love you, ' it is not just the story's heroine Sabina who is whisked away on a journey in which reality and fantasy, past and present, comedy and tragedy become inextricably intertwined, we all are--characters and readers alike. And the answer to the journey's question is both a question and an answer: "Marrying it all"?

In a land where nothing is as it appears and there are no words for the phrase 'I love you, ' it is not just the story's heroine Sabina who is whisked away on a journey in which reality and fantasy, past and present, comedy and tragedy become inextricably intertwined, we all are--characters and readers alike. And the answer to the journey's question is both a question and an answer: "Marrying it all"?

One of the most frankly and brutally realistic books that has appeared in our tongue in a long time. But Burke has cast a glamour over his pages that prevents his stories from being merely studies in the sordid and the morbid. Somehow he makes you feel that he has viewed life with pity and tenderness and loving comprehension." -- Bookman.

Ladies and Gentlemen is a volume of essays, in the most elegant Cabell manner, in the form of imaginary letters to real, legendary, and imaginary persons, discussing a wide range of literary and philosophical matters. It is not only essential to the appreciation of the range of this important author's imagination and concerns, but a very entertaining collection of midnight conversations with, among others, King Tut, Solomon, Julius Caesar, Ana...

Ladies and Gentlemen is a volume of essays, in the most elegant Cabell manner, in the form of imaginary letters to real, legendary, and imaginary persons, discussing a wide range of literary and philosophical matters. It is not only essential to the appreciation of the range of this important author's imagination and concerns, but a very entertaining collection of midnight conversations with, among others, King Tut, Solomon, Julius Caesar, Ana...

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English has one of the most complex orthographic systems of all the alphabetic languages. This text is a comprehensive resource for teachers of spelling across the age range, for general use in the teaching of spelling, for teachers of learners with dyslexia and for teachers of English as a foreign or additional language.

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Also available: Antelme's "The Human Race

It is June, 1999. Jason Quinn, a quiet and scholarly young man, graduates from Clarksville High School in northern Illinois. His father is dying and his Uncle Claude is sleeping with Trudy, his mother. Jason's father dies and appears to Jason in a dream. He points the finger at Claude. Through a trick, Jason satisfies himself that Claude is responsible. Claude knows that Jason knows, and Jason seeks refuge by joining the CIA and going off to A...

The United States is considered the world's foremost refuge for foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than Ellis Island. Through Ellis Island's halls and corridors more than twelve million immigrants-of nearly every nationality and race-entered the country on their way to new experiences in North America. With an astonishing array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs, Ellis Island leads the reader through th...

Genetic engineering has far outrun the science that must be its first governing discipline. Techniques used to change genes in natures plant kingdom may change the function of other genes in ways that we cannot foresee. While corporations race to be first in their markets, costly mistakes of past and current technologies should give us pause.

Essays by one of the great, classical, American portrait photographers of this era. Move over Susan Sontag!" Michael Lesy. "Not only are Jerry Thompson's essays beautifully composed, but their complete success in aligning so much precise observation with such a wide and intellectually appropriate range of critical thought makes them unique in the entire literature on photography, at least as far as I am acquainted with it." Hilton Kramer.

The year is 2212 and corporate espionage has become big business. A group of corporations, collectively known as the "Big 5, " runs the world. These companies own everything. Politicians, despite claims to the contrary, are puppets to the heads of these worldwide conglomerates. An elite crew of high tech thieves, anchored by ex-Army Ranger Nick Keaton, is hired to steal a quantity of highly sensitive information--Information that could prove ...

The year is 2212 and corporate espionage has become big business. A group of corporations, collectively known as the "Big 5, " runs the world. These companies own everything. Politicians, despite claims to the contrary, are puppets to the heads of these worldwide conglomerates. An elite crew of high tech thieves, anchored by ex-Army Ranger Nick Keaton, is hired to steal a quantity of highly sensitive information--Information that could prove d...