We will always need to make logical, appropriate, and powerful decisions. With new challenges appearing daily, thoughtful thinking and problem solving is essential. This collection of short stories explores some of the challenges that the future—revolutionized by the rapid acceleration of technology and innovation—may hold. Most importantly, this book invites the reader to imagine how we can maximize our potential as a society to create the best future for ourselves and for the world.
A wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen’s coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father’s suicide Colin’s family is dissolving in the aftermath of his father’s suicide. While his mother, Diane, retreats into therapy and cynicism, Colin clings to every shred of normal life. Awash with guilt, he casts about for someone to confide in: first his estranged grandfather, then a predatory science teacher. Shunned by his siblings and rejected by his homophobic best friend, Colin immerses himself in the notebooks his father left behind. Full of strange facts, lists, and historical anecdotes that neither Colin nor Diane can understand, the notebooks infect their worldview until they can no longer tell what’s real and what’s imagined. A novel of aching intensity, Some Hell shows how unspeakable tragedy shapes a life, and how imagination saves us from ourselves.
This sweeping comic novel examines the public and private upheavals of life in a small Southern town from the Civil Rights era to the new millennium. Famous All Over Town, the first novel from Southern storyteller Bernie Schein, is a comically candid multi-generational account of two Jews, a lowcountry native and a Northern transplant. Their lives interweave through the momentous events of a sleepy coastal hamlet based on Schein’s native Beaufort, South Carolina. Schein’s cast includes Southern Jewish lawyer Murray Gold and his foil, displaced New York psychiatrist Bert Levy. There’s also an emotionally scarred drill sergeant and his alluringly unconventional wife; a corrupt sheriff and his violent son; an African American madam and her two brilliant children; a fallen Southern belle; a transvestite Vietnam veteran; and many others. With their conflicted identities, burgeoning ambitions, and romantic entanglements, they live through the turbulent 1960s into the 1990s, confronting the ramifications of the civil rights era, Vietnam, Watergate, and—closer to home—a deadly version of the infamous Ribbon Creek incident. Foreword by Janis Owens.
Read how this futuristic bounty hunter encounters his vengeance, his missions, and his work with a past that can only make him strong and powerful for what the future of his time leads him into. As he goes through different levels of personalities to accomplish a mission to save humanity from a one-world-order evil government, read how he unites all bounty hunters to go out and assist him to save humanity by destroying the one-world-order evil government.
Translation of the German novel "The Code of the Cicadas" by Thomas H. Huber. Also in this book the reader experiences TENSION, MYSTIC, LOVE & ADVENTURE. The ideal reading for Crete vacationers. Story: Samuel and Sarah Kramer actually just want to spend a relaxing beach vacation on the Greek island of Crete. But shortly after their arrival, they find themselves in a nightmare that takes them to the edge of their sanity. The trigger is a short vacation video that Sam sends to his friend Jack Stern via Whatsapp. The movie shows Sarah looking down at the south coast from the highest point of the mountain road. The only sounds in the background are the wind and the chirping of thousands of cicadas. Stern, a U.S. Army encryption expert, believes he has discovered a code in the cicadas' chirping. This brings them to the attention of the mysterious William Sutherford, who sees a connection between the cicadas' code and the fate of humanity. Sam, his wife Sarah, and ten other people join him on a bizarre adventure. THE NOVEL TRANSCENDS THE BOUNDARIES OF THE UNIVERSE.
'I was having lunch with Dexter DeWitt. This in itself was a questionable activity on my part.' So begins Code Green, by Greg Jenkins, whose anti-hero Chip Stone engages in quite a few questionable activities. Stone is a male nurse who works in a psychiatric hospital and has almost as many behavioral issues as the residents he cares for. Those residents include DeWitt, a one-time cultural critic gone bonkers; Tim Valentine, who snacks on light bulbs; Philip Nolan, who contends (correctly) that he's actually a character in a novel; and Glinda Moon, an anorexic witch. As the violence at his workplace intensifies, the confused Stone lights out on a desperate but comical odyssey to find his estranged wife'and himself. His wanderings take him through the netherworld of western Maryland, where he meets old friends, new enemies and on ehighly unusual sister-in-law. In the end, he discovers that the line between the sane and the not-so-sane is more gassamer than even he had suspected. With its over-the-top characters and gaudy, entertaining prose, Code Green offers a bumptious blend of humor and pathos well-suited to the uncertainties of a new millennium.
In the thriller, Deadly Codes, Daniel Cormac Gallagher, Jr., a Boston private eye, is hired to investigate the death of Jennifer Clark, tragically killed in a car bombing in her own driveway. Gallagher has been commissioned by Jeanne Campbell, Jennifers twin sister, to find a mysterious womanJennifers secret lesbian lover who vanished immediately after the bombing. While the authorities continue to pursue their suspicions that the terrorist act may have been intended for Jennifers husband, Bill, who holds a top-secret position in the counter-intelligence division of the National Security Agency, Jeanne reveals intricate details to Gallagher that intrigue him enough to take on the case. While Gallagher begins searching for the missing woman, he has no idea that a bounty has been placed on his own headtwo hired gunmen are plotting to kill him. Gallaghers search takes him to Washington DC, where he discovers that the car bombing is only a backdrop to a complex, treasonous scheme to sell code-breaking formulas to a hostile enemy nation. As the violent mystery unravels, Gallagher finds himself under deadly attack from two shocking but powerful forcesone he knows and another he never expects.
Designed as a program to aid governments in detecting potential terrorist activities, the Premonition Code re-defines "artificial intelligence." Can it be controlled? Is it really out there, and if so, will it protect us or ultimately destroy us all?
Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.
This volume documents the still-rare encounter of moral-philosophical, historiographic and medical-ethical research on National Socialism, and looks at the ethical aspects of the National Socialist ideology, as well as at the moral convictions of National Socialist perpetrators, some of whom acted as “perpetrators with a good conscience”. It furthermore discusses questions such as the content and rationale of Nazi race ethics, the “euthanasia” killings and the Nazi ethics of racial warfare and the role of the SS as the vanguard of the National Socialist race state, the moral conditioning of Nazi perpetrators and their self-exoneration strategies after the defeat of Nazism, and German Holocaust memory politics. Due to the broad range of topics covered and methodologies discussed, this book will interest academic readers of various disciplines of the humanities, including German history, Holocaust studies, Jewish studies philosophy and medical ethics. It will also appeal to the common public interested in Nazi ideology and ethics, and their implications for current ethical issues and challenges, such as the consequences of moral indifference as well as the debate on euthanasia and mercy killing.
