Richard Slota: 4 books

Famous Michael is about a Vietnam vet medic who can't forget the war and the woman who can't forget him. This book contains the long poem, Famous Michael, originally published by the poetry journal, Abraxas, in 1978, and republished as a chapbook by Samidat Press in 1988; as well as an adaptation,...

Captive Market is the first ever book-length exposé of the business side of kidnapping in Nigeria. Using first hand interviews with kidnap victims and their families, a story emerges that is packed with surprising twists, turns and paradoxes as it shines a light on the fear and the fact of kidnapping. Kidnapping...

Stray Son sets the supernatural solidly amidst the bizarrely mundane life of Patrick Jaworsky, Vietnam vet, married with two children, whose current job is picking up bodies for a mortuary.  And when a young but familiar looking Marine keeps crossing his path, nothing is normal again, and, we find,...

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...