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The Lovecraftian Poe
Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between...
Lord Dunsany
A Comprehensive Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) was a pioneering writer in the genre of fantasy literature and the author of such celebrated works as The Book of Wonder (1912) and The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1924). Over the course of a career that spanned more than five decades, Dunsany wrote...
by S. T. Joshi
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
The author writes:This book began as an expansion of my essay, "H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West," in The Weird Tale, but very quickly became something quite different, to the degree that the two works have little save the title in common. I have always been interested in Lovecraft the philosopher,...
The Inclusion Paradox
The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
**Praise for The Inclusion Paradox
“Andrés Tapia has become one of the foremost thought leaders in the area of workplace diversity. His unique perspectives on inclusion have shifted the paradigm on how leaders now think about diversity.”
- John W. Rodgers Jr., Chairman and CEO,...
Cthulhu Lives!
An eldritch tribute to H. P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
At the time of his death in 1937, American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was virtually unknown. The power of his stories was too great to contain, however. As the decades slipped by, his dark visions...
Florida, Mon Amour!
The Wages of Greed
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
Carmen and Raquel, multimillionaire and beautiful twins, decide to explore beyond the confines of the Republique de Sacre Cur, a mythical South American country, whose major export is COCAINE! Their wealth derives from its illegal distribution. Marcelino, their father, unwittingly acts as courier...
The Logic of Truth
St. Thomas Aquinas's Epistemology and Antonio Livi's Alethic Logic
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The “Dictatorship of Relativism”, the dominant culture of the post-modern world with its ideological roots in the Cartesian, Protestant, and French revolutions, is ultimately a revolt against Truth. It argues that man is incapable of knowing reality as reality but merely as physical-mathematical...
by S.T. Padgett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A. PURPOSE AND PLAN William Temple was trained as a philosopher and lectured on phi losophy at Oxford (1904), but his concern for labor, education, journalism, and the Church of England led him away from philosophy as a profession. Enthroned in 1942 as Archbishop of Canterbury, Temple persisted...
by Patrick D. Guinan, Kenneth J. Printen, James L. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
From 1866 until the end of the 1950s, almost all of the attending staff at Cook County Hospital—and thus the instructors who prepared physicians for their life’s work—were unpaid volunteers. As was the case at all other large public teaching hospitals, appointment at County was an honor, public...
by S.T. Underdahl
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Brian came home from Afghanistan.But he brought the war back with him. If life were a movie, my role would be Emo Kid/Family Loser. My brother Brian would star as Master of the Universe. You might think it would be easy to resent him, but my brother is impossible to hate. Just like everyone else,...
Birth
The Exquisite Sound of One Hand Falling Off a Turnip Truck
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
How perverse can a man become before he is innocent again?
Maxwell Quick hates life, the world, and everything in it. All he wants is to sit in front of his TV and let waves of alcohol cleanse the shore of his mind. Unfortunately, that's no longer an option.
After defending himself against a group...
by Commander S.T. Bolivar, III
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Spring has come to Munchem Academy. The snow is melting, the roof is leaking, and Mr. Larimore is now in charge. Mattie is worried, though. Mr. Larimore is taking the whole "let's help Headmaster Rooney get back on his feet" thing seriously, and he's whispering all sorts of suggestions to the highly...
The Altruistic Gene - Revisited:
About Actions, Events and Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This book replaces a fiction (2005) in the Altruistic Gene trilogy and covers what really happened to an industrial family in 2005–2018. It signals faith in the power of collaboration to attain social impact by effective altruism, a. o. setting new standards benefiting others. The book offers perspectives...
by S.T. Underdahl
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Lake Tulaby is a a quiet Minnesota retreat not generally known for scandal. It's become the summer haven of bachelor Ansel Landers, the reluctant new manager of the Lake Tulaby Inn; Joe Lesmeister, a freshly-retired security officer living next door to the Inn with his wife and demanding mother-in-law;...