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Eighteen-year-old Oliver's troubles don't end when he's released from prison. He has nowhere to go, and he can't even think about moving past his crimes while trying to survive homelessness.

Helping an elderly woman after a fall guides Oliver into at least a temporary home. In exchange for odd jobs and some assistance, he's welcomed into a life with the old twin spinsters, and it seems too good to be true. The neighbor, Simon, certainly thinks it is. He doesn't trust Oliver or his motives. Oliver is used to that kind of judgment, but it isn't helping him overcome his guilt. Maybe...

Secrets. Their weight can be crushing, but their release can change everything and not necessarily for the better. Ian is no stranger to secrets. Being a gay teen in a backwater southern town, Ian must keep his orientation under wraps, especially since he spends a lot of time with his hands all over members of the same sex, pinning their sweaty, hard bodies to the wrestling mat.

When he s trying not to stare at teammates in the locker room, he s busy hiding another secret that he starves himself so he doesn t get bumped to the next weight class.

Enter Julian Yang, an Adonis with...

Few movies of recent times have caught and shocked our imagination as the Alien cinematic quartet and the quest of Sigourney Weaver's Flight Lieutenant Ellen Ripley. In this gripping and lucidly written book, Mulhall shows why these films fascinate us, by showing that they are compelling examples of philosophy in action.

Bringing a philosopher's eye to cinema, he argues that the Alien films take us deep into the question of what it is to be human. By developing the sexual significance of the aliens themselves and of Ripley's...

Did post-Enlightenment philosophers reject the idea of original sin and hence the view that life is a quest for redemption from it? In Philosophical Myths of the Fall, Stephen Mulhall identifies and evaluates a surprising ethical-religious dimension in the work of three highly influential philosophers--Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. He asks: Is the Christian idea of humanity as structurally flawed something that these three thinkers aim simply to criticize? Or do they, rather, end up by reproducing secular variants of the same mythology?

Mulhall argues that...

The first edition of Stephen Mulhall's acclaimed "On Film" was a study of the four "Alien" films, and made the highly original and controversial argument that films themselves can philosophise. In its second edition, "On Film" increased its breadth and vision considerably to encompass films such as the "Mission: Impossible" series and Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report."

In this significantly expanded third edition Stephen Mulhall adds new chapters on the Jason Bourne films, the fourth "Mission: Impossible" movie, JJ Abrams' "Star Tre"k and "Star Trek: Into Darkness," and Ridley...