"'What would you do if you were the strongest man in the world, the strongest thing in the world, mightier than the machine?' He made himself guess answers for that rhetorical inquiry. 'I would run the universe single-handed. I would scorn the universe and turn it to my own ends. I would be a criminal. I would rip open banks and gut them. I would kill and destroy. I would be a secret, invisible blight. I would set out to stamp crime off the earth.'" Hugo Danner is the strongest man on earth, the result of a monstrous experiment by his scientist father. Nearly invulnerable, he can run faster...
"'What would you do if you were the strongest man in the world, the strongest thing in the world, mightier than the machine?' He made himself guess an...
The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of Februaryat four minutes and fifty-two seconds past four o'clock, Eastern Standard Time. The event occurred universally at the same instant, without regard to time belts, and was followed by such phenomena as might be expected after happenings of that nature. On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes as men vanish from women and women from men. After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in very different ways for men and women, boys...
The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of Februaryat four minutes and fifty-two seconds past four o'clock, Eastern ...
Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living--from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion--"Generation of Vipers"?ranks with the works of De Tocqueville and Emerson in defining the American character and malaise.
Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living--from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores...
This book may change your life. It may save it. It is one of the most important and most shocking books ever written.Tomorrow is a story of average, nice Americans living in the neighboring cities of Green Prairie and River City in Middle America. It is until the sudden blitz the story of the girl next door and her boyfriend; of the accountant who saw what was coming, and the rich old lady who didn t; of engaging young kids, babies, hoods, a bank official who borrowed from a customer s account.Then, at the height of the Christmas shopping season, Condition Red is sounded, and this...
This book may change your life. It may save it. It is one of the most important and most shocking books ever written.Tomorrow is a story of av...
Betrayed by his wife, Stephen Stone spirits his son, Henry, away to a remote tropical island and trains him to be an ideal physical specimen and a perfect gentleman. After years of isolation, Henry Stone is now a young man, standing a full six feet two inches tall and weighing 190 pounds. His hair is bronze, his eyes turquoise, his skin mahogany a magnificent man. When Henry finally returns to civilization, he finds that his father s business has grown into a news empire. Though he is the owner of this huge conglomerate, a great conversationalist and excellent company, well versed in...
Betrayed by his wife, Stephen Stone spirits his son, Henry, away to a remote tropical island and trains him to be an ideal physical specimen and a per...
In The End of the Dream, venerated science-fiction author Philip Wylie trains his sights on the ultimate catastrophe the destruction of the world through human beings unheeding and willful poisoning of the atmosphere, the land, the seas and rivers, and finally of the human race itself. The End of the Dream describes a horrific future when toxic chemicals, mutated creatures, and noxious gases all contribute to the eventual death of the human race and of the earth itself through a choking, painful, and pitiless exposure to foul air, disease, and the eruptions of outraged...
In The End of the Dream, venerated science-fiction author Philip Wylie trains his sights on the ultimate catastrophe the destruction of the ...
THE SMILING CORPSE is one of the most unusual books you'll read this year, and it's a pretty good bet you haven't read this since it came out in 1935. It's a mystery, but unlike any mystery you've ever read, because the "detectives" in this tale are quite recognizable -- as mystery writers of the Golden Age, such as S.S. Van Dine, G.K. Chesterton, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, and Sax Rohmer. The book has an introduction, The Smiling Corpse-A Re-Introduction by J. Randolph Cox, as well as a Preface by John Graham Ballantine, and there's even a "Who's Who" in case you've forgotten some of the...
THE SMILING CORPSE is one of the most unusual books you'll read this year, and it's a pretty good bet you haven't read this since it came out in 1935....
Access the universe of beautiful Buddhist mandalas, mesmerizing Tibetan tangkas and enchanting Hindu yantras. Transformational Symbols covers numbers and geometry, and a powerful metaphysical model for transformation. Philip Wylie writes about the relationship between evolution and wellbeing and the science of happiness.
Access the universe of beautiful Buddhist mandalas, mesmerizing Tibetan tangkas and enchanting Hindu yantras. Transformational Symbols covers numbers ...
