In the twentieth century there have been five major recessions: two in the interwar period, and three more starting 1973, 1979, and 1989. This book focuses on events in the UK, but sets them in their international context, and makes frequent comparisons with other countries.

Poetry from the editor of "Phosphene" and "Dialog" magazines.

Since prehistoric times, peoples the world over have believed in a creative force that inspires life. Throughout history it has been known by many names: mana, prana, ka, and chi, to name only a few. Much has been written about this energy and the ways in which it can be strengthened to enhance life and well-being as well as provide the basis for many of the Eastern martial arts, particularly tai chi chuan. But if chi is real, why is there so little scientific evidence for its existence or for the physiological structures that generate and channel it throughout the body? Moreover, what is the...

In this satirical take on the dangers of believing your own fictions, a corporate climber named Bob is just about to pull off the sweetest deal of his corrupt career when it's snatched from his grasp. In his anger, Bob suffers a fatal heart attack that sends him plummeting into the pit of Hell. He's greeted by a flea-bitten Cerberus, a snot-nosed demon gives him a book of impossibly complex rules to follow and he's sentenced to an eternity in the pit of boiling...well, his punishment isn't pleasant. But eternity is a long time for someone as ambitious as Bob. Besides, he has a secret weapon:...

Teetering on the edge of the gutter, ex-cop Clay Guthrie is offered a way out of his bitter isolation. All he has to do is locate a stolen sculpture. The task seems simple enough until he finds himself enmeshed in a series of surreal events that push him to the breaking point. His disturbingly dangerous employers threaten him with pain and death if he fails, and the mysterious old man who is their antagonist forces Guthrie to act on his behalf, warning that worse horrors will greet his success. The only way Guthrie can survive is to find the sculpture and help the old man destroy the terrible...

Five years after taking part in a disastrous raid to rescue a cruise liner from modern-day pirates, Alex Brant has begun to discover peace for himself driving an eighteen-wheeler across the American Southwest. He even finds time to protect a mysterious desert rat and the mute kid who travels with him. But he can't defend himself against a vicious band of road pirates and their brutal leader, T-Bone, who shoot him and leave him for dead at a roadside rest stop. T-Bone needs Alex's truckload of electronics to realize his mad scheme of revenge against the Las Vegas hoods who killed his wife and...

Poems from the award-winning editor of Phosphene and Dialog magazines. Whether exposing the manifestations and stultifying consequences of conformity or attempting to penetrate the veil of reality to discover hidden meaning that might help us make sense of an often senseless world, Christopher Dow's unique, evocative style suggests that something of greater significance lives within the fabric of the conventional world.

Poetry from the author of The Trip Out and Texas White Line Fever

Despite the best efforts of theologians, philosophers, and scientists to delineate consensus reality, the universe is as mysterious today as it ever was. Humankind might think it knows what is going on, but tantalizing glimpses of nonordinary reality occasionally pierce the veil of our perceptions, illustrating the limits of human knowledge and understanding and hinting at an underlying order, if not purpose, to the apparent randomness of creation. In Book of Curiosities, Christopher Dow recounts his personal encounters with a wide range of paranormal occurrences and unusual beings, including...