A fresh take on cosmic horror... A Victorian Englishman summons a strange puppet-like being to an old Colonial Inn. A doctor returns from the Great War and discovers a mysterious naked woman at the edge of the Atlantic. A contemporary collector of arcane books retraces the steps of these other men -- adventurers who sought out the mysteries of neighboring dimensions. In THE SEA OF ASH, Scott Thomas takes us along as three men from three different centuries experience the wonders and horrors of an unknown New England. "Never had the universe felt so vast, and I so small...
A fresh take on cosmic horror... A Victorian Englishman summons a strange puppet-like being to an old Colonial Inn. A doctor returns from the Gre...
The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of the "poor man's air force," the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street, killing 40 people. Since Buda's prototype the car bomb has evolved into a "poor man's air force," a generic weapon of mass destruction that now craters cities from Bombay to Oklahoma City. In this provocative history, Mike Davis traces the its worldwide use and development, in the process...
The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of the "poor man's air force," the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction On a September...
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity...
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live<...
Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award. Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and...
Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award.<...
Lovecraft eZine is a magazine of Weird Fiction and Cosmic Horror, with over 200,000 readers. Here's the print edition of issue #36 -- thanks for reading TABLE OF CONTENTS Cthulhu Does Stuff #15 a comic strip by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson Better Halves by KC Grifant The Last Leaves by Derek Wentz Descent by Christopher M. Cevasco Restless Nights by Justin Munro The Thing in the Corner by David A. Anthony The Pardon of the Fogs by Cora Pop Mortuus Machanus by D.B. Poirier Resonance by Stewart Horn The Voice of Zarnak by Rick...
Lovecraft eZine is a magazine of Weird Fiction and Cosmic Horror, with over 200,000 readers. Here's the print edition of issue #36 -- thanks for readi...
Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry - each animal genetically identical to the next - packed together in megabarns, grown out in a matter of months, then slaughtered, processed and shipped to the other side of the globe. Less well known are the deadly pathogens mutating in, and emerging out of, these specialized agro-environments. In fact, many of the most dangerous new diseases in humans can be...
Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more qu...