In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist and activist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement during the fall of 2011 through the spring of 2012. King's active and daily participation in that movement, from its inception through its demise, provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement.

Drawn from King's intensive field work, the book focuses on the physical, legal, political, and ideological dimensions of...

In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist and activist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement during the fall of 2011 through the spring of 2012. King's active and daily participation in that movement, from its inception through its demise, provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement.

Drawn from King's intensive field work, the book focuses on the physical, legal, political, and ideological dimensions of...

Are you now, or have you ever been, Alan Turing?

Professor William Strange has a stellar academic career, beautiful house, wife and baby son, all of which is imperilled by his affair with the enigmatic Adriana Russett. He is convinced that she is the clue to strange dreams of the 1940s which jumble up the life of Alan Turing and a mission in which a flying boat sinks a German submarine. Was he the great mathematician in a previous life? His breakdown is somehow presaged by two major public events, the death of Princess Diana and the 9/11 attacks. But does any of this...

This book develops a new critical framework for exploring the excesses portrayed in American cinema. Each culture has its own excesses which taken together add up to a unique "madness." American cinema reveals these excesses, painting a portrait of the specifically American madness, and, when these excesses are rolled back a little, reveals the unique strengths and genius of the American mind. The critical methods of both Left and Right are shown to have programmatic biases that make them unsuited to analysis of this transgressive material; instead a method of dramatic criticism is developed...

Coming forward from Lord of Water, a precious water planet

A one-million-year calibration was set to take place. The balance of this precious water planet was all perfectly held in place and monitored by a perfect white sapphire crystal embedded in the planet's surface deep below the ocean.

With the prediction of one million years held in place by this perfect universal communication system, the task at hand for our Lord of Water was to simply locate the crystal and ensure that it would be clear and glowing as it had been for almost an eternity past.

But with the...