Mike Allen has revised and updated James T. Grey Jr.'s fly fishing classic, Handbook for the Margaree. Riparian changes, new access details, and other points of interest along the Margaree River are entertainingly addressed.

New Handbook for Margaree

Sports & Outdoors

Allen, MIke

Hunting & Fishing

lulu.com

Interpersonal Communication Research: Advances Through Meta-Analysis

A flock of shiny stories! Associated with life and death, disease and luck, corvids have long captured mankind’s attention, showing up in mythology as the companions or manifestations of deities, and starring in stories from Aesop to Poe and beyond. In Corvidae birds are born of blood and pain, trickster ravens live up to their names, magpies take human form, blue jays battle evil forces, and choughs become prisoners of war. These stories will take you to the Great War, research facilities, frozen mountaintops, steam-powered worlds, remote forest homes, and deep into fairy tales. One thing is for certain, after reading this anthology, you’ll never look the same way at the corvid outside your window. Featuring works by Jane Yolen, Mike Allen, C.S.E. Cooney, M.L.D. Curelas, Tim Deal, Megan Engelhardt, Megan Fennell, Adria Laycraft, Kat Otis, Michael S. Pack, Sara Puls, Michael M. Rader, Mark Rapacz, Angela Slatter, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and Leslie Van Zwol.

Corvidae (Rhonda Parrish's Magical Menageries) (Volume 2)

Literature & Fiction

Deal, Tim

SLATTER, ANGELA

Cooney, C.S.E.

Parrish, Rhonda

Rapacz, Mark

Engelhardt, Megan

VanArendonk Baugh, Laura

YOLEN, JANE

Laycraft, Adria

Curelas, M.L.D.

Fennell, Megan

Otis, Kat

Pack, Michael S.

Puls, Sara

Rader, Michael M.

Van Zwol, Leslie

Short Stories & Anthologies

World Weaver Press

Alistair Jones is a ex-Pinkerton agent roaming the West in search of work. Amy Dunston is an angry widow searching for answers. Who knows what those men with matching mustaches and bowler hats are searching for, but Alistair and Amy would both like to know why there are so many of them, why they all look alike, and why they're impervious to bullets -- at least until they met the business end of Alistair's .52-caliber 1874-pattern Sharps rifle. It could take down a buffalo with one shot, and it worked on those Bowlers, too. But Alistair's gun and Amy's quick thinking might not be enough. Scientist Hiram Wilson's newfangled solar-and-steam-powered airship has brought an army of those bowler-wearing varmints out of the woodwork, and destroying Hiram's invention is just the beginning of their terrifying plan for our planet. A vintage Western meets an alien invasion straight out of the golden age of science fiction and adds a chaser of steampunk in THE SKY-RIDERS, a new novelette from Southwest Virginia authors Paul Dellinger (MR. LAZARUS) and Mike Allen (UNSEAMING). Paul's stories have appeared in FANTASTIC STORIES, FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION and numerous DAW anthologies. Mike is a Nebula Award finalist. The two have been friends for twenty years, but this is their first collaboration. You can learn more about Mike at http://descentintolight.com. Find Paul's stories at http://tinyurl.com/MrLazarus. Cover by Orion Zangara (http://orionzangara.com/) and Derek L. Chase (http://www.dereklchase.com/).

The Sky-Riders

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Dellinger, Paul

Science Fiction

Mythic Delirium Books

Safer Sex in Personal Relationships: The Role of Sexual Scripts in HIV Infection and Prevention (LEA's Series on Personal Relationships)

This book focuses on safer sex discussion and practice in close, personal relationships, emphasizing research on individuals in personal relationship types that are experiencing a rise in HIV infection and AIDS. Moving beyond studies of gay adult males and IV drug-users, this work paints a clear picture of the very real risk that exists for these less-studied, more general populations, so individuals may better personalize the risk and engage in more preventative measures. Authors Tara M. Emmers-Sommer and Mike Allen examine issues surrounding safer sex, utilizing research that focuses on how individuals struggle with personalizing the HIV and AIDS risk and how they cope with safer sex issues. Safer Sex in Personal Relationships takes readers on a journey through a variety of close relationship types. It begins by highlighting awareness to the global enormity of HIV and AIDS and providing a link between the global and personal, and the need to make HIV and AIDS awareness part of everyday talk and personal relationship structure. It then focuses on: *safer sex in close relationships, both heterosexual and homosexual; *marital relationships and the importance of safe sex discussion and awareness in marriages; *HIV and AIDS from a multicultural perspective; *HIV and AIDS in aged populations; and *increasing awareness, understanding, and compassion of those living with HIV and AIDS. This book will appeal to scholars and students concerned with HIV and AIDS in personal relationships. It will be an invaluable text for courses on interpersonal communication and relationships; family, marital, human sexuality, sex and gender, gay and lesbian relationships, and sexual education; and relational conflict across communication, psychology, and sociology disciplines.

Emmers-Sommer, Tara M.

Parenting & Relationships

Routledge

How many ways can the world end? In fire. In ice. In howls of laughter or tears of madness. As a flip cosmic joke or a tragedy of love destroyed. In private agony or sweeping apocalypse. In our ignorance we turn to the dead for enlightenment, but even they despair of the answer. In STRANGE WISDOMS OF THE DEAD, award-winning poet Mike Allen's first book-length collection, the mysticism of tarot fuses with the magic of the Mayans, and childhood nightmares caress your face in the middle of the night. A playful kick sends Earth out of orbit, plots to steal time are thwarted, windows pulse with ghostly breath. The sacrifice of a daughter damns the world, and the dead struggle to communicate a fate beyond all understanding. These poems and stories, spanning a ten-year career on the cutting edge of the alternative press, take you through bends in reality to bring you to places you've never imagined.

Strange Wisdoms of the Dead

Fantasy

Wildside Press

The world's greatest sorcerer is losing his mind, and all the nations wait in fear for his next move. The faces of the future gaze forward and back, and sirens don't always sing the songs you expect. Deserts speak with the voices of girls, mothers and stepmothers are two pages of the same book, and churches house things stranger than angels. But in the afterlife, you never know when an absinthe spoon will come in handy . . . . The second volume in the critically acclaimed fantasy anthology series from Mythic Delirium Books, edited by Rhysling Award-winning poet Mike Allen, with new writings by Leah Bobet, Richard Parks, Cherie Priest, Catherynne M. Valente, Lawrence Schimel, Sonya Taaffe, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jo Walton and more.

Mythic 2

Prime Books

Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the "War on Terror"

Analysts today routinely look toward the media and popular culture as a way of understanding global security. Although only a decade ago, such a focus would have seemed out of place, the proliferation of digital technologies in the twenty-first century has transformed our knowledge of near and distant events so that it has become impossible to separate the politics of war, suffering, terrorism, and security from the practices and processes of the media. This book brings together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the Internet. The contributors, from a wide range of disciplines, show how both fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful. Topics range from the Patriot Act, to the censorship of media personalities, to the role that television programming plays as an interpretative frame for current events. Designed to promote strategic thinking about the relationships between media, popular culture, and global security, this book is essential reading for scholars of international relations, technology, and media studies.

Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the "War on Terror" (New Directions in International Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Davis, Doug

Kozol, Wendy

Parks, Lisa

Ricigliano, Robert

Bullock, Marcus

Castonguay, James

Layoun, Mary

Decola, Rebecca

Mellencamp, Patricia

Grajeda, Tony

Social Sciences

Rutgers University Press

Fantastique Unfettered #4 Ralewing marks the one year anniversary of this new, genre-bending magazine, an issue filled to the brim with unique prose, poetry, and non-fiction. Herein, there are fears to face, and things unknown, things unthought. Herein, there is Death unmasked. We dare you to turn these pages and read... Featuring new fiction and poetry by Hal Duncan, Mike Allen, Jacqueline West, Alma Alexander and more. Table of contents: Fiction: Azif by Lynne Jamneck The Bachorum Principle by Brenda Stokes Barron The Butterfly Collection of Miss Letitia Willoughby Forbes by Alma Alexander Mr. White Umbrella by Georgina Bruce Sons of the Law by Hal Duncan Stolen Souls by Mike Allen (Reprint) Three Tales of the Devil's Wife by Carmen Lau Vérité by D. Harlan Wilson Poetry: Mike Allen (special feature) Seed the Earth, Burn the Sky Binary Sisyphus Crawls Self-portrait by Shweta Narayan 'cubus by Dan Campbell At the Crossroads of the West by J. C. Runolfson Life Decisions by Kaolin Fire Black Sheep by Jacqueline West Clones evaporate faster by Kristine Ong Muslim Nonfiction: Alexa Chats with... Hal Duncan & Brent Weeks The Night Circus Reviewed by Alexandra Seidel Life is Suffering: The Writer's Point of View, Being a Discussion with Hal Duncan & Mike Allen, Conducted by Alexandra Seidel This Inscrutable Light: A Response to Thomas Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Editorial by Brandon H. Bell "The stories are fantastical in the best sense of the word: strange and marvelous, full of the inexplicable... This magazine is worth seeking out." --Terry Weyna, Fantasy Literature "By and large the sensibility is 'literary,' and the quality is high (the two, of course, not always the same thing), virtually all the stories assembled here working, though to different degrees and in different ways.... That combination of quality and variety means that Fantastique Unfettered #1 offers something for many different tastes... " --Nader Elhefnawy, The Future Fire "There is a poignance in these poems: an ache and a loss, a love and a surrender, a luscious melange of sorrow and love." --Dan Campbell, Poetry Editor of Bull Spec (in his review of the poetry and interview)

Fantastique Unfettered #4 (Ralewing)

Duncan, Hal

Literary

M-Brane SF

2014 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best collection 2014 This Is Horror Award finalist for best collection 2015 Chesley Award finalist for best cover
Mike Allen has put together a first class collection of horror and dark fantasy. Unseaming burns bright as hell among its peers. —Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
Allen’s stories deliver solid shivering terror tinged with melancholy sorrow over the fragility of humankind. —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Allen leaves readers with nerves jangling. —Library Journal, starred review
Everyone in the world awakens covered in blood-and no one knows where the blood came from. A childhood doll arrives to tear its owner's reality limb from limb. A portal to the spirit realm stretches wide on the Appalachian Trail, and something more than human crawls through on eight legs. Words of comfort change to terrifying sounds as a force from outside time speaks through them. The buttons in the bin will unseam your flesh to bare your nastiest secrets.
Opening with "The Button Bin," a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and culminating with its sequel, "The Quiltmaker," which Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Laird Barron has hailed as Mike Allen's masterpiece, this debut collection gathers fourteen horror tales that, in the words of Barron's introduction, "rival anything committed to paper by the likes of contemporary masters such as Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, or Caitlín Kiernan. This is raw, visceral, and sometimes bloody stuff. Primal stuff."
Cover by Danielle Tunstall, danielletunstall.com
More praise for Unseaming:
Throughout Unseaming, reality is usually in bad shape right from the start-and from there things proceed to go downhill. Such is the general background and trajectory of life in Mike Allen's fictional world. More could be said, of course, but there's one thing that I feel especially urged to say: these stories are fun. Not "good" fun, and certainly not "good clean" fun. They are too unnerving for those modifiers, too serious, like laughter in the dark-unnerving, serious laughter that leads you through Mr. Allen's funhouse. The reality in there is also in bad shape, deliberately so, just for the seriously unnerving fun of it. The prose is poetic, except it's nonsense poetry, the poetry of deteriorating realities, intermingling realities, realities without Reality. And all the while that unnerving, serious laughter keeps getting louder and louder. Are we having fun yet? —Thomas Ligotti, author of The Spectral Link
Mike Allen’s ability as a poet is evident throughout this fever dream of a book. Brutal, elegant, and shocking, the stories in Unseaming are snapshots of a beautiful Hell. —Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters
Mike Allen's Unseaming confirms his status as a poet who writes in dread and awe rather than ink. His most recurrent themes are those of wrenching loss and transformative retribution, with a liberal helping of the literal fear of God(s); sowing out a hundred different apocalypses, personal and otherwise, these stories reap an unforgettable crop of nightmares, sketching a chimeric universe in which shape-changing is less a rumour or an option than a sad, simple inevitability. Not to be missed. —Gemma Files, author of We Will All Go Down Together
Mike Allen blends a poet's attention to language with a crime reporter's instinct for the darker precincts of human behavior…these stories glow with demonic energy, and what they illuminate are the faces of our secret selves, screaming back at us from the mirror's depths. —John Langan, author of The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

Unseaming

Genre Fiction

Antimatter Press

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