A portrait of convicted serial rapist Eddie Wyatt describes Wyatt's troubled life, his brutal crimes, and the devastating impact on his wife and family of his arrest and conviction for a series of vicious sexual assaults in a small Texas town.

The UNMASKING MARRIED TO A RAPIST

Flynn, Michael

Biographies & Memoirs

Free Press

Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination

Before 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practice in a variety of forms. In most cases, torture was cast as the act of a desperate and depraved individual, and the viewer was more likely to identify with the victim rather than the torturer. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, scenes of brutality and torture in mainstream comedies, dramatic narratives, and action films appear for little other reason than to titillate and delight. In these films, torture is devoid of any redeeming qualities, represented as an exercise in brutal senselessness carried out by authoritarian regimes and institutions. This volume follows the shift in the representation of torture over the past decade, specifically in documentary, action, and political films. It traces and compares the development of this trend in films from the United States, Europe, China, Latin America, South Africa, and the Middle East. Featuring essays by sociologists, psychologists, historians, journalists, and specialists in film and cultural studies, the collection approaches the representation of torture in film and television from multiple angles and disciplines, connecting its aesthetics and practices to the dynamic of state terror and political domination.

Humor & Entertainment

Fernandez Salek Ph.D., Fabiola

Movies

Columbia University Press

It is the dawn of the twenty-first century, and America is in trouble. Our public schools breed apathy and ignorance. Politics has become the art of the quick fix. But one woman has the vision and money to leverage change. Mariesa Gorley van Huyten, heiress to one of the great American fortunes, founds an educational subsidiary - Mentor Academies - and begins to subcontract public school systems in order to raise a new, less cynical generation. But her clandestine program is much larger, including the founding of a private space program, the eventual construction of an orbital power station, and supporting technological innovation on Earth. Firestar is a chronicle of private enterprise and individual initiative - the story of one woman's quest that becomes the focus for a whole new world of the future. Her program lets teachers strive to teach, hires astronauts who have no government space program to fly for, and provides productive outlets for the idealistic desires of the rich and powerful - at least those who remain sane enough to have such desires in the face of a crumbling America. And it just might work.

Firestar: An Epic of Science Fiction for the Twenty-First Century

Literature & Fiction

United States

Tor Books

The Forest of Time and Other Stories

The Forest of Time,"" ""Great, Sweet Mother,"" and the novella Melodies of the Heart, which centers on the relationship between a two-hundred-year-old woman and a nine-year-old girl who is dying.

Lodestar

In the early years of the twenty-first century, humanity has progressed into space, having established a permanent presence with LEO (Low Earth Orbit) Station. Science and commerce in space are booming and humanity's future looks bright. But one man's desire for vindication and revenge could end it all. Lodestar chronicles the complex conflicts-political, personal, and scientific-on Earth and in orbit, that must be resolved if humanity is to claim its destiny among the stars.

Lodestar (Firestar Saga)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Falling Stars (Firestar Saga)

With several large space rocks slated to hit Earth in the near future, ships are sent to the asteroid belt to prevent disaster, while a world financial crash and political turmoil threaten the rescue mission. 20,000 first printing.

In the Country of the Blind

Michael Flynn has won widespread acclaim for his Firestar series - Harry Turtledove said: "As Robert A. Heinlein did and all too few have done since, Michael Flynn writes about the near future as if he'd been there and was bringing back reports of what he'd seen." But Flynn doesn't need the flash of futurity to write an exciting story, as he demonstrated in this, his first novel. Set primarily in the present, with tantalizing flashbacks to the 1800s, In the Country of the Blind concerns a small group of American idealists who manage to actually build the Analytical Engine designed by Charles Babbage and use it to develop mathematical models that could chart the likely course of the future. When their calculations predicted a united Germany armed with unimaginably powerful bombs by 1939, the Charles Babbage Society kept it from ever happening. Soon they were working to alter history's course to their own liking in other ways. By the 1990s the Society has become the secret master of the world. But no secret can be kept forever, at least not without drastic measures. When her plans for some historic real estate lead developer and ex-reporter Sarah Beaumont to stumble across the Society's existence, it is just the first step into a baffling and deadly maze of conspiracies. Originally published in the 1980s as a paperback original, In the Country of the Blind has been revised and updated for this new edition and now includes Flynn's article from Analog, "An Introduction to Cliology," about the ideas underlying the book. We are pleased to bring it to hardcover for the first time for those who have discovered his work in the years since its first appearance in print.

Reeling under a new ice age, the lunatic fringe of the environmental movement controls the US government. Abandoned by Earth, the space colonies replenish their air by scoop-ships diving into the atmosphere - but Alex and Gordon's ship was hit by a missile, and they are now wanted dead or alive.

Fallen Angels

POURNELLE, JERRY

Niven,Larry

Pan.

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The UNMASKING MARRIED TO A RAPIST

Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination

Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination

Firestar: An Epic of Science Fiction for the Twenty-First Century

The Forest of Time and Other Stories

Lodestar (Firestar Saga)

The Forest of Time and Other Stories

Falling Stars (Firestar Saga)

In the Country of the Blind

Fallen Angels