First Published as Vikings of the Sunrise

Vikings in the Pacific (Phoenix Books)

Buck, Peter H.

Phoenix Books

Indispensable guide to one of the most influential thought systems of our century. Stressing the work of Heidegger and Sartre, it offers a careful and objective examination of the existentialist position and values - freedom of choice, individual dignity, personal love, creative effort - and answers to the eternal questions of the human condition.

Introduction to Existentialism

Politics & Social Sciences

Grene, Marjorie

Philosophy

Coloring Outside the Lines: Healing from Child Sexual Abuse and Learning to Live By My Own Rules by Kathleen Thomas portrays a harrowing account of child sexual abuse and the painful, yet ultimately victorious, transformation from victim to survivor. Written by a licensed social worker with a Master's degree in social work, the book speaks to the millions of child and adult assault survivors. With compassion, integrity, and unflinching honesty, Thomas offers hope and practical advice to survivors, parents, and caregivers. The book is a must-read for anyone living with the repercussions of abuse or assault, and those working with abused children or adult survivors.

Coloring Outside the Lines: Healing from Child Sexual Abuse and Learning to Live by My Own Rules

Biographies & Memoirs

Thomas, Kathleen

Memoirs

Common Core, A Story of School Terrorism is winner of the Society of Professors of Education book award for 2014. Intrigue, politics, and romance collide in this satirical novel about school reform. As it opens, the US Secretary of education is poisoned, teachers change students’ answers on a state test, a charter school is bombed and a shadowy plan to build a teacher robot to replace human teachers is revealed. Declaring the poisoning and bombing terrorist acts, Homeland Security and the FBI begin an investigation into a complex world of for-profit schools, educational investment companies, politicians, international culture wars, and a host of special interest groups ranging from neo-Nazi organizations to radical anti-testing groups. FBI Agent Tim Geary, a hero of the Boston Marathon terrorist investigation, leads the search for the killers. What he discovers is an intricate financial and political network linking the Common Core Investment Fund, which supports corporatizing public schools and bribes Chinese officials involved in building the teacher robot, with Brightstone, a testing and publishing giant, and Kiwi, a major technology company selling products to schools. As the mystery unfolds, China’s Ministry of State Security and the Hanban struggle with the US State Department and CIA to control the language and culture of the teacher robot, while Cincinnati Teachers Union’s President Felicia Cochran leads a national campaign to save public schools from corporatization and takeover by for-profit companies. Entertaining, thought-provoking, and suspenseful, the startling finale of this page-turner reveals who did what to whom and why!

Common Core: A Story of School Terrorism

Literature & Fiction

Spring,Joel

Dramas & Plays

In this psychological thriller—a darkly humorous satire of political and academic intrigue and violence—Billy Durant, raped at the age of six in a foster home, becomes a serial killer and world-renowned behavioral economist. A deeply angered, troubled, and brilliant youth, he lands in a prestigious university, where he becomes a fan of libertarian Ayn Rand and free-market economics.  Considered a mathematical and economic genius, he is recruited by the Chicago Economic Institute to develop and execute a series of cost/benefit models that lead to devastating consequences. Later he is funded by right-wing Oklahoma oil-rich brothers to promote free markets, tax cuts, and gun rights. Behavioral economics turns out to be the perfect public outlet for Billy’s private rage and violence. His life is a maelstrom of sanctioned and secret murders fraught with guilt and moral conflict.  In middle age Billy hooks up with Rosa Honecker, a former torturer for the East German secret police. Their life together is filled with emotion, passion, secrets, kinky sexual adventures, and through it all an intense struggle against their violent histories and murderous impulses. The story ends as Billy and Rosa approach old age, with startling denouements for them both.

Calculus of Death

Humor & Satire

2003 Pheonix jumbo trade paperback, Anne Somerset (Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion). In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures created a sensation. The Countess was both young and beautiful: the Earl was one of the richest and most powerful men in the kingdom, having risen to prominence as the male 'favourite' of the monarch James I. In a vivid narrative, Anne Somerset unravels these extraordinary events, which were widely regarded as an extreme manifestation of the corruption and vice which disfigured the court during this period. - Amazon

Unnatural Murder: Poison At the Court Of James l

History

Somerset, Anne

World

This is a witty and elegiac novel in the form of a biography, from a Pulitzer Prize winning author. At the age of 2, Edwin Mullhouse was reciting Shakespeare. At 10, he had written a novel that critics would call a work of undoubted genius. At 11, Edwin Mullhouse was mysteriously dead. Documenting every stage of this brief kife was Jeffrey Cartwright, Edwin's best friend and biographer - and the narrator of this dazzling portrait of the artist as a young child. As Jeffrey follows Edwin through hispre-verbal experiments with language, his infatuations with comic books and the troubled 2nd grade temptress Rose Dorn, and, finally, into the year of his literary glory and untimely demise, Edwin Mullhouse plunges us back into the pleasures and terrors of childhood, even as it plays havoc with our notions of genius and biography.

Edwin Mullhouse : The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-54, by Jeffrey Cartwright

Steven Millhauser

Contemporary

Beginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully demonstrated that electricity could pass from one end to the other of a chain of two hundred monks, Tom Standage tells the story of the spread of the telegraph and its transformation of the Victorian world. The telegraph was greeted by all the same concerns, hype, social panic and excitement that now surround the Internet, and Standage provides both a fascinating insight into the past and a context in which to think rather differently of today's concerns. Standage has a wonderful prose style and an excellent eye for the telling and engaging story. Popular history at its best.

The Victorian Internet

TOM STANDAGE

Professionals & Academics

Child Star

THORNE, MATT

"Ninjutsu", the ancient and secret Japanese art of espionage and assassination, has long fascinated the Western world. Ninja masters were adept in the martial arts and techniques of stealth and concealment. Stripping away the myth and mystery, Donn Draeger reveals the secret tactics, weapons, tricks, and disguises that have earned the ninja a reputation as history's most feared agents.

Ninjutsu: The Art of Invisibility--Japan's Feudal-Age Espionage Methods

Draeger, Donn F.

Asia

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