In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mytholoigcal,
Psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware is surprised to get the call when well-known TV actress Zelda Chase turns up half-naked, half-mad in the LA’s rural Westside. He has little connection to the starlet, save a psychiatric evaluation he performed on her adopted son several years ago, a child who has
"...A frightening portrait of senseless fury that tells the terrible truth about a man who is setting out to kill for no reason at all" Los Angeles Times
In the New York Harbor, the gigantic Atlantean villain Orka has emerged from the waters carrying a destroyed Roxxon oil ship, intending on spilling the contaminants the humans unleashed on the oceans in their own shores. The Avengers are nowhere to be found, but luckily New York's newest hero,
The sixth book in The Complete Aliens Omnibus, an essential collection for fans of Twentieth Century Fox’s iconic blockbuster action-packed science fiction film Aliens, comprised of Cauldron and Steel Egg. In Cauldron, on the spaceship Umiak, an elite troupe of cadets is forced into servitude by
Tarquin and Chase cook up a storm together on their YouTube show “Two Twinks Cooking.” Tarquin loves Chase, but Chase only wants to be best friends with Tarquin. Or does he? On the show, there’s a lot of innuendo, hilarity, and more than the love of food going on between the two boys. Off the
Gracie Evans wants a Valentines she won’t forget. Luke Forsythe plans to give her exactly what she wants. Gracie Evans is a woman tired of the men in her life not satisfying her in bed. She’s had a string of boyfriends, but none of them have come close to satisfying the vivid fantasies she has.
Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954. At crucial moments in their personal histories their lives intersect, and each discovers his own
This study shows how the contemporary commonplace idea of "the West" emerged around the turn of the century from the combined and related phenomena of European imperial expansion and a crisis of democratic politics. The author argues that twentieth-century ideas of 'the West' can be
