Author : David Dvorkin
Publisher : David Dvorkin
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
In the long run, the important change brought about by self-publishing won’t be the wide availability of self-published books, their price, their convenience, or the destruction of the traditional publishing industry. Self-publishing will cause a revolution in the very nature of published fiction. Fiction will change in unpredictable ways, and it will keep on changing. The excitement and vitality resulting from this change will be enduring.
Author : David Dvorkin
Publisher : David Dvorkin
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Fleeing the mob he worked for in Chicago, Tom Hamilton returns to his Colorado hometown. When a singer is murdered during a local opera performance, Tom tries his hand at finding the killer. But this draws him back into the passions and hatreds of earlier years and puts his own life in danger.
Author : David Dvorkin
Publisher : David Dvorkin
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Richard Venneman, former vampire, weeps in frustration. His prey has eluded him. That prey is a vampire. Venneman was the first vampire in history to transform himself into an even more terrible being who preyed on vampires. And then he was first to become a human again. Now he hungers -- not for blood, but to find a vampire who will make him a vampire for the second time. His obsessions have forced others through strange transformations. Karen Belmont, trapped between human form and werewolf shape, hungers both for blood and flesh. Elizabeth Vallé, content for three centuries to be a beautiful, seductive vampire, has become the preyer upon vampires that Venneman once was, but monstrous in size and appetites. Now Elizabeth wants an eternal soulmate and has chosen Venneman, while Karen is hunting him so that she can take revenge by tearing him apart. Their meeting will trigger a catastrophe -- for them, and potentially for all mankind.
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551993198
Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta. In A Dead Hand, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from a captivating and seductive American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son’s, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die — what is it that pulls Delfont into this story, and will he ever find the truth about what happened?
Author : Patrick Keeney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 1351961128
Academic ethics are currently much in the news but there is a great deal of uncertainty, both as to what constitutes specifically academic ethics and about a number of issues that are taken to be issues of academic ethics. This collection of papers focuses on both questions, moving from consideration of the very idea of a University and what that entails, via attempts to locate the major current concerns, to particular issues relating to the University's relations with the corporate world, the professor's role, relations between student and teacher, credentialling, the demands of collegiality and plagiarism. The editors have provided both a full and reasoned introduction and a critical end-piece that attempt to bring some order to the often inchoate nature of this field, raising the further question of whether institutions should, or should not, frame formal codes of conduct. The selected papers are drawn from diverse sources and together provide one of the first comprehensive overviews of academic ethics.
Author : John Mohan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317859030
The human geography of the UK is currently being reshaped by a number of forces - such as globalisation, transition in the organisations of production, the changing character of state intervention, and changing relationships with Europe. A consideration of the impacts of these forces on economic, social and political landscapes is, therefore, an urgent task. At the same time, enduring institutional features of the British economy and polity are also having important influences on socio-economic processes. The result is a complex mosaic of uneven development, which belies the notion of simplistic regional contrasts. Rather than simply mapping spatial inequality, 'A United Kingdom?' charts the processes underpinning uneven development at a range of scales and for a number of key topics. The book draws upon and synthesises the latest contemporary research findings and places emphasis on the interrelated nature of economic, social and political geographies. It treats the human geographies of the UK in a coherent and integrated way, and asks whether contemporary processes of change are tending towards the reduction of socio-spatial divisions or their reproduction in new forms.
Author : David Dvorkin
Publisher : David Dvorkin
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
His world began in agony. Squealing brakes. An impact. He floated for a moment and crashed onto a hard surface. Bones splintered, and he screamed. Cramps folded him over. He pushed the pain, the fear, the dying away from him, put them behind a thick, hard wall, and became himself. Alone. The wall protected him. No man remembers his birth. The pain and confusion remained buried behind that wall for forty years. And then Max Iverson went to a movie and was torn open again. Suddenly, a murderer’s memories force their way into Max Iverson’s mind. Max is horrified and bewildered. Surely this isn’t real! But he knows that it is real. He can’t say how he knows, but he does. The violent memories he’s forced to experience have something about them that makes him sure of it. The killer is reveling in the murder he committed, playing it over and over in his mind. Max is forced to experience it over and over, as well. Max is sickened by what he sees in his mind—by what fills someone else’s mind. Max is a private person by nature, isolated from his fellow humans. Now he is forced to know what the worst of them are thinking, and his nights are filled with nightmares. He knows he can’t let it pass. He has to do whatever he can to bring to justice the killer whose thoughts he knows. Max is able to help the authorities find the killer, and he hopes that’s the last of it. But it isn’t. More and more often, he experiences the terrible thoughts of evil people. He feels sucked into their crimes, violated and made filthy by their thoughts. He is unaware of the extent to which their evil is infecting him. He continues to help the authorities capture and convict those people. He is unaware of the danger this exposes him to. There is a cabal of criminals behind much of the major crime in the city. He didn’t know of their existence, but they become aware of his, and now they are determined to eliminate him. Max must change from frightened quarry to pitiless hunter. He is aided by the skills he absorbs from the minds of the killers he kills. His hunt leads him to the cabal and also to life–changing discoveries about his own history.
Author : David Dvorkin
Publisher : David Dvorkin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Seduced and killed by a beautiful woman, Richard Venneman wakes as a vampire. Loathing what he has become, horrified by his own irresistible need for human blood, he seeks salvation via self-destruction. He tries to incinerate himself in the experimental fusion reactor where he worked when he was alive. But instead, the machine's energy beam transforms him into something even worse than a vampire.
Author : May Agnes Fleming
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 1876
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : David Dvorkin
Publisher : David Dvorkin
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
In September 1967, I started working at NASA in Houston, at what was then called the Manned Spacecraft Center. I worked on Apollo missions. In November 1971, I left NASA and moved to Denver to work on the Viking Mars lander project at Martin Marietta Corporation. By the time I left NASA, Apollo was winding down. Manned spaceflight beyond Earth orbit was dying. There would be no lunar bases or missions to Mars. In a mere four years, the future had died. Fifty years later, I still can’t shake the sadness. Of course the “We” in the title of this book is not literal. Only the handful of men who have actually been on the moon can talk about “when we landed on the moon” and mean it literally. I’m using “we” in a general sense, to refer to all of the 400,000 people who worked on the Apollo Project, to all of America, and to the entire human race. As the plaque on the side of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module descent stage, which still stands on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility, proclaims: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." This is the story of my part in Apollo.
