Gerald: 1985 books

Much has been written about the profoundly deaf, but the lives of the nearly 30 million partially deaf people in the United States today remain hidden. Song without Words tells the astonishing story of a man who, at the age of thirty-four, discovered that he had been deaf since childhood, yet somehow...

Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast...

Active Regulation is Volume 3 in the General Systems Thinking series that begins with the world-wide best-selling, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking. (also available in ebook formats) That first series volume focused on the question,"Why do we see what we see?" The second and third...

Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that...

The stupendously stunning eleventh volume of the Golden Age of Science Fiction!!Featuring: Bodyguard, by Christopher Grimm Med Ship Man, by Murray Leinster The Judas Valley, by Gerald Vance The Misplaced Battleship, by Harry Harrison Piper in the Woods, by Philip K. Dick The Happy Unfortunate, by Robert Silverberg Genesis, by H. Beam Piper

As inhabitants of this small planet we have looked up at the stars and wondered if intelligent life from other planets are visiting us. These talented authors answer this question in a wide range of short stories ranging from the truth about Roswell, and the dreaded pirate Blackbeard fighting an alien...

Marcus Eames is the world’s most dangerous spy. Cold, calculating, and utterly ruthless, he is feared by nations the world over. Everyone who has tried to catch him has died…painfully. But now that his small homeland of Nauru has revoked his citizenship, he is a spy without a country — and his...

Bill ‘Sunny Joe’ Roam, a former Hollywood stuntman, leaves his home on the Sinanju reservation in Arizona to pay his last respects to an old colleague, bringing Stone and Freya, his grandson and granddaughter, along with him. But the respectful remembrance is quickly upset by Roam’s former fellow...

SUGAR AND SPICE …and carbon-fiber bones. The woman known only as “14” has been genetically modified and trained from birth to be a ruthless killing machine — no mercy, no questions asked, and no survivors. In St. Louis, her latest killing spree has left dozens of innocent victims...

"One of the great comic novels of the century." - Anthony Burgess "[A]n exuberant romp with a parcel of grotesques in a truly horrible nor'-nor'-easterly suburb of London . . . great fun." - Manchester Guardian "Rabelaisian, vigorous, readable, inventive and...

One man’s insurgent is another man’s freedom fighter… From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to The Hunger Games, everyone enjoys a good rebellion. There is something compelling about a group (or individual) who throws caution to the wind and rises up in armed defiance against oppression,...

CLOWN LIVES MATTER.Yours does not.Kwame Afoyalan is no ordinary man. He is HOMO MAGIS: a new, superior species. Haters, be warned: if you don’t believe that “Homo Magis Lives Matter,” you’re a racist, you’re a fascist — and you’re next in line for execution!After fleeing...

Eric Hunter modern private detective lives in a trailer in a trailer park and handles small cases that keep him busy and provide a small income. The owner of the park Grace Baker acts as his girl Friday directing his clients to him. Eric is off searching for people and things again. A man asks Eric...

One reader made the following statement about the play. "Body chemistry and human sexuality are among the least understood facets of our lives--yet they are primal and integral to our human experience. Sordid sex-writers don't begin to do justice to the layers of complexity in the male-female...