Kirk: 845 books

Danvedi Garwal is the highest peak in the Toribol system; a magnificent stratocone volcano rising high above the surface of the tiny Lochlon moon, Utha. The mountain remains unconquered after repeated attempts by climbers from dozens of worlds where alpine climbing is an interplanetary obsession. Now,...

Lester Dukes, the Governor of Texas, felt that the time had come to expand his group of Enforcers—the go-anywhere, fight-anyone squad that maintained law and order in the Lone Star State. So he handed the chore to his two best men, Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato. They came up with Ironsite, a...

After Yancey Bannerman, Johnny Cato was the best Enforcer Governor Dukes had. Johnny might like good whiskey and bad women, but he was hell with the hide off when it came to putting away the bad guys. But Johnny was a man with a secret. No matter the game, no matter how steep the odds, he just couldn’t...

Ancient Sex: New Essays presents groundbreaking work in a post-Foucauldian mode on sexuality, sexual identities, and gender identities in ancient Greece and Rome. Since the production of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, the field of classics has been caught in a recursive loop of argument regarding...

Myth and the Church Augustus Caesar, Son of God, started the Christiancalendar. Moreover, he also contributed massively to thepersona of Christ, to Christianity and to the ChristianChurch. Indeed, Jesus, a Jewish prophet, was transformedin the process to become the God of Christian Europe. Augustus,...

OUR KNOWLEDGE BASE IS A PRODUCT OF CHRISTIANITY, WHICH HAS DOMINATED WESTERN THOUGHT PROCESSES FOR NEARLY TWO MILLENNIA. NOW IT HAS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. FROM OBSCURE BEGINNINGS CHRISTIANITY TRIUMPHED. A miracle, perhaps, but miracles have human explanations. Those given here are well...

A new form of anxiety has emerged, stemming in part from our post-9/11 reality, but even more stemming from the influence of supermodernity. Whereas postmodernism theorizes an anxiety that results from the collapse or loss of meaning, through the lens of supermodernity it appears that the new anxiety...

Originally published in 1917. An evocative and stirring tale of two American fighting dogs. White Monarch is a pure bred white Bulldog and a show champion. The Gas-House Pup or "McDonald's Grip" was a famous brindle Pit Bull Terrier. This emotive story of two dogs and their respective owners concludes...

In this dark and moving young adult novel, sixteen-year-old Naomi’s best friend has moved away, and Naomi herself is starting at a new high school. Curtis, the artistic guy she likes, seems to be avoiding her, making her feel alone and lonely. On top of lots of difficult homework and an awful part-time...

Universal holism is in turmoil. A new force has emerged from the Eastern arm of the central spiral, mystical and unafraid to embrace new technology. Marching forth victorious, the mysterious forces of the New Order have lain waste and conquered a hundred thousand worlds. Those who have stood...

A great deal of work in philosophy today is concerned with some aspect of the complex tangle of problems and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem. This book is an introduction to it. It is a readable, lucid and accessible guide that provides readers with authoritative exposition, and a solid...

The digital era: Analog is all but dead, but the rusted towers still strobe on the evening horizon. They project a conflicting myriad of hope, despair and eyeless ghouls who claim to see the world in gigahertz. A small town in Vermont broadcasts prophecies of its residents deaths. Rey, a cutlery...

Cody Lips is just your average elementary schooler until, on his first day of fourth grade, he realizes his school has made a terrible mistake--they’ve placed him in Mrs. Piper’s Talented and Gifted class! Cody is certain that he is neither talented nor gifted. Between his new classmates and impossible...

Sam the library mouse and his friend Sarah are off on a new adventure. This time they leave the library behind and go to a museum so Sam can make sketches in his explorer’s journal. Sarah isn’t so sure that explorers have the time or the interest to write in journals. But Sam shows her that a...