Walter Miller: 42 books

The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...

Strange gods were worshipped on Mars. But were they so clever? They'd lost their own world.  

This is an ethnographic collection of 12 edited talks and conversations from a conference on violence, conflict, and the world order held at Eastern Kentucky University. The conference was organized by Carole Garrison, Chair of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at EKU, who arranged for video recording...

The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are instead formulated by the political community as symbolic efforts meant to generate personal partisan gain.

This landmark textbook introduces students to the principles of regional science and focuses on the key methods used in regional analysis, including regional and interregional input-output analysis, econometrics (regional and spatial), programming and industrial and urban complex analysis, gravity...

A space rover has no business with a family. But what can a man in the full vigor of youth do—if his heart cries out for a home?

Conditionally Human is set in a future where the crisis of overpopulation has caused the implimentation of rigid controls on procreation based on genetic screening. To satisfy the parental instinct in those who were not permited children, a device named the evolvotron was invented. Through genetic...

They were such cute synthetic creatures, it was impossible not to love them. Of course, that was precisely why they were dangerous!

After 20th century civilization was destroyed by a global nuclear war, known as the "Flame Deluge", there was a violent backlash against the culture of advanced knowledge and technology that had led to the development of nuclear weapons. During this backlash, called the "Simplification",...

Und es gibt sie doch … die Außerirdischen, die fer-nen Sterne, auf denen Lebewesen existieren. Sie werden in den folgenden Kurzgeschichten in fremde Welten entführt, in denen Krieg, Liebe und Freundschaft existieren. Oder die Außerirdischen erscheinen auf der Erde und lassen uns wissen, dass es sie gibt.

Wenn US-Präsident Obama Richard Holbrook als seinen neuen Vermittler für Afghanistan und Pakistan vorstellt, ist dies eine Nachricht, die weltweite Aufmerksamkeit findet. Sondergesandte sind in allen Krisenregionen der Welt im Einsatz. Wie aber geht das: Frieden stiften? Und wann entwickelte sich...

The Earth was green and quiet. Nature had survived Man, and Man had survived himself. Then, one day, the great silvery ships broke the tranquillity of the skies, bringing Man's twenty-thousand-year-lost inheritance back to Earth....

A space rover has no business with a family. But what can a man in the full vigor of youth do—if his heart cries out for a home?