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Jeff Noon, D Harlan Wilson, Gary Barwin
This collection of dramatic entertainments brings together innovative plays from six authors, all of whom are known for their work in different genres and fields, ranging from poetry, science fiction…
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A D Harlan
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…
Henry D Harlan
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D Harlan Wilson
Thoroughly researched and transgressive, The Psychotic Dr. Schreber is part speculative (anti)fiction, part (auto)biography, part theatre-of-the-absurd, part writing tutorial, part literary nonsense and criticism. Wilson riffs on and satirizes post-everything…
D. Harlan Wilson
The Kafka Effekt is D. Harlan Wilson’s debut book, a collection of forty-four short stories loosely written in the vein of Franz Kafka, with more than a pinch of William…
In this collection of stories, D. Harlan Wilson deconditions the boundaries of reality with the same offbeat methodology that energized his first book The Kafka Effekt. Stranger on the Loose…
In this remarkable exploration of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's Native American roots, D. Harlan Wilson explodes all former notions of the German philosopher, amoralist, and ueber-saint in the same vein that…
Richard D Harlan
Ordination and installation services of Rev. Richard D. Harlan as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, New York City, Thursday Evening, April 1, 1886. This book, Ordination and installation services…
In Pseudofoliculitis City nothing is as it seems and everything is as it should be. Today’s forecast calls for extreme confrontation, with sandwich flurries and the threat of handlebar mustaches…
Life in Dreamfield, Indiana, is a daily harangue of pigs, cornfields, pigs, fast food joints, pigs, Dollar Stores, motorcycles, pigs, and good old-fashioned Amerikan redneckery. The decidedly estranged yet complacent…
Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens…
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D. Harlan Wilson returns with another ferociously mindbending collection of short fiction. Masked in absurdity, these stories reveal the horrifying and hilarious faces of everyday life. Wilson tells of egg…
A nameless professor’s methods of teaching and scholarship become toxic; he is sent back to college to redo his Ph.D. and redeem his authority. This is only the beginning of…
Audiences were outraged by D. Harlan Wilson’s first play, The Dark Hypotenuse, when it opened in Copenhagen in 2012. Not only did it bear the weird, estranging aesthetic that distinguishes…
Rutger Van Trout has worse problems than his mundane existence in the all-consuming, all-suppressing Vulgaria of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It’s not that his son might be turning into a werewolf…
In the wake of the Stick Figure War, civilization lapsed into obscurity. Fallout ravaged the fabric of space and time. History digested reality and reality exhumed the future as survivors…
This book is not an autobiography of Frederick Douglass.
(Publisher’s Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag-these are not actual biographies. They are closer…
A work of fiction. The first chapter states the book is not about Adolf Hitler.
Taking its cue from the theme song of Kill Bill by Tomoyasu Hotei and the Japanese yakuza film, BATTLE WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY is a thought experiment in the short…
The clouds glow above the forest fi re like the holographic brains of mathematicians …
J. G. Ballard once confessed that his worst fear was an atrophy of the imagination…
Outre is a novel that satirizes the contemporary mediascape while depicting a world in which schizophrenia has become a normative condition.
Fiction. NATURAL COMPLEXIONS is a biting satire on modern life as lived online and virtually more than here and now, saturated by media idiocy and the closed circuits of celebrity…
Charting new territory in filmmaking technologies and Steven Spielberg’s oeuvre, Minority Report (2002) portrays a dystopian near-future that comments on our increasingly science-fictional world and pays homage to the history…
Wilson’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor…
D., Harlan Wilson
For a professor at Corndog University it’s quite acceptable to purchase a robotic doppleganger and have it teach your classes for you. But how does it reflect on your teaching…
Sequel to: Dr. Id-entity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia.
Jean D. Harlan,Mary S. Rivkin
A core text for Science in Early Childhood courses at the 2-year or 4-year level for those who will teach young children in preschool or in the primary grades.
A…
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Sandra Ive Kirshenbaum,Robert D Harlan
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Robert D Harlan, Jack Werner Ive Stauffacher
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
British author Steve Aylett writes in multiple genres, usually simultaneously, combining elements of science fiction and fantasy with comedy and a high literary aesthetic. As a result of his unique…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Laura McCreery,Robert D Ive Harlan
Harlan D. Platt
For this new edition, Platt has revised, updated and expanded his text, including a new chapter on bankruptcy law, a profile of the turnaround manager, and an overview of the…
Harlan D Hayman
The Adventures of Mark Johnson was written for parents and young children. It places focus on our society and how to deal with social issues. This book is about a…
Harlan D Platt
Unintended consequences affect people’s lives, happiness, and fortunes. They arise from every action and decision. This provocative book presents many unintended consequences and ultimately explains how their impact can be…
A case study of a company that exemplified the 80s.
Harlan D. Platt,Harlan D. Platt
A comprehensive approach to renewing troubled companies
Harlan D Platt (Northeastern Univ, Usa)
Takes a look at how companies ought to be managed. This book argues that managers need to focus on how corporate decisions affect the firm’s cash. It suggests that companies…
James D. Harlan,James M. Denny
Lewis and Clark’s expedition with the Corps of Discovery began in territorial Missouri and this book of computer-generated maps opens a window onto the rivers, land and settlement patterns of…
Harlan D White, L D Holmes
A good friend and a good cup of coffee always makes for a good day. It was one of those good days that my friend Harlan and I decided" we…
Harlan D. Platt,Marjorie Platt
A Casebook on Corporate Renewal spans a variety of business areas relevant to corporate renewal and turnaround management. Corporate renewal, as a topic taught and discussed in business schools, has…
Harlan D. Platt,Marjorie B. Platt
A helpful tool for business students studying turnaround management and corporate renewal. The cases in this book were selected to cover the knowledge and skills needed by successful turnaround managers…
A helpful tool for business students studying turnaround management and corporate renewal
