Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974) is a renowned example of the paranoid conspiracy thriller, a genre that was a marker of the 1970s. The period was haunted by…

In this sequel to Rosaline's Curse, Mark Reid has a problem. His thirteenth century girlfriend thinks he's a wimp. All of her former suitors were warriors of one kind or…

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This book explores the notion of architectural obsolescence through a study of the contemporary United States. While the US was the world’s greatest economic, scientific and cultural force during the…

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Sixty-seven-year-old Guy tells his psychiatrist of the island paradise he discovered as a young castaway and his adventures–and romance–there. But does it exist only in the mind of a lonely…

Mark was probably the first Gospel to be written, and traditionally has been associated with Peter, who opened the door of faith to the Romans, as the human source. Service…