The story is about getting a second chance at life experienced as the beauty of an "Indian summer" with its beautiful autumn colours. But that can only happen after a snap frost - the killing frost!Peter's Indian wife, Isabella, abandoned him and their two-year-old son, joins her tribe to become the shaman and El Curandera. Her tribe, the Tarahumara, is living in the Sierra Madre, under the drug cartel's murderous rule. Peter returned to Australia with his son, Ron.Years la...

Hitler's desperate plot to save his longtime mistress . . .Counter Intelligence Corp agent Woody Ward uncovers evidence that it might not have been Eva Braun on Hitler's funeral pyre. Indeed, at that very moment, Eva is being escorted along the top-secret route mapped for the escape of the Nazi elite. It is a tortuous path where disaster appears at every turn to thwart their arrival at the Italian port of Bari. Ward persuades his superiors to let him go underground...

This book offers a comparative study of historical television genres in Europe, with a special focus on Germany and Great Britain and their way of narrating twentieth century European history. The book analyses our common European past and memory through central historical television narratives. Each chapter looks at how historical TV genres, fictional and documentary, have dealt with the most salient and defining periods, events and changes in the twentieth century— an age of extremes. Bo...

This book is a great-hearted tribute to countless people. To many needless wars were fought, but mankind must never lose its faith.

"Sold, 21 Jews to the Gestapo for 600 kr." That was the headline on the front page of EkstraBladet in 1945. The article was about two informers who had informed the Gestapo that a Jewish escape to Sweden would take place from the Chemical Factory at Amager Strandvej. Those Jews included two-year-old Ib Katznelson and his family. Katznelson is the first to thoroughly analyze what happened at the Chemical Factory. Ib relates his mother's and father's stories, along with those of others in th...

Catch a contact high -- or heighten your real high -- with stories that push the boundaries of reality. From a journey into the inner-mind to meet an all-loving Goddess to drug-induced virtual realities, Pulp Kings 4 explores the surreal truths found in altered states with this collection of drug-inspired short fiction.

For 41 years, the Larsen family held the custodial reins of Horsens Museum in Denmark. A unique story from the inside; a perspective held by the only two people who could call the Museum their childhood home, the Author, Ib Larsen and his sister Inger Olsen (nee Larsen) both now living in British Columbia, Canada. At 72 and 89 years respectively, they have agreed to share snapshots of their grandfather, Frederik, their parents, Adolf and Ingeborg Larsen, about their life, and their work at th...

Love hides in the strangest places, and nowhere is that more true than in Pulp Kings 3.Explore the wilds of romance with a diverse mix of stories that prove that love has nolimits. From virtual worlds to the back corners of a gas station bathroom, romance can befound anywhere and between anyone -- including a reality TV star turned President andhis tanning bed.

The three essays in this volume can be read individually, but all turn on the case for a revision of Marx' and Engels' historical materialism and for a less arbitrary way of reading their texts. The first one deals with the major weaknesses of Marx' and Engels' historical materialism and how to develop a better alternative without losing the critical and revolutionary edge of the original version. The second one demonstrates how Hal Draper misread some crucial passages in The Communist Man...

"Structure, Agency and Theory" challenges common readings of Marx' and Engels' historical materialism and argues the necessity of abandoning their conception of the dialectic of forces and relations of production as the motive power of historical development and transformations because of its doubtful validity and deterministic implications. Instead another fundamental conception in historical materialism, the interaction between social circumstances and agency as the motive power of histo...

Experience and Historical Materialism: Five Argumentative Essays. The central essay in this volume sketches a revised version of historical materialism, with agents' experiences of and responses to their social circumstances as the motive power of historical development and transformations. The other four essays are critiques of Althusserian structural Marxism, various misreadings of Marx and Engels, Laclau & Mouffe's"discourse analysis" as put forward in their Hegemony and Socialist Strat...

Okay, here's a back-of-the-book cover description for "The Salt-Kissed Soul: Book Two - The Caribbean Dominion," designed to entice readers and capture the essence of Robert Craigie's journey in this installment. Freedom has a new king. But a crown of salt weighs heavy. From the humble docks of Scotland, Robert Craigie defied fate, rising through betrayal and bloodshed to become the strategic genius behind the most feared pirate fleet in the Caribbean. He has united disparate rogues under ...