In recent years the field of contact dermatitis has increased greatly in importance in dermatology. The variety of exogenous, environmental ly caused dermatoses has undoubtedly expanded over the past few de cades with the increasing number of potentially toxic chemicals, the changes in lifestyle, and the greater life expectancy in industrialized societies. The value of international cooperation in this field has long been realized and acted upon by the International Contact Dermatitis Re s...

Eight tales of magic, mystery, horror and just plain mayhem. From the dusty shelves of a forgotten gas station to a graffiti tagged alleyway on another planet come a series of quests, epic battles, and good old fashioned mysteries interlaced with the paranormal.The Clock Man and Other Stories shows the world as seen through the eyes of the bogeyman, a talking gun that knows far too much, and a man eating a fried tarantula. Read it with a friend or read it alone, but be sure to leav...

New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist“Lyrical and eerie . . . the prose is subtly alluring, such as the author’s description of nature as ‘a witch’s brew of mistrust.’ This sly and creepy drama is worth a look.”—Publishers WeeklyA multigenerational and deeply autobiographical gothic tale of Hollywood dreams and upstate New York reality.Foreclosure Gothic reimagines the American...

A unique blend of horror and adventure, the Saxton series follows the adventures of Wilford Saxton and his talking gun. He started out as a simple DHS agent, but found himself caught up in the events of the Henchmen series. After confronting gods, Nazis, and Valkyries, Saxton finds himself mutated beyond belief. Struggling to understand a world that's not as simple as he expected, Saxton soon finds himself hunting monsters and wondering what he's gotten himself into.As if the monste...

Steven was having a pretty good time for a guy who helped release a captured god. He had a nice place in Colorado, a pretty girl sent him a picture of herself in a bikini, and he had neighbors that left him alone. Everything was looking pretty good until he woke up to find two people in his house that were planning on killing him; one was an old coworker and the other was an old boss.It seems that releasing the God of Dreams caused some ripples in places best left alone and Eve's a...

Ace Colton is a Lead Slinger, one of the last of a group of gun-toting modern-day Samurai who have dedicated their lives to shooting. On a routine job to find a bank robber, he finds the still-living severed head of a powerful wizard stuck on the end of a mop. It's just the latest in a crime spree that has the city reeling in disbelief as people who went missing suddenly turn up with larceny on their minds. As soon as the crime is done, the criminals fall over dead.Worse: It's begin...

From the brilliant and wild mind of Eric Lahti comes a collection of stories ranging from the edge of tomorrow to the edge of reality. Filled with AIs and angels, heroes and villains, this is a must-read for anyone who enjoys the excitement of science fiction, the heady heartbeat of horror, or the wonder of near-term futurism. In here, you'll find:An angel that saves people in a most unexpected wayA club that isn't really thereThe last two people on Earth

When dealing with office politics and interpersonal conflict, how do you "show up"? If you are facing tricky situations, how well do you use tact, emotional intelligence, and forethought regarding impact to handle them?For exceptional leaders, finesse is the key. It is what they possess and how they accomplish objectives. Finesse enables them to influence, motivate, and hold people accountable as they create work environments where employees thrive.In The Finesse Factor...

A piece of hell is hiding in a tiny Arizona town...During a not-so-routine investigation into a haunting, a pair of ghost hunters receive a strange text message beckoning them to Dragoon, Arizona. The message promises them a ghost unlike any they've ever met and riches galore for investigating the entity. They find the ghost, but more sinister forces are lurking in the town and soon the ghost-hunters - and the ghost they were sent to hunt - find themselves caught between a renegade...

On a long-abandoned alien space station orbiting a mysterious black object, the rules are different. Whether it's the immersive virtual reality that's indistinguishable from reality, the wild bazaar where anything and everything is for sale, the drunken debauchery, or the group of giants who run everything and keep the peace, Endpoint is the place where people go to do what they'd never do anywhere else.For instance, two nights ago, a hacker deleted her brain. This morning a thief ...

This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the under analyzed medium of film.Cinematic Settlers discusses different cinematic genres, national traditions, and specific movies in order to expose related threads, shared circulations of knowledge, and paralleled representations. Organized into thematic groupings—conquest, settlers, natives, and space—the contributors explore the question of how film compares to w...

After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United States government exerted control in the Southwest by containing, destroying, segregating, and deporting indigenous peoples—in essence conducting an extended military campaign that culminated with the capture of Geronimo and the forced removal of the Chiricahua Apaches in 1886. In this book, Janne Lahti charts these encounters and the cultural diff...