For more than half a century, Star Trek has challenged audiences to imagine a better future. Beneath the starships and spectacle lies something even more enduring: language. In Star Trek Speaks: The Films, Darrell James explores the wit, wisdom, and moral insight embedded in the dialogue of the ten original feature films. Drawing on decades of experience as an actor and teacher of drama, he examines how a single line can illuminate courage, sacrifice, identity, leadership, and what it mean...

From authors including National Book Award winner Pete Hautman, Deadly Ink 2007 winner Darrell James, and renowned social commentator turned short-story writer Mike Davis, Politics Noir is a chilling and subversive collection of new crime stories featuring greed, corruption, insatiable ambition-and murder in the very highest places.