A mercurial actor adept at impersonations lands in dangerous political crosshairs.

Two lifelong friends, a visionary writer and a famous musician, confront the mysteries of their past and their mortality.

A blackmailed Governor, a glamorous and witty transsexual cabaret star, and an unrelenting investigative reporter explode the secrets and mysteries behind 9/11 and gender politics.

America’s foremost cultural critic and his protégé get caught in a series of global political events that result in the historic election of one final U.S. president.

In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'. This marked the beginning of a new discourse of knowledge-based aid, which has spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyse this new discourse.Through an examination of four agencies -- the World Bank, the British Department for International Development, the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Sw...

A shocking exposé of the reckless proliferation of bio-weapon research and the threat this poses to everyday Americans.Battling a new generation of corporate giants and uncovering threats right in our own backyard, Kenneth King’s Germs Gone Wild reveals the massive expansion of America's bio-defense research labs and the culture of deception surrounding hundreds of facilities that have opened since 9/11.King experienced the menace of bio-defense re...

A forensic criminologist, a writer, and a ninety-three year old former courtesan, join forces to resolve the life and death mysteries of a murdered hermaphrodite hooker.

The writings of six choreographers are assembled in this book and the leap they have taken to go from the medium of choreography into written text constitutes a form of translation. Some of the texts investigate the possibilities of written language as invention, others use it as a means to illustrate specific tenets or describe choreographic projects. All yield insight into the process of coaxing language from the body.

A secret nano invention that will make oil, nukes and utilities obsolete embroils the mysterious inventor and his glamorous twin sister in a dangerous national predicament.

Stephen King's book Under The Dome has become a TV show. This book gives you the story background, information on the show's characters, TV plots and interesting analysis by a fan of the show.

YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive.The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolve. Man and woman. Queer and straight.What if it's not true that you only live once? In this genre-transcending book, trans writer and media artist Chase Joynt and HIV-positive movie artis...

The word 'governance' is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on 'good governance'. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of 'global governance'. The European Union issues a White Paper on 'Governance'. The U.S. Forest Service calls for 'collaborative governance'. What accounts for the pervasive use of the term 'governance' and to what does it refer? It has a bewildering set of answers. The word 'governance' is used in a variety of c...