In "Deniable Actions," Norman Thiesman's Ghost Force team is sent to Alaska to investigate mysterious happenings in the last frontier. As the team gets closer to an answer, they find themselves in the middle of a battle they might not win. Can the group survive long enough in the climactic chaos to expose their uncovered horrors? Find out as Ghost Force must deal with "Deniable Actions."

Chinese cinema continues to go from strength to strength. After art-house hits like Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth (1984) and Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000), the Oscar-winning success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) disproved the old myth that subtitled films could not succeed at the multiplex. Chinese Films in Focus II updates and expands the original Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes with fourteen brand new essays, to offer thirty-four fresh and insightful rea...

Mike Kincaid is a father, a husband, and a man haunted by a war he has tried to leave behind. On a quiet evening in Colorado, his nine-year-old daughter asks him a simple question: "What did you do in the war?" It's a question that threatens to shatter the peaceful life he has built, forcing him to confront the ghosts of his past as a Green Beret officer.He tells her a story, a filtered truth about the chaotic opening days of World War III in Lithuania. A story of Special Forces op...

When research scientist Audra Vass discovers that her high-security workplace has secretly engineered terrifying creatures, an unimaginable evil is unleashed. Trapped in the lab, she must gather her courage to confront the grotesque monsters and expose the truth.Audra finds herself unwillingly drawn into a high-stakes conspiracy beyond her darkest fears. With danger and death around every corner, she teams up with shadowy saviors to battle the alien nightmares set loose. Armed with...

"Affrilachia," a term first coined in 1991 by Kentucky poet Frank X Walker, refers to the cultural contributions of African Americans who live in Appalachia, a largely mountainous region stretching over thirteen states from Mississippi to New York. Although Black Americans have greatly influenced the popular culture landscape in this region, their stories, trials, and triumphs are often undocumented because Appalachia is perceived as wholly white.In this stunning visual history, ph...

The Spiritual Inception opens in a divine part of the universe. In a place known as the Hallowed Sanctum, two proven spirits, Sarah and John, await the birth of a young soul. Having partnered each other on their voyage to infinity across several physical planes in the universe, they have achieved perfection. What stands between them and entering the Infinite Ones Eternal Land, is the task of mentoring this young spirit on its own voyage to infinity. The success of this assignment ...

As they entered the chamber, Jamie straightaway looked for the Faceless Beings, but there were no signs of them, only the shape of a Celestial Window materialising in one section of the chamber. Jamie stared into it, describing a blazing inferno around which several glowing hot objects were orbiting. In the gaseous matrix, solidifying masses were constantly bombarding the orbiting objects; each object absorbing the impacting fragments. Jamie and Vicky were spellbound, instinctively sensing...

Book two of The Cyannian Trilogy continues the fantasy. It describes the development of a Universal Technology needed to provide another platform for the supernatural and physical dimensions to interact.Over the years, following their return from Cyan, Tristram teaches his people to submit their allegiance to the Infinite One and take Earth into the celestial realm. They achieve this, allowing him to complete the first stage of his...

The owl gazed at Reggie, who by now was totally captivated by the presence of the creature. The owl rocked its head from side to side, as it peered down between the swaying branches at him. Suddenly it took to its wing and flew a short way along the foot-path, leading Reggie further away from the canal tow-path. Settling on the branch of another tree a little farther on, it stared back at Reggie, now obsessed with the creature it, seeming to want him to follow it. He became curious of the ...

This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films. It also explores festivals in the Chinese-speaking world and festivals of Chinese films in the rest of the world. The book asks how Chinese film festivals function as sites of translation, translating Chinese culture to the world and world culture to Chinese-speaking audiences, and also how the international film festival model is being transf...

Mobile Cultures provides much-needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia. The availability and use of new media—fax machines, mobile phones, the Internet, electronic message boards, pagers, and global television—have grown exponentially in Asia over the past decade. This explosion of information technology has sparked a revolution, transforming lives and lifestyles, enabli...

After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou transformed Chinese cinema with Farewell My Concubine, Yellow Earth, Raise the Red Lantern, and other international successes. Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy tells the riveting story of this class of 1982, China’s famous "Fifth Generation" of filmmakers. It is the first insider’s account of this renowned cohort to appear in English. Covering these dir...