Introducing Boris Badger, Raven, Babushka and Jack the donkey. Boris and Raven share breakfast. Raven tells a story. Badger and Raven embark on an adventure to obtain a birthday present for Jack. Babushka and her two dogs intervene. Boris and Raven learn a lesson.

Ideas die at the hands of journalists. This is the controversial thesis offered by Michael McDevitt in a sweeping examination of anti-intellectualism in American journalism. A murky presence, anti-intellectualism is not acknowledged by reporters and editors. It is not easily measured by scholars, as it entails opportunities not taken, context not provided, ideas not examined. Where Ideas Go to Die will be the first book to document how journalism polices intellect at a time when t...

This is the first systematic study of modern China's military campaigns and the actual fighting conducted by the People's Liberation Army since the founding of the People's Republic. It provides a general overview of the evolution of PLA military doctrine, and then focuses on major combat episodes from the civil war with the Nationalists to the last significant combat in Vietnam in 1979, in addition to navy and air operations through 1999. In contrast to the many works on the specifics and...

Deep Down Things: Essays on Catholic Culture explores common threads that characterize Catholicism. The contributors look successively at: Catholic culture and everyday life of the parish and of work, at Catholic culture and the imaginative life of poets and fiction writers, and at Catholic culture and postmodern life where individual conscience, skepticism, and relativism challenge Church authority and faith itself. They do so while looking for foundational components that persist and com...

This is the second book in the series "Boris Badger". Boris, Jack and Raven take the old Grandmother's [Savta's] fall harvest of pumpkins and cider to the market. Raven tells a tale on the way, before they run into trouble - a big storm and a cart stuck-in-the-mud. With teamwork and fellowship, they make a successful journey to deliver the goods. They marvel at the sights and smells of the market before trekking home again. In the process, the old saying "when you...

Boris Badger wakes to find a winter wonderland full of ice and snow, and adventure.Boris makes some new friends and learns a new skill. Along with Kuth the Raven,they untangle not one, but two mysteries, as they explore the cold dark forest.Raven tells another tale.

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class" goal.Beginning with an exploration of why China is seeking to become such a major maritime power, author Michael McDevitt first ex...

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is no mystery what he wants, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." He wants this latter objective to be largely completed by 2035. China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class" goal. Beginning with an exploration of why China...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 47: November 2020Lezli Robyn, EditorMartin Shoemaker, Assistant EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by: Andrea Stewart, Nancy Kress, Michael Swanwick, J. Scott Coatsworth, Mike Resnick & Jean-Claude Dunyach, Barb Galler-Smith, Joe Haldeman, Dantzel Cherry, by John Haas, Jack McDevitt, Larry HodgesSerialization: Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 27: July 2017Mike Resnick, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by: Stephen Lawson, J.P. Sullivan, Jody Lynn Nye, Edward M. Lerner, Rachelle Harp, Lou J Berger, Michael Swanwick, Leena Likitalo, Paul Di Filippo, Kay Kenyon, Gregor Hartmann, Gordon Eklund, Jack McDevittSerialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan SlonczewskiColumns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benfor...

The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relations...

The New York Times bestseller that inspired the documentary Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began on Public Television.At its height, the Battle of Shanghai involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators—and often victims. It turned what had been a Japanese imperialist adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. U...