Medea: Harlan's World
10 best books like Medea: Harlan's World (Harlan Ellison): The Army of the Republic, The New Women of Wonder, DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, Orange, Weathercraft, The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel, Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, Learning XML, The Revenge of Ishtar
| Author | Stuart Archer Cohen |
| ISBN | 0312383770 |
In an America stretched by crisis to the breaking point, billionaire entrepreneur and government insider James Sands is riding high. Over the protests of civic groups and the increasing alienation of his wife, Anne, Sands is poised on the brink of an immensely risky and controversial deal that will...
| Author | Pamela Sargent |
| ISBN | 0394724380 |
This anthology contains:
Introduction (1977) by Pamela Sargent
View From The Moon Station (1977) by Sonya Dorman
Screwtop (1976) by Vonda N. McIntyre
The Warlord of Saturn's Moons (1974) by Eleanor Arnason
The Triumphant Head (1970) by Josephine Saxton
The Heat Death...
| Author | Anya Kamenetz |
| ISBN | 1603582347 |
The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college, yet the United States has fallen from world leader to only the tenth most educated nation. Almost half of college students...
| Author | John Hendrix |
| ISBN | 0810937980 |
Published on the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, this biography explores the life of one of American history’s most controversial figures. A great deal of academic study has been published recently about John Brown. This is the first book for young readers to include these...
| Author | Benjamin (ZHANG Bin 本杰明) |
| ISBN | 1427814635 |
The art in this book is phenomenally beautiful and is its one saving grace. The dialogue is either poorly written, poorly translated, or both. The plot is whisper-thin: Orange is a teenage girl who wants to jump off a building because life is lame and being a teen is hard. The author also makes it clear that...
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1606993402 |
For over 20 years now, Jim Woodring has delighted, touched, and puzzled readers around the world with his lush, wordless tales of “Frank.” Weathercraft is Woodring’s first full-length graphic novel set in this world—indeed, Woodring’s first graphic novel, period!—and it features...
Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequently compared to Mark Twain. These free-verse poems, which first appeared in Marquis's New York newspaper columns, revolve around the escapades of Archy, the philosophical cockroach who...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 0809095084 |
Trotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure set up a world conflict that lasted through the twentieth century, and in Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, the renowned comic artist Rick Geary uses his distinct...
| Author | Erik T. Ray |
| ISBN | 0596004206 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
XML has grown into such a diverse set of technologies that it s almost impossible for newcomers to get their hands around it. Fortunately, there s a solution: Erik T. Ray s Learning XML, Second Edition.
This book presents an outstanding birds-eye view of the...
| Author | Ludmila Zeman |
| ISBN | 0887764363 |
In this second volume in the Gilgamesh trilogy, Enkidu joins Gilgamesh in the quest to slay Humbaba, the monster who has attacked the city and caused great destruction, including the death of the beautiful singer, Shamat. Gilgamesh and Enkidu successfully slay the monster and in so doing, Gilgamesh...
| Author | Elliotte Rusty Harold |
| ISBN | 0596007647 |
If you're a developer working with XML, you know there's a lot to know about XML, and the XML space is evolving almost moment by moment. But you don't need to commit every XML syntax, API, or XSLT transformation to memory; you only need to know where to find it. And if it's a detail that has to do with XML or its...
| Author | David Walton |
| ISBN | 0978732634 |
The Philip K. Dick award-winning SF dystopian novel. Years in the future, the U.S. is a splintered country. The city-state of Philadelphia is ripe for revolution. Mark McGovern, the son of a rich politician, lives in a world of expensive parties and frivolous biological mods, a sharp contrast to the...
| Author | Barry McCrea |
| ISBN | 0786715138 |
4.5
ME HA ENCANTADO!!!!
Es el primer libro que leo que el protagonista es homosexual y me ha encantado pasearme por los bares gays de Dublin, por sus pubs y sus calles, vivir su vida 'prohibida', sucia (como el mismo la define), y a la vez sentir su amor obsesivo por Ian; así como su relación...
| Author | Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. |
| ISBN | 0553805398 |
A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border.
Major U.S. cities are leveled by black-market nukes.
China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown.
Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons.
What if the worst that could happen...
| Author | Henry Petroski |
| ISBN | 0307272451 |
From the acclaimed author of "The Pencil" and "To Engineer Is Human," "The Essential Engineer" is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world's most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural...
| Author | Bruce Schneier |
| ISBN | 0470395354 |
Schneier on Security will be divided into sections:
- Computer Security
- Security and Privacy
- Economics of Security
- National Security and Terrorism
Sample articles:
- Why Vista's DRM Is Bad For You
- When the Internet Is My Hard Drive, Should I Trust Third Parties?
-...
| Author | Dan Hague |
| ISBN | 0811733394 |
A dynamic package of training material from a pair of expert coaches, "The Self-Coached Climber" offers comprehensive instruction, from the basics of gripping holds to specific guidelines for developing a customized improvement plan. Hague and Hunter base their methods on the four fundamental...
| Author | Peter Carlson |
| ISBN | 1586484974 |
"Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted - "a surreal extravaganza," as historian John Lewis Gaddis called it. Khrushchev told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed the coeds in a home...
| Author | Chris Hedges |
| ISBN | 0743255127 |
Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare...
| Author | Dino Buzzati |
| ISBN | 1590173236 |
A New York Review Books Original
There’s a certain street—via Saterna—in the middle of Milan that just doesn’t show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it’s there that one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear, “like...
| Author | Loren Pope |
| ISBN | 0143037366 |
Prospective college students and their parents have been relying on Loren Pope's expertise since 1995, when he published the first edition of this indispensable guide. This new edition profiles 41 colleges—all of which outdo the Ivies and research universities in producing performers, not only...
| Author | Abdul Salam Zaeef |
| ISBN | 1849040265 |
This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pashto, are more than just a personal account of his extraordinary life. "My Life with the Taliban" offers a counter-narrative to the standard accounts of Afghanistan since 1979 .
Zaeef...
| Author | Edward Bryant |
| ISBN | 0861300033 |
The Starlost: 2785 A.D.
They had banished Devon from the world of Cypress Corners because he dared to challenge the Elders. And when he defied them again, they hunted him like an animal.
Then Devon stumbled on a secret passage in the hills. His whole life changed in that moment. For Devon...
| Author | Jason |
| ISBN | 1560974974 |
From the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning author comes this sharp suite of short tales, ranging from the funny to the terrifying to the surreal to the touching, all told entirely in pantomime. Like Chris Ware, Jason's clean, deadpan style (featuring animal-headed characters with mask-like...
| Author | Daniel Rosenberg |
| ISBN | 1568987633 |
What does history look like? How do you draw time?
From the most ancient images to the contemporary, the line has served as the central figure in the representation of time. The linear metaphor is ubiquitous in everyday visual representations of time—in almanacs, calendars, charts, and...
