Popular Culture: An Introductory Text Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a perfect book for college courses, especially American Studies for foreign learners. Most of the articles can be adapted for discussion and students' individual follow-up. For example, "How Much Can You Swallow?"--an analysis of an advertisement: students discuss the analysis and bring other ads for interpretation. Some texts are slightly outdated (the publication date is 1992), but even this can be turned to the teacher's advantage. For example, students could "update" the information on computers as icons (from "Living in the Material World") or show how attitudes to weight and gender have developed since the 1990s ("One Size Does Not Fit All").

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Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions to various categories of popular culture and by essays that demonstrate how the methods discussed in the introductions can be applied. This volume is an exciting beginning for the study of the materials of everyday life that define our culture and confirm our individual senses of identity.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Martians and Misplaced Clues: The Life and Work of Fredric Brown Review

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(More customer reviews)Jack Seabrook has turned a mountain of research into a compact and readable book. Fredric Brown was a complex individual, and Seabrook paints an accurate (often painfully so) picture of the man. Seabrook's book also includes a list of Brown's pulp fiction and novels for the collector, has thoughtful analyses of Brown's work for the critic, and has humor and insight for the curious. An excellent job and well worth the price of admission.

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Mindtwisters: Stories To Shred Your Head (MindQuakes) Review

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(More customer reviews)MindTwisters contains several short stories that are meant to evoke fear in the reader. The stories are interesting with strange twists that will keep the reader's interest. The stories deal with human- consuming bowling allies, the transfer of people into ideas, and the creation of space.The stories are written for the teen audience.

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Think bungee jumping is a thrill? Meet a kid who skydives down the funnel of a tornado.Why not visit the shop in the local mall that sells alternate universes in little bottles. It's a lot of fun. Unless, of course, you open the little black bottle labeled "thermonuclear war." Now that could be a real blast.Hungry? A roadside restaurant in the middle of nowhere serves up a soup so delicious you may never want to leave. Or can't....Worried you might be turning people off? Well, how about the boy who must be locked up in a lead cell, otherwise people around him begin to disappear?Ever wonder what that evil neighbor of yours had got locked up in the attic? How about the entire world....Welcome to the world of MindTwisters. Hold on tight, you're about to be blown away....

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Homecoming Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a remarkable book. I used to read lots of science fiction and fantasy but it's been a long time since anything has held my interest.
The author has created a coherent reality which begins to manifest with the very first sentence. By the end of the first page I was amazed.
Lots of plausible galactic history here, with an unusual approach to the problems encountered by species with very different life spans.
It's a little tricky at first, keeping track of all the characters and how they relate to each other, but a family tree type diagram would be a spoiler,
so just make your own as you go along. A brave and thoughtful book. Hopefully the first of a trilogy !

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During the last Interglacial more than125,000 years ago, humans hybridized with the R'il'naiand spread across the galaxy to colonize other planets.Although they formed a Confederation, they still depended onthe R'il'nai for guidance and protection-not only from theMaungs but from each other.
But only one of thepureblood R'il'nai still lives-Lai, an embittered survivorwho mourns his lost human love but is still bound to honorhis race's responsibility to the Confederation. Two others possess thepotential to change his and the Confederation'sfuture: Snowy, a slave dancer who is frightened of hisspecial powers, and Marna, a healer who survived aplanet-wide epidemic on her home world.

All have their own individual loyalties which put them in conflictwith one another, but the only way they can summon a futureto benefit all is to work together.

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Crossing Decembers Review

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(More customer reviews)John Booth is one of my favorite authors of all time. In "Crossing Decembers" he tugs at the heartstrings, fills you with wonder, and leaves you desparate for more. A must read for anyone who's ever liked books!

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Five Mile Bridge has been closed for years, slowly decaying and seemingly forgotten over the fields west of Bryan, Ohio. Joshua Kendall stood there once with a friend now gone. But a return trip to the bridge washes Joshua backward in time and memory, giving him the chance to rediscover parts of his life he thought he'd lost. Yet even as he pries those memories loose like fossils from shale, Joshua's actions are rippling through the paths of time backward as well as forward, and as his mind wrestles with pasts he cannot remember, roads which have never existed are suddenly real.

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