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|  | | A New Birth of Freedom: The Translator
Noam Chomsky argues that communication with aliens would be impossible. Stephen Hawking argues that it would be extremely unwise even to try. What if it were absolutely necessary to do so? This question arises with extreme urgency at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, in this time-travel, alternate-history trilogy, A New Birth of Freedom.
| |  | | A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor
It has taken centuries to recognize that all humans possess certain unalienable rights. There will come a time when we have to consider whether others deserve those rights as well.
That time will come on July 3rd, 1863.
It's a mixed genre novel: Alternate History, Science Fiction, Time Travel, First Contact...to name a few!
| |  | | Hitler the Cat Goes West
It's not about Hitler, Cats or Travel! It's A Socio-Political Satire of the Near Future. Someone said, if Kurt Vonnegut, Ambrose Bierce and Charles Bukowski had a baby (don't ask me how) they'd call it "Hitler the Cat Goes West"!
p style="text-align: center">It is the year 2090 A. D./b>
p style="text-align: center">The United States ceased to exist twenty years earlier, after the Supreme Courtbr />
declared all who participate in an abortion subject to the death penalty. Six fragmentary nation-statesbr />
emerged out of the violence following from this Great Dissolution, and they are just now being forced tobr />
contemplate a reunification./b>
p style="text-align: center">All the six, so-called heads of state are being systematically assassinated,br />
and a militant religious group, th | |  | | Rock Music in American Culture: The Sounds of Revolution
An examination of the phenomenon we call "rock and roll." It's informative, provocative, disturbing and highly readable.
span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">From its roots in the black and white "under classes" through its clash with the broader culture to its multifaceted incarnation today, rock and roll has fostered and reflected a genuine cultural revolution that has gone on to influence the world./span>br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" />
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span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">This critical work | |  | | The Mission
It's an Alternate History / Science Fiction novel. There are some rather unwelcome visitors among us, or have been, or still are...
em>It is a time of relative peace and tranquility on planet Earth, in the United States of America, but it's an Earth and an America subtly different from our own./em>
On Sllth, things are not so tranquil. A deadly plague has been rapidly destroying the entire species. Their only hope is for the healthy ones to emigrate. There is, however, only one way they can do this ‑ by inserting themselves in an alien hosts at the moment of their deaths, deaths which they can not directly produce. They need a world in chaos, where deaths are many and frequent. One previous "Mission | |  | | You Say You Want a Revolution: Rock Music in American Culture
Simply put, it's about the meaning of rock and roll....kind of philosophical, actually.
What does it all mean, this thing called “rock and roll”?
This is different from asking what happened, and who did what. A lot books have dealt with these questions. The meaning of rock music in American Culture is another matter entirely. From its roots in the black and white “under-classes,” through its clash with the established culture and the inevitable backlash, to its multi-faceted incarnation today, rock and roll has both fostered and reflected a genuine cultural revolution which has gone on to influence the world.
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Confessions of a Movie Addict
by Betty Jo Tucker
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 Film Stars! Dancing! Popcorn!
At last, a life story with everything but the movie stuff edited out.This amusing memoir chronicles film critic Betty Jo Tucker's love affair with film from the 1930s through the beginning of the new millennium |
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