Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 19 February 2010
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Thoughtcrime Experiments
Our aim was to find mind-breakingly good science fiction/fantasy stories that other editors had rejected, and release them into the commons for readers to enjoy. My co-editor Leonard writes extensively on our methodology and aims in Appendix A, but the short version is: we did it. Here it is. There isn’t a theme, really, just “what we like.” It turns out that we like political satire and family drama and detective thrillers and fables and fable deconstructions and the mysteries of debugging. It’s all good stuff and we hope you like it.
This brilliant study -- Gaddis' fifth book on the Cold War -- provides an exhaustive and ever-quizzical approach to the early years of the superpower conflict. Gaddis has a knack for asking large and interesting questions, and he brings a lively style to his answers. Despite the promise of startling revelations from newly opened archives, what "we now know" turns out to bear an uncanny resemblance to what we thought then; never has "post-revisionism" seemed so indistinguishable from the original orthodoxy.
Englishtips.org is the first site and the only one for now that provides this book for free. Only text. 296 pages
A night of stargazing with Boots the Monkey turns into an epic adventure for Dora when the dragons and castles they see among the stars suddenly pulse with life, and Dora's storybook turns its pages to invite her into a magical Crystal Kingdom. How will Dora overcome the obstacles that await her in this strange and enchanting realm? Join in the fun as Dora explores a captivating land where anything can happen.
James Bond is challenged by a maniacal superfiend: the worlds cleverest, cruelest criminal. A beautiful golden girl turns up dead, and a friendly game of two-handed canasta turns into a deadly game of survival.
Stunning reissue of an international bestseller, from the author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter. Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin.