Author: Scott Sigler File Type: mobi A terrifying thriller that will crawl beneath your skin . . . and leave fresh blood on every page. A mysterious disease is turning thousands of ordinary Americans into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, their own families, and even themselves. And one morning, exfootball star Perry Dawsey awakens to find mysterious welts growing all over his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices, fighting uncontrollable rage . . . he is infected. Worse, the disease wants something from him, something that could alter the fate of the human race.**From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In Siglers riveting horror thriller, alien seeds from outer space infect a number of unlucky humans, who develop some unusual symptomsitchy, blue triangular growths on their skinthat eventually result in the carriers becoming screaming, homicidal maniacs. CIA agent Dew Phillips must find out why these formerly docile citizens are running amok, aided by Margaret Montoya, a Centers for Disease Control epidemiologist, who reported the first of the strange cases. One of the infected, former football player Perry Dawsey, doesnt take any crap from anybody, not even the aliens residing in his body. Sigler (Ancestor) leads the reader from one startling detail to the nextthe creatures learn to speak (feed us we hungry) they grow little black eyesuntil even hardened genre fans will find themselves whimpering at each new revelation. This terrifying page-turner could be the authors breakout book, fueled by an extensive online podcast campaign. 5-city author tour. (Apr.) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ReviewPart Stephen King, part Chuck Palahniuk, Infected blends science fiction and horror into a pulpy masterpiece of action, terror, and suspense. Three recommendations dont read it at night, or just after youve eaten a full meal, or if youre weak of heart.Youve been warned!James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Judas Strain and Black Order Powerfully written . . . an unforgettable central character. Dallas Morning News Sigler is masterful at grabbing the reader by the throat and refusing to let go. Just when I thought I knew what abyss he was leading me across, he knocked the bridge out from under... I think I screamed the whole way down... Infected is a marvel of gonzo, in-your-face, up-to-the-minute terror.Lincoln Child, New York Times bestselling author of Deep Storm and *Death Match Fraught with tension . . . Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Hot Zone. Rocky Mountain News* Sigler is the Richard Matheson of the 21st Centurysmart and creepy, Infected is a flawless thinking-persons thriller. Bravo to a bold new talent!Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Bad Moon Rising and Ghost Road BluesRiveting . . . even hardened genre fans will find themselves whimpering at each new revelation.Publishers Weekly (starred review) Horror mavens rejoice! Infected is a revelation -- a novel that lives up to its hype. From page one, the story of a mysterious smart-virus that turns its hosts into deadly drooling drones creeps up on a reader like the ratchet of a roller coaster climbing toward its inevitable crest. Sigler brings the folksy character detail of Stephen King, the conceptual panache of Clive Barker, and the oozing, shuddery pathologies of a David Cronenberg movie. Zombies, spies, conspiracies, and gallons of goo make this the fastest read in the west! Highest recommendation! Jay Bonansinga, national bestselling author of Shattered, Twisted, Frozen, and The Sinking of the Eastland Sigler has a unique talent for keeping readers on the edge of their seats I absolutely had to know what was going to happen next. Infected is full of mayhem, action, and gore--and you wont be able to put it down. Dave Wellington, author of 13 Bullets and the Monster Island trilogy** Scott Siglers Infected isa bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think youve got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way. All in all, one hell of an exhilarating ride, and highly recommended. Joe R. Lansdale, World Horror Convention Grand Master and six-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Bubba Ho-Tep and Lost Echoes Infected is as unnerving as a scream in a morguea breakout novel that gets under your skin. If the voice in your head is Siglers, youre locked in for a very scary night.E.E. Knight From the Hardcover edition.

Author: David J. Neumann File Type: pdf Paramahansa Yogananda (18931952), a Hindu missionary to the United States, wrote one of the worlds most highly acclaimed spiritual classics, Autobiography of a Yogi, which was first published in 1946 and continues to be one of the best-selling spiritual philosophy titles of all time. In this critical biography, David Neumann tells the story of Yoganandas fascinating life while interpreting his position in religious history, transnational modernity, and American culture. Beginning with Yoganandas spiritual investigations in his native India, Neumann tells how this early global guru emigrated to the United States in 1920 and established his headquarters, the Self-Realization Fellowship, in Los Angeles, where it continues today. Preaching his message of Hindu yogic philosophy in a land that routinely sent its own evangelists to India, Yogananda was fueled by a religious nationalism that led him to conclude that Hinduism could uniquely fill a spiritual void in America and Europe. At the same time, he embraced a growing belief that Hinduisms success outside South Asia hinged on a sincere understanding of Christian belief and practice. By universalizing Hinduism, Neumann argues, Yogananda helped create the novel vocation of Hindu yogi evangelist, generating fresh connections between religion and commercial culture in a deepening American religious pluralism. **ReviewUniformly perceptive and utterly convincing, Neumann reveals Paramahansa Yoganandas penchant for imaginative reconstruction while preserving the gurus humanity through it all. At once fair, honest, and unflinching, this book will certainly be warmly welcomed and used widely as the standard scholarly source for the life and teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, as well as for the understanding of Hinduismand religious charismain America. There is nothing else like it.Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, Rice University In fine style that makes this book fun to read, Neumanns much-needed study of Paramahansa Yogananda clarifies the relationship between Christianity and Yoganandas Hindu roots. Highlighting the development of an American Hinduism, Neumann reminds us that the great yogi died as an American citizen buried in the soil of his adopted country but also as a thoroughly global guru well before the term became widely adopted. I will use this book in my classes, too, as an insightful way to understand Yoganandas ever-popular classic, Autobiography of a Yogi.Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Syracuse University About the Author David J. Neumann is assistant professor of history education at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Author: Stephen J. Sniegoski File Type: pdf Although it isgenerallyunderstoodthat American neoconservatives pushed hard for the war in Iraq, this book forcefully arguesthat the neoconsgoal was not the spread of democracy,butthe protection ofIsraels interests in the Middle East.Showingthat the neocon movement has always identified closely with the interests ofIsraels Likudnikright wing, the discussion contends that neocon advice on Iraq was the exact opposite ofconventional UnitedStates foreign policy, which has always sought to maintain stability in the region to promote the flow of oil.Various players in the rushto war are assessed according to their motives, including President Bush, Ariel Sharon, members of the foreign-policy establishment, and the American people, who are seen not as having been dragged into war against their will, but as ready after 911 for retaliation. A compelling look at the intricacies of policy making in Washington and around the U.S. government as it relates to the decision to invade Iraq in March 2003, along with other developments of American post-Iraq War stragety in the Middle East.

Author: Loren Goldner File Type: pdf BETWEEN CHARLEMAGNE AND THE ANTEMOSAIC COSMIC MAN RACE, CLASS AND THE CRISIS OF BOURGEOIS IDEOLOGY IN AN AMERICAN RENAISSANCE WRITER Loren Goldner Queequeg Publications New York, New York This study arises from the following tension in Europe, after 1848, bourgeois consciousness in revolt sought a new universal in the working class and instead found itself in the orbit of the state civil service in America, bourgeois consciousness in revolt found a new universal in what Melville called antemosaic primordial reality, Queequeg, embodied concretely in the multiracial working class , the Anacharsis Cloots deputation, in radical antithesis to the state. Herman Melville (1818-1891) worked his way to this synthesis in the feverish production of six novels of the sea, culminating in Moby Dick, in the 1846-1851 period. As the whaling ship Pequod (named for the Massachusetts tribe annihilated by the Puritans in 1636) was destroyed by Moby Dick, the Indian harpooner Tashtego was nailing a red flag to the mast, catching as well the wing of a sky-hawk with its imperial beak, as the waves covered them over. In this succinct image Melville, connects the red man with the red flag, pulling down the imperial eagle, more in what Marx (in the Manifesto) called the mutual destruction of the contending classes than the triumph of proletarian revolution. While Melville retained a lifelong ambivalence about the prospects for successful collective rebellion, he always underscored, when dealing with it, that in America such a rebellion passed necessarily through the primordial, red and black mariners, renegades and castaways caught up in the white and turbid wake of the Ahabs.