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PIECE OF MIND

Synopsis

Jake Tanner woke in restraints at Dana Bluffs Hospital. Although he’d been admitted many times since he’d been diagnosed as a schizophrenic two years earlier in this sleepy little town of Dana Point, California, this most recent hospitalization held a sense of urgency that time was running out.

January Colt, charge nurse of the adult unit, took an interest in the tormented man and it wasn’t long before she discovered that Jake had a ‘third’ eye, simultaneously confusing and intriguing her.

Although they are both unaware, Jake’s struggle with his sanity involves a secret January is uncovering. As she gets closer to the truth, her boss, Alice Gross, dies. When she gets closer still, January disappears. It is then that Jake begins to utilize his ‘special’ abilities.

His physical escape from the hospital is the starting point in his search for January, but he soon learns he must brush convention aside and rely on his sixth sense. The journey enlightens him; his life has been predestined, and is intertwined with hers for a reason. He must expose the secrets held within the walls of the institution, or kiss January goodbye.

Successive presidents have welcomed globalization and the rise of China. But with American unemployment stubbornly high and U.S. power facing new challenges, the stage is set for growing rivalry between America and China. The European Union is also ripping itself apart. The win-win logic of globalization is giving way to a zero-sum logic of political and economic struggle.

The new world we now live in, an age of anxiety, is a less prosperous, less stable world, with old ideas overthrown and new ideologies and powers on the rise. Rachman shows how zero-sum logic is thwarting efforts to deal with global problems from Afghanistan to unemployment, climate change to nuclear proliferation.

Set between 1950 and 1963, this coming-of-age memoir discusses one of America’s most taboo subjects-social class. Combining recollection, accounts, and analysis, this book leans on Maw, Pap, Ony Mae, and other members of this rambunctious ScotsIrish family to chronicle the often-heartbreaking post-war journey of 22 million rural Americans into the cities, where they became the foundation of a permanent white underclass. Telling the stories of the gun-owning, uninsured, underemployed white tribes inhabiting America’s heartlands, this record offers an intimate look at what was lost in the orchestrated post-war shift from an agricultural to an urban consumer society.

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Note: The electronic version of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating eBook-exclusive illustrations by the author.

At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer.  This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early  rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias.  In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must.

From the Hardcover edition.