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“There’s an artful, edgy rebellion being waged in the funny pages, and one of its brightest revolutionaries is Stephan Pastis.” –Fort Worth Star-Telegram”The cartoon Pearls Before Swine is written by a psychopath.” –reader complaint, Wichita EagleThis collection of Pearls Before Swine makes a happy return to home and hearth as only these scamps can. An iconic portrait that captures the essence of modern life, Pearls Before Swine is a heartwarming American original.A gifted storyteller with a sick sense of humor, Stephan Pastis is rapidly becoming a master of the cartoon art form. His pearls of wisdom are sly and subversive, smart and shocking. And incredibly funny.It’s a jungle out there. The only way to surv… More >>
The Saturday Evening Pearls: A Pearls Before Swine Collection
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The Saturday Evening Pearls: A Pearls Before Swine Collection
Category Comic Books
Dusk Before the Dawn
Category Sci-Fi
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An American educated Mayan sits atop a Temple in Tikal National Park, waiting. A father helplessly watches his family fall into some kind of sleep, or trance. Then he too succumbs, begging a stranger to save them. A PhD scientist awakens, remembering only hours ago she was in her nanotechnology lab, trying to work a solution to make incredibly small robots replicate. But she finds that she is now ill, or a prisoner, or both. The world has change irrevocably, in one swift movement, by the actions of a meglo-maniacal genius. Can they undo what he has done? Should they?… More >>
Dusk Before the Dawn
Before the Apocalypse, The Jonah Factor
Category Sci-Fi
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Everyone knows there’s no conspiracy to rule the world, right? Of course, only unstable people who belong to fringe groups believe in such things. Or could there be a secret plan to control the world? Perhaps James Smith and Ashley Brown could inform you. Perhaps the Cosmokrators, the Skotoi, or Therion himself might be able to give you insight. Maybe you should read Before the Apocalypse: The Jonah Factor, and be enlightened. Take a ride in a DEEP Unit, find your way through a strange land, and discover exotic technology as you race through the pages of this exciting novel. From the perpetual snow of Siberia to the snowcapped Andes, from the depths of the ocean to life in deep space, join James and Ash… More >>
Before the Apocalypse, The Jonah Factor
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics
Category Computing
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Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener’s 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics, David A. Mindell shows how the modern sciences of systems emerged from disparate engineering cultures and their convergence during World War II. Mindell examines four different arenas of control systems research in the United States between the world wars: naval fire control, the Sperry Gyroscope Company, the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and Vanneva… More >>
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
Category Fantasy Novels
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“A superb collection, a splendid and much-needed book. Anderson has cleared away the dross and shown us the golden roots of fantasy before it became a genre.”
–Michael Moorcock, author of The Eternal Champion
Many of today’s top names in fantasy acknowledge J.R.R. Tolkien as the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But which writers influenced Tolkien himself? In a collection destined to become a classic in its own right, internationally recognized Tolkien expert Douglas A. Anderson, editor of The Annotated Hobbit, has gathered the fiction of the many gifted authors who sparked Tolkien’s imagination. Included are Andrew Lang’s romantic swashbuckler “The Story of Sig… More >> Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy