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Success in publishing continues to rely extensively on consistent preparation and use of book metadata. As digital products grow and evolve, this is true now more than ever. In January 2012, the Book Industry Study Group engaged Magellan Media Consulting to map the flow of book metadata across the publishing supply chain. Research consisted of thirty interviews supplemented by an industry survey of both the US and Canadian markets. The companies interviewed included larger, medium-sized, and smaller publishers, as well as retailers, wholesalers, industry service providers, manufacturers, and digital-only firms. The resulting publication, Development, Use, and Modification of Book Product Metadata: Assessment and Recommendations, illustrates critical metadata handoffs, documents how metadata is altered or discarded, and identifies the points at which changes and revisions occur (and, in some cases, don't occur). More importantly, the report presents a series of process and «future-proofing» recommendations designed to help improve the quality and flow of book metadata.

An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe—with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences—was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe’s past. A critical European history is therefore urgently needed to confront and re-imagine Europe, not as a harmonious continent but as the outcome of violent and bloody conflicts, both within Europe as well as with its Others. As the authors show, these dark shadows of Europe’s past must be integrated, and the fact that memories of Europe are contested must be accepted if any new attempts at a United Europe are to be successful.

As the European Union faces the ongoing challenges of legitimacy, identity, and social cohesion, an understanding of the social purpose and direction of EU citizenship becomes increasingly vital. This book is the first of its kind to map the development of EU citizenship and its relation to various localities of EU governance. From a critical political economy perspective, the authors argue for an integrated analysis of EU citizenship, one that considers the interrelated processes of migration, economic transformation, and social change and the challenges they present.

The Arab-Israeli war of 1973, the first oil price shock, and France’s transition from Gaullist to centrist rule in 1974 coincided with the United States’ attempt to redefine transatlantic relations. As the author argues, this was an important moment in which the French political elite responded with an unprecedented effort to construct an internationally influential and internally cohesive European entity. Based on extensive multi-archival research, this study combines analysis of French policy making with an inquiry into the evolution of political language, highlighting the significance of the new concept of a political European identity.

The sole definitive collection of Jhabvala's work, with an introduction by the author's friend, writer Anita Desai, The only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Academy Award, Jhabvala is the author of beloved works including Out of India and Heat and Dust , as well as many short stories For readers who love Penelope Lively and Clarice Lispector, as well as Alice Munro or Penelope Fitzgerald

Ben Okri—a native of Nigeria and London resident—won the Man Booker for his 1991 novel, The Famished Road. Okri became a bona fide superstar in the UK (the Radiohead hit «Street Spirit» was inspired by The Famished Road ), especially after the follow up to The Famished Road—Songs of Enchantment— continued to receive rave reviews. Okri as an essential voice in the African and African Diaspora literary community, as well as a daring NEW voice of protest in the brave new world of Trumpism, Brexit, climate-change deniers, and autocracy in general. Prayer for the Living was recently published in the UK and received glowing reviews in Mail on Sunday, Belfast Telegraph, the New Statesman, etc.

Kat Howard has already been called a «remarkable writer» by Neil Gaiman, and her «dark and enticing» (Publishers Weekly) debut novel, Roses and Rot, was beloved by critics and fans alike. Now you can experience her collected shorter works, including two new stories. In these stories, equally as beguiling as her novels, Howard expands into the enchanted territory of myths and saints, as well as Arthurian legend, with a novella set upon a college campus, retelling the story of King Arthur through women's eyes. Captivating and engrossing and adorned in gorgeous prose, Kat Howard's stories are a fresh and stylish take on fantasy.

An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of baseball. A young woman tries to imagine a future unsullied by her family’s history of untimely death.First issued in 1991, Pangs of Love introduced David Wong Louie’s bold storytelling. The son of Chinese immigrants, he centered his stories around characters who are in conflict with their place in the world, disconnected from both American society and their own families. The depth of his portrayals renders their experiences of love, envy, loneliness, loss, and duty universal—informed by their heritage yet not confined by it. These twelve short stories and one essay swerve from the absurd to longing for love, understanding, or simply a morsel of food. Pangs of Love and Other Writings makes Louie’s debut book available again, along with an additional short story and an extraordinary autobiographical essay, “Eat, Memory,” in which he reflects on life without food after throat cancer took away his ability to swallow. Pulitzer Prize–winner Viet Thanh Nguyen contributes a foreword elucidating Louie’s role in shaping contemporary Asian American literature, while an afterword by literary scholar King-Kok Cheung retraces the three phases of Louie’s career.

"In the Days of Serfdom" and Other Stories , originally published in 1911, presents in miniature themes developed in Tolstoy's longer works War and Peace and Anna Karenina . The compelling stories in this collection have largely been ignored by contemporary scholars and teachers because of their general unavailability. Available once again, the stories reveal new thematic and stylisitic dimensions to Tolstoy's oeuvre. While not all of the stories deal with actual serfdom, they all address the legacy of serfdom, of choicelessness, in Tolstoy's Russia. These stories are also thoroughly modern, concerned as they are with the market economy, changing values, and women's roles in society. Artistically and historically significant, they constitute ethical and spiritual questionings that deal with lives out of control, with characters making sense of the experience of living.

Gina Berriault’s work as a storywriter of great psychological empathy and extraordinary elegance and subtlety was celebrated widely at the end of her life. Her collection Women in Their Beds, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, the National Books Critics Prize in fiction and the Rea Prize for lifetime achievement. She has few equals in the history of the American short story. Over the course of her career she also wrote several novels and novellas, and we have here a collection of the three finest, which have each been published before as separate volumes but which have been out of print and unavailable for many years. They each can be counted among her finest work.The Son was first published in 1962, The Conference of Victims in 1966. And The Lights of Earth, first published in 1984, stands easily alongside her greatest achievements. All three are stories about women. In The Son, Vivian believes men run the world and finds meaning only in erotic love. As she envies her son’s future, and wishing to share it, she seduces him. Naomi, in Conference of Victims, is thrown nearly out of her mind by her brother’s suicide. Only her need to love keeps her alive. When it was first published, Andre Dubus said of The Lights of Earth, “Like her stories, it’s masterly. Its central character is a woman, Ilona Lewis, who confronts loss of earthly love. But Ilona’s experience is far more complex than losing a man because he has become a celebrity. It involves the hearts of all of us seeking the lights of earth, the soul’s blessing in its long, dark night.”

Winner of the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!Benjamin Alire Sáenz's stories reveal how all borders–real, imagined, sexual, human, the line between dark and light, addict and straight–entangle those who live on either side. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two blocks south of the Rio Grande. It's a touchstone for each of Sáenz's stories. His characters walk by, they might go in for a drink or to score, or they might just stay there for a while and let their story be told. Sáenz knows that the Kentucky Club, like special watering holes in all cities, is the contrary to borders. It welcomes Spanish and English, Mexicans and gringos, poor and rich, gay and straight, drug addicts and drunks, laughter and sadness, and even despair. It's a place of rich history and good drinks and cold beer and a long polished mahogany bar. Some days it smells like piss. «I'm going home to the other side.» That's a strange statement, but you hear it all the time at the Kentucky Club.Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a highly regarded writer of fiction, poetry, and children's literature. Like these stories, his writing crosses borders and lands in our collective psyche. Poets & Writers Magazine named him one of the fifty most inspiring writers in the world. He's been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN Center's prestigious award for young adult fiction. Sáenz is the chair of the creative writing department of University of Texas at El Paso.

“Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry—with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It’s like trying to pin down the eternal moment.” —Gina BerriaultGina Berriault was one of the great, rare masters of short fiction. With commendable restraint and economy, she delivered stories that contain entire worlds inhabited by a range of characters thrown into all kinds of unsettling predicaments. As a short story writer she had a gift for tapping into the emotions of love, hope, and grief, and for making them palpable within her narratives. No two of her stories are alike, except for in the inevitable disquiet the reader feels in their wake, the exquisite unease that remains at the end of such acclaimed tales as “The Cove,” “The Stone Boy,” and many others.Now, in this compelling posthumous collection, Berriault’s astonishing short fiction once again proves that her position as one of America’s best storytellers remains unchallenged.

National Book Award finalist Karen Bender returns with a short story collection that gives resonant voice to the deep anxieties and everyday traumas so many of us grapple with in 2018 The same publicity and marketing team that worked so hard in support of Joan Silber's Improvement and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's A Kind of Freedom will be rallying in support of this new collection Bender is a writer whose sales track does not always reflect how beloved she is, or how her stories punch above their weight and influence a generation of writers and students Praise from Librarians and Booksellers "I do not come by tears easily, but Karen E. Bender knows how to make me cry. This is due not only to the straightforward beauty of her writing, but to her way of so deftly turning her characters inside out. In just a few sentences, she lays them bare and reveals the unmistakable, universal loneliness of the human condition. Whether their fears are existential or literal, her people are so small inside, so vulnerable—it broke my heart as only the best books can. The New Order is a tenderizing, transformative read!" —Lauren Peugh, Powell's Books (Portland, OR)

"Robison uses a minimalist discipline and barely ruffled surfaces, but her hidden pictures of childhood and other states of vulnerability are boundless in their emotion." — The Los Angeles Times Book Review The eleven stories in Believe Them , most of which first appeared in The New Yorker , depict Mary Robison's sly, scatty world of plotters, absconders, ponderers, and pontificators. Robison's take on her characters is sharp, cool, astringently ironic, and her language vibrates with edginess and nerve. With what John Barth has called her «enigmatic superrealism,» Robison flashes entire lives by us in small, stunning moments—odd, skewed outtakes from real life. Believe Them confirms Mary Robison's place as one of America's most original writers.

Kalfus plucks individual lives from the stew of a century of Russian history and serves them up in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. The astonishing title story follows a doomed nuclear power plant worker as he hawks a most unusual package on the black market—a canister of weapons-grade plutonium. In “Orbit,” the first cosmonaut navigates several items not on the preflight checklist as he prepares to blaze the trail for the new communist society, “floating free of terrestrial compromise.” In “Budyonnovsk,” a young man hopes desperately that the takeover of his town by Chechen rebels will somehow save his marriage. Set in the 1920s, “Birobidzhan” is the bittersweet story of a Jewish couple journeying to the Soviet Far East, where they intend to establish the modern world’s first Jewish state. The novella, “Peredelkino,” which closes the book, traces the fortunes of a 1960s literary apparatchik whose romantic intrigues inadvertently become political.Together, these works of fiction capture the famously enigmatic Russian psyche. They display Kalfus’s ability to imagine a variety of believable yet wholly singular characters whose lives percolate against a backdrop of momentous events.

Linked story collection, winner of the 2011 Leapfrog Fiction Contest.Very relevant today with the war in Iraq just ended and an entire new generation of veterans living with the after effects of their war experiences. Relevant to contemporary readers because it focuses on the lives of returning soldiers made dysfunctional by the Vietnam War. One of the characters, a veteran, loses his son in Iraq thirty-five years from Vietnam—something else that is a reality for many American families today.This book goes beyond conventional war stories that typically take place in the country where the war is set and explores an interior war, the war of the psyche all soldiers fight when they return from the horrors of combat. For these characters, the war is physically over, but the events linger in their minds forever afterwards. These stories are about what people go through when they return from a combat zone, how they attempt to adapt and how they do or do not survive the nightmare locked in their psyches without the knowledge it takes to heal and alleviate their pain.

Following the success of his novel Reservoir 13 (an ABA Indie Next List Pick, Amazon Best Book of the Year, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and the recipient of rave reviews by critics like James Wood in The New Yorker ), The Reservoir Tapes returns to the novel's setting in an English village where a teenage girl disappears, and to the characters whose lives are forever altered by the tragedy These stories will satisfy McGregor fans' appetites to dive deeper into the mystery and characters surrounding Becky's disappearance, while also standing alone for readers new to McGregor's work Originally written, adapted and recorded for BBC Radio, the linked collection reads like a fast-paced episode of a true crime podcast or a season of the television drama Broadchurch ; the stories in The Reservoir Tapes are quickly digestible, elegantly tension-filled, and a smart, subtle commentary on humanity's best and worst tendencies in the face of grief and loss The characters McGregor gives voice to will surprise you; the different narrators are not necessarily central to Becky's disappearance, but their voices fascinate us and offer a portrait of a whole community Like a season of the television drama Broadchurch , the structure and order of the stories in the collection touch upon questions of the limits of knowledge and memory, and how what we remember defines us and shapes the traumas we seek to forget "Immersive, nuanced, and exquisitely strange, the interconnected stories within The Reservoir Tapes are a feat of genius. Jon McGregor offers us snippets of an array of lives within a small English town, which come to assemble the blast radius of the recent disappearance of a young teenager. The sheer range of voices within is stunning, as is the tone, which manages to be at once thoughtful, ominous, and humdrum. No event passes without being challenged, complicated, and reconsidered from angle upon angle, perspective upon perspective. I both gloried in the small details and tactile prose⎯a llama that wasn’t even a llama, the bike grease that refuses to be scrubbed from one’s hands⎯and furiously flipped pages. This brilliant book is haunted by the specter of normality, which creeps back into the lives of townspeople altered by tragedy."—Elizabeth Willis, Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA) "Exquisite and brilliantly styled, Jon McGregor's The Reservoir Tapes is a dark and fascinating story told in such a way that I found myself reading with a furrowed brow page after page. Such an intense character and story development in so few disturbing words. Could not put this book down." —Mary O'Malley, Anderson's Bookshop (La Grange, IL) "In a brilliant counterpoint to Reservoir 13 , McGregor’s earlier work that detailed the evolution of the town and countryside following the disappearance of a young girl, the mystery is explored in a totally different way. Through interviews of a dozen or so villagers, all of whom had some connection to the missing girl, or a secret to hide or to share, McGregor creates a verbal mosaic representing the circumstances of the missing girl’s disappearance. Wonderful monologues lead the reader to the cusp of understanding the village, the villagers, and this inconvenience of a missing girl imposed on them by outsiders. What a clever writer!" —Darwin Ellis, Books on the Common (Ridgefield, CT) "Jon McGregor returns to the world of his Man Booker–nominated Reservoir 13 with his companion piece The Reservoir Tapes . This new book takes the approach of a short story collection and ultimately succeeds on its own merits apart from its sister volume. Each story centers on a different villager sharing their story of village life and their relationship to Becky Shaw and her disappearance, however tangential. McGregor’s gifts for the written word and intimate character work shine throughout this collection, and his use of the short story form gives The Reservoir Tapes a strong sense of structure and aim throughout." —The Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS) " The Reservoir Tapes is a wonderful follow-up to McGregor’s Reservoir 13 . McGregor focuses in on snapshots of the townspeople’s lives, with Becky Shaw—the girl who disappeared—flitting in and out of their stories but always remaining on the periphery. It’s a fascinating exploration of unstable narratives, rumors, and small towns that I devoured in one sitting." —Sarah Cassavant, Subtext Books (St. Paul, MN) " The Reservoir Tapes chronicles the disappearance of a young girl in a small English village, and each chapter is written from the perspective of a different resident. It’s not an easy writing feat, but Jon McGregor is able to instill a unique narrative clarity for every single character, interweaving the young girl’s disappearance alongside the distinctive stories of each villager. More than a missing persons story, The Reservoir Tapes is a story about the very universal and human struggle to find meaning—and the sacrifices we have to make to feel safe, loved, and truly at home. Once I started The Reservoir Tapes I couldn’t put it down, and if you haven’t read anything by Jon McGregor before, make sure not to miss his latest novel!" —Morgan McComb, The Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS) "In Reservoir 13 , Jon McGregor created a universe filled with humanity and pathos from the sparest accumulation of detail. In The Reservoir Tapes , he takes a different approach to that same universe, shedding light on many of its mysteries, but that again leaves the reader stunned at the end, wishing for yet more of McGregor's elegiac prose."" —Community Bookstore staff (Brooklyn, NY) "Reading The Reservoir Tapes is like listening to a remix to an album I was obsessed with six months ago. Rather than retreading old themes or styles, it explores new facets and tones, revealing complexities that only an artist fully immersed in their craft can hear. Jon McGregor invites us into this immersion and breaks every expectation we had if we thought his newest work was a sequel. Rather than linear, it jumps around in time, and rather than softly idyllic, it is quietly disturbing. It is rare for an artist to to be self-aware enough of their craft to follow it up with such a strong and original offering, but Jon McGregor is and does." —Adelaide Costas, East Bay Booksellers, (Oakland, CA) «Atmospheric and scary. I read it in one sitting and now I'm trying to stop thinking about it . . . but I can't!» —Ann Holman, King's English Bookshop (Salt Lake City, UT) " Reservoir Tapes is a slim and gripping novel about a young teenager’s disappearance, told from perspectives of the inhabitants of the town she vanishes from. Written with crisp prose, and in an inventive form that brings to mind a viewer’s first exposure to the first episodes of Twin Peaks , Reservoir Tapes is hard to put down." —Elijah Watson, A Room of One's Own (Madison, WI)

De Vries se nuwe bundel sluit aan by sy ernstiger werk (bv Nag van die Clown, Tot verhaal kom). Hier is sy hooftemas weer die onbegrypbaarheid van dinge en die weemoed van menswees – en dis daardie gevoel van weemoed wat die leser bybly na die lees van hierdie verhale. Die verhale gaan oor gewone mense en is eg menslik, soos die sensitiewe beeld van die ou straatskoonmaker wat sy werk verloor in “Ode aan ’n ou man wie se strate oor hom treur”. In ’n verhaal soos «Winternag»is dit die subtiele uitbeelding van emosionele geweld in ’n verhouding; in “Storm” gaan dit oor tot eksterne geweld. Geweld word in die bundel ’n metafoor vir morele verval, ’n spieëlbeeld van die aftakeling van die mens vanweë die geestelike aanslag in watter vorm ookal. Verhale wat onthutsend én liries is.

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE FRANK O'CONNOR PRIZE How do you comfort a man who has just lost his best friend? How does it feel to see fear in your wife's eyes? How does it feel to come home? REDEPLOYMENT takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.

55th anniversary edition of great Canadian writer Hugh Hood’s first short story collection Hood was celebrated at the 2015 IFOA with a reading by the Montreal Story Tellers group he helped found Hood’s writings present a view of modern Canadian life that elevates everyday lives Stories deal with characters and situations where ordinary life embodies religious, philosophical, and allegorical themes Based on the original 1962 Ryerson Press edition Author co-founded the legendary Montreal Story Tellers group and was awarded the Order of Canada in 1988

"Bae dissolves conventional ¬linear narrative, as though it were impossible for cause and effect to exist concurrently with such repression." —Joanna Walsh, The National A writer struggles to come to terms with the death of her beloved mentor; the staging of an experimental play goes awry; time freezes for two lovers on a platform, waiting for the train that will take one of them away; a woman living in a foreign country discovers she has been issued the wrong ID. Emotionally haunting and intellectually stimulating, the seven stories in North Station represent the range and power of Bae Suah's distinctive voice and style, which delights in digressions, multiple storylines, and sudden ruptures of societal norms. Heavily influenced by the German authors she's read and translated, Bae's stories combine elements of Korean and European storytelling in a way that's unforgettable and mesmerizing. Bae Suah, one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary Korean authors, has published more than a dozen short story collections and novels, and has won a number of prestigious awards. She has also translated several books from the German, including works by W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, and Jenny Erpenbeck. Her novel Nowhere to Be Found was longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Awards. Deborah Smith has translated two other books by Bae (Recitation and A Greater Music) and won the Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Han Kang's The Vegetarian. She is the founder of Tilted Axis Press.

In hierdie versamelbundel bring H&R vroeë verhale deur een van Afrikaans se belangrikste skrywers in een band byeen. Vóór die Sestiger-beweging en internasionale literêre aansien het André Brink sy loopbaan begin as skrywer van spannings- en liefdesverhale met. Die vermaaklike stories in dié bundel het gedurende die 50’s in die Die Huisgenoot en Die Brandwag verskyn. ’n Kombinasie van Brink se eiesoortige humor met ’n tikkie nostalgie – perfek vir ’n ouer én nuwe geslag lesers.

Желаете творить миры и сочинять романы? Зажечь искру вдохновения или просто окунуться в таинственный мир писательской магии? Узнать секреты великих мастеров и раскрыть свой талант? Написанная лауреатом премии имени Ширли Джексон, «Небьюлы» и Всемирной премии фэнтези, автором бестселлеров, переведенных на тридцать языков, Джеффом Вандермеером, «Книга чудес» – это новаторское и увлекательное пособие по писательскому мастерству с большим количеством инфографики и множеством полезных советов от легендарных писателей – Джорджа Мартина, Нила Геймана, Льва Гроссмана, Кэтрин М. Валенте и многих других. В каком бы стиле и жанре вы ни творили, «Книга чудес» зарядит вас энергией, мотивирует множеством примеров, а также даст практическую информацию, необходимую, чтобы отточить ваше мастерство. Настоящее произведение искусства с уроками и советами от подлинных профессионалов своего дела. Лучшая книга для будущего писателя и просто всех, кто хочет мыслить неожиданно, креативно и развить собственное воображение.

Van 1981 tot 2014 skryf Cecile Cilliers rubrieke vir Beeld, De Kat en Sarie. Deur die jare het sy etlike bydraes vir verskillende bundels gemaak, maar Die ou vrou en die priester is haar eerste eie kortverhaalbundel. Verskeie klassieke temas word onder die loep geneem: dit wat in 'n huwelik ongesê bly tussen man en vrou, die verwikkelde band tussen ma en dogter, die oorweldigende blindheid van 'n eerste liefde, en bowenal die uitdagings van oud word. Die verhale spreek tot 'n breë gehoor. Baie leesbaar, met 'n diep menslikheid wat uit die stories straal.

Abraham de Vries vermom sy “kontreiverhale” soms as “ernstige verhale” en sy ernstige verhale as kontreiverhale. Vir die toegewyde De Vries-leser maak dit weinig verskil. In ’n vertroude vertellerstem, ’n stem wat byna uniek is in Afrikaans, word die leser herinner aan die verstrengeldheid van die magiese en aardse van ons lewens. Die verhale gaan onder meer oor spoke en vendusies, oor ’n nuwe lig op die bekende Stanley de Wit se ster teen die berg, die verteller se onpaar ooms, ’n vreemde begrafnis, die rol van toeval. Daar is die herkenbare maar ook die misterieuse. Verhale van hartseer en humor, lokkende geheime, vreemde karakters, triekster-elemente. Nuwe kortverhale deur ’n meester van die genre.

In A Simplified Map of the Real World, intimate boundaries are loosened by divorce and death in a rural community where even an old pickle crock has an unsettling history—and high above the strife and the hope and the often hilarious, geese seek the perfect tailwind. Stevan Allred’s stunning debut deftly navigates the stubborn geography of the human heart.

“The Great God Pan, The White People, and Other Stories” is a collection of nineteen short stories and novellas by Arthur Machen. The Welsh author, journalist, actor, and mystic, was well-known for his early influential horror and supernatural fantasy tales published in the late 19th and early 20th century. Included in this collection are some of his most enduring and famous works, such as the novella “The Great God Pan”, first published in 1890. Considered one of the best horror stories in English literature, the tale of Helen Vaughn and the mystery and violence that surrounded her life was met with much controversy and acclaim when it first appeared for its taboo subject matter and suggestive imagery. Also included are such classics as “The Bowmen”, his 1914 tale of ghosts helping British soldiers at the Battle of Mons that was widely believed by many at the time to be a true story of otherworldly intervention. Machen’s imaginative and spell-binding tales continue to entertain and inspire generations of readers and writers who enjoy well-crafted tales of suspense and supernatural fantasy. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

“Best Short Stories of Algernon Blackwood” is a collection of frightening tales by one of the greatest British writers of supernatural fiction of the twentieth century. Born in London in 1869, Blackwood began publishing ghost stories in 1906 and became a prolific writer, as well as a journalist and radio broadcaster. Included in this collection are such classic tales as “Ancient Sorceries”, which follows a tourist who becomes enchanted by a strange French town and the ancient secrets that are hidden there, and the “The Willows”, which was considered by H. P. Lovecraft to be one of the finest supernatural stories ever written. Blackwood interwove both the traditional elements of horror literature, such as haunted houses and ghosts, with ideas far ahead of his time, like cosmic experiences, advanced beings, and multiple dimensions of existence. Blackwood is famous for his unsurpassed ability to create foreboding moods, slowly building suspense, and keeping readers on the edges of their seats. All together this collection includes eighteen of Blackwood’s most haunting tales.

This book is a collection of short stories that consist of fiction and some nonsense, which is to say they are totally fiction. They came directly from my brain, and I had no idea that they were even in my head. They range from a story of a lost puppy to a red eye that follows a woman around for her entire life. When the title says nonsense, that is exactly what it means. The stories get right to the point and end at just the right time. You will waste no time getting bogged down in a long, drawn out story with this book. Some of the stories are humorous and some are realistic. I hope you enjoy my nonsense!

When life loses its meaning, when suddenly the world is turned upside down, when there's nothing left that resembles life as we've known it, where do we find the strength and sustenance to go on? For naval aviator Jerry Coffee and others who were held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam, there was only one choice: to go within. Beyond Survival is a journey into the invincible human spirit that unites heart and mind in a compelling and unforgettable experience. Drawing from his seven years as a POW, Captain Coffee provides timeless lessons that apply to the physical, emotional, and ethical challenges of everyday life. Proving that leadership and creativity are possible in difficult and uncertain circumstances, Captain Coffee offers a message we can draw on in any trying situation. His story demonstrates that conviction must come from within, and in telling that story he touches the place inside of us where growth begins. Beyond Survival is a positive statement about love and commitment in the midst of war and division. It contrasts the cold reality of war, degradation, and torture with the warmth of human connections, inner serenity, and kinship with all of life. It poignantly illustrates that to be stripped of everything that is familiar and by which we identify ourselves leaves us with only what unites us – our human identity. It conveys truths about relationships at every level – with ourselves, with others, with our country, and with our God. Without inflaming the wounds inflicted by America's involvement in Vietnam, Beyond Survival explores an issue at the heart of every free society: the willingness of ordinary individuals to maintain a passion for freedom so compelling that adversity strengthens rather than weakens personal resolve in the worst of circumstances. Through Gerald Coffee's story you will discover the universal principles of survival and triumph that empower anyone to overcome adversity.

Российский журнал «Обозрение Армии и Флота» издается с 2005 г. и является серьезным информационно-аналитическим изданием тиражом 5 тыс. экз., объемом 80–136 стр., периодичностью 6 номеров в год. Язык публикаций – русский и английский. Издаются также спецвыпуски на иностранных языках, приуроченные к международным салонам и выставкам. Публикации в журнале «Обозрение Армии и Флота» направлены на аналитическое освещение всех аспектов деятельности в сфере разработок, производства и эксплуатации вооружений и военной техники (ВиВТ) в России, странах СНГ и дальнего зарубежья. Журнал, выпускаемый с 2005 года, посвящен тематике, связанной с историей, современностью и перспективами развития техники и вооружения армии и флота, повседневной деятельностью Сухопутных войск и ВМФ РФ. В журнале читатели найдут интересную информацию, аналитические и обзорные материалы, рассказывающие о деятельности как отечественных, так и зарубежных предприятий ВПК. В этом выпуске: Экзамен пандемией выдержан. Промсвязьбанк сохранил динамику операций по гособоронзаказу Японский дракон поднимает голову. Токио наращивает военные расходы и расширяет зону операций своих Вооруженных сил вплоть до космического пространства Пистолет-пулемет обр. 1941 г. (ППШ) – трудный путь легенды Китай тоже выстрелил и забыл «Двухсотка», шагнувшая к гиперзвуку и многое другое

Российский журнал «Обозрение Армии и Флота» издается с 2005 г. и является серьезным информационно-аналитическим изданием тиражом 5 тыс. экз., объемом 80–136 стр., периодичностью 6 номеров в год. Язык публикаций – русский и английский. Издаются также спецвыпуски на иностранных языках, приуроченные к международным салонам и выставкам. Публикации в журнале «Обозрение Армии и Флота» направлены на аналитическое освещение всех аспектов деятельности в сфере разработок, производства и эксплуатации вооружений и военной техники (ВиВТ) в России, странах СНГ и дальнего зарубежья. В этом выпуске: Пистолет-пулемет Дегтярева – 85 лет «Корнет-ЭМ». Новые возможности противотанковых ракетных комплексов От скорострельных артиллерийских установок к зенитно-ракетным комплексам Адмиралы США идут ва-банк. Спасут ли Америку новые ракеты LRASM и «Томагавк» Defexpo India 2020. Успели до всеобщего карантина Монеты «Оружие великой Победы» и многое другое

Российский журнал «Обозрение Армии и Флота» издается с 2005 г. и является серьезным информационно-аналитическим изданием тиражом 5 тыс. экз., объемом 80–136 стр., периодичностью 6 номеров в год. Язык публикаций – русский и английский. Издаются также спецвыпуски на иностранных языках, приуроченные к международным салонам и выставкам. Публикации в журнале «Обозрение Армии и Флота» направлены на аналитическое освещение всех аспектов деятельности в сфере разработок, производства и эксплуатации вооружений и военной техники (ВиВТ) в России, странах СНГ и дальнего зарубежья.

Российский журнал «Обозрение Армии и Флота» издается с 2005 г. и является серьезным информационно-аналитическим изданием тиражом 5 тыс. экз., объемом 80–136 стр., периодичностью 6 номеров в год. Язык публикаций – русский и английский. Издаются также спецвыпуски на иностранных языках, приуроченные к международным салонам и выставкам. Публикации в журнале «Обозрение Армии и Флота» направлены на аналитическое освещение всех аспектов деятельности в сфере разработок, производства и эксплуатации вооружений и военной техники (ВиВТ) в России, странах СНГ и дальнего зарубежья.

This book is one of 23 volumes of research commissioned by the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, and one of five volumes within this series dealing specifically with party and election finance. Because the issue of money in elections is as old as democracy, the experience of other countries is instructive. The studies in this volume offer Canadians information about approaches to funding political parties and elections in the United States and Western Europe. The studies by Herbert Alexander and Robert Mutch exmaine how the United States has approached issues such as contribution limits and the disclosure of election finances. The latter study provides explicit comparisons to Canada, noting the constitutional roleof the Supreme Court in each country. Jane Jenson draws on Western European experience to propose and assess reforms for the public funding for party foundations is documented by Michael Pinto-Duschinsky. The studies approach theirm aterial from a historical perspective, noting the uniqueness of the constitutions, institutions, and traditions of the countries reviewed. The authors provide background essential to any consideration of whether foreign experience might serve as a model for Canada.

A collection of stories by Australia's most significant Yiddish writer translated into English, some never before published. Goldhar was the literary voice of his generation, as well as a leading cultural and social commentator. This new collection will ensure that this wonderful writer is not forgotten.

Pinchas Goldhar (1901-1947) arrived in Australia in 1926, escaping growing anti-Semitism in Poland. Here he laid the foundations of the now substantial literature on Jews in this country. He wrote short stories about Polish Jewish immigrants and, despite the fact that he wrote in Yiddish, his work made a deep impression on Australian writers and critics through English translations. He wrote of the tensions, trials and mental agony of lonely migrants uprooted from their former homes trying to adjust themselves to life in a new world.

In this investigation of the life and varied careers of True Davidson, Eleanor Darke seeks to discover what can be «truly said about True» – a fascinating and contradictory woman who was always ahead of her time. "There was no quitter in her make-up and she fought like a banshee for whatever she believed in – which was people, truth, Canada. People either loved her or loathed her. None was indifferent. All her life True Davidson stood for human values. And traditions. Her courage and integrity knew no limit. She didn't make a cent from politics and scrimped and saved to make ends meet. She overflowed with opinions, ideas, even prejudices. She was as straight as they come." – The Toronto Sun "Opponents characterized her sometimes as arrogant and selfish, but she devoted her whole life to her wide interests in history, civic affairs and conservation and to her constituents. She never had an unlisted telephone number." – The Globe and Mail "Flamboyant but never frivolous, cutting but never cruel, True Davidson enlivened municipal politics during her long tenure in office. She bears … emulating by any woman with political ambitions." – The Toronto Star

Winner of Heyday's James D. Houston Award, emerging writer Mariah K. Young brings readers deep into the varied lives of remarkable individuals at the fringes of dominant culture. Set in the lively and unpredictable landscape of East Oakland, Young's subtly crafted stories and unforgettable characters continually surprise and delight. In each of these nine tales, Young invites us into the worlds of a diverse cast of genuine, hard-working people: we take a ride with a hired driver who gets more than he bargains for with an unusual fare; we meet a day laborer whose search for work leads him to the edges of human sacrifice and hope; we join a plucky house cleaner named Chinta, who sets up impromptu beauty parlors in the houses she cleans. Young's fiction shines not only with literary power and warmth but with eye-opening freshness and honesty that cuts straight to the heart, reflecting our unflagging allegiances to love, family, luck, and hope. We are proud to publish Young’s first book, as we believe it marks the start of a long and promising career for one of California's next great writers.

Montague Rhodes James is considered one of the greatest writers of ghost stories of all time. Born in Kent, England in 1862, James was a well-known and respected scholar in his time for his exacting and informative research in medieval studies. He went on to become a Provost at King’s College, Cambridge, and later Eton, in addition to publishing four popular and influential collections of ghost stories between 1904 and 1925. His story-telling modernized the traditional gothic conception of a supernatural tale to the more realistic contemporary settings and characters of the early 20th century. James incorporated his vast knowledge of antiquities to make the details of his ghost stories all the more genuine and frightening and reveled in contrasting quiet bucolic settings with strange and unexplained events. James’s style was widely influential and inspired famous horror writers, such as H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King. “Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories” contains a collection of some of James’ most famous ghost stories.

В книге Роджера Криттендена «Fine Cuts. Интервью о практике европейского киномонтажа» собраны интервью известных европейских режиссеров монтажа из Австрии, Бельгии, Финляндии, Португалии и России. В книге собраны все аспекты постпродакшена: например, о звукомонтаже расскажет Ларри Сайдер, основатель легендарной Школы звука, а о специфике создания саундтрека – обладатель «Оскара» Дарио Марианелли («Искупление»).

Сколько геймеров в России? Какую игру скачали миллион раз за 10 дней? Что создали студенты МИФИ? Почему инвесторов привлекла сцена с крылатым чудовищем и к чему это привело? Какая российская компания впервые разработала игру по голливудской кинофраншизе? Кто из разработчиков игр получил чертежи с оборонного завода, а кто – эксклюзивную лицензию концерна «АВТОВАЗ»? Бюджет какой игры составил 12 млн долларов? Авторы книги воссоздали максимально полную историю нашей игровой индустрии. Вспомнили все игры, начиная с середины 1990-х годов, изучили секреты прорывов и причины провалов компаний, заглянули за тайную дверь создателей виртуальных миров. Рассказали, как любителю игр получить работу мечты и какими способами игроков привлекают к проектам. И только познакомившись с историей геймдева, можно оценить потенциал сферы и заглянуть в ее будущее. И даже, возможно, изменить будущее своим участием.

“Billy Budd” is the final work of American author Herman Melville which was discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and first published in Raymond Weaver’s 1924 edition of “The Collected Works of Melville.” The emergence of that collection as well as Weaver’s 1921 biography, “Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic”, sparked a revival of interest in the forgotten writer. Despite the complex and incomplete nature of the manuscript excitement arose around this “new” Melville work when it was first discovered. The novel is concerned with its titular character, Billy Budd, a navy sailor accused of mutiny by a fellow officer, who immediately strikes his accuser dead, followed quickly by a trial, conviction and execution. The story stemmed from Melville’s interest in an 1888 article called “The Mutiny on the Somers,” concerning three sailors who in 1842 had been convicted of mutiny. Presented here in this volume is Weaver’s original 1924 edition, a first of many attempts to piece together and refine the sometimes illegible text, which included questionable additions and omissions made by Melville’s wife after his death. Also included in this collection are the following tales: “The Piazza”, “Bartleby: The Scrivener”, “Benito Cereno”, “The Lightning-Rod Man”, “The Encantadas”, “The Bell-Tower”, and “The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids”. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

This edition brings together the complete Christmas books and short stories of Charles Dickens. While readers will be most familiar with «The Christmas Carol» in which Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts who endeavor to show him the error of his miserly ways just in time for Christmas, Dickens also wrote four other Christmas themed books. These include «The Chimes», the story of Toby «Trotty» Veck, a poor working-class man who has lost his faith in humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness; «The Cricket on the Hearth», the story of John Peerybingle and his family who are visited by a guardian angel in the form of a cricket who is constantly chirping on their hearth; «The Battle of Life» a charmingly uplifting and romantic Christmas story; and «The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain», which is the story of Redlaw, a chemistry teacher constantly brooding over the grief caused by wrongs done to him in the past. Along with these novels is included a complete collection of Dickens' Christmas short stories which include the following: A Christmas Tree, What Christmas is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story, The Child's Story, The Schoolboy's Story, Nobody's Story, The Seven Poor Travellers, The Holly-Tree, The Wreck of the Golden Mary, The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, Going into Society, The Haunted House, A Message from the Sea, Tom Tiddler's Ground, Somebody's Luggage, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Doctor Marigold, The Trial for Murder, The Signal-Man, Mugby Junction, and No Thoroughfare.

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, and Other Stories” is a volume of essays and short stories by Washington Irving that were first published serially between 1819 and 1820 and was originally collected as “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.” It includes some of the works for which would establish Irving as one of the preeminent American authors of his day and cement his literary legacy. The most famous of the works in this volume are arguably “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.” The first is the story of Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster from Connecticut who has moved to the New York countryside settlement of Tarry Town whose secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow is haunted by an infamous spectre, the Headless Horseman. The second story “Rip Van Winkle” tells the tale of a Dutch-American villager living during the time of the American Revolution who mysteriously falls asleep in New York’s Catskill Mountains only to discover when he awakes that many years have passed and much has changed. Along with these two classic tales thirty-two other stories and essays are included. This edition includes an introduction by Charles Addison Dawson and a preface by the author.

“The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories” is a classic collection of some of the most loved short stories of Rudyard Kipling, one of the most important and accomplished English authors of the twentieth century. The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature at age 42 in 1907, Kipling, who was born in India in 1865, captured in his writing the British Empire in all of its glory and contradiction in unparalleled detail and nuance. Contained here in this volume are some of his most enduring and fascinating short stories, such as the titular “The Man Who Would be King”, a story of two young British adventurers who believe they can talk and intimidate their way into being kings of a small country near Afghanistan. It is a fascinating and brutal tale of greed, imperialism, arrogance, and desperation. Also included is the haunting ghost story “The Phantom ’Rickshaw”, where a young man is driven mad by the ghost of the young lady he once spurned, and the dark and heartbreaking “Baa Baa, Black Sheep”, a story of an unwanted young ward who is driven to desperate acts by his cruel and heartless aunt. Together this collection includes seventeen of Kipling’s best short stories. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

One of the classic short stories based around the American Civil War. A story of a man joining a conflict because of betrayal and finding no safe place to hide in the horror of war.

A story of how a straight forward order can come to haunt an officer who did not question enough.