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Jean Baudrillard: A Study in Cultural Metaphysics

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

What if you could live forever, would you do it? "There's a cutting-edge current to every page that's hard to resist, so get ready to engage your heart and your mind." - Steve Berry, New York Times Best Selling Author What could go wrong when a team of brilliant computer scientists achieves immortality by digitizing their personalities? Everything - if the government wants the technology and you've crossed paths with a band of ruthless terrorists bent on causing unspeakable damage. Follow Sam Sunborn as he teams up with a real Einstein to give birth to an invention that could change the lives of everyone on the planet forever. Sam wants to help people with his invention but lands up having to defend it and his family from a sadistic psychopath known only as the Leopard, a driven and demented terrorist, whose mission is to rain chaos and destruction on the Western World. Using the latest technology and a battle of wills and wits, Sunborn and the Leopard engage in an epic global clash. What disasters befall the innocent in the Leopard's wake? Can Sam and his rag-tag team use wit and will alone to prevent a worldwide catastrophe? Mysteries and surprises abound in this fast-paced thriller. NOT SO DEAD is the first standalone book in the Sam Sunborn series of cutting-edge techno-thrillers. If you like Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, and Robert Ludlum, then you'll love NOT SO DEAD that combines all of their best traits in a captivating, current-times to a near-future global thrill ride. If you enjoy heart-pounding action, mind-bending inventions, and terrifying villains, then you'll love Charles Levin's gripping saga. Buy NOT SO DEAD and plug into this exciting thrill-ride today! "A tense, high-powered techno-thriller." - Kirkus Review Charlie's 23-year background in tech, a degree in philosophy and love of fast-paced thrillers are the brew that created NOT SO DEAD. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Amy, and has two sons, too far away in California.

Not So Dead: A Sam Sunborn Novel

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Charles\Levin

In the late 1970s legendary pianist Bill Evans, one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time, was at the peak of his career. He revolutionized the jazz trio (bass, piano, drums) by giving each part equal emphasis in what jazz historian Ted Gioia called a "telepathic level" of interplay. It was an ideal opportunity for a sideman, and after auditioning in 1978, Joe La Barbera was ecstatic when he was offered the drum chair, completing the trio with Evans and bassist Marc Johnson. In&nbsp;Times Remembered, La Barbera and co-author Charles Levin provide an intimate fly-on-the-wall peek into Evans's life, critical recording sessions, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes of life on the road. Joe regales the trio's magical connection, a group that quickly gelled to play music on the deepest and purest level imaginable. He also watches his dream gig disappear, a casualty of Evans's historical drug abuse when the pianist dies in a New York hospital emergency room in 1980. But La Barbera tells this story with love and respect, free of judgment, showing Evans's humanity and uncanny ability--even in his final days--to transcend physical weakness and deliver first-rate performances at nearly every show. Times Remembered includes a foreword by Hal Miller, a discography of the band's work, and numerous "breakout boxes" with reminiscences by musicians who knew Evans, interspersed with La Barbera's memories of the same times.

Times Remembered: The Final Years of the Bill Evans Trio (Volume 15) (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

La Barbera, Joe

Arts & Literature

University of North Texas Press

NOT SO DONE: A Sam Sunborn Novel

Review\n"Like Sam Sunborn, Charles Levin's thriller saga is "Still Not Dead". (Sorry. I had to.) Ashaki LaSalam has returned, hungry for revenge, with a terrifying plan that could spell doom for the United States. This latest book is as chilling as it is thrilling, and I simply couldn't put it down! This series is truly speculative political intrigue at its best." --Jo Niederhoff, San Francisco Book Review\nWhen you fade away, what's left?" Memories and motives. Sam's son is angry at the constant comings and goings of his father, even if his father no longer walks among them.\nThriller readers, especially those who enjoyed the prior Sam Sunborn stories in the series, will find Still Not Dead a fitting, compelling read that adds another adventure into the mix of Sam's ongoing escapades, which continue even beyond the traditional grave.\nFamily ties and angst don't end with the digital world, as Sam finds out in his non-corporeal existence. Monica is angry with him, his son is dismayed, and work pulls him to the world of the living with yet another futuristic crime to solve.\nThis task requires wife Monica's help to stop a deadly female terrorist who has escaped prison with a new plan to launch a mass amnesia attack on America using a neural weapon.\nIt may take a presence from beyond the grave to stop her, but Sam is limited in his new milieu, while his deadly adversary employs all the options of the physical world in her quest to weaponize and attack the mind.\nAs D.C. investigators Michelle and Rich explore "wild ass theories," readers receive a truly haunting story of a digitized personality who refuses to quit, and who remains as engaged in the world of the living as when he had a body.\nAlthough Charles Levin's story joins others in the series, newcomers need have no prior familiarity with past events to appreciate this stand-alone thriller. It takes a few chapters to absorb the milieu Sam operates from, but when readers do, Sam's world and that of the terrorists who plot another devious attack fueled by high technology comes to life.\nLevin excels in crafting a cat-and-mouse series of encounters that revolve not just around Sam, but his wife Monica, his son Evan, and the technology that crashes his reappearance in their family just as she's drawing back from asking him for a divorce.\nFrom the psychological challenges of living as an uploaded digitized personality to relationships challenged by physical and non-corporeal entities, Levin creates a thriller that operates on both personal and international political arenas.\nReaders who look for gripping action both in the field and at home, fueled by high-tech snafus and challenges, will find Still Not Dead a powerful story. It operates well on both intrigue and psychological levels, creating a thriller that is unpredictable and hard to put down. 
-- Diane Donovan, Senior Editor, Midwest Book Review\nSTILL NOT DEAD, the new fast-paced thriller from the bestselling author of the NOT SO DEAD Trilogy.\n“This latest book is as chilling as it is thrilling, and I simply couldn't put it down! This series is truly speculative political intrigue at its best." --Jo Niederhoff, San Francisco Book Review\nSam Sunborn is dead. But is he really? Sam is not physically here, and his wife Monica resents him for deserting her and leaving their son fatherless. Yet, from the digital beyond and with Monica’s reluctant help, he’s dead set on stopping the most diabolical terrorist scheme the world has ever known. 
Ashaki LaSalam has escaped from prison with the help of her lover, a mob boss with vast resources and a deadly secret. And Ashaki is bent on revenge after the U.S. left her Kurdish mother to be raped and killed when America abandoned its Mideast allies. With a revolutionary neural weapon that can erase anyone’s memories forever, she launches devastating mass amnesia attacks, first on political leaders and then entire cities. Can America survive this mad assault on our

STILL NOT DEAD: A Sam Sunborn Novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Munn Avenue Press

The Last Appointment: what happens when a writer discovers that her made-up stories not only predict the future, but put her life and the lives of those around her in mortal danger?Zombie Phone: A couple enjoying a first date at an upscale D.C. restaurant discover an abandoned iPhone in a planter next to their table. The phone is on and a stranger is listening.Love in the Park: a true story of the heart-rending discovery of a lost Super8 film found 50 years later.Heaven+: a strange new streaming service appears on the author's ROKU. Dare he subscribe?These are only a few of the 31 mysteries, thrillers, suspense stories, personal reflections, biases, strange twists, rants, love, death, dreams, and memories in this collection of short stories and essays.

The Last Appointment: 30 Collected Short Stories

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

NOT SO GONE: A Sam Sunborn Novel

This book proposes a new approach to the problem of aesthetic experience in Western culture. Noting how art world phenomena evoke conventional psychoanalytic speculations about narcissism, the authors turn the tables and "apply" aesthetic questions and concerns to psychoanalytic theory. Experimenting with Freudian and post-Freudian concepts, they propose a non-normative theory of the psychic drive to address and embrace deep tensions in the post-Renaissance aesthetic project, the rise of modernism, and the contemporary art world. It is argued that these tensions reflect central conflicts in the development of patriarchal civilization, which the emergence of the aesthetic domain, as a specialized range of practice, exposes and subverts. The postmodern era of aesthetic reflection is interpreted as the outcome of a complex narcissistic dialectic of idealization and de-idealization that is significant for the understanding of contemporary culture and its historical prospects.

Art in the Offertorium: Narcissism, Psychoanalysis, and Cultural Metaphysics (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, 15)

Arts & Photography

Giesbrecht, Harvey

History & Criticism

Brill Academic Pub

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