![]() ![]() ![]() And as the messages grow angrier and more hostile, the dangers become more real. Whoever or whatever is transmitting the messages is getting angrier… and more powerful. ![]() Cut off from the surface, the team is forced to face the only plausible explanation – the messages have something to do with the sphere. Their mission is one that seems incredible – investigate the spaceship that sits at the bottom of the ocean, a spaceship that is at least three hundred years old. But Captain Harold Barnes, the project commander and USN officer in charge of the operation knows more than he’s telling.Īnd yet, when the team finds a seemingly alien spherical object with nothing but some indentations along one side of its smooth surface, even Captain Barnes doesn’t have the answer that they all want – what is the sphere and where did it come from? Faced with the sphere that cannot be opened, the project comes to a near standstill… until something begins communicating with the team through their computer screen. ![]() Psychologist Norman Johnson, mathematician Harry Adams, astrophysicist Ted Fielding and zoologist Beth Halpern form the team of scientists that accompany a small Navy group into one of the deepest parts of the South Pacific. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Edmundson suggests new and important ways to view Freud's legacy, at a time when these forces are once again shaping world events.Ĭompletely bowled over. Focusing on Freud's last two years, Edmundson is able to probe Freud's ideas about death, and also about the human proclivity to embrace fascism in politics and fundamentalism in religion. Confronting certain death, Freud, in typical fashion, did not let fame make him complacent, but instead wrote his most provocative book, Moses and Monotheism, in which he questioned the legacy of the greatest Jewish leader. ![]() At the same time he endured the last of more than thirty operations for cancer of the jaw. There he was honored as he never had been during his long, controversial life. The Nazis hated Sigmund Freud with a particular they detested his "soul-destroying glorification of the instinctual life." Here Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on Freud's last two years, during which, with the help of Marie Bonaparte, he was at last rescued from Vienna and brought safely to London. When Hitler invaded Vienna in March of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. A dramatic revisiting of Freud's escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna, his final days on earth, and his most controversial work― Moses and Monotheism. ![]() ![]() And I haven’t even mentioned the ghost of Jon Bennett Ramsey. It is, without a doubt, one of the creepiest stories I’ve ever read. ![]() The story charts his seemingly inevitable slide into the terminal velocity of a vicious cycle of abuse and horror until, at the end, he stands revealed in a Gacy-esque clown costume, smiling at the distant laughter of children. The protagonist (and I hesitate to call him, or, really, any of the characters in these pages, hero) is a survivor of childhood abuse. “Holiday,” the short story that gives this collection its name, provides a taste of what’s to come. It is, though, a collection for those who enjoy meticulous stories, full of engaging characters coping with the appalling horrors lurking just out of the corner of their eye. ![]() Which is to say, this is not a collection for the weak. ![]() Provided, of course, your idea of a holiday is something in which you’re battling constant, overwhelming feelings of dread as the inevitability of crushing horror sneaks up next to you with a large, spiked hammer dripping red and gooey. ![]() Rickert, is the perfect book to curl up with as the actual holidays approach. Holiday, the new collection of short stories by M. “Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account” ![]() ![]() ![]() Workings of the Greek legal system and of Aristotle's lessons in rhetoric were fascinating.Highly recommended. Doody also set me down right in the middle of Greek culture of those times. I felt this is one of the better in the genre Ms. ![]() Doody wrote this novel in 1978, long before the current trend of mysteries set in ancient Greece. ![]() After red herrings, attempted murder of Stephanos, and a trip by Aristotle to Corinth, an ingenious solution to the mystery is found and brought out in a courtroom drama. An heirloom, a red clay pot from the victim's house and a piece of horn from a Cretan bow found outside the house, are the first clues. For the most part, Stephanos does the running around and interviewing while the philosopher offers advice and deductions. He consults Aristotle, who philosophically and logically tries to figure out the solution. Apparently, Philemon has been exiled for manslaughter and so Stephanos feels he wasn't even in Athens at the time of the murder. The young Athenian, Stephanos, is trying to clear his cousin, Philemon, of a murder accusation. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is joined in uniform by faithful brothers John (Ray Milland) and Digby (Robert Preston), who in turn are pursued by a slimy thief (J. Years later, the grown Beau (Gary Cooper) again protects his aunt by confessing to the theft and running off to join the Foreign Legion. One of the boys, young Beau (played as a youth by Donald O'Connor), witnesses his beloved aunt (Heather Thatcher) apparently stealing a valuable family jewel in order to finance the Geste home Beau chooses to remain silent rather than disgrace his aunt. As children, the Gestes swear eternal loyalty to one another and to their family. We open on the now-famous scenes of a remote, burning desert fort, manned by the dead Foreign Legionnaires, then flash back to the early lives of the Geste brothers. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927 silent version. This second of three movie versions of P.C. ![]() |