Bøger af Mike Davis

Reconstructs Los Angeles's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. This work tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. It gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West.

Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history

Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis's first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx's inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the causeand solutionof the planetary environmental crisis?Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx's theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a ';lost Marx,' whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the ';middle landscape' of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the ';anthropocene,' which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism's failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (18801934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.

Believe in miracles?It's hard to go through life without your people: Sara Zane's grandparent's fled Warsaw and worked their way across America chasing the American Dream as itinerant farm workers when her sixteen-year old mother, Gina falls in love with Hollywood stuntman Malibu surfer Tom Zane and elopes but not before leaving her diary with Velzy for safe-keeping. Tom is tragically killed a few days later. Alone, afraid to go home and pregnant Sara is taken in by a childless Irish couple from Lorimor, Iowa. For the first time in her life, she has a real home and gives birth to baby Gina but her joy is short lived as she succumbs to peritonitis, orphaning Gina, leaving her with a ribbon around her wrist and a tiny brass key. The musical Irish couple adopt Gina and raise her as their own. Gina grows up in a world music and will become a huge country/western star. He best friend, confidant and and protector during those years was her next door neighbour and 'tearaway', RJ Tibbs who'd be a bull riding superstar before he was twenty. Like most young men with more money than good sense and a low alcohol tolerance, RJ runs afoul of the law and is given the choice of joining the Marines or jail. Promising to write, her, RJ goes to Vietnam and sees things that no one should ever be exposed to and Gina loses touch with her soulmate. When RJ is eventually deemed fit to return to civvie life and cut-loose, he hitch-hikes to San Francisco with a hippie-chick and gets initiated into the psychedelic age that gets him into trouble again and he's forced to flee to Montana where he finds work on a ranch and has an encounter with an Indian Shaman known only as 'Smoke' who wanders the ancient game trails to assist those alone and in need. Later the evening he meets surfboard builder by summer and master cowboy leather-man by winter, Dale 'The Hawk' Velzy who had known RJ's famous Grandad, bronc-buster Casey Tibbs. The two become good friends and Velzy soon convinces RJ to get back in the ring with the big brahma bulls again. While he would be heralded in the ring, a freak accident sees him thrown from a stock-loading gate onto the horns of an irate bull and disembowelled. He will spend many months clinging to life until he is visited by the mysterious 'Smoke' once again and begins to heal. Enter: Surfer Shawn McQueen whose Australian wife dies tragically of cancer, who arrives in Lorimor to grieve with his estranged and bigoted father. To escape his father's bigoted raves, Shawn begins spending time at the Gold Rush Saloon where he meets the beautiful Gina and they start spending time together. Things are going along nicely and Shawn is actually believing he can love again when RJ appears on the scene and tries to kill Shawn in a drunken rage that has the busted up little cowboy on the lam yet again heading for Malibu where he hopes to find his buddy Dale Velzy. After a row with his father, Shawn encounters Smoke and is told to return to his home in California where he belongs and leaves for the coast on the first flight out of DesMoines the next day. A few weeks later Shawn is contacted by Gina who is recording in Los Angeles and he takes her to a beach party in Malibu at his old friend Dale Velzy place below the pier. On introduction: Dale, recognising his old friend's Tom Zane's last name and asks her about it and all she has is the little brass key that she has worn on a chain around her neck as a good luck charm for as long as she can remember. Velzy drops to his knees in front of his old sea chest and rummages around until he finds the diary Sara had left there so many years before. In the weeks that follow, Shawn takes Gina to one of the last location entries in the diary and Gina is united with her aged Grandparents who have waited forever for new of their only daughter or her return. "Miracles, ya gotta know 'em when you see 'em an' then you gotta go to where they happ

Surfboard shaper, Medford Haley arrives in California to do a three-hundred board shaping contract only to find that Clark Foam has shut down and there are no blanks. With three months to kill on his ticket, a rent a wreck burning dollar-bills at the curb, he looks up his long lost bud, legendary surfer/shaper/ballplayer, John 'Bubba' Bradbury in Venice Beach, home to musicians, artists, body builders and any number of odd-bod movie extras. A place where 'freaks' or outsiders just kind of blend in. Bubba, who is in the process of putting together a momentous baseball game, 'A battle of the titans'; asks Medford whose Gramps was a pro ballplayer to stick around and keep him company because the steroids he takes for his pitching elbow causes severe anxiety and panic attacks. Having played a lot of ball with Bubba, Medford agrees to help in the training and recruitment program for the big game. John 'Bubba' Bradbury's dream of pitching one last game against the best of all time with a team consisting exclusively of dis-qualified mavericks, misfits and downright drug-crazed outlaws, fruit-loop eccentrics with oddball nicknames and mental disorders still looking for names and crippling superstitions to challenge Leavenworth Federal Prison Warden's pet team of caged, iron-pumping one-eyed, mutants fuelled by rage. Medford takes one look and mutters reflectively, 'Business as usual.' Enter Aglakti 'Aggie' Anumiaq, an Inuit boy, fresh out of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary and former member of their mutant 'Lifers' baseball team, here to try out for Bubba's team of freaks. Aggie: whose name in the Inuit language literally means: One who makes words stand or 'Songmaker' had served five-years for assaulting federal officers. He believes: that like his ancestors, he must first dream to manifest his future. Happy to re-visit the happy days of his baseball playing youth, Medford takes on the position of manager to help Bubba with his pet projects, remodelling his study at 'Dunrunnin', his house in Venice Beach and moulding dream team of superstar social misfits. Medford will soon remember Bubba's perfectionist side that fuels his severe anxiety affliction and superstitious tendencies. While Aggie revels in the down-souther's life in Venice, he still dreams of his arctic home in Seward Alaska. Then one day, quite by chance he bumps into a childhood girlfriend on the beach who is studying dance in Los Angeles. They learn to surf together and he falls in love. Things go well for the baseball team until some 'gang' members took exception to the team practicing on their turf, attacking Bubba's immaculate Nomad with clubs, shooting and killing two team members in the process. Things continue to deteriorate when Pee Wee, Bubba's best friend and team's dwarf-catcher begins hoeing a Russian Mafia Boss's wife's row, drawing a line in the sand that will bring the Russian Mafia into violent conflict with the Mexican Mafia that will culminate in a deadly turf war in the parking lot of the Santa Barbara City College during 'The Battle of Titans' baseball game at the stadium there. Aggie, who'd been dreaming constantly of Buniq Late Hiin his Inuit childhood sweetheart finally dreams of Bubba's team of freaks winning 'The battle of the titans'. After the game Aggie is offered a position on the San Francisco Giants but changes his mind when he dreams of coming home to Alaska: To Buniq, his father and his own brood of children. It's the story of a young Inuit man's experience of modern dystopia.

When I began publishing The Lovecraft eZine in February 2011, I didn't know editor Ellen Datlow, but her anthology Lovecraft Unbound was foremost in my mind. I don't think I've ever told her this, but for me, it became one example of the quality of stories I wanted to publish. Less than three years later, she has put nine stories in Lovecraft eZine on her 2012 "Honorable Mentions" list. That means more than I can say, and it feels like I've come full circle. To get a "thumbs-up" from Ellen Datlow...wow! But I'm just the editor -- it's the authors in this book who really deserve the accolades. Congratulations to all of you! And, thank you. You brought your "A game" to this little online magazine, and I feel lucky to have writers like you sending me your work. I also appreciate all of you who support Lovecraft eZine with donations, with your time, or with your talent. You make this magazine -- this community -- possible. Community. You know, more than anything else, I'm grateful for that. The Lovecraft eZine isn't just a magazine any more -- it's a community of Lovecraft fans. We're friends. We're family. Here's to many, many more years with my fellow Lovecraftians.

The life and times of Mike Davis, one of the worlds most innovative surf and sailboard designer/shapers. It is not only a history of the modern surfboard but a post card from another era; the waves, the wars the adventures, people and the pranks. Follow the physical and spiritual journey from the freezing heartland of America to the sunny beaches of California, Australia and the world with some surfings most colourful and red hot surfing and sailboarding talents. The memoirs of a hopeless romantic who always let his heart be his guide and whose compass always pointed to the surf. Published poet, award winning fiction writer as well, he's finally pausing to give thanks to and for those who've nurtured, indeed fostered his enthusiasm. In short: It's a rollicking, two-fisted, surf flavoured impact zone adventure documenting the evolution of the modern surfboard and the Santa Barbara Brain Trust's part in it.

Vampires are mythical beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures In folkloric tales, undead vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive.

Welcome to issue #28 of The Lovecraft eZine! Mike Davis here, editor and publisher. This issue is a tribute to one of our greatest Lovecraftian writers, W.H. Pugmire, and his fictional Sesqua Valley. Wilum Pugmire has said that his goal as a writer is "to dwell forevermore within Lovecraft's titan shadow." I'd say that not only has he succeeded, but he has cast a titan shadow of his own. Whether you've read him for years or you're just discovering him now, I believe you will enjoy this issue.

Brothers is more than just about blood. It's bigger than family, clan or tribe. It's about the family of man feeling the pain of every other member of the human race and sometimes the 'Old ways' are the best ways.

A groundbreaking study of Latinization in the urban US landscape, a demographic and cultural revolution with extraordinary implications

Welcome to issue #32! I have eight Lovecraftian and Weird tales for you this issue, as well as our usual column by the infamous Robert M. Price. Thank you for supporting The Lovecraft eZine!

Welcome to issue #34! Since I created The Lovecraft eZine four years ago, it has grown in ways I never would have anticipated. It has become more than just a magazine... it's also a community, a web TV show, a book publisher, and more.

Medford Haley is Sioux. He is a surfboard shaper whose clientele consists of surfers who travel beyond the fringes in search of new and different adventures. His latest stint beyond he home at Noosa Heads, Australia begins when he is awakened in the early morning hours by his neighbour, the daughter of a very close friend in great distress. It seems that she had inseminated herself with the semen from a frozen and mummified corpse of a Neolithic man discovered eighteen year prior and a rabid right wing bunch of religious nutters want to kill her and her son, who is Medford's clean-up and ding repair kid at his factory. Medford and the mother and son flee into the night heading for 'A place that time forgot and the Christians couldn't find.' Which turns out to be and island of cannibalistic head-hunters in the Tabu Group in Northern Papua New Guinea. Medford enlists his old surfing buddy and yachtsman Charlie Hefernan to facilitate an incredible disappearing act. Once again Medford is stuck between a rock and a harder place. Will this indeed be the ageing Medford's last stand against overwhelming odds when going back is the only way of going forward? Only time and a double dose of Sioux wisdom can tell.

Surfboard shaper, Medford Haley answers a call for help from his mother to leave his home at Noosa Heads, Australia to help her deliver on a promise to an old friend with a restoration of an old Mohave granary in the Mojave Desert. He soon discovers that he not only faces a near impossible task but is also at war with an underground neo-nazi para-military super-cell who want to control the valley and water after his eighty-four year old mother shoots the predatory tattooed cue-ball in the leg for patting her on the butt. All appears lost until Smoke, the mysterious caretaker enlists Gray Wolf, the Mojave shaman who summons and the timeless people themselves to rid itself of this cancer stain on America. What grows out of this battlefield is a desert flower

Welcome to issue #31 -- June, 2014. Mike Davis here, editor and publisher. I don't usually publish reprints, but this issue I have two: alligators by Scott Nicolay, and Stone Cold Fever by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. I reprinted these two stories because I truly enjoyed them; but I also wanted to bring the books they appear in to your attention: Ana Kai Tangata, and Blood Will Have Its Season, respectively. In addition, this issue contains six more original tales, plus a short graphic novel, our usual Cthulhu Does Stuff Comic, and our column by the legendary Robert M. Price. Enjoy issue #31... and thanks, so much, for supporting The Lovecraft eZine.

Coach Mike Davis provides three timely suggestions to help your child have a positive youth sports experience.

Third and final instalment of Shawn McQueen Trilogy: The story of three surfers: Brian Shafter, Scientist Harry Cook and surfboard shaper Shawn McQueen. Five years separating each of the three men and from vastly different backgrounds travel life's journey in search of the answer to life's ultimate question: What is the meaning of life? The book opens in the late 1940's: Brian Shafter is the eldest of the three and a younger brother. A narcissistic, judgemental, evangelical misfit, with serious sexual orientation issues after being 'interfered with' on a church camping trip as a young boy. He will discover surfing late but soon begins to make a name for himself as small-wave stylist. He will fall in with a bad crowd, run afoul of the law and make a pact with God for not being caught. Riddled with guilt and unrequited love, he marries within his church, migrates to Australia to proselytise the gospel. Five years his junior, Harry Cook is an only child who loses his beloved father to cancer and decides to dedicate his life to science to rid mankind of this scourge. A brilliant student, Harry accepts a study grant to head up a research team for a major agricultural chemical company. What Harry discovers will cause him to throw in his career and flee for his life because he's blown the whistle on the most carcinogenic chemical known to man and a plan for the multi-national company to eliminate all pollinators and force agriculture into a total dependence on their product. A fugitive from big-Ag thugs he flees. Shawn McQueen is the youngest surfer of the three, a philosophical, older brother and a bit of a surfing prodigy who will grow up to be a leading surfboard shaper and a pacifist who will move to Australia in the late sixties. Surfing is the bond between these three men who remain friends for decades as the years pass. Brian will become a huge surf retailer in Sydney, Australia, Shawn will become a gypsey surfboard shaper who will settle in Noosa and Harry will disappear at sea after the research vessel he is working on sinks mysteriously with all on board. Recently widowed, pacifist Shawn buil an ocean going catamaran, takes-out the world's most wanted terrorist, and follows a girl with sea-green eyes to the dusty mountains of Afghanistan to help her rebuild her broken country. After a time in-country he leaves the troubled Afghanistan and returns to Australia where he meets a surfing girl and falls in love again. Things are wonderful until the late nineties, when a mutating, specie-jumping virus quickly becomes the pandemic extinction event that will end all life on planet. As the extinction event quickly shuts down the planet, a terminally ill Harry mysteriously appears at the gate of Shawn's acreage outside of Noosa after years of being missing and presumed dead. The three men who have seen and experienced much will spend the last weeks of life on Earth discussing the meaning of life. Only one will reveal the absolute truth and emerge as the Holy Man. Will it be the proclaimed man of God? Will it be the scientist? Or will it be the philosophical surfboard shaper?Who will be the Omega man who put the tools away and turn-off the lights for the last time?

Have you ever thought your life would end today? Have you had a close call; an accident, a heart attack, or other tragedy? I have had a few close calls in my life. So has a good friend of mine. In this first edition, I talk about some of the close calls where I or someone else thought this might be the end. The good news is I'm still here.

One of the best money-making tools you can buy. Perfect for the seasoned handicapper, the student of the racing game, or a brand new fan trying to make sense of it all. $uper $tats began as a simple listing of all common statistics for a racing meet tabulated 4-deep, to allow more sensible wagering on superfectas. This most recent edition is still organized by specific distance and surface (since that's the precise event you're watching); it also, however, contains many additional features, like a listing of the connections that brought in long-shots in the top 4, a breakdown of each trainer showing the results by owner, a comparison of the participating jockeys at the various sprint distances, and much, much more! Cut your handicapping time and increase your profit by paying attention to the hard numbers, such as finish positions and odds, and ignoring the flood of soft numbers that you've been force-fed. Also included is a short section that shows several methods for increasing coverage in your trifectas and superfectas by relying more on past results and less on superficial appearances.

Lovecraft eZine is a magazine of Weird Fiction and Cosmic Horror, with over 200,000 readers. Here's the print edition of issue #36 -- thanks for reading! TABLE OF CONTENTS Cthulhu Does Stuff #15 a comic strip by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson Better Halves by KC Grifant The Last Leaves by Derek Wentz Descent by Christopher M. Cevasco Restless Nights by Justin Munro The Thing in the Corner by David A. Anthony The Pardon of the Fogs by Cora Pop Mortuus Machanus by D.B. Poirier Resonance by Stewart Horn The Voice of Zarnak by Rick Lai White Light Panic by Phillip J. Johnson

Mike Davis asked me to guest edit a King in Yellow issue of The Lovecraft eZine and I was quick to say yes. For various reasons, there were many I did not get the chance to invite to A Season in Carcosa, so I looked at my old list and asked who might like to book a room in the Tower of Gloom. Everyone said they'd love to come to Carcosa for a season, but sadly life got in the way for some and they could not come and play. Happily the others braved greyness and rain and walked, carrying their strange imaginations, across the cloudwaves. It is with great pleasure that The Lovecraft eZine (and your humble editor) presents these tributes to the dark imagination of weird fiction master, Robert W. Chambers. I hope you enjoy these glimpses into the dim and lonely places of Carcosa. Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.