Bøger af Mike Davis

Remember, Sun-Down is when you need to fear the Worse!!!

Welcome to issue #35 (Summer, 2015). We have 10 stories for you this issue, plus a column by Robert M. Price. Thanks for reading!

Kevin Cousins is a young Koori boy from the Shoalhaven who finds himself in an alien world when his Gran takes ill and is hospitalised there. His life seems to be taking on some kind of structure when he and his sister join the Surf Club and earn their Bronze Medallions so that they can get a surfboard. Then their Gran dies and their mother suffers a total physical collapse. Things will get a lot worse before they get better. At least he and his baby sis are together until they took her away. Kevin will learn his life lessons at the knee of his Uncle Robert and hope that one day his family will be together as one. There's even a time when his mooring lines come loose and he finds himself dangerously adrift is seas of uncertainty after his closest mate is killed on his bike. Kevin will find purpose finally and take control of his life when he befriends the youngest child in the settlement at Wreck Bay and makes sure Little Stevie learns the same lessons he been so lovingly schooled in. Only then does his life take on meaning and the things he's missed so much are returned to him.

Welcome to issue #29 -- February, 2014. Mike Davis here, editor and publisher. Three years ago this month I published issue #1, and twenty-nine issues later, The Lovecraft eZine is still going strong! Thanks for joining me on this adventure, and for your support. I know you'll enjoy the stories in this issue. You'll read an original tale by Gary Myers, a round-robin Lovecraftian superhero story, and much more. Have fun -- and thanks for being here!

I SMELL THEM BEFORE I SEE THEM. All the powders, perfumes and oils the half-smart ones smear on themselves. The stupid ones just stumble around reeking. The really smart ones take a Goddamn shower. The water doesn't help them in the long run, but the truth is, nothing is gonna help them in the long run. In the long run they're gonna die. Hell, in the long run they're already dead.

Welcome to issue #33! I have another eight Lovecraftian tales for you this issue, and of course there's the usual column by Robert M. Price, and the "Cthulhu Does Stuff" comic. Happy New Year!

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19

This account of the Latinisation of the American urban landscape explores questions such as, is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? and, will Latinos reinvigorate the US Labour movement?

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."The classic American horror author H. P. Lovecraft coined the term 'weird fiction' in the 1920s. Even today, in our rational world of wonder, his legacy of cosmic horror slumbers on. Deep in the recesses of our unconscious minds, we suspect it to be the truth - that we begin to glance the shape of true reality, and it is not to our liking. Not at all.Modern science, with its experts and specialities, is a fragmentary thing. In this, it reflects the human mind. We keep our thoughts in boxes, broken into digestible shards. It is safer. Cosmic horror warns us that what we fondly imagine to be reality is just a thin skin of light and substance over endless gulfs of insanity. Gather too much knowledge, make the wrong connections, and the truth can no longer be denied.The amazing tales lovingly collected in Cthulhu Lies Dreaming are fragments of that truth. Treat them with the caution that they deserve. Each will offer you glimpses behind the skin of the world, leading you closer and closer to the edge of the abyss. Knowledge may bring wisdom, but it also offers far darker gifts to the curious.The truth is indeed out there - and it hungers.

The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of the ';poor man's air force,' the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destructionOn a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street, killing 40 people. Since Buda's prototype the car bomb has evolved into a ';poor man's air force,' a generic weapon of mass destruction that now craters cities from Bombay to Oklahoma City. In this provocative history, Mike Davis traces the its worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agenciesparticularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistanin globalizing urban terrorist techniques. Davis argues that it is the incessant impact of car bombs, rather than the more apocalyptic threats of nuclear or bio-terrorism, that is changing cities and urban lifestyles, as privileged centers of power increasingly surround themselves with ';rings of steel' against a weapon that nevertheless seems impossible to defeat.

New edition of the classic, bestselling (100,000+ copies) worldwide survey of slums by the world's leading urbanist

Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.

With wit and a remarkable grasp of the political marginalization of the 99%, Mike Davis crafts a striking defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. This pamphlet brilliantly undertakes the most pressing question facing the struggle what is to be done next? Mike Davis is the author of more than twenty books.

A book-and-video introduction to Microsoft's Business Intelligence tools If you are just starting to get a handle on Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) tools, this book and accompanying video provides you with the just the right amount of information to perform basic business analysis and reporting.

Suitable for anyone seeking guidance along the highways and byways of our post-9/11 world. This volume features political analysis of topics, including accounts of the two Bush administrations' catastrophic imperial adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq; Guantanamo, rendition and its apologists; and Hurricane Katrina, global warming, and black gold.

A bold collection of essays and polemics from the world-renowned social critic Mike Davis.