King James

"This book is about the perception of Japan in the sixty films set there by gaijin (foreigners) -outsiders who almost always do not speak or read Japanese. My area of attention is directed to films depicting post World War II Japan and the Japanese, and, in many cases, films showing how foreigners in the same time frame respond to Japan. Why have a substantial number of films been set there by strangers? As a body of work, what do they tell us about...

James King is tired of 'Step Into Christmas'. He's tired of 'All I Want for Christmas is You'. He's tired - if it's possible - of 'Fairytale of New York'. It's time for a new Christmas Classic 'It's Chriiiistmaaaas' is a festive journey through the decades via the most cherished seasonal songs of the last century - from 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' to 'Do They Know it's Christmas?'. But beneath the nostalgia, are serious questions: is it...

Late in her life, acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Delamere makes a request of her therapist, Doctor Newman: she asks him to oversee the publication of her last book after she dies. It is a memoir in which she reveals that she is Evelyn Dick, the notorious "torso murderer" acquitted on appeal of dismembering her husband, and convicted of killing her infant son. In 1958 she was paroled, and disappeared into the mists of history. In Blue Moon, James King...

A trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks, of Reagan, rap, and Ridgemont High, of MTV, VHS, and "Axel F", of outsiders, lost boys, and dead poets, of Bill and Ted, Brooke Shields, and the Brat Pack, of three Porky's flicks, two Coreys, and one summer when "Baby" refused to be put in a corner. The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where...

Hive fleets search the galaxy for planets to eat, indulging their Hive Cycle: feed, reproduce, and increase. Interstellar distance was not a concern. Time was not important. The Hive had always been and would always be. When they enter the sphere of the Earth Empire, Emperor Maximel dispatches a crusty old space navy admiral to take care of the problem. Using what he has and what he can scrape up, he takes on the alien bugs in a battle, unknowingly...

No other monarch has had the impact on English literature of King James VI of Scotland, and later James I of England. His version of the bible is still widely available and praised for its poetic imagery. In this earlier book (first published in 1597), James took on the task of proving witches were real, and dangerous. Around this time other authors (such as Reginald Scott) were arguing that the fear of witchcraft was irrational and unfounded, and...