Here, collected in one volume, is his Alastor trilogy: three classic SF adventure novels that are Jack Vance at his best.
"Trullion: Alastor 2262 / Marune: Alastor 933 / Wyst: Alastor 1716"
The Alastor Cluster: A sprawling system of thirty thousand live stars and three thousand inhabited pla[...]
Continues the adventures of Myron Tany, a rebellious member of a wealthy family, who tours the Galaxy on an interstellar freighter alongside a crew of actors, musicians, thieves, and other questionable characters. By the author of Ports of Call. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.[...]
Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his novel, The Dying Earth, and its sequels--a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under[...]
In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game--Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen--meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete--a troubled local war hero, once a champion, who comes with his m[...]
Kings in Disguise was praised by the likes of Art Spiegelman, Neil Gaiman, and Alan Moore. It won two Eisner Awards and has been hailed as one of the ten best graphic novels of all time (Guardian). This highly anticipated sequel tells the story of a young man's coming of age in a world where the cap[...]
An award-winning classic is set in a wintry and riot-torn Detroit during the Great Depression and finds movie-loving Freddie Bloch trading his father's liquor bottles for matinee tickets before he is rendered homeless and at the mercy of anti-communist mobs by his father's abandonment and brother's [...]
The book is a text/reference for rotating machinery vibrations and related topics such as bearings and seals with information suitable for both novices and experts. It contains fundamental physical phenomena, mathematical and computational aspects, practical hardware considerations and troubleshooti[...]
Award-winning calligrapher's generously illustrated text offers full coverage of calligraphy for left-handed writers. Tools and materials, correct positioning, page layout, much more. 4 model alphabets.
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This deft amalgam of biography, film history, and analysis is a superb portrait of a true pioneer who was critically important to the creation of cinema as the defining art form of the twentieth century. Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) was one of the first film superstars, a screenwriter, a major inde[...]
This book provides a general framework for specifying, estimating and testing time series econometric models. Special emphasis is given to estimation by maximum likelihood, but other methods are also discussed, including quasi-maximum likelihood estimation, generalized method of moments estimation, [...]
This book provides a general framework for specifying, estimating, and testing time series econometric models.[...]
In this 2006 introductory textbook to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Jill Vance Buroker explains the role of this first Critique in Kant's Critical project and offers a line-by-line reading of the major arguments in the text. She situates Kant's views in relation both to his predecessors and to con[...]
Set on a Georgia golf course in 1931, a caddie uses his mysterious powers to affect the game and the fate of the players. This is the film tie-in edition of "Bagger Vance", from the Director of "The Horse Whisperer" and starring Will Smith, Matt Damon, Jack Lemmon and Charlize Theron.[...]
The Elder Isles - an ancient land where chivalry and the realm of fairie exist side by side. A land of mystery, strange beauty, high adventure and arcane magic. Kings are at war, opposing magicians devise ever more cunning stratagems. It is a land where princesses and changelings both can become emb[...]
The latest of the bestselling 'Gollancz Black Books' brings together Jack Vance's masterpiece of fantasy into one gorgeous volume[...]
"As I step into the room, a silver flash blurs my vision. Before I can take a breath, the world falls away." Brianna has always felt invisible. People stare right past her, including the one boy she can't resist, Blake Williams. But everything changes at a house party when Brianna's charm bracelet s[...]