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  • White Horse

    A Novel

    by Alex Adams ...
    The world has ended, but her journey has just begun.Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the president of the United States announces that human beings are no longer a viable species. When Zoe realizes that everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running. Scared and alone in a shockingly ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Justify Torture

    Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario

    by Alex Adams ...
    From Batman Begins to Tom Clancy, How to Justify Torture shows how contemporary culture creates simplified narratives about good guy torturers and bad guy victims, how dangerous this is politically, and what we can do to challenge it.If there was a bomb hidden somewhere in a major city, and you had the person responsible in your custody, would you torture them to get the information needed to stop ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Freedom Is Not Free

    Reflections on Moral and Intellectual Growth in a Free Society

    by Alex Adams ...
    Liberty and character play vital roles in the functioning of free societies, but we often overlook both.Alex Adams gives them the attention they deserve in this memoir, highlighting his adventures and missteps in seeking to promote liberty and justice. His insights will particularly resonate with his fellow scientists and engineers, who may recognize themselves in various parts of the story—or see ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Political Torture in Popular Culture

    The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate

    by Alex Adams ...
    Series series Popular Culture and World Politics
    Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dimensions of the torture debate that has taken place in the course of the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The book argues that cultural representations provide a vital arena in which political meaning is generated, negotiated, and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Kill Box

    Military Drone Systems and Cultural Production

    by Alex Adams ...
    Series series Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society
    Drone warfare represents one of the most pressing moral and political problems of contemporary military ethics. Since the beginning of the American drone program in the late twentieth century, drone technologies have been used to conduct remote extrajudicial assassinations, to violate national sovereignty, and to conduct intrusive surveillance in contravention of international human rights norms, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    White Horse

    A Novel

    by Alex Adams ...
    Narrated by Emily Durante ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    White Horse is a unique postapocalyptic thriller chronicling one woman's quest to nurture those she holds dear against the backdrop of a shocking new world.Thirty-year-old Zoe wants to go back to college. That's why she cleans cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals. If she can keep her head down, do her job, and avoid naming the mice, she'll be fine. Her life is calm, maybe even boring—until the ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Old Dog and Her Boy

    by Alex Adams ...
    Narrated by Mad Macc ...

    Unabridged

    2 min

    “I knew that I had found my life’s purpose …” When Bessy the Great Big Teddy-Bear Dog saw her little human friend Sean for the first time, she knew what her mission in life was.Find out about Bessy’s mission to protect her little human in this beautifully illustrated book that will have you and your child cuddling for hours.Dogs make life beautiful, and all little children need a special dog in ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    How to Justify Torture

    Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario

    by Alex Adams ...
    Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 31 min

    From Batman Begins to Tom Clancy, How to Justify Torture shows how contemporary culture creates simplified narratives about good guy torturers and bad guy victims, how dangerous this is politically, and what we can do to challenge it.The ticking bomb scenario is a thought experiment designed to demonstrate that torture can be justified in emergency conditions. If there was a bomb hidden somewhere ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Fuse

    by Julianna Baggott ...
    Narrated by Khristine Hvam, Kevin T. Collins, Casey Holloway, Pierce Cravens ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Pure Trilogy

    Unabridged

    16 hours 44 min

    Bestselling author Julianna Baggott presents the second volume in her new post-apocalyptic, dystopian thriller trilogy.We want our son returned.This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we will kill our hostages one at a time.To be a Pure is to be perfect, untouched by Detonations that scarred the earth, and sheltered inside the paradise that is the Dome. But Partridge ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    Series Book 2 - The Pure Trilogy
    Bestselling author Julianna Baggott presents the second volume in her new post-apocalyptic, dystopian thriller trilogy.We want our son returned.This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we will kill our hostages one at a time.To be a Pure is to be perfect, untouched by Detonations that scarred the earth, and sheltered inside the paradise that is the Dome. But Partridge ... Read more

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  • Autumn: The City

    by David Moody ...
    Series Book 2 - Autumn Series
    A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, the Autumn series chronicles the struggle of a small group of survivors forced to contend with a world torn apart by a deadly disease. After 99% of the population of the planet is killed in less than 24 hours, for the very few who have managed to stay alive, things are about to get much worse. Animated by "phase two" of some ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Psychos

    Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane

    by Neil Gaiman, Lawrence Block, Ray Bradbury ...
    This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again.From Hannibal Lecter ( The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman ( American Psycho), stories of serial killers and ... Read more

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