David Robbins

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To settlers from back East, the Rocky Mountains offer a new life where they can live as they please. They've heard about the dangers but they think they will be able to hold their own. They're wrong. For...something....has come out of the deep forest to stalk them and slay them one by one. Enter Mountain Man Nate King. Known as Grizzly Killer to his adopted people the Shoshones, and others, Nate and his family come to the aid of those being hunted. And soon finds himself being stalked, as well.

Wilderness #71 Stalked

Ralph Compton

In the USA Today bestselling Ralph Compton series, sometimes a man has to leave his mark... Willis Lander was once the T-Bar ranch’s best bronc buster. Then came the day when a stallion as black as pitch and as mean as a rattler shattered his knee. Unable to perform the duties required of a cowboy, Willis took the only job he felt capable of handling—minding the line shack forty miles from the ranch—and secluded himself from the pity of his peers in the Wyoming wilderness. Now, the T-Bar is being sold, leaving Willis to wonder whether the new owner will want to keep a broken bronc buster on the payroll. Laurella Hendershot is a Texan rancher grateful for the opportunity to leave the Lone Star State behind and build a new life for herself. And she just may be Willis’ last chance… More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

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Originally published in 1982, Rethinking Social Inequality is a collection of essays looking at the breadth of contemporary work in social inequality. The book focuses on inequality as a central project of sociological enquiry, and is unified by the overarching rejection of a distributional notion of inequality, in the place of a relational one. The object of the study is not the deprived social group, but the unequal social relations, which is manifested in a variety of forms. The themes addressed in this collection indicate a shift in the areas of study concerned with social inequality, rejecting class-based inequality in with that of race, gender and age.

Rethinking Social Inequality

The William Humphreys Art Gallery (WHAG) in Kimberley is South Africa's smallest nationally funded gallery. It is also the country's most dynamic and innovative in terms of its response to the changing socio-political terrain in which it has operated during its 60-year life. From its origins as a typical colonial repository of imported culture, WHAG now holds one of the finest collections of the diverse streams of South African art. It also runs unique projects which have transformed the gallery from an isolated cultural enclave into the nerve centre for thriving outreach in the most desolate and marginalised - and starkly beautiful - region of the country's hinterland. The story of this pioneering institution is told through the experiences of a team from the gallery as it journeys thousands of kilometres across the Northern Cape in search of what might constitute the significance of art in human development, and in the lives of frequently impoverished contemporary communities. This quest for possible answers sheds important light on the role and rationale of an art gallery, and of the arts in general, in a changed and changing South Africa.

A South African Gallery's Response to a Changing World

Outreach

David Robbins published his first short story at 19 and his first book 25 years later. In 1986, for The 29thParallel, he was awarded South Africa’s prestigious CNA Literary Award, after having been shortlisted with Christopher Hope and J M Coetzee. Since then he has published extensively on southern African themes, becoming established as a writer of extraordinary perception in the literary travel and short fiction genres. In 1995 he published the first of two travel books covering 22 countries on the African continent, which enjoyed international success; and in 2010 he received a Lifetime Achievement Literary Award from the South African Ministry of Arts and Culture. A year before receiving this acknowledgement of his contribution to local literature, he had already embarked on the major project currently under discussion. Several visits to Australia had ignited his interest in the ‘Out-of-Africa’ hypothesis of modern humanity’s peopling of the world. Walking to Australia has been the result of extensive travel in the countries occupying the northern shores of the Indian Ocean, and of seven years of intermittent researching and writing. The book describes a 21st century journey following the direction taken by anatomically modern humans who left the African nursery around 80000 years ago and reached Australia 20000 years later. Along the way, they laid the genetic foundations for humanity’s oldest civilizations – and ultimately inhabited every corner of the globe. The result of these travels is not a scientific treatise. Although the science is not ignored, the centre lies elsewhere. The author undertakes this west-to-east endeavor in the imagined company of his autistic grandson, who serves both as confidant and as a human archetype. This allows the book to verge upon a unique blend of factual travel writing and an almost magical internalised interpretation. What the two travellers find together is a tangle of new experiences and responses, from which the linkages between primeval past and complex present gradually emerge. Here is a work of literary travel writing that describes an enchanted journey through some of the ancient places of the world and into the currently deeply troubled heart of the human adventure. The evidence encountered on the journey suggests that a fundamental universality of humanity’s place in the cosmos lies beneath all regional differences and is characterised as much by humility and co-operation as it is by the imperative to survive and/or the will to power. The book does not set out to prove a point, however, but to celebrate the complexity of human responses. It is more a creative work than it is a dissertation with an unambiguous conclusion. Nevertheless, the bibliography gives an indication of some of the sources used, which includes the work of historians, archaeologists, political scientists, biographers and psychologists, as well as authors writing on the various religions of the world.

Walking to Australia

Clay Taggart ran a palm over his right shoulder and wished he was able to understand the Apache. For all he knew they might be discussing how to dispose of him. The pair by the spring hadn't stopped glaring at him from the moment he'd seen them. He suspected that if he turned his back on them at the wrong time, he'd end up with steel between his shoulders. Clay glanced at the opening and debated whether to make a run for it. Every moment spend with the Apaches was another moment he cheated death. And no man's luck lasted forever. Grunting, he moved to the pool and splashed more water on his aching shoulders and back. The chilling stares of the nearby Apaches added to the goose flesh that broke out all over him. Be patient, Clay told himself. He'd get his chance. Sooner or later, he would escape, and if the Apaches tried to stop him, he'd sell his life dearly.

Hangman's Knot

"All Alpine's Marshal, Boyd Cooper, wants is a nice retirement, not to get a posse together to track outlaws. However, when an altercation leads to the exchange of gunfire and the spilling of outlaw blood, he doesn't have much of a choice"--

Ralph Compton the Law and the Lawless

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

Bullet for a Bad Man

A family man takes a deadly drive in this Ralph Compton western... Owen Burnett's needs are small. All he's ever wanted is his wife's affection, his children's health, and a little plot of land which he can farm. Still, he's no fool. So when his neighbor Gareth Kurst makes him a business proposition, one that could leave him richer than he's ever dreamed, he can't refuse giving the risky scheme a try. Rounding up cattle up in the Texas Hill Country is nothing to take on lightly. Between the Comanches roaming the countryside and the horns of the beasts he's hunting down, Owen knows every second he spends out in the wild puts his life in plenty of danger. But the greatest threat to his person is one he never expected--his ruthless and conniving business partner, who has no plans of ever sharing his hard-earned cash... More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books in Print

Ralph Compton Texas Hills

Kevin Killian

Matthew Higgs

Essays by Matthew Higgs, Kevin Killian, and David Robbins. Foreword by Judith Richards and Ralph Rugoff.

Portraits of Artists by Other Artists

Likeness

Hundra år efter tredje världskrigets slut är Amerika fortfarande en krigszon. Överlevar-kolonin Hemmet i Minnesotas vildmarker har lyckats genomleva det håra klimatet. Men när deras vassaste Krigare, Blade, Hancock och Geronimo tillfångatas på ett våghalsig uppdrag av en främmande makt ser framtiden plötsligt mörk ut. De skickas sydöver, till den Civiliserade Zonen, där diktatorn Samuel II härskar. Där väntar Omvandlingslägret, vars syfte är att bryta ned allt tänkbart motstånd till medgörliga undersåtar. Tredje världskrigets atomvapen har förvandlat världen till en dystopi och det en gång stolta Amerika till en militärdiktatur. Ett fåtal människor lyckades undfly förödelsen genom att ta skydd i en befästning i Norra Minnesotas vildmarker. De kallar sig själva Familjen. Hundra år efter krigsslutet, den stora smällen, är världen fortfarande en dystopisk plats när deras ättlingar börjar göra försök att återupptäcka vad som återstår. De basala resurserna är få i de karga landskapen, fördärvade av radioaktivitet och kemiskt avfall. Och överallt rör sig muterade varelser och hänsynslösa krigsherrar. Familjens egen krigarhärd, Triad Alfa, med Blade i spetsen, har svurit att försvara deras samhälle med allt som krävs. David L. Robbins (född 1950) är en amerikansk bästsäljande författare som skrivit över 300 böcker i en rad olika genrer - science fiction, action, thriller, ungdomsromaner och facklitteratur. Han har varit författare under synonym till en rad olika erkända bokserier, däribland Bröderna Hardy, Blade(en spin-off på De Överlevande) och Davy Crockett.

Sixteen-year-old Chace Shannon, leaving his twin sister behind, embarks on a mission of deadly vengeance against the brutal Harkey clan who murdered his father and uncle, and beat and abused his older sister. Original.

Blood Feud

There's only one way to end a feud... Leave no one alive. They attacked his older sister. They butchered his pa and uncle. But the bloodthirsty Harkey clan didn't bargain on sixteen-year-old Chace Shannon. He killed his first man before he could shave. Now, Chace must ride the vengeance trail alone and take the fight to the Harkeys...

Includes key interviews of Robbins with Richard Prince and Allan McCollum, his writings on television, Hollywood, and Warhol, as well as thoughts on comedy, art, and entertainment. A compilation of non-fiction and fiction.

Selected Essays, Interviews, Satires (1983-2005)

The Velvet Grind

The Siege of Kimberley and the Battle of Magersfontein

Three decades of news stories and DEA case files journey behind the scenes of the War on Drugs to reveal the shadowy world of illegal substances and the dangerous world of powerful drug traffickers, in such investigations as the French Connection, the Medellin Cartel, Pablo Escobar, the Cali Mafia, the Black Tuna Gang, and others. Original.

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