Authors:Robert E. Evenson, Prabhu Pingali,
Publisher: North Holland
Keywords: farm, agricultural, production, markets, farmers, development, economics, volume, handbook
Number of Pages: 846
Published: 2007-07-12
List price: $154.95
ISBN-10: 0444518738
ISBN-13: 9780444518736

Volume 3 of this series of the Handbooks in Economics follows on from the previous two volumes by focusing on the fundamental concepts of agricultural economics. The first part of the volume examines the developments in human resources and technology mastery. The second part follows on by considering the processes and impact of invention and innovation in this field. The effects of market forces are examined in the third part, and the volume concludes by analysing the economics of our changing natural resources, including the past effects of climate change.Overall this volume forms a comprehen

Author: Brian Evenson
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: state, fugue
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1566892252
ISBN-13: 9781566892254

“Brilliant...Evenson manages to capture madness with a masterful tone. The specific genius of Fugue State rests in subtlety, in Evenson’s ability to maintain suspense, dread and paranoia through utter linguistic control.”—Time Out New York “19 satisfying and surreal stories...packed with subtly hilarious sentences.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe.”—Jonathan Lethem "The stories in this collection will thrill, uns

Author: Brian Evenson
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: curtain, open
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1566891884
ISBN-13: 9781566891882

When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school project, he runs across a series of articles from the 1902 New York Times chronicling a vicious murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Delving deeply into the Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice used in the murders, Rudd, along with his newly discovered half-brother, Lael, becomes swept up in the psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique ritual. As the past and the present become an increasingly tangled knot, Rudd is found at the scene of a multiple murder at a remote campsite with minor injuries and few memorie

Author: Brian Evenson
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: martyr, space, dead
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-07-20
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0765325039
ISBN-13: 9780765325037

We have seen the future. A universe cursed with life after death. It all started deep beneath the Yucatan peninsula, where an archaeological discovery took us into a new age, bringing us face-to-face with our origins and destiny. Michael Altman had a theory no one would hear. It cursed our world for centuries to come. This, at last, is his story.

Author: Brian K. Evenson
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Keywords: understanding, literature, american, coover, robert, contemporary
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1570034826
ISBN-13: 9781570034824

In Understanding Robert Coover, Brian Evenson takes on the work of Robert Coover, a major figure of postmodern metafiction. In a careful analysis of Coover’s short stories and novels, Evenson demonstrates how Coover writes in several different modes that cross over into one another. He explores Coover’s concern with notions of community and the ways communities hold together through a series of shared stories and myths--myths that often, once they lose their effectiveness, come to justify violence. In this comprehensive study, Evenson discusses Coover’s novels, from his award-

Author: Brian Evenson
Publisher: Underland Press
Keywords: days, last
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-02-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0980226007
ISBN-13: 9780980226003

Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson’s Last Days is a down-the-rabbit-hole detective novel set in an underground religious cult. The story follows Kline, a brutally dismembered detective forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside the cult. As Kline becomes more deeply involved with the group, he begins to realize the stakes are higher than he previously thought. Attempting to find his way through a maze of lies, threats, and misinformation, Kline discovers that his survival depends on an act of sheer will. Last Days was first published in 2003 as a limited edition novella titled

Author: Brian Evenson
Publisher: Fiction Collective 2
Keywords: stories, knife, wavering
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 2004-03-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1573661139
ISBN-13: 9781573661133