Author: Thomas M. Disch
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novel
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-04-27
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0375705449
ISBN-13: 9780375705441

The stories in 334 revolve loosely around a government housing project at 334 East 11th Street in New York City in the 2020s. The project’s inhabitants are universally poor, often jobless, sometimes squalid. Some are happy, others angry, depressed, or just numb. The stories study their hopes and disappointments, and all are deeply introspective. The early 21st-century setting might, in the hands of another author, be only a guise, a shortcut to making a world that’s more gritty, shabby, and used up than ours. But Disch’s future is thoroughly imagined, and he’s adept at

Author: Thomas M. Disch
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: novel, prisoner
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-10-28
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 014311722X
ISBN-13: 9780143117223

Coming in November 2009, AMC’s highly anticipated remake of the cul ’60’s television series The Prisoner, starring Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel. Based on the highly acclaimed 1960s television show, Thomas M. Disch’s novelization of The Prisoner has become a cult classic in its own right. A story that combines elements of a spy thriller with the Orwellian tropes of science fiction, The Prisoner follows a former British secret agent who has quit the force, only to find himself trapped in an anonymous place called the Village. Known only as "Number 6," he struggles t

Author: Thomas M. Disch
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-05-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472068962
ISBN-13: 9780472068968

Praise for Thomas Disch:"One of the most remarkably talented writers around."---Washington Post Book World"[Disch] is without doubt one of the really bright lights on the American SF scene."---Fantasy and Science FictionThis collection by the much-loved and lauded science-fiction writer Thomas Disch spans twenty-five years of his career, during which he has supplemented his creative output with reviews and critical essays in publications as diverse as the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and Twilight Zone.Disch’s perspectives on his genre are skeptical, novel

Author: Thomas M. Disch
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: genocides
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-11-14
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0375705465
ISBN-13: 9780375705465

This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells In this harrowing novel, the world’s cities have been reduced to cinder and ash and alien plants have overtaken the earth.  The plants, able to grow the size of maples in only a month and eventually reach six hundred feet, have commandeered the world’s soil and are sucking even the Great Lakes dry. In northern Minnesota, Anderson, an aging farmer armed with a Bible in o

Author: Lisa J. Disch
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: system, party, tyranny
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $83.50
ISBN-10: 0231110340
ISBN-13: 9780231110341

The closely contested presidential election of 2000, which many analysts felt was decided by voters for the Green Party, cast a spotlight on a structural contradiction of American politics. Critics charged that Green Party voters inadvertently contributed to the election of a conservative Republican president because they chose to "vote their conscience" rather than "choose between two evils." But why this choice of two? Is the two-party system of Democrats and Republicans an immutable and indispensable aspect of our democracy? Lisa Disch maintains that it is not. There is no constitutional wa

Author: Estelle Disch
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: anthology, multicultural, gender, reconstructing
Number of Pages: 701
Published: 2008-01-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073380067
ISBN-13: 9780073380063

Reconstructing Gender is an anthology that addresses the contemporary experiences from a variety of women and men. Drawing from a wide range of sources including research articles, critical essays, and personal narratives, Disch has chosen accessible, engaging, and provocative readings that represent many perspectives and experiences. Eleven part-opening introductions identify important issues in the general field of study, describe the readings, remind the reader about some of the central themes emerging throughout the book, and raise questions for students to consider.

Authors:James Morrow Jr., Allen Jackson, James Disch, Dale M
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: study, guide, web, performance, evaluation, human, measurement
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 0736065032
ISBN-13: 9780736065030

Measurement and Evaluation in Human Performance, Third Edition, offers unmatched, in-depth instruction in measurement and evaluation techniques. Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition features a new section on epidemiology and further develops international perspectives. This edition also features improved readability in measurement statistics and enhanced efficiency in solving measurement and evaluation problems through the use of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Additional features that are new to this edition:-Revised first chapter that lays the groundwo