James Rudolph: 5 books

Cindy's Eyes is noir fiction set in the early seventies about Ray, a Hollywood Taxi Driver who falls in love with one of his fares, a beautiful young porno actress named Cindy. Ray pursues Cindy into the dark world of Hollywood where he rescues her - then loses her again to her addictions. But Ray...

Adolescence and young adulthood is a period in everyone’s life laced with insecurities and uncertainties, even for those growing up in a supportive home environment. For decades, behavioral psychologists and sociologists have debated the topic of “nature vs. nurture”. This debate questions whether...

Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...

Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and JeanLuc Nancy, sixteen authors study how the real...

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...