Robert Mills: 24 books

When Marsellus in the film Pulp**Fiction asserts, "I'm gonna git medieval on your ass," we know that he is about to bring down a fierce and exacting punishment. Yet is the violence of the Middle Ages that far removed from our modern society? Suspended Animation argues that not only is the...

During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled “sodomitical” or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the “unmentionable vice” or the “sin against nature.” How, though, did these categories enter the field of vision? How do you know a sodomite when...

As Armancras thrives at the height of its steam-age, its citizens go about their daily lives with little memory of the city's bloody past. They would rather marvel at Kempis Pennington's robot, or travel in the fancy new auto-carriages. A bureaucracy bent on establishing a new secular republic calls...

A short steampunk-inspired tale of horror. In an unnamed gaslit city, awash with corruption and vice, the citizens submit to banality and acceptance of their lacklustre lives. A seemingly innocuous event marks the beginning of a long period of terror. A series of bloody incidents which...

This captivating combination of science fiction and political satire draws the reader into an alternative present, where the threat of alien life destroying our beloved planet is all too real. It’s raining salt-water in the Sahara desert. In Thailand it’s snowing. All over the world, strange phenomena...

The artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994) had a lifelong appreciation of medieval culture. But with the possible exception of Edward II, Jarman's films have not been identified to date as making a major contribution to the depiction of the Middle Ages in cinema. This book is the first to uncover...

Alcoholic former doctor, pep pill chemist and murderer, Guy Haughton-Bassett, lives an idyllic life of drunken idleness in Pattaya with his gorgeous Thai girlfriend. Then one night a figure from his murky past arrives on his doorstep and asks him to kill again……

A story of love and betrayal among the first colonists of Jupiter’s moon Europa. A book that imagines people’s every-day lives in a colony established in caves beneath the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon. It is the 21st century and severe overcrowding on Earth has led to the creation of colonies...

Robert Ludlum & Kyle Mills, Het Utopia experiment Een revolutie op het gebied van oorlogvoering, maar is het wel veilig? Dresner Industries presenteert een revolutionair nieuw product: de Merge. Een technologische uitbreiding van de menselijke waarneming die direct gekoppeld is aan...

Robert Ludlum & Kyle Mills, Het Ares akkoord Een Jon Smith Thriller 1 team, 1 missie, 1 kans om de wereld te redden. In Oeganda wordt een Special Forces-team kansloos verslagen door een groep boeren. Op videobeelden is te zien dat zij onnatuurlijk snel en sterk zijn, ongevoelig lijken...

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...

This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of scholars and clinicians assembled here are largely preoccupied with tracing the theoretical underpinnings...

The classic New York Times bestseller: Real-life stories from prominent people talking about their experiences as alcoholics. As an alcoholic himself, PBS host Dennis Wholey set out to collect the powerful stories of well-known people who have struggled with this disease. Included in this volume...

Lorsque les entreprises Dresner présentent le Merge, un dispositif destiné à révolutionner le monde et à rendre tout smartphone obsolète, le Colonel Jon Smith de l’unité Covert-One, un groupe clandestin créé par le Président pour pallier l’impuissance des agences de renseignements ravagées...