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Five Fantastic Stories
Algis BudrysCollected her are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Jamie Wild.
The Furious Future: Stories
Algis BudrysNine stories travel through time and space to share insights into the human—and not so human—experience inthis gripping science fiction anthology from respected author and critic Algis Budrys Through stories of humans mistaken for gods ...
The Unexpected Dimension
Algis BudrysSeven classic excursions into the fantastic imagination of one of post-war America's greatest science fiction writers. This collection showcases the humanity, imagination and variety of Budrys' writing and plotting.
Blood and Burning
Algis BudrysIn these unforgettable stories Budrys creates an alien but familiar world stripped of the lies of everyday life: a world where cannibalism is a medical, not an ethical problem; where "not-dying" is the alternative to both life and death; ...
Citadel
Algis BudrysHe was looking for a privacy his strange personality needed, and never quite seemed to achieve it. All his efforts were, somehow, great triumphs of the race, and great failures for him!
Hard Landing
Algis BudrysThis started the investigation that revealed the starling story of four stranded aliens and their desperate struggle for survival. Fallen from the stars, they started with nothing more than a first-aid kit and instincts.
Rogue Moon
Algis BudrysShortlisted for the 1961 Hugo Award, Rogue Moon is the disquieting and story of what happens when monstrous scientific ambition is matched by human obsession.
Who?
Algis BudrysTasked with uncovering the truth, ANG Security Chief Shawn Rogers makes some shocking discoveries. Narrated in chapters alternating between Rogers and Martino, Who? poses existential questions about the human condition.
Benchmarks Concluded 1987-1993
Algis Budrys... Barry N. Malzberg, Sean McMullen, Tony Daniel, Joe Haldeman, Donna Fraley , Nicholas A. DiChario, Kathe Koja, Dirk Strasser, Paula May, Jonathan Lethem, Jamil Nasir, Lisa Mason, Jeffers again, Carolyn Gilman, and Lou Fisher. The first ...
The Evolution of Health Services Research: Personal ...
Odin W. AndersonGrace Budrys Grace Budrys earned her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago in 1976. I was the chair of her dissertation committee. She is now professor of sociology and director of the Public Service Program at De Paul University, ...
Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation: Justice Will ...
Patricia ArnesonJohn W. Murphy, Algis Mickunas, and Joseph J. Pilotta, “Conclusion: Fundamentals of a Responsible Technology,” The Underside of High-Tech: Technology and the Deformation of Human Sensibilities, eds. John W. Murphy, Algis Mickunas, ...
Postmodern Social Analysis and Criticism
John W. MurphyJohn W. Murphy, Algis Mickunas, and Joseph J. Pilotta, "Conclusion: Fundamentals of a Responsible Technology," in The Underside of High-tech, ed. John W. Murphy, Algis Mickunas, and Joseph J. Pilotta (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press ...
When Doctors Join Unions
Grace BudrysAs health organizations become larger, more centralized, and more hierarchical, decisions are made further from the work site and some traditional responsibilities are delegated to lower-paid, less-trained workers.Nevertheless, the image of ...
The Logic of Culture
Algis MickunasThis book is a condensation of critical essays in contemporary culture within the context of European phenomenology, employing its own slef-critiques in order to demonstrate the methodological and experiential dimensions of the logic of ...
How Nonprofits Work: Case Studies in Nonprofit Organizations
Grace BudrysGiven the trials nonprofits face in the current economic climate, this timely book helps readers move beyond the good intentions in nonprofits to find successful practices.
Our Unsystematic Health Care System
Grace Budrys"This book presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system.
Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity
Algis Uždavinys"This book clearly establishes three things: that traditional myth (as the Neoplatonists maintained) is the symbolic expression of metaphysics, as metaphysics is the exegesis of myth; that Greek philosophy was not an isolated 'miracle' but ...
Party Policy in Modern Democracies
Kenneth BenoitLatvia: Oskars Ceris, JanisIkstens, Zaneta Ozolina; Lithuania: Algis Krapavicius, Inga Vinogradnaite; Luxembourg: Patrick Dumont; Macedonia:Dragan Ristovski; Malta:Dominic Fenech; Moldova: Katia McDonagh, Florin Fesnic, Razvan Grecu, ...
Changing Theories: New Directions in Sociology
Roberta Garner“Doing Gender.” Gender & Society 1: 125–151. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH ( PREPARED BY GRACE BUDRYS) Aday, LuAnn and Ronald Andersen. 1975. Development of Indices of Access to Medical Care. Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration ...
Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health Or Illness
Grace BudrysBlackwell, Debra, Mark Hayward, and Eileen Crimmins. 2001. Does childhood health affect chronic morbidity in later life? Social Science and Medicine 52 (8): 1269–84. Blair, Steven, Harold Kohl, Ralph Paffenbarger, Debra Clark, Kenneth ...
Health Care Reform
Lillian E. FormanIN DEFENSE of CANADA's MEDICARE In Our Unsystematic Health Care System , Grace Budrys answers some of Lemieux's main objections to Canada's Medicare. Lemieux states that it is monopolistic for the government to control the entire ...
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