Bøger af Kenneth Tucker

He was a mere pawn, a being manufactured by an alien race, the ancient Relvans, and transmitted to Earth to be their agent, a knight who would save this world from the evil Grakanni, an alien race that travels the galaxy looking for worlds to enslave. But something went wrong as his essence was transmitted to a Relvan star platform orbiting Earth-a Grakanni disrupter beam's attempt to destroy the Relvan star platform and prevent his arrival, while failing to stop the transmission of his substance, nevertheless left the reassembling of his psyche incomplete.And as his mind wrestles with the mixed-up memories of the three Earth men the Relvans mined in his creation, this man without a name struggles to fulfill his mission to save the Earth while rescuing a damsel in distress and destroying the men and women of Earth who would become rich and powerful by assisting the Grakanni in their destructive pursuit. Reminiscent in style of the works of H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Magic Chessman presents a complex tale of a man tasked with becoming a hero by circumstances even as he searches for his own soul.

Jungian typology initiates a quasi-biographical approach to understanding writers and their works. Instead of highlighting an author's education and class prejudices it leans towards emotional undercurrents within the writings which in turn express currents within the author's psyche.

Lawman Eliot Ness has been transformed into a legend by the films and television programs that depicted the war he and his "Untouchables" waged against Al Capone and the mobsters of Prohibition-era Chicago. Published by McFarland in 2000, the first edition of this volume analyzed both Ness the person and Ness the myth. This updated and expanded second edition is enhanced by information gathered through interviews with members of the original casts of the TV and film versions of The Untouchables.

This study locates Giddens' work in the framework of modern social theory and research traditions. Giddens' work is compared and contrasted with that of Habermas, Foucault, Bourdieu, Elias and Parsons, and with schools of thought such as feminism, Marxism, ethnomethodology and postmodernism.