Bøker av Tom Miller

My name is Tom Miller. I was a member of the crew which three years ago was the first to reach Pluto in a split second and then to keep exploring outside the solar system in a few other galaxies aboard a spaceship called the Redeemer. Our captain was David Borok. This book was written based on his diary, my own memories, as well as the original documentation and recordings. What I am about to recount is true to the last letter and by now is also history. We were certain that as a result of our journey humanity's perspective on everything would change fundamentally. Not only with regard to our role in the Universe, but in our everyday lives too. We tried to prepare for the unknown to guess what our Galaxy would show us, but believe me when I say, that what happened was beyond our wildest imaginations.

The narrator is funny, intelligent, perceptive, and (mostly) kind - but he doesn't understand the social rules most of us learn effortlessly. In a brilliant collection of episodes ranging from wildly funny to blackly despairing, he gives us an unflinching view from the perspective of the socially marginalized. With humor and compassion as well as anger and frustration, he shows us the profound loneliness of the disconnected, and reminds us that moments of real connection are gifts to be treasured.

Tom Miller has been writing about conflict and culture in the Americas for close to 50 years. His books include On the Border, an account of his travels along the U.S.-Mexico frontier; The Panama Hat Trail about South America; Trading With the Enemy, which takes readers on his journeys through Cuba; and, about the American Southwest, Revenge of the Saguaro. Where Was I? A Travel Writer's Memoir zigs and zags through the riotous 1968 Democratic National Convention, smokes marijuana on the rooftop of a comfortable South American hotel, and spends the better part of a year traipsing around Cuba. Miller, a veteran of the anti (Vietnam) war movement and the underground press of the 1960s, spent months with migrants, musicians, and muck-rakers. He wrote about the Third Country between the United States and Mexico for the New York Times, and tracked down the origins of the song "La Bamba." In Spain he located an original 1605 first printing of Don Quijxote, and in Cuba held in his hands Ernest Hemingway's 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Writer Adam Hochschild says Where Was I? contains "sharp observations from a man who's been everywhere you'd ever want to go, known everyone you'd ever want to meet, and brought it all alive in a voice you wish you had." Martin Cruz Smith says "Miller has the passion, wit, and style of a great journalist." Linda Ronstadt simply says, "I am a Tom Miller fan."

2045. Ein Bakterium verwandelt alle von ihm Befallenen in blutrünstige Bestien. Mittendrin im brutalen Überlebenskampf: die schwangere Gina, die das Heilmittel in sich trägt und zum Spielball unterschiedlicher Interessen wird. Wem kann sie noch trauen?

A travel classic, revised after twenty years: a journalist's lyrical account of life in Castro's Cuba.

Nineteen-year-old Robert Weekes is an empirical philosophera practitioner of an arcane, female-dominated branch of science indistinguishable from magicwho has grown up in the shadow of his more adept sisters and mother.

What does China's rise mean for the future of Asia, and of the world?

Combining on-the-ground reportage and up-to-date research, this pivotal book explains why China has failed to reap many of the economic and social benefits of urbanization, and suggests how these problems can be resolved.

Intriguing and informative, Seeking Chicago is a must-read for anyone interested in Chicago and its history

Tom Miller's On the Border frames the land between the United States and Mexico as a Third Country, one 2,000 miles long and twenty miles wide. This Third Country has its own laws and its own outlaws. Its music, language, and food are unique. On the Border, a first-person travel narrative, portrays this bi-national culture, "unforgettable to every reader lucky enough to discover this gem of southwestern Americana." (San Diego Union-Tribune) It's a "deftly written book," said the New Times Book Review. "Mr. Miller has drawn a lively sketch of this unruly, unpredictable place." Traveling from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, Miller offers "cultural history and fine journalism." (Dallas Times Herald) Among his stops is Rosa's Cantina in El Paso, the Arizona site where a rancher sadistically tortured three Mexican campesinos, and the 100,000-watt XERF radio station where Wolfman Jack broadcasts nightly. He interviews children in both countries, all of whom insist that the candy on the other side is superior. On the Border, translated into Spanish, French, and Japanese, was the first book to identify and describe this land as a Third Country. Miller "knows this country," says Newsday, "feels its joys and sorrows, hears its music and loves its soul."

Twenty miles wide and two thousand long, the U.S.-Mexico borderland is a country unto itself that has been celebrated in the works of many writers--and not just those who call it home. Here artists as disparate as Carlos Fuentes, Maya Angelou, and Allen Ginsberg have found literary inspiration, presenting the region through varied viewpoints that give border writing its unusual scope and texture. This wide-ranging anthology--gathering short stories and essays, song lyrics and poems--offers readers a new appreciation of the border and its literature. Residents of the region may be startled to learn how many passers-by have been struck by this unruly slice of North America, while those living in other parts of the country may be surprised to find it more than a dateline for reports of smuggling and illegal immigration. Collected here are both celebrated and underappreciated gems of American and Mexican literature depicting a region that for some writers represents an exotic land, for others home. "Writing on the Edge" juxtaposes passages by New Jersey poet William Carlos Williams and native songwriter Flaco JimA(c)nez, British novelist Graham Greene and American poet Demetria MartA-nez, to show us the border from both sides and from a distance. In all of the selections, La Frontera looms larger than life--an energizing force that frames the lives of the characters living within its boundaries. Included in the book is a literary map of the border highlighting the sites with which each author is identified. As editor Tom Miller observes, the very notion of literature in a region considered an "irrelevant nuisance" allows for more free-ranging creative output." "Writing on the Edge"sparkles with such creativity and invites readers to enjoy the best of two worlds--and of the world they share. Table of Contents Print a literary map of the borderlands here!