Action-packed and tons of fun, Professor Tymeas Timeless Tales: Revenge of the Sargasso Sea Ogre is a quirky adventure based on seven unique characters. The characters are members of the Hudson Bay Research Institute, the HBRI. The HBRI is led by Professor Maurice Tyme, the worldas foremost inventor. Using his greatest invention, the Shrinking Vortex Machine, the characters are shrunk to the size of matchsticks and live and work in a mailbox located at 1313 Old Gravel Lane. Revenge of the Sargasso Sea Ogre leads the members of the HBRI to the Bermuda Triangle where a mysterious storm blows them to the center of the Sargasso Sea. To their amazement, they discover Christopher Columbusas unrecorded fourth ship and a lost civilization living in the seaweed-choked Sargasso Sea. While trying to rescue the lost world, Professor Tyme along with the members of the HBRI come face-to-face with the evil Sargasso Sea Ogre, Professor Seaborn T. Nesbitt. Through a series of deceptions, Nesbitt along with his conquistador cutthroats enslave the people of the Sargasso Sea and capture Professor Tyme. The Revenge of the Sargasso Sea Ogre is a thrill ride into the unknown.

“A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.”—Maya Angelou “In America, we have a tradition of black writers whose autobiographies and memoirs come to define an era. . . . Buck may be this generation’s story.”—NPR A coming-of-age story about navigating the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family, Buck shares the story of a generation through one original and riveting voice. MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: his mother a dancer, his father a revered professor. But as a teenager, MK was alone on the streets of North Philadelphia, swept up in a world of drugs, sex, and violence. MK’s memoir is an unforgettable tale of how one precocious, confused kid educated himself through gangs, rap, mystic cults, ghetto philosophy, and, eventually, books. It is an inspiring tribute to the power of literature to heal and redeem us.

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.

Contributors from richly diverse backgrounds explore a wide range of current issues concerning the interrelationship of religion and film.