David Moss

This collection of 13 short stories mixes suspense, science fiction, and horror into a nice cocktail, garnished with occasional humor. An Apothecary werewolf tries desperately to find a cure; hellhounds invade the old west; Physicians and Biotechnology Engineers Gone Wild; monsters in Memphis and on your windowsill; icy terror for Arctic explorers; the pizza man and an alien meet their match.>The first twelve stories were previously published in magazines and anthologies. One was chosen for publication in The Year's Best Fantastic Fiction while another was recognized by a nomination from the Darrell Awards Jury for Best Midsouth Short Story.>Final teaser, how do horny toads, jugs, tight blue jeans and weasleteasers all fit together?>Stories include: -Truth Is Stranger Than Fishin'-Antidote for a Lycanthrope-On the Rocks-The Pizza Man-Snare of the Fowler-The House on Ridge Road-Whistle Up the Hellhounds-You Do What You Gotta Do-Vigil-Genetic Makeup-Horny Toads, Jugs, Tight Blue Jeans and Weaselteasers-The Black Mask-The Ice Princess

Never having had breakfast with Sophia Loren, David Moss sets out on a journey from Plato to Bjorn Lomborg, with a long pit stop at Willard Van Orman Quine to put the intelligence back into AI. This is a revised edition - with a Nobel prize-winning footnote - of the 2003 original essay, located on the boundary of philosophy with computing.

Chloe the Cheetah is the fastest animal in the Zoophoria Zoo, but every time she could build up a little speed she'd always trip over and land flat on her face. Have you ever heard of the expression of having 2 left feet? Well, Chloe the Clumsy Cheetah has 4 left feet To Chloe, being the fastest in the zoo has always been the most important thing in her life, but how could she impress her friends with how quick she was if she kept falling over? In this story, we follow Chloe as she discovers that being the fastest isn't as important as she'd thought, and that she can make her friends happy, and impress them at the same time, with her kindness much more than her speed.

With a Foreword by Fergus Kerr and an Afterword by Rowan WilliamsIn an age when theology appears fragmented as never before, this volume intends to show how von Balthasar is one of the very few contemporary theologians to have demonstrated how the patterns and resources of the Christian tradition have extraordinary pertinence today.The authors represent a new generation of Anglican theologians sympathetic to von Balthasar's thought, exploring it both in order to discover its fundamental dynamics and to see how it may be brought into new dialogues.The authors represent the 'Radical Orthodoxy' movement in Anglican theology, and are sympathetic to von Balthasar's thought, exploring it both in order to discover its fundamental dynamics and to see how it may be brought into new dialogues.

This edited collection shows how the spread of HIV infection has been followed, represented, and managed in nine countries between 1982 and 1988. The countries cited in this study have been chosen to emphasize contrasts in the social and epidemiological profiles of AIDS, and to suggest the diversity of the problems constituted by HIV/AIDS in different national contexts. The juxtaposition of sequences of national response will raise questions about the range of policy options actually available to political and social policy-makers in a given context, and will invite further examination of the factors determining the acceptance or rejection of specific measures.Following the introduction, which outlines the choices that national governments confront in formulating AIDS policies, the successive chapters cover the reactions to HIV/AIDS in the United States, Brazil, France, Belgium, West Germany, Italy, Poland, Australia, and Africa. The final chapter compares the patterns of national response, identifies their common and divergent features, and points out tensions in policy-making caused by current changes in the spread of infection and in the understanding of the virus. This book makes informative reading for those who want to learn more about international variation in the political, social, and economic aspects of the AIDS epidemic.

In addition to his political activities, Attwood laid claim to competence as an economist, based on his experience in banking and his observation of industrial practices in Birmingham. He focused most of his attention on the gold standard and its inhibitory effect on the growth of the economy. Long before the development of modern schools of economic theory, Attwood sought the regulation of business through control of the money supply. He was unsuccessful in his challenge to the Ricardian school, which promised stability through a gold based economy, and died disillusioned. Birmingham became identified with his brand of economic theory and a succession of economists followed his lead into the national arena. Through his study of Attwood's career and the development of his philosophy, David Moss reveals the impact of industrialism on the individual and society.