When a Hollywood film crew comes to the small town in The Great Smokey Mountains to shoot a movie about the giant Fenris Wolves, they get more than they expect. Spanning the worlds of television, movies, sports, business, and beyond, Miller reveals exclusive behind-the-scenes stories directly from the people who were in the room when history unfolded. He currently teaches at The New School. He is known for writing about Michel Foucault, philosophy as a way of life, social movements, popular culture, intellectual history, eighteenth century to the present; radical social theory and history of political philosophy. As a young child I witnessed the “wild west” of spying in post-war Now it’s a full-scale battle. When a Hollywood film crew comes to the small town in The Great Smokey Mountains to shoot a movie about the giant Fenris Wolves, they get more than they expect.
TV mountain men, motorcycle gangs, even the National Guard discover they are no match for the stealth and power of the beasts. Browse author … Now it’s a full-scale battle. The local people, the sheriff, the Cherokee people and a band of local monster hunters can’t stop the carnage… and it’s all playing out live right before the cameras.Somehow Canine Giants of Northern Alaska find their way to a small town in the hills of Eastern Kentucky. As he shows, democracy has always been rife … A local Forest Ranger is their only hope.The embryonic Cold War. Jim Miller is the author of Budgeting Doesn't Have To Suck (3.17 avg rating, 6 ratings, 2 reviews, published 2013)
âA... fascinating history of San Diego that debunks the notion of Americaâs Finest CityâRaider Nation, smitten with its outlaw mystique, provides a gritty alternative to Californiaâs sunshine-and-granola image.
Miller is also the editor of SUNSHINE/NOIR: WRITING FROM SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA (City Works Press, 2005), SUNSHINE/NOIR II: WRITING FROM SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA (with Kelly Mayhew on City Works Press, 2015), and DEMOCRACY IN EDUCATION; EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, LOCAL 1931 (AFT 1931, 2007). Huge footprints and then mutilated cattle spread fear through the town. Jim Miller is the author of the novels LAST DAYS IN OCEAN BEACH (City Works Press, 2018), FLASH (AK Press, 2010), and DRIFT (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007).
Jim Miller's weekly column on politics, culture, and more in the San Diego Free Press"Jim Miller manages to find real warmth in the cold light cast by our apocalyptic moment; this is a rare instance of actually dealing with, instead of attempting to 'fix,' the cascade of emotions and ideas that naturally come from the immensity of the challenges around us." Jim Miller is the author of the novels LAST DAYS IN OCEAN BEACH (City Works Press, 2018), FLASH (AK Press, 2010), and DRIFT (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007).
The wolves are there. Looking for books by Jim Miller? He has published poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in a wide range of journals and other publications, and has a weekly column in the SAN DIEGO FREE PRESS and the OB RAG. The wolves are there. Miller was referred to by the alias "Deacon Jim" by some because he regularly attended the Methodist Church, and he did not smoke or drink.
They have moved south seeking better hunting grounds. Then a local farm boy is decapitated and fear becomes rage as self-proclaimed monster-chasers of every stripe descend to do battle.
They have moved south seeking better hunting grounds.
James Miller (born 1947) is an American writer and academic. In Can Democracy Work?, James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s protest Democracy Is in the Streets, offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings to the present.
New from Jim Miller writing as J. Esker Miller. NEW Origins with James Andrew Miller explores the beginnings of some of the most celebrated successes of our time.
Jim Miller -- the complete book list in order (52 books) (4 series). James Brown Miller (October 25, 1861 – April 19, 1909), also known as "Killin' Jim", "Killer Miller" and "Deacon Jim", was an American outlaw and professional killer of the American Old West, said to have killed 12 people during gunfights – perhaps the most known homicides by one man of his era.
He is also co-author of a history of San Diego, UNDER THE PERFECT SUN: THE SAN DIEGO TOURISTS NEVER SEE (with Mike Davis and Kelly Mayhew on The New Press, 2003) and a cultural studies book on working class sports fandom, BETTER TO REIGN IN HELL: INSIDE THE RAIDERS FAN EMPIRE (with Kelly Mayhew on The New Press, 2005).
He was lynchedin Ada, Oklahoma, in 1909 alon…
See all books authored by Jim Miller, including Corbin's Fancy, and The Rolling Stone Illustrated History Of Rock & Roll, and more on ThriftBooks.com. Financial, political, and scientific developments that began 10 years ago are only now being felt by the biopharmaceutical contract services industry, writes Jim Miller.