Hunter of the Dead (The Vampire Nation Chronicles)

Hunter of the Dead (The Vampire Nation Chronicles)





His name was Malachi and he was that rarest of beings, the child of a mortal and a vampire. Raised on an isolated Texas ranch, Malachi grew into his powers safe from discovery. For though himself a mortal, he was gifted with many of the abilities of his vampire mother. And though he chose to follow his mortal destiny, there were those among the vampires known as Predators who had sworn to seek his death.

They believed that Malachi was the long-prophesied hunter of vampires, the being who would spearhead the destruction of the Vampire Nations. And so Malachi and his family became the targets of some of the most dangerous vampires in the world, those who sought to overturn the precarious balance of power between vampires and humans. One escaped from a prison monastery in Thailand. One came from a cave of skeletons. And one believed himself to be the anti-Christ, ready to take over the world.

Yet despite numerous attempts on his life, Malachi remained determined to live a mortal's life with his wife and child, turning his back on his vampire heritage. But when his wife is slain and his child kidnapped, Malachi was driven to follow a darker vengeance on those who stole his entire reason for being. Only time would tell whether Malachi or a new and far more ruthless enemy would prove the victor in a war that could destroy vampire and human society alike.









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The Vampire State: And Other Myths and Fallacies About the U.S. Economy





The Vampire State is a popular and provocative look at the muddled way we talk about economics in America. In engaging prose, Fred L. Block argues that many familiar metaphors, such as the image of the government as a vampire sucking the lifeblood from our economy, are patently false and based on bad economics. He explains why balancing the federal budget will not solve our economic problems, shows the flaws in the arguments for a global free trade regime, and uses a series of counter-metaphors to suggest reforms we desperately need. When you recall that the forces of Newt Gingrich got solidly behind the balanced budget amendment, that it was Ross Perot's embracing of deficit reduction that propelled his original meteoric presidential campaign, and that it is Bill Clinton who holds the title of greatest national debt reducer among post-World War II American presidents, you realize that the notion of balancing the federal books is no longer a conservative shibboleth; it's now the apple pie of economic politics. But Fred Block, a sociology professor, remains a dissenter.

The Vampire State is his brief against the importance of the idea of a balanced budget. Block argues that the demand to balance is based on a faulty metaphor, that of an economy that was once vibrant but has been leeched into weakness by a money-parasitic government. In truth, he holds, there are a lot of other factors for economic health besides the money supply, such as new technology, the ways businesses organize themselves, the quality of the labor pool, and the psychology of the investor pool. Indeed, the U.S. government often spurs the economy by drawing these factors into increased play. And we'd see that, argues Block, if, for instance, we abandoned the received, but pessimistic ways of measuring productivity, inflation, and savings.









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