Inside The Last Outpost

At the start of the eighties, South African television screened a programme on Natal called The Last Outpost, and Tommy Bedford's usage of the phrase gained the status of legend. The programme was about the White settlers and their colonial system in Natal.

At the start of the eighties, South African television screened a programme on Natal called The Last Outpost, and Tommy Bedford's usage of the phrase gained the status of legend. The programme was about the White settlers and their colonial system in Natal.

Small and isolated in the Colony of Natal, Fort Napier was long treated like a temporary outpost of the expanding British Empire. Yet British troops manned this South African garrison for over seventy years. Tasked with protecting colonists, the fort became even more significant as an influence on, and reference point for, settler society. Graham Dominy's Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontier reveals the unexamined but pivotal role of Fort Napier in the peacetime public dramas of the colony. Its triumphalist colonial-themed pageantry belied colonists's worries about their own vulnerability. As Dominy shows, the cultural, political, and economic methods used by the garrison compensated for this perceived weakness. Settler elites married their daughters to soldiers to create and preserve an English-speaking oligarchy. At the same time, garrison troops formed the backbone of a consumer market that allowed colonists to form banking and property interests that consolidated their control.

"Imaginative" -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. Stories from the edge of space to the edge of consciousness... DNA theft means death in a society where people live encased within individual energy suits... The only survivor in an alien attack, Reus must deliver intelligence to the Inner League planets. Stuck on an alien station, all he needs to do is survive to fulfill his duty... Spore is a penal planet inhabited by ruthless psychopaths and some of their descendents in "A Fistful of Tassels." When a spacecraft crashes onto the world, Ataki, born of a convicted criminal, rescues the sole survivor from the canibs. Is criminal tendency really a genetic trait passed down to offsprings? As Jon is the only innocent on Spore, Ataki wants him to survive the deadly conditions and contribute his genes to his Tribe... In "Tomb" explorers land on the planet of the same name and find an ancient menace that must be destroyed at any cost.

The basis of the film starring Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood, The Outpost is the heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest battles during the war in Afghanistan, acclaimed by critics everywhere as a classic. At 5:58 AM on October 3rd, 2009, Combat Outpost Keating, located in frighteningly vulnerable terrain in Afghanistan just 14 miles from the Pakistani border, was viciously attacked. Though the 53 Americans there prevailed against nearly 400 Taliban fighters, their casualties made it the deadliest fight of the war for the U.S. that year. Four months after the battle, a Pentagon review revealed that there was no reason for the troops at Keating to have been there in the first place. In The Outpost, Jake Tapper gives us the powerful saga of COP Keating, from its establishment to eventual destruction, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of soldiers and their families, and to a place and war that has remained profoundly distant to most Americans. A runaway bestseller, it makes a savage war real, and American courage manifest. "The Outpost is a mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice. If you want to understand how the war in Afghanistan went off the rails, you need to read this book." -- Jon Krakauer

A dystopian science fiction novel that unravels a great secret of the most mysterious continent in the world.Scott "Buck" Buckley, an environmental scientist, accepts the position of general overseer at the McMurdo Antarctic research station. After signing a secrecy declaration, Scott becomes privy to the existence of Geyser Valley, an area with a unique warm microclimate, which is home to the mysterious indigenous Anai people. In an outrageous conspiracy, the world governments are keeping the existence of these people a secret, to avoid limitations on the division of land for natural resources.Scott is fascinated by the unique culture of the Anai, visiting them and learning from them as much as he can. In the meantime, the world becomes more and more unstable as global war is about to break out. Just before darkness sets over Antarctica, warfare tears the world apart, and the research station finds itself completely isolated for the long and sunless winter. In the loneliness of the winter, Scott remains facing difficult questions all alone: who are the Anai, and how did they come to Antarctica? How much truth is there in their legends about giant ancient reptiles frozen in ice, waiting to come back to life? How is McMurdo going to hold on until the communications and supply lines are restored? And where are the limits one is not allowed to cross, not even in the name of survival? Reminiscent of Avatar and The Lost World by Conan Doyle, this book takes the reader on a journey of discovery one will not forget.

A side-story to the Gundam Wing series, this graphic novel takes place during the same time Lady Une promotes peace to the colonies. On a resource satellite, a revolutionary Gundam project is under way. But this project is attracting unwanted attention, as the satellite is attacked by a secret organization within the Romfeller Foundation. Illustrations.

'Live Art in LA' explores the histories and legacies of performance art in Southern California in the 1970s and early 80s. Peggy Phelan documents and critically examines one of the most productive periods in the history of live art, using archival documents, historical resources and nearly 100 photographs.