NEBULA4.1 , March 2007 Nebula is our largest volume to date, spanning over two-hundred and eighty pages, including nineteen articles by eighteen different authors, widely divergent topics, three independent mentions of Lao Tzu by three unrelated authors, and some rare and impressive scholarship across the board, not to mention impeccable creative work .... what more could an editor ask for? What other reward more fulfilling? Contents: Note on contributors. i-iv Maria Beville. "The Gothic-postmodernist "Waste Land" of Ellowen Deeowen: Salman Rushdie's Nightmarish Visions of a Postmodern Metropolis." 1-18 "Mobile Learning: The iPodification of Universities." 19-30 " Hyperreality, the Question of Agency, and the Phenomenon of Reality Television." 31-48 "The Witch: Subversive, Heretic or Scapegoat?" 49-70 "Apophasis, Aletheia: William Faulkner's The Hamlet ." 71-83 Matt Ferrence. "Home Sweet Roadhouse." 84-89 Karen Heise. "The Rhetoric of Love." 90-106 "Nietzsche's Jesus" 107-115 "Lao Tzu at the Border." 116-129 "Playing with the Dao De Jing: Poems and Pictures." 130-142 Christian Communication in Popular Cinema: Cross Imagery, Cruciform Poses and Pieta Stances." 143-165 Hatim Mahamid. "Franks' Effect on Islamic Spirit, Religious and Cultural Characters in Medieval Syria." 166-183 "The Agricultural Sector and Nigeria’s Development: Comparative Perspectives from the Brazilian Agro-Industrial Economy, 1960-1995." 184-194 "A Long Term Voyage." 195-197 "As If: The Construction of a Practical Fiction in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow ." 198-217 "Language, Ideology and Power Relations in Nigerian Newspaper Headlines." 218-245 "Sex and the City: Perpetual Adolescence Gendered Feminine?" 246-275 "Credible News Measures: A Medium's Integrity." 276-284 "Iran: the 2006 Elections and the Making of an Authoritarian Democracy." 285-290