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Author : Jack Shadoian
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : 0195142926
Pages : 404 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (951 downloads)
Download Dreams & Dead Ends PDF Full Free by Jack Shadoian and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Robert Ferrigno
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-02-05
ISBN 10 : 9781416565109
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (651 downloads)
Download Sins of the Assassin PDF Full Free by Robert Ferrigno and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colossal in concept, dazzlingly plotted, filled with vivid, jaw-dropping violence, Sins of the Assassin confirms Robert Ferrigno as the modern master of the futuristic thriller. In the second book of Ferrigno's spectacular Assassin Trilogy, Rakkim Epps battles radical fundamentalist forces in a futuristic America, now a divided blood-soaked dystopia. Will he survive? Can America ever be unified again? The year is 2043. New York and Washington, D.C., have been leveled by nuclear bombs. New Orleans is submerged beneath fifty feet of water and treasure hunters scavenge its watery ruins. The United States no longer exists, and in its place two new nations maintain an uneasy coexistence. To the west stretches the Islamic Republic, seemingly governed by a moderate president but hollowed from within by the violent, repressive Black Robes, a shadowy fundamentalist group intent on crushing all those who do not follow Allah's path. In this frightening world, freedom is controlled by the state, and non-Muslims are either second-class citizens, hidden underground, exiled, or executed. To the east and south lies the Christian Bible Belt, itself torn by conflict from warring factions, each claiming to be more righteous than the others. Meanwhile the former United States is being nibbled away at the edges: South Florida, known as "Nuevo Florida," is independent; the Aztlán Empire, formerly Mexico, encroaches from the south; and Canada has laid claim to huge swaths of territory along the United States's former northern border. What stability exists between the warring empires is threatened when the president of the Islamic Republic discovers that a Bible Belt warlord, known simply as the Colonel, is searching for a superweapon hidden inside a remote mountain decades earlier by the old United States regime. Rakkim Epps, retired shadow warrior, is sent on a perilous mission to infiltrate the Belt and steal or destroy the weapon. Accompanying Rakkim is Leo, a naive nineteen-year-old whose technologically enhanced brain is crucial to their success.Together they sneak through the Belt, a lawless territory where a bloodthirsty, drug-addled militia prepares for the End-Times. When Rakkim and Leo finally reach the Colonel's mountain, Epps is forced to rely on his shadow warrior's ability to kill any and all who would halt his quest. Opposing him is the Colonel's enforcer, a sadistic, carbon-skinned killer named Gravenholtz, and the Colonel's wife, the alluring, sexually rapacious Baby, who wants -- and gets -- more of everything. Meanwhile, the Old One, the ancient and immensely rich Muslim fanatic who seeks to rule both American nations, plots his attack from the safety of his ocean liner. Rakkim Epps, he realizes, must be stopped, controlled, or killed. A terrific stand-alone read, Sins of the Assassin is a cinematic feast of action and plot, and verifies Robert Ferrigno's Assassin Trilogy as a monumental imaginative work of suspense.
Author : A. G.D. Maran
Publisher : Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-12-07
ISBN 10 : 9781429927376
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (273 downloads)
Download Mafia: Inside the Dark Heart PDF Full Free by A. G.D. Maran and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An, expansive, intriguing and meticulous account of the Sicilian Mafia. The pre-dawn arrests of the last remaining mafiosi in December 2008 signaled the end of the Sicilian Mafia as we know it. In Mafia: Inside the Dark Heart, A.G.D. Maran charts the complete history of the world's most infamous criminal organization, from its first incarnation as an alternative form of local government in the Sicilian countryside and arguable force for "good," to the more familiar form that has been immortalized films such as The Godfather, and its final defeat after a long-awaited change of attitude by the Italian government. The son of an Italian immigrant, A.G.D. Maran had always been interested in the Mafia, but it was a recently uncovered family secret that led him on a journey deeper into its dark heart. Along the way, he asks many provocative questions, including: - Was one of the biggest errors the United States made to free and deport Lucky Luciano to Italy, where he organized the international drug trade? - How and why did the Vatican get duped into helping the Mafia? - Why did the Mafia murder Roberto Calvi, known as God's Banker? - What is the relationship between the Mafia and Freemasonry? - Why did successive Italian governments fail to tackle the Mafia? - Why did it take 40 years to find the Last Godfathers? These and many other riveting issues are covered in Maran's refreshing new take on a perennially enthralling subject. After a decade of exhaustive research, including interviews with his many Italian contacts, in this book Maran brings to life the story of the rise and fall of the Sicilian Mafia while also exploring its links to the Cosa Nostra in America.
Author : Salvatore "Sal" Lucania
Publisher : WildBlue Press
Release Date : 2019-06-21
ISBN 10 : 9781948239264
Pages : 437 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (392 downloads)
Download The Gangster's Cousin PDF Full Free by Salvatore "Sal" Lucania and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of a member of Charles “Lucky” Luciano’s Mafia family. “The reader gets a real sense of code, of honor, courage and commitment” (London TV). “I was born an outlaw in outlaw culture. I refused to be forced into the powerless class of the ordinary, law-abiding citizen. I always saw things from outside the box because I was born outside the box, so I was free to think for myself.” Born in 1942, Salvatore “Sal” Lucania was not only raised but educated by the streets of East Harlem. Dropping out of his Catholic high school at fifteen after punching out a priest, a formal education was not Sal’s future. As such, it would have been easy to fall into the trappings of “made man” status in the mafia, like his cousin Charles “Lucky” Luciano. But Sal had a different vision of the future, if he could just escape the confines of his neighborhood and defy the ways of the people in power: the bullies, the “ruling class,” local government corruption and his own mafia family culture—in order to create a different life than the one fate might have otherwise intended. The Gangster’s Cousin is a wonderfully different take on the usual Mafia story. Sal’s memoir takes the reader on a sometimes exciting, sometimes poignant, and often humorous adventure as he finds himself in unbelievable situations and meeting an array of unique and funny characters along the way. Follow Sal’s one-of-a-kind perspective and find out why he strives so hard to stay ahead of a different type of criminal class—the people who make the rules.
Author : Alexander Graf
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Release Date : 2002
ISBN 10 : 1903364299
Pages : 196 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (33 downloads)
Download The Cinema of Wim Wenders PDF Full Free by Alexander Graf and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid Highway is a new study of the films of this most prominent of German directors, and penetrates the seductive sounds and images for which he is best known. The book analyses the individual films in the context of a preoccupation central to all of Wenders' work and writings: why modern cinema - a recording art, solely composed of sounds and images - naturally developed into a primarily narrative medium, a domain traditionally associated with words and sentences? With its emphasis on analysing the films themselves, this book identifies and critically elucidates Wenders' chief artistic motivation: that the act of seeing can constitute a creative act in its own right.
Author : Drewey Wayne Gunn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2012-11-08
ISBN 10 : 9780810885899
Pages : 442 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (858 downloads)
Download The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film PDF Full Free by Drewey Wayne Gunn and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series featuring gay amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and the like.
Author : Clifford "Spud" Johnson
Publisher : Urban Books
Release Date : 2018-05-29
ISBN 10 : 9781622866663
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (666 downloads)
Download Won't Stop PDF Full Free by Clifford "Spud" Johnson and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot Shot is at it again! Now that it's been revealed that he is an undercover FBI agent assigned to clean up as many urban cities as he can, Hot Shot and his trustworthy comrade Cotton take their skills to Oklahoma City to deal with some serious gangsters who run the drug trade. Nola wants no part of a relationship with Hot Shot after her family is incarcerated. He has never loved a woman they way he loves Nola, so dealing with that loss on top of the loss of his parents and little brother has Hot Shot on the verge of committing murder. He is determined to get his woman back at all costs, and the streets of Oklahoma City will run red if someone steps to him the wrong way. Oklahoma City is about to experience Hot Shot, the guy who's doing bad in order to do some good. Won't Stop is full of twists and turns that will keep you flipping pages to see just how far this hero with a mean streak will go.
Author : Ronald Gregg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-12
ISBN 10 : 9780190878016
Pages : 816 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (78 downloads)
Download The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema PDF Full Free by Ronald Gregg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "queer cinema" is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality. By this expansive account, queer cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception, and the past twenty-five years have seen the idea of "queer cinema" expand further as a descriptor for a global arts practice. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema treats these three currents as art and critical practice, bringing the canon of queer cinema together with a new generation of makers and scholars. The Handbook's contributors include scholars who research the worldwide canon of queer cinema, those who are uniquely positioned to address three decades of its particular importance, and those best positioned to ponder the forms it is taking or may take in our new century, namely digital media that moves in new circuits. In eight sections, they explore the many forms that queer cinema takes across time, discussing narrative, experimental, documentary, and genre filmmaking, including pornography. Likewise, although the study of cinema and media is not restricted to a single method, chapters showcase the unique combination of textual analysis, industrial and production history, interpretation, ethnography, and archival research that this field enables. For example, chapters analyze the ways in which queer cinema both is and is not self-evidently an object for study by examining films that reinforce negative understandings of queerness alongside those that liberate the subject; and by naming the films that are newly queered, while noting that many queerly-made texts await discovery. Finally, chapters necessarily assert that queer cinema is not an Anglophone phenomenon, nor is it restricted to the medium of film.
Author : Bunnie Cheatom
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2016-03-18
ISBN 10 : 9781682894057
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (94 downloads)
Download Gangster's Diary PDF Full Free by Bunnie Cheatom and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan Johnson is a crime figure who grew up in Detroit. From the age of fifteen after watching his dad die in his arms, he takes over his dad’s business. He embarks on a fast life that includes a drug addiction, a few stormy romances, and a couple of prison sentences. His aggression and street fame led to him becoming a murderer. One of his latest victims, Marcus Washington strikes the most guilt in him as he stands trial for a double homicide. The victim’s wife, Sandra Washington, captures Ivan’s attention. After seeing her pain, Ivan begins to write Sandra a series of letters detailing his life story from his childhood to the murder of Sandra’s husband.
Author : Arturo Rossenaldo Romero DeLeone
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9781434963895
Pages : 147 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (638 downloads)
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Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-03-01
ISBN 10 : 9781442273238
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (732 downloads)
Download Tony Soprano's America PDF Full Free by M. Keith Booker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos is also considered one of the most significant achievements in contemporary American culture. IThe series spearheaded the launch of a new wave of quality programming that has transformed the way people watch, experience, and talk about television. By chronicling the life and crimes of a New Jersey mobster, his family, and his cronies, The Sopranos examines deep themes at the heart of American life, particularly the country’s seedy underbelly. In Tony Soprano’s America: Gangsters, Guns, and Money, M. Keith Booker and Isra Daraiseh explore the central role of the series in American cultural history. While examining the elements that account for the show’s popularity and critical acclaim, the authors also contend that The Sopranos revolutionized the way audiences viewed television in general and cable programming as well. This book demonstrates how a show focused on an ethnic antihero somehow reflected common themes of contemporary American life, including ethnicity, class, capitalism, therapy, and family dynamics. Providing a sophisticated yet accessible account of the groundbreaking series—a show that rivals film and literature for its beauty and stunning characterization of modern life—this book engages the reader with ideas central to the American experience. Tony Soprano’s America brings to life this profound television program in ways that will entertain, engage, and perhaps even challenge longtime viewers and critics.
Author : George Thomas Kurian
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2010-04-16
ISBN 10 : 0810872838
Pages : 732 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (18 downloads)
Download The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature PDF Full Free by George Thomas Kurian and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering 2,000 years, this two-volume set is the first encyclopedia devoted to Christian writers and books. In addition to an overview of the Christian literature, this encyclopedia includes more than 40 essays on the principal genres of Christian literature and more than 400 bio-bibliographical essays describing the principal writers and their works.
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
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Pages : 1099 pages
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Author : J. Anne Funderburg
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2014-04-04
ISBN 10 : 9781476616193
Pages : 432 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (161 downloads)
Download Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era PDF Full Free by J. Anne Funderburg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime—outrageous stories of America’s most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.
Author : Martin Munro
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2015-08-06
ISBN 10 : 9780813938219
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (382 downloads)
Download Tropical Apocalypse PDF Full Free by Martin Munro and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro argues that since the earliest days of European colonization, Caribbean—and especially Haitian—history has been shaped by apocalyptic events so that the region has, in effect, been living for centuries in an end time without end. By engaging with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, he not only provides important historical contextualization for a general understanding of apocalypse in the region but also offers an account of the state of Haitian society and culture in the decades before the 2010 earthquake. Inherently interdisciplinary, his work ranges widely through Caribbean and Haitian thought, historiography, political discourse, literature, film, religion, and ecocriticism in its exploration of whether culture in these various forms can shape the future of a country. The author begins by situating the question of the Caribbean apocalypse in relation to broader, global narratives of the apocalyptic present, notably Slavoj i ek's Living in the End Times. Tracing the evolution of apocalyptic thought in Caribbean literature from Negritude up to the present, he notes the changes from the early work of Aimé Césaire; through an anti-apocalyptic period in which writers such as Frantz Fanon, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Édouard Glissant, and Michael Dash have placed more emphasis on lived experience and the interrelatedness of cultures and societies; to a contemporary stage in which versions of the apocalyptic reappear in the work of David Scott and Mark Anderson.
Author : Anna Siomopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2012
ISBN 10 : 9780415882934
Pages : 168 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (829 downloads)
Download Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal PDF Full Free by Anna Siomopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Hollywood melodramas of the Depression era engaged the political ideas underlying the welfare state policies of the New Deal. These ideas expanded the boundaries of the public realm and the purview of the government, such as liberal empathy, consumer citizenship, the refeudalization of the state, and minimal economic redistribution.
Author : Laurence Raw
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-09-28
ISBN 10 : 0810869527
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (18 downloads)
Download The Ridley Scott Encyclopedia PDF Full Free by Laurence Raw and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first feature film, The Duellists, to his international successes Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, and American Gangster, Ridley Scott has directed some of the most compelling films of the last 30 years. Apart from his work as a film director, Scott has engaged in a vast range of activities, including that as a designer, producer, film mogul, and advertising executive. The Ridley Scott Encyclopedia is the first book that focuses on all aspects of his work in a wide-ranging career that spans nearly 50 years. The entries in this encyclopedia focus on all aspects of his work and are divided into four categories. The first focuses on Ridley Scott's work as a director, encompassing his feature films from The Duellists to Body of Lies, as well as his work in television, including commercials. The second category focuses on the people who have been involved in Scott's projects, including actors, directors, producers, designers, writers and other creative personnel. The third focuses on general thematic issues raised in Scott's work, such as gender construction, political issues, and geographical locations. Finally the encyclopedia incorporates entries on films by other directors who have influenced Scott's approach to his work as a director or producer. Each entry is followed by a bibliography of published sources, both in print and online, making this the most comprehensive reference on Scott's body of work.
