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Hammīra

Autor: Aditya Malik

Número de Páginas: 271

This book is about the legendary Rajput chieftain Hammira Chauhan, the king of the impregnable fortress of Ranthambore in southern Rajasthan who died in 1301 CE after a monumental battle against Alauddin Khalji, the sultan of Delhi. This singular event reverberates through time to the point of creating a historical and cultural region that crystallizes through copious texts composed in different genres and languages (Persian, Sanskrit, Hindi, Rajasthani, English) in shifting religious and political contexts, medieval as well as modern. The main poetical-historical work composed in Sanskrit, the Hammira-Mahakavya (‘great poem’) by the Jaina poet Nayachandra Suri (15th century), is propelled by a dream in which the dead king urges the poet to write about his deeds. Can history with its preoccupation for the factual, begin in a dream? What does it mean to think about history and time via the imagination? Is time, whether past, present or future linked to imagination? Do imagination, time, and history arise together? What are the implications of thinking of history as something that appears in our experience? What does it mean to write a history as a historical being in whom...

Deathtripping

Autor: Jack Sargeant

Número de Páginas: 287

This exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “none shall emerge unscathed.” Placing their work within the wider alternative film and downtown post-punk scenes, Deathtripping offers detailed analyses of the movement’s films alongside interviews with the filmmakers and their collaborators, including Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Tommy Turner, Beth B, Joe Coleman, and Lydia Lunch. Also discussed are seminal influences such as the Kuchar brothers, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol as well as the history of underground and trash cinema.

Slimetime

Autor: Steven Puchalski

Número de Páginas: 388

Utilising in-depth reviews, cast and plot details, Slimetime wallows in those films which the world has deemed it best to forget - everything from cheesy no-budget exploitation to the embarrassing efforts of Major Studios. Many of these films have never seen a major release, some were big hits, and others have simply vanished. To compliment the wealth of reviews on sci-fi, schlock, flower power and puppet people films are detailed essays on specific sleaze genres such as Biker, Blaxploitation and Drug movies. Fully updated and revised with new reviews and new illustrations.

Americou

Autor: Frank Logan

Número de Páginas: 381

David McClurry presents his latest invention, a type of radio-frequency identification (RFID) device, before the department of commerce in June of 2035. Though very interested by the potential applications of this new hardware in an effort to improve the American economy, the department decides to pass on Davids project. Their decision prompts him to try his luck in politics and launch the Americou Political Party three years later. Notwithstanding the lack of campaign and advertisement funds, McClurry runs for president in the fall of 2038. His political party is in limbo after an unexpected arrest and is beaten by John Morey of the Democratic Party. David is sentenced to ten years in federal prison for having avenged the murder of a friend. As Morey comes across Davids project the following summer, he sets him free from prison temporarily and asks him to run The Chip, hopefully improving the economy. Aware of Moreys scheme and unable to fully carry out the Democrats plan, David McClurry becomes the new dictator of the United States and the new leader of an unprecedented postcapitalist world.

Over the Horizon

Autor: Jessica Schildgen

Número de Páginas: 153

Sarah Sullivan was always getting herself into trouble. She couldnt go anywhere without finding danger lurking around every corner. She has been in and out of hospital beds, horded by vicious gangs, and has a creepy stalker who refuses to let her be with the one she loves. But as soon as she moves to live with her father, Charlie, in Bangor, Maine, she falls in love with an overprotective mutant, Luke Johnson. He is everything she could ever want and he, too, would rather die than to live without her. Sarah sticks close to Luke as he protects her from all the dangers that consistently come at them from all sides. However, Luke is not the only guy who loves Sarah. As soon as Joe Sawyer, a family friend of her fathers, saw the face of the young teenage girl, he will do anything to have her to himself, including stalking, assaulting, and even breaking out of jail! Luke has committed Sarah to being his first priority and will do whatever it takes to keep her safe from the horrifying fiend that was once the son of her dads best friend.

Gloriana's Torch

Autor: Patricia Finney

Número de Páginas: 468

The year is 1587. The Spanish are preparing to launch the Armada against the English and Queen Elizabeth. Ex-soldier David Becket, now responsible for the Queen's Ordnance discovers that large quantities of gunpowder are going astray. Can someone in the heart of the English government be selling it to the Spanish? Unaccountably he is plagued by vivid dreams of England invaded, an alternative story where the Armada is victorious. Patricia Finney's brilliant reworking of the Armada legend is an imaginative tour de force. Thrilling, intricate, and inspiring, this is a tale of courage, of love, and, ultimately, redemption

Unreal

Número de Páginas: 104

Films That Spill

Autor: Marie Sophie Beckmann

Número de Páginas: 138

Films That Spill is a comprehensive study of the Cinema of Transgression, a hitherto underexamined moment in US underground film culture. Reconsidering the concept of transgressive cinema not only as a description of the intentionally provocative content of the films but also as a feature of a cross-disciplinary practice, Marie Sophie Beckmann explores how filmmaking in the context of the vibrant and intermingling art, music, performance, and film scenes in 1980s Lower Manhattan spilled over the boundaries of artistic disciplines, media formats, and content concepts. This study not only provides a microhistory of these scenes and insight into their afterlife in archives and exhibitions but also represents an innovative contribution to debates within film, media, and visual culture about the methodological and historiographical challenges posed by the expansion of film beyond the discursive boundaries of cinema.

Underworld Tycoon

Autor: Qi Niukanchangben

Número de Páginas: 1359

He was originally a good student who studied at the same time. Originally, he wanted to study hard, get into a good university, and after graduation, find a stable job. However, fate played tricks on him, and he became a legendary underworld tycoon!

Our Boys and Girls

Autor: Oliver Optic

Número de Páginas: 446

The Medical and Martial Expert

Autor: Ru Shuizhuimeng

Número de Páginas: 932

The captain of the Divine Dragon special battle Team, Long Fei, returned from hundreds of battles and became an intern in the Dragon City Hospital. Because he saved a beautiful patient, he was drawn into a business competition. With his powerful skills, Long Fei's exceptional intelligence had thwarted all of his opponents' attacks. In the process, Long Fei set up a factory, set up a company, and captured the heart of beauties. In the end, not only did Long Fei become a famous doctor, he even became a business tycoon.

The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

Autor: Alexandra Aikhenvald

Número de Páginas: 993

This book is the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea and is based entirely on the author's immersion fieldwork. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. Manambu can be considered an endangered language. The Manambu language has many unusual properties. Every noun is considered masculine or feminine. Feminine gender - which is unmarked - is associated with small size and round shape, and masculine gender with elongated shape, large size, and importance. The Manambu culture is centered on ownership of personal names, and is similar to that of the Iatmul, described by Gregory Bateson. After an introductory account of the language and its speakers, Professor Aikhenvald devotes chapters to phonology, grammatical relations, word classes, gender, semantics, number, case, possession, derivation and compounding, pronouns, morphohology, verbs, mood and modality, negation, clause structure, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, the lexicon, current directions of change, and genetic relationship to other...

Death's Baby Sister

Autor: Bill Mccurry

Número de Páginas: 390

A debt to the heavens. A mouthy teenaged trainee. A sorcerer-slaying cult that might be his fault. Bib’s semi-retirement from killing for the gods isn’t going so well. So when he’s asked to help an angry twelve-year-old girl with out-of-control powers, he embarks on a quest hoping for some redemption. But as Bib takes his sassy young charge under his wing, a voyage to the temple almost ends in disaster after a deadly ambush. With reports of other sorcerers going mad and the kid wreaking magical mayhem whenever she opens her mouth, Bib struggles to resist strangling the brat. And after the girl triggers a series of lethal attacks, Bib fears the only way out of this mess will be a return to his murderous ways… Can the embattled anti-hero single-handedly take on the gods and stop the growing bloodshed? Death’s Baby Sister is the second book in the witty-but-dark Death-Cursed Wizard fantasy series. If you like reluctant champions, twisted conflict, and plenty of sword-slashing action, then you’ll love Bill McCurry’s wild adventure.

The Emperor's Black Swan

Autor: Karasmara

Número de Páginas: 424

Can a wolf and a swan be together? *** Darilus Gratagan is the Elven emperor of the Aluthia Empire. His rise to power brought to him a dark curse; a demonic wolf is infesting in his body. For a hundred and twelve years, he has managed to suppress the curse. But the demon is getting stronger, to the point that Darilus finds himself turning into a monster almost every night. He begins to desire blood and his people are in danger of himself. Until he finds the evil witch from Tollyria in his royal garden. “I can tame a demon dog,” she says. *** Sania has died. At least she thought so. But then she opens her eyes in Aluthia’s royal garden and when she looks at the reflection of the pond… she sees herself as a black swan. However, when night comes, she shifts back into her original form; the White Witch of Tollyria. For some reason, she cannot leave the royal garden. Then she meets the Emperor of Aluthia… in the form of a demonic wolf. “Make a deal with me,” he says. This story will be applied to PTR on Nov 5th 2021

The Complete Story of the Grail

Autor: Chrétien (de Troyes)

Número de Páginas: 637

The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea to leave. Not only did it inspire quite separate works; his own unfinished poem was continued and finally completed by no fewer than four other writers. The Complete Story of the Grail is the first ever translation of the whole of the rich and compelling body of tales contained in Chrétien's poem and its four Continuations, which are finally attracting the scholarly attention they deserve. Besides Chrétien's original text, there are the anonymous First Continuation (translated here in its fullest version), the Second Continuation attributed to Wauchier de Denain, and the intriguing Third and Fourth Continuations - probably written simultaneously, with no knowledge of each other's work - by Manessier and Gerbert de Montreuil. Two other poets were drawn to create preludes explaining the background to Chrétien's story, and translated here also are their works: The Elucidation Prologue and...

Coit Tower

Autor: Ty Hutchinson

Número de Páginas: 196

A psychopath is hiring. Killing is the job. Who wants to get paid? In the climactic conclusion of the Chasing Chinatown trilogy, Agent Abby Kane is the ultimate target, and the stakes are life and death. The mastermind has set the stage with a single objective: claim Abby’s life and earn a staggering $10 million bounty. Abby doesn’t know who her attackers are or when they will strike. The only certainty is that they will stop at nothing to win the game. There are no rules, no boundaries, and just one haunting outcome: the victor claims a life. Prepare for the heart-pounding conclusion to this gripping trilogy.

Kubrick's Story, Spielberg's Film

Autor: Julian Rice

Número de Páginas: 309

In 1963 Stanley Kubrick declared, “Dr. Strangelove came from my desire to do something about the nuclear nightmare.” Thirty years later, he was preparing to film another story about the human impulse for self-destruction. Unfortunately, the director passed away in 1999, before his project could be fully realized. However, fellow visionary Steven Spielberg took on the venture, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence debuted in theaters two years after Kubrick’s death. While Kubrick’s concept shares similarities with the finished film, there are significant differences between his screenplay and Spielberg's production. In Kubrick’s Story, Spielberg’s Film: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Julian Rice examines the intellectual sources and cinematic processes that expressed the extraordinary ideas of one great artist through the distinctive vision of another. A.I. is decidedly a Kubrick film in its concern for the future of the world, and it is both a Kubrick and a Spielberg film in the alienation of its central character. However, Spielberg’s alienated characters evolve through friendships, while Kubrick’s protagonists are markedly alone. Rice explores how the directors’...

Bloodlines

Número de Páginas: 694

Fire Season

Autor: Stephen Blackmoore

Número de Páginas: 306

The fourth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts. Los Angeles is burning. During one of the hottest summers the city has ever seen, someone is murdering mages with fires that burn when they shouldn't, that don't stop when they should. Necromancer Eric Carter is being framed for the killings and hunted by his own people. To Carter, everything points to the god Quetzalcoatl coming after him, after he defied the mad wind god in the Aztec land of the dead. But too many things aren't adding up, and Carter knows there's more going on. If he doesn't figure out what it is and put a stop to it fast, Quetzalcoatl won't just kill him, he'll burn the whole damn city down with him.

Abby Kane Thrillers 1-6

Autor: Ty Hutchinson

Número de Páginas: 1669

ABBY KANE FBI THRILLERS (Books 1-6) Meet the agent with an impossible directive: solve the FBI's most baffling cases. Abby Kane spent her early career putting sickos, psychopaths, and ruthless killers behind bars. After her husband's mysterious death, she moved her family to San Francisco, hoping for a fresh start and healing. What she got instead was a job with the FBI. If you like Patterson and Baldacci, you’ll love the equally thrilling and highly addictive Abby Kane series. Corktown A mutilated body has Corktown residents nervous and for a good reason. Detroit Metro Police recognize the handiwork of the serial killer known as the Doctor. But there’s a problem with that. They locked him up seven years ago. When FBI Agent Abby Kane visits the Doctor behind bars, he swears he’s innocent and not the psychopath everyone thinks he is. Oddly enough, Abby believes him. Tenderloin With white-collar crimes dominating her work schedule, chasing deranged killers is a thing of the past until the body of a dead DEA agent pops up in Bogotá. Through her investigation, FBI Agent Abby Kane learns that a new drug has been invented, and its danger isn’t the addictive high but the...

Deadly Pink

Autor: Vivian Vande Velde

Número de Páginas: 289

Fourteen-year-old Grace must find a way to get her older sister out of a princess-filled virtual reality RPG (role playing game)--before it is too late.

Defending Gary

Autor: Mark Prothero

Número de Páginas: 590

At first, Mark Prothero, Defense Attorney for Gary Ridgway, thought: "This can't be the Green River Killer! He's too ordinary! He's too small. He's too calm. He's too polite! He can't possibly have murdered forty-nine women. They can't be serious! They must have screwed up! I didn't realize then, but I was right. Gary Ridgway hadn't killed forty-nine women. He'd killed even more than that." Soon, Mark Prothero faced the question: "How could you possibly defend the most prolific serial killer in United States history, the infamous Green River Killer? If anyone deserved to be executed for his crimes, didn't he?" Mark Prothero, co-lead defense attorney who helped save Gary Ridgway from the death sentence, has heard that question many times. Now he’s written a book that reveals the true, inside story of exactly how an idealistic public defender, high school swim coach, husband, and dad could bring himself to spend many months of close confinement with a man who brutally murdered at least 75 young women, often in the act of sex. Defending Gary shows how Prothero could reconcile these monstrous acts knowing the reality of this unassuming fellow Gary Ridgway, a mild-mannered,...

Roadtrip 41

Autor: Douglas J. Mcgregor

Número de Páginas: 425

You are about to go on a road trip to 1941 with the devil's dog and his good friend, the doc. Yes Jake McCluskie is back... Mohana, a soul-eating creature from Oblivion, has reached the Well of Souls and soulless babies are now being born. It's up to Jake McCluskie to stop it. Problem is: the only weapon that can kill the creature is not in his time period. It's also in pieces and scattered about the country. With the Arms-Keeper out to kill them at every turn. Jake and the doc time travel back to 1941 to find the gun pieces. They have seven stops to make, and it won't be easy, especially with two children tagging along, one of whom doesn't have long to live.

The Bottle; Or, the Drunkard's Career

Autor: Gabriel Alexander

Número de Páginas: 168

Love Is Dark, Vol. 1

Autor: Ao Juumonji

Número de Páginas: 201

HOW MANY LIVES DOES AN ASSASSIN NEED TO SURVIVE A HIGH SCHOOL ROMANCE?Sousei Takarai is not normal. More than anything, he wants to be a regular high schooler like everyone else. That’s why he has to keep his less-than-wholesome job a secret. Of course, the school life he’s carefully built up is shattered when the most beautiful girl in class, Asumi Shiramori, asks him out. Unfortunately, his work as an assassin takes up most of his evenings and weekends, so he can’t even go on a proper date with his new girlfriend. And things only get more complicated when he inexplicably spots a mysterious girl from his school while on the job...

Plays from New River 2

Autor: M.z. Ribalow

Número de Páginas: 201

This is the second volume of Plays from New River, showcasing a place where gifted writers of plays and screenplays are paid and nurtured to write whatever they most want to write. These three very different plays are among the results. Mark Eisman's Feasting on Cardigans explores with whimsical humor a pair of dedicated exterminators and the emotional effect they have on those lives they touch. M.Z. Ribalow's Tiger in the Tree is an intriguing thriller that as it proceeds becomes about much more than one might assume at the beginning. James McLure's Baseball Game of the Week is a deceptively moving, always funny meditation on progress, memory and baseball.

History of English Literature

Autor: Hippolyte Taine

Número de Páginas: 1108

History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun

Autor: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine

Número de Páginas: 570

Love, Life, and More

Autor: Hania Adel Itawi

Número de Páginas: 209

You know how to talk. I know how to write. Each of us has a strength. Life is not a run or a walk. Not an easy task to tell: wrong from right. Journey is in the meaning not the length. Hania Adel Itawi is a hard working person with a strong sense of duty. She strives to be the best she can in all facets of her world, and in doing so, gives every thing she has in order to accomplish more than is ever expected. Hania has a natural gift that is uncommonly powerful and breathtaking. Through her unique ability she reflects on strengths, weaknesses, encouragement, motherhood, and much more. In her poems one can see the same passion for life that she lives day to day. Hania leads others through a variety of relatable emotions and experiences that encourage self-reflection. Love, Life and More is a volume of poetry that speaks from the heart, and creates a delightful experience for readers to enjoy.

Valmiki's Ramayana

Número de Páginas: 563

One of India’s greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country’s moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians. Believed to have been composed by Valmiki sometime between the eighth and sixth centuries BCE, the Ramayana tells the tragic and magical story of Rama, the prince of Ayodhya, an incarnation of Lord Visnu, born to rid the earth of the terrible demon Ravana. An idealized heroic tale ending with the inevitable triumph of good over evil, the Ramayana is also an intensely personal story of family relationships, love and loss, duty and honor, of harem intrigue, petty jealousies, and destructive ambitions. All this played out in a universe populated by larger-than-life humans, gods and celestial beings, wondrous animals and terrifying demons. With her magnificent translation and superb introduction, Arshia Sattar has successfully bridged both time and space to bring this ancient classic to modern English readers.

Sicilians Don't Cry II

Autor: Leonardo Guzzardo

Número de Páginas: 210

And again I want to state that I have lived one of the most bizarre, wildest, dangerous and tragic life any human being could have ever lived. I have been stabbed and shot before, damn near beaten to death by people with baseball bats, and being Catholic received my last rites two times. In my life I made a lot of big money, blew a lot of big money, did a lot of gambling, drank a lot of alcohol, did a lot of drugs, and from becoming a normal sex addict, I became a hardcore sadist and masochist sex addict.

British Murder Mysteries - Dorothy L. Sayers Collection

Autor: Dorothy L. Sayers

Número de Páginas: 2589

The "British Murder Mysteries - Dorothy L. Sayers Collection" showcases a masterclass in detective fiction, weaving intricate plots infused with sharp intellect and rich character development. Sayers, a luminary of the so-called Golden Age of Detective Fiction, employs a distinctive literary style that marries classical narrative structure with modern psychological insight. The collection features her renowned sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, whose aristocratic charm and keen analytical prowess navigate an array of moral and ethical dilemmas, captivating readers with both suspense and profound questions about human nature and society. Dorothy L. Sayers, born in 1893, was not only a prolific author but also a pioneering feminist, scholar, and playwright. Her deep interest in classical literature and philosophy profoundly influenced her writing, allowing her to infuse her narratives with philosophical underpinnings and social critiques. Sayers often drew from her personal experiences, challenging societal norms regarding gender and class, as evidenced through her multi-dimensional characters and intricate plots. This collection is a must-read for enthusiasts of classic detective fiction...

The Amsterdam Deception

Autor: Tony Ollivier

Número de Páginas: 274

A NIGHT ON THE TOWN IN AMSTERDAM TURNS INTO A DEADLY GAME OF DECEPTION "International intrigue at the highest level, and with grave stakes...Wildly entertaining." - Robert Dugoni, #1 Bestselling Author of THE LAST AGENT Awarded 2023 Readers Favorite Bronze Medal - Thriller/Espionage Awarded 2022 Canadian Book Club awards for best Mystery/Thriller David Knight is abducted from Amsterdam’s Red-Light district and dragged to a clinic owned by Richard Reynolds, a billionaire with a serious problem. A prototype for a device that could save Reynolds’ company has gone missing and the only one who knew its whereabouts, a Cold War spy, is dead. To find the missing device, Reynolds forces David to undergo a procedure to "host" the last thirty seconds of the spy’s memories. The procedure goes awry, however, and the spy’s memories, skills, and abilities download into David and break him free from Reynolds’ clinic. Dazed and disoriented, David stumbles out into the Amsterdam night and into a world he has only ever encountered in spy novels. As the hunt begins, Reynolds needs David alive, but a rich televangelist wants him dead. Another man’s memories become David’s only protection ...

Remarkable Adventurers and Unrevealed Mysteries

Autor: Sir Lascelles Wraxall

Número de Páginas: 370

Fire in the Belly

Autor: Cynthia Carr

Número de Páginas: 806

The first full biography of legendary East Village artist and gay activist David Wojnarowicz, whose work continues to provoke twenty years after his death 'Carr's biography is both sympathetic and compendious; it's also a many-angled account of the downtown art world of the 1980s . . . a vivid and peculiarly American story' New York Times 'A beautifully written, sympathetic, unsentimental portrait of one of the most lastingly influential late 20th century New York artists' LA Times ______________________ David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school, but he emerged as one of the most important voices of his generation. He found his tribe in New York's East Village, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and '80s for drugs, blight, and a burgeoning art scene. His creativity spilled out in paintings, photographs, films, texts, installations, and in his life and its recounting-creating a sort of mythos around himself. His circle of East Village artists moved into the national spotlight just as the AIDS plague began its devastating advance, and as right-wing culture warriors reared their heads. As Wojnarowicz's reputation as an artist grew, so did...

The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare

Autor: Mary Cowden Clarke

Número de Páginas: 840

Spirit Sword

Autor: Sam Ford

Número de Páginas: 138

WHERE DOES MYTH END AND TRUTH BEGIN? A Boy and His… Sword? Thirteen year old Cale Tannor has always dreamed of finding adventure. When a Spirit Sword, the last of an ancient race of sentient weapons, falls into his hands, adventure finds him. Now infernal hordes are stirring in the dark, and this adventure may be more than Cale bargained for. On the way he finds new friends in the Indian huntress Jazreal Bloodmoon, and mysterious Ranger Vyk Draco. Together they must work to restore a forgotten religion and preserve humanity. First they must survive…

Oliver Optic's Magazine

Autor: Oliver Optic

Número de Páginas: 746