Author: Richard D. E. Burton
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The Terror of 1793-94, the Paris Commune of 1871, the Dreyfus Affair—explosions of violence punctuated French history from the start of the Revolution until the Liberation at the close of World War II. The distinguished scholar Richard D. E. Burton here offers a stunningly original account of these outbursts, concluding that recourse to political violence was not occasional and abnormal, but rather the usual pattern, in French history. Instead of adhering to conventional chronological lines, Blood in the City is structured topologically around a number of major Parisian "sites of memory," including Place de la Concorde, Sacré Coeur, and the Eiffel Tower. For thirty years Burton has visited and revisited Paris, criss-crossing the streets on foot, and lived with great nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary depictions of the city. Drawing on historical, literary, visual, anthropological, and psychological sources, he develops a wide-ranging account of violence in modern French politics. In so doing, he provides powerful insights into political violence, scapegoating, the idea of sacrifice, and the widespread French obsession with conspiracy. Burton demonstrates that time and again the same basic scenario has been acted out on the streets of Paris: one or more people would be singled out from the community and imprisoned, exiled, or, more often, subjected to violence by the crowd or the state. In particular, he explores how Catholicism—in its extreme, ultrareactionary form—shaped the worldviews of Parisians and how the killing of a sacrificial victim came to be seen as a reenactment of the crucifixion of Christ.
Author: Robin D. Laws
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765387131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Luma is a cobblestone druid, a canny fighter and spellcaster who can read the chaos of Magnimar's city streets like a scholar reads books. Together, she and her siblings in the powerful Derexhi family form one of the most infamous and effective mercenary companies in the city, solving problems for the city's wealthy elite. Yet despite being the oldest child, Luma gets little respect - perhaps due to her half-elven heritage. When a job gone wrong lands Luma in the fearsome prison called the Hells, it's only the start of Luma's problems. For a new web of bloody power politics is growing in Magnimar, and it may be that those Luma trusts most have become her deadliest enemies! From visionary game designer and author Robin D. Laws comes a new urban fantasy adventure of murder, betrayal, and political intrigue set in the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Laura Greenwood
Publisher: Drowlgon Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Discover the City Of Blood, a complete urban fantasy trilogy set in a dystopian city run by vampires. Join Chloe, a vampire spy sent to try and help topple the city as she finds herself embroiled in the rebellion, and in a slow burn romance with a human man who captures her attention like no one else. Enter the City Of Blood. Advertised as a vampire's paradise, but in reality, far from it, experience the horrors of the city along with Chloe, a spy sent to help bring the city down. When the resistance comes knocking, Chloe is unable to resist joining, even if she knows she shouldn't. An assassination attempt on the Mayor changes everything and it becomes a race against the clock to stop the city from destroying itself. The Complete City Of Blood Series includes: - Drop Of Blood - Drought Of Blood - Dawn Of Blood - Blood Payment (prequel) - City Of Blood is an urban fantasy dystopian series featuring vampires and a slow burn romantic subplot.
Author: Douglas Skelton
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1909912530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Glasgow's mean streets just got meaner. Can Davie McCall survive? Meet Davie McCall. Beaten, bloody... brutal. Irrevocably damaged by the barbaric regime of an abusive father, and haunted by memories of his mother's murder, there is a darkness inside him. Enter Joe the Tailor. A sophisticated crimelord with morals, he might be the only man in the city Davie can trust. But then the bodies begin to mount...In 1980s Glasgow, the criminal underworld is about to splinter. Battle lines are drawn, and the gap between friend and enemy blurs as criminals and police alike are caught in a net of lies, murder and revenge that will change the city forever. Scotland's foremost true-crime author. THE SCOTSMAN The city's dark underbelly complete with knives, razors, guns and gangs... DAILY MAIL You follow the plot like an eager dog, nose turning this way and that, not catching every single clue but quivering as you lunge towards a blood-splattered denouement. DAILY EXPRESS The Glasgow of this period is a great, gritty setting for a crime story, and Skelton's non-fiction work stands him in good stead... he's taken well to fiction... the unexpected twists keep coming. THE HERALD
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Author: V.P. Anderson
Publisher: Labyrinth Road
ISBN: 0593485726
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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Skates on. Fangs out. Let’s roll. This perfectly paranormal graphic novel about a 13-year-old ice skater who embraces the dark side and finds her light when she joins a vampire roller derby team is to die for. Ice-skater Mina is on a one-track path to Olympic gold and glory—that is, until she totally wipes out at her biggest competition, and is kinda-sorta-kidnapped by undead kids on roller skates. Sucked into the high stakes world of Paranormal Roller Derby, she finds herself "recruited" by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their team—just in time to save the league from losing it all. Between learning to play derby well enough to kick butt on the track, crushing hard on the dreamy team captain, and navigating the spooky rules of the supernatural, how can Mina go from striving to be a ten alone, to becoming one of nine chaotic bodies forming a perfectly-imperfect team? Forget being the best. Will she be enough to help her new friends survive the season?
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Author: Hugh D. Hudson, Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400872820
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Analyzing "totalitarianism from below" in a crucial area of Soviet culture, Hugh Hudson shows how Stalinist forces within the architectural community destroyed an avant-garde movement of urban planners and architects, who attempted to create a more humane built environment for the Soviet people. Through a study of the ideas and constructions of these visionary reformers, Hudson explores their efforts to build new forms of housing and "settlements" designed to free the residents, especially women, from drudgery, allowing them to participate in creative work and to enjoy the "songs of larks." Resolving to obliterate this movement of human liberation, Stalinists in the field of architecture unleashed a "little" terror from below, prior to Stalin's Great Terror. Using formerly secret Party archives made available by perestroika, Hudson finds in the rediscovered theoretical work of the avant-garde architects a new understanding of their aims. He shows, for instance, how they saw the necessity of bringing elite desires for a transformed world into harmony with the people's wish to preserve national culture. Such goals brought their often divided movement into conflict with the Stalinists, especially on the subject of collectivization. Hudson's provocative work offers evidence that in spite of the ultimate success of the Stalinists, the Bolshevik Revolution was not monolithic: at one time it offered real architectural and human alternatives to the Terror. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Stephen Pemberton
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421404427
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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By the 1970s, a therapeutic revolution, decades in the making, had transformed hemophilia from an obscure hereditary malady into a manageable bleeding disorder. Yet the glory of this achievement was short lived. The same treatments that delivered some normalcy to the lives of persons with hemophilia brought unexpectedly fatal results in the 1980s when people with the disease contracted HIV-AIDS and Hepatitis C in staggering numbers. The Bleeding Disease recounts the promising and perilous history of American medical and social efforts to manage hemophilia in the twentieth century. This is both a success story and a cautionary tale, one built on the emergence in the 1950s and 1960s of an advocacy movement that sought normalcy—rather than social isolation and hyper-protectiveness—for the boys and men who suffered from the severest form of the disease. Stephen Pemberton evokes the allure of normalcy as well as the human costs of medical and technological progress in efforts to manage hemophilia. He explains how physicians, advocacy groups, the blood industry, and the government joined patients and families in their unrelenting pursuit of normalcy—and the devastating, unintended consequences that pursuit entailed. Ironically, transforming the hope of a normal life into a purchasable commodity for people with bleeding disorders made it all too easy to ignore the potential dangers of delivering greater health and autonomy to hemophilic boys and men.
Author: Lan Yan
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647961831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Death had always come unexpectedly. We are grateful for your rebirth! In his previous life, he possessed trillions of dollars out of thin air. He had been reborn as a commoner, but his body was still weak. Even if he had to die, he would die anyway. Live, still live, who will stop me! To wield a sword without a sword, to wield a Secret Book without a word, to walk on a path of glory or a tomb, or to walk on a fog. For countless years on the continent, who would break the tranquility, guide the awakening of ancient bloodlines, refine Magic Pet, and lower Divine Beast? Stealing Ares-class, holding a demon artifact, blocking the Deicide, killing Buddha. Two lifetimes as a man, the world as a king, my life is not for me to handle. The heavens want me to die, I will defy the heavens and change my life! See Ling Feng being reborn in a foreign land, change the sky and change the earth!
