Author: Warren Murphy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1035999668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A secret Russian particle beam weapon has long been suspected of being responsible for the space shuttle Challenger explosion. Many have scoffed...until the old Soviet Union dissolves and the weapon is sold on the Russian black market to the ruling council of Berkeley, California – the most famous enclave of unrepentant socialists in the Western world. They, in turn, immediately direct it at American skies, making no planes, satellites or space shuttles safe until their very heavy price is paid. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
Disloyal Opposition
Author: Warren Murphy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1035999668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A secret Russian particle beam weapon has long been suspected of being responsible for the space shuttle Challenger explosion. Many have scoffed...until the old Soviet Union dissolves and the weapon is sold on the Russian black market to the ruling council of Berkeley, California – the most famous enclave of unrepentant socialists in the Western world. They, in turn, immediately direct it at American skies, making no planes, satellites or space shuttles safe until their very heavy price is paid. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1035999668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A secret Russian particle beam weapon has long been suspected of being responsible for the space shuttle Challenger explosion. Many have scoffed...until the old Soviet Union dissolves and the weapon is sold on the Russian black market to the ruling council of Berkeley, California – the most famous enclave of unrepentant socialists in the Western world. They, in turn, immediately direct it at American skies, making no planes, satellites or space shuttles safe until their very heavy price is paid. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories
Author: Sam Pink
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593765932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“Pink is a keen observer of the culture of minimum-wage jobs and low-rent studio apartments that is the reality of life for all those who don't find a cog space in today’s hyper-capitalist economy.” —The Guardian Cone dealer, sunshine stealer, alleyway counselor, lunch lady to the homeless, friend to the dead, maker of sandwiches. Metal wrangler. Stag among stags. And so it goes—another journey through time spent punched in. A life's work of working for a living. Blood, death, and violence. Dirty dishes, dead roaches, and sparkler-lit nights. Nights ahead and no real fate. So open your mouths because the forecast calls for sprinkles. Thirteen delights, scooped and served. Let it melt down your hand. Let the sun burn your face. It's the ice cream man, and other stories.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593765932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“Pink is a keen observer of the culture of minimum-wage jobs and low-rent studio apartments that is the reality of life for all those who don't find a cog space in today’s hyper-capitalist economy.” —The Guardian Cone dealer, sunshine stealer, alleyway counselor, lunch lady to the homeless, friend to the dead, maker of sandwiches. Metal wrangler. Stag among stags. And so it goes—another journey through time spent punched in. A life's work of working for a living. Blood, death, and violence. Dirty dishes, dead roaches, and sparkler-lit nights. Nights ahead and no real fate. So open your mouths because the forecast calls for sprinkles. Thirteen delights, scooped and served. Let it melt down your hand. Let the sun burn your face. It's the ice cream man, and other stories.
Don't Shoot the Ice Cream Man
Author: James Waste
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615283432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
At the height of the Cold War, two men in dark suits and shades walked into the San Francisco antique store that James Waste had opened after a successful international career with Bechtel. Their mission: to ask Mr. Waste to serve as an oberver for the CIA. Waste accepted on the spot. Over the course of the next three decades, he reported to the agency both as a case officer and as an independent contractor, first behind the Iron Curtain and later along the ancient Silk Road of Central Asia. From the mangled hulk of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, to the violent ungoverned reaches of Tajikistan, to the Tbilisi office of former Soviet foreign minister and Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze, this book combines a vivid collage of first-hand experiences with a compelling behind-the-scenes portrait of a changing world. -- from publisher's description.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615283432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
At the height of the Cold War, two men in dark suits and shades walked into the San Francisco antique store that James Waste had opened after a successful international career with Bechtel. Their mission: to ask Mr. Waste to serve as an oberver for the CIA. Waste accepted on the spot. Over the course of the next three decades, he reported to the agency both as a case officer and as an independent contractor, first behind the Iron Curtain and later along the ancient Silk Road of Central Asia. From the mangled hulk of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, to the violent ungoverned reaches of Tajikistan, to the Tbilisi office of former Soviet foreign minister and Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze, this book combines a vivid collage of first-hand experiences with a compelling behind-the-scenes portrait of a changing world. -- from publisher's description.
Breaking the Ice
Author: Cecil Harris
Publisher: Insomniac Press
ISBN: 1897415052
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Black hockey players from Grant Fuhr to Jarome Iginla speak candidly for the first time about their experiences in the NHL. Since 1958, thirty-seven black men have played in the National Hockey League. Out of the 600 players active today, fourteen are black. Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey is the first book to tell the unique stories of black hockey players - how they overcame or succumbed to racial and cultural prejudices to play Canada's favourite pastime. Sports journalist Cecil Harris outlines in detail the personal and professional battles as well as the vict.
Publisher: Insomniac Press
ISBN: 1897415052
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Black hockey players from Grant Fuhr to Jarome Iginla speak candidly for the first time about their experiences in the NHL. Since 1958, thirty-seven black men have played in the National Hockey League. Out of the 600 players active today, fourteen are black. Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey is the first book to tell the unique stories of black hockey players - how they overcame or succumbed to racial and cultural prejudices to play Canada's favourite pastime. Sports journalist Cecil Harris outlines in detail the personal and professional battles as well as the vict.
Don't Use Your Words!
Author: Jane Juffer
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147980777X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resist this emotional management through cultural production. Today, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referencing memes,songs, and movements, constructing a common vernacular that resists parental, educational, and media imperatives to name their feelings and thus control their bodies. Over the past two decades, children’s television programming has provided a therapeutic site for the processing of emotions such as anger, but in doing so has enforced normative structures of feeling that, Jane Juffer argues, weaken the intensity and range of children’s affective experiences. Don’t Use Your Words! seeks to challenge those norms, highlighting the ways that kids express their feelings through cultural productions including drawings, fan art, memes, YouTube videos, dance moves, and conversations while gaming online. Focusing on kids between ages five and nine, Don’t Use Your Words! situates these productions in specific contexts, including immigration policy referenced in drawings by Central American children just released from detention centers and electoral politics as contested in kids’ artwork expressing their anger at Trump’s victory. Taking issue with the mainstream tendency to speak on behalf of children, Juffer argues that kids have the agency to answer for themselves: what does it feel like to be a kid?
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147980777X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resist this emotional management through cultural production. Today, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referencing memes,songs, and movements, constructing a common vernacular that resists parental, educational, and media imperatives to name their feelings and thus control their bodies. Over the past two decades, children’s television programming has provided a therapeutic site for the processing of emotions such as anger, but in doing so has enforced normative structures of feeling that, Jane Juffer argues, weaken the intensity and range of children’s affective experiences. Don’t Use Your Words! seeks to challenge those norms, highlighting the ways that kids express their feelings through cultural productions including drawings, fan art, memes, YouTube videos, dance moves, and conversations while gaming online. Focusing on kids between ages five and nine, Don’t Use Your Words! situates these productions in specific contexts, including immigration policy referenced in drawings by Central American children just released from detention centers and electoral politics as contested in kids’ artwork expressing their anger at Trump’s victory. Taking issue with the mainstream tendency to speak on behalf of children, Juffer argues that kids have the agency to answer for themselves: what does it feel like to be a kid?
The Counterintelligence Chronology
Author: Edward Mickolus
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476662517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Spying in the United States began during the Revolutionary War, with George Washington as the first director of American intelligence and Benedict Arnold as the first turncoat. The history of American espionage is full of intrigue, failures and triumphs--and motives honorable and corrupt. Several notorious spies became household names--Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, the Walkers, the Rosenbergs--and were the subjects of major motion pictures and television series. Many others have received less attention. This book summarizes hundreds of cases of espionage for and against U.S. interests and offers suggestions for further reading. Milestones in the history of American counterintelligence are noted. Charts describe the motivations of traitors, American targets of foreign intelligence services and American traitors and their foreign handlers. A former member of the U.S. intelligence community, the author discusses trends in intelligence gathering and what the future may hold. An annotated bibliography is provided, written by Hayden Peake, curator of the Historical Intelligence Collection of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476662517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Spying in the United States began during the Revolutionary War, with George Washington as the first director of American intelligence and Benedict Arnold as the first turncoat. The history of American espionage is full of intrigue, failures and triumphs--and motives honorable and corrupt. Several notorious spies became household names--Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, the Walkers, the Rosenbergs--and were the subjects of major motion pictures and television series. Many others have received less attention. This book summarizes hundreds of cases of espionage for and against U.S. interests and offers suggestions for further reading. Milestones in the history of American counterintelligence are noted. Charts describe the motivations of traitors, American targets of foreign intelligence services and American traitors and their foreign handlers. A former member of the U.S. intelligence community, the author discusses trends in intelligence gathering and what the future may hold. An annotated bibliography is provided, written by Hayden Peake, curator of the Historical Intelligence Collection of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878052653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Interviews with the author of Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Everything That Rises Must Converge
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878052653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Interviews with the author of Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Everything That Rises Must Converge
Talking with Robert Penn Warren
Author: Floyd C. Watkins
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820312200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Collects a wide variety of interviews given by the author over the years, including television appearances and conversations with other writers
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820312200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Collects a wide variety of interviews given by the author over the years, including television appearances and conversations with other writers
The Man with the Golden Arm
Author: Nelson Algren
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609802543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609802543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.
The Man with the Golden Arm (50th Anniversary Edition)
Author: Nelson Algren
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 9781583220085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book Award (which he received from none other than Eleanor Roosevelt at a ceremony in March 1950), Seven Stories is proud to release the first critical edition of an Algren work. A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope. Special contributions by Russell Banks, Bettina Drew, James R. Giles, Carlo Rotella, William Savage, Lee Stringer, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 9781583220085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book Award (which he received from none other than Eleanor Roosevelt at a ceremony in March 1950), Seven Stories is proud to release the first critical edition of an Algren work. A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope. Special contributions by Russell Banks, Bettina Drew, James R. Giles, Carlo Rotella, William Savage, Lee Stringer, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.