Author: Peter Manus
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1626818398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This dark, twisting work of digital-age noir is “a riveting mystery . . . An incredibly daring novel and a complete success” (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night in Boston, a man falls to his death in front of a train. The sole witness, a shaken young woman, explains to the police how the man shoved her aside as he made his way to the tracks. But when her blog turns up on the dead man’s computer, the cops begin to look for other connections between them. This dark and intricate tale of obsession and deception is told in the form of a blog written by an elusive narrator known only by her online name, “l. g. fickel.” Deep into the night, every night, Fickel posts about “Mr. Suicide” and the ensuing police investigation. She is joined in her blog chats by a loyal group of commenters. Is Fickel’s tale that of an innocent woman frantically trying to figure out how her online activity has enmeshed her in a murder case, or is she a manipulator, playing an elaborate game as she grinds out her revenge on those she feels have betrayed her? “Noir fans should enjoy the twists and turns that echo such genre classics such as Double Indemnity and The Asphalt Jungle.” —Publishers Weekly
Fickle
Author: Peter Manus
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1626818398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This dark, twisting work of digital-age noir is “a riveting mystery . . . An incredibly daring novel and a complete success” (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night in Boston, a man falls to his death in front of a train. The sole witness, a shaken young woman, explains to the police how the man shoved her aside as he made his way to the tracks. But when her blog turns up on the dead man’s computer, the cops begin to look for other connections between them. This dark and intricate tale of obsession and deception is told in the form of a blog written by an elusive narrator known only by her online name, “l. g. fickel.” Deep into the night, every night, Fickel posts about “Mr. Suicide” and the ensuing police investigation. She is joined in her blog chats by a loyal group of commenters. Is Fickel’s tale that of an innocent woman frantically trying to figure out how her online activity has enmeshed her in a murder case, or is she a manipulator, playing an elaborate game as she grinds out her revenge on those she feels have betrayed her? “Noir fans should enjoy the twists and turns that echo such genre classics such as Double Indemnity and The Asphalt Jungle.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1626818398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This dark, twisting work of digital-age noir is “a riveting mystery . . . An incredibly daring novel and a complete success” (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night in Boston, a man falls to his death in front of a train. The sole witness, a shaken young woman, explains to the police how the man shoved her aside as he made his way to the tracks. But when her blog turns up on the dead man’s computer, the cops begin to look for other connections between them. This dark and intricate tale of obsession and deception is told in the form of a blog written by an elusive narrator known only by her online name, “l. g. fickel.” Deep into the night, every night, Fickel posts about “Mr. Suicide” and the ensuing police investigation. She is joined in her blog chats by a loyal group of commenters. Is Fickel’s tale that of an innocent woman frantically trying to figure out how her online activity has enmeshed her in a murder case, or is she a manipulator, playing an elaborate game as she grinds out her revenge on those she feels have betrayed her? “Noir fans should enjoy the twists and turns that echo such genre classics such as Double Indemnity and The Asphalt Jungle.” —Publishers Weekly
A Fickle and Restless Weapon
Author: Jason Erik Lundberg
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814785474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Quek Zhou Ma, a performer who goes by the stage name Zed, returns to the island-nation of Tinhau after a long absence to attend the funeral of his older sister. As he deals with conflicting feelings about a homeland he hardly recognises, he decides to produce a lavish production with the Ministry of Culture, but opening night is marred by a bombing attributed to a local resistance group, Red Dhole. He meets Tara, a graphic designer with the Ministry of Culture who finds herself uneasily associated with Red Dhole. She is charged with bringing Zed over to the cause, but as the pair grow closer, she doubts whether she can complete her task. Meanwhile, Vahid Nabizadeh, Zed’s creative partner and a master puppeteer, finds a new home in Tinhau, but he becomes embroiled in political and financial intrigue that threatens to unbalance the stability of the government. As Zed, Tara and Vahid struggle with their disaffected identities, Tinhau is abruptly attacked by the Range, a mysterious cloud formation that appears without warning and destroys without mercy, a weapon as fickle and restless as the human mind.
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814785474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Quek Zhou Ma, a performer who goes by the stage name Zed, returns to the island-nation of Tinhau after a long absence to attend the funeral of his older sister. As he deals with conflicting feelings about a homeland he hardly recognises, he decides to produce a lavish production with the Ministry of Culture, but opening night is marred by a bombing attributed to a local resistance group, Red Dhole. He meets Tara, a graphic designer with the Ministry of Culture who finds herself uneasily associated with Red Dhole. She is charged with bringing Zed over to the cause, but as the pair grow closer, she doubts whether she can complete her task. Meanwhile, Vahid Nabizadeh, Zed’s creative partner and a master puppeteer, finds a new home in Tinhau, but he becomes embroiled in political and financial intrigue that threatens to unbalance the stability of the government. As Zed, Tara and Vahid struggle with their disaffected identities, Tinhau is abruptly attacked by the Range, a mysterious cloud formation that appears without warning and destroys without mercy, a weapon as fickle and restless as the human mind.
Mrs. Fickle's Pickles
Author: Lori Ries
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781590781951
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Rhyming text with illustrations tells how Mrs. Fickle likes her pickles.
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781590781951
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Rhyming text with illustrations tells how Mrs. Fickle likes her pickles.
Capital Flows are Fickle
Author: Mr.John C Bluedorn
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1484389042
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Has the unprecedented financial globalization of recent years changed the behavior of capital flows across countries? Using a newly constructed database of gross and net capital flows since 1980 for a sample of nearly 150 countries, this paper finds that private capital flows are typically volatile for all countries, advanced or emerging, across all points in time. This holds true across most types of flows, including bank, portfolio debt, and equity flows. Advanced economies enjoy a greater substitutability between types of inflows, and complementarity between gross inflows and outflows, than do emerging markets, which reduces the volatility of their total net inflows despite higher volatility of the components. Capital flows also exhibit low persistence, across all economies and across most types of flows. Inflows tend to rise temporarily when global financing conditions are relatively easy. These findings suggest that fickle capital flows are an unavoidable fact of life to which policymakers across all countries need to continue to manage and adapt.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1484389042
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Has the unprecedented financial globalization of recent years changed the behavior of capital flows across countries? Using a newly constructed database of gross and net capital flows since 1980 for a sample of nearly 150 countries, this paper finds that private capital flows are typically volatile for all countries, advanced or emerging, across all points in time. This holds true across most types of flows, including bank, portfolio debt, and equity flows. Advanced economies enjoy a greater substitutability between types of inflows, and complementarity between gross inflows and outflows, than do emerging markets, which reduces the volatility of their total net inflows despite higher volatility of the components. Capital flows also exhibit low persistence, across all economies and across most types of flows. Inflows tend to rise temporarily when global financing conditions are relatively easy. These findings suggest that fickle capital flows are an unavoidable fact of life to which policymakers across all countries need to continue to manage and adapt.
Beneath the Fickle Moon
Author: Brian Crane
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149909180X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Someone once said Where there is life there is hope. And so it was for Jasper, a border collie, existing a life of purgatory at the hands of a drunken, embittered brute of a master. Jasper could only wait for an opportunity to escape. But when that opportunity arrives does he take it? The storypoems of Beneath The Fickle Moon follow the life of Jasper. The meetings, the partings, the highs, the lows.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149909180X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Someone once said Where there is life there is hope. And so it was for Jasper, a border collie, existing a life of purgatory at the hands of a drunken, embittered brute of a master. Jasper could only wait for an opportunity to escape. But when that opportunity arrives does he take it? The storypoems of Beneath The Fickle Moon follow the life of Jasper. The meetings, the partings, the highs, the lows.
The Fickle Finger
Author: Martin Fone
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1838598014
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A light-hearted meditation on the role of luck, societal pressures, conventions and mores on success in science. The stories of fifty inventors whom history has all but forgotten in this treasury of facts that will amaze and amuse, together with a few myths debunked along the way.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1838598014
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A light-hearted meditation on the role of luck, societal pressures, conventions and mores on success in science. The stories of fifty inventors whom history has all but forgotten in this treasury of facts that will amaze and amuse, together with a few myths debunked along the way.
Customers are F.I.C.K.L.E.
Author: Nick Bailey
Publisher: FilamentPublishing Ltd
ISBN: 1908691093
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This book is perfectly positioned to help people who are selling high value complex products and services.
Publisher: FilamentPublishing Ltd
ISBN: 1908691093
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This book is perfectly positioned to help people who are selling high value complex products and services.
Little Miss Fickle
Author: Roger Hargreaves
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698178645
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Little Miss Fickle can never decide on anything. Or, rather, she can decide, but then she changes her mind again, and again, and again! When she visits the library one day, Little Miss Fickle finds 9,999 books to choose from. Will she ever be able to pick one out?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698178645
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Little Miss Fickle can never decide on anything. Or, rather, she can decide, but then she changes her mind again, and again, and again! When she visits the library one day, Little Miss Fickle finds 9,999 books to choose from. Will she ever be able to pick one out?
Madam Fickle: or The witty false one. A comedy
Author: Thomas D'Urfey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Race Card
Author: Tara Fickle
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479805955
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Winner, 2020 American Book Award, given by the Before Columbus Foundation How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes As Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial formation in the United States. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese American internment to the model minority myth and the globalization of Asian labor, Tara Fickle shows how games and game theory shaped fictions of race upon which the nation relies. Drawing from a wide range of literary and critical texts, analog and digital games, journalistic accounts, marketing campaigns, and archival material, Fickle illuminates the ways Asian Americans have had to fit the roles, play the game, and follow the rules to be seen as valuable in the US. Exploring key moments in the formation of modern US race relations, The Race Card charts a new course in gaming scholarship by reorienting our focus away from games as vehicles for empowerment that allow people to inhabit new identities, and toward the ways that games are used as instruments of soft power to advance top-down political agendas. Bridging the intellectual divide between the embedded mechanics of video games and more theoretical approaches to gaming rhetoric, Tara Fickle reveals how this intersection allows us to overlook the predominance of game tropes in national culture. The Race Card reveals this relationship as one of deep ideological and historical intimacy: how the games we play have seeped into every aspect of our lives in both monotonous and malevolent ways.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479805955
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Winner, 2020 American Book Award, given by the Before Columbus Foundation How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes As Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial formation in the United States. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese American internment to the model minority myth and the globalization of Asian labor, Tara Fickle shows how games and game theory shaped fictions of race upon which the nation relies. Drawing from a wide range of literary and critical texts, analog and digital games, journalistic accounts, marketing campaigns, and archival material, Fickle illuminates the ways Asian Americans have had to fit the roles, play the game, and follow the rules to be seen as valuable in the US. Exploring key moments in the formation of modern US race relations, The Race Card charts a new course in gaming scholarship by reorienting our focus away from games as vehicles for empowerment that allow people to inhabit new identities, and toward the ways that games are used as instruments of soft power to advance top-down political agendas. Bridging the intellectual divide between the embedded mechanics of video games and more theoretical approaches to gaming rhetoric, Tara Fickle reveals how this intersection allows us to overlook the predominance of game tropes in national culture. The Race Card reveals this relationship as one of deep ideological and historical intimacy: how the games we play have seeped into every aspect of our lives in both monotonous and malevolent ways.