Author: Melissa Cronin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510762337
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Jeffrey Epstein. Harvey Weinstein. Bill Cosby. Peter Nygard. With this book, the infamous hall of fame for billionaire sex predators has inducted another member. Peter Nygard is the most famous and successful fashion designer that you might never have heard of. A Finnish-Canadian crowned the “polyester phenom” by Forbes, he built a nearly billion-dollar fortune shilling pants and blouses for the thirty-five and older set. Dillard’s, Sears, and Wal-Mart all called him one of their top providers, and he boasted a massive flagship store in the heart of Times Square. As he was building his fashion empire, however, Nygard also was allegedly building a dark international web of sexual predation and corruption―one that countless girls and women around the world claim destroyed their lives. Like in so many similar cases, Nygard stands accused of using his power, influence, and the trappings of success to ensnare and victimize vulnerable young women. Dangling the promise of a glamorous international modeling career before them, his victims—some allegedly as young as fourteen—claim that Nygard lured them to his California beach house, Canadian bachelor pad, and massive Caribbean estate, only to subject them to horrors they never could have imagined. Those are just some of the terrible acts that Nygard allegedly perpetrated behind the closed doors of his dens of evil. Meanwhile, Nygard’s invited guests—such as Britain’s Prince Andrew, former President George H. W. Bush, Robert De Niro, and Sylvester Stallone—were supposedly none the wiser. Predator King shines a spotlight on how money, power, and political clout can come together to create a monster, one that leaves shattered lives in its wake once unleashed upon the world. How can we find such predators, as they prowl in the darkness? And more importantly, how can a man like Peter Nygard be stopped?
The Triad
Author: Anandaa Padmaja, Kirthana
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Four best friends, Aurelia, Stephanie, Estrella and Jason.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Four best friends, Aurelia, Stephanie, Estrella and Jason.
Predator vs. Black Panther Vol 1-4
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Vol 1 WAKANDA… IS PREY? You saw the Marvel Universe’s most tenacious mutant go up against one of the greatest killing machines in history in PREDATOR VS. WOLVERINE — and survive. Now the planet Earth lives on in Predator lore… a planet full of the most exhilarating prey they could imagine! And the strongest weapons in the Multiverse are in their sights. When a young Predator with something to prove comes for Wakanda’s vibranium, the Black Panther faces an enemy whose resources rival those of his great nation. Who will prove stronger? Benjamin Percy teams up with Stormbreaker artist Chris Allen to pit king against king in a bloody new series! Vol 2 THE ULTIMATE HUNTING PRESERVE: WAKANDA! Yautja stalk the jungles of one of the most isolated — and wealthy — nations on Earth. Wakanda’s War Dogs, the Hatut Zeraze, fall like wheat. The Dora Milaje bury those bodies with their own. Princess Shuri is trapped out of reach. And the Black Panther finds his country invaded not by the warmongering West — but by monsters from beyond the stars. The fiercest hunters in the known universe — versus a king who might just be beast enough to stop them. Vol 3 PREDATORS GAIN ONE OF EARTH’S DEADLIEST RESOURCES! The Great Mound falls to the invasion! Vibranium is finally within reach of the Predator invaders. But the would-be conquerors are divided… and Wakanda knows better than most what that will do to a nation. If Shuri and T’Challa don’t find a way to stop the rival Yautja clans, Wakanda will be collateral damage in a battle that began on distant stars… and the war won’t stop there. Vol 4 A KING PREDATOR TAKES THE WAKANDAN THRONE?! The invading Predator clan takes their final trophies! They think they’ve defeated the king of Wakanda, but they’ve forgotten he’s not the only royalty who can wield a spear… Princess Shuri recruits a surprising ally as she infiltrates the shadows of her own city! Meanwhile, T’Challa turns the jungle to his advantage. Don’t miss the conclusion of Benjamin Percy’s latest Predator epic and the next step in the Predators’ plans for Earth!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Vol 1 WAKANDA… IS PREY? You saw the Marvel Universe’s most tenacious mutant go up against one of the greatest killing machines in history in PREDATOR VS. WOLVERINE — and survive. Now the planet Earth lives on in Predator lore… a planet full of the most exhilarating prey they could imagine! And the strongest weapons in the Multiverse are in their sights. When a young Predator with something to prove comes for Wakanda’s vibranium, the Black Panther faces an enemy whose resources rival those of his great nation. Who will prove stronger? Benjamin Percy teams up with Stormbreaker artist Chris Allen to pit king against king in a bloody new series! Vol 2 THE ULTIMATE HUNTING PRESERVE: WAKANDA! Yautja stalk the jungles of one of the most isolated — and wealthy — nations on Earth. Wakanda’s War Dogs, the Hatut Zeraze, fall like wheat. The Dora Milaje bury those bodies with their own. Princess Shuri is trapped out of reach. And the Black Panther finds his country invaded not by the warmongering West — but by monsters from beyond the stars. The fiercest hunters in the known universe — versus a king who might just be beast enough to stop them. Vol 3 PREDATORS GAIN ONE OF EARTH’S DEADLIEST RESOURCES! The Great Mound falls to the invasion! Vibranium is finally within reach of the Predator invaders. But the would-be conquerors are divided… and Wakanda knows better than most what that will do to a nation. If Shuri and T’Challa don’t find a way to stop the rival Yautja clans, Wakanda will be collateral damage in a battle that began on distant stars… and the war won’t stop there. Vol 4 A KING PREDATOR TAKES THE WAKANDAN THRONE?! The invading Predator clan takes their final trophies! They think they’ve defeated the king of Wakanda, but they’ve forgotten he’s not the only royalty who can wield a spear… Princess Shuri recruits a surprising ally as she infiltrates the shadows of her own city! Meanwhile, T’Challa turns the jungle to his advantage. Don’t miss the conclusion of Benjamin Percy’s latest Predator epic and the next step in the Predators’ plans for Earth!
Revisionary Narratives
Author: Naïma Hachad
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 178962438X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan women’s auto/biography in the last four decades, particularly its conflation with testimony and its expansion beyond literary texts. The book analyzes life narratives in Arabic, colloquial Moroccan Darija, French, and English in the fields of prison narratives, visual arts, theater, and digital media. The various case studies highlight narrative strategies women use to relate their experiences of political violence, migration, displacement, and globalization, while engaging patriarchal and (neo)imperial norms and practices. Using a transdisciplinary interpretative lens, the analyses focus on how women authors, artists, and activists collapse the boundaries between autobiography, biography, testimony, and sociopolitical commentary to revise dominant conventions of authorship, transgress oppressive definitions of gender roles and relations, and envision change. Revisionary Narratives marks auto/biography and testimony as a specific field of inquiry within the study of women’s postcolonial cultural productions in the Moroccan and, more broadly, the Maghrebi and Middle Eastern contexts.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 178962438X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan women’s auto/biography in the last four decades, particularly its conflation with testimony and its expansion beyond literary texts. The book analyzes life narratives in Arabic, colloquial Moroccan Darija, French, and English in the fields of prison narratives, visual arts, theater, and digital media. The various case studies highlight narrative strategies women use to relate their experiences of political violence, migration, displacement, and globalization, while engaging patriarchal and (neo)imperial norms and practices. Using a transdisciplinary interpretative lens, the analyses focus on how women authors, artists, and activists collapse the boundaries between autobiography, biography, testimony, and sociopolitical commentary to revise dominant conventions of authorship, transgress oppressive definitions of gender roles and relations, and envision change. Revisionary Narratives marks auto/biography and testimony as a specific field of inquiry within the study of women’s postcolonial cultural productions in the Moroccan and, more broadly, the Maghrebi and Middle Eastern contexts.
The Double Twist
Author: Pierre Maranda
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802035240
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude L?vi-Strauss' "Canonical Formula." The purpose of the work is to test the significance of the Formula, which is controversial and, for some, worthless.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802035240
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude L?vi-Strauss' "Canonical Formula." The purpose of the work is to test the significance of the Formula, which is controversial and, for some, worthless.
Spectacular Bodies
Author: Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134873018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134873018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form.
The Delights and Dilemmas of Hunting
Author: Forrest Wood
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761804727
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The pro-hunting/anti-hunting controversy is a national issue that reaches from California to New York to Florida. Hunters defend their activity while anti-hunters vehemently condemn it. This book presents arguments from both groups and will help to broaden the perspective of each side. This book will be useful to students and scholars of environmental ethics. Contents: The Case for Hunting; The Case Against Hunting; Leopold's Ethics of Hunting; Political and Religious Factors of Hunting; Responsibility, Challenge and the Future.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761804727
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The pro-hunting/anti-hunting controversy is a national issue that reaches from California to New York to Florida. Hunters defend their activity while anti-hunters vehemently condemn it. This book presents arguments from both groups and will help to broaden the perspective of each side. This book will be useful to students and scholars of environmental ethics. Contents: The Case for Hunting; The Case Against Hunting; Leopold's Ethics of Hunting; Political and Religious Factors of Hunting; Responsibility, Challenge and the Future.
Animals and Environmental Fitness: Physiological and Biochemical Aspects of Adaptation and Ecology
Author: R. Gilles
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483189325
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Animals and Environmental Fitness, Volume 1: Invited Lectures is a collection of papers that tackles ecological concerns. The materials of the book are organized according the main issue of their contents. The text first tackles the chemical factors of the environment, such as water and oxygen availability, ecomones, and pollutants. The other half of the book encompasses the physical factors of the environment that include light, pressure, and temperature. The text will be of great use to scientists who study the interaction between flora, fauna, and the total environment.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483189325
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Animals and Environmental Fitness, Volume 1: Invited Lectures is a collection of papers that tackles ecological concerns. The materials of the book are organized according the main issue of their contents. The text first tackles the chemical factors of the environment, such as water and oxygen availability, ecomones, and pollutants. The other half of the book encompasses the physical factors of the environment that include light, pressure, and temperature. The text will be of great use to scientists who study the interaction between flora, fauna, and the total environment.
The Were-predator Wars From the World Under
Author: John Fry
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1644684853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
In this amazing tale, John Johnny takes on an unexpected beginning beyond a person's furthest imagination in an adventure that leads him to a world thought to be lost through time and to be unreal, only real in dreams and myths of legends past. To his astonishment, the world was very real and leads to the discovery of the love of his dreams as he goes through the adventures a young man. In doing so, he finds and makes friendships for life from the very most unusual beings of the underworld.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1644684853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
In this amazing tale, John Johnny takes on an unexpected beginning beyond a person's furthest imagination in an adventure that leads him to a world thought to be lost through time and to be unreal, only real in dreams and myths of legends past. To his astonishment, the world was very real and leads to the discovery of the love of his dreams as he goes through the adventures a young man. In doing so, he finds and makes friendships for life from the very most unusual beings of the underworld.
Population Ecology
Author: Ruth Bernstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470864487
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This carefully structured laboratory manual explores, by means of computer simulations, the key areas of population dynamics through time. Using simply presented exercises, it teaches the programming and analysing skills students need for creating their own models of population change. In this way, readers can contribute constructively to the conservation of endangered species and the control of pest species. Focus on biology rather than mathematical procedures Introduces new techniques and shortcuts gradually with carefully explained commands Includes an extensive glossary Undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in population ecology, behavioural ecology and conservation will find this an ideal accompaniment.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470864487
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This carefully structured laboratory manual explores, by means of computer simulations, the key areas of population dynamics through time. Using simply presented exercises, it teaches the programming and analysing skills students need for creating their own models of population change. In this way, readers can contribute constructively to the conservation of endangered species and the control of pest species. Focus on biology rather than mathematical procedures Introduces new techniques and shortcuts gradually with carefully explained commands Includes an extensive glossary Undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in population ecology, behavioural ecology and conservation will find this an ideal accompaniment.
Boccaccio's Naked Muse
Author: Tobias Foster Gittes
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802092047
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropological material, Boccaccio's Naked Muse offers fresh insights on this hugely significant literary figure.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802092047
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropological material, Boccaccio's Naked Muse offers fresh insights on this hugely significant literary figure.