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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter—the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels.
Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles.
In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families...
Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles.
In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families...
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Language
English
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"World-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the corona virus pandemic--and what they tell us about ourselves. Lévy takes a bird's-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Late on the night of October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old gay college student, left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged 'strangers,' Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that the mountain biker who discovered his battered frame mistook him for a Halloween scarecrow. Overnight,...
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Verso
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's 'The Communist Manifesto'. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays in 'Capitalism and the Camera' investigate the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask whether photography might allow us to refuse capitalism's violence-and...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Peru's Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. The book reveals why most of today's authoritarians are spin dictators-and how they differ from the remaining "fear dictators" such as Kim Jong-un and Bashar al-Assad, as well as from masters of high-tech repression like Xi Jinping.
Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Presents an alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia of over one thousand superheroes found in comics, film, television, and fiction and includes over one hundred fifty full-color illustrations profiling classic comic book covers, heroes and villains, superpowers and weapons, and costumes.
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Language
English
Description
She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From Mary Wollstonecraft, who, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, to Charlotte...
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Publisher
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"'RISE' is a love letter to and for Asian Americans -- a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which [their] culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped [their] community into who [they] are today"--Provided by publisher.
19) Danse macabre
Author
Publisher
Gallery
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The author addresses the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying. King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books and films that comprise of the horror genre--from Frankenstein and Dracula to The exorcist, The twilight zone and Earth vs. The flying saucers.
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