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Book Badmen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bob Hoffman
  • Publisher : Type a Group
  • Release : 2017-08-29
  • ISBN : 9780999230701
  • Pages : 83 pages

Download or read book Badmen written by Bob Hoffman and published by Type a Group. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frightening and highly entertaining look into the hidden, corrupt, and dangerous world of online advertising where billions of dollars are being stolen; personal information about us is being collected and sold 24-hours a day; and important principles of a free society are being undermined.

Book Badmen  Bandits  and Folk Heroes

Download or read book Badmen Bandits and Folk Heroes written by Juan J. Alonzo and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes is a comparative study of the literary and cinematic representation of Mexican American masculine identity from early twentieth-century adventure stories and movie Westerns through contemporary self-representations by Chicano/a writers and filmmakers. In this deeply compelling book, Juan J. Alonzo proposes a reconsideration of the early stereotypical depictions of Mexicans in fiction and film: rather than viewing stereotypes as unrelentingly negative, Alonzo presents them as part of a complex apparatus of identification and disavowal. Furthermore, Alonzo reassesses Chicano/a self-representation in literature and film, and argues that the Chicano/a expression of identity is characterized less by essentialism than by an acknowldgement of the contingent status of present-day identity formations. Alonzo opens his provocative study with a fresh look at the adventure stories of Stephen Crane and the silent Western movies of D. W. Griffith. He also investigates the conflation of the greaser, the bandit, and the Mexican revolutionary into one villainous figure in early Western movies and, more broadly, traces the development of the badman in Westerns. He newly interrogates the writings of Américo Paredes regarding the makeup of Mexican masculinity, and productively trains his analytic eye on the recent films of Jim Mendiola and the contemporary poetry of Evangelina Vigil. Throughout Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes, Alonzo convincingly demonstrates how fiction and films that formerly appeared one-dimensional in their treatment of Mexicans and Mexican Americans actually offer surprisingly multifarious and ambivalent representations. At the same time, his valuation of indeterminacy, contingency, and hybridity in contemporary cultural production creates new possibilities for understanding identity formation.

Book Badmen  Bandits  and Folk Heroes

Download or read book Badmen Bandits and Folk Heroes written by Juan JosŽ Alonzo and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes is a comparative study of the literary and cinematic representation of Mexican American masculine identity from early twentieth-century adventure stories and movie Westerns through contemporary self-representations by Chicano/a writers and filmmakers. In this deeply compelling book, Juan J. Alonzo proposes a reconsideration of the early stereotypical depictions of Mexicans in fiction and film: rather than viewing stereotypes as unrelentingly negative, Alonzo presents them as part of a complex apparatus of identification and disavowal. Furthermore, Alonzo reassesses Chicano/a self-representation in literature and film, and argues that the Chicano/a expression of identity is characterized less by essentialism than by an acknowldgement of the contingent status of present-day identity formations. Alonzo opens his provocative study with a fresh look at the adventure stories of Stephen Crane and the silent Western movies of D. W. Griffith. He also investigates the conflation of the greaser, the bandit, and the Mexican revolutionary into one villainous figure in early Western movies and, more broadly, traces the development of the badman in Westerns. He newly interrogates the writings of AmŽrico Paredes regarding the makeup of Mexican masculinity, and productively trains his analytic eye on the recent films of Jim Mendiola and the contemporary poetry of Evangelina Vigil. Throughout Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes, Alonzo convincingly demonstrates how fiction and films that formerly appeared one-dimensional in their treatment of Mexicans and Mexican Americans actually offer surprisingly multifarious and ambivalent representations. At the same time, his valuation of indeterminacy, contingency, and hybridity in contemporary cultural production creates new possibilities for understanding identity formation.

Book Bad Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howard Rambsy II.
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2020-04-01
  • ISBN : 0813944147
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Bad Men written by Howard Rambsy II. and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy’s new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature and music. By focusing on how various iterations of the bad black man figure serve as creative muse and inspiration for literary production, Rambsy puts a wide variety of contemporary African American literary and cultural works in conversation with creativity research for the first time. Employing concepts such as playfulness, productivity, divergent thinking, and problem finding, Rambsy examines the works of a wide range of writers—including Elizabeth Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Paul Beatty, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tyehimba Jess, Trymaine Lee, Adrian Matejka, Aaron McGruder, Evie Shockley, and Kevin Young—who have drawn on notions of bad black men and boys to create innovative and challenging works in a variety of genres. Through groundbreaking readings, Rambsy demonstrates the fruitfulness of viewing black literary art through the lens of creativity research.

Book Three Bad Men

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  • Author : Scott Allen Nollen
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2013-04-05
  • ISBN : 0786458542
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book Three Bad Men written by Scott Allen Nollen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and Bond (whose biography here is the first ever published). The book reveals fascinating accounts of ingenuity, creativity, toil, perseverance, bravery, debauchery, futility, abuse, masochism, mayhem, violence, warfare, open- and closed-mindedness, control and chaos, brilliance and stupidity, rationality and insanity, friendship and a testing of its limits, love and hate--all committed by a "half-genius, half-Irish" cinematic visionary and his two surrogate sons: Three Bad Men.

Book A Few Bad Men

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  • Author : Major Fred Galvin USMC (Ret.)
  • Publisher : Post Hill Press
  • Release : 2022-06-07
  • ISBN : 1637584148
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book A Few Bad Men written by Major Fred Galvin USMC (Ret.) and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambushed in Afghanistan and betrayed by their own leaders—these elite Marines fought for their lives again, back home. A cross between A Few Good Men and American Sniper, this is the true story of an elite Marine special operations unit bombed by an IED and shot at during an Afghanistan ambush. The Marine Commandos were falsely accused of gunning down innocent Afghan civilians following the ambush. The unit’s leader, Maj. Fred Galvin, was summarily relieved of duty and his unit was booted from the combat zone. They were condemned by everyone, from the Afghan president to American generals. When Fox Company returned to America, Galvin and his captain were the targets of the first Court of Inquiry in the Marines in fifty years. “Fred Galvin is the real deal. His dramatic retelling of his experience as commander of Fox Company reads like a thriller, full of twists and turns, filled with unassuming heroes and deceitful villains.” — Rob Lorenz, Producer/Director, American Sniper, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River, The Marksman “Fred Galvin has written a real ‘page turner’ that demonstrates how politics permeates The Pentagon and posts abroad…I highly recommend this book.” — J.D. Hayworth, U.S. House of Representatives (Arizona), TV/Radio Host “This book is a must-read for every American who wants to know why, after twenty long years in Afghanistan, we did not win.” — Jessie Jane Duff, USMC, Analyst, CNN and FOX “A Few Bad Men is a must-read story of valor, betrayal, and keeping the Marines’ honor clean.” — Jed Babbin, USAF Judge Advocate, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Journalist, National Review, Washington Post “An incredible account and history of the fighting spirit of the ‘Marine Raiders’ under fire and the relentless fourteen-year campaign by their leader to clear their names.” — Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, U.S. Army (Ret.), Deputy Commander, U.S. Pacific Command

Book Bloodletters and Badmen

Download or read book Bloodletters and Badmen written by Jay Robert Nash and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales of Badmen  Bad Women  and Bad Places

Download or read book Tales of Badmen Bad Women and Bad Places written by Charley F. Eckhardt and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty-one true stories and legends about outlaws in Texas history, including such famous and lesser-known figures as Bonnie and Clyde, Judge Roy Bean, John Wesley Hardin, the Yokums of the Big Thicket, and the Papworths of Erath County.

Book Bad Men

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  • Author : John Connolly
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-03-27
  • ISBN : 1451668805
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Bad Men written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after the massacre that wiped out a colony of settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary, rookie officer Sharon Macy and policeman Joe Dupree team up to protect the island's residents from a band of vengeful killers.

Book Western Badmen

Download or read book Western Badmen written by Dorothy M. Johnson and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1970 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two biographical sketches of the frontier's most notorious badmen. Includes Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, Cole Younger, Doc Holliday, and others.

Book Best of the Badmen

Download or read book Best of the Badmen written by Boyd Magers and published by Empire Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Very Bad Men

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  • Author : Harry Dolan
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2012-07-03
  • ISBN : 0425247619
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Very Bad Men written by Harry Dolan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the national bestselling author of Bad Things Happen—the debut that Stephen King called a “great f***ing book”—comes a new crime novel that will blow readers away… ANTHONY LARK has a list of names—Terry Dawtrey, Sutton Bell, Henry Kormoran. To his eyes, the names glow red on the page. They move. They breathe. The men on the list were once involved in a notorious robbery. And now Lark is hunting them, and he won’t stop until every one of them is dead. DAVID LOOGAN—editor of the mystery magazine Gray Streets—is living a quiet life in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with Detective ELIZABETH WAISHKEY and her daughter. But soon David and Elizabeth are drawn into Lark’s violent world. As Elizabeth works to track Lark down, David befriends Lucy Navarro, a reporter with a crazy theory about the case that threatens to implicate some very powerful people. And when Lucy disappears, David decides her theory may not be so crazy after all

Book Little Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties

Download or read book Little Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties written by Humza Arshad and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humza Khan is the greatest eleven-year-old rapper Eggington has ever known: he is Little Badman and he is destined to be rich and famous. But when Humza's music teacher is taken ill his dreams are put on hold. His Auntie has stepped in as substitute, and nobody seems to care about the unorthodox teaching because of the endless sweet treats. As other teachers start to disappear, with more Aunties appearing in their place, Humza knows something isn't right. With the help of his elderly Uncle and friends Umer and Wendy, Humza discovers that the suspicious Aunties might not be as friendly as they seem. Now he must find a way to destroy them before they take over the world... A hilarious, mischievous and fast-paced adventure story from online comedian Humza Arshad and Channel 4 New Comedy Writer's Award winner, Henry White.

Book Marketers Are from Mars  Consumers Are from New Jersey

Download or read book Marketers Are from Mars Consumers Are from New Jersey written by Bob Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In marketing today, delusional thinking isn't just acceptable -- it's mandatory. In "Marketers Are From Mars, Consumers Are From New Jersey", Bob Hoffman, author of "101 Contrarian Ideas About Advertising" and "The Ad Contrarian" explains how marketers and advertisers have lost touch with consumers and are living in a fantasy land of their own invention -- fed by a cultural echo chamber of books, articles and conferences in which people like them talk to people like them.

Book The Life and Death of Mr  Badman

Download or read book The Life and Death of Mr Badman written by John Bunyan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Death of Mr. Badman; Presented to the World in a Familiar Dialogue Between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive is a 1680 book by John Bunyan. It was designed as a companion to The Pilgrim's Progress and was published by Nathaniel Ponder. The two characters have a dialogue about sin and redemption over the course of a long day. John Bunyan (28 November 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher, who is well known for his book The Pilgrim's Progress. Though he became a non-conformist and member of an Independent church, and although he has been described both as a Baptist and as a Congregationalist, he himself preferred to be described simply as a Christian. He is remembered in the Church of England with a Lesser Festival on August 30, and on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (US) on August 29. Some other Churches of the Anglican Communion, such as the Anglican Church of Australia, honour him on the day of his death (August 31) together with St Aidan of Lindisfarne.

Book Life and Death of Mr  Badman

Download or read book Life and Death of Mr Badman written by John Bunyan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In John Bunyan's 'Life and Death of Mr. Badman', the author presents a detailed account of the life of a morally corrupt man, exploring the consequences of his actions and choices. Written in a straightforward and didactic style, the book serves as a moral allegory, highlighting the dangers of leading a sinful life and the importance of ethical behavior. Bunyan's narrative is steeped in Christian morality, reflecting the religious landscape of 17th-century England. Through vivid descriptions and compelling storytelling, Bunyan creates a powerful commentary on the nature of good and evil. This book can be seen as a cautionary tale, urging readers to reflect on their own actions and the impact they have on others. Through Mr. Badman's story, Bunyan prompts readers to consider the consequences of their choices and strive for a virtuous life. John Bunyan, a Puritan preacher and writer, drew inspiration from his own religious beliefs and experiences to write 'Life and Death of Mr. Badman'. His work exemplifies the moralistic literature of the period, seeking to educate and enlighten readers on the perils of vice. Bunyan's vivid imagination and fervent religious convictions shine through in this compelling narrative, making it a timeless classic that continues to resonate with readers today. I recommend 'Life and Death of Mr. Badman' to those interested in exploring moralistic literature, religious allegory, or historical perspectives on ethics and morality.

Book The Life and Death of Mr  Badman

Download or read book The Life and Death of Mr Badman written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: