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Book In Gotham s Shadow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander R. Thomas
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0791487482
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book In Gotham s Shadow written by Alexander R. Thomas and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what may be the first explicitly comparative study of the effects of globalization on metropolitan and rural communities, In Gotham's Shadow examines how three central New York communities struggled over the last half century to survive in a global economy that seems to have forgotten them. Utica, formerly a city of one hundred thousand, experienced the same trends of suburbanization, deindustrialization, and urban renewal as nearly every American city, with the same mixed results. In Cooperstown and Hartwick, two small villages forty miles south of Utica, the same trends were at work, though with different outcomes. Hartwick may be seen as an example of how small towns have lost their core, while Cooperstown may be seen as an example of how a small town can survive by transforming itself into a tourist destination. Thomas provides extensive historical background mixed with newspaper excerpts and lively interviews that add a human dimension to the transformations these communities have experienced.

Book In the Shadow of Gotham

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stefanie Pintoff
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2009-04-28
  • ISBN : 1429937335
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book In the Shadow of Gotham written by Stefanie Pintoff and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dobson, New York, 1905. Detective Simon Ziele lost his fiancée in the General Slocum ferry disaster—a thousand perished on that summer day in 1904 when an onboard fire burned the boat down in the waters of the East River. Still reeling from the tragedy, Ziele transferred to a police department north of New York, to escape the city and all the memories it conjured. But only a few months into his new life in a quiet country town, he's faced with the most shocking homicide of his career to date: Young Sarah Wingate has been brutally murdered in her own bedroom in the middle of an otherwise calm and quiet winter afternoon. After just one day of investigation, Simon's contacted by Columbia University's noted criminologist Alistair Sinclair, who offers a startling claim about one of his patients, Michael Fromley—that the facts of the murder bear an uncanny resemblance to Fromley's deranged mutterings. But what would have led Fromley, with his history of violent behavior and brutal fantasies, to seek out Sarah, a notable mathematics student and a proper young lady who has little in common with his previous targets? Is Fromley really a murderer, or is someone mimicking him? This is what Simon Ziele must find out, with the help of the brilliant but self-interested Alistair Sinclair—before the killer strikes again. With this taut, atmospheric, and original story of a haunted man who must search for a killer while on the run from his own demons, Stefanie Pintoff's In the Shadow of Gotham marks the debut of an outstanding new talent, the inaugural winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Best First Crime Novel Competition. In the Shadow of Gotham is the winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.

Book The Battle for Gotham

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roberta Brandes Gratz
  • Publisher : Bold Type Books
  • Release : 2011-09-06
  • ISBN : 9781568586786
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Battle for Gotham written by Roberta Brandes Gratz and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, middleclass exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's “master builder,” Robert Moses, with turning Gotham around, despite his heavy-handed ways. Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. She argues that New York City recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses and the growing influence of Jane Jacobs, the pioneer of organic renewal projects. As American cities face a new economic crisis, Jacobs's philosophy is again vital for metropolitan life. Gratz gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success. Her writing—at once personal, political, and instructive—breaks down how the impossible was achieved.

Book Batman the Shadow  the Murder Geniuses

Download or read book Batman the Shadow the Murder Geniuses written by Scott Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the incredible minds of iconic authors Scott Snyder and Steve Orlando comes the resurgence of a classic noir character. The Shadow was a major influence of the Batman himself and now appears in this incredible six issue crossover event. While investigating the murde of a Gothamite, Batman identifies his prime suspect as Lamont Cranston... but there are two problems with that. One, Batman is not aware Lamont's alter ego is the master detective known as the Shadow. Two, and more importantly, Cranston seems to have died over half a century ago!"--

Book Batman Shadow  The Murder Geniuses

Download or read book Batman Shadow The Murder Geniuses written by Scott Snyder and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Gotham City’s guardian, Batman has investigated nearly every kind of murder—but he’s never seen a homicide as strange as this. The death of Lamont Cranston, an Arkham Asylum employee, leads the Dark Knight Detective to an impossible conclusion: the crime was committed by a man also named Lamont Cranston, who died more than 50 years ago—a man better known as the Shadow. The Shadow is definitely alive and kicking, however, and once Batman picks up his trail he will stop at nothing to bring him to justice. But it soon becomes clear that the hunter and his quarry are both entangled in a much larger web of evil—a conspiracy that threatens everything they have sworn to protect. Now Batman and the Shadow must put aside their differences to stop a terrifying new foe called the Stag, who has set his sights first on Gotham and then the world. And this merciless monster has a partner of his own: the Clown Prince of Crime himself, the Joker. Can the Shadow and the Bat stop this unholy alliance? Or will these two brilliant crime-fighters fall victim to the twisted genius of their archnemeses? New York Times best-selling author Scott Snyder joins forces with acclaimed talents Steve Orlando and Riley Rossmo for BATMAN/THE SHADOW: THE MURDER GENIUSES—an action-packed thriller decades in the making!

Book Batman  Shadow of the Bat Vol  1

Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat Vol 1 written by Alan Grant and published by DC. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Batman isnÕt the only masked crusader in town-and Arkham Asylum has many, many cells beyond those detaining the Penguin, the Joker, and Poison Ivy. But this is not the dark, dismal Arkham Asylum of old-this modern Arkham is run by the son of the original founder, Jeremiah Arkham. He is determined to improve on his fatherÕs methods, and in doing so walks perilously close to the abyss of madness himself. Can Jeremiah cure the Dark Knight when Batman is committed to Arkham for killing a cop? Writer ALAN GRANT (DETECTIVE COMICS) joins artists TIM SALE (BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN), NORM BREYFOGLE (BATMAN), and more in these stories about the men and women in shadow-the shadow of the Bat! Collects BATMAN: THE SHADOW OF THE BAT #1-12!

Book Batman  Shadow of the Bat  87

Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat 87 written by Greg Rucka and published by DC. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Man's Land part 18, continuing the "Claim Jumping" story from BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #119. The first major-stakes turf war in Gotham City is fought, with Two-Face trouncing Batman while Gordon and his "Blue Boys" advance into Penguin territory.

Book Batman  Shadow of the Bat  93

Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat 93 written by Greg Rucka and published by DC. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Man's Land part 41. Batman gathers his forces for the final battle! As various powers in what once was Gotham City prepare for total war, the mysterious benefactor behind the possible reconstruction of Gotham is revealed, leading to darker days ahead for the Batman and his city.

Book The Shadow Batman  4  of 6

Download or read book The Shadow Batman 4 of 6 written by Steve Orlando and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The veins of the Silent Seven have bore their way into the very heart of modern society. Their every move can be hidden, and there is no move that can be made in secret from them. And that includes Batman and the Shadow. When one of the Seven invades Wayne Manor, a horrifying revelation casts Batman's entire mission in doubt. The only one that can save him? The Shadow. But can the Master of Men liberate both Wayne Manor and the Dark Knight's mind without losing his own?

Book The Shadow batman Hc

Download or read book The Shadow batman Hc written by Steve Orlando (Comic book writer) and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contains materials originally published in magazine form as The Shadow / Batman: Volume 1: issues 1-6." -- title page.

Book Are You Afraid of Darkseid   2021   1

Download or read book Are You Afraid of Darkseid 2021 1 written by Elliott Kalan and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gather ’round the fire, fellow campers, because it’s time for that most terrifying of traditions-campfire stories so scary you’ll never sleep without a night-light again! The Teen Titans guide those brave enough through tales of Batman and the hidden killer, Superman and Lois Lane and the killer in their back seat, Harley Quinn and Darkseid versus a furious Bloody Mary, and four more stories so hair-raising you’ll call your momma to come pick you up. So toast your marshmallows, pull up a s’more, and answer the only question that matters this Halloween: Are you afraid of Darkseid?

Book Batman  Shadow of the Bat  18

Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat 18 written by Alan Grant and published by DC. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The God of Fear part 3, conclusion to the "Knightfall" tie-in arc. Gotham City is in flames as the Scarecrow releases his fear gas everywhere and demands to be named God of Fear. Meanwhile, Anarky blames Batman for the level of crime in Gotham--and for that, the Dark Knight must pay!

Book Shadow of the Batgirl

Download or read book Shadow of the Batgirl written by Sarah Kuhn and published by DC Ink. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra Cain, teenage assassin, isn't exactly Batgirl material...not yet, at least. But with Batgirl missing from Gotham City, can Cassandra defy her destiny and take on a heroic mantle of her very own? She'll have to go through an identity crisis of epic proportions to find out. After a soul-shattering moment that sends Cass reeling, she'll attempt to answer this question the only way she knows how: learning everything she possibly can about her favorite hero-Batgirl. But Batgirl hasn't been seen in Gotham for years, and when Cass's father threatens the world she has grown to love, she'll have to step out of the shadows and overcome her greatest obstacle-that voice inside her head telling her she can never be a hero. Sarah Kuhn, author of Heroine Complex and I Love You So Mochi, takes on one of her favorite heroes for a new audience of readers. Featuring the edgy art style of Nicole Goux, Shadow of the Batgirl tells the harrowing story of a girl who overcomes the odds to find her unique identity.

Book Batman  Shadow of the Bat  49

Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat 49 written by Alan Grant and published by DC. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contagion part 7, continued from BATMAN #529. The police of Gotham City turn to James Gordon for guidance, who helps quell the wave of destruction in Gotham. Plus, Batman enters Babylon Towers in search of Poison Ivy. Continued in DETECTIVE COMICS #696.

Book Batman and the Shadows of Modernity

Download or read book Batman and the Shadows of Modernity written by Rafael Carrión-Arias and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and well-known materials seen in a new light. This is a multidisciplinary work aimed at both the specialist and the global reader, bringing together comic studies, philosophical criticism, and literary criticism in a debate on the fate of our current global civilization.

Book The Gods of Gotham

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lyndsay Faye
  • Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
  • Release : 2013-03-05
  • ISBN : 0425261255
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book The Gods of Gotham written by Lyndsay Faye and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City, 1845. Timothy Wilde, a 27-year-old Irish immigrant, joins the newly formed NYPD and investigates an infanticide and the body of a 12-year-old Irish boy whose spleen has been removed.

Book Batman  Shadow of the Bat  77

Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat 77 written by Alan Grant and published by DC. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In quake-torn Gotham, Batman is captured by someone he was trying to help--a university professor driven mad after being trapped for two weeks with a classroom full of dead students. The professor decides to prove his theory of "devolution" by forcing Batman to perform a series of tasks no one could possibly survive.