Download or read book Ripley Under Ground written by Patricia Highsmith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-09-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."—Frank Rich Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In these volumes, we find Ripley ensconced on a French estate with a wealthy wife, a world-class art collection, and a past to hide. In Ripley Under Ground (1970), an art forgery goes awry and Ripley is threatened with exposure; in The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld; and in Ripley Under Water (1991), Ripley is confronted by a snooping American couple obsessed with the disappearance of an art collector who visited Ripley years before. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior" (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).
Download or read book High Conflict written by Amanda Ripley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the tradition of bestselling explainers like The Tipping Point, [this] book [is] based on cutting edge science that breaks down the idea of extreme conflict--the kind that paralyzes people and places--and then shows how to escape it"--
Download or read book The Unthinkable Revised and Updated written by Amanda Ripley and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World “The thinking person’s manual for getting out alive.”—NPR’s “Book Tour” “A must read . . . We need books like this to help us understand the world in which we live.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness Disaster can come in many forms, from earthquakes and wildfires to pandemics and acts of terror. Afterward, when the dust settles and the survivors emerge, we can’t help but wonder: Why did they live when so many others perished? In The Unthinkable, prize-winning journalist Amanda Ripley, who has covered some of the most devastating disasters of our age, sets out to find the answers. To understand the human reaction to chaos and imminent danger, she turns to leading brain scientists, trauma psychologists, and other disaster experts—from a Holocaust survivor who studies heroism to a master gunfighter who learned to overcome extreme fear. Along the way, we learn about the perils of crowd psychology, the elegance of the brain’s fear circuits, how leaders can build trust quickly, and other invisible factors that can make the difference between death and survival. A fascinating combination of neuroscience, firsthand accounts, and thrilling investigative journalism, this book is for anyone who has ever wondered how they would respond in a life-and-death situation—or wanted to increase their odds of survival. This new edition updates all the original research and features timely material on enormous, slow-moving disasters such as pandemics and climate catastrophes. Most important, it reveals the brain’s ability to do much better—with a little help.
Download or read book The Boy Who Followed Ripley written by Patricia Highsmith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN The continuing adventures of Ripley starring Matt Damon in The Talented Mr Ripley. 'The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable' THE TIMES 'It's hard to imagine anyone interested in modern fiction who has not read the Ripley novels' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Peerlessly Disturbing' NEW YORKER When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all. Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer. The Boy Who Followed Ripley is followed by Ripley Under Water.
Download or read book The Smartest Kids in the World written by Amanda Ripley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.
Download or read book The Talented Mr Ripley written by Anthony Minghella and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Ripley, a small-time con man, arrives in Italy from New York in search of a wealthy young man named Dickie Greenleaf. He has been sent by the young man's wealthy father to bring Dickie back to America. But once in Italy, Ripley becomes so attracted to Greenleaf and his exotic lifestyle in the seaport village of Mongibello that Tom yearns to inhabit Dickie's life and falls tragically in love with him. Dickie's wealth, style and good looks are qualities that Tom begins to covet. The frightening consequences of this attraction and the moral choices raised by the crime of murder lie at the heart of Minghella's absorbing film. Set throughout Italy (Ischia, Palermo, Rome, Tuscany and Venice), Minghella's adaptation brings to life Highsmith's amoral tale of a criminal who gets away with murder.
Download or read book Ripley S Canyon written by Richard Brauer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ripleys Canyon is the story of a Civil War veteran who travels West with his wife only to have her killed by Indians. He vows to live only for the purpose of extracting revenge. In the dry desert canyon country of what is now northern Utah and southern Idaho, he finds a box canyon he can defend. More important, he discovers a gold mine and prepares to mine it all by himself. Returning from a trip to buy supplies, he discovers several ex-slaves that have been freed by the Civil War and decided to take them to his new home this remarkable canyon. When a wagon train is attacked by Indians, he rescues a woman about to be killed. In the ensuing battle Ripley kills the son of an Indian Chief who swears revenge on the white man who lives in the canyon. When outlaws try to discover the location of his gold mine, Ripley and his new friends are forced to fight for their lives.
Download or read book Ripley s Game written by Patricia Highsmith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its sinister humor and genius plotting, Ripley's Game is an enduring portrait of a compulsive, sociopathic American antihero. Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime—forgery, extortion, serial murder—Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game. In Ripley's Game, first published in 1974, Patricia Highsmith's classic chameleon relishes the opportunity to simultaneously repay an insult and help a friend commit a crime—and escape the doldrums of his idyllic retirement. This third novel in Highsmith's series is one of her most psychologically nuanced—particularly memorable for its dark, absurd humor—and was hailed by critics for its ability to manipulate the tropes of the genre. With the creation of Ripley, one of literature's most seductive sociopaths, Highsmith anticipated the likes of Norman Bates and Hannibal Lecter years before their appearance.
Download or read book Ripley s Red Collar written by Peyton Tobler and published by Peyton Tobler. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the Island gets Ripley hung up. How will her Red Collar and new friends save the day? Treasure is found and their owners use it in a future book to build the Animal Adventure Park where Ripley and Rusty and all their friends work and play.
Download or read book Ripley s Believe It Or Not Reptiles Lizards And Prehistoric Beasts written by Howard Zimmerman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-04-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing but true facts and stories about reptiles, lizards and dinosaurs.
Download or read book Ripley s Believe It Or Not Issue 2 written by Howard Mackie and published by Zenescope Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More fantastic tales straight from the vaults of Robert Ripley himself! Told by legendary talents and rising stars alike! 48 pulse-pounding pages of magic and mystery featuring Howard Mackie, the legend of Stingy Jack, Tony Isabella, the inexplicable Winchester Mansion, and much, much more! Even when you see it, you won't believe it!
Download or read book Ripley s Special Edition 2015 written by Ripley's Entertainment Inc. and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another year's worth of wild and wacky information from Ripley's Believe It or Not! 144 pages of awesomely weird information and photos. Cover includes eye-catching special effects!
Download or read book Ripley s Believe It Or Not Issue 1 written by Howard Mackie and published by Zenescope Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 48-page anthology of some of the most fantastic oddities in the Robert Ripley collection, written and illustrated by by an equally mind-blowing mix of comic book legends and rising stars. Including five illustrated fun fact pages, featuring more juicy tidbits about the stories within this issue and Robert Ripley himself! You'll have to see it to believe it!
Download or read book A Breviary of Alchemy or a commentary upon Sir George Ripley s Recapitulation being a paraphrastical epitome of his twelve gates Written by yren us Philalethes Anglus Cosmopolita written by Æyrenæus PHILALETHES (Anglus, Cosmopolita, pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1678 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary of Amanda Ripley s High Conflict written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buy now to get the main key ideas from Amanda Ripley's High Conflict There exist two types of conflict, one good and one bad. In today’s times, we are experiencing far more of the latter in everyday life. As Amanda Ripley explains in High Conflict (2021), good, healthy conflict allows us to make progress. There is general respect and understanding on both sides, and each side has a certain curiosity about the other. High conflict is the bad type of conflict; it is stagnant, polarizing, extremely toxic, and very easy to fall into. This kind of conflict involves no attempt at listening, let alone understanding, each other. It involves a lot of “us” versus “them” language, and is what allows such conflicts as gang wars and political stalemates to continue on for many years, with no hope of resolution.
Download or read book Ripley written by Patricia Highsmith and published by . This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ripley s Believe It Or Not 2022 written by Ripley and published by Century. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2022 is sure to amaze and astound children and adults alike with thousands of strange stories, unusual feats and hair-raising oddities from around the world. Meet the man who has made a model of the Empire State Building - in cheese. Marvel at the heart-warming story of the dog that adopted five kittens. Read all about the curse of Ötzi, the five-thousand-year-old iceman mummy. Be amazed by the strange and extraordinary sea creatures that create their own light. Bursting with brilliant facts, fantastic stories and eye-popping photographs, this all-new edition of Ripley's will entertain, inform and flabbergast you. No Christmas is complete without it.
