Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sin City written by Frank Miller and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychopathic hard man, Marvin, is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the murderer of his lover, Goldie, and the police. As he teams up with Goldie's twin sister and friends, he finds himself taking on the corrupt authorities and the influential man behind it all - Cardinal Rock.--Amazon.com.
Download or read book The Dictionary of Imaginary Places written by Alberto Manguel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and visualizes over 1,200 magical lands found in literature and film, discussing such exotic realms as Atlantis, Tolkien's Middle Earth, and Oz.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Imaginary and Mythical Places written by Theresa Bane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heavens and hells of the world's religions and the "far, far away" legends cannot be seen or visited, but they remain an integral part of culture and history. This encyclopedia catalogs more than 800 imaginary and mythological lands from all over the world, including fairy realms, settings from Arthurian lore, and kingdoms found in fairy tales and political and philosophical works, including Sir Thomas More's Utopia and Plato's Atlantis. From al A'raf, the limbo of Islam, to Zulal, one of the many streams that run through Paradise, entries give the literary origin of each site, explain its cultural context, and describe its topical features, listing variations on names when applicable. Cross-referenced for ease of use, this compendium will prove useful to scholars, researchers or anyone wishing to tour the unseen landscapes of myth and legend.
Download or read book Tourism and Gender written by Annette Pritchard and published by CABI. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While contemporary popular discourses dismiss gender and feminism as passé, patriarchy and sexism continue to limit human possibilities around the globe. The tourism industry can be a force for empowerment but it can also shore up exploitative gendered practices. At the same time, tourism enquiry itself continues to be dominated by western, masculinist approaches. This collection of studies seeks to advance feminist and gender tourism studies with its focus on embodiment. Broad themes include the construction of narratives, how discourses of desire, sensuality and sexuality pervade the tourism experience, the use of the body to represent femininity, masculinity and sensuality, and finally how travel and tourism allow for empowerment, resistance and carnivalesque opportunities.
Download or read book Sin City Six Scintillating Stories written by Jennifer Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las Vegas is the place where dreams come true and hopes are dashed. Turn any corner in Sin City and you never know what you might find. Perhaps you'll discover a sexy companion for the evening, maybe discover a secret place, or simply find...yourself. Whatever you find, you won't soon forget it.Enjoy six, scintillating stories from six very different writers. Let them take you on a journey through Sin City and its many erogenous zones.High Stakes Nikki by Jennifer Roberts Nikki is tired of the same old Dick. They've been in Las Vegas for two days and the only thing her husband seems to want to do is lose money in the poker room. While she sits in the hotel bar, she is joined by a sexy married couple who can't seem to keep their hands off one another. After several drinks and many laughs, the couple invites her to join them for a little trip off the strip. Nikki isn't used to meeting new people or trying new things, but something tells her tonight is the night to shed old inhibitions.The Penthouse Suite by Daisy DunnMia won a trip to Vegas for two, but on the day of her flight, her best friend gets a bad case of the flu and cancels. Mia goes to Vegas alone and enjoys the sites on the strip. Two days later, Mia decides to spend the night in the hotel casino. She ends up winning a huge jackpot prize and is moved from her hotel room to the Penthouse suite for the rest of her one-week stay. However, the front desk has made a mistake and a gentleman is already booked into the room. The Bachelorette Party by Rushmore Judd Denise is getting married and her maid of honor and bridal party gather in Vegas for a bachelorette party. The maid of honor enlists her older brother's help to hire a stripper which leads to a special surprise at the party.Librarians Gone Wild by T.S. AddisonJanie and Diane are librarians in Las Vegas for a convention on all things stuffy, but when they learn of an exotic 'stud farm' on the outskirts of Sin City, they decide to let down their hair-buns and dust off more than their library books. These are two of the sexiest librarians you'll ever meet. The Taming by Nikki PalmerChristia flies to Las Vegas with her fiancé to have a quickie wedding so they can start their lives together. As soon as they get off the plane, a mysterious stranger catches her eye. She finds herself following the stranger and ignoring her fiancé. Her weekend in Sin City turns into a wild ride that she hadn't bargained for....and will never forget.Nude and Wounded by Anthony BealSex and revenge go hand in hand in this epic short story. Adrienne's heart, though intact, is peculiar in that it is also empty. It is "whole" and a "hole" in equal measure and demands, as does her other holes, to be filled with some regularity. She likes to keep little pieces of the men she meets in these scenarios. They are her trophies. It seems only fair... given the pieces of herself that she gives away with such abandon.
Download or read book Sinless in Sin City written by David T. Fiske and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have a demon that you cannot get rid of? Has God tried to get your attention? God finally got my attention and showed me the way, the truth, and the life that set me free. Free from an addiction that was destroying me and my family and my friendships. I had gambled compulsively for ten years. I was in deep debt, and no one knew itexcept God. Then my family began to figure out that I had a problem. God used my family to get my attention. God wanted me to change. Once I admitted to myself that I had a gambling problem, God sent me to the desert of Las Vegas to beat it. I went on a four-day trip with my mom and tried to not bet once. I met Jesus over and over during my journey. During my pilgrimage, I had extraordinary experiences and interesting interactions. In the end, God helped me beat gambling on its own turf, Sin City. I grew so much because of this journey. God wanted me to share it with you.
Download or read book The American Dream written by Lawrence R. Samuel and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no better way to understand America than by understanding the cultural history of the American Dream. Rather than just a powerful philosophy or ideology, the Dream is thoroughly woven into the fabric of everyday life, playing a vital role in who we are, what we do, and why we do it. No other idea or mythology has as much influence on our individual and collective lives. Tracing the history of the phrase in popular culture, Samuel gives readers a field guide to the evolution of our national identity over the last eighty years. Samuel tells the story chronologically, revealing that there have been six major eras of the mythology since the phrase was coined in 1931. Relying mainly on period magazines and newspapers as his primary source material, the author demonstrates that journalists serving on the front lines of the scene represent our most valuable resource to recover unfiltered stories of the Dream. The problem, Samuel reveals, is that it does not exist; the Dream is just that, a product of our imagination. That it is not real ultimately turns out to be the most significant finding and what makes the story most compelling.
Download or read book Marathon Tourism USA written by Jim Manford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the sixth book in Jim's "Marathon Tourism" series aimed at those who enjoy combining their love of running with a love of travel. It presents a runner's guide to 20 of the most popular marathons in the USA offering detailed descriptions, not only of the events themselves, but also of the locations in which they are held. This book is recommended reading for anyone contemplating running a marathon in the USA.
Download or read book American Film Noir Genres Characters and Settings written by Harold Hellwig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Harold Hellwig analyzes film noir, outlining the major genres which it includes: the city and the detective; science fiction, the Western; and comedy. Elements of American film noir and its contexts are evaluated within different adaptations in film and television.
Download or read book Traversing Transnationalism written by Pier Paolo Frassinelli and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- TRAVERSING TRANSNATIONALISM /Pier Paolo Frassinelli , Ronit Frenkel and David Watson -- FRICTION AND FRAGMENTS: LOCAL COSMOPOLITANISM IN POSTCOLONIAL MOZAMBIQUE /Pamila Gupta -- VELVET AND VIOLENCE: PERFORMING THE MEDIATIZED MEMORY OF SHANGHAI'S FUTURITY /Amanda Lagerkvist -- TOWARDS AN AESTHETIC POLITICS OF TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY: ASIAN AMERICANS IN A DECOLONIZING HAWAI'I /Bianca Kai Isaki -- IMMIGRATION AND “OPERATIONS”: THE MILITARIZATION (AND MEDICALIZATION) OF THE US-MEXICO BORDER /Sang Hea Kil -- “I HAD FORGOTTEN A CONTINENT”: COSMOPOLITAN MEMORY IN DEREK WALCOTT'S OMEROS /Shane Graham -- LOCAL TRANSNATIONALISMS: ISHTIYAQ SHUKRI'S THE SILENT MINARET AND SOUTH AFRICA IN THE GLOBAL IMAGINARY /Ronit Frenkel -- NOMADIC NARRATIVES: TAWADA YOKO'S JAPANESE-GERMAN FICTION /Tomoko Kuribayashi -- PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION: UNWRITING DIASPORA IN LAVANYA SANKARAN'S THE RED CARPET /Melissa Tandiwe Myambo -- THE IDENTITY OF IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE: MODERNISM AND AFRICAN LITERATURE /Nicholas Brown -- WORLD LITERATURE: A RECEDING HORIZON /Pier Paolo Frassinelli and David Watson -- THE ADVENTURES OF A TECHNIQUE: DODECAPHONISM TRAVELS TO BRAZIL /Fabio Akcelrud Durão and José Adriano Fenerick -- WHAT REVOLT IN THE POSTCOLONY TODAY? /Ashleigh Harris -- COSMOPOLITAN SENSUS COMMUNIS: AESTHETIC JUDGMENT AS MODEL FOR POLITICAL JUDGMENT? /Ulrike Kistner -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Download or read book Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment written by Paul Kirkness and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of territorial stigma, as developed in large part by the urban sociologist Loïc Wacquant, contends that certain groups of people are devalued, discredited and tainted by the reputation of the place where they reside. This book argues that this theory is more relevant and comprehensive than others that have been used to frame and understand ostracised neighbourhoods and their populations (for example segregation and the racialisation of place) and allows for an inclusive interpretation of the many spatial facets of marginalisation processes. Advancing conceptual understanding of how territorial stigmatisation and its components unfold materially as well as symbolically, this book presents a wide range of case studies from the Global South and Global North, including an examination of recent policy measures that have been applied to deal with the consequences of territorial stigmatisation. It introduces readers to territorial stigmatisation’s strategic deployment but also illustrates, in a number of regional contexts, the attachments that residents at times develop for the stigmatised places in which they live and the potential counter-forces that are developed against territorial stigmatisation by a variety of different groups.
Download or read book A Treasury of Vivid Newsweek English written by Francis G. Johann and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Sin City written by Frank Miller and published by Dark Horse Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, visionary creator Frank Miller continued his shakedown of the comics industry when he premiered his visceral and powerfully charged Sin City series. With Sin City, Miller sent a shock wave through the industry and beyond, stunning critics and amazing readers, the after-affects of which are still being felt today. While Miller is primarily praised for his outstanding stories, it is his breathtaking artwork that continues to shine on. To honor the artist and his groundbreaking work, Dark Horse Maverick is pleased to present Frank Miller: The Art of Sin City, a unique and handsomely bound hardcover coffee table book, containing pieces both published and unpublished -- some never before seen by the public. Printed on glossy 100 lb. coated paper stock and featuring items ranging from preliminary sketches to promotional pieces, this beautiful edition holds everything a Sin City fan, or connoisseur of fine art, could ever hope for.
Download or read book Tourism Imaginaries at the Disciplinary Crossroads written by Maria Gravari-Barbas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Gravari-Barbas is Professor of Geography at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She is also in charge of the IREST (Institute of Research and Higher Studies on tourism) and EIREST (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Tourism Studies). She leads the UNESCO Chair "Culture, Tourism, Development" and coordinates the UNESCO UNITWIN network of the same name. Nelson Graburn is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. He is a founding member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, the Research Committee on Tourism (RC-50) of the International Sociological Association, and the Tourism Studies Working Group at U C Berkeley, and serves on the editorial board (for anthropology) of Annals of Tourism Research.
Download or read book Frank Miller s Sin City Volume 6 Booze Broads Bullets 3rd Edition written by Frank Miller and published by Dark Horse Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of noir comics with frequently-recurring characters and linked stories set in Basin City, a fictional city in California.
