Download or read book Tales of Crow The Complete Series Volumes 1 5 written by Chris Ward and published by AMMFA Publishing. This book was released on with total page 1634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TALES OF CROW - THE COMPLETE SERIES VOLUMES 1-5 AVAILABLE TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME. #1- The Eyes in the Dark #2 - The Castle of Nightmares #3 - The Puppeteer King #4 - The Circus of Machinations #5 - The Dark Master of Dogs From a mountainous study camp in Japan, through the wilds of Romania, the political upheaval of Barcelona, the bleakness of a Siberian ghost town, and finally into a near-future Britain at the beginning of a nightmare ... one man has been at the centre of it all. If indeed you could even call him a man... Dark genius of robotics and genetic engineering, megalomaniac and callous prankster, Tales of Crow follows the rise of Professor Kurou from an orphaned nobody to someone capable of making and breaking countries, and then charts his dramatic fall. From Chris Ward, acclaimed author of the Tube Riders series, Tales of Crow is an adventure unlike any other, a tour de force blend of dystopia, black humour and horror. A penny for your thoughts, sire, the Crow is coming ....
Download or read book The Circus of Machinations written by Chris Ward and published by Chris Ward. This book was released on with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five long years, Professor Kurou has been in hiding, a wraith haunting the streets of the remote Siberian mining town of Brevik. Victor Mishin is a small-town inventor who needs his help. An unstoppable, inhuman army is approaching the town, and the townsfolk face total annihilation at the hands of an evil even greater than the one that walks among them. For at the head of an army is a man who will stop at nothing to see Professor Kurou dead. THE COMPLETE TALES OF CROW SERIES: 1 - The Eyes in the Dark 2 - The Castle of Nightmares 3 - The Puppeteer King 4 - The Circus of Machinations 5 - The Dark Master of Dogs ALL BOOKS AVAILABLE NOW
Download or read book The Puppeteer King written by Chris Ward and published by Chris Ward. This book was released on with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once-human monsters, giant robot spiders, human statues and a madman with a thirst for destruction … Professor Kurou is back and more dangerous than ever. After five years of incarceration, Jun Matsumoto is released from a mental hospital. With his hatred for Professor Kurou still consuming him, he enlists the help of some old friends and tracks his nemesis to Barcelona, where he hopes to rescue Ken Okamoto’s missing daughter, Nozomi. Kurou, however, has a master plan that will not only destroy one of the greatest landmarks in mankind’s history, but bring war to an entire nation. Jun must battle not only ghosts from his past and his own failing mind, but a man who is now the undisputed Puppeteer King… From the author of the acclaimed Tube Riders trilogy, The Puppeteer King is the third volume in Chris Ward's Tales of Crow series, a blend of science fiction, fantasy and horror set in the near future. THE COMPLETE TALES OF CROW SERIES: 1 - The Eyes in the Dark 2 - The Castle of Nightmares 3 - The Puppeteer King 4 - The Circus of Machinations 5 - The Dark Master of Dogs ALL BOOKS AVAILABLE NOW
Download or read book Outer Space and Popular Culture written by Annette Froehlich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides detailed insights into how space and popular culture intersect across a broad spectrum of examples, including cinema, music, art, arcade games, cartoons, comics, and advertisements. This is a pertinent topic since the use of space themes differs in different cultural contexts, and these themes can be used to explore various aspects of the human condition and provide a context for social commentary on politically sensitive issues. With the use of space imagery evolving over the past sixty years of the space age, this is a topic ripe for in-depth exploration. The book also discusses the contrasting visions of space from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the reality of today, and analyzes space vehicles and habitats in popular depictions of space from an engineering perspective, exploring how many of those ideas have actually been implemented in practice, and why or why not (a case of life imitating art and vice versa). As such, it covers a wide array of relevant and timely topics examining intersections between space and popular culture, and offering accounts of space and its effect on culture, language, and storytelling from the southern regions of the world.
Download or read book Circus Science and Technology written by Anna-Sophie Jürgens and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the circus as a site in and through which science and technology are represented in popular culture. Across eight chapters written by leading scholars – from fields as varied as performance and circus studies, art, media and cultural history, and engineering – the book discusses to what extent the engineering of circus and performing bodies can be understood as a strategy to promote awe, how technological inventions have shaped circus and the cultures it helps constitute, and how much of a mutual shaping this is. What kind of cultural and aesthetic effects does engineering in circus contexts achieve? How do technological inventions and innovations impact on the circus? How does the link between circus and technology manifest in representations and interpretations – imaginaries – of the circus in other media and popular culture? Circus, Science and Technology examines the ways circus can provide a versatile frame for interpreting our relationship with technology.
Download or read book Circus Queen and Tinker Bell written by Tiny Kline and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008-06-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glimpse of day-to-day life under the big top, from one of the circus's most remarkable performers
Download or read book The Circus Age written by Janet M. Davis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyone could go to the show. In this entertaining and provocative book, Janet Davis links the flowering of the early-twentieth-century American railroad circus to such broader historical developments as the rise of big business, the breakdown of separate spheres for men and women, and the genesis of the United States' overseas empire. In the process, she casts the circus as a powerful force in consolidating the nation's identity as a modern industrial society and world power. Davis explores the multiple "shows" that took place under the big top, from scripted performances to exhibitions of laborers assembling and tearing down tents to impromptu spectacles of audiences brawling, acrobats falling, and animals rampaging. Turning Victorian notions of gender, race, and nationhood topsy-turvy, the circus brought its vision of a rapidly changing world to spectators--rural as well as urban--across the nation. Even today, Davis contends, the influence of the circus continues to resonate in popular representations of gender, race, and the wider world.
Download or read book THE GLYPH UNVEILED written by Mark Barnett and published by Mark Barnett. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the labyrinthine corridors of time, where cryptic symbols whispered ancient secrets and concealed wisdom, two intrepid seekers, Detective Monroe and his astute partner Evelyn, embarked on an enigmatic quest. Their journey, etched with mystery and bound by a thirst for knowledge, unfolded within the tangled web of mystical symbols that guarded an elusive and revered wisdom, veiled from the world's gaze for centuries. Driven by an insatiable curiosity and a relentless pursuit of truth, Monroe and Evelyn's lives converged in the pursuit of unraveling the arcane mysteries concealed within the cryptic symbols. Their shared passion for decoding the enigmatic glyphs led them deeper into a realm where shadows danced with ancient knowledge, and every symbol held a key to an unseen realm of wisdom. As they navigated the intricate tapestry of symbols, their relentless quest led to confrontations and discoveries that not only tested their mettle but unraveled a complex web of secrets that intertwined with an age-old conflict—a battle between the guardians of ancient wisdom and those who sought to unveil its mysteries. Their journey, poised at the precipice of revelation and guarded by the enigmatic adversaries who shielded these arcane secrets, stood as a testament to their unwavering dedication to unlock the obscured truths and traverse the threshold between the known and the mystical."
Download or read book Children of the Circus written by Kenton Hall and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, there was a circus. A Psychic Circus, to be precise. A glorious haven for the misfits of the universe. But then, as is so often the way, it was hijacked by a trio of malevolent Gods. Things grew unpleasant. Now, years later, the Gods are gone, but the scars of those who survived the Circus remain. After all, you can't change the past. Unless you're the Children of the Circus... and you're willing to sing. Children of the Circus is a brand-new story based on the final serial of the 25th series of Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (written by Stephen Wyatt). The original serial was first broadcast on the BBC between the 14th of December 1988 and the 4th of January 1989 and featured Sylvester McCoy as Doctor Who, alongside Sophie Aldred as his companion, Ace. With fans often citing the story as one of their favourites, viewers were introduced to such memorable characters as Bellboy (Christopher Guard), Flowerchild (Dee Sadler), Deadbeat (Chris Jury) and the Ringmaster (Ricco Ross). This book is an adaptation of the 2023 audio play Children of the Circus, written by Kenton Hall and based on an idea by Barnaby Eaton-Jones, with kind permission of Stephen Wyatt. Remaining true to the canon of the Whoniverse, this fantastic story puts Bellboy right back in the heart of the action - and he is still haunted by the fate of his star-crossed lover, Flowerchild. But is she really gone forever? And how did he escape his own deathly fate?
Download or read book Murder and Media in the New Rome written by T. Simpson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national spectacle that became the first great media circus in the new nation of Italy, crucially shaping the young state's public sphere and image of itself.
Download or read book The Pilo Family Circus written by Will Elliott and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamie's tyres squealed to a halt. Standing in the glare of the headlights was an apparition dressed in a puffy shirt with a garish flower pattern It wore oversized red shoes, striped pants and white face paint. It stared at him with ungodly boggling eyes, then turned away...this seemingly random incident triggers a nightmarish chain of events as Jamie finds he is being stalked by a trio of gleefully sadistic clowns who deliver a terrifying ultimatum: you have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You're joining the circus. Ain't that the best news you ever got? Jamie is plunged into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet in this place peopled by the gruesome, grotesque and monstrous, where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself - for when he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead.
Download or read book New Grove Book of Operas written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's defiinitive single volume of opera reference including: full plot synopses, cast lists, singers, composers, literary and social history, recordings, and much more. Covers over 250 operas performed over the last quarter-century, additional works selected for interest, merit, or historical significance, 64 pages of color plates, 100 black-and-white photographs, fully cross-referenced with indexes and a glossary.
Download or read book Cecil B DeMille written by Simon Louvish and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and work of the motion picture director best known for his biblical sagas, including "Samson and Delilah" and "The Ten Commandments," discussing his complex personal life and the paradoxes existing within his films.
Download or read book Espionage and Exile written by Lassner Phyllis Lassner and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses mid-twentieth century British spy thrillers as resistance to political oppressionEspionage and Exile demonstrates that from the 1930s through the Cold War British writers Eric Ambler, Helen MacInnes, John le Carr Pamela Frankau and filmmaker Leslie Howard combine propaganda and popular entertainment to call for resistance to political oppression. Their spy fictions deploy themes of deception and betrayal to warn audiences of the consequences of Nazi Germany's conquests and later, the fusion of Fascist and Communist oppression. With politically charged suspense and compelling plots and characters, these writers challenge distinctions between villain and victim and exile and belonging by dramatising relationships between stateless refugees, British agents, and most dramatically, between the ethics of espionage and responses to international crisis.Key FeaturesThe first narrative analysis of mid-twentieth century British spy thrillers demonstrating their critiques of political responses to the dangers of Fascism, Nazism, and CommunismCombines research in history and political theory with literary and film analysisAdds interpretive complexity to understanding the political content of modern cultural productionOriginal close readings of the fiction of Eric Ambler, John Le Carr and British women spy thriller writers of World War II and the Cold War, including Helen MacInnes, Ann Bridge, and Pamela Frankau as well as the wartime radio broadcasts and films of Leslie Howard
Download or read book New Catholic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catholic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Embodying Resistance written by Dianne Marie Zandstra and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces narrative strategies in Griselda Gambaro's novels to the grotesco criollo and to the broader grotesque tradition. These are analyzed with an emphasis on their critique of social relationships within the Argentine political system and male
