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Book The Inglorious Arts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Hruska
  • Publisher : Prospect Park Books
  • Release : 2019-02-19
  • ISBN : 1945551410
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Inglorious Arts written by Alan Hruska and published by Prospect Park Books. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York lawyer Alec Brno (Pardon the Ravens) is must rescue two of his firm’s largest clients to avoid professional and financial ruin. Meanwhile, his adopted sixteen-year-old daughter, the inheritor of a Mafia fortune, is targeted in a sex-slave scheme by her uncle, the capo famiglia, as is Alec’s beautiful sister-in-law. The Inglorious Arts deals with two high-stakes courtroom battles, Mob terror, and the frantic race to save both women.

Book The Inglorious Arts of Peace

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  • Author : Elsbeth Heaman
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802042729
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book The Inglorious Arts of Peace written by Elsbeth Heaman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaman examines the ways in which British North America was advertised at home and abroad in the pursuit of productivity, markets, capital, and immigrants, and evaluates the exhibitions' impact on private industry, the government, and Canadian identity. She also considers the participation of women and native peoples at local and international exhibits, showing how they transcended the limited spheres of representation imposed upon them.

Book Inglourious Basterds

Download or read book Inglourious Basterds written by Quentin Tarantino and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the most original and beloved screenwriter of his generation, the complete Oscar-nominated screenplay of Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic Inglorious Basterds. From the brilliant writer/director behind the iconic films Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, comes Tarantino's most ambitious movie: a World War II epic starring Brad Pitt and filmed on location in Germany and France. The action tale follows the parallel story of a guerrilla-like squad of American soldiers called "The Basterds" and the French Jewish teenage girl Shosanna who find themselves behind enemy Nazi lines during the German occupation. When the Inglourious Basterds encounter Shosanna at a propaganda screening at the movie house she runs, they conspire to launch an unexpected plot to end the war. Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine -- the leader of the Basterds. Raine is an illiterate hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee who puts together a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to hunt down the Nazis. Filled with Tarantino's trademark electric dialogue and thrilling action sequences, Inglourious Basterds is one of the most celebrated films of the twenty-first century.

Book Quentin Tarantino s Inglourious Basterds

Download or read book Quentin Tarantino s Inglourious Basterds written by Robert von Dassanowsky and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging study of Tarantino's controversial 2009 film, written by a luminous line-up of international scholars.

Book Treasury of Thought

Download or read book Treasury of Thought written by Maturin Murray Ballou and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Choice  A Dialogue Treating of Mute Inglorious Art

Download or read book The Choice A Dialogue Treating of Mute Inglorious Art written by Robert DOUGLAS and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treasury of Thought  Forming an Encyclop  dia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors

Download or read book Treasury of Thought Forming an Encyclop dia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors written by Maturin Murray Ballou and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Book The Choice

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  • Author : Andrew Beaumont Robertson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Choice written by Andrew Beaumont Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Reaper

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  • Author : Dr Gordon M Winder
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2013-07-28
  • ISBN : 1409483002
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The American Reaper written by Dr Gordon M Winder and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Reaper adopts a network approach to account for the international diffusion of harvesting technology from North America, from the invention of the reaper through to the formation of a dominant transnational corporation, International Harvester. Much previous historical research into industrial networks focuses on industrial districts within metropolitan centres, but by focusing on harvesting - a typically rural technology - this book is able to analyse the spread of technological knowledge through a series of local networks and across national boundaries. In doing so it argues that the industry developed through a relatively stable stage from the 1850s into the 1890s, during which time many firms shared knowledge within and outside the US through patent licensing, to spread the diffusion of the American style of machines to establishments located around the industrial world. This positive cooperation was further enhanced through sales networks that appear to be early expressions of managerial firms. The book also reinterprets the rise of giant corporations, especially International Harvester Corporation (IHC), arguing that mass production was achieved in Chicago in the 1880s, where unprecedented urban growth made possible a break with the constraints felt elsewhere in the dispersed production system. It unleashed an unchecked competitive market economy with destructive tendencies throughout the transnational 'American reaper' networks; a previously stable and expanding production system. This is significant because the rise of corporate capital in this industry is usually explained as an outworking of national natural advantage, as an ingenious harnessing of science and technology to solve production problems, and as a rational solution to the problems associated with the worst forms of unregulated competition that emerged as independent firms developed from small-scale, artisanal production to large-scale manufacturers, on their own and within the separate and isolated US economy. The first study dedicated to the development and diffusion of American harvesting machine technology, this book will appeal to scholars from a diverse range of fields, including economic history, business history, the history of knowledge transfer, historical geography and economic geography.

Book Images of Power

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  • Author : Jens Andermann
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781845452124
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Images of Power written by Jens Andermann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, 'postmodern' forms of sovereignty appear to rely even more heavily on visual discourses of power. However, a critique of the iconography of the modern state-form has been missing. This volume is the first concerted attempt by cultural, historical and visual scholars to address the political dimension of visual culture in Latin America, in a comparative perspective spanning various regions and historical stages. The case studies are divided into four sections, analysing the formation of a public sphere, the visual politics of avant-garde art, the impact of mass society on political iconography, and the consolidation and crisis of territory as a key icon of the state. Jens Andermann is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Birkbeck College, London, and co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Among his publications are Mapas de poder: una arqueología literaria del espacio argentino (Rosario, 2000) and articles for major journals in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the US. William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His book Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America (London, 1991) has been translated into several languages. His most recent works, apart from translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry, are Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life (Oxford, 2000) and Ensayos vallejianos (Berkeley and Lima, 2006).

Book Inglorious

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  • Author : Joanna Kavenna
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2008-05-27
  • ISBN : 0312427883
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book Inglorious written by Joanna Kavenna and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rosa Lane, a promising young journalist, impulsively hits the send button on an email to her boss saying "I quit," so begins her pursuit of enlightenment in the jungles of cutthroat London. As she embarks upon her quest for a sense of purpose, she is deceived by her lover, surprised by her friends, turned out by her roommate, threatened by her bank manager, picked over by prospective employers, and tormented by all the bizarre expectations of the modern world. An erudite and darkly comic novel, brimming with lacerating wit and compassion, Inglorious is a truly engrossing character study of a woman walking the edge between self-destruction and self-discovery.

Book The Theatre

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1879
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book The Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume for 1888 includes dramatic directory for February-December; volume for 1889 includes dramatic directory for January-May.

Book The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime written by Saskia Hufnagel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook showcases studies on art theft, fraud and forgeries, cultural heritage offences and related legal and ethical challenges. It has been authored by prominent scholars, practitioners and journalists in the field and includes both overviews of particular art crime issues as well as regional and national case studies. It is one of the first scholarly books in the current art crime literature that can be utilised as an immediate authoritative reference source or teaching tool. It also includes a bibliographic guide to the current literature across interdisciplinary boundaries. Apart from legal, criminological, archeological and historical perspectives on theft, fraud and looting, this volume contains chapters on iconoclasm and graffiti, underwater cultural heritage, the trade in human remains and the trade, theft and forgery of papyri. The book thereby hopes to encourage scholars from a wider variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to art crime research.

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science  Art  and Finance

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science Art and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Uniting in Measures of Common Good

Download or read book Uniting in Measures of Common Good written by Darren Ferry and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a compelling and comprehensive treatment of the nineteenth-century voluntary association movement, Darren Ferry situates these organizations within the much larger framework of the construction of collective liberal identities. He shows that by attempting to transcend the political, religious, class, and ethnic divisions of their constituencies, voluntary societies acted as cultural mediators in the reproduction, transmission, and contestation of liberal values throughout central Canadian society. Ferry examines a wide selection of voluntary societies - mechanics' institutes, mutual benefit organizations, agricultural associations, temperance societies, and literary and scientific associations. He reinterprets the history of these organizations in terms of their own internal tensions over liberal doctrines and the effect of social, cultural, and economic change and compares the effects of liberalism on rural and urban associations and on societies in both English and French Canada. Anchored with an array of archival documentation - minute books, lectures, associational periodicals, personal papers, pamphlets, and tracts - Uniting in Measures of Common Good illuminates the experience of ordinary Canadians withi the voluntary association movement and as well as the relations of the movement with the larger liberal society.

Book The Modern Girl

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  • Author : Jane Nicholas
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2015-03-27
  • ISBN : 1442616539
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Modern Girl written by Jane Nicholas and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her short skirt, bobbed hair, and penchant for smoking, drinking, dancing, and jazz, the “Modern Girl” was a fixture of 1920s Canadian consumer culture. She appeared in art, film, fashion, and advertising, as well as on the streets of towns from coast to coast. In The Modern Girl, Jane Nicholas argues that this feminine image was central to the creation of what it meant to be modern and female in Canada. Using a wide range of visual and textual evidence, Nicholas illuminates both the frequent public debates about female appearance and the realities of feminine self-presentation. She argues that women played an active and thoughtful role in their embrace of modern consumer culture, even when it was at the risk of serious social, economic, and cultural penalties. The first book to fully examine the “Modern Girl”’s place in Canadian culture, The Modern Girl will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of gender, sexuality, and the body in the modern world.

Book Andrew Marvell

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  • Author : Augustine Birrell
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2020-07-17
  • ISBN : 3752310294
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Andrew Marvell written by Augustine Birrell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Andrew Marvell by Augustine Birrell