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Book The Warriors

    Book Details:
  • Author : BradyGames (Firm)
  • Publisher : BradyGames
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780744005493
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book The Warriors written by BradyGames (Firm) and published by BradyGames. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the classic 1979 cult film from Paramount Pictures, The Warriors expands the cinematic journey of the movie into a gritty interactive (game) experience set in 1970's New York.

Book The Warrior s Camera

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  • Author : Stephen Prince
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1999-11-14
  • ISBN : 9780691010465
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book The Warrior s Camera written by Stephen Prince and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, helped ignite Western interest in the Japanese cinema. Seven Samurai and Yojimbo remain enormously popular both in Japan and abroad. In this newly revised and expanded edition of his study of Kurosawa's films, Stephen Prince provides two new chapters that examine Kurosawa's remaining films, placing him in the context of cinema history. Prince also discusses how Kurosawa furnished a template for some well-known Hollywood directors, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. Providing a new and comprehensive look at this master filmmaker, The Warrior's Camera probes the complex visual structure of Kurosawa's work. The book shows how Kurosawa attempted to symbolize on film a course of national development for post-war Japan, and it traces the ways that he tied his social visions to a dynamic system of visual and narrative forms. The author analyzes Kurosawa's entire career and places the films in context by drawing on the director's autobiography--a fascinating work that presents Kurosawa as a Kurosawa character and the story of his life as the kind of spiritual odyssey witnessed so often in his films. After examining the development of Kurosawa's visual style in his early work, The Warrior's Camera explains how he used this style in subsequent films to forge a politically committed model of filmmaking. It then demonstrates how the collapse of Kurosawa's efforts to participate as a filmmaker in the tasks of social reconstruction led to the very different cinematic style evident in his most recent films, works of pessimism that view the world as resistant to change.

Book The Holy Warriors

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  • Author : Abraham Rothberg
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 1411630386
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book The Holy Warriors written by Abraham Rothberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clandestine cell of Arab jihadis bomb multiple targets in New York City. Their intentions are to strike at various significant symbols of American life and thereby force the American President to show himself publicly to reassure New York's citizens. Once he comes to New York, they plan to assassinate him. A small special committee from C.I.A., the F.B.I., U.S. Army Intelligence and the New York City Police, aided by an Arabic-speaking Israeli Mossad agent is appointed to hunt the jihadis down before they can do any further damage and to prevent them from killing the President. A cliff-hanger novel of suspense, The Holy Warriors shows us the deadly chess game between these two forces, from both the jihadis' side and the American side, as well as the seething violence and the savage personal dramas beneath the hunters and the hunted. Time Magazine writes Violence has become the idiom of the times, and Rothberg proves that he understands all the nuances!

Book The Warriors

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  • Author : John Jakes
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2012-07-10
  • ISBN : 1453255958
  • Pages : 780 pages

Download or read book The Warriors written by John Jakes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family builds an empire amid murder, betrayal, and the Civil War, in this saga by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South. With the Civil War reaching its gory climax, the divided Kent family is pushed to the edge of complete destruction. With the advent of the transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad, the Kents continue to fight for their foothold among America’s wealthy founding families. While their private, insular war rages, young Jeremiah Kent is tempted by a calculating Southern belle into a trap of deceit, lust, and murder. There’s no turning back as the Kents’ destiny is set on an irreversible course alongside the great rebirth of America. This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

Book The Patriot s Warriors

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  • Author : John Paltanawick
  • Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
  • Release : 2021-04-21
  • ISBN : 1636610471
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Patriot s Warriors written by John Paltanawick and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Patriot's Warriors By: John Paltanawick John Colton, an ex-Navy Seal, call sign Cobalt, is convinced by an ex-army ranger to attend a meeting at a small-town American Legion in the beginning stages of forming a Constitutional Militia. Their purpose: to protect the local citizens from a storm of violence that is moving across America and has already reached their border. A global pandemic ravages America, news of unjustified police killings of black people angers millions of Americans. Black People Matter (BPM), a Marxist organization exercising First Amendment Rights to peacefully protest, sieges an opportunity to change the course of American democracy. All police departments must be defunded. With the police handcuffed by their mayors, protests become violent, businesses are destroyed, looting escalates, and a new domestic terrorist group evolves in several major cities, Antifa. John Colton’s militia has an enemy.

Book Cloud Warriors

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  • Author : Rob Jung
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2019-02-22
  • ISBN : 1785359193
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Cloud Warriors written by Rob Jung and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of the century... Anthropology professor Terry Castro, leading a summer-school program in the Peruvian rain forest, stumbles upon the remnant of a nation of tall, white-skinned warriors from the time of the Incan empire. But, when a simple accident leaves Castro poisoned, a series of events are set in motion that threaten his life, and the extinction of the tribe. With the help of a young medium, Carrie Waters, Castro tries to find a remedy and discovers the poison also has the capability of tripling life expectancy. Waters confides in her uncle, Vikter Glass, a pharmaceutical company executive, in the hope that the company can manufacture an antidote. Her innocent attempt to save the man she loves triggers a race to locate the lost tribe and its fountain-of-youth elixir. Scientific advancement collides with corporate greed as competing forces converge on the tribe. The ensuing battle leaves the survivors asking: might extending human life expectancy destroy society as we know it? “I want a book that will take me someplace I've never been before. Rob Jung does that with Cloud Warriors...a fast-paced, exotic suspense novel into the heart of darkness.” Steve Thayer: New York Times bestselling author of THE WEATHERMAN

Book Road Warriors

Download or read book Road Warriors written by John Howard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So far, he has seized $700,000 of American businessmen's assets. Every Mafia casino has been closed, and over a billion dollars of mob money has been confiscated. Sam Giancana and other Mafia bigwigs are extremely unhappy with Fidel. They are looking for a way to get even. So are the Americans, many of whom have been forced to flee to safety. Castro has already executed seven hundred Cuban citizens who dared to object to his murderous regime. There are no rights in Cuba other than those granted by Fidel Castro and his henchmen. Murder and mayhem are the order of the day. The burning question is, what can be done to stop Castro? On March 17th, President Eisenhower gives his permission for the C.I.A.'s Allen Dulles and Richard Bissell to develop a small, covert, anti-Castro operation. A thousand Cuban refugees will be recruited and trained as guerrilla fighters and saboteurs. When they're ready, they'll be infiltrated back into Cuba, where they'll begin a series of raids designed to upset, and eventually overthrow, the Castro regime. In the pages of The Castro Conspiracy we'll meet the U.S. Marine and Special Forces personnel who train those men. We'll visit them in their Central American mountain and jungle training camps. Then we'll watch as the 1960 Presidential Election puts a reluctant commander-in-chief in the White House, and see the entire, carefully orchestrated, covert operation fall apart. We'll attend dozens of secret meetings conducted by the CIA, FBI, and the CFR. At those meetings we'll finally discover why Operation Trinidad, a small, easily controlled and plausible incursion, a plan that was almost certain to succeed, was turned into the over-zealous, overly ambitious, and impossible to control fiasco that the Bay of Pigs Invasion eventually became. We'll meet the Kennedy family and the Castros, along with the deadly Mafia hitmen who are recruited to kill Castro. Washington insiders and Hollywood stars will be on display. Along the way we'll watch men who willingly risk their lives to achieve success, and women who willingly use their wiles to keep them from gaining that success. We'll get to know Jack Kennedy, a man who desperately wants the Cuban Invasion to succeed, and John F. Kennedy, a president who desperately can't afford to allow it to. And we'll be present when he cancels American air support the decision that spelled doom for the invasion and every Cuba Freedom Fighter. We'll spend three frightening days in the middle of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and eighteen frustrating months in its aftermath fighting and dying on the beaches running and hiding in the swamps sweating and suffering in the prisons. And wondering, always wondering, why the Americanos deserted us? We'll

Book Voodoo Warriors

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  • Author : Nigel Walpole
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword
  • Release : 2007-03-28
  • ISBN : 1783409770
  • Pages : 546 pages

Download or read book Voodoo Warriors written by Nigel Walpole and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-03-28 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the supersonic fighter with “interesting insight into the period of the 1950s and early 1960s, the Cold War and of course the war in Vietnam” (Military Modelling). During the mid–1950s the United States Air Force was given its most powerful single-seat, two-engine fighter to date. The Voodoo would be deployed before the end of that decade in the tactical nuclear bomber and tactical reconnaissance roles worldwide, and in homeland defense with the two-seat, all-weather variant. In December 1957 it took the World Air Speed Record to Mach 1.6—over one and a half times faster than the sound barrier. This book looks at the evolution of the original design and its introduction into service. Chapters cover operations in Korea, Vietnam, the Cuban Crisis and in Europe during the Cold War years. Many first-hand accounts from pilots are included and the author’s own experiences with the aircraft are given with fascinating insight. The Voodoo was an elegant, mean-looking fighting machine that epitomized fast flying in the fifties and sixties. It continues to be a revered airplane. “Definitely a book that gives an in depth look at the Voodoo and the pilots who flew her.”—InScale.org

Book The Warrior s Camera

Download or read book The Warrior s Camera written by Stephen Prince and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, helped ignite Western interest in the Japanese cinema. Seven Samurai and Yojimbo remain enormously popular both in Japan and abroad. In this newly revised and expanded edition of his study of Kurosawa's films, Stephen Prince provides two new chapters that examine Kurosawa's remaining films, placing him in the context of cinema history. Prince also discusses how Kurosawa furnished a template for some well-known Hollywood directors, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. Providing a new and comprehensive look at this master filmmaker, The Warrior's Camera probes the complex visual structure of Kurosawa's work. The book shows how Kurosawa attempted to symbolize on film a course of national development for post-war Japan, and it traces the ways that he tied his social visions to a dynamic system of visual and narrative forms. The author analyzes Kurosawa's entire career and places the films in context by drawing on the director's autobiography--a fascinating work that presents Kurosawa as a Kurosawa character and the story of his life as the kind of spiritual odyssey witnessed so often in his films. After examining the development of Kurosawa's visual style in his early work, The Warrior's Camera explains how he used this style in subsequent films to forge a politically committed model of filmmaking. It then demonstrates how the collapse of Kurosawa's efforts to participate as a filmmaker in the tasks of social reconstruction led to the very different cinematic style evident in his most recent films, works of pessimism that view the world as resistant to change.

Book Her Warriors

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  • Author : Bianca D'Arc
  • Publisher : Hawk Publishing, LLC
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1311646035
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book Her Warriors written by Bianca D'Arc and published by Hawk Publishing, LLC. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s got not one, but two tigers by the tail, though she’ll need all the help she can get as danger stalks the trio’s every move. Jacki is the privileged daughter of a prominent shifter Clan. Most of her relatives are lion shifters, so she knows how to handle cats on the prowl, but she is a much rarer selkie—a seal shifter—imbued with magic and surrounded by mystery. When an opportunity arises to step into a key role in shifter society, she is uncertain, but willing to try. Tiger shifter Beau has anger issues, but not when he’s around Jacki. He’s been following her around like a puppy, but she hasn’t taken notice of him…until now. No matter how long Geir has lived in the States, he’s still the odd man out. A tiger shifter native of Iceland, he is a Master of his craft, training other warriors the skills he has perfected. When he meets Jacki, he knows she is the one for him. When Jacki realizes she doesn’t have to choose between the two tigers, but rather, can have them both, she is more than intrigued. But someone is stalking their path and they must work together to nullify the danger, all while trying to figure out a complicated relationship that has all three of them questioning fate. The String of Fate series includes: 1. Cat's Cradle 2. King's Throne 3. Jacob's Ladder 4. Her Warriors String of Fate is also related to, and a part of, the larger Tales of the Were series. For more great big cat shifter stories set in this world, check out the Redstone Clan set, which contains: - The Purrfect Stranger (novella) 1. Grif 2. Red 3. Magnus 4. Bobcat 5. Matt All of the String of Fate, Brotherhood of Blood, Tales of the Were, Redstone Clan, Grizzly Cove, Jaguar Island, Gemini Project and Lick of Fire books are related. They all happen in the same contemporary paranormal world and share characters and events between them.

Book The Warriors of Atopia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Colin Litten-Brown
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2011-07-14
  • ISBN : 1456778218
  • Pages : 421 pages

Download or read book The Warriors of Atopia written by Colin Litten-Brown and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nemetonum Society faces an even greater threat than before and once again the secret of the Gwydion Stones is challenged by foes that strive to possess their awesome power. From across the barrier of the inter-dimensional void the survivors of Atlantis strive to return to Earth while in England the remnants of Marcus Wolffs operation regroup and return to the attack. In the midst of these new threats, Hannah Chappel-Jones discovers an even more incredible secret, one her family have kept for over a century that sheds light on the very origin of the stones themselves. With assailants on all sides, the Society struggles to defend the stones against the most powerful threat they have ever faced. In their darkest hour of need, can they find help in the most unlikely of places and can they stand up to the Warriors of Atopia? The Warriors of Atopia: the sequel to The Gates of Atopia.

Book Robot Warriors

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Jefferis
  • Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780778728870
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Robot Warriors written by David Jefferis and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how robot warriors help soldiers during war. They are run by computers operated by humans or remote controls. Shows how using robots for dangerous work can help prevent injury to humans.

Book Time Travel Warriors

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  • Author : Mark Duffield
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2017-11-03
  • ISBN : 1490784675
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Time Travel Warriors written by Mark Duffield and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Although things happen to the Worthington family, Luke and Scott never imagined in a million years that they'd ever create a time-travel machine. But they have, and now their adventure begins. Hurled back and forth in time, they come face-to-face with ferocious dinosaurs, fight gladiators in ancient Rome, and fly spaceships in the distant future. Helped in their struggle to return home by Percy and Troy, elite time-guardian warriors - all they have to do is find the mythical Crystal of Time, capture an evil time guardian, and defeat a skeleton army that cannot be killed. No pressure then. "

Book The Sin Warriors

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  • Author : Julian E. Farris
  • Publisher : Lethe Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1590212746
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Sin Warriors written by Julian E. Farris and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, three hundred teachers and students in Florida vanished. No storm troopers. No mass graves. Who were they? Just wasted lives from blackmail, coercion, entrapment-tactics of state senator Charlie Johns and his covert investigations of homosexuals in Florida's universities. The Sin Warriors is a novel inspired by those actual events. David Ashton has struggled for self-acceptance and identity his entire life. David's estrangement from a dysfunctional family childhood, his sexual awakening and bonding with his gay professor places them in the crosshairs of state senator Billy Sloat, an ambitious, country politician obsessed with ridding the university of subversives-homosexuals, blacks, alleged communists-on the heels of the McCarthy hearings during the mid-fifties. But who is Sloat actually, and where does his hatred and contempt come from? From a backwoods childhood in North Florida to his reign as a powerful senator, Sloat intends to destroy the new life David has built for himself in college, and questions are raised: What is family? Whom should we love? What price do we pay to defend our country and our integrity? Which is more enduring-fear or love? These themes provide counterpoint to corrupt politicians and their abuse of power to further their own prejudices and limited understanding of what it is to be human.

Book The Naked Warriors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francis D. Fane
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1996-10-15
  • ISBN : 9780312959852
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Naked Warriors written by Francis D. Fane and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-10-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing a fanatical enemy in Europe and in the Pacific, U.S. planners turned to a new kind of warrior--daring swimmers who could knock out mine, map out enemy beaches, and pave the way for Allied naval assaults. With a few extraordinary men, the U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams went to war. Now, the commander of this unit takes readers into their world in this first book in the Special Warfare series. Photo insert.

Book The Whale Warriors

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  • Author : Peter Heller
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2008-10-14
  • ISBN : 141653248X
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Whale Warriors written by Peter Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two months, journalist Heller was aboard the pirate ship the "Farley Mowat" as it stalked its prey--a Japanese whaling fleet. Now, Heller chronicles this hair-raising journey, whose mission was to stop illegal whaling in the stormy, remote seas off Antarctica. 288.

Book Warriors  Witches  Whores

Download or read book Warriors Witches Whores written by Rachel S. Harris and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist reading of women’s representation and activism in Israeli cinema. Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema is a feminist study of Israel’s film industry and the changes that have occurred since the 1990s. Working in feminist film theory, the book adopts a cultural studies approach, considering the creation of a female-centered and thematically feminist film culture in light of structural and ideological shifts in Israeli society. Author Rachel S. Harris situates these changes in dialogue with the cinematic history that preceded them and the ongoing social inequalities that perpetuate women’s marginalization within Israeli society. While no one can deny Israel’s Western women’s advancements, feminist filmmakers frequently turn to Israel’s less impressive underbelly as sources for their inspiration. Their films have focused on sexism, the negative impact of militarism on women’s experience, rape culture, prostitution, and sexual abuse. These films also tend to include subjects from society’s geographical periphery and social margins, such as female foreign workers, women, and refugees. Warriors, Witches, Whoresis divided into three major sections and each considers a different form of feminist engagement. The first part explores films that situate women in traditionally male spheres of militarism, considering the impact of interjecting women within hegemonic spaces or reconceptualizing them in feminist ways. The second part recovers the narratives of women’s experience that were previously marginalized or silenced, thereby creating a distinct female space that offers new kinds of storytelling and cinematic aesthetics that reflect feminist expressions of identity. The third part offers examples of feminist activism that reach beyond the boundaries of the film to comment on social issues. This section demonstrates how feminists use film (and work within the film industry) in order to position women in society. While there are thematic overlaps between the chapters, each section marks structural differences in the modes of feminist response. Warriors, Witches, Whores considers the ways social and political power have affected the representation of women and looks to how feminist filmmakers have fought against these inequities behind the camera and in the stories they tell. Students and scholars of film, gender, or cultural studies will appreciate this approachable monograph.