Download or read book Among the Thugs written by Bill Buford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson.

Download or read book Vintage Love written by Clarissa Ross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 6063 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance's roots go deep into literary history, and Crimson Romance is proud to bring you this collection from one of our genre's pioneers: Clarissa Ross. This rare set of classics highlights the surprisingly modern problems that trip up would-be lovers, from career woes to social status, family ties to old flames. Ross takes readers from historic London to 1970s New York City in these ten novels - but always leaves you believing in happily ever after! Venetian Moon Masquerade Eternal Desire So Perilous, My Love Flame of Love A Scandalous Affair Wine of Passion Jennifer by Moonlight A Bridge for Judith Only Make-Believe Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors

Download or read book The Vintage written by Joseph William Sharts and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thug Notes written by Sparky Sweets, PhD and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparky Sweets, PhD, and Wisecrack proudly present this outrageously funny, ultra-sharp guide to literature based on the hit online series, Thug Notes. Inside, you'll find hilarious plot breakdowns and masterful analyses of sixteen of literature's most beloved classics, including: Things Fall Apart, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamlet, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, and more! The series Thug Notes has been featured on BET, PBS, and NPR and has been used in hundreds of classrooms around the world. Whether you’re a student, teacher, or straight-up literary gangster like Dr. Sweets, Thug Notes has got you covered. You'll certainly never look at literature the same way again.

Download or read book The Vintage and the Gleaning written by Jeremy Chambers and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vintage and the Gleaning is set in a winemaking town in the north-east of Victoria, close to the Murray River. Smithy is a retired shearer turned vineyard worker who has recently been forced to give up drinking after a lifetime of alcoholism. In his new sobriety he is contemplating the world in which he lives and the man he has been and become with a new understanding. Assaulted by long forgotten memories, Smithy is forced to take stock of his own past. Overwhelmed with feelings of regret, guilt, loss and nostalgia for the past, Smithy is trapped in a blind search for meaning as he realises that he cannot undo the repercussions of his wasted life. He is a desperate and lonely old man seeking beauty in an ugly world. Living in the same town is Charlotte, a young woman in a dangerous relationship, whose misfortunes have led her into an uneasy friendship with Smithy. It is in his confused and ultimately futile attempts to help Charlotte that he seeks redemption.

Download or read book Drugs Thugs and Divas written by O. Hugo Benavides and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soap opera speaks a universal language, presenting characters and plots that resonate far beyond the culture that creates them. Latin American soap operas—telenovelas—have found enthusiastic audiences throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as in Egypt, Russia, and China, while Mexican narco-dramas have become highly popular among Latinos in the United States. In this first comprehensive analysis of telenovelas and narco-dramas, Hugo Benavides assesses the dynamic role of melodrama in creating meaningful cultural images to explain why these genres have become so successful while more elite cultural productions are declining in popularity. Benavides offers close readings of the Colombian telenovelas Betty la fea (along with its Mexican and U.S. reincarnations La fea más bella and Ugly Betty), Adrián está de visita, and Pasión de gavilanes; the Brazilian historical telenovela Xica; and a variety of Mexican narco-drama films. Situating these melodramas within concrete historical developments in Latin America, he shows how telenovelas and narco-dramas serve to unite peoples of various countries and provide a voice of rebellion against often-oppressive governmental systems. Indeed, Benavides concludes that as one of the most effective and lucrative industries in Latin America, telenovelas and narco-dramas play a key role in the ongoing reconfiguration of social identities and popular culture.

Download or read book Drugs and Thugs written by Russell Crandall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and highly readable work on the evolution of America’s domestic and global drug war How can the United States chart a path forward in the war on drugs? In Drugs and Thugs, Russell Crandall uncovers the full history of this war that has lasted more than a century. As a scholar and a high-level national security advisor to both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, he provides an essential view of the economic, political, and human impacts of U.S. drug policies. Backed by extensive research, lucid and unbiased analysis of policy, and his own personal experiences, Crandall takes readers from Afghanistan to Colombia, to Peru and Mexico, to Miami International Airport and the border crossing between El Paso and Juarez to trace the complex social networks that make up the drug trade and drug consumption. Through historically driven stories, Crandall reveals how the war on drugs has evolved to address mass incarceration, the opioid epidemic, the legalization and medical use of marijuana, and America’s shifting foreign policy.

Download or read book The Shark Infested Custard written by Charles Willeford and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the master of Miami noir comes this tale of four regular guys living in a singles apartment building who experience firsthand that there's more than one type of heat in Miami. Larry Dolman is a rather literal minded ex-cop who now works private security. Eddie Miller is an airline pilot who's studying to get his real estate license. Don Luchessi is a silver salesman who's separated from his wife but too Catholic to get a divorce. Hank Norton is a drug company rep who gets four times as many dames as any of the other guys. They are all regular guys who like to drink, play cards, meet broads, and shoot a little pool. But when a friendly bet goes horribly awry, they find themselves with two dead bodies on their hands and a homicidal husband in the wings—and acting more like hardened criminals than upstanding citizens.

Download or read book Wild Wives written by Charles Willeford and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake Blake is a private detective short on cash when he meets a rich and beautiful young woman looking to escape her father’s smothering influence. Unfortunately for Jake, the smothering influence includes two thugs hired to protect her—and the woman is in fact not the daughter of the man she wants to escape, but his wife. Now Jake has two angry thugs and one jealous husband on his case. As Jake becomes more deeply involved with this glamorous and possibly crazy woman, he becomes entangled in a web of deceit, intrigue—and multiple murders. Brilliant, sardonic, and full of surprises, Wild Wives is one wild ride.

Download or read book The New York Times Film Reviews 1999 2000 written by New York Times Theater Reviews and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Oscar-winning blockbustersAmerican BeautyandShakespeare in Loveto Sundance oddities likeAmerican MovieandThe Tao of Steve, to foreign films such asAll About My Mother, the latest volume in this popular series features a chronological collection of facsimiles of every film review and awards article published inThe New York Timesbetween January 1999 and December 2000. Includes a full index of personal names, titles, and corporate names. This collection is an invaluable resource for all libraries.

Download or read book Willing Suspension of Disbelief written by Anthony J. Ferri and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith in Film is a study of the way we watch film. Anthony Ferri explores the way expectations influence what they see, feel, and experience. Using Coleridge's term "willing suspension of disbelief" as a starting point, Ferri sets forth a fascinating study of the psychology of watching film. While film scholars and professionals have alluded to Coleridge's term in a parenthetical or tertiary manner, this volume makes a definitive account for the concept and provides a contemporary analysis of the film viewing process from a variety of critical and empirical perspectives.Willing Suspension of Disbelief is valuable for film scholars and students of film.

Download or read book Hot Mic written by Jamie Collins and published by Jamie Collins. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah is a mom with a Ph.D. and a savior complex. But sometimes, the rescuer needs the saving. Pop-psychologist Dr. Hannah is radio royalty. At the top of her game and quick to dispense sage advice to an audience of listeners hungry for her special brand of self-help served at fifty thousand watts. Hannah’s rising star does not go unnoticed. When TV Producer Bumpy Friedman with Global Network is ready to cast his next juggernaut—an all woman talkfest, Hannah proves to be an ideal fit as one of the show’s four fiery and dynamic hosts. But behind the scenes, Hannah is navigating her own minefield of real-life crises, including a shaky marriage, a mid-life fourth-born who is now a teenager, an ailing parent, and a set of adorable twin granddaughters that need her – all at a time when most boomers would be contemplating retirement. Unfortunately for Hannah, her sixtieth birthday is just the beginning of her new life ahead. One that will be filled with hard choices and challenges that will not only test her mettle, but also help her—and the world, see her true worth. Hot Mic! is the third book in the “Secrets and Stilettos” women’s fiction series by Jamie Collins. If you like fun, sexy reads, poignant stories about women with adventurous pasts, and endings that keep you guessing, then you’ll love this book!

Download or read book Thugs Seven written by Wahida Clark and published by WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance and Thug Lovin' is at its pinnacle in part 7 of the Thug Series. Trae and Tasha fight to hold on to what they have after he's released from prison, but when Trae is given a package containing some damning information regarding Tasha, is there any hope of salvaging the relationship? Kyra has to decide who she will choose: her unborn baby or Rick, the man she loves, but who is in another relationship. Can Rick break his two women out of their Western civilization mind-set in order to become one big, happy family? Who is the mysterious Lolita who suddenly shows up at a baby shower, and what is her connection to Don Carlos, a drug lord? Is she trying to set them up? Angel has to pledge her love to Kaylin once again while Jaz and Faheem try to start all over while mourning the loss of his murdered son. Will the couples be able to protect their marriages? Trouble is brewing at the baby shower where the outcome could very well be a toe tag or a jail cell. Will the brothers get down for whatever when it comes to protecting their family? Thugs Seven, by bestselling author Wahida Clark, is a thriller, action & disaster book with well-developed characters fighting their own personal demons. Be prepared for sleep deprivation because this is a real page-turner.

Download or read book Utopians and Nihilists written by Ernest Emaku Envuladu and published by Wordclay. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he woke up from so horrendous a dream the lifesaver realized that there was a frightening correlation between the dream and his reality. His wife urged him to go report to the police-that was the only logical thing to do in such circumstances. But how would she understand the monstrous course of events that she had unleashed. Like the witchdoctor's mirror, after the abracadabra that it was that it was, the mirror in their bedroom displayed his momentous encounter with the great state dispatcher whom he had just encountered for the fifth consecutive night in that horrendous dream. Moments later he took leave of his household, anoints his successor with oil and walks into the most difficult night of his life. Oklo is an idealistic young journalist whose infatuation with his co-worker Nana is simmering to the surface. But it is a most deadly infatuation, for she is also the object of fancy of so despicable a politician and businessman-a man for whom her kind is just another collectible to be had. There is a most abominable link between the lifesaver, the victim of the second murder and the object of Oklo's infatuation, which slowly unravels. Meanwhile Oklo's rendezvous brings forth a monstrous part of him that is at variance, and engages in this momentous battle with his true soul-the soul he had always known to be his.

Download or read book Girl on a Wire written by Libby Phelps and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wasn’t until Libby Phelps was an adult, a twenty-five year old, that she escaped the Westboro Baptist Church. She is the granddaughter of its founder, Fred Phelps, and when she left, the church and its values were all she’d known. She didn’t tell her family she was leaving. It happened in just a few minutes; she ran into her house, grabbed a bag, and fled. No goodbyes. Based in Topeka, Kansas, the Westboro Baptist Church community is one the country’s most notorious evangelical groups. Its members are known for their boisterous picketing—their zealous members with anti-military, anti-Semitic, and anti-gay signs—“Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” “God Hates Jews,” or “Thank God for 9/11”—and their notorious catchphrase “God hates fags.” Search for them online and you’re directed to their website, www.godhatesfags.com. The church makes headlines in news across the country. You’ve driven past its picketers or seen them on TV. It has seventy members and ninety percent of them are part of Libby’s family. They picket concerts, football games, other churches, and, most notoriously, the funerals of servicemen and victims of hate crimes. For its members, to question its rules is to risk going to hell—where worms eat at your body and fire shoots out of your eyeballs. In Girl on a Wire, Libby is candid about her experience and what’s happened since her escape. On Anderson Cooper Live, she was confronted by the mother of a soldier whose funeral had been picketed, and had to respond. Despite it all, she cares for her family. Her grandfather’s sermons were fear mongering, but she loves him. This unusual memoir presents a rare, inside look into a notorious cult, and is an astonishing story of strength, bravery, and determination.

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Download or read book Pimps Wimps Studs Thugs and Gentlemen written by Elwood Watson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With essays ranging in topic from the films of Neil LaBute to the sexual politics of Major League Baseball, this diverse collection of essays examines the multi-faceted media images of contemporary masculinity from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines. The book's first half focuses on the issue of racialized masculinity and its various manifestations, with essays covering, among other topics, the re-imagining of Asian American masculinity in Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow and the ever-present image of black male buffoonery in the neo-minstrel performances of VH1's Flavor of Love. The book's second half explores the issue of contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity, with essays focusing on popular media representations of men in a variety of gendered roles, from homemakers and househusbands to valorous war heroes and athletic demigods.