Charlie's Family
Title | Charlie's Family PDF eBook |
Author | Jim VanBebber |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
Illustrated screenplay to the cult film by Jim Van,Bebber, acclaimed as the best ever Manson movieplus a history of Manson on film by Jim Morton.
Title | PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Seid |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2008-11-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1438911009 |
Desensitized. That's what all sports fans have become to the plethora of criminal-athletes that pervade our sports culture. So what will the bombastic owner of the New England Mavericks do when he learns that America's most notorious inmate has developed a literally unhittable pitch while playing for his prison baseball team? A sportsworld littered with bad boys who belong on Cops rather than on a box of Wheaties is deplorable. But when a man can throw the ball 81 times per game and not one pitch is so much as foul-tipped...what's not to love?
The Vows of Penelope Corelli
Title | The Vows of Penelope Corelli PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Vetere |
Publisher | Dramatic Publishing |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | American drama |
ISBN | 9780871298621 |
Architecture and Control
Title | Architecture and Control PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2018-01-03 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9004355626 |
Architecture and Control makes a collective critical intervention into the relationship between architecture, including virtual architectures, and practices of control since the turn of the twentieth to twenty-first centuries. Authors from the fields of architectural theory, literature, film and cultural studies come together here with visual artists to explore the contested sites at which, in the present day, attempts at gaining control give rise to architectures of control as well as the potential for architectures of resistance. Together, these contributions make clear how a variety of post-2000 architectures enable control to be established, all the while observing how certain architectures and infrastructures allow for alternative, progressive modes of control, and even modes of the unforeseen and the uncontrolled, to arise. Contributors are: Pablo Bustinduy, Rafael Dernbach, Alexander R. Galloway, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Maria Finn, Runa Johannessen, Natalie Koerner, Michael Krause, Samantha Martin-McAuliffe, Lorna Muir, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Anne Elisabeth Sejten and Joey Whitfield
The Road to Wellville
Title | The Road to Wellville PDF eBook |
Author | T.C. Boyle |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 1994-05-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 110164026X |
Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too. So begins T. Coraghessan Boyle's wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives--or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in the New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville "A marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end."
The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse
Title | The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Holt |
Publisher | Orbit |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2023-10-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316566977 |
Tom Holt’s brilliantly funny new novel set in the world of The Portable Door (now a delightful movie starring Patrick Gibson, Sophie Wilde, and Christoph Waltz). The team of commercial sorcerers at Dawson, Ahriman & Dawson can help with any metaphysical engineering project, large or small (though by definition they all tend to be pretty large). They can also create massive great puddles of chaos that might one day swallow up the entire universe. Take, for example, the decision to recruit a certain bearded fellow whose previous work experience mainly involves reindeer and jingle bells. It might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but is he really the best person to save the world from Tiamat the Destroyer, who has literally gone ballistic? For more from Tom Holt, check out: An Orc on the Wild Side The Management Style of the Supreme Beings The Good, The Bad, and the Smug The Outsorcerer's Apprentice When It's a Jar Doughnut Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages Blonde Bombshell
Business Scandals, Corruption, and Reform [2 volumes]
Title | Business Scandals, Corruption, and Reform [2 volumes] PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Giroux |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 814 |
Release | 2013-07-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1440800685 |
Written by an expert on financial analysis and capitalism, this book describes the widespread corruption and specific scandals that have occurred throughout history when ethically-challenged innovators and greedy scoundrels are unable to resist the dark side of corruption. Since the dawn of civilization, corruption has had a perpetual impact on the world's economies. In the modern, technology-enabled, global economy, the effects of those who manipulate free-market capitalism for their own gains regardless of methodology continue to be a problem, despite reforms instituted to attempt to discourage the most blatant practices. Business Scandals, Corruption, and Reform: An Encyclopedia contains more than 300 entries that describe the myriad aspects of corruption, business scandals, and attempts at reform, providing not only detailed information about specific accounting scandals and earnings manipulation but also a broad examination of the entire history of business corruption throughout human civilization. Reviewing all the major scandals from tulip mania in the early 17th century to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 and beyond, the author illuminates how corrupt actors in business and the attempts to eliminate these types of abuses have been instrumental to the developing institutional framework of free-market capitalism.