Tarnished Icons
Title | Tarnished Icons PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart M. Kaminsky |
Publisher | Overamstel Uitgevers |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2012-10-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9049983588 |
Rostnikov uncovers a crime spree with roots in a long-lost Tsarist treasure Porfiry Rostnikov was just a boy when he lobbed a grenade at the Nazi tank, destroying the evil machine and his left leg with it. And after five decades’ dragging his lame leg behind him, the police inspector decides to have the useless limb amputated. The Cold War is over, and as Russia learns to walk again, its finest policeman must do the same. Meanwhile, a knife-wielding rapist known as the Silent One terrorizes the women of Moscow, and a bloodthirsty gunman begins a campaign to exterminate the city’s Jews. And while investigating this hate-fueled crime wave, Rostnikov uncovers a mystery concerning a murdered baroness and a priceless wolf statue that has been missing since 1862. Moscow is on the verge of a bright new future, but the horrors of this ancient city’s past may mean a return to the dark ages.
Owning Up
Title | Owning Up PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Adams |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2009-07-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199714312 |
Owning Up argues that from its beginning the U.S. discourse on privacy has been couched in terms of violation and dispossession, so that even as nineteenth-century Americans came to regard privacy as a natural right, and to identify it with sacred ideals of democratic freedom and individuality, they also understood it as under threat or erasure. Using biographical and autobiographical writing as her primary archive, Adams traces the public narrative of imperiled privacy across five centuries. Her analyses begin with the premise that nineteenth-century conceptions of privacy became meaningful only in negative relation to the encroaching forces of market capitalism and commodification. Where previous studies treat privacy as a stable category whose defining features are middle-class domesticity and femininity, Owning Up contends that privacy is an empty category that lacks fixed content and requires constant re-articulation via panic narratives in which gender always operates in intersection with race. Chapters look at how the discourse of imperiled privacy develops in conjunction with Romantic idealism and antebellum reform, racial reconstruction and the ethic of self-right, and Social Darwinist laissez faire, and culminates at the end of the century in calls for legislation to protect the American individual's "right to be let alone."
Tarnished Icon
Title | Tarnished Icon PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart M. Kaminsky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
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Comics for Film, Games, and Animation
Title | Comics for Film, Games, and Animation PDF eBook |
Author | Tyler Weaver |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2013-05-07 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1136145737 |
In recent years, a new market of convergence culture has developed. In this new market, one story, idea, concept, or product can be produced, distributed, appreciated, and understood by customers in a variety of different media. We are at the tipping point of this new convergence culture, and comics is a key area affected by this emerging model. In Comics for Film, Games, and Animation Tyler Weaver teaches you how to integrate comics storytelling into your own work by exploring their past, present, and future. You will explore the creation of the unique mythologies that have endured for more than seventy years, and dig into the nitty gritty of their creation, from pacing and scripting issues to collaboration. Finally, you'll gain a love and appreciation of the medium of comics, so much so that you won't be able to wait to bring that medium into your story toolbox.
Midnight Pass
Title | Midnight Pass PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart M. Kaminsky |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2004-12-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780765343833 |
For a man who just wants to ease through life without any complications, Lew Fonesca has a pretty full plate in his third outing. When people start showing up dead, he knows he's in way over his head.
Creative You
Title | Creative You PDF eBook |
Author | David B. Goldstein |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2013-07-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1582703655 |
Helps each reader unleash his or her innate creative skills based on a unique personality type and succeed in every endeavor. Original. 20,000 first printing.
Blood and Rubles
Title | Blood and Rubles PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart M. Kaminsky |
Publisher | Overamstel Uitgevers |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2012-10-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9049983677 |
In post–Cold War Moscow, business is booming and crime pays Capitalism has come to Russia, and money is raining from the sky. As the trickle of cash turns to a torrent, bureaucrats become oligarchs, and the brutal Russian mafia consolidates its power. In the center of this madness is police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, a thoughtful detective who is struggling to adjust to life in these turbulent times. A prominent businessman is kidnapped in broad daylight, minutes after finishing the paperwork to start his latest business venture. Three children, as innocent-looking as they are savage, terrorize a slum. And tax collectors discover a cache of historic Russian treasures dating to before the Revolution, but the trove vanishes overnight. As his country races into the future, the limping policeman will have to run to keep up.