A HARROWING CRIME, LAYER UPON LAYER OF DECEPTION, PSYCHOPATHIC BEHAVIOR AND COVER-UPS WHICH MUST BE PENETRATED BY THE DASHING DETECTIVE, JASON BENDIX, AND HIS FIANCEE AND GIRL FRIDAY, JULIA GRAVES, ALONG WITH THEIR BEST FRIEND, THE HANDSOME AND WEALTHY WYNTON FILLMORE. PAST SECRETS ARE REVEALED ALL THE WAY ROUND, AND EARTH-SHATTERING CHANGES ARE INSTITUTED AS THE TRIO GOES UNDERCOVER TO ROOT OUT THE PERPETRATORS, AND MORE THAN ONE MYSTERY IS SOLVED IN THE PROCESS!!!

More than 700 films from the classic period of film noir (1940 to 1959) are presented in this exhaustive reference book--such films as The Accused, Among the Living, The Asphalt Jungle, Baby Face Nelson, Bait, The Beat Generation, Crossfire, Dark Passage, I Walk Alone, The Las Vegas Story, The Naked City, Strangers on a Train, White Heat, and The Window. For each film, the following information is provided: the title, release date, main performers, screenwriter(s), director(s), type of noir, thematic content, a rating based on the five-star system, and a plot synopsis that does not reveal the ending.

The first full-length, authoritative, and detailed story of the iconic actor's life to go beyond the Hollywood scandal-sheet reporting of earlier books, this account offers an appreciation for the man and his acting career and the classic films he starred in, painting a portrait of an individual who took great risks in his acting and career. Although Lee Marvin is best known for his icy tough guy roles—such as his chilling titular villain in The ManWho Shot Liberty Valance or the paternal yet brutally realistic platoon leader in The Big Red One—very little is known of his personal life; his family background; his experiences in WWII; his relationship with his father, family, friends, wives; and his ongoing battles with alcoholism, rage, and depression, occasioned by his postwar PTSD. Now, after years of researching and compiling interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues; rare photographs; and illustrative material, Hollywood writer Dwayne Epstein provides a full understanding and appreciation of this acting titan's place in the Hollywood pantheon in spite of his very real and human struggles.

Designed for students who show signs of needing additional work on their college-level writing. This textbook focuses on two key tenets - writing as a process, emphasizing revision and reflection, and the inextricable connection between reading and writing.

IF YOU ARE FEELING LOW, HAVE LOST YOUR DIRECTION IN LIFE OR HAVE MOMENTS WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW IF YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK, YOU CAN RE-GENERATE YOUR LIFE, GET A NEW START, GROW HAPPIER AND MORE CONFIDENT. INCLUDED ARE INSPIRATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL GUIDELINES AND ADVICE FROM THE SCRIPTURES, FROM MOVERS AND SHAKERS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT, AND FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL SOURCES WHICH WILL STRENGTHEN, UPLIFT AND GUIDE YOU TO A NEW AND BETTER LIFE, WITH MORE JOY, LOVE, GREATER POTENTIAL AND SELF-SATISFACTION. DO NOT LET ANOTHER DAY GO BY IN A MEANINGLESS RUT WHEN HELP IS AT HAND!!

The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.

Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.