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At last, a cultural history of the hard-boiled crime genre from its origins to the present-one that recovers the fascinating link between tough guys and sensitive women. The testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime fiction owe a debt to the women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. Ranging from classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Leonard Cassuto chronicles the dialogue-centered o...

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A small metal square is the key to the universe of the gods. But how to use it? Jerome Jones, the head of the Omasor Agency has found the way but is he ever coming back? His two assistants must follow to save him. An extraordinary journey through the varied worlds of the gods. Is it real or just a game? Another fast, funny and exotic novel from David Morgan.

LTD is short for LONELIER THAN DEATH, which is what my life's been for most of my 61 years.

Mission statement - coresci.org Series Editor: Todd Charles Wood Core Academy of Science encourages young Christian scholars to explore the hardest problems in creation. Engineers sometimes classify problems as easy, hard, and impossible. Easy problems are trivial because they can be solved merely by applying known principles. Impossible problems cannot be solved no matter how hard we try. Hard problems are the problems in between that require...

It's the most wonderful time of year and all Angel Parker wants to do is hide. Her co-workers think she's a Scrooge and the only man she wants can't even get her name right. All signs point to another lonely Christmas, until Angel finds herself doing the unthinkable-propositioning her boss at the company holiday party. For the last six months, all Brian Maxwell can think about is getting his sexy assistant, Angel in bed with him. He's tried th...

My recovery from OCD began in 1989 and was entirely accidental-at first. When I wrote this book-a decade later-I looked back to the beginning and the end of my compulsive and self-destructive days. For me, the heart of Compulsive Behavior is a form of Magical Thinking. Through our rituals, we are trying to avoid "something" from happening to our loved ones or to our selves. However, we are blind to the fact that something even worse-has alread...

The life and times of Anna Cora Mowatt, a forgotten American Victorian superstar.

The Tagger by Ginger Mayerson, Across the Universe, by Laura Dearlove, Atlantis by Kitty Johnson, Impossible Love by Kathryn L. Ramage, The Unsent Letter by Chad Denton, Finding Courage by Gail Marlowe, Fast Forward by Logan, Extraordinary by Emily-Jane MacKenzie, I'm Not Your Boyfriend by Lene Taylor, When George MacFadden was Eaten by a Dragon by Colleen Wylie, You Know You Should be a Better Person (But You're Not) by Karmen Ghia, Mick and ...

Considered the bible of scouting techniques" according to the Los Angeles Times, Football Scouting Methods explains the basic scouting strategies and insights of author Steve Belichick. He was widely viewed as the ablest football scout of his time and coached at the U.S. Naval Academy for 33 years, his son is New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a three-time Super Bowl winner. When Steve Belichick died in November 2005, the New York Time...

David Cronenberg has become one of North America's most respected movie directors. Since the early seventies, the soft-spoken Baron of Blood has attracted widespread controversy with a steady stream of shock--sex crazed parasites in Shivers (1975), exploding heads in Scanners (1981), revolutionary flesh technology in Videodrome (1983), mutating bugs in The Fly (1986), car-crash scars in Crash (1996), and psychopathic bursts of gun violence in ...

Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She argues that the concept of the "generation gap"-a stereotypical complaint against American teens-actually originated with the division between immigrant parents and their American-born or -raised children. Melding an urban immigrant sensibility with commercialized consumer culture and a youth-or...

Knock 3 Times" (70 pages with excellent, easy-to-follow instructions and samples) is a proven three-step strategy for marketing yourself, your skills, and the benefits you bring to the job, and finding working within a month.

Urban public transport services generally run at a large deficit. This has led public authorities to seek efficiencies, notably through private sector involvement. Private entry is complicated by the essential network characteristics of public transport, with parts of the network potentially profitable and others perennially unprofitable. Support for the sector traditionally seeks to provide basic mobility services to all segments of society, ...

Jewish thinkers throughout the ages have been as passionate in their concern about the meaning and nature of faith as Christian theologians. This is a lucid and profound examination of Jewish approaches to belief, by a controversial and respected scholar who analyses the nature of God through a critical study of all vital philosophical sources. We are shown the conflicts--and how they are resolved--between rational and traditional views on fai...

Looks at the disrepair of the divine. This work offers a guide for finding the sacred in the everyday. It speaks to us still with humor and hope because neither God nor the railroad seems to be running much better today.

Written in a matter-of-fact, often humorous style, 'The Champion Buffalo Hunter' is the engaging memoir of one of the most famous frontiersmen of the early West, 'Yellowstone Vic' Smith. Recently discovered in Harvard's Houghton Library by editor Jeanette Prodgers, this remarkable account (told in the third person) is comparable to Andrew Garcia's 'Tough Trip through Paradise, ' but notes Prodgers, 'without the melodrama.

The conference "Chaos in Astronomy" was held in Athens on 17-20 Sep 2007. International leaders in the field addressed the topics Chaos in large N-body systems and in galactic dynamics Chaos in solar system dynamics Statistical mechanics of systems with regular and chaotic orbits Chaos in the formation of large-scale structure in the Universe Fundamental concepts, methods and tools. The book contains carefully edited refereed contributions...

Describes the merchants who made Dallas a city where haute couture is comme il faut, but, where, it is also possible to live a perfectly happy life and never wear a ball gown.

Shows that sustained critical analysis of contemporary Taiwan using issues such as trauma, memory, history, tradition, modernity, post-modernity provides a useful point of departure for thinking through similar problematics and issues elsewhere in the world. This book covers nationalism, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, and religion.