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Author: Eric Van Lustbader
Publisher: Stark Raving Group
Published: 2014-03-17
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13: 098921298X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the marbled precincts of New York's uptown museum scene to the galleries and lofts of Soho to a Mafia mansion on the coast of Long Island, Lustbader's hotly paced novella sweeps Tess Chase - a no-nonsense woman with a connoisseur's taste for martial and fine arts - into the perilous pursuit of a long-lost painting by Renaissance master Raphael.
Author: George Petros
Publisher: Creation Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting a frightening fringe of the Underground where art & crime combined. The artists herein did society's dirty work, and society repaid them accordingly ...
Author: David Morrell
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0316216771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name. Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts. Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives. In Murder as a Fine Art, David Morrell plucks De Quincey, Victorian London, and the Ratcliffe Highway murders from history. Fogbound streets become a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer, whose lives are linked by secrets long buried but never forgotten.
Author: Martin V. Melosi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2020-01-28
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 0231548354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre site on Staten Island—was once the world’s largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New York City’s refuse. After the 9/11 attacks, it reopened briefly to receive human remains and rubble from the destroyed Twin Towers, turning a notorious disposal site into a cemetery. Today, a mammoth reclamation project is transforming the landfill site, constructing an expansive park three times the size of Central Park. Martin V. Melosi provides a comprehensive chronicle of Fresh Kills that offers new insights into the growth and development of New York City and the relationship among consumption, waste, and disposal. He traces the metamorphoses of the landscape, following it from salt marsh to landfill to cemetery and looks ahead to the future park. By centering the problem of solid-waste disposal, Melosi highlights the unwanted consequences of mass consumption. He presents the Fresh Kills space as an embodiment of massive waste, linking consumption to the continuing presence of its discards. Melosi also uses the landfill as a lens for understanding Staten Island’s history and its relationship with greater New York City. The first book on the history of the iconic landfill, Fresh Kills unites environmental, political, and cultural history to offer a reflection on material culture, consumer practices, and perceptions of value and worthlessness.
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1991-06-04
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0679734031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers—and will continue to do so for many years to come. John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and cogently, the principles and techniques of good writing. Gardner’s lessons, exemplified with detailed excerpts from classic works of literature, sweep across a complete range of topics—from the nature of aesthetics to the shape of a refined sentence. Written with passion, precision, and a deep respect for the art of writing, Gardner’s book serves by turns as a critic, mentor, and friend. Anyone who has ever thought of taking the step from reader to writer should begin here.
Author: Samuel D. Rocha
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2017-04-20
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1532607008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays composed during the Obama presidency on politics, theology, art, and education. Social and political critique, pastoral philosophy, postmodern theology, deschooling, and folk phenomenology: Rocha's essays in Tell Them Something Beautiful cover a range of topics and ideas, held together by his literary style and integrated point of view.
Author: Christian Lassen
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2014-03-31
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 3839418143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK»Camp Comforts« investigates the wide-ranging impact of camp on AIDS literature and places this impact within two different traditions of camp analysis: a politically subversive one that aims at social change and an aesthetically uplifting one that aims at personal healing. Christian Lassen argues that camp may in fact serve both ends, social change and personal healing, and goes on to explore reparative reading practices in order to rehabilitate alleviation and relief as vital objectives in literary representations of gay grief. In this way, »Camp Comforts« reveals the workings that make camp so crucial a strategy for survival in times of AIDS.
Author: Amir Amin Sharifi
Publisher: Rima Publishing
Published: 2022-01-01
Total Pages: 50
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Author: Qing-Ping Zeng
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-06-23
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 3662476886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses both the beneficial and harmful aspects of NO in biology and medicine, and also introduces the emerging discovery of artemisinin in antitumor, antibacterial infection, anti-inflammation, and antiaging contexts. In 1992 nitric oxide (NO) was voted “Molecule of the Year” by Science magazine, and the discovery of its physiological roles has led to Nobel Prize-winning work in neuroscience, physiology and immunology. The book explains why we should maintain a steady-state NO level that is derived from neuronal or epithelial NO synthase, and avoid the extremely high NO level resulting from inducible NO synthase. The book offers a valuable resource for medical chemists, clinicians, biologists and all those interested in health and disease.
Author: Turkey
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 270
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