A young man awakes to find himself on a train with Dr Freud from vienna and the sadistic train attendant malkowitz. He can't remember who he is or where he is going and certainly has no idea why he is not wearing his trousers. He allows himself to be led off dressed in a skirt on a visit to a nearby castle where it seems he is expected. But everything is not as it appears and the author leads us through story within story with characters who reality is constantly changing until he pulls his final surprise out of his box of tricks.
To a regular person, they're just tools. . .A chef uses them to prepare a meal.A surgeon uses them to save lives.To the maniacs in this story, however. . .Theirs is a much darker purpose.For them, the first cut is NOT the deepest. It's just the beginning. . . This is Book 1 in the Maniacs with Knives Series.This story is from Shaun Hupp's Unapologetic Horror Line. The author is NOT sorry this book contains: Gore, violence, dismemberment, rape, swearing, and a dozen other things you wouldn't want your grandmother to talk about at her Sunday church group. If you're a sensitive reader, this book is probably NOT for you.
Michael Greatrex Coney was a British-born author who spent the last three decades of his life in Canada - including 16 years in the British Colombia Forest Service. His early work carried a sense of Cold War-inspired paranoia, but his repertoire was wide and perhaps his best novel, HELLO SUMMER, GOODBYE, is a wistful story of adolescent love on a far-distant planet. The titles collected in this omnibus come from the fertile beginning of his career and include his debut novel MIRROR IMAGE, CHARISMA and the BSFA AWARD-winning BRONTOMEK!
Austin’s thriving film culture, renowned for international events such as SXSW and the Austin Film Festival, extends back to the early 1970s when students in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin ran a film programming unit that screened movies for students and the public. Dubbed CinemaTexas, the program offered viewers a wide variety of films—old and new, mainstream, classic, and cult—at a time when finding and watching films after their first run was very difficult and prohibitively expensive. For each film, RTF graduate students wrote program notes that included production details, a sampling of critical reactions, and an original essay that placed the film and its director within context and explained the movie’s historical significance. Over time, CinemaTexas Program Notes became more ambitious and were distributed around the world, including to luminaries such as film critic Pauline Kael. This anthology gathers a sampling of CinemaTexas Program Notes, organized into four sections: “USA Film History,” “Hollywood Auteurs,” “Cinema-Fist: Renegade Talents,” and “America’s Shadow Cinema.” Many of the note writers have become prominent film studies scholars, as well as leading figures in the film, TV, music, and video game industries. As a collection, CinemaTexas Notes strongly contradicts the notion of an effortlessly formed American film canon, showing instead how local film cultures—whether in Austin, New York, or Europe—have forwarded the development of film studies as a discipline.
In this engaging and much-needed book Jan Bransen argues that the rise of behavioural sciences has caused a sea change in the relationship between science and common sense. Drawing on fascinating examples such as language and communication, money, and folk physics, Don't be Fooled: A Philosophy of Common Sense is a brilliant and wry defence of a skill that is a vital part of being human.
A graphic-oriented strategy guide that includes screen shots of every location in the game, as well as profiles of all the characters. It gives general tips and complete solutions for every puzzle in the game. The book also discusses the creation of the game and the people behind it. Full color throughout.
