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Author: Gavin Lambert
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essay in collective biography, studying turning points in the lives of mystery writers which he feels determined their later styles and approaches. Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle, Chesterton, Buchan, Graham Greene, Ambler, Simenon, Chandler, Hitchcock.--Misha Schutt.
Author: Michael J. Apter
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do many people enjoy risky activities--skydiving, bullfighting, or fast driving--that cause fear in others? Every normal human being seems to need excitement at times, yet for years this need remained largely unstudied. Now a professor of psychology explains why we experience the need for excitement at various times and what happens when excitement-seeking goes wrong.
Author: John Brockman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0061844802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives—for better . . . or for worse . . . From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true. What do the world's leading scientists and thinkers consider to be their most dangerous idea? Through the leading online forum Edge (www.edge.org), the call went out, and this compelling and easily digestible volume collects the answers. From using medication to permanently alter our personalities to contemplating a universe in which we are utterly alone, to the idea that the universe might be fundamentally inexplicable, What Is Your Dangerous Idea? takes an unflinching look at the daring, breathtaking, sometimes terrifying thoughts that could forever alter our world and the way we live in it. Contributors include Daniel C. Dennett • Jared Diamond • Brian Greene • Matt Ridley • Howard Gardner and Freeman Dyson, among others
Author: Tim O'Shei
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780736854573
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Describes in countdown format 10 of the most dangerous stunts ever attempted"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Judith Adamson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1349207705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the war Graham Greene has travelled habitually to the world's trouble-spots and has provided leading newspapers and journals with articles about what he saw. While contending that a writer must be free of political affiliations he has commmitted himself to many countries and causes, and while insisting that literature must never be used for political ends he has written novels informed by a political urgency. The Dangerous Edge is about his political reportage and how the observations that formed it were transformed into literature. It is about how a novelist who struggled to record public issues dispassionately became in the process an important political conscience.
Author: Dermot Gilvary
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-11-17
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1441144382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformative, broad-ranging, this title sheds new light on the life and literary art of one of the last century's most celebrated authors. The first volume to be authorized by the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, "Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene" brings together writers, journalists and scholars to investigate as well as to assess Greene's prolific oeuvre and intense personal interests. Here the reader may explore everything from Greene's Vienna at the time of the filming of "The Third Man" to his sometimes fraught relationship with Evelyn Waugh, from Greene's unconventional fictional treatment of women to his "believing skepticism". While Greene often informed friends that "a ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system", critics of his literary art have found it extraordinarily difficult to define the content of this "ruling passion". Perhaps this is because Greene's own character seems so paradoxical, ironic even. Moreover, in believing that sin contains within itself the seeds of saintliness, he consistently loiters on what Robert Browning calls "the dangerous edge of things". In exploring this "dangerous edge", this book covers the full breadth of Greene's life and literary career.
Author: Christopher Priest
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781560971597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tim O'Shei
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780736864381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Describes 10 of the world's most dangerous jobs in a countdown format"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Andrew Todhunter
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2013-02-13
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 030783199X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this elegant and exciting collection Andrew Todhunter, himself an extreme sportsman and the author of the critically acclaimed Fall of the Phantom Lord, takes readers along as men and women push themselves to their limits in the world’s riskiest sports. In several of these essays Todhunter writes from personal experience, joining his subjects as they free fall from cliffs, wriggle through narrow underground crevices, and dive deep beneath the ice of a frozen lake. In these adrenaline-laced accounts of extreme sportsmanship, Todhunter captures not only the thrill of conquest but the deep pleasure of being someplace few others have gone as well.
Author: Spike Walker
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 1993-03-15
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1466809337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Deadly Chase on The Bering Sea Immerse yourself in crewman Spike Walker's Working on the Edge, an adrenaline-fueled narrative that brings to life the world of Alaskan king crab fishing. Set against the merciless backdrop of the turbulent Bering Sea, the book is a visceral account of human struggle, survival, and the dogged pursuit of fortune. Working on the Edge transports you to the wretched, unforgiving conditions of the Bering Sea with its icy winds, treacherous waves, and debilitating on-deck labor. More than a mere profession, crab fishing in these chilling waters stands as a brutal testament to the battle of man against nature, where every decision carries the weight of life and death. Alongside personal stories, Walker brings to light the stories of survivors from the industry's deadly disasters, painting a vivid picture of the harsh reality of this dangerous line of work. Walker rivetingly depicts the modern-day gold rush that drew hundreds of fortune-and adventure-hunters to Alaska's dangerous waters.
