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Young Mobsters

Autor: Bryant Keith

Número de Páginas: 487

Its the mid eighties and they call him ColoDog, born in Chicago as Columbus George. His name is too distinctive, to be a working criminal in the hood. He needed a handle for street guys. He falls in with a group of thieves and killers on 169th St, and created havoc. All of the boys have two commonalities. No father in the household, facing hard lifes decisions and fallen dreams. Columbus family and some friends dont trust him, because hes has the thief tag. Colo doesnt steal from family and friends. Colo knows the numbers. He knows growing up Black, doesnt put life odds in your favor. His parent kicked him out. Now hes living in snake alley in his broken down car. He goes to his street family, family for help, GDs and BDs mothers looked out.. He wakes from his wickedness when Mrs. Bilkins who lives on Calumet, foretells his future. She sees him being a bum or in jail. He could sell dope, but the dope man wont let him. The dope man is Mrs. Bilkins son. ColoDogs weed game will not provide housing, food and clothes. He entertains going down a pathway he said hed never go! Let see what Colo does, while facing broken dreams, tragedies and strife? He still has an enormous will, to...

The Seduction of the Mediterranean

Autor: Robert Aldrich

Número de Páginas: 292

The lives and works of forty writers are examined, from the art historian Winckelmann in the 1700s, through Romantic poets such as Byron and Platen, to Wilde, Isherwood and Forster. Attention is given to the works of such painters as Girodet and von Marees and the photographs of von Gloeden and List. Robert Aldrich sets the phenomenon of homosexual interest in the Mediterranean in its social and historical context. He suggests that different myths replaced that of the homoerotic Mediterranean by the 1960s, as gay liberation diminished the need for the legitimation of homosexuality which the classics provided, and law reform lessened the need for exile.

The One-Tree Grove, 2nd Edition

Autor: Yeshell

Número de Páginas: 326

"It reveals social and cultural aspects of life in rural China - something that most North Americans ... don't have a clue about," said Ms. K. Green. "It has been the first time for me to read a novel so sincere, simple and so fully detailed about China," a female reader from Vancouver commented. "This story give insight into the political, educational and economic climate in China in 1970s," Ms. Henriette Toth said. Meinia was a pretty village girl living in Xishuangbanna, China. Just after her graduation from high school, she was appointed accountant of her village. Responding to Chairman Mao's call, five members of Zhiqing (city high school graduates) came to her village. She and other villagers did their best to help the Zhiqing. But these Zhiqing inflicted huge and lasting hurt and pains on her and the villagers, ...... Filling with songs, and full of wisdom of an oriental culture, this is a bright love story for all readers.

Spoofing the Vampire

Autor: Simon Bacon

Número de Páginas: 243

Famous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre--the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and analyzing the vampire comedy on film and television. Various types of comedy are discussed, outlining the important differences between spoofing, serious-spoofing, parody and satire. Seminal films such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Love at First Bite, Vampire in Brooklyn, Dracula: Dead and Loving It and What We Do In the Shadows are featured. More importantly, this book demonstrates how comedy is central to both the common perception of the vampire and the genre's ever-evolving character, making it an essential read for those interested in the laughing undead and creatures that guffaw in the night.

Les annales et cronicques de france. Les très élégantes, très véridiques et copieuses annales des très pieux, très nobles ... modérateurs des belliqueuses Gaules

Autor: Nicole Gilles

Número de Páginas: 648

Dela Boya

Autor: Kojo Akwa

Número de Páginas: 112

Dela Boya has a passion for fast cars and for his country. No danger will stop him risking everything if there is a threat to his country's stability. He is brave and well-trained in the martial arts, so woe betide the lawbreakers.

English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners with an Appendix, Containing Rules and Observations for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and Accuracy

Autor: Lindley Murray

Número de Páginas: 248

Dreamgirls - Broadway Revival (Songbook)

Número de Páginas: 221

(Vocal Selections). Based upon the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as the Supremes, James Brown and others, Dreamgirls follows the story of a young female singing trio from Chicago called "The Dreams." The production first hit Broadway in 1981, and was adapted for the screen in 2006, and then returned to the stage in 2009. Our songbook features selections from this most recent revival, including two NEW songs, never before published: "What Love Can Do" and "Listen," plus: And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going * Dreamgirls * Hard to Say Goodbye, My Love * I Am Changing * One Night Only * When I First Saw You (You Are My Dream) * and more. The book contains snazzy revival artwork, and all songs are in standard piano/vocal format with the melody in the piano part.

CEO’s Coddled Sweet Wife

Autor: Jiang Moxi

Número de Páginas: 1075

At the age of 13, she became the Luo Family's child bride. The noble him lifted her chin and only said, "You are worthy!"They had been married for many years now, and had only been separated from each other on a strange path, living on the other side of the world, for years and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and years and years and years and years and years and years, and now they had been married and years and years and years and years and years and years."Within a month, you must be pregnant and help the Luo Family to grow up," she said.After sleeping on the same bed, he used all sorts of methods to humiliate her.He purposely made things difficult for her, mocking her for her inexperience. "Tang Wanyang, is this all you've got? If you want my seed, it won't be that simple. "She almost bit off his vitals, but she did not hesitate to say, "I'm sorry, I'm not good at martial arts."********Every member of the Luo family was ambitious, openly and covertly fighting with each other. Even after she had calculated everything, the old gramps still gave her 50% of the shares."If you...

Semiotics of Friendship

Autor: Claus Emmeche

Número de Páginas: 607

A friend should be able to be an attentive listener, which made semiotician Roland Barthes wonder in his intriguing dictionary of love, "cannot friendship be defined as a space with total sonority?". This volume takes on the encyclopedic task - in the sense of Umberto Eco, where an encyclopedia is a very complex sign - to explore friendship in detail, not only as a form of love but in all its complexity as a bond that connects people and forms communities. Semiotics, the study of signs and meaning-making, is used alongside insights from a wide range of friendship studies to create a far-reaching intellectual resonance, or sonority, around friendship as a central human experience. As a study of the significance of friendship, it presents findings from friendship research across the globe, enabling new ways of thinking about friends. It includes: key concepts from semiotics, sociology, anthropology, and other fields, briefly explained major models of friendship from antiquity to contemporary societies proverbs and sayings about friendship from Africa, America, Asia, and Europe stories about famous or forgotten friends from mythology, fiction, and real history summaries of research...

Billboard

Número de Páginas: 104

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C.

Autor: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Número de Páginas: 850

Billboard

Número de Páginas: 118

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Chinese Culture Through Legends and Fiction

Autor: Zhenjun Zhang

Número de Páginas: 278

This is a collection of selected and translated Chinese legends and tales arranged under specific topics important to Chinese culture, with an introduction and reading guide for each piece. Comprised of 4 parts covering Confucian culture, Daoist culture, Buddhist culture and topics beyond the Three Teachings, the sources featured in this anthology include legends, fictional works, historical texts, as well as philosophical texts of ancient China, ranging from the Han 漢dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) to the Qing 清dynasty (1644-1911). Helping readers learn about Chinese customs, traditions, and values by immersing them in the wonderful world of traditional China, with the compelling legends and tales revealing the fascinating meshwork of Chinese culture, this book is an invaluable text for students and scholars of Chinese literature, culture and history, as well as general readers with an interest in China.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Autor: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Número de Páginas: 1138

The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States

Autor: American Film Institute

Número de Páginas: 1198

"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Autor: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Número de Páginas: 1430

History of Literature in the Ming Dynasty

Autor: Li Shi

Número de Páginas: 209

The book is the volume of “History of Literature in the Ming Dynasty” among a series of books of “Deep into China Histories”. The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC) and the Bamboo Annals (296 BC) describe a Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BC) before the Shang, but no writing is known from the period The Shang ruled in the Yellow River valley, which is commonly held to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. However, Neolithic civilizations originated at various cultural centers along both the Yellow River and Yangtze River. These Yellow River and Yangtze civilizations arose millennia before the Shang. With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world's oldest civilizations, and is regarded as one of the cradles of civilization.The Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC) supplanted the Shang and introduced the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. The central Zhou government began to weaken due to external and internal pressures in the 8th century BC, and the country eventually splintered into smaller states during the Spring and Autumn period. These states ...

The Toho Studios Story

Autor: Stuart Galbraith Iv

Número de Páginas: 556

Since its inception in 1933, Toho Co., Ltd., Japan's most famous movie production company and distributor, has produced and/or distributed some of the most notable films ever to come out of Asia, including Seven Samurai, Godzilla, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Kwaidan, Woman in the Dunes, Ran, Shall We Dance?, Ringu, and Spirited Away. While the western world often defines Toho by its iconic classics, which include the Godzilla franchise and many of the greatest films of the legendary director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune, these pictures represent but a tiny fraction of Toho's rich history. The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography provides a complete picture of every Toho feature the Japanese studio produced and released—as well as foreign films that it distributed—during its first 75 years. Presented chronologically, each entry in the filmography includes, where applicable, the original Japanese title, a direct translation of that title, the film's international, U.S. release, and alternate titles; production credits, including each film's producers, director, screenwriters, cinematographers, art directors, and composers, among others; casts...

Critical Essays on Elmore Leonard

Autor: Charles J. Rzepka

Número de Páginas: 170

A scholarly exploration of Elmore Leonard—provides original essays and fresh insights on the author’s works and influence Labelled as "the closest thing America has to a national novelist," Elmore Leonard's clean and direct writing, engaging bad guys, and deadpan humor resonate with readers around the nation and throughout the world. Popular films based on his books continue to introduce new audiences to Leonard's unique way of engaging with complex themes of American culture and pop-culture history. Yet surprisingly, academic treatments of his writing are almost nonexistent. Critical Essays on Elmore Leonard is an original anthology that covers the topics, themes, literary and narrative style, and enduring influences of one of the finest crime writers in the history of the genre. This unique collection of essays explores the ways in which Leonard’s work reflects America's dynamic, ever-changing culture. Divided into two parts, the book first examines major themes and topics in Leonard's works, followed by detailed case studies of five individual works including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. Essays discuss topics such as Leonard's skill at conveying sense of place, his use of ...

Bannermen Tales (Zidishu)

Autor: Elena Suet-ying Chiu

Número de Páginas: 384

Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu (bannermen tales)—a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early eighteenth-century Beijing. Contextualizing zidishu in Qing dynasty Beijing, this book examines both bilingual (Manchu-Chinese) and pure Chinese texts, recalls performance venues and features, and discusses their circulation and reception into the early twentieth century. With its original translations, musical score, and numerous illustrations of hand-copied and printed zidishu texts, this study opens a new window into Qing literature and provides a broader basis for evaluating the process of cultural hybridization. To go beyond readily available texts, author Elena Chiu engaged in intensive fieldwork and archival research, examining approximately four hundred hand-copied and printed zidishu texts housed in libraries in Mainland China, Taiwan, Germany, and Japan. Guided by theories of minority literature, cultural studies, and intertextuality, Chiu explores both the Han and Manchu cultures in the Qing dynasty through bannermen tales, and argues that they exemplified elements of Manchu cultural hybridization in the...

Billboard

Número de Páginas: 96

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Boys' Life

Número de Páginas: 64

Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland; with Prefaces Biographical and Critical, Etc

Autor: Samuel Johnson

Número de Páginas: 526

Billboard

Número de Páginas: 132

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Billboard

Número de Páginas: 130

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

24 Exciting Plays for Ancient History Classes

Autor: Dean R. Bowman

Número de Páginas: 186

Events drawn from prehistory through the fall of the Roman Empire are presented as dramatizations. Designed primarily for class readings of 10-15 minutes.

Billboard

Número de Páginas: 398

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Idle Hours: the Grace and the Glory

Autor: Pat S. Hogeboom

Número de Páginas: 288

Notes from readers: I loved Idle Hours! What a terrific story. Once I began to read it, I couldnt put it down. It brought me great joy! Pat is a great writer-storyteller. With so many of the names and places being familiar, it made it that much more interesting. I want to buy more copies for my friends. Its a terrific gift. Dottie Hanly, retired librarian, Connetquot Schools Now this is what I call a great read! The story is so gripping I couldnt put it down. Idle Hours is fascinating in its history of the real Vanderbilts, mixed with the real people of the day. I loved Papa, and Almina. They were such a contrast to Alva and Willie K. I got so interested in Consuelo Im trying to find a copy of her autobiography, The Glitter and the Gold. Thanks Pat, I cant wait for the next book! Sally Bedford

Vermelha imperatriz

Autor: Léonora Miano

Número de Páginas: 582

Katiopa é um continente africano próspero e autossuficiente, quase inteiramente unificado — os futuros Estados Unidos de África — onde as vítimas da velha Europa vieram encontrar refúgio. Essa ficção se passa pouco mais de um século à nossa frente e narra a história de amor entre Boya, que leciona na universidade, e Ilunga, o chefe do Estado unificado. Essa relação proibida e antinatural ameaça se tornar um assunto de Estado, gerando diferentes conflitos que envolvem o mundo dos vivos, influenciado pelo universo dos antepassados das personagens da trama.

A History of Polish Literature

Autor: Anna Nasiłowska

Número de Páginas: 605

Anna Nasilowska's A History of Polish Literature is a one-volume guide that immerses readers in the rich tapestry of Polish literature and reveals its enduring impact on European identity from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century. By exploring key themes, writers, and works and grounding her discussion in crucial biographical context, she weaves together the lives of a carefully curated list of Polish writers to paint a vivid literary portrait, elucidating the epochs that these writers shaped. Offering indispensable insights for readers who may be unfamiliar with the world of Polish literature, it is an excellent jumping-off-point for further study and learning.

Boys' Life

Número de Páginas: 72

Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

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