Beneath The Streets

Author : Adam Macqueen
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785631740

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Beneath the Streets by Adam Macqueen Pdf

When Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe hired thugs to kill his ex-lover, they botched it. What if they had succeeded? It is February 1976, and the naked corpse of a shockingly underage rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath. Since the police don't seem to care, 20-year-old Tommy Wildeblood—himself a former 'Dilly boy' prostitute—finds himself investigating. Dodging murderous Soho hoodlums and the agents of a more sinister power, Tommy uncovers another, even more shocking crime: the Liberal leader and likely next Home Secretary, Jeremy Thorpe, has had his former male lover executed on Exmoor and got clean away with it. Now the trail of guilt seems to lead higher still, and a ruthless Establishment will stop at nothing to cover its tracks. In a gripping thriller whose cast of real-life characters includes Prime Minister Harold Wilson, his senior adviser Lady Falkender, gay Labour peer Tom Driberg and the investigative journalist Paul Foot, Adam Macqueen plays "what if" with Seventies UK political history—with a sting in the tail that reminds us that the truth can be just as chilling as fiction.

Author : Benjamin Shepard,Gregory Smithsimon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438436210

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The Beach Beneath the Streets by Benjamin Shepard,Gregory Smithsimon Pdf

Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City—queer youth of color, gardeners, cyclists, and anti-gentrification activists—as they transform streets, piers, and vacant lots into everyday sites for autonomy, imagination, identity formation, creativity, problem solving, and even democratic renewal. Through ethnographic accounts of contests over New York City's public spaces that highlight the tension between resistance and repression, Shepard and Smithsimon identify how changes in the control of public spaces—parks, street corners, and plazas—have reliably foreshadowed elites' shifting designs on the city at large. With an innovative taxonomy of public space, the authors frame the ways spaces as diverse as gated enclaves, luxury shopping malls, collapsing piers and street protests can be understood in relation to one another. Synthesizing the fifty-year history of New York's neoliberal transformation and the social movements which have opposed the process, The Beach Beneath the Streets captures the dynamics at work in the ongoing shaping of urban spaces into places of repression, expression, control, and creativity.

Author : Randolph Mase
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595224258

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Death Beneath the Streets by Randolph Mase Pdf

In a single week, three people are killed in the subway system beneath the streets of New York City, but the police call the deaths unrelated, and term two of them as accidental. Follow Private Investigator Matthew Hogan as he attacks the mystery as a puzzle, listing the suspects-one of whom is a former lover of his-and becoming involved in all three deaths, and more, in the process.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1567922848

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Beneath the Streets of Boston by Anonim Pdf

Beckoning readers to explore the territory beneath Boston's streets, Joe McKendry explores a century-old world when Beantown designed and created the country's first subway. In stunning artwork and through a fascinating narrative, you will enter the subterranean realm of workers who dug miles of tunnels by hand. Using pick and shovels to create new routes, you'll discover how these workers burrowed deep below Boston Harbor, under Beacon Hill and the Old State House, and built the Longfellow Bridge to carry the trains over the Charles River to the center of Cambridge. You'll read lively first-hand accounts of the turn-of-the-century public's perception of the underground public transportation, including their fears (expressed fantastically through the gruesome image of a fanged and tentacled "subway microbe"), and learn how the system served as a model for the rest of the country in its ability to relieve traffic, mitigate congestion (which was even more severe a hundred years ago than today) and get people anywhere they wanted to go for only a nickel.

Author : Matthew Litwack,Jurne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Graffiti
ISBN : 1584235543

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Beneath the Streets by Matthew Litwack,Jurne Pdf

Only a handful of transit workers, daring explorers and graffiti writers have experienced the full scope of the New York subway system. Beneath The Streets reveals this world for the first time with fantastic photographs captured from throughout the tunnels and byways of the subway. Although it provides service to over 5 million riders every day, the subway is for most a sealed system. Very few of its patrons are aware of the extent of this vast underground infrastructure. The authors of this important historical work first discovered this hidden world in the process of photographing graffiti found below ground in the subway system. Now their riveting documentary work opens up this subterranean maze, including 600 miles of active track as well as abandoned sections and disused stations, for all to experience.

Author : Daniel Hale
Publisher : Zumaya Otherworlds
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612713700

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The Library Beneath the Streets by Daniel Hale Pdf

There are stories that matter. There are stories that shape the world. There are writers who long to tell them. And there is a place where some, disillusioned and bereft, go to write them. But the Library Beneath the Streets will not allow just anyone to enter its doors, and those who do so unauthorized or with plagiarism in mind may find more than they expect. Come in, Reader, and wander the stacks, where many tales of imagination await you. Just be sure your Library card is up to date; you really won’t like the penalties.

Author : Peter Laurie
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005538619

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Beneath the City Streets by Peter Laurie Pdf

Author : McKenzie Wark
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781689400

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The Beach Beneath the Street by McKenzie Wark Pdf

Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a contemporary voice capable of putting it into the context of twenty-first-century struggles. McKenzie Wark delves into the Situationists’ unacknowledged diversity, revealing a world as rich in practice as it is in theory. Tracing the group’s development from the bohemian Paris of the ’50s to the explosive days of May ’68, Wark’s take on the Situationists is biographically and historically rich, presenting the group as an ensemble creation, rather than the brainchild and dominion of its most famous member, Guy Debord. Roaming through Europe and the lives of those who made up the movement – including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michèle Bernstein, Alex Trocchi and Jacqueline De Jong – Wark uncovers an international movement riven with conflicting passions. Accessible to those who have only just discovered the Situationists and filled with new insights, The Beach Beneath the Street rereads the group’s history in the light of our contemporary experience of communications, architecture, and everyday life. The Situationists tried to escape the world of twentieth-century spectacle and failed in the attempt. Wark argues that they may still help us to escape the twenty-first century, while we still can.

Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780814351123

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Diver Beneath the Street by Petra Kuppers Pdf

A decaying psychogeography unfurls the landscapes of the 1967–69 Michigan Murders, the 2019 Detroit serial killer, and the COVID-19 lockdown in this visceral poetry collection. Author, performance artist, and disability culture activist Petra Kuppers dissects traces of violence in the richness of the soil while honoring lost community members. Dynamic and somatic poems traverse the realms of urban space, wild rivers, and the hinterlands of suburbia, glimpsing the decay of bodies, houses, carpets, hair, and bones by way of ecopoetry. Poems like "Reintegration" and "Earth Séance" delve into cycles of decomposition and decreasing biodiversity across the micro- and macroworlds. Others such as "Dancing Princesses" tie timeless fairy-tale tropes of violence toward women to modern murders and lived experience. Moments in lockdown are embodied through somatic exploration of nature and self in works like "Dear White Pine in My Garden." This evocative entanglement of life and death, joy and horror, natural and artificial processes and particles offers an intriguing lyrical and poetic quality as well as unique perspectives through the lenses of feminist, queer, and disability studies.

Author : Antony Clayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 1905286325

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Subterranean City by Antony Clayton Pdf

This book gives an account of features below London: railways, old and abandoned tunnels, security bases, cables, utility supplies, pneumatic tubes, crypts and wells, disused stations, lost rivers and streams. Inckudes recent developments: Channel Tunnel Rail link to St Pancras, Thames Link, East London Line, Cross rail and projects for water and electricity supply.

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385531511

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London Under by Peter Ackroyd Pdf

In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath the surface. There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves rest under St. Pauls, and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. To go under London is to penetrate history, and Ackroyd's book is filled with the stories unique to this underworld: the hydraulic device used to lower bodies into the catacombs in Kensal Green cemetery; the door in the plinth of the statue of Boadicea on Westminster Bridge that leads to a huge tunnel packed with cables for gas, water, and telephone; the sulphurous fumes on the Underground's Metropolitan Line. Highly imaginative and delightfully entertaining, London Under is Ackroyd at his best.

Author : Charlotte Guillain
Publisher : Words & Pictures
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Earth (Planet)
ISBN : 1784937312

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The Street Beneath My Feet by Charlotte Guillain Pdf

Picked by the Guardian as one of '15 Modern Classics' books This double-sided foldout book takes you on a fascinating journey deep underground. One side of the foldout shows the ground beneath the city, whilst the reverse side shows the ground beneath the countryside. The underground scenes include tunnels and pipes, creatures' burrows, layers of rock and the planet's molten core, and run seamlessly into the next. Mixing urban and rural settings, covering subjects such as geology, archaeology and natural history, The Street Beneath My Feetoffers children the opportunity to explore their world through a detailed learning experience. This expansive concertina book opens out to an impressive 2.5 metres long, perfect for spreading out on the floor to pore over for hours.

Author : Arthur Leo Zagat
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338100863

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Terror Beneath the Streets by Arthur Leo Zagat Pdf

This book is a horror-mystery novel by Arthur Leo Zagat, famed for his dime novels in this genre. At one moment the place was a gay, carefree city of pleasure-seekers; the next it became a dark metropolis of the damned, with a million men and women cowering from the clutches of the Little Men who sprang from their dank lairs, to pillage and murder at will. Somewhere, Roy Parker knew, was the girl he loved, held by the dread Master of Darkness whose mad designs brought tortured, bestial death to all who came within his power!

Author : Peter Laurie
Publisher : Peter Laurie
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : 0586050558

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Beneath the City Streets by Peter Laurie Pdf

Author : Roland Smith
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545564885

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Beneath by Roland Smith Pdf

Roland Smith, the master of middle-grade adventure, returns with a new novel full of high-speed chases, secret identities, and a dangerous underground world. What waits Beneath?Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop. He's even helped Coop with some of his crazier plans -- such as risking his life to help his big brother dig a tunnel underneath their neighborhood in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Coop is . . . different. He doesn't talk on the phone, doesn't use email, and doesn't have friends. He's never really cared for anything but the thrill of being underground and Pat. So it's no surprise to anyone -- even Pat -- that after a huge fight with their parents, Coop runs away. Exactly one year later, Pat receives a package containing a digital voice recorder and a cryptic message from his brother. He follows the clues to New York City, and soon discovers that Coop has joined the Community, a self-sufficient society living beneath the streets. Now it's up to Pat to find his brother -- and bring him home.