Hard City

Author : Nathan Russell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781472849557

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Hard City by Nathan Russell Pdf

A roleplaying game of mystery and hardboiled action in a city that never sleeps. I woke with a start, my mouth tasting like an old glove and my head pounding from the events of the previous evening, though I wasn't sure if it was the beating from Benny's boys or the half bottle of drugstore whiskey that had done the most damage. I lifted my eyelids like stubborn blinds to find my gaze fall on a dame with a hundred-dollar purse in one hand and a cheap bean-shooter in the other. I groaned and cursed myself for ever getting involved in this mess... In Hard City, character creation is swift and simple, generating competent yet flawed individuals and focusing on what sets them apart as they walk the fine line between right and wrong. Fast action resolution places the emphasis on the momentum of the plot, while the sandbox setting provides evocative hooks for adventures – fight crooks, rescue the innocent, thwart blackmail plots (or start them!), or uncover corruption in the Mayor's office. Stalk the mean streets of a world filled with two-bit thugs, hard-nosed gumshoes, intrepid reporters, gangsters, and femme fatales, all doing what they must to survive in the concrete jungle. With trouble around every corner, a secret on every lip, and a gun in every pocket, danger is never far away in the hard city.

Author : Clark Howard
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504062046

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Hard City by Clark Howard Pdf

The searing novel of a brutal boyhood in 1940s Chicago—and a young man walking the knife’s edge between a life of crime and a brighter future. The son of a single mother addicted to heroin, Richie grows up in poverty and hardship. His adolescence is a constant battle between hope—in the form of a kind boxing coach, a job in a bowling alley where he can sneak a nap, and a determination to track down his disreputable father—and brutality. Desperately lonely, Richie must contend with the criminal justice system, abusive foster homes, and a period of exile with his grandmother in Tennessee. In this gritty, semiautobiographical novel by an Edgar Award–winning author, the fate of this young man hangs in the balance as he finds himself tested by want, war, and the ever-present temptation to give up on the possibility of something better. “Strongly satisfying [and] frequently compelling.” —Kirkus Reviews “Sustains a sense of tension, moving smoothly between flashbacks of the events of Richie’s early years and the traumatic experiences of his adolescence, then on to his return to Chicago.” —The New York Times

Author : Binti Singh,Tania Berger,Manoj Parmar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000842630

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Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City by Binti Singh,Tania Berger,Manoj Parmar Pdf

This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city—urban assets, such as land, infrastructure, and housing, and asserts that these challenges and escalating vulnerabilities are best negotiated using the soft city—social capital and community networks. In so doing, the authors criticise a singular knowledge system and argue for a granular, nuanced understanding of cities—of the interrelations between people in places, everyday urbanisms, social relationships, cultural practices, and histories. The volume presents perspectives from the Global South and the Global North and engages with city-specific cases from Africa, India, and Europe for a deeper understanding of resilience. Part of the Urban Futures series, it will be of great interest to students and researchers of urban studies, urban planning, urban management, architecture, urban sociology, urban design, ecology, conservation, and urban sustainability. It will also be useful for urbanists, architects, urban sociologists, city and town planners, policy makers, and those interested in a deeper understanding of the contemporary and future city.

Author : Frank Miller
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781506722825

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Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Fourth Edition) by Frank Miller Pdf

"Tough guy Marv is out for revenge for the murder of a prostitute named Goldie"--

Author : Michael Streissguth
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438479897

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City on the Edge by Michael Streissguth Pdf

Why do people stay in a struggling city? City on the Edge explores this question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, a quintessential rust-belt metropolis. Once a booming industrial center with a dynamic civic life and prominence on the world stage, Syracuse has endured decades of crime, drugs, economic depression, absent-minded political leadership, and population decline. Michael Streissguth spent more than three years interviewing a young survivor of the streets, a refugee from Cuba, an urban farmer, a community activist, and a city elder, who shared their stories as they found ways to make life work against sometimes formidable odds. He also contextualizes their extended commentary and storytelling with secondary characters and various episodes, such as a tragic Father's Day riot and the trial that followed. The result is an eye-opening look at life in America in the twenty-first century, where people strive to turn their ideas, frustrations, and disadvantages into new hope for themselves and the city where they live.

Author : Jim Fusilli
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X004791307

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Hard, Hard City by Jim Fusilli Pdf

Manhattan private investigator Terry Orr searches for Alexander Powell, a gifted teenage boy from New Jersey, at the urging of his daughter, Bella, and discovers dark Powell family secrets that threaten both the investigation and Alexander's life.

Author : Tanya Talaga
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487002275

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Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga Pdf

Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga. Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.

Author : Saint Paul (Minn.).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Ordinances, Municipal
ISBN : NYPL:33433014086833

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The Municipal Code of the City of Saint Paul by Saint Paul (Minn.). Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101065313114

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Chambers's Encyclopædia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simone Shu-Yeng Chung,Mike Douglass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 946372950X

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The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore by Simone Shu-Yeng Chung,Mike Douglass Pdf

With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and conceptualized space engineered into material form by bureaucrats, experts and commercial interests, a perceptual layer of space is conjured out of people's everyday life experiences. While such imaginative projections may not be as tangible as its functional designations, they are nonetheless equally vital and palpable. The richness of its inhabitants' memories, aspirations and meaningful interpretations challenges the reduction of Singapore as a Generic City. Taking the imaginative field as the point of departure, the forms and modes of intellectual and creative articulations of Singapore's urban condition probe the resilience of cities and the people who reside in them, through the images they convey or evoke as a means for collective expressions of human agency in placemaking.

Author : Frank Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 184576045X

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Sin City by Frank Miller Pdf

Now a much-anticipated movie, Frank Miller's gritty crime noir tale get a new lease of life in this spectacular redesigned and reformatted edition. Beautifully and boldly rendered in black and white by one of comics' greatest artists and story tellers comes a tale of love, loss, revenge and fine coats Meet Marv, not one of Sin City's more peaceful residents, as he falls for a beautiful young girl, Goldie. They spend the night together, but on waking Marv finds Goldie dead and the police at the door. It's down to Marv to try and put things right. Sin City has was both Eisner and Harvey awards and this collection features a Frank Miller gallery section.

Author : Robert Inchausti
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611804171

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Hard to Be a Saint in the City by Robert Inchausti Pdf

An exploration of Beat spirituality--seen through excerpts from the writings of the seminal writers of Beat Generation themselves. It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience. And there is no doubt that the writers he knew and inspired—iconic figures like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and Michael McClure—were thinkers seeking exactly that. In this re-claiming of their vision, Robert Inchausti explores the Beat canon to reveal that the movement was at heart a spiritual one. It goes deeper than the Buddhism with which many of the key figures became identified. It’s about their shared perception of an existence in which the Divine reveals itself in the ordinary. Theirs is a spirituality where real life triumphs over airy ideals and personal authenticity becomes both the content and the vehicle for a kind of refurbished American Transcendentalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Fire insurance
ISBN : WISC:89095809018

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The Insurance Year Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Greg Egan
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575105454

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Permutation City by Greg Egan Pdf

The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace. Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes something way beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not enough - and much more - Permutation city is filled with the sense of wonder.

Author : Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PRNC:32101066795806

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Annual Report by Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota Pdf