Honorable Bandit

Author : Brian Bouldrey
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780299223236

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Honorable Bandit by Brian Bouldrey Pdf

Brian Bouldrey traveled to the island of Corsica, with its wine-dark Mediterranean waters, powdered-sugar beach sand, sumptuous cuisine, and fine wine. And then he walked away from all of them. Bouldrey strapped on a backpack and walked across Napoleon's native land with the same spirit many choose to dance or drink: to celebrate, to mourn, to think, to avoid thinking, to recall, to ignore, to escape, and to arrive. This wonderfully textured account of a two-week ramble along a famous Corsican hiking trail with his German friend Petra (she was good at the downhills while he was better at the uphills) offers readers a journal that is a launching point for reflection: thoughts on cultural differences, friendship, physical challenge, personal challenge, and getting very, very lost. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part lampoon, this book offers readers an impressionistic view of a little talked about yet stunningly beautiful landscape. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians and the Public Library Association Runner-up, Best Travel Book, National Association of Travel Journalists

Author : Ken Liu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481424295

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The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu Pdf

One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time Two men rebel together against tyranny—and then become rivals—in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Hailed as one of the best books of 2015 by NPR. Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, and shapeshifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions—two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice. Fans of intrigue, intimate plots, and action will find a new series to embrace in the Dandelion Dynasty.

Author : Mark Dugan
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Brigands and robbers
ISBN : 9780865341012

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Bandit Years by Mark Dugan Pdf

A study of a gang of four stagecoach robbers -- Billy LeRoy, Bill Miner, Charley Allison, Hamilton White III -- who hit the Barlow-Sanderson Overland Mail in 1880 and 1881.

Author : Lewis Barton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781664198371

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Countess Athena & Godfather’s Twins by Lewis Barton Pdf

Countess Athena & Godfather’s Twins is the first book of a four-book series. This book series illustrates eighty years of Sicilian family life - their love and devotion, traditions, commitment and loyalty, royal families merging, wealth, survival, and crime. All these factors had an influence on the world, both in America and abroad. The author began to research and document five generations of historical events in an effort to learn what happened to Duke Vito and Duchess Marie Cornino twenty years ago, along with their eight grandchildren who were four of the five sets of twins, and the great-grandchildren of Countess Athena Marie Castellammare; and Duke Don Vito Cornino, the godfather of Palermo, Sicily. Braron Tony Zibelli, his wife Countess Florence Zibelli, along with seven other family members and their security, domestic, and medical staff, as well as their two pilots, were last seen in Zurich, Switzerland in August 2001, while doing some banking business. They mysteriously disappeared and no one has seen or heard from them since. Rumors have spread that they were in a plane crash; others say they were in a shipwreck; and still others have said they are on a private island in the South Pacific . . . another theory is they were kidnapped by the Russian Mafia.

Author : Mick Middles
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857127730

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Arcade Fire: Behind the Black Mirror by Mick Middles Pdf

The story of a world-beating multi-instrumental band with a unique creative dynamic. Their story is compelling – a complex musical collaboration in an eight-piece band that has coalesced around Win Butler and Régine Chassagne. They have triumphed worldwide at festivals and stadiums whilst racking up three award-winning albums: Funeral, Neon Bible and The Suburbs. This is the story of a truly fascinating band whose music has always triumphed over the trappings of success.

Author : Anita Brockway Ferris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433082530142

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The Honorable Crimson Tree by Anita Brockway Ferris Pdf

Author : Amy E. Wright
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826505637

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Serial Mexico by Amy E. Wright Pdf

No book until now has tied in two centuries of Mexican serial narratives—tales of glory, of fame, and of epic characters, grounded in oral folklore—with their subsequent retelling in comics, radio, and television soap operas. Wright’s multidisciplinary Serial Mexico delves into this storytelling tradition: examining the nostalgic tales reimagined in novelas, radionovelas, telenovelas and onwards, and examining the foundational figures who have been woven into society. This panorama shows the Mexican experience of storytelling from the country’s early days until now, showcasing protagonists that mock authority, make light of hierarchy, and embrace the hybridity and mestizaje of Mexico. These tales reflect on and respond to crucial cultural concerns such as family, patriarchy, gender roles, racial mixing, urbanization, modernization, and political idealism. Serial Mexico thus examines how serialized storytelling’s melodrama and sensationalism reveals key political and cultural messaging. In a detailed yet accessible style, Wright describes how these stories have continued to morph with current times’ concerns and social media. Will tropes and traditions carry on in new and reimagined serial storytelling forms? Only time will tell. Stay tuned for the next episode.

Author : Dominique Kalifa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231547260

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Vice, Crime, and Poverty by Dominique Kalifa Pdf

Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts and our doubles, repelling us and yet offering the tantalizing promise of escape. Although these images testify to undeniable social realities, the sordid lower depths make up a symbolic and social imaginary that reflects our fears and anxieties—as well as our desires. In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, Dominique Kalifa traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. He examines how the myth of the lower depths came into being in nineteenth-century Europe, as biblical figures and Christian traditions were adapted for a world turned upside-down by the era of industrialization, democratization, and mass culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience. While the social conditions that created that underworld have changed, Vice, Crime, and Poverty shows that, from social-scientific ideas of the underclass to contemporary cinema and steampunk culture, its shadows continue to haunt us.

Author : Bedrettin Simsek
Publisher : Bedrettin Şimşek
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786057468772

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Miracle Device by Bedrettin Simsek Pdf

What happens at death, the most mysterious moment of our life? In what disguise will death appear before us to take our soul? Bedrettin Simsek, the heterodox author of Turkish literature, answers these questions in his book "Miracle Device" and presents himself as a soothsayer whose prophecy about the Grim Reaper in 2005 was fulfilled by the study of British scientists in 2013, which surprisingly showed that the Grim Reaper really came to us at the moment of our death, just as it is described in "Miracle Device", an example of literature of thought, a short novel by Bedrettin Simsek. The results of a study conducted by the British Wellcome Trust and published in the journal Plos Biology in July 2013, confirming Bedrettin Simsek's thesis that death appears as a wave at the end of our lives, can be read in the introduction entitled "The Discovery of the Grim Reaper". The story, in the style of Edgar Allan Poe, is briefly about atheist scientists who unexpectedly discover the existence of the Grim Reaper in a miraculous device they created in a laboratory while trying to prove that there is no God. This work, which shows that even a writer can perform miracles in the field of literature, is intended only for readers who are open to new ideas and curious about the mysteries of death.

Author : Amy Robinson (Ph.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00831662Q

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Bandits, Outlaws and Revolutionaries in Mexican Literature, 1885-1919 by Amy Robinson (Ph.D.) Pdf

Author : Jeff Meyers
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498539319

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The Criminal–Terror Nexus in Chechnya by Jeff Meyers Pdf

This study examines a number of Chechen groups’ links to criminality and terrorism. It analyzes the role of Soviet and Russian policies in the region, investigates the influence of Islam, and provides comparisons to international crime and terror organizations.

Author : Andrew Patrick Nelson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806153025

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Still in the Saddle by Andrew Patrick Nelson Pdf

By the end of the 1960s, the Hollywood West of Tom Mix, Randolph Scott, and even John Wayne was passé—or so the story goes. Many film historians and critics have argued that movies portraying a mythic American West gave way to revisionist films that influential filmmakers such as Sam Peckinpah and Robert Altman made as violent critiques of the Western’s “golden years.” Yet rumors surrounding the death of the Western have been greatly exaggerated, says film historian Andrew Patrick Nelson. Even as the Wild Bunch and John McCabe rode forth, John Wayne remained the Western’s number one box office draw. How, then, could there have been a revisionist reckoning at a time when the Duke was still in the saddle? In Still in the Saddle, Nelson offers readers a new history of the Hollywood Western in the 1970s, a time when filmmakers tried to revive the genre by appealing to a diverse audience that included a new generation of socially conscious viewers. Nelson considers a comprehensive filmography of releases from 1969 to 1980 in light of the visual tropes and narratives developed and reworked in the genre from the 1930s to the present. In so doing, he reveals the complexity of what is probably the most interesting period in Western movie history. His incisive reevaluations of such celebrated (or infamous) films as The Wild Bunch and Heaven’s Gate and examinations of dozens of forgotten and neglected Westerns, including the final films of John Wayne, demonstrate that there was more to the 1970s Western than simple revision. Instead, we see not only important connections between canonical and lesser-known films of the period, but also continuities between these and older Westerns. Nelson believes an ongoing, cyclical process of regeneration thus transcends established divisions in the genre’s history. Among the books currently challenging the prevailing “evolutionary” account of the Western, Still in the Saddle thoroughly revises our understanding of this exciting and misunderstood period in the Western’s history and adds innovatively and substantially to our knowledge of the genre as a whole.

Author : Claudine Fabre-Vassas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0231103670

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The Singular Beast by Claudine Fabre-Vassas Pdf

This original account of the significance of the pig and its relationship to Jews in European Christian culture encompasses a vast array of folklore, history and ritual. Practices related to the breeding, slaughter and consumption of the pig have inspired both religious and secular taboos and rituals, laid out by the author in fascinating detail. She demonstrates clearly the power which a symbol may hold to mould an ethnic identity, and the book stands both as s study of the role of the pig, and as an analysis of the creation of anti-Semitic myths.

Author : Lee Bebout
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816670864

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Mythohistorical Interventions by Lee Bebout Pdf

The importance of myth, symbol, and image in the Chicano movement and beyond.

Author : A Li
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647672034

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Peerless Female Bandit: Carry A Husband Home by A Li Pdf

Yue Ying was originally a CEO who had made her name known for her accomplishments, but she was pushed down the stairs by someone who didn't want to be treated like a mistress. However, bandits also had their own benefits. He could just snatch back the pretty boy that they took a fancy to."Give birth to my son! "Much, much more!" Tie Yi smiled."Then I'm not a sow?""At least twenty!"Yue Ying furrowed her brows. "One is good, two is good, why is there so much trouble?"Iron Yi's face darkened. "I'm the only son of the Iron family in this generation, but there are still eight more to be passed on. Two for each family, two for each old lady!"Yue Ying was flustered ...