Night Passage

Author : Robert B. Parker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101546352

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Night Passage by Robert B. Parker Pdf

Robert B. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series—a New York Times bestseller. After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can’t help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can’t refuse. Once on board, Jesse doesn’t have to look for trouble in Paradise: it comes to him. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption—replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman. Against all this, Jesse stands utterly alone, with no one to trust—even he and the woman he’s seeing are like ships passing in the night. He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local hero—or the deadest of dupes.

Author : Robert B Parker
Publisher : Jesse Stonel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1842435213

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Night Passage by Robert B Parker Pdf

After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problems into overdrive and the LAPD kick him out, 35-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak. He is shocked, however, when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise hires him as their police chief. Once on board he doesn't have to look for trouble in Paradise, it comes to him. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption, replete with triple homicide and tight Boston mob ties. He finds he must test his mettle to emerge a hero, or the deadest of dupes.

Author : Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231147996

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Night Passages by Elisabeth Bronfen Pdf

In the beginning was the night. All light, shapes, language, and subjective consciousness, as well as the world and art depicting them, emerged from this formless chaos. In fantasy, we seek to return to this original darkness. Particularly in literature, visual representations, and film, the night resiliently resurfaces from the margins of the knowable, acting as a stage and state of mind in which exceptional perceptions, discoveries, and decisions play out. Elisabeth Bronfen follows nocturnal spaces in which extraordinary events unfold, enabling the irrational exploration of desire, transformation, ecstasy, transgression, spiritual illumination, and moral choice. She begins with classical myths depicting the creation of the world and moves through nocturnal scenes in Shakespeare and Milton, Gothic figurations, Hegel's romantic philosophy, and Freud's psychoanalysis. In modern times, she shows how literature and film, particularly film noir, transmit that piece of night the modern subject carries within. From Mozart's "Queen of the Night" to Virginia Woolf 's oscillation between day and night, life and death, and chaos and aesthetic form, Bronfen renders something visible, conceivable, and tellable from the dark realms of the unknown.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374534756

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Night by Elie Wiesel Pdf

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Born in Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's seminal work.

Author : Minh-ha T. Trinh
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822377320

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D-Passage by Minh-ha T. Trinh Pdf

D-Passage is a unique book by the world-renowned filmmaker, artist, and critical theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha. Taking as grounding forces her feature film Night Passage and installation L'Autre marche (The Other Walk), both co-created with Jean-Paul Bourdier, she discusses the impact of new technology on cinema culture and explores its effects on creative practice. Less a medium than a "way," the digital is here featured in its mobile, transformative passages. Trinh's reflections shed light on several of her major themes: temporality; transitions; transcultural encounters; ways of seeing and knowing; and the implications of the media used, the artistic practices engaged in, and the representations created. In D-Passage, form and structure, rhythm and movement, and language and imagery are inseparable. The book integrates essays, artistic statements, in-depth conversations, the script of Night Passage, movie stills, photos, and sketches.

Author : Jack Higgins
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007290468

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Passage by Night by Jack Higgins Pdf

The classic bestseller from the master of the game

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Weather Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. North Pacific Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fisheries
ISBN : CHI:48944630

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Fourth Progress Report on Fisheries Engineering Research Program, 1966-1972 by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. North Pacific Division Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Dams
ISBN : CORNELL:31924000822175

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Progress Report on Fisheries Engineering Research Program by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Author : Justin Cronin
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385669528

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The Passage by Justin Cronin Pdf

The Andromeda Strain meets The Stand in this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control. At an army research station in Colorado, an experiment is being conducted by the U.S. Government: twelve men are exposed to a virus meant to weaponize the human form by super-charging the immune system. But when the experiment goes terribly wrong, terror is unleashed. Amy, a young girl abandoned by her mother and set to be the thirteenth test subject, is rescued by Brad Wolgast, the FBI agent who has been tasked with handing her over, and together they escape to the mountains of Oregon. As civilization crumbles around them, Brad and Amy struggle to keep each other alive, clinging to hope and unable to comprehend the nightmare that approaches with great speed and no mercy. . .

Author : Les Weatheritt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781574093568

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Caribbean Passagemaking by Les Weatheritt Pdf

The chain of islands from the Virgins to the southern Lesser Antilles is one of the most desirable tropical cruising grounds as well as the most accessible for North American and European sailors. The Caribbean Sea is usually benign but the conditions are very different from your home waters—you must learn to sail with the grain of wind, weather, current, and climate, or these forgiving waters will turn into a punishingly rough old sea. This updated third edition of Caribbean Passagemaking is an entertaining mine of information for the sun-soaked passage planner as well as the dreamer back home. Here is the full, vital background to help skipper and crew enjoy sailing the Caribbean islands.

Author : Kingsley Cox,Tim Cox
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780615198828

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Attempted Escape from Western Civilisation by Kingsley Cox,Tim Cox Pdf

This book is the tongue-in-cheek (and true) story about the building of a wooden catamaran by two brothers as they attempt to escape the clutches of Western Civilisation by sea. Part carpentry, part oddjob, part philosophy, hopefully part funny, and above all part sailing, the narrative takes you from the early terrors experienced whilst sailing dinghies as children to the high seas twenty years later.

Author : Atsuko Sakaki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031405488

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Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory by Atsuko Sakaki Pdf

Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory argues that the train is a loaded trope for reconfiguring narrative theories past their “spatial turn.” Atsuko Sakaki’s method exploits intensive and rigorous close reading of literary and cinematic narratives on one hand, and on the other hand interdisciplinary perspectives that draw out larger connections to narrative theory. The book utilizes not only narratological frameworks but also concepts of space-focused humanity oriented social sciences, such as human geography, mobility studies, tourism studies, and qualitative/experience-based ethnography, in their post “narrative turn.” On this interface of narrative studies and spatial studies, this book pays concerted attention to the formation of affordances, or relations in which the human subject uses a space-time and things in it, in terms of passenger experience of the train carriage and its extension. Affiliation: Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Author : A. P. Pronichkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211328542

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Soviet Watch Officer's Guide by A. P. Pronichkin Pdf

Author : William Darby
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786454488

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Anthony Mann by William Darby Pdf

This detailed study of the career of Anthony Mann argues Mann's prominence and influence alongside contemporaries like John Ford. Mann (1906-1967), who was active in Hollywood and Europe, directed or produced more than 40 films, including The Fall of the Roman Empire and God's Little Acre. Best known for his work in the film noir and western genres and his films starring Jimmy Stewart, Mann later moved into Cold War and epic films. The book features a filmography and 49 photographs.