Shooting To Kill

Author : Christine Vachon
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780061873683

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Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the set of Vachon's best-known fillms, Shooting to Kill offers all the satisfaction of an intimate memoir from the frontlines of independent filmmakins, from one of its most successful agent provocateurs -- and survivors. Hailed by the New York Times as the "godmother to the politically committed film" and by Interview as a true "auteur producer," Christine Vachon has made her name with such bold, controversial, and commercially successful films as "Poison," "Swoon," Kids," "Safe," "I Shot Andy Warhol," and "Velvet Goldmine."Over the last decade, she has become a driving force behind the most daring and strikingly original independent filmmakers-from Todd Haynes to Tom Kalin and Mary Harron-and helped put them on the map. So what do producers do? "What don't they do?" she responds. In this savagely witty and straight-shooting guide, Vachon reveals trheguts of the filmmaking process--rom developing a script, nurturing a director's vision, getting financed, and drafting talent to holding hands, stoking egos, stretching every resource to the limit and pushing that limit. Along the way, she offers shrewd practical insights and troubleshooting tips on handling everything from hysterical actors and disgruntled teamsters to obtuse marketing executives. Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the sets of Vachon's best-known films, Shooting To Kill offers all the satisfactions of an intimate memoir from the frontlines of independent filmmaking, from one of its most successful agent provocateurs-and survivors.

Author : Christine Vachon,David Edelstein
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015066782916

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Originally published by Avon Books, 1998.

Author : Seumas Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190626136

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Shooting to Kill by Seumas Miller Pdf

In this book, philosopher Seumas Miller analyzes the various moral justifications and moral responsibilities involved in the use of lethal force by police and military, relying on a distinctive normative teleological account of institutional roles. Miller covers a variety of urgent and morally complex topics, including police shootings of armed offenders, police shooting of suicide-bombers, targeted killing, autonomous weapons, humanitarian armed intervention, and civilian immunity. -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Charles W. Sasser,Craig Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439137123

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One Shot One Kill by Charles W. Sasser,Craig Roberts Pdf

They are the lone wolves of the battlefield. Tracking the enemy, lying in wait for the target to appear -- then they shoot to kill. Armed with an unerring eye, infinite patience and a mastery of camouflage, combat snipers stalk the enemy with only one goal... In World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Beirut, American snipers honed the art of delivering a single deadly shot from nowhere -- and devastating enemy morale. They met the enemy on his own turf, picking off officers, unwary soldiers, and even other snipers from extraordinary distances of up to 1 ½ miles. Now, these uncommon men tell their stories: of the emotions felt when a man's face came into their crosshairs and they pulled the trigger, of the nerve-wracking hours and days of waiting, motionless, for the enemy, of the primal savagery of a sniper duel. Often trained haphazardly in wartime, and forgotten in times of peace, combat snipers were officially recognized after the Vietnam War, when the Marine Corps became the first military branch to start a full-time sniper school. One Shot-One Kill is their powerful record of desperate trials and proud victories. A MAIN SELECTION OF THE MILITARY BOOK CLUB

Author : Vince Flynn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476715667

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Kill Shot by Vince Flynn Pdf

Young Mitch Rapp sets out on a deadly mission to hunt down the men responsible for the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack.

Author : David Klinger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781118429761

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Into the Kill Zone by David Klinger Pdf

What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers. Written by a cop-turned university professor who interviewed scores of officers who have shot people in the course of their duties, Into the Kill Zone presents firsthand accounts of the role that deadly force plays in American police work. This brilliantly written book tells how novice officers are trained to think about and use the power they have over life and death, explains how cops live with the awesome responsibility that comes from the barrels of their guns, reports how officers often hold their fire when they clearly could have shot, presents hair-raising accounts of what it's like to be involved in shoot-outs, and details how shooting someone affects officers who pull the trigger. From academy training to post-shooting reactions, this book tells the compelling story of the role that extreme violence plays in the lives of America's cops.

Author : Charles W. Sasser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780671789299

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Contains interviews with police officers from Florida, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Virginia, Texas, Wisconsin, California, Louisiana, Maryland, and Massachusetts.

Author : Jason Dearen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780593421352

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Kill Shot by Jason Dearen Pdf

Now in paperback. An award-winning investigative journalist's horrifying true crime story of America's deadliest drug contamination outbreak and the greed and deception that fueled it. Two pharmacists sit in a Boston courtroom accused of murder. The weapon: the fungus Exserohilum rostratum. The death count: 100 and rising. Kill Shot is the story of their hubris and fraud, discovered by a team of medical detectives who raced against the clock to hunt the killers and the fungal meningitis they'd unleashed. "Bloodthirsty" is how doctors described the fungal microbe that contaminated thousands of drug vials produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC). Though NECC chief Barry Cadden called his company the "Ferrari of Compounders," it was a slapdash operation of unqualified staff, mold-ridden lab surfaces, and hastily made medications that were injected into approximately 14,000 people. Once inside some of its human hosts, the fungus traveled through the tough tissue around the spine and wormed upward to the "deep brain," our control center for balance, breath, and the vital motor functions of life. Now, investigative journalist Jason Dearen turns a spotlight on this tragedy--the victims, the heroes, and the perpetrators--and the legal loopholes that allowed it to occur. Kill Shot forces a powerful but unchecked industry out of the shadows.

Author : Punch, Maurice
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847423160

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Shoot to kill by Punch, Maurice Pdf

The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell underground station in 2005 raised acute issues about operational practice, legitimacy, accountability and policy making regarding police use of fatal force. It dramatically exposed a policy, referred to popularly as 'shoot to kill', which came not from Parliament but from the non-statutory ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers). This vital and timely book unravels these often misunderstood matters with a fresh look at firearms practice and policy in a traditionally 'unarmed' police service. It is essential reading for all those interested in the state's role in defining coercion and in policing a democracy.

Author : Dave Grossman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781497629202

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On Killing by Dave Grossman Pdf

A controversial psychological examination of how soldiers’ willingness to kill has been encouraged and exploited to the detriment of contemporary civilian society. Psychologist and US Army Ranger Dave Grossman writes that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to pull the trigger in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. The mental cost for members of the military, as witnessed by the increase in post-traumatic stress, is devastating. The sociological cost for the rest of us is even worse: Contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army’s conditioning techniques and, Grossman argues, is responsible for the rising rate of murder and violence, especially among the young. Drawing from interviews, personal accounts, and academic studies, On Killing is an important look at the techniques the military uses to overcome the powerful reluctance to kill, of how killing affects the soldier, and of the societal implications of escalating violence.

Author : Brian McIlroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 0948911530

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Author : Steve Cole
Publisher : Random House
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782952404

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BEFORE THE MAN BECAME THE LEGEND. BEFORE THE BOY BECAME THE MAN. James Bond hits Hollywood . . . Lights. Camera. Murder. Young Bond is back - in his most action-packed, explosive adventure yet.

Author : Peter Langman, PhD
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0230101488

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Why Kids Kill by Peter Langman, PhD Pdf

In the horrific aftermath of school shootings, distraught communities struggle to make sense of these seemingly senseless acts. Despite massive media coverage, we know little about what drives young perpetrators or how they rationalize their acts. In this breakthrough analysis, Dr. Peter Langman presents the psychological causes of school shootings and offers unprecedented insight into why certain teens exhibit the potential to kill. He shows how to identify early signs of possible violence and offers preventative measures that parents and educators can take to protect their communities.

Author : Tommy Orange
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771073021

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There There by Tommy Orange Pdf

Here is a voice we have never heard--a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with stunning urgency and force. Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honour his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and unspeakable loss. Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking, There There is a relentlessly paced multi-generational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. An unforgettable debut.

Author : Wade Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : UCAL:$B243686

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