The Dangerous Games

Author : Richard Connell
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788728187494

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Sanger Rainsford is a big-game hunter, who finds himself washed up on an island owned by the eccentric General Zaroff. Zaroff, a big-game hunter himself, has heard of Rainsford’s abilities with a gun and organises a hunt. However, they’re not after animals – they’re after people. When he protests, Rainsford the hunter becomes Rainsford the hunted. Sharing similarities with "The Hunger Games", starring Jennifer Lawrence, this is the story that created the template for pitting man against man. Born in New York, Richard Connell (1893 – 1949) went on to become an acclaimed author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is best remembered for the gripping novel "The Most Dangerous Game" and for receiving an Oscar nomination for the screenplay "Meet John Doe".

Author : Joseph Laycock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520284913

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The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religionÑas a socially constructed world of shared meaningÑcan also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil. By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds. LaycockÕs clear and accessible writing ensures that Dangerous Games will be required reading for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.

Author : Lucia Peters
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781452179902

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Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark by Lucia Peters Pdf

What begins as a test of bravery or a sleepover activity—chanting in front of a mirror, riding an elevator alone, taking pictures in the dark—can become something . . . dangerous. This compendium collects the most spine-chilling games based on urban legends from around the world. Centuries–old games such as Bloody Mary and Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board are detailed alongside new games from the internet age, like The Answer Man, a sinister voice that whispers secrets to whomever manages to contact him with a cellphone. With step-by-step instructions, historical context, and the stakes for each game, this black handbook is the ideal gift for anyone looking for a late-night thrill—but beware who, or what, may come out to play.

Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509800131

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One woman risks everything to expose the truth in Danielle Steel's deeply suspenseful drama, the gripping bestseller, Dangerous Games. TV journalist Alix Phillips is always willing to put herself on the frontline for her job. Driven by her ambition to succeed and her passion for her work, all that matters is getting the story. After the loss of her husband, only her beloved mother and daughter are allowed to get close. And her cameraman, Ben. Neither of them fears death – facing up to their feelings for each other is more terrifying. With rumours circulating of major scandal in the White House, Alix is determined to uncover the truth. This story could blow the corridors of power wide open, and this time Alix is feeling the heat. But as Alix delves further into the scandal, powerful people want to silence her, targeting her family. For someone who was never scared, Alix now realizes that the time has come to play some very dangerous games.

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588367686

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Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movements and political campaigns alike. Dictators may suppress history because it undermines their ideas, agendas, or claims to absolute authority. Nationalists may tell false, one-sided, or misleading stories about the past. Political leaders might mobilize their people by telling lies. It is imperative that we have an understanding of the past and avoid these and other common traps in thinking to which many fall prey. This brilliantly reasoned work, alive with incident and figures both great and infamous, will compel us to examine history anew—and skillfully illuminates why it is important to treat the past with care.

Author : Lora Leigh
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429916257

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"Leigh's pages explode with a mixture of erotic pleasures." -RT Book Reviews #1 New York Times bestselling author, Lora Leigh's sexy Navy SEALs series, the Tempting SEALs, is red-hot, sexy romantic suspense at its best, featuring men who will stop at nothing to proect their country and all they love no matter how dark the danger, no matter what demons they must face. And when these men love, their passion runs deep and hard. Navy SEAL Clint" Iceman" McIntire earned his name by being the ultimate warrior. He's untouchable, unstoppable and he takes no prisoners. Having crushed an infamous drug cartel in Columbia, Clint was nothing short of an American hero. Now he's home on a much-needed leave, but instead of some R & R, he finds himself neck-deep in the hottest kind of trouble with his best friend's seemingly innocent little sister, Morgana Chavez, the only woman who has the power to bring him to his knees...Morgana has been secretly working with the DEA to uncover a thriving date-rape drug, which leads her to a shadowy faction that is more deadly than anything her team has ever encountered. Now, it's up to Clint to keep this beautiful, determined agent out of harm's way, even while the explosive passion between them threatens to consume them both. But these Dangerous Games will bring Morgana and Clint to the very edge of high stakes danger and perilous desire.

Author : Gavin Lyall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448201686

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'Cary is great with a gun and deadpan about danger' Spectator Bill Cary makes a precarious living flying aerial surveys over Lapland. When he's hired by a wealthy American hunter, Frederick Wells Homer, to fly into a prohibited part of Finland near the Soviet border, the job seems shady indeed, and when a major crook wants him to go on the hunt for Tsarist treasure, things get messy. With thugs and the Finnish Secret Service already on his tail, matters get worse when Homer's beautiful sister turns up to search for him, and Cary's fellow bush pilots start getting killed off in a series of suspicious accidents. Cary begins to realise that it may all stem from an incident in his wartime past. The Most Dangerous Game was shortlisted for the British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award. 'A glorious tale, vivid in character and escapade' Book Week

Author : Andrew Todhunter
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307831996

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In this elegant and exciting collection Andrew Todhunter, himself an extreme sportsman and the author of the critically acclaimed Fall of the Phantom Lord, takes readers along as men and women push themselves to their limits in the world’s riskiest sports. In several of these essays Todhunter writes from personal experience, joining his subjects as they free fall from cliffs, wriggle through narrow underground crevices, and dive deep beneath the ice of a frozen lake. In these adrenaline-laced accounts of extreme sportsmanship, Todhunter captures not only the thrill of conquest but the deep pleasure of being someplace few others have gone as well.

Author : Clayton Emery
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786963928

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Dangerous Games by Clayton Emery Pdf

Return to the fabled Netherese Empire, a land of dangerous magical intrigue where mortals must fight to claim their own destinies In the empire of Netheril, where citadels float, magic runs wild, and mages dabble in games better left for the gods, Sunbright Steelshanks and Candlemas have just escaped the Lower Planes. Caught up in the games of the gods, the adventurers have their own concerns. As Sunbright seeks to rescue his lover AND Candlemas searches for a cure for the disease afflicting the Netherese grain crops, the two encounter a fallen star and Karsus, the arcanist who has transported himself through time to find it. Traveling through Faerûn and time itself, Sunbright becomes an unwilling pawn in a lethal match of wits, wiles, and powers.

Author : Connell,Jack London,O. Henry,Clark Ashton Smith,John Kruse,Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486849683

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The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure by Connell,Jack London,O. Henry,Clark Ashton Smith,John Kruse,Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Readers seeking exotic locales and nonstop pulse-pounding thrills will love this collection of six classic adventure stories, including The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, To Build a Fire by Jack London, The Caballero's Way by O. Henry, and more.

Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781504018821

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Dido Twite, with the help of some sacred shaman healers, must foil a sinister plot to overthrow the king of a remote South Sea island healers Sailing the high seas in pursuit of Lord Herodsfoot, roving ambassador to the ageing King James III, Dido Twite’s search has led her to the remote South Sea island of Aratu. She arrives with a new friend she made en route, the enigmatic Dr. Talisman, who is returning to the isle after many years. Soon they discover that there’s something even more dangerous in the ancient rain forest than its poisonous pearl snakes, sting monkeys, and 30-foot-long crocodiles. Dido and Talisman are confronted by the Angrian invaders, who drove the Dilendi natives from their home 400 years earlier. Luckily, Dido befriends the gentle Forest People, who can heal with their magical touch. When she learns about a plot to overthrow the island’s suffering king, Dido enlists the Forest People to help her thwart the scheme, save the monarch, and reunite him with his long-lost daughter. Dangerous Games is the 5th book in the award-winning Wolves Chronicles, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Joan Aiken including rare images from the author’s estate.

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847652003

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The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan Pdf

The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to look to history for guidance? No; their mistake was to exaggerate one of its lessons while suppressing others of equal importance. History is often hijacked through suppression, manipulation, and, sometimes, even outright deception. MacMillan's book is packed full of examples of the abuses of history. In response, she urges us to treat the past with care and respect.

Author : James Wise,Scott Baron
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612514529

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Dangerous Games by James Wise,Scott Baron Pdf

The Cold War was only cold in that the major powers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, did not engage in a nuclear war. But during that period (1945-1991) there were wars, spying, shoot downs of numerous reconnaissance aircraft, captures of U.S. military personnel, murders, defections, a space race with men put in orbit and an eventual moon landing. Dangerous Games: Faces, Incidents and Casualties of the Cold War is a return to that era. This book contains many unknown and long-since forgotten stories of that period. With the resurgence of Russia, and its aggressive handling of the Georgian situation, Eastern European countries have become increasingly alarmed that Russia is attempting to recreate a sphere of influence over satellite states of the former Soviet Union. To add to the mounting tension with the West, Russia in its attempt to become a world power once again, has already begun to show its flag in the Western Hemisphere. Considering that we may be facing a second Cold War, this book is a timely reminder of some notable incidents from the intense political period following the end of the Second World War.

Author : Heather Graham
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488028021

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A Dangerous Game by Heather Graham Pdf

TROUBLE ALWAYS FINDS HER… Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street. Who was the woman? Where did the baby come from? Kieran can’t stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do—he gets the FBI involved. And asks Kieran to keep out of it. But the Finnegans have a knack for getting into trouble, and Kieran won’t sit idle when a lead surfaces through her family’s pub. Investigating on her own, she uncovers a dangerous group that plays fast and loose with human lives and will stop at nothing to keep their secrets—and they plan to silence Kieran before she can expose their deadly enterprise.

Author : Jack Dann,Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474064356

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