The Digger S Game

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307947277

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The Digger's Game by George V. Higgins Pdf

Jerry "Digger" Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman's Boston bar, who supplements his income with the occasional "odd job," like stealing live checks and picking up hot goods. His brother’s a priest, his wife’s a nag, and he’s got a deadly appetite for martinis and gambling. But when the Digger looses eighteen grand in borrowed money on a trip to Vegas, he quickly finds himself in the sights of mob loneshark “the Greek,” who will have to make the Digger pay up one way or another. Luckily—if you call it luck—the Digger has been let in on a little job that can turn his gambling debt into a profit, as long as he can pull it off without getting killed.

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 043619581X

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The Digger's Game by George V. Higgins Pdf

Author : Jack Champ,Colin Burgess
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760852153

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The Diggers of Colditz by Jack Champ,Colin Burgess Pdf

Colditz Castle was Nazi Germany’s infamous ‘escape-proof’ wartime prison, where hundreds of the most determined and resourceful Allied prisoners were sent. Despite having more guards than inmates, Australian Lieutenant Jack Champ and other prisoners tirelessly carried out their campaign to escape from the massive floodlit stronghold, by any means necessary. In this riveting account – by turns humorous, heartfelt and tragic – historian Colin Burgess and Lieutenant Jack Champ, from the point of view of the prisoners themselves, tell the story of the twenty Australians who made this castle their ‘home’, and the plans they made that were so crazy that some even achieved the seemingly impossible – escape! ‘A stirring testimony of mateship . . . We are often on tenterhooks, always impressed by their determination, industry and courage’ Australian Book Review

Author : Marek M. Kaminski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780691149325

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Games Prisoners Play by Marek M. Kaminski Pdf

On March 11, 1985, a van was pulled over in Warsaw for a routine traffic check that turned out to be anything but routine. Inside was Marek Kaminski, a Warsaw University student who also ran an underground press for Solidarity. The police discovered illegal books in the vehicle, and in a matter of hours five secret police escorted Kaminski to jail. A sociology and mathematics major one day, Kaminski was the next a political prisoner trying to adjust to a bizarre and dangerous new world. This remarkable book represents his attempts to understand that world. As a coping strategy until he won his freedom half a year later by faking serious illness, Kaminski took clandestine notes on prison subculture. Much later, he discovered the key to unlocking that culture--game theory. Prison first appeared an irrational world of unpredictable violence and arbitrary codes of conduct. But as Kaminski shows in riveting detail, prisoners, to survive and prosper, have to master strategic decision-making. A clever move can shorten a sentence; a bad decision can lead to rape, beating, or social isolation. Much of the confusion in interpreting prison behavior, he argues, arises from a failure to understand that inmates are driven not by pathological emotion but by predictable and rational calculations. Kaminski presents unsparing accounts of initiation rituals, secret codes, caste structures, prison sex, self-injuries, and of the humor that makes this brutal world more bearable. This is a work of unusual power, originality, and eloquence, with implications for understanding human behavior far beyond the walls of one Polish prison.

Author : Patrick MacGill
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547093190

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The Diggers: The Australians in France by Patrick MacGill Pdf

The Diggers' is an absorbing World War I fiction by Patrick MacGill, an Irish journalist and writer known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing. This work is historically significant as it comes from a man who witnessed the war first-hand. MacGill served with the London Irish Rifles during the First World War and was injured at the Battle of Loos on 28 October 1915. He was then recruited into military intelligence.

Author : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781582437651

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Gold Diggers by Charlotte Gray Pdf

Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of over thirty thousand people. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history. Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted people from all walks of life—not only prospectors but also newspapermen, bankers, prostitutes, priests, and lawmen. Gold Diggers follows six stampeders—Bill Haskell, a farm boy who hungered for striking gold; Father Judge, a Jesuit priest who aimed to save souls and lives; Belinda Mulrooney, a twenty–four–year–old who became the richest businesswoman in town; Flora Shaw, a journalist who transformed the town's governance; Sam Steele, the officer who finally established order in the lawless town; and most famously Jack London, who left without gold, but with the stories that would make him a legend. Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories, Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling tale of the gold madness that swept through a continent and changed a landscape and its people forever.

Author : Luke Manget
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813183831

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Ginseng Diggers by Luke Manget Pdf

The harvesting of wild American ginseng (panax quinquefolium), the gnarled, aromatic herb known for its therapeutic and healing properties, is deeply established in North America and has played an especially vital role in the southern and central Appalachian Mountains. Traded through a trans-Pacific network that connected the region to East Asian markets, ginseng was but one of several medicinal Appalachian plants that entered international webs of exchange. As the production of patent medicines and botanical pharmaceutical products escalated in the mid- to late-nineteenth century, southern Appalachia emerged as the United States' most prolific supplier of many species of medicinal plants. The region achieved this distinction because of its biodiversity and the persistence of certain common rights that guaranteed widespread access to the forested mountainsides, regardless of who owned the land. Following the Civil War, root digging and herb gathering became one of the most important ways landless families and small farmers earned income from the forest commons. This boom influenced class relations, gender roles, forest use, and outside perceptions of Appalachia, and began a widespread renegotiation of common rights that eventually curtailed access to ginseng and other plants. Based on extensive research into the business records of mountain entrepreneurs, country stores, and pharmaceutical companies, Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia is the first book to unearth the unique relationship between the Appalachian region and the global trade in medicinal plants. Historian Luke Manget expands our understanding of the gathering commons by exploring how and why Appalachia became the nation's premier purveyor of botanical drugs in the late-nineteenth century and how the trade influenced the way residents of the region interacted with each other and the forests around them.

Author : Henry I. Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : California
ISBN : PRNC:32101074864081

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Three Weeks in the Gold Mines, Or, Adventures with the Gold Diggers of California in August, 1848 by Henry I. Simpson Pdf

Author : Sanjena Sathian
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984882042

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Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian Pdf

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize “Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere “Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a work of 24-karat genius.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post How far would you go for a piece of the American dream? A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity, community, and the underside of ambition. A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal. When he discovers that Anita is the beneficiary of an ancient, alchemical potion made from stolen gold—a “lemonade” that harnesses the ambition of the gold’s original owner—Neil sees his chance to get ahead. But events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. Years later in the Bay Area, Neil still bristles against his community's expectations—and finds he might need one more hit of that lemonade, no matter the cost. Sanjena Sathian’s astonishing debut offers a fine-grained, profoundly intelligent, and bitingly funny investigation into what's required to make it in America. Soon to be a series produced by Mindy Kaling!

Author : Fred Perry
Publisher : Antarctic Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gold Digger #4 by Fred Perry Pdf

Britanny discovers the true purpose of the "parting gift" she received from the ancient "game show" trap in the ruins of Muthia. The harmless, worthless square of tinted glass is actually a strange magical item that lets Brit gaze into her distant past, but does not let her control which part of the past she sees! Through this glass, she sees the fate of her werecheetah clan and the events that left her the last of the werecheetahs! FC, 17pg

Author : Fred Perry
Publisher : Antarctic Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gold Digger Omnibus #3 by Fred Perry Pdf

More crazy adventures of Gina and Cheetah.

Author : James Skipp Borlase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Adventure stories, Australian
ISBN : BL:A0017503321

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The Night Fossickers, and Other Australian Tales of Peril and Adventure by James Skipp Borlase Pdf

Author : Paul Monette
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480473799

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The Gold Diggers by Paul Monette Pdf

Paul Monette’s uproarious, sexy novel takes us deep into the glamorous world of vintage Los Angeles Perched on top of a hill in the oldest part of Bel Air, Crook House is the grand mansion that gilded Hollywood dreams are made of. It seemed like the perfect place for the exhausted and neurotic Rita to take time away from her life and catch up with her old friend Peter and his lover, Nick. What she didn’t count on was her friends’ emotional baggage, not to mention the suspicious tales of a buried treasure underneath the house. This second novel from Paul Monette puts a tender focus on the ways in which money and time can distort relationships, while also demonstrating how the ties between friends can endure—and even grow stronger—no matter what the distance or history. As Rita, Nick, and Peter get closer to unraveling the mystery buried underneath Crook House, they begin to learn that what they are searching for could be the key to their very survival. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1382 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computer games
ISBN : UCSD:31822032243644

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Computer Gaming World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Oliver Roeder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324003786

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Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder Pdf

A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.