The Fire Engine That Disappeared

Author : Maj Sjowall,Per Wahloo
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307744296

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The Fire Engine that Disappeared by Maj Sjowall,Per Wahloo Pdf

The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career.The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And if one of Martin Beck's colleagues hadn't been on the scene, the explosion would have led to a major catastrophe because somehow a regulation fire-truck has vanished. Was it terrorism, suicide, or simply a gas leak? And what if, anything, did the explosion have to do with the peculiar death earlier that day of a 46-year-old bachelor whose cryptic suicide note consisted of only two words: "Martin Beck"?

Author : Maj Sjöwall,Per Wahlöö
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Police
ISBN : OCLC:1030087250

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The Fire Engine that Disappeared by Maj Sjöwall,Per Wahlöö Pdf

Author : Maj Sjöwall,Per Wahlöö
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Beck, Martin (Fictitious character)
ISBN : UCSC:32106014863168

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The Fire Engine that Disappeared by Maj Sjöwall,Per Wahlöö Pdf

Martin Beck must solve a murder involving an accidental explosion - or was it?

Author : Akio Takahashi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789819932726

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Regime Changes and Socio-economic History of Rural Myanmar, 1986-2019 by Akio Takahashi Pdf

This is the first book to depict the transformation and steadiness of Myanmar’s rural socio-economy from within the villages based on my own detailed research, in relation with the regime changes from Burmese Way to Socialism to military junta and to democratization from 1986 to 2019. The main subject of the transformation is “de-agrarianisation” including land use and holdings, household incomes, non-, migrations, power structure, village landscape, etc. And the principal theme of the steadiness is the “absence of village collective” which is the core of rural Myanmar, in contrast to village communities like Japan. This is the reason why Myanmar villagers have lived surprisingly bright, free and independent despite the oppressive political economy under the socialism and the military junta, and have not collectively participated in so-called community development. This book is the result of research conducted by visiting more than 200 villages and interviewing more than 10,000 people by myself in Myanmar language.

Author : Simon Goodenough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0748100636

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The Fire Engine by Simon Goodenough Pdf

Author : Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472522139

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Scandinavian Crime Fiction by Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Pdf

With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter Høeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.

Author : Andrew Pepper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191025310

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Unwilling Executioner by Andrew Pepper Pdf

What gives crime fiction its distinctive shape and form? What makes it such a compelling vehicle of social and political critique? Unwilling Executioner argues that the answer lies in the emerging genre's complex and intimate relationship with the bureaucratic state and modern capitalism, and the contradictions that ensue once the state assumes control of the criminal justice system. This study offers a dramatic new interpretation of the genre's emergence and evolution over a three hundred year period and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. From its roots in the tales of criminality circulated widely in Paris and London in the early eighteenth century, this book examines the extraordinary richness, diversity and complexity of the genre's subsequent thematizations of crime and policing—moving from France and Britain and from continental Europe and the United States to other parts of the globe. In doing so it offers new ways of reading established crime novelists like Gaboriau, Doyle, Hammett, and Simenon, beyond their national contexts and an impulse to characterize their work as either straightforwardly 'radical' or 'conservative'. It also argues for the centrality of writers like Defoe, Gay, Godwin, Vidocq, Morrison, and more recently Manchette, Himes, and Sjöwall and Wahlöö to a project where crime and policing are rooted, and shown to be rooted, in the social and economic conditions of their time. These are all deeply political writers even if their novels exhibit no interest in directly promoting political causes or parties. The result is an agile, layered, and far-reaching account of the crime story's ambivalent relationship to the justice system and its move to complicate our understanding of what crime is and how society is policed and for whose benefit.

Author : Golden Books
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780553522242

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The Fire Engine Book by Golden Books Pdf

"Originally published in different form by Simon & Schuster, Inc., and Artists and Writers Guild, Inc., in 1950."

Author : James McClure
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569478950

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The Caterpillar Cop by James McClure Pdf

The author of The Steam Pig delivers a “powerful picture of South African society . . . The pace is fast, the solution ingenious” (The New York Times Book Review). When a twelve-year-old boy named Boetie is found strangled to death with multiple stab wounds, his killer is assumed to be a pedophile. Lt. Tromp Kramer and his sidekick, Bantu Det. Sergeant Mickey Zondi, begin to investigate and soon learn that the boy had been involved in a detective club that encouraged children to spy and snitch on people—and no one likes a snitch. Whom was Boetie spying on? As the two men look into possible leads on the case, they must also navigate increasing tensions surrounding racism in the seventies in South Africa, and Kramer finds himself on the receiving end of much of the hatred himself. “McClure’s first novel, The Steam Pig, was one of the most memorable books in the genre last year . . . The Caterpillar Cop may prove to be even better.” —Newsday “The Caterpillar Cop . . . unusually enough—is just as good, if not better, than its predecessor.” —St. Louis Post Dispatch “The integrated South African police team of Lt. Tromp Kramer and Sgt. Zondi did a good job in McClure’s The Steam Pig. They’re even better this time . . . The gathering of clues is described with McClure’s special blend of humor, cheerfully sexy scenes and startling realism. Good to see a second novel come out so well.” —San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

Author : Ben Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471172687

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The Boy Who Made the World Disappear by Ben Miller Pdf

‘A sheer delight for all kids both big AND small’ Ruth Jones on The Night I Met Father Christmas 'Bubbles with warmth and mischievous humour . . . irresistible' Alexander Armstrong on The Night I Met Father Christmas 'Wonderful, funny, magical' Chris Evans on How I Became a Dog Called Midnight Enter a world of wonder with an instant classic from comedian, actor and bestselling children's author, Ben Miller! Harrison tries his best to be good. He doesn’t steal, he always shares with his sister and he never cheats at board games, but Harrison also has a BIG flaw . . . He can't control his temper! So when he’s given a black hole instead of a balloon at a party, Harrison jumps at the chance to get rid of everything that makes him cross. But when it’s not just things he hates that are disappearing into the black hole but things he loves, too, Harrison starts to realize that sometimes you should be careful what you wish for... An out-of-this-world adventure about twists of fate, time travel and troublesome black holes, Ben Miller's stunning storytelling is brought to life with beautiful illustrations from Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini. Praise for Ben Miller: 'A magical adventure' Sunday Express on The Day I Fell Into a Fairytale 'Great for reading aloud' The Week Junior on The Day I Fell Into a Fairytale 'A fire-side gem of a story' Abi Elphinstone on The Night I Met Father Christmas 'Fabulous' Sunday Express on The Boy Who Made the World Disappear 'Enchanting, funny and intriguing in equal measure' Philip Ardagh on The Night I Met Father Christmas 'Each of [Ben’s] five books is joyous and thoughtful' Red Magazine

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Disaster victims
ISBN : 1455612316

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The St. Bernard Fire Department in Hurricane Katrina by Anonim Pdf

During Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing aftermath of floods caused by failed levees, St. Bernard Parish suffered some of the worst damage. The rescue of over 6,000 stranded, injured, and defenseless residents proved dangerous, traumatic, and lonely for the parish fire department. Firemen would quickly learn their roles were diverse and demanding, and they would find little help from outside sources. Acting as EMTs, rescue and recovery, mechanics, social workers, and providers for parish residents, they had to ignore their own losses and heartaches for days in order to save as many lives as they could, alone.

Author : Lorne Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351524643

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Cults in Context by Lorne Dawson Pdf

In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America, cults have become the focus of public controversy. The growth of new religions has been matched by the development of an organized and vocal opposition, the anti-cult movement. This in turn has prompted an extensive investigation of new religious movements (NRMs) by sociologists and psychologists of religion, as well as historians and religious studies scholars. The readings collected here contribute to the debate about cults by sampling some of the best and most accessible publications from the academic study of NRMs.The contributors address the questions most commonly asked about cults, such as: What brought about the emergence of new religious movements? What is a cult or new religious movement? Who joins new religious movements and why? Are converts to new religious movements brainwashed? Why did the Jonestown and Waco tragedies happen? Are cults inclined to be violent? What does the emergence of so many new religious movements say about our society? What does it say about the future of religion?Cults in Context surveys the descriptive typologies, theories, and data accumulated by sociologists and psychologists studying new religious movements over the last twenty years. It serves to defuse many popular fears and misconceptions about cults, allowing the reader to develop a more reasonable and tolerant understanding of the people who join new religious movements and the functions of these movements in contemporary society.

Author : John N. MacLean
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781619021488

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The Esperanza Fire by John N. MacLean Pdf

When a jury returns to a packed courtroom to announce its verdict in a capital murder case every noise, even a scraped chair or an opening door, resonates like a high–tension cable snap. Spectators stop rustling in their seats; prosecution and defense lawyers and the accused stiffen into attitudes of wariness; and the judge looks on owlishly. In that atmosphere of heightened expectation the jury entered a Riverside County Superior Court room in southern California to render a decision in the trial of Raymond Oyler, charged with murder for setting the Esperanza Fire of 2006, which killed a five–man Forest Service engine crew sent to fight the blaze. Today, wildland fire is everybody's business, from the White House to the fireground. Wildfires have grown bigger, more intense, more destructive—and more expensive. Federal taxpayers, for example, footed most of the $16 million bill for fighting the Esperanza Fire. But the highest cost was the lives of the five–man crew of Engine 57, the first wildland engine crew ever to be wiped out by flames. They were caught in an "area ignition," which in seconds covered three–quarters of a mile and swept the house they were defending on a dry ridge face, where human dwellings chew into previously wild and still unforgiving territory. John Maclean, award–winning author of three previous books on wildfire disasters, spent more than five years researching the Esperanza Fire and covering the trial of Raymond Oyler. Maclean offers an insider's second–by–second account of the fire and the capture and prosecution of Oyler, the first person ever to be found guilty of murder for setting a wildland fire.

Author : Dana R. Lynn,Sharon Dunn,Sherri Shackelford
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488061806

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Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense December 2020 - Box Set 2 of 2 by Dana R. Lynn,Sharon Dunn,Sherri Shackelford Pdf

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: DEADLY AMISH REUNION (An Amish Country Justice novel) By Dana R. Lynn Jennie Beiler’s husband was supposed to be dead, so she’s shocked when he rescues her from an attacker. Although Luke has no memories of his Englisch wife, now his Amish hometown is their only safe haven from a vengeful fugitive. ALASKAN CHRISTMAS TARGET By USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Dunn With her face splashed across the news after she saves a little boy’s life, Natasha Hale’s witness protection cover is blown. Now she must rely on Alaska State Trooper Landon Defries to stay one step ahead of a Mafia boss if she hopes to survive the holidays and receive a new identity. ARCTIC CHRISTMAS AMBUSH By Sherri Shackelford After discovering her mentor has been murdered, Kara Riley becomes the killer’s next target—and her best chance at survival is Alaska State Trooper Shane Taylor. Trapped by a snowstorm, can they find the culprit before he corners Kara? For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense December 2020 Box Set—1 of 2

Author : Tim Boyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 1610605802

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Collecting Model Car and Truck Kits by Tim Boyd Pdf

New from the Nostalgic Treasures series: a comprehensive guide for modelers or would-be modelers. Discover histories and descriptions of some of the more significant collectible groups of kits including AMT's Trophy Series double kits, 1953-62 Corvette kits, Mopar B-body kits, Classic kits, and more. Find out how to get started collecting model cars, what to look for, and the pros and cons of collecting versus building vintage kits. A superb addition to your modeling library.