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Alphaville

Author : Michael Codella
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0283071451
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Alphaville written by Michael Codella and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Alphabet City, Manhattan's most crime-ridden neighbourhood with murder, rape and violence hitting record levels the streets, fuelled by a drug problem that's got the city by the throat. It was into this vision of hell that Mike Codella and his partner Gio stepped in 1988, two plainclothes narcs expected just to pull a few street arrests to keep statistics looking good, and try to get out alive. But Mike had his eyes on something bigger. Davey Blue Eyes: local kingpin, druglord and stone cold murderer. Just one drawback - no one even knew what he looked like. Fascinating, brutal and told with a furious, even poetic energy, Alphaville stands shoulder to shoulder with other modern true crime classics such as Serpico, The French Connection, Wiseguy, or David Simon's Homicide. 'Nerve-shreddingly real. Addictive, brilliant and compelling' R.J. Ellory, bestselling author of A Simple Act of Violence

Alphaville

Author : Chris Darke
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252073298
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Alphaville written by Chris Darke and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It uses new interviews with Godard's main collaborators on the film to reveal new aspects and explores its multiple influences, on 'Blade Runner', for example, or 'Code 46'. This is the first ever full appraisal of Godard's highly influential classic of sci-fi noir. Chris Darke writes about how, working without sets, special effects, or even a script, Godard made a dystopian vision of a technocratic future city. He explores the film's unique combination of genres and styles, its remarkable creation the secret agent Lemmy Caution, and uses his new interviews with the director's collaborators to chronicle the film's production. He also relates Alphaville to Godard's later work, setting it in the context of his wider career and of its influence on other filmmakers and artists. .

Alphaville

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)

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A Leadership Guide for Combination Fire Departments

Author : Fred C. Windisch
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763733810
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book A Leadership Guide for Combination Fire Departments written by Fred C. Windisch and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must have for every combination fire department leader! Leading a combination fire department is one of the greatest challenges a fire chief can face. To successfully lead this type of organization, fire chiefs must recognize the unique difficulties inherent in combination systems, and overcome them by applying lessons learned from other chiefs who have faced similar challenges. Authored by a team of seasoned fire service leaders, and modeled after the Chief Fire Officer's Desk Reference, A Leadership Guide for Combination Fire Departments is a compilation of the best practices and lessons learned through experience. It is designed to provide chief- and officer-level personnel with the tools necessary to lead today's combination service department.

City Making and Urban Governance in the Americas

Author : Clara Irazábal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351951343
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book City Making and Urban Governance in the Americas written by Clara Irazábal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities in both North and South America are confronting tremendous challenges in urban growth and management as they enter the new century. Curitiba in Brazil and Portland in Oregon, US are cities that have achieved recognition for exemplary urban planning programmes over the past three decades. As such, they provide particularly useful illustrations of the intense development pressures that many urban areas currently face. This book explores the dynamics of their urban governance, arguing that, in general, there has been a unique synergy derived from the combination of visionary leadership, innovative urban plans and effective citizen involvement. The book argues that, while urban design and architecture are key to the success in making cities livable and in augmenting the global reputations, such sensitive, innovative urban planning and design projects first need to be governed effectively and grounded within the specifics of their local cultures and existing built environments.

Persuasion

Author : Jasper Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351113690
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Persuasion written by Jasper Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persuasion: The Hidden Forces That Influence Negotiations represents the first book of its kind to package and present persuasion principles in an innovative, international, and interdisciplinary fashion. This easy-to-understand book is the culmination of seminal research findings spanning across decades and disciplines – psychology, philosophy, negotiations, decision-making, logic, law, and economics, among others – from esteemed experts around the world. Persuasion provides a series of short, simple-to-use intellectual tools to go above and beyond merely describing "what to think"– but "how to think" in a persuasion, influence, and negotiation context –across a diverse array of disciplines, sectors, and situations from boardrooms to classrooms for the twenty-first century.

Alphaville

Author : Chris Darke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773864X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Alphaville written by Chris Darke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book in any language to focus on Alphaville, published on the 40th anniversary of its release Uses new interviews with Godard's main collaborators on the film to reveal new aspects Explores its multiple influences, on 'Blade Runner', for example, or 'Code 46' 2005 is the fortieth anniversary of Alphaville's release and there's also a major reassessment of Godard under way. So this is an ideal moment to publish this, the first ever full appraisal of Godard's highly influential classic of sci-fi noir. Chris Darke writes about how, working without sets, special effects, or even a script, Godard made a dystopian vision of a technocratic future city. He explores the film's unique combination of genres and styles, its remarkable creation the secret agent Lemmy Caution, and uses his new interviews with the director's collaborators to chronicle the film's production. He also relates Alphaville to Godard's later work, setting it in the context of his wider career and of its influence on other filmmakers and artists.

The Battle for New York

Author : Barnet Schecter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780712636483
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book The Battle for New York written by Barnet Schecter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 15 September, 1776, the British army under General William Howe invaded Manhattan Island, with the largest expeditionary force in their history. George Washington's Continental Army, still in disarray after the disastrous Battle of Brooklyn some two weeks earlier, retreated north to Harlem Heights, leaving New York in British hands. Control of the city was Howe's primary objective. Located at the mouth of the strategically vital Hudson river, it had become the centrepiece of England's strategy for putting down the American rebellion. key to the colonies, New York proved to be the fatal chalice that poisoned the British war effort. The Battle for New York tells the story of how the city became the pivot on which the American Revolution turned - from the political and religious struggles of the 1760s and early 1770s that polarised its citizens and increasingly made New York a hotbed of radical thought and action; to the campaign of 1776 that turned New York into a series of battlefields; to the seven years of British occupation, during which time Washington and Congress were as determined to regain the city as the British were to hold it. the book, was by far the largest military venture of the Revolutionary War; it involved almost every significant participant in the war on both sides; and there can be little doubt that during it the fate of America hung in the balance. Moreover, the outcome had a direct impact on the major turning points of the rest of the war.

Desire Unlimited

Author : Paul Julian Smith
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859847787
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Desire Unlimited written by Paul Julian Smith and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The huge international success of his latest feature, All About My Mother, has finally granted Pedro Almodovar the recognition he deserves, as the most artistically ambitious and commercially consistent film-maker in Europe.

Baby, I'm Howling For You

Author : Christine Warren
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 125012073X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Baby, I'm Howling For You written by Christine Warren and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WELCOME TO ALPHAVILLE, where the she-wolves and alpha-males play. . .for keeps. Renny Landry is a wolf on the run. Pursued by a shapeshifting stalker and his slobbering pack of killer coyotes, she is forced to flee her job as a librarian to find sanctuary in the wooded hills of Alpha, Washington. A well-secluded safe space for troubled shifters, Alpha is Renny’s last hope. But the first person she meets there is a gorgeous alpha male with fiery eyes, fierce tattoos, and one ferocious appetite—for her... Mick Fischer thought he left his past behind when he moved to Alpha. But fate has a way of biting him in the tail when a female wolf shows up on his property. Wounded, desperate—and disarmingly hot—Renny brings out the snarling, protective alpha beast in Mick like no other woman he’s known. Can these two haunted, hunted wolves manage to mate for life...even as the deadliest past demons howl at their heels? “Warren is a master of paranormal romance.”—Night Owl Romance

Speaking about Godard

Author : Kaja Silverman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814739709
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Speaking about Godard written by Kaja Silverman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably the most prominent living filmmaker, and one of the foremost directors of the postwar era, Jean Luc-Godard has received astonishingly little critical attention in the United States. With Speaking about Godard, leading film theorist Kaja Silverman and filmmaker Harun Farocki have made one of the most significant contributions to film studies in recent memory: a lively set of conversations about Godard and his major films, from Contempt to Passion. Combining the insights of a feminist film theorist with those of an avant-garde filmmaker, these eight dialogues–each representing a different period of Godard's film production, and together spanning his entire career–get at the very heart of his formal and theoretical innovations, teasing out, with probity and grace, the ways in which image and text inform one another throughout Godard's oeuvre. Indeed, the dialogic format here serves as the perfect means of capturing the rhythm of Godard's ongoing conversation with his own medium, in addition to shedding light on how a critic and a director of films respectively interpret his work. As it takes us through Godard's films in real time, Speaking about Godard conveys the sense that we are at the movies with Silverman and Farocki, and that we, as both student and participant, are the ultimate beneficiaries of the performance of this critique. Accessible, informative, witty, and, most of all, entertaining, the conversations assembled here form a testament to the continuing power of Godard's work to spark intense debate, and reinvigorate the study of one of the great artists of our time.

The New Wave

Author : James Monaco
Publisher : UNET 2 Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0970703953
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The New Wave written by James Monaco and published by UNET 2 Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three decades after its first publication, The New Wave is still considered one of the fundamental texts on the French film movement of the same name. Led by filmmakers as influential as Truffaut and Godard, the New Wave was a seminal moment in cinematic history, and The New Wave has been hailed as the most complete book ever written about it. The New Wave tells the story of the New Wave through examinations of five of the most important directors of the era: Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, and Rivette. With detailed notes and over fifty breathtaking stills, the book has appealed both to academics and interested novices alike. The thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword by the author. Praise for the first edition of The New Wave: “The most complete book I know on the five most important directors of the New Wave.” - Costa-Gavras “At last a book that intelligently and critically examines that remarkable phenomenon known as the New Wave. Not just a book for film buffs, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the interrelations between art, politics, and life in the second half of the twentieth century. A remarkable achievement.” - Richard Roud, Founder, New York Film Festival “There is a genuine kind of honesty at work in the writing: a sense that the author wishes to describe the subject more clearly, help the reader, and not ‘explain’ (in the pompous sense of the word) or criticize for the sake of being superior. It’s refreshing.” - Ted Perry, Museum of Modern Art

The Architecture of Neoliberalism

Author : Douglas Spencer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472581539
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Neoliberalism written by Douglas Spencer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn shows them to be in thrall to the same notions of liberty as are propounded in neoliberal thought. Analysing architectural projects in the fields of education, consumption and labour, The Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the part played by contemporary architecture in refashioning human subjects into the compliant figures - student-entrepreneurs, citizen-consumers and team-workers - requisite to the universal implementation of a form of existence devoted to market imperatives.

The Films of Jean-Luc Godard

Author : Wheeler W. Dixon
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791432860
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book The Films of Jean-Luc Godard written by Wheeler W. Dixon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-03-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon offers an overview of all of Godard's work as a filmmaker, including his work for television and his ethnographic work in Africa. Free from the jargon and value judgments that have marred much of what has been written about Godard, this is the only book that covers the entirety of Godard's career.

Dvd Savant

Author : Glenn Erickson
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809510987
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Dvd Savant written by Glenn Erickson and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of selected review essays from Erickson's DVD Savant internet column.

Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies

Author : Benjamin Lee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639283X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies written by Benjamin Lee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume draw upon their deep backgrounds in finance, the social sciences, arts, and the humanities to create a new way of understanding derivative capitalism that does justice to its technical, social, and cultural dimensions. The financial crisis of 2008 demonstrated both that derivatives are capable of producing great wealth and that their deregulation and privatization cannot control the risks that they produce. A popular reaction is to focus on the regulation or abolition of derivative finance. These authors take a different tack and instead raise the question: if we should want access to the wealth that derivatives are capable of producing, what kind of social institutions and policies would be needed to make such wealth production work for the benefit of all of us? Since this question goes to the very heart of what kind of society is most desirable, the volume argues that we need both a social understanding of the derivative and a derivative understanding of the social. The derivative reading of the social employs a small set of financial concepts to understand certain defining dimensions of contemporary reality. The central concept is that of volatility and its relations to risk, uncertainty, hedging, optionality, and arbitrage. The social reading of the derivative involves anthropological discussions of the gift, ritual, play, and performativity and provides us with frames of embodiment for analyzing, through action and event, the ways derivatives do their work.

The Second Life Herald

Author : Peter Ludlow
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262122944
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Second Life Herald written by Peter Ludlow and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a virtual journalist for a virtual newspaper reporting on the digital world of an online game lands on the real-world front page of the New York Times,it just might signal the dawn of a new era. Virtual journalist Peter Ludlow was banned from The Sims Onlinefor being a bit too good at his job--for reporting in his virtual tabloid The Alphaville Heraldon the cyber-brothels, crimes, and strong-arm tactics that had become rife in the game--and when the Times,the BBC, CNN, and other media outlets covered the story, users all over the Internet called the banning censorship. Seeking a new virtual home, Ludlow moved the Heraldto another virtual world--the powerful online environment of Second Life--just as it was about to explode onto the international mediascape and usher in the next iteration of the Internet. In The Second Life Herald,Ludlow and his colleague Mark Wallace take us behind the scenes of the Heraldas they report on the emergence of a fascinating universe of virtual spaces that will become the next generation of the World Wide Web: a 3-D environment that provides richer, more expressive interactions than the Web we know today. In 1992, science fiction writer Neal Stephenson imagined the "Metaverse," a virtual space that we would enter via the Internet and in which we would conduct important parts of our daily lives. According to Ludlow and Wallace, that future is coming sooner than we may think. They chronicle its chaotic, exhilarating, frightening birth, including the issue that the mainstream media often ignore: conflicts across the client-server divide over who should write the laws governing virtual worlds.