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Uncle John's Great Big Bathroom Reader

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 160710654X
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Uncle John's Great Big Bathroom Reader written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Uncle John’s all-time biggest sellers, Great Big is overflowing with everything our fans have come to expect: urban legends, forgotten history, myth-conceptions, business blunders, strange lawsuits, weird politics, amazing origins, dumb crooks, celebrity gossip, brain teasers, short facts, and more! Divided by length into short, medium, and long articles, Great Big is sure to be a hit with readers of all ages. A few standouts from these 460 pages: * The first computer programmers * Weird medical conditions * Brits Vs. Americans: a word quiz * Strange tourist attractions * The origin of the White House * The world’s second-dumbest outlaw * The Tonight Show story * The forgotten hero of flagpole sitting * Why popcorn pops And much, much more!

Sound in the American Horror Film

Author : Jeffrey Bullins
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476651973
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Sound in the American Horror Film written by Jeffrey Bullins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crack of thunder, a blood-curdling scream, creaking doors, or maybe complete silence. Sounds such as these have helped frighten and startle horror movie audiences for close to a century. Listen to a Universal classic like Dracula or Frankenstein and you will hear a very different soundtrack from contemporary horror films. So how did we get from there to here? What scared audiences then compared to now? This examination of the horror film's soundtrack builds on film sound and genre scholarship to demonstrate how horror, perhaps more than any other genre, utilizes sound to manipulate audience response. Beginning with the Universal pictures of the early 1930s and moving through the next nine decades, it explores connections and contrasts throughout the genre's technical and creative evolution. New enthusiasts or veteran fans of such varied films as The Mummy, Cat People, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Psycho, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Conjuring, Paranormal Activity, and A Quiet Place will find plenty to explore, and perhaps a new sonic appreciation, within these pages.

American Police, A History: 1945-2012

Author : Thomas A. Reppetto
Publisher : Enigma Books
ISBN 13 : 1936274434
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book American Police, A History: 1945-2012 written by Thomas A. Reppetto and published by Enigma Books. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the forces of law and order in the United States highlights individual heroes and villains, reformers, events, and locations from 1945 to 2012.

To See the Saw Movies

Author : James Aston
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603804
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book To See the Saw Movies written by James Aston and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saw films, often derided by critics as "torture porn" and an excuse to show blood and gore, are the highest-grossing horror series in cinema history. In view of their hold on audiences and their controversial content, they deserve study. This first collection of fresh essays by academic authors from Europe, America and Australia addresses the cultural, religious and philosophical facets of the films, investigating how the franchise reflects a post-9/11 shift in U.S. popular culture towards increasing pessimism and how it may be read as a metaphor for the "war on terror"; dissecting how the series explores such issues as freewill and determinism; assessing the films' representations of the body; and applying a Deleuzian perspective to the franchise.

LAbyrinth

Author : Randall Sullivan
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555847439
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book LAbyrinth written by Randall Sullivan and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist’s story of corruption in the LAPD and hip-hop’s most infamous murders—“the most thorough examination of these much-publicized events” (Renée Graham, The Boston Globe). Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who, in 1997, was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, eventually to discover that the officer killed was tied to Marion “Suge” Knight’s notorious gangsta rap label, Death Row Records. During his investigation, Poole came to realize that a growing cadre of outlaw officers were allied not only with Death Row, but with the murderous Bloods street gang. And incredibly, Poole began to uncover evidence that at least some of these “gangsta cops” may have been involved in the murders of rap superstars Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. Igniting a firestorm of controversy in the music industry and the Los Angeles media, the release of LAbyrinth helped to prompt two lawsuits against the LAPD (one brought by the widow and mother of Notorious B.I.G., the other brought by Poole himself) that may finally bring this story completely out of the shadows.

The Memo Book

Author : Jim Gauger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1436385229
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book The Memo Book written by Jim Gauger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Bear Ridge

Author : Ed Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135015167X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book On Bear Ridge written by Ed Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one. In a lost village, blurred by redrawn borders, hidden under a crumb on the map, Bear Ridge Stores still stands. After a hundred years, the family butchers and grocers – a place for odds and ends, contraband goods, and the last petrol pump for 30 miles – is now silent. But owners John Daniel and Noni are not leaving. They are defiantly drinking the remaining whiskey and remembering good times, when everyone was on the same side and the old language shone. Outside in the dark, a figure is making their way towards them. A semi-autobiographical story about the places we leave behind, the indelible marks they make on us, and the unreliable memories we hold onto.

Without Redemption

Author : Vonda Pelto, Ph.D.
Publisher : Flotsam Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Without Redemption written by Vonda Pelto, Ph.D. and published by Flotsam Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without Redemption, using documents from variety of sources, including Bonin’s own writings, brings the reader into the back and forth with witnesses, lawyers, media, jailhouse snitches, friends, friends, family, inmates at Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail and Bonin’s co-murderers. The book was written on a number of parallel tracks that constantly intersect: First, it is the most detailed historical biography ever written about Bill Bonin, the notorious Freeway Killer responsible for murdering 22 teenage boys over ten-months in 1979-80. Second, it is a psychological roadmap which charts the evolution of Bonin’s personality from abused child to sexual predator to serial killer. This is accomplished using documents from his childhood, war service, multiple California government mental health and penal institutions, witness testimony and the expertise of Clinical Psychologist Vonda Pelto, Ph.D., who had many sessions with Bonin and two of his accomplices while working in Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail. Third, it is a narrative which, using long hidden documents, reveals the inner workings of Bonin’s mind, showing how he thought, felt, planned and viewed the world. The narrative displays Bonin, an abused high school dropout, cleverly manipulating lawyers, judges, doctors, social workers, friends, family, probation officers, government bureaucrats, detectives, journalists and, most tragically, the innocent victims of his rage. Fourth, Without Redemption reveals the complex story of what happened after Bonin’s final arrest, when so much was in flux and so many moving parts were swirling about. Archived investigative documents, collected from a variety of sources, brings to light a number of surprising, shocking, sad and even funny events from those ten tumultuous months from June 1980 to March 1981. Finally, it is a book which solves two 40-year-old murder mysteries and unlocks how one day of crossroads and coincidences, in the midst of the murder spree, profoundly impacted many lives and future events.

American Detective

Author : Thomas A. Reppetto
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 164012022X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book American Detective written by Thomas A. Reppetto and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Roaring Twenties to the 1970s detectives reigned supreme in police departments across the country. In this tightly woven slice of true crime reportage, Thomas A. Reppetto offers a behind-the-scenes look into some of the most notable investigations to occur during the golden age of the detective in American criminal justice. From William Burns, who during his heyday was known as America’s Sherlock Holmes, to Thad Brown, who probed the notorious Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles, to Elliott Ness, who cleaned up the Cleveland police but failed to capture the “Mad Butcher” who decapitated at least a dozen victims, American Detective offers an indelible portrait of the famous sleuths and investigators who played a major role in cracking some of the most notorious criminal cases in U.S. history. Along the way Reppetto takes us deep inside the detective bureaus that were once the nerve centers behind crime-fighting on the streets of America’s great cities, including the FBI itself, under the direction of America’s “top cop,” J. Edgar Hoover. According to Reppetto, detectives were once able watchdogs until their role in policing became diluted by patrol strategies ranging from “stop and frisk” to community policing. Reppetto argues against these current policing systems and calls for a return to the primacy of the detective in criminal investigations. Purchase the audio edition.

Screening the Tortured Body

Author : Mark de Valk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113739918X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Screening the Tortured Body written by Mark de Valk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Michel Foucault’s examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the ‘political technology of the body’ and 'the spectacle of the scaffold' as a means to analyse cinematic representations of politically-motivated persecution and bodily repression. Through a critique of sovereign power and its application of punishment ‘for transgressions against the state’, the collected works, herein, assess the polticised-body via a range of cinematic perspectives. Imagery, character construction and narrative devices are examined in their account of hegemonic-sanctioned torture and suppression as a means to a political outcome. Screening The Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold elicits philosophical and cultural accounts of the ‘retrained’ body to deliberate on a range of politicised films and filmmakers whose narratives and mise-en-scène techniques critique corporeal subjugation by authoritarian factions.

Shane Scully Double Pack

Author : Stephen J. Cannell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312331908
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Shane Scully Double Pack written by Stephen J. Cannell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SWAT teams refer to doorways as 'Verical coffins" because they are the most vulnerable when passing through them. The new Shane Scully novel starts with a bang as an L.A. shseriff's deputy is gunned down on the front porch of a house while serving a routine warrant.

Till Death Us Do Part: A True Murder Mystery

Author : Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393352595
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Till Death Us Do Part: A True Murder Mystery written by Vincent Bugliosi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-05-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime "Bugliosi, the quintessential prosecutor, has written a crime book that should be read by every lawyer and judge in America." —F. Lee Bailey On December 11, 1966, a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death, set his house on fire, and left the scene without a trace. A year later, when a woman was found brutally killed, shreds of evidence suggested a connection between the two murders. In the Palliko-Stockton trial, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi offered a brilliant summation that synthesized for the jury the many inferences and shades of meaning in the testimony, fitting all the pieces together in a mosaic of guilt. But will the jury be persuaded?

Vertical Coffin

Author : Stephen J. Cannell
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429902620
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Vertical Coffin written by Stephen J. Cannell and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house. Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by the sniper murder of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor, LAPD, as an uninvolved and unbiased agency, assigns Shane Scully to investigate. He is given an impossible deadline to find a solution before these two elite and deadly SWAT Teams kill each other off amid a hurricane of horrible publicity. Shane pursues his investigation in a direction that neither his chief nor his wife agrees with, and succeeds in putting himself, his loved ones, and his career in terrible jeopardy before he finally discovers the shocking and deadly truth.

The Television Treasury

Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476640327
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Television Treasury written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only of its kind, this book is a straightforward listing of more than 25,000 trivia facts from 2,498 TV series aired between 1947 and 2019. Organized by topic, trivia facts include everything from home addresses of characters, to names of pets and jobs that characters worked. Featured programs include popular shows like The Big Bang Theory and Friends and more obscure programs like A Date with Judy or My Friend Irma. Included is an alphabetical program index that lists trivia facts grouped by series.

Vigilante

Author : Stephen J. Cannell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312646119
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Vigilante written by Stephen J. Cannell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAPD detective Shane Scully and his partner Sumner Hitchens get a prickly case: someone has murdered aggressively outspoken cop critic and gang activist Lita Mendez. To make things worse, a reality television show called Vigilante is trying to solve the crime for them.

Staging Black Feminisms

Author : Lynette Goddard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230801447
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Staging Black Feminisms written by Lynette Goddard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Black Feminisms explores the development and principles of black British women's plays and performance since the late Twentieth century. Using contemporary performance theory to explore key themes, it offers close textual readings and production analysis of a range of plays, performance poetry and live art works by practitioners.

Richard Jaeckel, Hollywood's Man of Character

Author : Gene Freese
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147666210X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Richard Jaeckel, Hollywood's Man of Character written by Gene Freese and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Character actor Richard Jaeckel worked five decades in Hollywood alongside the industry's biggest names. Noted for tough-guy portrayals, he appeared in such classic westerns and war films as Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), The Gunfighter (1950), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), and The Dirty Dozen (1967). Bringing strength and integrity to his roles, he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Sometimes a Great Notion (1970). A World War II veteran and Merchant Marine, he was respected in the surfing and fitness communities for his ageless athleticism. His performance as Turk in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) was groundbreaking for iron-pumping actors wanting to be taken seriously for their dramatic abilities. This revealing portrait of the life of a working character actor covers Jaeckel's noteworthy career through each of his film and television appearances, from Guadalcanal Diary (1943) to Baywatch (1994). Recollections and behind the scenes stories from those he knew and worked with offer an in-depth look at the dedication and professionalism it takes to make it in Hollywood.