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The Burglar in the Bin Bag

Author : Arthur Goldstuck
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143527827
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Burglar in the Bin Bag written by Arthur Goldstuck and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Goldstuck - South Africa's urban legends guru - returns with a definitive guide to the hoaxes and rumours that have terrified and confused South Africans over the last twenty years. Why did an estimated 10 000 South Africans go on 'holiday' to Zimbabwe in April 1994? Who, exactly, decided that needles covered in AIDS-infected blood were being left on cinema seats in Cape Town in 1999? How did it come to be reported in several reputable newspapers that the South African government was considering cancelling Christmas in August 2004? Whatever happened to the ' tornado' that was supposed to descend on Johannesburg and Pretoria to devastating effect on 8 October 2007? Did the 100 000 women and children set to be trafficked into South Africa for the 2010 World Cup actually arrive? Have you ever cleared your driveway of 'colour-coded' rubbish, held back from flashing your lights at someone for fear of becoming a victim of a gang initiation rite or forwarded an email about child abduction to your friends and family? If so, have you ever wondered about the origins of these warnings? In this new book, Arthur Goldstuck not only traces the evolution of these urban legends but also digs deep into the human psyche to explain why it is that we are drawn into believing and passing on these warnings even when incontrovertible proof exists that they are false.

The Burglar in the Bin Bag

Author : Arthur Goldstuck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780143026143
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Burglar in the Bin Bag written by Arthur Goldstuck and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Urban Legends [2 volumes]

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 911 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Urban Legends [2 volumes] written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online. From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of new topics that include terrorism, recent political events, and Hurricane Katrina. Entries in Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition discuss the presence of urban legends in comic books, literature, film, music, and many other areas of popular culture, as well as the existence of "too good to be true" stories in Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and several other countries. Serving as both an anthology of stories as well as a reference work, this encyclopedia will serve as a valuable resource for students and a source book for journalists, professional folklorists, and others who are researching or interested in urban legends.

Mice

Author : Gordon Reece
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101517719
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Mice written by Gordon Reece and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electrifying psychological thriller about a mother and daughter pushed to their limits. Shelley and her mom have been menaced long enough. Excused from high school where a trio of bullies nearly killed her, and still reeling from her parents' humiliating divorce, Shelley has retreated with her mother to the quiet of Honeysuckle Cottage in the countryside. Thinking their troubles are over, they revel in their cozy, secure life of gardening and books, hot chocolate and Brahms by the fire. But on the eve of Shelley's sixteenth birthday, an unwelcome guest disturbs their peace and something inside Shelley snaps. What happens next will shatter all their certainties-about their safety, their moral convictions, the limits of what they are willing to accept, and what they're capable of. Debut novelist Gordon Reece has written a taut tale of gripping suspense, packed with action both comic and terrifying. Shelley is a spellbinding narrator, and her delectable mix of wit, irony, and innocence transforms the major current issue of bullying into an edge- of-your-seat story of fear, violence, family loyalty, and the outer reaches of right and wrong.

National Strategies to Harness Information Technology

Author : Nagy K. Hanna
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461420865
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book National Strategies to Harness Information Technology written by Nagy K. Hanna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to harness Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) is increasingly at the heart of competitiveness and sustainable growth. As countries engage in an increasingly competitive global economy, they are trying to weave ICT into their development strategies, in the same way enterprises have learned to use ICT to transform their business models and strategies. This integration offers a new path to development that is responsive to the challenges of our times. In National Strategies to Harness Information Technology, Nagy Hanna and Peter Knight provide a framework for assessing the opportunities, challenges, and prospects for “e-transformation” and for analyzing the options and innovations adopted to manage the e-transformation process. They ask hard questions: what does it take to harness ICT to transform an economy? Why some countries accelerate their development journey with ICT while others fail? How did successful countries balance the need for strategic leadership with bottom up innovation? Can countries reduce the risks of digital divide? What have been the roles of government and private sectors? What lessons can be learned for countries at different levels of development? Featuring contributions from country experts, the editors and authors provide in-depth case studies of ICT deployment in Singapore, Finland, the Philippines, and South Africa, and asses the progress of such efforts. The result is an essential resource for academic researchers, policy analysts, policymakers, and industry leaders interested in the role of ICT in national development, innovation, and economic growth. In National Strategies to Harness Information Technology, Nagy Hanna and Peter Knight provide a framework for assessing the opportunities, challenges, and prospects for “e-transformation” and for analyzing the options and innovations adopted to manage the e-transformation process. They ask hard questions: what does it take to harness ICT to transform an economy? Why some countries accelerate their development journey with ICT while others fail? How did successful countries balance the need for strategic leadership with bottom up innovation? Can countries reduce the risks of digital divide? What have been the roles of government and private sectors? What lessons can be learned for countries at different levels of development? Featuring contributions from country experts, the editors and authors provide in-depth case studies of ICT deployment in Singapore, Finland, the Philippines, and South Africa, and asses the progress of such efforts. The result is an essential resource for academic researchers, policy analysts, policymakers, and industry leaders interested in the role of ICT in national development, innovation, and economic growth.

Essex Boy

Author : Bernard O'Mahoney
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1845968778
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Essex Boy written by Bernard O'Mahoney and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two films and numerous books have attempted to tell the shocking story of two of Britain's most ruthless gangs. For 20 years, the Essex Boys firm and their successors, the New Generation, controlled a lucrative drugs empire in Essex and throughout the south east of England by using intimidation, gratuitous violence and murder. Rampaging through the streets and clubland, they destroyed anything and anybody that dared to get in their way. Eventually torn apart by greed and paranoia, the gang members became victims of their own vile trade and hate-filled actions. Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe were all blasted repeatedly with a shotgun as they sat in their Range Rover down a remote farm track. Dean Boshell was lured to allotments, then beaten and shot execution-style three times through the head. Others, such as Darren Nicholls and Damon Alvin, turned Super Grass and disappeared into the witness protection scheme never to be seen again, while three other men are in prison serving life sentences. Steve `Nipper` Ellis is the last man standing, the only member to have survived the bloody reign of both gangs. In Essex Boy, he tells his shocking story for the first time, and reveals just how close he came to being both murderer and murder victim.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous - The Book of Drummers' Tales

Author : Spike Webb
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1857829972
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Mad, Bad and Dangerous - The Book of Drummers' Tales written by Spike Webb and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never have so many famous drummers been gathered together in one place! Drummer and writer Spike Webb has spent more than three years meeting fellow drummers in bars, clubs and cafes, shooting the breeze for a couple of hours and extracting anecdote after anecdote for posterity. This is truly a labour of love - and somebody had to do it. In this book you'll meet drummers like Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Don Powell (Slade), Adam Facek (Babyshambles), Steve White (Paul Weller), Topper Headon (The Clash), Woody (Madness) and world-class session players like Toto's drummer Simon Phillips. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant but always entertaining, it's the ultimate insight into what it really means to be a drummer and an explanation, at last, for what really makes someone do a 20-minute solo. You'll be asking for an encore!

The Resident

Author : David Jackson
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 1782836519
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Resident written by David Jackson and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'a SERIOUSLY creepy thriller. I may never venture into the loft again' - MARK BILLINGHAM 'Disturbing, blackly funny and completely compulsive' - ALEX NORTH 'A brilliantly chilling story with tension on every page' - T.M. LOGAN ________________________________________ THERE'S A SERIAL KILLER ON THE RUN AND HE'S HIDING IN YOUR HOUSE Thomas Brogan is a serial killer. With a trail of bodies in his wake and the police hot on his heels, it seems like Thomas has nowhere left to hide. That is until he breaks into an abandoned house at the end of a terrace on a quiet street. And when he climbs up into the loft, he realises that he can drop down into all the other houses through the shared attic space. That's when the real fun begins. Because the one thing that Thomas enjoys even more than killing is playing games with his victims - the lonely old woman, the bickering couple, the tempting young newlyweds. And his new neighbours have more than enough dark secrets to make this game his best one yet... Do you fear The Resident? Soon you'll be dying to meet him. ________________________________________ 'Brilliant. So twisted, clever and funny. Highly recommended' - MARK EDWARDS 'Clever, addictive and brazenly terrifying. I slept with the lights on after reading this one' - CHRIS WHITAKER 'Dark and disturbing yet so absorbing. Jackson knows how to reel you in' - MEL SHERRATT 'A brilliantly creepy, edge-of-your-seat, tense thriller' - WILL CARVER 'Superb. Creepy, pacy, and oh so witty' - CAZ FREAR 'A chilling psycho thriller with a very novel twist' - PAUL FINCH 'Utterly compelling and impossible to put down. Incredible' - LUCA VESTE 'Twisted as hell. I loved it!' - MANDASUE HELLER

The Good Guys Wear Blue

Author : Paul Browning
Publisher : Paul Browning
ISBN 13 : 0955781507
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book The Good Guys Wear Blue written by Paul Browning and published by Paul Browning. This book was released on 2007 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Friends Like That

Author : Alexandria Blaelock
Publisher : BlueMere Books
ISBN 13 : 1922744581
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Friends Like That written by Alexandria Blaelock and published by BlueMere Books. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One good turn deserves another Ellie Porterfield is not one of THE Porterfields though she works in high-end fashion at their department store. When a severely beaten man collides with her at a bus stop she calls an ambulance and renders first aid. Is drawn further into a web of danger and deceipt that could cost her life. But could it shed light on her troubled past as well?

Just for Fun

Author : Betty Root
Publisher : Ginn
ISBN 13 : 9780602263973
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Just for Fun written by Betty Root and published by Ginn. This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Reading 360 is a tried and tested whole-school reading scheme, with many years of proven success in raising reading standards

The Collected Novels Volume Two

Author : Patrick Gale
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150405542X
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Novels Volume Two written by Patrick Gale and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two family novels from an international bestselling British writer “with heart, soul, and a dark and a naughty wit” (The Observer). Armistead Maupin says of Patrick Gale: “Few writers have grasped the twisted dynamics of family the way Gale has. There’s really no one he can’t inhabit, understand, and forgive.” In both novels presented in this collection, Gale explores the complex dynamics of family with dead-on observation and generous compassion. A Sweet Obscurity: Dido, a nine-year-old orphan, lives with her aunt Eliza, who adopted the girl after her mother died. A depressed musicologist unable to balance her brilliant academic career with motherhood, Eliza ruined her marriage with an affair. Her estranged husband, Giles, is an opera singer whose girlfriend, Julia, uncovers a shocking secret while concealing one of her own. As Dido shuttles between Eliza’s squalid flat and Giles’s elegant townhouse, she acts as both tactful diplomat and insightful analyst to the adults who act like children. Until something happens that powerfully impacts her young life. “This is arguably Gale’s most questioning, troublesome work. It amuses, startles and occasionally bewilders. A Sweet Obscurity is worth every minute of your time.” —The Independent The Cat Sanctuary: Deborah Curtis’s husband, a diplomat in an African principality, was killed by a car bomb, and months later she is still recovering from the assassination. Her estranged sister Judith, an author who lives with her American lover, Joanna, in Cornwall, insists Deborah come to her farmhouse to grieve in peace. But unresolved wounds between the sisters bleed into the present, and a history of abuse comes to light. Forced to confront painful memories, the women’s secrets and lies collide in a shattering climax. “A dark tale of loss, sex and mistrust . . . A sensitive, thoughtful novel with a conclusion that is both unsettling and consistent.” —Time Out London

Cousins Ii

Author : Clarence Mike Dunaway
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543436617
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Cousins Ii written by Clarence Mike Dunaway and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is about Connors futile attempt to find Rebecca, who deserted him in their senior year of high school. She literally destroyed his life by sneaking out and hiding in Florida. He meets a woman in her forties that helps him in his search, and after fourteen months, she admits that she had found Rebecca but was hesitant to reveal her secret. She wanted to keep Connor as long as she could. She told him after giving up on the idea of him staying with her that she found out through a beau of vital statistics that Rebecca was married and living in Georgia. Satisfied that he had done all he could, he headed home to reunite with his ex-wife, if she would take him back. With no more Rebecca in his life, he was sure that their marriage would endure.

Mayhem in the Valleys

Author : Deric Barry
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304938832
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Mayhem in the Valleys written by Deric Barry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Welsh rogues, Danny, Todger and Wassname cause chaos in the valleys' town where they live. When Customs and Excise raid Todger's premises to find their illicit liquor still, the lads pour the booze down the drain. A frustrated policeman sits down to have a smoke and drops the lighted match. The explosion causes flames to leap out of the drain pipes and melt the plastic gutters. Ma Parker who is on the toilet in the house next door screams blue murder as flames leap out from her toilet pan and singe her bum. Danny flies the hang glider down the mountainside and spots the ginger piece and her boyfriend playing hide the sausage. He swoops so low that he nearly scorches the poor chap's bottom, and her screams can be heard in the town centre. From destroying the Rugby Club's lawnmower to burning down the Legion Hall, the boys, ever willing to help, always somehow end up causing devastation. But can their desire to help succeed when they try to blow up the Welsh Assembly?

Final Whistle

Author :
Publisher : Fidus Books
ISBN 13 : 1908042001
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Final Whistle written by and published by Fidus Books. This book was released on with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rage

Author : Sergio Bizzio
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN 13 : 1904738400
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Rage written by Sergio Bizzio and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fast-paced and entrancing psychological thriller"--Booklist "A portrait etched in acid of a Buenos Aires society menaced by economic and political crisis. Without value judgement but with light irony, Bizzio reveals the ugly secrets of a family, seen through the eyes of his naïve squatter. The imagery is often blinding and the dialogue pitch-perfect."--Le Temps José María, a construction worker, is in love with Rosa, a maid in an exclusive Buenos Aires mansion. Subjected to constant humiliation by his foreman, José María kills him, then hides on an empty floor in the mansion. He silently observes the decadent behavior of the owners and watches Rosa in her most intimate moments. José María is also privy to more humiliating experiences--he watches as Rosa is raped by the young son of the family, and so hemust kill again. A metaphor for the decline of a social class, a country, and the resentment that spreads like a plague penetrating to the core of its people,Rage is also a tale of love and suspense that raises the tension with each successive page until it unavoidably shifts toward an intimate, shattering catastrophe. Humor, misfortune, shrewd social commentary, and thrilling erotic fantasy come together, offering the reader an inside vision of contemporary Argentina. Film adaptation of Sergio Bizzio'sRabia, produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Sebastián Cordero, was presented at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.

Chosen by Random

Author : Richard Green
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0993069525
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Chosen by Random written by Richard Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Green has a knack of taking an event or an idea and reframing it to hilarious effect, throwing us off balance into a world of absurd and compelling storytelling. The three wise men desperately try to keep the nativity story straight; a leopard has a job as an overzealous police officer; and time- travelling poets critique each other's work in a Gentlemen's Club. But Green's stories are not merely clever comedy. As characters are exaggerated and history re-imagined, a keen intelligence satirises self-importance, ambition and stupidity. Painful puns and cartoonish characters live side-by-side with hidden references and historical knowledge that might have you running for Google. Chosen by Random will make you laugh, groan, learn and above all, brighten your day with its wit and imagination.