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Voices of the Puppet Masters

Author : Mimi Herbert
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Puppet Masters written by Mimi Herbert and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indonesia's wayang golek puppet theater is among the world's oldest and richest puppetry traditions, contemporary with Japanese Noh drama and the mystery plays of Europe. The puppet masters, many of whom trace their skills back through seven or eight generations, are extraordinary artists. Some are shamans, and many are charismatic performers. The master carvers who create these three-dimensional wooden puppets boast similarly impressive genealogies, and their work draws equally on ancient mystical practices. As the puppet master Tizar Purbaya once explained, "The wayang puppet is not a doll. It follows the dalang [puppet master], but the dalang must also follow it. He gives it soul and it, in return, gives life to him."" "Voices of the Puppet Masters is based on five years of intensive research in Indonesia, including hundreds of hours of discussions and interviews with puppet masters and craftsmen. The author and her Indonesian collaborator visited the artists in their homes, in villages scattered across the length and breadth of Java, attending performances, and even participating in an exorcism ceremony. These performances typically last for many hours, sometimes through the night - theatrical extravaganzas blending religious mysticism with all of the frailties and strengths of the human condition, accompanied by song and a gamelan orchestra"--Publisher's description.

The Puppet Masters

Author : Emile van der Does de Willebois
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821388967
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book The Puppet Masters written by Emile van der Does de Willebois and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the use of these entities in nearly all cases of corruption. It builds upon case law, interviews with investigators, corporate registries and financial institutions and a 'mystery shopping' exercise to provide evidence of this criminal practice.

Puppetmasters

Author : Philip Willan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595246974
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Puppetmasters written by Philip Willan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CIA has been accused of a massive intelligence failure in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks -- the result, it is said, of a moralistic and bureaucratic approach to information-gathering. But the CIA's spies had few qualms when it came to cultivating terrorist organisations and interfering in the internal politics of Cold War Italy. Puppetmasters reveals how US intelligence services exploited the P2 masonic lodge to prop up friendly Christian Democrat-dominated governments and counter the growing political influence of the Italian Communist Party. It was a ruthless strategy involving coup plots, right wing terrorist bombings and the manipulation of the Red Brigades. And it gave Italy one of the bloodiest and most protracted periods of terrorist violence ever seen in a modern, industrialised society.

Enter the Heart

Author : Ben Romen
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426979037
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Enter the Heart written by Ben Romen and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie and I are expecting our first grandchild in May. We were married six months after she told me her story. I dont know what happened to Leo or Joe. I hope I never know. I am still working as a welder in the oil construction business, but these days I work only on land where I can have my family near me. When one refinery is completed we move on to the next new job. We are called travelers, tramp workers in the industrial construction business. We move from job to job and travel all over the world. We get to see a lot of interesting places that other people only read about. It is not a glamorous life, but it is an honest one. We sleep well. This story can now be told. All the lead characters are dead. How can you know if its true? All you can do is trust me. We dedicate this, their story, to them. To John, who wants us to know who really is responsible for his murder. To Joe, who wants us to know that he was not impotent to avenge the murder of his wife when no one else would or could. To Marilyn, who wants us to know that she did not commit suicide and that her Joe always was her champion. Ben Romen

Puppet Master Complete

Author : Nat Brehmer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476676305
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Puppet Master Complete written by Nat Brehmer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive history of the most successful straight-to-video horror franchise of all time: Puppet Master. It provides an in-depth exploration of all 14 films to date--including a made-for-TV crossover and a theatrical reboot--and the action figures, comics, and other merchandise that have helped to keep the brand alive for the past 30 years. Puppet Master was the first film for independent producer extraordinaire Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment, launching a franchise and a micro-budget studio that have both continued to this day. What led to the film's success? How did a little movie about killer puppets, designed to cater to the then-booming video market, wind up surviving video stores themselves? How did a series that had never even had a theatrical entry wind up with an unusually successful toy series? All of these questions are answered within these pages. Featuring new interviews with some of the biggest creative minds behind the franchise, as well as dozens of behind-the-scenes photos, this book is the ultimate guide to horror's most murderous marionettes.

The Near Voice of Empathy

Author : Johan Sparr
Publisher : Johan Sparr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book The Near Voice of Empathy written by Johan Sparr and published by Johan Sparr. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic. Mystery. Rebellion. In the shadowy corners of Victorian London, William Blackwood, a dedicated investigator, and Olivia Hawthorn, a resilient empath, face an unprecedented threat. Together, they delve into a web of mysterious empath incidents, each more perilous than the last. As the gas-lit streets whisper secrets, they uncover a sinister plot to seize the powerful Heart of Empathy. With the city’s fate hanging in the balance, William and Olivia navigate through dark magic and complex alliances. Their journey leads them to confront Ethan Bates, a manipulative leader whose ambitions threaten to unravel the very fabric of time. Will their combined powers of magic, courage, and empathy be enough to save London, or will the city succumb to chaos? 'The Near Voice of Empathy' is the thrilling second novel in Johan Sparr's StainedSteam Saga. If you crave atmospheric, dark, and mystical tales, then you'll love Johan Sparr's gripping adventure. Uncover the secrets of empathy today.

A Labyrinth of Voices

Author : Rick Ryan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796061565
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book A Labyrinth of Voices written by Rick Ryan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Mike Ridley and the experiences he encounters in less than one year's period of time, from the fall of 1979 to the summer of 1980---some strange, some surreal, some more terrifying than any soul could ever imagine, including the culmination of his ten-year-long descent into the clutches of madness.

Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism

Author : E. Gomel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137367636
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism written by E. Gomel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri.

The Jade Oracle Saga Book I

Author : Jesús B. Vilches
Publisher : Jesús B. Vilches
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jade Oracle Saga Book I written by Jesús B. Vilches and published by Jesús B. Vilches. This book was released on 2024-09-20 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world where humans are exterminated. A land where any contact with them is a death sentence is surely the worst place to wake up... especially if it is not your world. Now fanaticism is spreading and the gods have been eclipsed by the Church of Kallah. Her hosts are everywhere. Her armies control everything. An ancient litany hides mysteries that others have tried to solve. Among its verses seems to lie an ancient oracle. Perhaps a warning, perhaps a solution. Nothing is as it seems. The Keeper of Knowledge craves the answers, but the Cult of Kallah has made powerful allies and is pursuing them as well. It was said that no one could change the course of history... but history has changed... and this is only the beginning Immerse yourself in the vast universe of J. Vilches. Bloody characters, epic in its purest form, gripping lyricism and a ferocious rhythm in the service of one of the most promising epic sagas written in Spanish. You won't read anything like it for a long time. This is the story that hundreds of fans in Spain have fallen in love with, now in English. The Jade Oracle Saga is the English translation-adaptation of the epic saga proposed by the Spanish writer J. Vilches "La Flor de Jade". A work that combines elements of the old school with the powerful and rich prose of its author. A long and profound saga that will leave no one indifferent. The Jade Oracle Saga is not just a translation of the original work, it has been designed for an English-speaking audience, with scenes and dialogues altered, characters adapted and a host of changes and adaptations made to give the English reader the same impact as the original in Spanish. The author and the translator have worked side by side to give this work a special personality that has managed to attract the attention of more than half a million readers in Spanish on the other side of the world.

A Cast of Stones (The Staff and the Sword)

Author : Patrick W. Carr
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441261028
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book A Cast of Stones (The Staff and the Sword) written by Patrick W. Carr and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 Carol Award Winner for Speculative The Fate of the Kingdom Awaits the Cast of Stones In the backwater village of Callowford, roustabout Errol Stone is enlisted by a church messenger arriving with urgent missives for the hermit priest in the hills. Eager for coin, Errol agrees to what he thinks will be an easy task, but soon finds himself hunted by deadly assassins. Forced to flee with the priest and a small band of travelers, Errol soon learns he's joined a quest that could change the fate of his kingdom. Protected for millennia by the heirs of the first king, the kingdom's dynasty nears its end and the selection of the new king begins--but in secret and shadow. As danger mounts, Errol must leave behind the stains and griefs of the past, learn to fight, and discover who is hunting him and his companions and how far they will go to stop the reading of the stones. "With an engaging, imaginative world that bristles with danger, characters that keep you guessing, and a story that sticks with you, A Cast of Stones will keep you devouring pages until the very end. I highly recommend it!" --John W. Otte, author of Failstate "Carr's debut, the first in a series, is assured and up-tempo, with much to enjoy in characterization and description--not least the homely, life-as-lived details." -Publishers Weekly This fast-paced fantasy debut set in a medieval world is a winner. Both main and secondary characters are fully drawn and endearing, and Errol's transformation from drunkard to hero is well plotted. Carr is a promising CF author to watch. Fans of epic Christian fantasies will enjoy discovering a new voice. "Like the preceding series title, Inescapable, this tale of suspense offers a colorful cast of characters, small-town drama, and a hint of romance. A sure bet for fans of Hannah Alexander." --Library Journal "[Good fantasy books] have to be excellent. Good storytelling and exceptional characters with circumstances that are easy enough to follow and wrap your brain around but keep you entertained and guessing... Cast of Stones has found itself firmly in that list of books. I absolutely, one hundred percent loved this book." --Radiant Lit

The Voice of the Night

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101173637
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Voice of the Night written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz gives a new meaning to “blood brothers” in this chilling novel of friendship gone awry... No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was nervous around girls; Roy was a ladies’ man. Colin was fascinated by Roy—and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day Roy asked his timid friend: “You ever killed anything?” And from that moment on, the two were bound together in a game too terrifying to imagine...and too irresistible to stop.

Media Ventriloquism

Author : Jaimie Baron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197563651
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Media Ventriloquism written by Jaimie Baron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word "ventriloquism" has traditionally referred to the act of throwing one's voice into an object that appears to speak. Media Ventriloquism repurposes the term to reflect our complex vocal relationship with media technologies. The 21st century has offered an array of technological means to separate voice from body, practices which have been used for good and ill. We currently zoom about the internet, in conversations full of audio glitches, using tools that make it possible to live life at a distance. Yet at the same time, these technologies subject us to the potential for audiovisual manipulation. But this voice/body split is not new. Radio, cinema, television, video games, digital technologies, and other media have each fundamentally transformed the relationship between voice and body in myriad and often unexpected ways. This book explores some of these experiences of ventriloquism and considers the political and ethical implications of separating bodies from voices. The essays in the collection, which represent a variety of academic disciplines, demonstrate not only how particular bodies and voices have been (mis)represented through media ventriloquism, but also how marginalized groups - racialized, gendered, and queered, among them - have used media ventriloquism to claim their agency and power.

Historical Dictionary of Brussels

Author : Paul F. State
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810865556
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Brussels written by Paul F. State and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brussels has become the 'capital' of Europe and its status as a political, economic, and diplomatic nerve center is set to assume ever greater importance as the European Union grows in depth and breadth and as the city continues to serve as the headquarters site for key regional and international agencies, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, United Nations organizations, multinational businesses, lobbying firms, governmental groups, and nongovernmental organizations. A sourcebook on the city, therefore, is important for all those studying about, residing in, or traveling to Brussels, Belgium, Europe, and the North Atlantic region. Historical Dictionary of Brussels is the first comprehensive, English-language reference work that offers readers a concise review of the history of one of Europe's centrally important cities. The leading places, personalities, events, and institutions that have shaped civic life in the capital of Belgium since its earliest beginnings are covered in more than 600 dictionary entries. An introductory essay, chronology, and an extensive bibliography are also included. Students, academics, professionals in the public and private sectors, residents, and visitors will find this an essential reference.

Malice Cloaked in Liberty

Author : George Autry, Jr.
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1604773839
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Malice Cloaked in Liberty written by George Autry, Jr. and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malice Cloaked in Liberty clearly exposes the horrendous damage that dangerous organizations are doing to America. Read how they cleverly cloak their true intents and purposes from the majority of Americans. As the cloaks are pulled away see what they never want you to know. Political correctness is never considered as underlying malice is revealed to the court of public opinion, that's you! George Autry Jr., has served in the ministry for over 25 years. He was the founding pastor of two Baptist churches that are thriving today. He presently pastors and holds a Master of Divinity degree. George has been very active in conservative politics and issues that are important to the cause of Christ in America. During the Reagan years he worked with Moral Majority in their fight to restore common sense to government and to defend our Christian Heritage. Three years ago he founded America's Majority, (www.americasmajority.org) a public service organization that helps Christians, churches and others when their rights are violated. America's Majority is dedicated to providing a voice for the Majority of Americans to speak out against the ever-increasing voice of liberals and secular progressives.

Fury

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307375900
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Fury written by Salman Rushdie and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible doll maker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age. Outside his window, a long humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired. The city boiled with money. Rents and property values had never been higher, and in the garment industry it was widely held that fashion had never been so fashionable. - from Fury From one of the world’s truly great writers comes a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the Bombay of Midnight’s Children have a time and place been so intensely captured in a novel. Salman Rushdie’s eighth novel opens on a New York living at break-neck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives in this town of IPOs and white-hot trends looking, perversely, for escape. He is a man in flight from himself. This former philosophy professor is the inventor of a hugely popular doll whose multiform ubiquity – as puppet, cartoon and talk-show host – now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation. At the same time, his marriage is disintegrating, and Solanka very nearly commits an unforgivable act. Horrified by the fury within him, he flees across the Atlantic. He discovers a city roiling with anger, where cab drivers spout invective and a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, a metropolis whose population is united by petty spats and bone-deep resentments. His own thoughts, emotions and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. He becomes deeply embroiled in not one but two new liaisons, both, in very different ways, dangerous. Professor Solanka’s navigation of his new world makes for a hugely entertaining and compulsively readable novel. Fury is a pitiless comedy that lays bare, with spectacular insight and much glee, the darkest side of human nature.

Mary Magdalene

Author : Robin Griffith-Jones
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1853118184
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Mary Magdalene written by Robin Griffith-Jones and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of Mary Magdalen has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries. She is portrayed in the Gospels as a neurotic woman, possibly with a past, yet she is the first to encounter the risen Christ and he charges her with the responsibility of proclaiming the resurrection. She is therefore Christianity's first evangelist - a difficult concept for churches with exclusively male hierarchies who prefer to think of her as just a reformed prostitute. The belief that Mary Magdalen was married to Jesus and that the Church has tried to suppress this truth was not invented in recent years but is almost as old as Christianity itself. This gives a grand tour through 2000 years history, art and tradition with surprises and discoveries all the way.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition

Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523001917
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition written by John Perkins and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles Times Bestseller How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China's takeover? The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy. In this shocking expos, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation. EHMs are highly paid professionals who use development loans to saddle countries with huge debts and force them to serve US interests. Now, a new EHM wave is infecting the world, and at the peak of the devastation sits China, a newly dominant economic power, with its own insidious version of the US EHM blueprint. Twelve explosive new chapters detail the allure, exploitation, and wreckage of China's EHM strategy in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. If allowed to continue its rampage, the EHM strategy-whether executed by the United States or China-will destroy life as we know it. However, all is not lost. Perkins offers a plan for transforming this system that places profits above all into a Life Economy that restores the earth. He inspires readers to take actions toward a new era of global cooperation that will end the United States's and China's EHM strategies for good.