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Schlock Value

Author : Richard Roeper
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401382967
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Schlock Value written by Richard Roeper and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious collection of essays, riffs, and lists that celebrate the insanity of Hollywood--for anyone who loves the movies. Richard Roeper, like the rest of us, adores the movies. In this uproarious, off-beat book, he gives us a whole new set of critical lenses for assessing the movies and the people and the industry that make them. With his characteristic acerbic wit, he weaves short essays with lists that work together to explain where Hollywood succeeds -- and where it so often frustrates, disappoints, and fails us. But while Roeper devotes most of the book to mockery and ridicule, this book is, in the end, a love letter to film. Some of the essays and lists included in Schlock Value: Comical statistical breakdowns, including career batting averages of actors Reviews of Hollywood finances, including budgets, salaries, and ticket prices A proposed moratorium on pet projects, e.g., Kevin Costner's The Postman or John Travolta's Battlefield Earth The age differences between Woody Allen and his various leading ladies Actors appearing around the world in television commercials, including a list of the biggest stars that do overseas commercials -- and the products they push Schlock Value is the perfect book for anyone who loves grumbling and complaining about the movies -- but still can't help spending their weekends and evenings in front of the screen.

The Well of the Worlds

Author : Henry Kuttner
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Well of the Worlds written by Henry Kuttner and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Well of the Worlds" by Henry Kuttner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Phaser Fight

Author : Barbara Siegel
Publisher : Simon Pulse
ISBN 13 : 9780671632489
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Phaser Fight written by Barbara Siegel and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 1986 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Futuretrack 5

Author : Robert Westall
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007126913
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Futuretrack 5 written by Robert Westall and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain is divided into Zones and castes to which men and women are pitilessly allocated at the end of their schooling. Whether crazed proles, bourgeois Ests or arrogant Techs, all are ultimately pawns of the computer that governs it all. One boy penetrates the conspiracy that governs the nation.

The Moon is Hell

Author : John W. Campbell
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575101989
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Moon is Hell written by John W. Campbell and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John W. Campbell was the man who made modern science fiction what it is today. As editor of Astounding Stories (later Analog), Campbell brought into the field such all-time greats as Asimov, Heinlein, Sturgeon and many others, while his own writing blazed new trails in science fiction reading pleasure. The Moon is Hell is this great writer-editor's vision of the first men on the moon - written 18 years before Neil Armstrong made history. This is the story of the American space programme - not as it happened, but as it might have been.

Bet the House

Author : Richard Roeper
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569766118
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Bet the House written by Richard Roeper and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the course of 30 days in early 2009, Richard Roeper risked more than a quarter million dollars on practically every method of gambling in America. This title both celebrates and details the pitfalls and lures through Roeper's stories about his lifelong affair with gambling.

Misbegotten Missionary

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1682997456
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Misbegotten Missionary written by Isaac Asimov and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a lovable little creature, anxious to help solve the troubles of the world. Moreover, it had the answer! But what man ever takes free advice?

Who Goes Here?

Author : Bob Shaw
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575110945
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Who Goes Here? written by Bob Shaw and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shot at by aliens, eaten up by monsters, frozen up, burned up and shipped all over the galaxy¿ war was one game Private Peace didn't want to play. So why had he joined the Space Legion? Warren Peace had joined the Space Legion to forget - exactly what, he hadn't the faintest idea. But he was sure about one thing - however horrific the crime he'd once committed, the memory of it could hardly be more unbearable than life in the lunatic Space Legion. Private Peace knew he'd got to get out¿ The trouble was, the only way to escape his 30-year contract was to discover exactly why he'd signed it in the first place. And that meant a hair raising journey into his forgotten past to meet the one person Peace definitely didn't want to know - Warren Peace Mark I - in other words, himself!

My Sweet Audrina

Author : V.C. Andrews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501138847
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book My Sweet Audrina written by V.C. Andrews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains excerpt of Whitefern, sequel to My sweet Audrina.

Remember the Alamo!

Author : Kevin D. Randle
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780783883519
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Remember the Alamo! written by Kevin D. Randle and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a top-secret process, 33 combat-hardened Vietnam veterans are headed into the past on a mission to secure the richest oil land in history as American territory.

The Funhouse

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425250644
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Funhouse written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil comes in frightening and familiar forms in this terrifying novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate—and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands... Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal children—Joey loves monster movies and Amy is about to graduate from high school. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer. The time has come for Amy and Joey to pay for her sins, because the carnival is coming back to town...

In the Bubble

Author : John Thackara
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262250373
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book In the Bubble written by John Thackara and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how? In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now—not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology—ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles—above all, lightness—inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.

A Dream of Kinship

Author : Richard Cowper
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575108061
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book A Dream of Kinship written by Richard Cowper and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They came to destroy! The treacherous Falcons, uniformed in the black leather tunics of the fanatic Secular Arm, descended on Corlay to burn and kill. Commanded by Lord Constant, ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, they were determined to crush the religious heresy of Kinship. But a new dream rose from the ashes. When four Kinsmen escaped the carnage of their beloved land, each helped to fulfill the miracle that had been foretold: the coming of the Child of the Bride of Time.

Doomstar

Author : Edmond Hamilton
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575133309
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Doomstar written by Edmond Hamilton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sun shone brightly on this fateful morning, bringing to its planets warmth and life-giving rays. The brightness increased sharply as the morning grew older. The glare was blinding; the radiation not life-giving, but deadly. By mid-afternoon the brilliant, intense sun shone on barren space. It had blasted each of its four planets out of existence. Someone had found a way to poison a star. And someone had to be found who could prevent the takeover - or destruction - of the entire universe. Who? Johnny Kettrick, as improbable a hero there never was. Johnny Kettrick who was banned from the Cluster World for his not-too-honest dealings was sent back there with his three equally unholy partners to search out the Doomstar...to find the Doomstar before it burned out another world.

Johannesburg

Author : Sarah Nuttall
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381214
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Johannesburg written by Sarah Nuttall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to modernity on the global scale. Complicating and contesting such characterizations, the contributors to this collection reassess classic theories of metropolitan modernity as they explore the experience of “city-ness” and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa. They portray Johannesburg as a polycentric and international city with a hybrid history that continually permeates the present. Turning its back on rigid rationalities of planning and racial separation, Johannesburg has become a place of intermingling and improvisation, a city that is fast developing its own brand of cosmopolitan culture. The volume’s essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between Johannesburg and Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. One contributor considers how Johannesburg’s cosmopolitan sociability enabled the anticolonial projects of Mohandas Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. Journalists, artists, architects, writers, and scholars bring contemporary Johannesburg to life in ten short pieces, including reflections on music and megamalls, nightlife, built spaces, and life for foreigners in the city. Contributors: Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge, Lindsay Bremner, David Bunn, Fred de Vries, Nsizwa Dlamini, Mark Gevisser, Stefan Helgesson, Julia Hornberger, Jonathan Hyslop, Grace Khunou, Frédéric Le Marcis, Xavier Livermon, John Matshikiza, Achille Mbembe, Robert Muponde, Sarah Nuttall, Tom Odhiambo, Achal Prabhala, AbdouMaliq Simone

Everyone Worth Knowing

Author : Lauren Weisberger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743262336
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Everyone Worth Knowing written by Lauren Weisberger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A GIRL ON THE FRINGE ENTERS THE REALM OF NEW YORK'S CHIC, PARTY-HOPPING ELITE? Soon after Bette Robinson quits her horrendous Manhattan banking job like the impulsive girl she's never been, the novelty of walking her four-pound dog around her unglamorous Murray Hill neighborhood wears as thin as the "What are you going to do with your life?" phone calls from her parents. Then Bette meets Kelly, head of Manhattan's hottest PR firm, and suddenly she has a brand-new job where the primary requirement is to see and be seen inside the VIP rooms of the city's most exclusive nightclubs. But when Bette begins appearing in a vicious new gossip column, she realizes that the line between her personal and professional life is...invisible.

Generic

Author : Jeremy A. Greene
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421414945
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Generic written by Jeremy A. Greene and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent history of generic pharmaceuticals raises powerful questions about similarity and difference in modern medicine. Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. We like to think of these tablets, capsules, patches, and ointments as interchangeable with their brand-name counterparts: why pay more for the same? And yet they are not quite the same. They differ in price, in place of origin, in color, shape, and size, in the dyes, binders, fillers, and coatings used, and in a host of other ways. Claims of generic equivalence, as physician-historian Jeremy Greene reveals in this gripping narrative, are never based on being identical to the original drug in all respects, but in being the same in all ways that matter. How do we know what parts of a pill really matter? Decisions about which differences are significant and which are trivial in the world of therapeutics are not resolved by simple chemical or biological assays alone. As Greene reveals in this fascinating account, questions of therapeutic similarity and difference are also always questions of pharmacology and physiology, of economics and politics, of morality and belief. Generic is the first book to chronicle the social, political, and cultural history of generic drugs in America. It narrates the evolution of the generic drug industry from a set of mid-twentieth-century "schlock houses" and "counterfeiters" into an agile and surprisingly powerful set of multinational corporations in the early twenty-first century. The substitution of bioequivalent generic drugs for more expensive brand-name products is a rare success story in a field of failed attempts to deliver equivalent value in health care for a lower price. Greene’s history sheds light on the controversies shadowing the success of generics: problems with the generalizability of medical knowledge, the fragile role of science in public policy, and the increasing role of industry, marketing, and consumer logics in late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first century health care.