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| Author | : Jeff Havens |
| Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2006-11-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1613733704 |
Trent Tucker, the protagonist of this hilarious satire, hates reality TV. Unfortunately, his job at Nova Consulting involves the creation of new reality shows that are even more outrageous and excessive than those now on television. Surrounded by colleagues who could easily be characters in the own reality show—dumb blonde, angry black man, flamboyant homosexual, frosty bitch, fast-talking Sicilian and their megalomaniacal boss, P.T. Beauregard—Trent's immersion is complete. The characters in Reality: the novel, behave a lot like their television counterparts as they bicker with each other incessantly, backstab their co-workers, find themselves on a deserted island and become involved in a murder plot—all good, clean fun that mimics the fantasy lives they feverishly try to create for their anxious network clients.
| Author | : Clive Cussler |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 607 |
| Release | : 2009-11-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101151501 |
Oceanographer Dirk Pitt traces a lost ship's mysterious cargo to a scientific discovery that could reverse the dangers of climate change in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling action adventure series. When an act of sabotage aims to slow down a technological breakthrough in American clean energy, it puts the United States on the brink of war with one of its closest allies. Tension boils on the homefront, too, as gas prices surge to an all-time high. To prevent global catastrophe, Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk Jr. and Summer, must piece together what little records remain of the initial experiment. They may not know how it was done, but they know what their scientists were trying to accomplish: a solution for global warming. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission. And if Pitt, his family, and his buddy Al Giordino aren't careful, the very same fate may await them…and the world.
| Author | : P.A. Flach |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2013-04-18 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9401706069 |
From the very beginning of their investigation of human reasoning, philosophers have identified two other forms of reasoning, besides deduction, which we now call abduction and induction. Deduction is now fairly well understood, but abduction and induction have eluded a similar level of understanding. The papers collected here address the relationship between abduction and induction and their possible integration. The approach is sometimes philosophical, sometimes that of pure logic, and some papers adopt the more task-oriented approach of AI. The book will command the attention of philosophers, logicians, AI researchers and computer scientists in general.
| Author | : Jaid Black |
| Publisher | : Jaid Black |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2016-02-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
When an underground CIA bunker in Jalalabad, Afghanistan is bombed and raided by terrorists, Agent Marisol Kennedy is stripped naked, bound, and abducted by enemy forces. She knows whatever plan the insurgents have in store for her is gruesome at best... And that her only chance of survival is escape.
| Author | : Stephen Coonts |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 2009-02-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429923059 |
The world’s greatest threat lies just beneath the surface—seventh in the Deep Black technothriller series from the New York Times–bestselling author. In the Arctic, two American intelligence operatives are kidnapped while investigating Russian submarines—a constant, covert presence beneath the ice caps. In Washington, ex-Marine Charlie Dean and his team at Desk Three trace the abduction back to the Russian mafiya, who have their sights set on the massive reserves of oil that lie thousands of feet below the ocean’s floor. While Dean is sent to the Arctic to rescue the hostages, the beautiful Lia DeFrancesca penetrates a heavily guarded dacha on the shores of the Black Sea. Here she learns the explosive truth about Russia and its Arctic oil—one that could cost Dean and his Deep Black team their lives . . . and drive the world’s superpowers to the brink of war. Praise for Stephen Coonts “Coonts knows how to write and build suspense . . . a natural storyteller.” —The New York Times Book Review “The master of the techno-thriller.” —Publishers Weekly
| Author | : Bradley Mengel |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2009-10-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 078645475X |
Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton's The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton's novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral standards, usually by force. The book examines the connections between the serial vigilante and the pulp hero that preceded him and how the serial vigilante has influenced a variety of tough guys, private eyes, spies and cops in different media. A complete bibliography for each series is featured.
| Author | : Eavan O'Dochartaigh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2022-03-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108998674 |
In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array of visual and textual material produced on these voyages was to have a profound impact on the idea of the Arctic in the Victorian imaginary. Eavan O'Dochartaigh closely examines neglected archival sources to show how pictures created in the Arctic fed into a metropolitan view transmitted through engravings, lithographs, and panoramas. Although the metropolitan Arctic revolved around a fulcrum of heroism, terror and the sublime, the visual culture of the ship reveals a more complicated narrative that included cross-dressing, theatricals, dressmaking, and dances with local communities. O'Dochartaigh's investigation into the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic presents a compelling challenge to the 'man-versus-nature' trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
| Author | : Ed Teja |
| Publisher | : Float Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2021-11-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
What do you do when things go surreal? When things blow up on Matt Cramer, they can be messy. This time the mess might be blood. Whatever it is, right now that bloody mess is all over the walls. A newly minted private investigator, Matt returned to Silver City, New Mexico to open his office. This isn’t a good start. Josh, the office painter, is missing and that’s not a good sign. Nor is the ominous attitude of Officer Ravenwalk, or the fact that the local coffee shop is owned by witches, or that Matt somehow has found himself partnering with a shaman and the blood, if it is blood, is somehow tied to a woman’s disappearance—a disappearance that might involve aliens. Welcome to Silver City, New Mexico, where things are seldom truly wrong, but never quite right, either. Of course, that’s why he’s here.
| Author | : David Stout |
| Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 489 |
| Release | : 2020-04-07 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1492694800 |
A chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.S. during the Great Depression, including the most infamous kidnapping case in American history. "A thrilling account that puts the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping case, billed as "the crime of the century," in the context of the thousands of other kidnappings that occurred in the U.S. during the Prohibition and Depression eras...will enthrall true crime fans."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review The Great Depression was a time of desperation in America—parents struggled to feed their children and unemployment was at a record high. Adding to the lawlessness of the decade, thugs with submachine guns and corrupt law-enforcement officers ran rampant. But amidst this panic, there was one sure-fire way to make money, one used by criminals and resourceful civilians alike: kidnapping. Jump into this forgotten history with Edgar Award-winning author David Stout as he explores the reports of missing people that inundated newspapers at the time. Learn the horrifying details of these abduction cases, from the methods used and the investigative processes to the personal histories of the culprits and victims. All of this culminates with the most infamous kidnapping in American history, the one that targeted an international celebrity and changed legislation forever: the Lindbergh kidnapping. The Kidnap Years is a gritty, visceral, thoughtfully reported page-turner that chronicles the sweep of abductions that afflicted all corners of the country as desperate people were pushed to do the unthinkable. "A fascinating crime book like no other."—David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
| Author | : Adrian Howkins |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 976 |
| Release | : 2023-05-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108627951 |
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history. The volume considers the centrality of Indigenous experience and the urgent need to build action in the present on a thorough understanding of the past. Using historical research based on methods ranging from archives and print culture to archaeology and oral histories, these essays provide fresh analyses of the discovery of Antarctica, the disappearance of Sir John Franklin, the fate of the Norse colony in Greenland, the origins of the Antarctic Treaty, and much more. This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of our planet.
