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Collins became a next generation Mickey Spillane, creating memorable titles and characters of his own such as Road to Perdition and Quarry. He's worked in all kind of media, from scripting Dick Tracy daily comic strips from 1977-93 to writing the novelizations of movies such as Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One and American Gangster and creating his own one-man show Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life. The crowning achievement of his career, however, may have been when Mickey Spillane - the best-selling mystery writer of the 20th century - chose Collins to be his literary executor.

Splatter Capital shows how a subgenre of cinematic horror has developed a unique perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It argues that the messy brand of horror mobilized in gore or "splatter" films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation. And, while responding to the prospect of that end, splatter promotes an extant truth: capitalist accumulation is and always has been a nightmare of systematized bloodshed.

In The Desert Enigma: An Analysis of Occult Symbolism in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, author, blogger, and independent investigator Isaac "The IlluminatiWatcher" Weishaupt reveals the hidden occult messages found in Paulo Coelho's novel The Alchemist. This analysis takes an honest look at the history of author Paulo Coelho and his degrees of separation from ceremonial magick, Aleister Crowley, Charles Manson, Kenneth Grant, Alejandro Jodorowsky, witchcraft, satanism, and more.

How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic", as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture.

In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the...

The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside down For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sports, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster...

The Disneyland Story: The Unofficial Guide to the Evolution of Walt Disney's Dream is the story of how Walt Disney's greatest creation was conceived, nurtured, and how it grew into a source of joy and inspiration for generations of visitors. Despite his successors' battles with the whims of history and their own doubts and egos, Walt's vision maintained momentum, thrived, and taught future generations how to do it Walt Disney's way.

Bloomsbury presents The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh, read by Lexie McDougall. From bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, a must-have for number lovers and Simpsons fans 'An entertaining picture of the insanely high-minded nature of the Simpsons’ writers'...

A Hudson Booksellers Staff Pick for the Best Books of 2013 One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring Science Books A Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff Pick Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods. They loom...

От сказок других народов индийские сказки отличаются прежде всего неповторимым колоритом индийского духа, набожностью и ученостью. Эти сказки наполнены добротой и красочностью и открывают перед слушателями удивительный и ни с чем несравнимый мир Востока.

В венгерском фольклоре сказка является одним из самых старых жанров. Интересно, что первоначально их рассказывали не детям, а взрослые друг другу во время совместной работы. Наиболее содержательными и интересными в Венгрии можно назвать волшебные сказки.

В польских сказках конечно же можно узнать многие мотивы, известные, как по русским так и по другим славянским сказкам. Но все же есть в них и некоторые присущие только им детали, отражающие жизнь, быт и образ жизни польского народа. В сборник вошли сказки: Звенящая липа; Королевич Неждан.

Значение народной сказки неоценимо по многим причинам, но в первую очередь потому, что несмотря на то, что сказка уходит своими корнями в глубокое прошлое, она обращена в будущее. Сказка вселяет надежду на преодоление препятствий и торжество справедливости.

Сказки правдивы - писал Итало Кальвини, - все вместе, в своей повторяемости и разнообразии человеческих историй, они дают общее объяснение жизни.

Значение сказок в нашей с вами жизни трудно переоценить. Мы все выросли на сказках.

В фольклоре каждого народа сказки занимают отдельное место. От поколения к поколению с помощью сказок передают мудрость своих народов, уклад их жизни, традиции и обычаи. Отсюда и происходит своеобразие и неповторимость сказок у каждого народа.

В сборнике "Классика зарубежного рассказа № 17" вас ждут аудиоверсии следующих произведений лучших зарубежных авторов: Ги де Мопассан "Рождественская ночь"; Джером К. Джером "О суете и тщеславии"; А. Конан Дойль "Роковой сундук"; К. Гамсун "Победитель"; О. Генри "Ревматизм"; Р.

Stitched Up delves into the alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear. Moving between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx, the book explores consumerism, class, and advertising to reveal the interests which benefit from exploitation. Tansy E. Hoskins dissects fashion’s vampiric relationship with the planet and with our bodies to uncover what makes it so damaging.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER This “lively and important portrait of a true literary revolutionary” (Los Angeles Times) explores Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic—and controversial—young adult novels, from Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret to Blubber...

Following her success with Playboy Swings, Patty Farmer looks at Playboy’s relationship with comedians and cartoonists in her new book Playboy Laughs. Playboy Laughs invites listeners onto the sets of the organization’s groundbreaking TV shows, Playboy Penthouse and Playboy After Dark. These popular variety series brought top-tier comedians, impressionists, and monologists—as well as the finest musicians—into people’s homes each week.