Author : Syne Mitchell
Publisher : N A L
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451458094
Born a "floater"--An oppressed race developed to withstand a zero-gravity environment--Thiadora Murphy is forced to work as a test pilot for a powerful corporation, but soon finds herself in a position where she may be able to liberate all floaters.
Author : Walter Tevis
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 079534306X
Netflix’s most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction. When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits . . . Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen’s Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. “The Queen’s Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it.” —Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The English Patient
Author : Bryan Soderholm-Difatte
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1538127369
In Tumultuous Times in America’s Game: From Jackie Robinson's Breakthrough to the War over Free Agency, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte provides a comprehensive examination of major developments and key figures in Major League Baseball from the integration of Jackie Robinson in 1947 to the owners-instigated catastrophic players’ strike of 1994-95. While many fans will recall those decades with fond remembrances of the baseball stars who played then—from Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays to Roberto Clemente, Pete Rose, Reggie Jackson, and Cal Ripken—they were also a time of substantial challenges that upended more than half a century of tradition that was the backbone of the major leagues. Tumultuous Times in America’s Game includes histories of each of the major league franchises, presented alongside Soderholm-Difatte’s detailed examination of the controversies, developments, and innovations from these significant decades in professional baseball. Recaps of several of baseball’s most exciting pennant races round out the narrative, making this book a valuable read for fans and historians of the national pastime.
Author : David G. Becker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400853230
The author clarifies the mutually constructive relationship between transnational and the modernizing Peruvian state, showing how the state maintains this relationship while simultaneously nurturing the new class. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : JD Rule
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1300116897
Egad! Twenty Short Stories, every one of them involving folks getting it on. What's not to like? Novelist JD Rule lets his authorial pants down in this retrospective collection of his earliest explorations into the panoply of human emotions. Each story dives into a different aspect of who we are as individual players on a stage normally set for two, with a set of characters who wander in and out of the various tales, sometimes meeting at the mythical Murphy's Bar and Grille, and sometimes not. The only thing they have in common is that none of them know what to do next, and each is driven by the primary urge that defines the human condition.
Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0415974607
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Author : Neil Landau
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 135178420X
TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era takes a deep dive into writing for today’s audiences, against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving TV ecosystem. Amazon, Hulu and Netflix were just the beginning. The proliferation of everything digital has led to an ever-expanding array of the most authentic and engaging programming that we’ve ever seen. No longer is there a distinction between broadcast, cable and streaming. It’s all content. Regardless of what new platforms and channels will emerge in the coming years, for creators and writers, the future of entertainment has never looked brighter. This book goes beyond an analysis of what makes great programming work. It is a master course in the creation of entertainment that does more than meet the standards of modern audiences—it challenges their expectations. Among other essentials, readers will discover how to: Satisfy the binge viewer: analysis of the new genres, trends and how to make smart initial decisions for strong, sustainable story. Plus, learn from the rebel who reinvented an entire format. Develop iconic characters: how to foster audience alignment and allegiance, from empathy and dialogue to throwing characters off their game, all through the lens of authenticity and relatability. Create a lasting, meaningful career in the evolving TV marketplace: how to overcome trips, traps and tropes, the pros and cons of I.P.; use the Show Bible as a sales tool and make the most of the plethora of new opportunities out there. A companion website offers additional content including script excerpts, show bible samples, interviews with television content creators, and more.
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 1890
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Author : David Von Drehle
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780802141514
Describes the 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, and the implications of the catastrophe for twentieth-century politics and labor relations.
Author : Brian Aldiss
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466827351
"The entire collection constitutes thought-provoking entertainment for a good cause, with all publisher and author profits earmarked for the Save the Children Tsunami Relief Fund."--Booklist In the winter of 2005, after the horrifying natural disaster of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, Steve Savile and Alethea Kontis joined forces to raise money to help the distressed survivors and have created Elemental. They solicited SF and fantasy stories, all new and never published elsewhere, from many of the top writers in the genres today, and received immediate responses in the form of the excellent stories here in this book. Elemental has an introduction by Arthur C. Clarke and more than twenty stories by Jacqueline Carey, Martha Wells, Larry Niven, Sherrilyn Kenyon writing as Kinley MacGregor, and a Dune story by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, and many others. They created in Elemental one of the most important genre anthologies of the year, but more than that: in giving real value for the purchase price, everyone who sells this book can be proud, and everyone who buys it will be richly rewarded for supporting the tsunami relief effort. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
