Author : Valerio L. Meletti
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1467010375
A Northern Irish wicked villain desperately looking for sympathy (Scratched); A Pakistani kid having arguments about Cricket with some Auld British Blokes (The Ninja Cricketer); A professional Con/Hitman telling (fictional?) episodes from his career (The Marcabru Chronicles).
Author : Sean Nigel Tyler
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1365410935
The complete theatre, radio and tv works of Sean Nigel Tyler
Author : Ernest Cline
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524761338
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • “The game is on again. . . . A great mix of exciting fantasy and threatening fact.”—The Wall Street Journal AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY? Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous—and addictive—than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest—a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants. Wade’s life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance. Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.
Author : Oliver Wang
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 2015-05-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0822375486
Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc., rocked dance floors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. In Legions of Boom noted music and pop culture writer and scholar Oliver Wang chronicles this remarkable scene that eventually became the cradle for turntablism. These crews, which were instrumental in helping to create and unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave young men opportunities to assert their masculinity and gain social status. While crews regularly spun records for school dances, weddings, birthdays, or garage parties, the scene's centerpieces were showcases—or multi-crew performances—which drew crowds of hundreds, or even thousands. By the mid-1990s the scene was in decline, as single DJs became popular, recruitment to crews fell off, and aspiring scratch DJs branched off into their own scene. As the training ground for a generation of DJs, including DJ Q-Bert, Shortkut, and Mix Master Mike, the mobile scene left an indelible mark on its community that eventually grew to have a global impact.
Author : Rigoberto González
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806135281
Migrant grape pickers in California's Caliente Valley confront personal battles with alcoholism, abuse, infidelity, and homosexuality.
Author : TYLER 'NINJA' BLEVINS
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781529104806
From the YouTube star and #1 Fortnite gamer Ninja comes a journal with 6 sheets of Ninja-style stickers and prompts, tips, and tricks featured throughout. It's the ultimate Ninja swag that every gamer will want to show off everywhere they go. Publishing in tandem with Ninja's illustrated book, Get Good, this analog notebook is perfectly positioned as the ultimate gamer's journal with an added bonus: it's designed to be customised and used for any purpose - game-related or otherwise. With a sleek cover, Ninja-branded stickers, and 143 dotted interior pages that allow for writing, doodling, or tracking game stats, this notebook is yours to personalise inside and out - no hackers allowed!
Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1781165645
“There are no vampires in Japan. That is the position of the Emperor. The Emperor is wrong...” In 1899 Geneviève Dieudonné travels to Japan with a group of vampires exiled from Great Britain by Prince Dracula. They are allowed to settle in Yōkai Town, the district of Tokyo set aside for Japan’s own vampires, an altogether strange and less human breed than the nosferatu of Europe. Yet it is not the sanctuary they had hoped for, as a vicious murderer sets vampire against vampire, and Yōkai Town is revealed to be more a prison than a refuge. Geneviève and her undead comrades will be forced to face new enemies and the horrors hidden within the Temple of One Thousand Monsters…
Author : Nicole J. Simms
Publisher : Nicole J. Simms
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Enjoy eight Christmas-themed horror flash fictions that’ll make you see Christmas differently this year. In this collection, you’ll find the following spooky tales: A woman meets her boyfriend’s parents for the first time and unknowingly brings the perfect Christmas gift. A young man learns that no wish, not even a Christmas one, comes without consequences. A young couple discovers that a Christmas Instagram challenge can be fatal. A real Christmas tree doesn’t give a family the perfect Christmas they hoped for. Santa and his reindeers are missing. And when Mrs Claus tracks them down, what she discovers is worse than she could ever have imagined. A woman discovers the real meaning behind the nickname her boyfriend calls her when she visits his home for the first time. A young boy gets more than he bargained for when he attacks an intruder on Christmas Eve. A woman has an idea to kill her boss with poisoned mince pies, but her plan doesn’t give her the results she was expecting. The characters in this collection are all different, but they have one thing that unites them: they all learn that not everyone has a Merry Christmas; some have a Merry Dreadmas.
Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1473850436
This history of the ninja uncovers the truth behind the image—from the exploits of medieval ninjas to their modern incarnation as pop culture icons. The ninja is a legendary figure in Japanese military culture, a fighter widely regarded as the world’s greatest expert in secret warfare. The word alone conjures the image of a masked assassin dressed in black, capable of extraordinary feats of daring; a mercenary who disposes of enemies by sending sharp iron stars spinning towards them. This is, of course, a popular myth, based on exaggerations and Hollywood movies. But the truth, as Stephen Turnbull explains in Ninja, is even more fascinating. A leading expert on samurai culture, Turnbull presents an authoritative study of ninja history based on original Japanese sources, many of which have never been translated before. These include accounts of castle attacks, assassinations and espionage, as well as the last great ninja manual, which reveals the spiritual and religious ideals that were believed to lie behind the ninja’s arts. Turnbull’s critical examination of the ninja phenomenon ranges from undercover operations during the age of Japan’s civil wars to the modern emergence of the superman ninja as a comic book character. The book concludes with a detailed investigation of the ninja in popular culture.
Author : Nathan Neuharth
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1312981466
