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First 100 Trucks and Things That Go: Sticker book
The Cupidevil Monteilhet, one of the more eclectic and diversified dabblers in crime, here extends himself to a full novel--an immorality tale emerging from the French provinces in which incredible innocence and insatiable prurience seemingly can co-exist. The time is 1943 when Arnaud, the son of a Count, an adolescent anxious about his manhood, becomes possessed by the Cupidevil, a hybrid of malice and lust. After ""discovering the hell of gratuitous wickedness and its icy pleasures"" he manages to dispose of his father's aging mistress; writes love letters here and runs vicious interception there, mostly directed at Diane, the young teacher (his) who will be courted by his father, seduced by his friend, and eventually raped by four partisans after the war. Poor Diane, the Cupidevil indeed takes the hindmost but she survives to enjoy it. . . . Sometimes bawdy, sometimes baleful, this falls between the two to provide only a faintly amusing tour de farce.
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Back to Hogwarts (LEGO Harry Potter: Activity Book with Minifigure)
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Предместья мысли. Философическая прогулкаПеред нами – философическая прогулка Алексея Макушинского по местам, где жили главные "герои" книги — Николай Бердяев и французский теолог Жак Маритен. Гуляя, автор проваливается в прошлое, вспоминает и цитирует поэтов, философов и художников (среди них: Лев Шестов и его ученики, Роден и Рильке, Шарль Пеги, Марина Цветаева, Альбер Камю), то и дело выныривая обратно в современность и с талантом истинного романиста подмечая все вокруг – от красных штанов попутчика до фантиков на полу кафе. Читать такую прозу — труд, вознаграждаемый ощущением удивительной полноты мира, которая, как в гомеровские времена, еще способна передаваться с помощью слов.
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The Story of Tom Fogarty: The Autobiography of a CriminalLiving, as we are, under the searchlight of modern journalism with its daily, nay, hourly, account of the actual happenings in the world around us, read as we so often do, of arrest and occasional men, women and even children who are recognized, by those competent to judge, as professional criminals; it will be admitted, we believe, by all having the slightest knowledge of modern sociology, that there is a class, to be found especially in all the great cities of the world, whose whole life is a constant war against society.
'Much has been written, and moire has been said, upon this subject. It has been the theme of the ablest minds. Both pen and pencil have been employed with wonderful skill in depicting the surroundings of those w'ho follow law-breaking as a profession. The public has been taken into the very homes of crime acrid shown the inner life of the dwellers in the Alsatia of our day. But, because of existing conditions, it has always been a look from the outside into a gloomy interior. And though the interior be lighted by the vivid imagination of a Bulwer or described by the facile pen of a Dickens or a Sue, yet by reason of early training or home environment it is impossible for them to enter fully into the actual life of a single member oi the class known as professional criminals.
The class exists. Its existence is at once a shame and menace to society. The writer is thoroughly familiar with it, being, unfortunately, to the manor born and having passed far more years than the average life of man as a member of this class in its various grades. Because of this fact, he feels competent to speak on this subject; not as a physician to offer a cure, but as one who inherited and suffered from the disease of crime, but is today by God's grace, every whit whole.
Divest yourself for a time of all prejudice—'all feeling of caste, that is so natural whenever the subject of crime or criminals is approached. Put on a largehearted and Christ-like charity, and in the hope of ultimate good to all, let us go among these Ishmaelites and view their daily lives, not as lookers on in Venice, but as actual participants in the scenes.
Cage Five Is Going to BreakHis name was Stacy Tate, and he'd left a string of forty robberies around the country and had been convicted on only four of them, which had been enough to put him in Murphy Farm. Stacy was a solid-looking man, as hard and as tough as any man the steel-mill slums of Pittsburgh had ever put on thepistol circuit. He had the fight-scarred hands and snake-quick temper to prove it, and he'd had to prove it a few times during his first year at Murphy. That, plus his ability to keep his guts intact, had made him cage boss. A Yankee cage boss in a Southern pris- on. A prison that hadn't much going for it— cockroaches, bean fields, shotgunguards, and the "Smith & Wesson Line." And Captain Hans Hartmann and his Hundred—who were as tough as Stacy or tougher. In spite of which, Stacy had made a plan... a plan that would, he hoped, get him out of Murphy Farm. Him and his five cell mates. He supposed that if everything worked right, absolutely right, all six of them might make it. But that was a pretty big "if" to be tossing around.
E. RICHARD JOHNSON, whose earlier novels have won him the respect of critics and the growing interest of readers across the country (and overseas), has written a rough, exciting novel which pulls the reader into and along with it— and which might just shake up a few people and places in our Southern prison system.
Satan BurgerChange title to Сатанбургер, add proper annotation:
Мир катится к апокалипсису. Бог не умер, на него просто никто не обращает внимания. Дьяволу не нужно красть души, они сами идут к нему, почти даром, за один супервкусный сатанбургер. Человечество перестало существовать как таковое. Почему это произошло? В антиромане американского писателя Карлтона Меллика все вывернуто наизнанку, мир утратил привычные узнаваемые черты, стал сверхабсурдным, здесь утонченная метафора легко уживается с порнографией. Действие этой книги начинается на небесах… а заканчивается в самом неожиданном месте.
ISBN: 5-9681-0057-5
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The Riot Makers: The Technology Of Social DemolitionThe Riot Makers began with a question asked by a magazine editor after the Tokyo riots of 1960 forced cancellation of a state visit by President Eisenhower. “All the newspapers say these are ‘Redinspired’ riots. How do we know? If you’re a Communist, how do you start a riot? Do they have a handbook or a course on it somewhere?”
Assigned to find the answers, Reader s Digest Washington editor Eugene H. Methvin began a long and sometimes harrowing quest with a simple call to the State Department. He asked to interview “experts” on the subject. A few days later a spokesman called back: “I’m embarrassed to have to tell you this, but we don’t have any experts on that subject. We don’t have anybody following such things.” The same answer came from other federal agencies. And so the author began interviews with intelligence experts, law enforcement people, and former Communists.
Meanwhile, with the Harlem explosion of July 1964 and Watts in 1965, riots became not a foreign but a domestic concern. The author travelled to the scene for on-the-spot investigations in Harlem, Berkeley, Detroit, Newark, Chicago, Atlanta, Columbia, and Washington. At Columbia he narrowly missed being mobbed and clubbed; in Washington he was gassed.
Mr. Methvin gives us blow-by-blow descriptions of what happened, and why, in the race riots at Newark and the student riots at Columbia. He adds what he has learned from the dozens of other riots he has witnessed and studied. And he demonstrates how today’s headlines are the result not of spontaneous events but of “the technology of social demolition.” He traces that technology back through history, shows the role of Lenin in its development.
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Rupes Nigra: An Archaeo-Futurist Countdown in Twelve Essaysannotation/number of pages - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...
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Memoirs Of American Prisons: An Annotated BibliographyCover/annotation/number of pages - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081...
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I Knew 3000 LunaticsThe author of this intriguing book spent six years on the medical staff of a state hospital for the mentally ill, and on the basis of his experience has written a most informative account of the various mental conditions with which such institutions deal, taking special care to make clear the relation of the forces underlying these states to those which make for the development and maintenance of healthful adaptations.
The book is written in the nature of a straightforward personal narrative, and as such hasspecial value to the large lay and medical public to whom the ramifications of the development and course of mental disorder are at best little or erroneously understood. In this respect the author takes his reader through the main stages of his education at the hospital. Knowing nothing of mental cases at the time of his arrival, he traces the gradual increase in his grasp and understanding of fundamentals through a succession of correlated accounts of clinical cases and of the interpretations drawn from them. The story affords illuminating glimpses not only of the special expression which constitutes the manifest clinical phases of the illness, but of the different expressions of the same psychical content which, under greater degrees of intrapsychic control, dominate the activity as carried on outside the
hospital. As the account is written, the author’s practical comprehension of these facts is set forth in relation to the progress of psychiatric diagnosis, description, and treatment; thus affording a series of clear cut indications of the actual groundwork of mental science. Such description of these indications as one finds here cannot but help to eradicate many of the false popular ideas concerning mental illness derived
mainly from arbitrary and completely uninformed legal interpretations.
There are excellent accounts of schizophrenic involvements, including descriptive differences between the manifestations of hebephrenia, catatonia, and the paranoid pictures. Paranoiac developments are clearly set forth, as are also the behavior and ideational contents of the manic depressive cycle. Included in the survey are the aments and the feeble-minded, the toxic psychoses, the range of psychopathic types, and the psychoses associated with the alcoholism. The neuroses and psychoneuroses are represented by well detailed cases and by an excellent discussion which correlates the psychical development of these situations and the demands in environment and adaptation with which they are mainly associated. Other cases deal with senile dementia, the epilepsies, paretic development, criminal behavior, and mental states associated with nymphomania.
Hi there,I hope you're well! Can you add the book description to this Goodreads listing for me?
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The Kingdom of Twilight
The central character is Willie Trevellyan, whom we meet as a 16-year-old passionately and romantically in love with his older cousin Eva, an intelligent and stoic young woman who serves the narrative as a backboard for Willie (and Reid) to bounce musings on Nature, Love, Class, Religion, Self and anything else that occurred to him against; he's self-indulgent in the way of adolescents, and in the way of Edwardian adolescents, completely ignorant of pretty much anything that matters.
Willie's other friend is Nick, with whom he is also in love, passionately if not romantically, and who is undoubtedly in love with him.
Later, Willie meets and is manipulated by an older woman who claims her child to be his, and who deserts them both within a year of the child's birth, Willie having done the honourable thing by marrying her. Reid's evocation of the child, a boy named Prosper, is luminous.
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The central character is Willie Trevellyan, whom we meet as a 16-year-old passionately and romantically in love with his older cousin Eva, an intellig..."
That is not a cover we can use.
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#893-900 done#901 date is the same, 19 June 2006
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Mojsche und Rejsele (Hardcover)
Published 1998 by Beltz
ISBN:3407797869 (ISBN13: 9783407797865)
Edition language:German
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No Time for Dying"'No time for dying' is one of the most unusual, suspense-filled, criminal justice stories ever recorded. Eddie Harrison was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Believing he had been railroaded, he fought valiantly for his life.'--Jacket.
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Woodkid: The Golden AgeHello,
Could you please add "Jillian Tamaki" as a third author and with the role of "illustrator"?
Thanks!
Letters from Attica"In June 1970, Sam Melville pleased guilty to a series of politically motivated bombings in New York City and was sentenced from 13 to 18 years in jail, His prison odyssey took him from the Federal House of Detention to the Tombs to Sing Sing, and finally to Attica, where he helped lead the massive rebellion of September 9, 1971, and where, four days later, he was shot to death by state police...During nearly two years in prison, Sam wrote letters to his friends, his attorneys, his former wife, his young son. Collected after his death, these letters were not written for publication, To read them is to eavesdrop on a man's soul. Determinedly honest and deeply moving, they reveal much about Sam and evoke sharply the suffering of prisoners in America."--Jacket.
#903 skipped, it was imported from amazon with this cover, and probably amazon changed it after. I am not sure what is the right cover after all.#904 done except for the last one. When at least one real author is known, we use this name as primary author.
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Office PartyLike John Fowles's The Collector and James Dickey's Deliverance, here is a novel plausible in its simplicity yet terrifying in its consequence. On Friday afternoon, the day after Thanksgiving, four employees are working overtime at the Mattsfield, Ohio, branch of Felton Products, Inc. At 5PM., one of them—the quiet, self-effacing Eugene Brackin, who has never taken an aggressive action in his forty-six years bolts the exit door with a bicycle lock; takes out a .45 -caliber pistol, a rifle, and three sets of manacles with thirty-inch chains; and turns his three co-workers into hostages.
The three members of his party are Lawrence Gaylord, their boss, an executive whose desperate ambitions have driven him to overwork his employees; Mrs. Joan Talmage, the sixty-two-year old administrative assistant, the epitome of office decorum; and Sally Laird, an attractive junior executive whom Brackin has always perceived as his only friend. All three of the hostages are baffled —even sure he is not serious—but they soon realize that their unassuming colleague of so many years may indeed be serious. May indeed be a madman. For, to their horror, they discover that although he has planned this moment for a year, he asks nothing inreturn for their freedom. In fact, Brackin has no demands.
Deputy Greg Smolen knows only what Brackin or his prisoners tell him over the telephone. Communications are limited to requests for food and the clear understanding that if the police try to move in, Eugene will shoot his victims. In the office, a psychological interplay begins, with each hostage alternately sympathizing with and despising their captor. As the hours mount, so does the fear— for all of them are now fighting to save their own lives. Repressed hostilities and tensions surface as the hostages themselves fragment and turn against one another in the longest and most terrifying weekend of their lives.
Pls add page no of this book. No. Of pages- 352Here is the book.
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The Human Age Books 2 and 3 - Monstre Gai, Malign FiestaAdd annotation
2. Monstre Gai: In the second book of "The Human Age" trilogy Pullman and his ex-school-fag Satterthwaite try to gain admission to the Third City, a purgatorial world beyond the grave, by joining the entourage of a cynical, ambiguous and authoritative figure called the Bailiff. He may be the devil or belong to the devil's forces and is in fact the Gay Monster, whom Lewis had defined as "a man 'beyond good and evil,' a destroying angel and cultivated Mephistopheles". Once inside the city, Pullman must choose between the evil Bailiff and his arch rival, the angelic Padishah (or great king), who is a sentimental bore. He remains loyal to the Bailiff and must flee with him when God's angels recapture the city.
3. Malign Fiesta: The third novel in Lewis' Human Age series takes us straight to Dante's Inferno. And, indeed, if we don't realise this, both Lewis and the denizens of Hell point this out to us. Indeed, Satan (or Sammael, as he prefers to be known) and his assistants make several references to Dante, pointing out that they have created a Lake of Blood (but with red paint, rather than real blood) as well as having tortures akin to those described in Dante, such as a Paolo and Francesca cell. However, this novel is not the English public school novel of the first two books but is full of quite brutal violence. The novel starts as Pullman and Sattersthwaite accompany the Bailiff on a journey at the speed of light from the Third City, where they had been in the previous book, to Matapolis, one of the cities of Hell. Lewis brings us a conclusion, with the inevitable battle between Heaven and Hell.
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#911-913 done#914 please tell what is the source of this image? We can add covers from a limited list of sources. If it's from a website, next time please provide a link to a full page, not just the picture.
#915 I think it's a book we should keep
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#918 they are not exactly the same, each has a different second language. If it was a simple translation, I'd combine them. But these are bilingual editions, and I'm not really sure. Skipped.
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