Book Detail:
Author: Frank Manley
Publisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9780385494205
Size: 63.66 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1999
Category: Boys
Language: en
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Download PDF The Cockfighter eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this stunning debut novel, Manley explores the part of the rural American experience where the human spirit prevails against seemingly overwhelming odds.

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Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468306901
Size: 80.71 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013-08-11
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Cockfighter eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the criminal underbelly of the 1960s rural South, a silent, iron-willed man is ready to sacrifice anything to rise to the top. A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford (1919-1988) is best known for his Miami-based crime novels featuring hard-boiled detective Hoke Moseley, including Miami Blues and Sideswipe. His career as a writer began in the late 1940s, but it was his 1972 novel Cockfighter that announced his name to a wider audience. Frank Mansfield is the titular cockfighter: a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. Mansfield haunts the cockpits, bars and roads of the rural South in the early 1960s, adrift but always capable of nearly anything... First published in complete form in 1972, and adapted by Willeford for a Monte Hellman film in 1974 (which became infamous for its use of real animals in the fight scenes), the novel Cockfighter has been out of print for nearly 20 years. Praise for Charles Willeford and Cockfighter “One of our most skilled, interesting, accomplished and productive writers.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post “Charles Willeford renders the sport [of cockfighting] with such knowledge and attention to detail that . . . I had the almost inexpressible impression of being on my knees again beside the great fighting pits of the southern circuit.” —Harry Crews “No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford.” —Elmore Leonard “Entertaining every step of the way... Willeford opens up for most of us a whole undiscovered world, and conveys it wonderfully.” —Publishers Weekly

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Book Detail:
Author: Brad Stevens
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786481880
Size: 26.75 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2010-06-28
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Monte Hellman eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "I just did it, and I probably made more mistakes than the average person who makes a first film. I didn't really have any help, and I wouldn't take any help. I had to do it on my own. Once I made my first film I considered myself a film-maker. I lost all interest in the theater and never went back"--Monte Hellman In 1970, an LA Times headline described Monte Hellman as "Hollywood's best kept secret". More than thirty years later, Hellman and his work are still secrets, his genius recognized only by a small but passionate group of admirers. This book is both a biography of Hellman and a critical study of his films, which include The Shooting, Two-Lane Blacktop and Ride in the Whirlwind. It also covers films to which Hellman has contributed as an editor, actor and producer, as well as those on which he has worked, in various capacities, without onscreen credit, such as Shatter and Robocop. Attention is focused on the hallmarks of Hellman's work, including his dominant themes and obsessive characters, and all the films are subjected to close stylistic analysis.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Ray Willeford
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380001200
Size: 75.94 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1974-06-01
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Cockfighter eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The sport is cockfighting, and Frank Mansfield is the Cockfighter--a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of the Hoke Mosely detective novels yields a floodlit vision of the cockpits and criminal underbelly of the rural South.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Ray Willeford
Publisher: Black Mask
ISBN: 9780887390265
Size: 62.22 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1987
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF Cockfighter eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The sport is cockfighting, and Frank Mansfield is the Cockfighter--a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of the Hoke Mosely detective novels yields a floodlit vision of the cockpits and criminal underbelly of the rural South.

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Book Detail:
Author: Vincent Murphy
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472051873
Size: 60.59 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013-01-10
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Page To Stage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A step-by-step guide for adapting literary works to the stage

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Book Detail:
Author: Kier-La Janisse
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1903254825
Size: 55.81 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-01-09
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF House Of Psychotic Women eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart - ‘the eccentric’ - the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play. HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and a celebration of female madness, both onscreen and off. This critically-acclaimed publication is packed with rare images that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. Films covered include The Entity, Paranormal Activity, Singapore Sling, 3 Women, Toys Are Not for Children, Repulsion, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, The Haunting of Julia, Secret Ceremony, Cutting Moments, Out of the Blue, Mademoiselle, The Piano Teacher, Possession, Antichrist and hundreds more. Prior to this ebook edition, Kier-La's highly acclaimed book has already been issued twice in hardcover and twice in paperback, garnering extensive press coverage. Endorsement including the following: “God, this woman can write, with a voice and intellect that’s so new. The truth in the most deadly unique way I’ve ever read.” – Ralph Bakshi, director of ‘Fritz the Cat’, ‘Heavy Traffic’, ‘Lord of the Rings’, etc. “Fascinating, engaging and lucidly written: an extraordinary blend of deeply researched academic analysis and revealing memoir.” – Iain Banks, author of ‘The Wasp Factory’

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Book Detail:
Author: Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555846734
Size: 61.56 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2007-12-01
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Sightseeing eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The national bestseller by the award-winning Thai-American author. “A brilliant collection . . . brimming with sharp-clawed survival lessons” (Los Angeles Times). Set in contemporary Thailand, these are generous, radiant tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts and cultural shiftings beneath the glossy surface of a warm, Edenic setting. Written with exceptional acuity, grace and sophistication, the stories present a nation far removed from its exoticized stereotypes. In the prize-winning opening story “Farangs,” the son of a beachside motel owner commits the cardinal sin of falling for a pretty American tourist. In the novella, “Cockfighter,” a young girl witnesses her proud father’s valiant but foolhardy battle against a local delinquent whose family has a vicious stranglehold on the villagers. Through his vivid assemblage of parents and children, natives and transients, ardent lovers and sworn enemies, Lapcharoensap dares us to look with new eyes at the circumstances that shape our views and the prejudices that form our blind spots. Gorgeous and lush, painful and candid, Sightseeing is an extraordinary reading experience, one that powerfully reveals that when it comes to how we respond to pain, anger, hurt, and love, no place is too far from home. “Lapcharoensap is a commanding, animated tour guide, and a lot more than that—he can write with the bait and the hook of genuine talent . . . [He] has a gift for the detail that catches not only his Thai milieu but teenage life everywhere.” —Darin Strauss, The New York Times Book Review

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Book Detail:
Author: Arch Ruport
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1446548031
Size: 65.91 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013-04-16
Category: Pets
Language: en
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Download PDF The Art Of Cockfighting eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is the story of Cockfighting and how it is practised in certain parts of the World where it is still legal. In Britain it has been a forbidden sport for more than 150 years, although it is said that in country parts, that it ceased much later than that time. Many people keep Game Fowl purely for interest and this book is reissued in the hope that many of the sections relating to the history, feeding, conditioning and other aspects of keeping these birds will be of great interest. Contents Include: History Selection of a Strain, Basic Strains, The Hen Breeding and Breeding Systems The House Caring for Brood Fowl Rearing Game Chickens, Stages in the Life History of a Gamecock Dubbing Stags The Farm Walk Coop Walks, Movable and Stationary Getting Ready for Battle Trimming out for Battle Six Good Keeps Conditioning Powders and Drugs Tools of the Trade Gaffs Heeling Cocks for Battle In the Pit Handling and Nursing in the Pit The Referee After the Battle Methods of Conducting Cockfights

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Book Detail:
Author: Erich Goode
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118701356
Size: 10.84 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2015-09-25
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Handbook Of Deviance eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Handbook of Deviance is a definitive reference for professionals, researchers, and students that provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sociology of deviance. Composed of over 30 essays written by an international array of scholars and meticulously edited by one of the best known authorities on the study of deviance Features chapters on cutting-edge topics, such as terrorism and environmental degradation as forms of deviance Each chapter includes a critical review of what is known about the topic, the current status of the topic, and insights about the future of the topic Covers recent theoretical innovations in the field, including the distinction between positivist and constructionist perspectives on deviance, and the incorporation of physical appearance as a form of deviance

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Book Detail:
Author: Adam O’Brien
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785330012
Size: 55.74 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2016-02-01
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Transactions With The World eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood” films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.

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Book Detail:
Author: Norie Neumark
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262302691
Size: 16.88 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2010-08-20
Category: Computers
Language: en
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Download PDF Voice eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Perspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry. Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agendas. In the digital era, techniques and technologies of voice have provoked insistent questioning of the distinction between the human voice and the voice of the machine, between genuine and synthetic affect, between the uniqueness of an individual voice and the social and cultural forces that shape it. This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on these topics from history, philosophy, cultural theory, film, dance, poetry, media arts, and computer games. Many chapters demonstrate Lewis Mumford's idea of the “cultural preparation” that precedes technological innovation—that socially important new technologies are foreshadowed in philosophy, the arts, and everyday pastimes. Chapters cover such technologies as voice mail, podcasting, and digital approximations of the human voice. A number of authors explore the performance, performativity, and authenticity [(or 'authenticity effect') of voice in dance, poetry, film, and media arts]; while others examine more immaterial concerns—the voice's often-invoked magical powers, the ghostliness of disembodied voices, and posthuman vocalization. [The chapters evoke an often paradoxical reassertion of the human in the use of voice in mainstream media including recorded music, films, and computer games. Contributors Mark Amerika, Isabelle Arvers, Giselle Beiguelman, Philip Brophy, Ross Gibson, Brandon LaBelle, Thomas Levin, Helen Macallan, Virginia Madsen, Meredith Morse, Norie Neumark, Andrew Plain, John Potts, Theresa M. Senft, Nermin Saybasili, Amanda Stewart, Axel Stockburger, Michael Taussig, Martin Thomas, Theo van Leeuwen, Mark Wood

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Book Detail:
Author: Ted Olson
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572336684
Size: 70.48 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF A Tennessee Folklore Sampler eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Since 1934 the Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin has been a respected source on the wonderfully diverse history and traditions of the Volunteer State, but until now that publication's wide-ranging articles have been largely restricted to the society's membership. With the appearance of A Tennessee Folklore Sampler, editors Ted Olson and Anthony P. Cavender provide a broad audience with a rich selection of the work published over the course of this acclaimed journal's seventy-five-year history. Packed with colorful descriptions and analysis of the state's folkways, A Tennessee Folklore Sampler covers all three of the grand divisions of Tennessee--East, Middle, and West-- and includes articles by some prominent students of folklore, among them Charles Wolfe, Charles Faulkner Bryan, Thomas Burton, Donald Davidson, Herbert Halpert, Mildred Haun, Michael Lofaro, Michael Montgomery, and Tom Rankin. Following an introductory section that places the book into historical, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts, A Tennessee Folklore Sampler is divided into ten parts covering material culture, medicine, beliefs and practices, customs, play and recreation lore, speech, legends, ballad and song, instrumental traditions and music collecting, and folk communities. Each part begins with an introduction that places the selections in context and concludes with suggestions for further reading. The appendix features an essay that explores the history of the Tennessee Folklore Society and the evolution of folklore studies of the state. The anthology will be a welcome resource for folklorists and scholars in many fields as well as a special treasure for general readers. With more than sixty illustrations complementing the text, A Tennessee Folklore Sampler presents a vivid overview of Tennessee folk culture that illuminates the very soul of the state. Ted Olson is the author of Blue Ridge Folklife and Breathing in Darkness: Poems, and the coeditor of The Bristol Sessions: Writings about the Big Bang of Country Music. He teaches at East Tennessee State University. Anthony P. Cavender is professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia and has published articles in Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Folklore Research, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Human Organization, Appalachian Journal, and American Speech, among others.

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Book Detail:
Author: John Young (M.A.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 33.98 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 1832
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Language: en
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Download PDF The Record Of Providence Or The Government Of God Displayed In A Series Of Interesting Facts From Sacred And Profane History eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alan Dundes
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299140547
Size: 21.61 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1994-06-15
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF The Cockfight eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A folklorist brings together 18 accounts of the controversial male-dominated ritual of cockfighting, discussing the intricate rules of the cockfight, the ethical question of pitting two equally matched roosters in a fight to the death, the emotional involvement of cockfighters and fans, and the sexual implications of the sport.

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Book Detail:
Author: Antonio A. Hidalgo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 40.68 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 1996
Category: Cockfighting
Language: en
View: 282
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Download PDF Cockfighting Secrets eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870498763
Size: 64.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1995
Category: American literature
Language: en
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Download PDF Conflict And Change eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1984898140
Size: 74.62 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2019-02-26
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF I The Supreme eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lewis Williams
Publisher: Plexus Publishing
ISBN: 0859657000
Size: 41.69 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2019-07-15
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Scott Walker eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Scott Walker is without parallel as an artist, acclaimed as an influence by Bowie, Julian Cope, Marc Almond, Nick Cave and Jarvis Cocker. As lead vocalist of the Walker Brothers, his soulful baritone made him a major interpreter of heartbroken ballads. As a solo artist, the influence of balladeer Jacques Brel and existentialist literature took him to new depths of emotional expression on the albums Scott 1-4. Then came years of obscurity as a covers artist, before his career took off on a unique trajectory — witnessed by his extreme contributions to the Walkers' 1978 reunion album, Nite Flights, the opaque tone poems of 1984's Climate of Hunter, the bewildering brilliant 1995 Tilt, and the unrelenting psychic assault of 2006's The Drift. In this comprehensive illustrated volume, lifelong fan Lewis Williams charts this unique and enigmatic career song by song. From his 1960s heyday and beyond, every classic, every rarity and every obscurity ever recorded by Scott Walker is detailed with an obsessive enthusiasm that only he can inspire.

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Book Detail:
Author: William Cowper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 17.62 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1889
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF The Poetical Works Of William Cowper eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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