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Investigating Murdoch Mysteries By : Michelle Ricci READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Based on Maureen Jennings' award-winning novels, at the end of the Victorian era, Toronto-based police detective William Murdoch uses radical forensic techniques, including fingerprinting and trace evidence, to solve some of the city?s most gruesome murders. His unconventional approach often elicits skepticism from his colleagues, though he is usually supported by his boss Inspector Brackenreid, young Constable George Crabtree, and doctors/pathologists Emily Grace and Julia Ogden.? This companion looks at every aspect of all 8 seasons of the show, from the regular characters and their relationships, to the history of the period, including figures Murdoch encounters, the forensic and scientific advances he utilises, and Murdoch?s most notable cases. The companion also goes behind the scenes on the show to examine every aspect of the production, including sets, costumes, music and ...

Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection By : Isaac Asimov READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, "Gold," a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a chance at immortality: a gamble Asimov himself made -- and won. The second section contains the grand master's ruminations on the SF genre itself. And the final section is comprised of Asimov's thoughts on the craft and writing of science fiction. Book Detail : Author : Isaac Asimov Pages : 416 pages Publisher : Harper Voyager Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0060556528 ISBN-13 : 9780060556525   Supporting format: PDF, E...

So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica By : Mark A. Altman READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : From the best-selling authors of the definitive two-volume Star Trek oral history, The Fifty-Year Mission, comes the complete, uncensored, unauthorized oral history of Battlestar Galactica.Four decades after its groundbreaking debut, Battlestar Galactica -- both the 1978 original and its 2004 reimagining -- have captured the hearts of two generations of fans. What began as a three-hour made for TV movie inspired by the blockbuster success of Star Wars followed by a single season of legendary episodes, was transformed into one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved series in television history. And gathered exclusively in this volume are the incredible untold stories of both shows - as well as the much-maligned Galactica 1980.For the first time ever, you will learn the uncensored, unbelievable true story of forty years o...

The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus By : Bev Vincent READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : In 1970, Stephen King embarked on what would become the crowning achievement in his literary career-the Dark Tower. The seven-volume series, written and published over a period of 30 years, was inspired by Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," as well as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone.With the full cooperation of Stephen King himself, The Road to the Dark Tower examines the epic journey of the author to complete a story that threatened to overwhelm him. In this indispensable companion, Bev Vincent presents a book-by-book analysis of each volume in the series, tracing the Dark Tower's connections to King's other novels including The Stand, Insomnia, and Hearts in Atlantis, and offering insights from the author about the creative process involved in ...

Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon: Game of Thrones and the Official Untold Story of the Epic Series By : James Hibberd READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The perfect read and perfect gift for Game of Thrones fansThe official, definitive oral history of the blockbuster show from Entertainment Weekly's James Hibberd, endorsed by George R. R. Martin himself (who calls it "an amazing read"), reveals the one Game of Thrones tale that has yet to be told: the thirteen-year behind-the-scenes struggle to make the show.Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon shares the incredible, thrilling, uncensored story of Game of Thrones, from the creators' first meetings with George R. R. Martin and HBO through the series finale, including all the on-camera battles, off-camera efforts, and the many controversies in between. The book also features more than fifty candid new interviews, rare and stunning photos, and unprecedented access to the producers, cast, and crew who took an impossible id...

Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media By : David S. Roh READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising.??The collection?s fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media, from radio serials to cyberpunk novels, from Sax Rohmer?s Dr. Fu Manchu to Firefly. ?Applying a variety of theoretical, his...

Approaching the Possible: The World of Stargate SG-1 By : Jo Storm READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Serving as a comprehensive introduction for those who are just starting to watch, while also providing long-time viewers with an episode-by-episode guide to the entire eight seasons, this book is a must-have addition to any Stargate SG-1 fan's library. Book Detail : Author : Jo Storm Pages : 523 pages Publisher : ECW Press Language : ISBN-10 : 155022705X ISBN-13 : 9781550227055   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Are You in the House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999 By : Amanda Reyes READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Beginning in the 1960s through its heyday in the 1970s and beyond, the telefilm stands as an important cultural artefact masquerading as disposable entertainment. Made specifically for the small screen, within the tight constraints of broadcasting standards, what these humble movies lacked in budget and star appeal, they made up for in other ways. Often they served as an introduction to genre films, particularly horror, mirroring their theatrical counterparts with a focus on sinister cults, women in prison, haunted houses and even animals in revolt. They were also a place to address serious contemporary issues - drugs, prostitution, sexual violence and justice -albeit in a cosy domestic environment. Production of telefilms continues to this day, but their significance within the history of mass media remains under-discussed. Are You in the House Alone? seek...

Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction By : Brian W. Aldiss READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Britain's most illustrious SF writer, Brian Aldiss, provides a witty and perceptive history of this extraordinary phenomenon, set in its social and literary context. Crammed with fascinating insights, this generous spree takes us through decades of treats for the imagination: escape to other dimensions, flights to other planets, lost worlds, utopias, mechanical creatures and intelligent aliens. Amusing, intelligent and authoritative, it takes us on a tour through that zone where literature and science engage in an eternal flirtation. Examining the great writers SF has produced, and the images that have become the cultural wallpaper of the present day, this comprehensive expedition is for buffs and tenderfoots alike. Book Detail : Author : Brian W. Aldiss Pages : 511 pages Publisher : Atheneum Books Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0689118392 ISBN-13 : 9780689118395  ...

Futures and Fictions By : Henriette Gunkel READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Futures and Fictions is a book of essays and conversations that explore possibilities for a different 'political imaginary' or, more simply, the imagining and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of our neoliberal present. In particular, the book contributes to prescient discussions around decolonization, post-capitalism and new kinds of social movements - exploring the intersections of these with contemporary art practice and visual culture. Contributions range from work on science, sonic and financial fictions and alternative space-time plots to myths and images generated by marginalized and 'minor' communities, queer-feminist strategies of fictioning, and the production of new Afro- and other futurisms. Book Detail : Author : Henriette Gunkel Pages : 400 pages Publisher : Repeater Language : ISBN-10 : 1910924636 ISBN-13...

Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. By : Chancellor Williams READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent?and the people of African descent in the United States and in the diaspora?this?well researched analysis details the development of civiliza Book Detail : Author : Chancellor Williams Pages : 384 pages Publisher : Third World Press Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0883780305 ISBN-13 : 9780883780305   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. By : Chancellor Williams READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent?and the people of African descent in the United States and in the diaspora?this?well researched analysis details the development of civiliza Book Detail : Author : Chancellor Williams Pages : pages Publisher : Author's Republic Language : eng ISBN-10 : B0814JBWH8 ISBN-13 :   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust By : Immacul?e Ilibagiza READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee?s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them.It was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee discovered the power of prayer, eventually shedding her fear of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hideout having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love?a love so strong she was able seek o...

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War By : Mark Bowden READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3 1993, 140 elite US Soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour.Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night in a hostile city, fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. Two of their high-tech helicopters were shot out of the sky. When the unit was rescued the following morning, eighteen American soldiers were dead and more than seventy badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse - more than five hundred killed and over a thousand injur...

The Wretched of the Earth By : Frantz Fanon READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of post-independence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other.Fanon...

Born in Blackness By : Howard W. French READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the ?New World.? Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs; and so on, ad infinitum. The history of Africa, by contrast, has long been relegated to the remote outskirts of our global story. What if, instead, we put Africa and Africans at the very center of our thinking about the origins of modernity?In a sweeping narrative spanning more than six centuries, Howard W. French does just that, for Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of ...

A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present By : Howard Zinn READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A classic since its original landmark publication in 1980, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the first scholarly work to tell America's story from the bottom up - from the point of view of, and in the words of, America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. From Columbus to the Revolution to slavery and the Civil War - from World War II to the election of George W. Bush and the "War on Terror" - A People's History of the United States is an important and necessary contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history. Book Detail : Author : Howard Zinn Pages : pages Publisher : Harper Audio Language : eng ISBN-10 : B0030MR076 ISBN-13 :   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting :...

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By : Richard Rothstein READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Widely heralded as a ?masterful? (Washington Post) and ?essential? (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein?s The Color of Law offers ?the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation? (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhood...

Behold a Pale Horse By : Milton William Cooper READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government files since the 1940s. His audiences hear the truth unfold as he writes about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the secret government, and UFOs.Bill is a lucid, rational, and powerful speaker whose intent is to inform and to empower his audience. Standing room only is normal. His presentation and information transcend partisan affiliations as he clearly addresses issues in a way that has a striking impact on listeners of all backgrounds and interests. He has spoken to many groups throughout the United States and has appeared regularly on many radio talk shows and on television.In 1988 Bill decided to "talk" due to events then taking place worldwide, events that he had s...

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration By : Isabel Wilkerson READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize?winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.?From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping ...