Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 074757863X ISBN 13: 9780747578635
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The enthralling story of Henry Hill's life as a gangster and notorious participation in the Witness Protection Programme, made into the hugely acclaimed Martin Scorsese film_________________________'Absolutely engrossing' - New York Times'The best book ever written on organised crime' - Cosmopolitan'A riveting account of organised crime as a way of life . extraordinary' - Publishers Weekly_________________________'At the age of twelve my ambition was to be a gangster. To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.' GoodFellas is Henry Hill's own story, telling the fascinating and sometimes brutal details of the day-to-day life of a working New York mobster - the violence, wild spending sprees, his wife, his mistress, his code of honour.From the small-time scamming of his early years, his first arrest at the age of sixteen and initiation into the dealings of his wiseguy friends and bosses, Henry Hill tells of the good times, dodgy dealings, indulgences, and the insularity of the mob-controlled neighbourhoods. But things start to go too far. To save his own life, Hill turns into a Federal witness, and the mob is to this day still hunting him down for revealing their involvement in hundreds of crimes including arson, extortion, hijacking, the six-million dollar Lufthansa heist (the most successful cash robbery in US history), and murder.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747578699 ISBN 13: 9780747578697
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'I don't believe I'd go there if I was you. What's the use of it ''Because it's there,' said Lewis.'It's there, all right. If you git in there and can't get out, you're goin' to wish it wudn't.'A group of middle-aged friends in search of the wilderness experience that has been missing from their big-city lives go canoeing one weekend. They pack all the usual survival gear - plus a banjo and a bow and arrow - and head off. Unskilled and naïve, they paddle downstream, enjoying the exercise and the gorgeous scenery. But something is in the air. There are small signs at first: their canoes hit sudden rapids, the river seems polluted with litter and bird feathers, and during the night their tent is punctured by the talons of a hunting owl. Then, the following day, after mooring their canoes by the woods, they are approached by two sinister men. One is carrying a shotgun and the other a knife.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1840025409 ISBN 13: 9781840025408
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Somebody hit Tracy on the head with a brick. And something just as bad has happened to Julia. But how can you hang on to your identity when you don't know who you are anymore Head/Case is a powerful drama about identity and a mind damaged almost beyond repair.How do you define yourself when you literally don't know who you are anymore How do you begin to heal when you cannot fix your sense of self And how much does nationality, culture and memory shape who you actually are Produced at the Soho Theatre in January 2005.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747565716 ISBN 13: 9780747565710
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In the late 1980s a generation of filmmakers began to flower outside the Hollywood studio system and in the following decade, the independent film movement bloomed. Dozens of lesser-known filmmakers such as Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino began walking away with coveted prizes at Cannes and eventually the Academy Awards. Many of these directors were discovered at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival and then scooped up by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, whose company Miramax laid waste to the competition. In Down and Dirty Pictures, Peter Biskind tells the incredible story of these filmmakers, the growth of Sundance into the premier showcase of independent film, and the meteoric rise of the controversial Weinstein brothers who left a trail of carnage in their wake yet created an Oscar factory that is the envy of the studios.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1840025182 ISBN 13: 9781840025187
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Rules are rules. But in a place where true friendship is gold dust, rules beg to be broken. Chelle and Denise go way back. Denise, with her loud mouth and long extensions, made the same-old-same-old of prison life not so bad. But when Densie leaves, with no goodbye, no nothing, Chelle figures she's just run out of friendships. Then Ruthie walks in.The story of their friendship unfolds in Jennifer Farmer's sharp and richly textured play. A production of Compact Failure by Clean Break Theatre Company, opened at Manchester Contact in October 2004, followed by a UK tour.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1840025158 ISBN 13: 9781840025156
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A controversial new play which deals with issues such as Muslim fundamentalism, a jihad for an Islamic state, and the conflict between Cypriots living in North London.Directed by Kerry Michael, this hard-hitting play was part of a new eclectic season at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 041377547X ISBN 13: 9780413775474
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - First collection from the 2004 Pearson Award-winning playwright.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0413775097 ISBN 13: 9780413775092
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Four plays by the writer behind the West End smash-hit, Festen.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0413774759 ISBN 13: 9780413774750
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Three classic Spanish plays, made famous by Shakespeare and Webster.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0826417612 ISBN 13: 9780826417619
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Almost all written histories of the period leading up to World War II stress political, diplomatic, and ideological conflicts. Arguing that previous historians have confused effect for cause and have considered these conflicts without reference to the systemic problems that provoked them. Paul Hehn focuses on the fierce rivalries among the Great Powers in the relentless search for markets during the world depression of the 1930s. These rivalries were exacerbated particularly in southeastern Europe where Germany dominated the economies and trade arenas of its neighbors in a semi-colonial manner. In A Low Dishonest Decade, Hehn surveys the five Major Powers and all the Eastern European countries from the Baltic to Turkey. But he primarily canvases the economic situations in strategic locations like Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0826476112 ISBN 13: 9780826476111
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book addresses an important aspect of how language is used in written communication: the ways that writers reflect on their texts to refer to themselves, their readers or the text itself. This is known as METADISCOURSE.Metadiscourse is a key resource in language, as it allows the writer to engage with readers in familiar and expected ways. Writers use the devices of metadiscourse to adjust the level of personality in their texts, to offer a representation of themselves and their arguments. This helps the reader organise, interpret and evaluate the information presented in the text. Metadiscourse is therefore crucial to successful communication.Knowing how to identify metadiscourse as a reader is a key skill to be learnt by students of discourse analysis. Learning how to use metadiscourse in writing is an important tool for students of academic writing in both the L1 and L2 context. This book has four main purposes:- to provide an accessible introduction to metadiscourse, discussing its role and importance in written communication and reviewing current thinking on the topic.- to explore examples of metadiscourse in a range of texts from business, academic, journalistic, and student writing- to offer a new theory of metadiscourse- to show the relevance of this theory to students, academics and language teachers.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1903436826 ISBN 13: 9781903436820
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in return. It offers both the dancing wit of the 'merry war' between the sexes, and a sobering vision of the costs of that combat for both men and women. Shakespeare dramatizes a social world in all of its vibrant particulars, in which characters are shaped by the relations between social convention and individual choice.This edition of the play offers in its introduction and commentary an extensive discussion of the materials that informed Shakespeare's compositional choices, both those conventional sources and other contexts, from cuckold jokes to conduct books, which inform the ideas and identities of this play. Particular attention is devoted to Renaissance understandings of gender identity and social rank, as well as to the social valences of Shakespeare's stylistic choices. A treatment of staging possibilities offers illustrations drawn from the earliest and recent theatrical practices, and a critical history examines the fate of the play in the changing trends of academic scholarship. 'The text is superb. the critical introduction is predictably smart and engaging, exactly the sort of essay one would recommend to students.'Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1845203275 ISBN 13: 9781845203276
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - We are at war. Human cultures are divided into two basic types, two antagonistic forces, one based on symbolic exchange, which is dual and reciprocal, and one based on money and sign exchange, which is totalising. Non-western societies can create genuinely symbolic, durable cultures. But the western world-system, based on a logic of empire, is designed to create an integrated and sealed reality, to snap tight around the world and its image. If the first is indestructible and the second is irresistible, who can win and what will victory look like The answer may lie in the capacity for violence in the world-system itself, threatening that system from within with the purest of symbolic forms, the challenge of resistance. The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact is the summation of Baudrillard's work over twenty years. It is the essential analysis of the fundamental conflict of our time.