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Brand: Diana Urban
EAN: 9780062908223
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A thrilling debut, reminiscent of new fan favorites like One of Us Is Lying and the beloved classics by Agatha Christie, that will leave readers guessing until the explosive ending. \n\n\"Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting.\"\n\nWhat do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it's a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill...or else everyone dies.\n\nAmber Prescott is determined to get her classmates and herself out of the room alive, but that might be easier said than done. No one knows how they're all connected or who would want them dead.\n\nAs they retrace the events over the past year that might have triggered their captor's ultimatum, it becomes clear that everyone is hiding something.\n\nAnd with the clock ticking down, confusion turns into fear, and fear morphs into panic as they race to answer the biggest question: Who will they choose to die?

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Brand: William Foote Whyte
EAN: 9780226895451
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Street Corner Society is one of a handful of works that can justifiably be called classics of sociological research. William Foote Whyte's account of the Italian American slum he called \"Cornerville\"-Boston's North End-has been the model for urban ethnography for fifty years. \n\nBy mapping the intricate social worlds of street gangs and \"corner boys,\" Whyte was among the first to demonstrate that a poor community need not be socially disorganized. His writing set a standard for vivid portrayals of real people in real situations. And his frank discussion of his methodology-participant observation-has served as an essential casebook in field research for generations of students and scholars. \n\nThis fiftieth anniversary edition includes a new preface and revisions to the methodological appendix. In a new section on the book's legacy, Whyte responds to recent challenges to the validity, interpretation, and uses of his data. \"The Whyte Impact on the Underdog,\" the moving statement by a gang leader who became the author's first research assistant, is preserved.\n\n\"Street Corner Society broke new ground and set a standard for field research in American cities that remains a source of intellectual challenge.\"-Robert Washington, Reviews in Anthropology

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Brand: Eddie Muller
EAN: 9780762498970
Categoria: Libri e riviste

TCM host Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in an authoritative, highly illustrated volume.\n\nThis narrative history is packed with stories about the stars and makers of both long-recognized classics like The Maltese Falcon and under-the-radar \"lost\" greats such as Cry Danger. The book highlights more than one hundred films, breaking down plots and offering insider accounts behind-the-scenes of their making.\n\n\". . . a righteous, rip-snorting riff on the ultimate cinematic genre-film noir. This book displays a salutary knowledge of the underpinnings of the genre; serves as a fabulous reference book; and most importantly, dishes the real life dirt on the freaks, geeks, commies, nymphos, hopheads, has-beens, red-baiters, and all-purpose fiends who made the genre great.\"\n-James Ellroy

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Brand: Henry James
EAN: 9780141441368
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes by Martha Banta in Penguin Classics.\n\nWhen timid and plain Catherine Sloper is courted by the dashing and determined Morris Townsend, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, delivers an ultimatum: break off her engagement, or be stripped of her inheritance. Torn between her desire to win her father's love and approval and her passion for the only man who has ever declared his love for her, Catherine faces an agonising dilemma, and becomes all too aware of the restrictions that others seek to place on her freedom. James's masterly novel deftly interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a deeply moving study of innocence destroyed.\n\nThis edition of Washington Square includes a chronology, suggested further reading, notes and an introduction discussing the novel's lasting influence and James's depiction of the quiet strength of his heroine.\n\nHenry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian, and brother to the philosopher William James, was one of the most celebrated novelists of the fin-de-siecle. His novella 'Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic, and his other novels in Penguin Classics include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Awkward Age (1899), The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904).\n\nIf you enjoyed Washington Square, you might like Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, also available in Penguin Classics.\n\n'Washington Square is a perfectly balanced novel... a work of surpassing refinement and interest'\nElizabeth Hardwick\n\n'Perhaps the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field and produced a work comparable to Jane Austen's'\nGraham Greene

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Brand: Fanny Howe
EAN: 9780976718536
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Radical Love gathers five of Fanny Howe's novels: Nod, The Deep North, Famous Questions, Saving History, and Indivisible, previously out-of-print and hard to find classics whose characters wrestle with serious political and metaphysical questions against the backdrop of urban, suburban, and rural America.

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Brand: E. C. Bentley
EAN: 9780008333911
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Twelve stories from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case.\n\n\n Philip Trent is an artist, a journalist, and an urbane unraveller of highly problematical crimes. Here the unshakable sleuth appears in twelve tales of misadventure, where the crimes that he investigates range from fraud and embezzlement to criminal assault and murder, yet they all succumb to his adept methods even if the criminal sometimes escapes.\n\n\n Trent Intervenes affirms Bentley's reputation as an author of the first rank and displays his ability to write equally well in the short story form.

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