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The world's first IBO Interactive Book. Twelve year-old Jack Hunter's life couldn't get any better. A local celebrity, captain of the school football team and getting ready for his first holiday abroad with best friends, Martin, Holly, BT and Jules. Suddenly Jack and his friends find themselves caught up in the middle of a robbery. Nothing is what it seems. What have Russian gangsters, stolen jewels, historical secrets and a famous movie star all got in common? Can you solve the riddle of... The French Connection?
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With a new introduction by the author. The true, absorbing and sometimes frightening documentary of the world's most successful narcotics investigation, The French Connection is one of the most fascinating crime accounts of our time. When New York City detectives Eddie "Popeye" Egan and his partner Sonny Grosso routinely tail Pasquale "Patsy" Fuca, after observing some wild spending at the Copacabana, they quickly realize that they are on to something really big. Patsy is not only the nephew of a mob boss on the lam but also a key negotiator in an impending delivery of narcotics from abroad. His incongruous connections are with several distinguished Frenchmen, including Jean Jehan, the direc...
Bruce Lee, world-famous "king of kung-fu", remains a legend, one of the most adulated and enigmatic movie stars of all time. Intercepting Fist is the only book to deal specifically with Lee's five major movies, and to analyse them with in-depth, illustrated essays, including a stunning 8-page color section of kung-fu action. Featuring Big Boss, Fist Of Fury, Way Of The Dragon, Enter The Dragon and Game Of Death, plus a foreword by Mikita Brottman on Lee's legend and mysterious death, and an introduction on the history of Hong Kong Martial Arts movies.
It is from the paranormal's multifaceted nature that the title of this book takes its meaning. Throughout its pages we encounter, time and again, talk of a wide variety of dimensions, levels and layers, from social, cultural, psychological and physiological dimensions, to spiritual, mythic, narrative, symbolic and experiential dimensions, and onwards to other worlds, planes of existence and realms of consciousness. The paranormal is, by its very nature, multidimensional. ""Once again, Jack Hunter takes us down the proverbial rabbit hole, here with the grace, nuance and sheer intelligence of a gifted team of essayists, each working in her or his own way toward new theories of history, consciousness, spirit, the imagination, the parapsychological, and the psychedelic. Another clear sign that there is high hope in high strangeness, and that we are entering a new era of thinking about religion, about mind, about us."" -- Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred.
Including a chronicle of his first mescaline experience, a trailer-park confrontation and ending with an unnaturally poignant love story, Screwjack is an exhilarating collection of short stories. As Thompson puts it in his introduction, the three stories here ‘build like Bolero to a faster & wilder climax that will drag the reader relentlessly up a hill, & then drop him off a cliff . . . That is the Desired Effect.’ Amid all the hilarity, Hunter S. Thompson proves just how brilliant a prose stylist he really is. Screwjack is salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical. ‘Hunter Thompson elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria’s funeral’ William F Buckley ‘There are only two adjectives writers care about anymore, brilliant and outrageous, and Hunter S. Thompson has a freehold on both of them’ Tom Wolfe
'Highly readable' Ben Macintyre 'Pacy, original and frequently chilling' Henry Hemming June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it. Throughout the Second World War, Britain's defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a former bank clerk from Epsom. Equipped with an extraordinary ability to make people trust him, he was recruited into the shadowy world of espionage by the great spymaster Maxwell Knight. Roberts penetrated first the Communist Party and then the British Union of Fascists, before playing his...
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An Illustrated History of Freak Film Freakshows - human anomalies presented for spectacle-have flourished throughout recorded history. The birth of movies provided a further outlet for these displays, which in turn led to a peculiar strain of bizarre cinema: Freak Film. 'Inside Terradome' is a comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to the roots and development of this fascinating, often disturbing cinematic genre.
"Greening the Paranormal" explores parallels between anomalistics and ecology not just for the sake of exploring interesting intersections (of which there are many), but for the essential task of contributing towards a much broader - necessary - change of perspective concerning our relationship to the living planet.