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Of the 16 NBA championships won by the Boston Celtics, the most memorable is that of the 1985-1986 season--the Celtics' last championship to date. Powered by the Hall of Fame skills of the legendary Larry Bird, Robert Parrish, and Kevin McHale, the team was virtually unstoppable. "The Last Banner" offers a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at this remarkable team.
Evil from beyond this dimension yearns to be unleashed… After waking in a field surrounded by corpses, Vincent Donnelly’s fractured mind was filled with strange voices… Souls trapped inside him, wanting to be set free. And he has no idea who he really is or what led him to his fate… Forced to aid the malevolent creature known as Razul, Vincent travels back to where it all started. There, Razul orders what remains of his cultists to complete the sinister ritual they began. But Razul no longer holds sway over his followers. They have made a new blood bargain, with a being of even greater power. Vincent discovers that he was part a ritual gone wrong in the past… A ritual intended to use him as a host for a being of pure Chaos. Unless Vincent can stop this dark ritual, this entity will wreck unimaginable destruction upon the earth. But the key to ending the wrath of Chaos itself may lie in a twisted deal with Razul. A bargain that could cost Vincent his mortal soul…
In Blood and Guts, Sam Vincent provides an objective eyewitness account of the whale wars. What motivates Sea Shepherd to spend vast sums of money and risk the lives of its activists to pursue a relatively low-impact hunt in some of the most isolated and perilous waters on Earth? Why does a rich nation like Japan doggedly continue a practice it only started to feed its starving population in the wake of World War II?
Think about some commercially successful film masterpieces--The Manchurian Candidate. Seven Days in May. Seconds. Then consider some lesser known, yet equally compelling cinematic achievements--The Fixer. The Gypsy Moths. Path to War. These triumphs are the work of the best known and most highly regarded Hollywood director to emerge from live TV drama in the 1950s--five-time Emmy-award-winner John Frankenheimer. Although Frankenheimer was a pioneer in the genre of political thrillers who embraced the antimodernist critique of contemporary society, some of his later films did not receive the attention they deserved. Many claimed that at a midpoint in his career he had lost his touch. World-renowned film scholars put this myth to rest in A Little Solitaire, which offers the only multidisciplinary critical account of Frankenheimer's oeuvre. Especially emphasized is his deep and passionate engagement with national politics and the irrepressible need of human beings to assert their rights and individuality in the face of organizations that would reduce them to silence and anonymity.
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On November 22, 1963, curtain rod salesman Sam Vincent takes lunch in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, and awaits the arrival of President Kennedy. Sam eats his lunch while standing on a sewer grate, with no idea the president’s true assassin crouches below, gun at the ready. This coincidence earns Sam a place in the “Outfit That Has No Name” and a new identity as Professor Vincent Samuel, publisher of The Magic Bulletin. Thirty years later, brokerage clerk Peter Hokes attends a convention of assassination enthusiasts. In the midst of wild theories and a couple crazies, Peter remains fascinated with the Kennedy assassination and the mystery surrounding the president’s death. He realizes appearances can be deceiving just as deceptions begin appearing all around him. In Manhattan Peter’s obsession with the assassination cost him Aretha Nally, the single lustrous person in his life. In Dallas his obsession carries additional costs. His innocuous research on the Red White and Blue Curtain Rod Company earns him a life-changing encounter with the mysterious Professor Samuel and permanent citizenship in the vast chaotic cauldron that constitutes conspiracy land.
When Dorian Berringer unexpectedly discovers his own Father set him up to be used in a ceremony, it changes his life forever. The Temple of VERITAS holds sacred the belief that they can literally balance the darkness, with an infusion of light. Dorian's Father Drake, the High Priest of the religious order is bound by ancient text, passed down by his ancestors to manifest an entirely new species far more superior to human beings. The question comes with how far will it go and at what cost. Can Dorian hold fast to the purity of his own spirit, to overpower the vast number of dark obstacles that come his way? In this paranormal thriller, the battle is on!
Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug politics. It demonstrates how, instead of learning from our failures, we duplicate and reinforce them in the same flawed policies. The authors examine the "politics of denial" that has led to this catastrophic predicament and propose a basis for a realistic and desperately needed solution. Domestic and foreign drug wars have consistently fallen short because they are based on a flawed model of force and ...