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The Shadow World
A gripping and urgent investigation into the secretive world of the global arms trade - from a former member of the African National Congress Revealing the corruption and the cover-ups at the heart of ex-President Jacob Zuma's South Africa Andrew Feinstein delves behind BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe and the revolving-door relationships that characterise the US Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex. The Shadow World exposes both the formal government-backed trade in arms as well as the illicit deals and lays bare the shocking links between the two. 'Essential reading for anyone who cares about justice, transparency and accountability in both...
Shadow World
America is at war and the stakes are huge. The fight isn't just in Iraq and Afghanistan; it's a global contest between the United States, radical Islam, a resurgent Russia, and a virulent New Left coming to power in Latin America and stalking the corridors of power around the world. These three enemies of America are separate, but still cooperate -- and in his stunning new book, Shadow World, Robert Chandler shows how.
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Shadow Factories
Wartime is costly. Whilst the human cost is a burden which remains part of our every waking thoughts for many years after the end of the conflict, the physical cost, at least in some cases, is easier to deal with. Some, if not most of the physical cost of war, is spent in the constant supply of materials including armaments and machines to the troops - wherever they happen to be fighting. Of course the Services have always needed supplies of uniforms, equipment and machines. However, the rate of expansion of the Services and the rate of consumption of armaments increases dramatically in wartime. Pre-war traditional manufacturers simply could not cope with the sudden increase in orders. The o...
Last Warning
They killed her parents, now they're in her crosshairs. At a young age, Donatella Dabria, was left to cope with the death of her parents at the hands of a criminal organization. Now, as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, she has both the training and the tools at her disposal to bring the organization to her brand of justice. While tracking a homicidal couple causing havoc across The Tar Heel State, Donatella receives a clue that the person directly responsible for her parents demise has arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina. Can she track and capture this cold-blooded killer, or will he strike again right under her nose? Last Warning is the prequel to Driftwood Springs, the first novel in the Donatella Series. If you like a strong heroine with a take no nonsense attitude and the hand-to-hand combat skills to back it up, then you’ll love this fast-paced short story by Demetrius Jackson. Buy Last Warning and discover how everyone’s favorite Special Agent began her FBI career.
The Shadow of Malabron
When Will, a rebellious teen, stumbles from the present into the realm where stories come from, he learns he has a mission concerning the evil Malabron and, aided by some of the story folk, he faces a host of perils while seeking the gateless gate that will take him home.
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The Shadow and Its Shadow
The Shadow and Its Shadow is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing. The forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical re-visions of the seventh art in this anthology document Surrealism's scandalous and nonreductive take on film. Writing between 1918 and 1977, the essayists include such names as Andréeacute; Breton, Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos, Salvador Dalíiacute;, Luis Buñntilde;uel, and man Ray, as well as many of the less famous though equally fascinating figures of the movement. Paul Hammond's introduction limns the history of Surrealist cinemania, highlighting how these revolutionary poets, artists, and philosophers sifted the silt of c...
Treacherous Deceit
When a secret needs to be kept, death is the only option. The night of the North Carolina high school basketball championship game; star point guard and son of the mayor, Blaine Tucker, is found murdered. He was last seen leaving the game with his high school sweetheart, Krista Ross, who has no memory of the attack. Mayor Tucker request Special Agent Donatella Dabria lead the investigation into his son’s untimely death. What she uncovers places her squarely in the killers’ crosshairs. Can she find justice for Blaine before she becomes the next victim? Treacherous Deceit is the fourth book in the fast-paced Donatella thriller series. If you like scandalous revelations, rollercoaster action, and unstoppably strong women, then you’ll love Demetrius Jackson’s pulse-pounding page-turner. Buy Treacherous Deceit to unlock the secrets today!
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of essays by some of the foremost scholars writing in the field of contemporary American film. Through a dynamic critical analysis of the defining films of the turbulent post-9/11 decade, the volume explores and interrogates the impact of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on American cinema and culture. In a vibrant discussion of films like American Sniper (2014), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Spectre (2015), The Hateful Eight (2015), Lincoln (2012), The Mist (2007), Children of Men (2006), Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), noted authors Geoff King, Guy Westwell, John Shelton Lawrence, Ian Scott, Andrew Schopp, James Kendrick, Sean Redmond, Steffen Hantke and many others consider the power of popular film to function as a potent cultural artefact, able to both reflect the defining fears and anxieties of the tumultuous era, but also shape them in compelling and resonant ways.
