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Award-winning writer and co-founder of Hard Case Crime Charles
Ardai returns to the Gun Honey universe in this action-packed
spin-off featuring the sultry and explosive artwork of Ace
Continuado! Dahlia Racers is a fiery redhead who, when someone's
gunning for you, will take the heat on herself - for a price. As a
master of disguise and deception, she uses every trick to dupe
those who want you captured or dead. But will a new job taking Gun
Honey Joanna Tan's place in the crosshairs turn out to be too hot
to handle? Marked for death by a U.S. intelligence agency, Gun
Honey Joanna Tan turns to Dahlia Racers to help her pull a
vanishing act.
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Death Comes Too Late
Charles Ardai
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R277
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From the award-winning author, who Stephen King called “a master
of the short story†comes this unforgettable 20th-anniversary
celebration of Hard Case Crime. Taking you from Brazil
at Carnival to Times Square at midnight and from Tijuana,
Mexico to ancient China, exploring the dark heart of crime in the
tradition of Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, and Graham Greene.
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME – 20 UNFORGETTABLE
STORIES BY HARD CASE CRIME FOUNDER CHARLES ARDAI Since debuting 20
years ago, Hard Case Crime has won acclaim for publishing the best
in hardboiled crime fiction – not least of all the work of
founding editor Charles Ardai, which has won the Edgar, Shamus and
Ellery Queen Awards, been selected for ‘Best of the Year’
anthologies, and earned praise from publications like
the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune and
authors ranging from James Crumley and
George Pelecanos to Megan Abbott and Stephen
King.Collected here for the first time anywhere are the author’s
20 finest stories, including his Edgar-winning “The Home
Front,†about death and repentance during World War II; the
Shamus Award finalist “Nobody Wins,†about a brutal gangland
enforcer searching for the woman he loves; and year’s-best
selections such as “A Bar Called Charley’s,†about a
traveling salesman’s most grueling night on the road. From Brazil
at Carnival to Times Square, from Tijuana, Mexico to
history’s first gunshot in 11th-century China, Ardai will take
you to some of the most dangerous places in the world – and the
darkest corners of the human heart.
Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne
Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool
Britannia and the discourse which often encases the period by
repositioning this phenomenon through an ethnic minority
perspective. In March 1997, the front page of the magazine Vanity
Fair announced 'London Swings! Again!' This headline was a direct
reference to the swinging London of the 1960s - the English capital
which became the era-defining epicentre of the world for its
burgeoning rock and pop music scene, with its daring new youth
culture, and the boutique fashion houses of Carnaby Street captured
most indelibly by the Mods, Rockers, and psychedelic hippies of the
time. In the 1990s this renewed interest in the swinging 60s seemed
to reinvigorate popular culture, after a global period in the 1980s
which would see the collapse of traditional communism and the
ending of Cold War, while ushering in the beginnings of a new
technological age spearheaded by Apple, Microsoft, and IBM. The
dawn of the 1990s meant that peace and love would once again reign
supreme, with Britannia being at the forefront of 'cool' again.
Godfathers of the Mancunian Rock scene New Order would declare
'Love had the world in motion' and, for a fleeting period, Britain
was about to encounter its second coming as the cultural epicentre
of the world. Although history proffers a period of utopia,
inclusion, and cultural integration, the narrative alters
considerably when exploring this euphoric period through a
discriminatory and racialised lens. This book repositions the
ethnic minority-lived experience during the 1990s from the societal
and political margins to the centre. The lexicon explored here
attempts to provide an altogether different discourse that allows
us to reflect on seminal and racially discriminatory episodes
during the 1990s that subsequently illuminated the systemic racism
sustained by the state. The Cool Britannia years become a
metaphoric reference point for presenting a Britain that was
culturally splintered in many ways. This book utilises storytelling
and auto-ethnography as an instrument to unpack the historical
amnesia that ensues when unpacking the racialised plights of the
time.
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Gun Honey (Paperback)
Charles Ardai; Illustrated by Ang Hor Kheng
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R375
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AWARD WINNER CHARLES ARDAI, CO-FOUNDER OF HARD CASE CRIME, BRINGS
HIS NOIR EXPERTISE TO THE FORE IN HIS DEBUT GRAPHIC NOVEL ABOUT A
SEXY WEAPONS SMUGGLER. Fans of pulp noir and crime writers like Ed
Brubaker and Max Allan Collins will want to sink their teeth into
this salacious and super-charged thriller. She'll get you the
weapon you need, when you need it, where you need it - no matter
how impossible. But when a gun smuggled into a high-security prison
leads to the death of dozens and the escape of a brutal criminal,
Joanna Tan is suddenly forced by the U.S. government to do a job
for them: find the man she set loose and bring him down. Features
bonus material including the story of the real Gun Honey and much
more!
Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne
Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool
Britannia and the discourse which often encases the period by
repositioning this phenomenon through an ethnic minority
perspective. In March 1997, the front page of the magazine Vanity
Fair announced 'London Swings! Again!' This headline was a direct
reference to the swinging London of the 1960s - the English capital
which became the era-defining epicentre of the world for its
burgeoning rock and pop music scene, with its daring new youth
culture, and the boutique fashion houses of Carnaby Street captured
most indelibly by the Mods, Rockers, and psychedelic hippies of the
time. In the 1990s this renewed interest in the swinging 60s seemed
to reinvigorate popular culture, after a global period in the 1980s
which would see the collapse of traditional communism and the
ending of Cold War, while ushering in the beginnings of a new
technological age spearheaded by Apple, Microsoft, and IBM. The
dawn of the 1990s meant that peace and love would once again reign
supreme, with Britannia being at the forefront of 'cool' again.
Godfathers of the Mancunian Rock scene New Order would declare
'Love had the world in motion' and, for a fleeting period, Britain
was about to encounter its second coming as the cultural epicentre
of the world. Although history proffers a period of utopia,
inclusion, and cultural integration, the narrative alters
considerably when exploring this euphoric period through a
discriminatory and racialised lens. This book repositions the
ethnic minority-lived experience during the 1990s from the societal
and political margins to the centre. The lexicon explored here
attempts to provide an altogether different discourse that allows
us to reflect on seminal and racially discriminatory episodes
during the 1990s that subsequently illuminated the systemic racism
sustained by the state. The Cool Britannia years become a
metaphoric reference point for presenting a Britain that was
culturally splintered in many ways. This book utilises storytelling
and auto-ethnography as an instrument to unpack the historical
amnesia that ensues when unpacking the racialised plights of the
time.
The book comes from an evaluation of findings after more than
twenty eight years of political review and lawful study;
investigation and determining facts of law; and, of actual events
and of unlawful actions by the Federal United States Government;
its deceptive and fraudulent claim over a foreign, sovereign and
"neutral" nation; actual evidence of misleading legal documents of
false claim for a Statehood in the American Union of States that
does not lawfully exist and that can never exist. It is a
revelation of past historical events with supporting documentation
revealing to a new generation of Americans and Hawaiian Citizens on
how they have lost their birth names and birthrights, as well as
their Citizenship as "Private Citizens" within their respective
nations. How they have been deviously removed from their birth
State's Constitutions and "State's common-law" and their National
Constitutions (of the American Republic of States and of the
Hawaiian Kingdom) to a lesser Washington D. C. "Federal Emancipated
Slave citizenship" (14th Amendment) under Article 1 Section 8 of
that very same Constitution of the American Republic and its Union
of States.
In many climates buildings are unable to provide comfort conditions
for year-round occupancy without the benefit of a heating system,
and most HVAC engineers will routinely be involved with issues
concerning the design, installation and performance of such
systems. Furthermore, in temperate climates, heating of buildings
accounts for a large slice of annual carbon emissions. The design
of heating systems for maximum efficiency and minimum carbon
emission is therefore now a matter of prime concern to all HVAC
engineers.
The book provides an up-to-date review of the design,
engineering and control of modern heating systems. Part A deals
with heat generating plant. While this concentrates on conventional
and condensing boilers, small-scale combined heat and power systems
and heat pumps are also discussed. Part B deals with heat emitters,
pipe circuits and variable-speed pumping, hot water service,
optimum plant size and the vital issues of plant and system
control, including sequence control of multiple boilers. Techniques
for managing the energy use and running costs of heating systems
are also discussed.
The authors have brought together over a half-century of
combined experience covering all aspects of the building services
Industry to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive text that is
both technically rigorous yet highly practical. This makes the book
equally relevant to the busy HVAC engineer looking for a handy
practical reference, the student looking to build on their basic
knowledge or the researcher interested in key issues of heating
system design and performance.
By the time Richard Stark sat down to write "Deadly Edge" in 1971,
he'd been chronicling the adventures of his antihero, Parker, for
nearly a decade. But it turns out he was just warming up: the next
three "Parker" novels would see Stark crank everything up a notch -
tightening the writing, heightening the violence, and, most of all,
hardening the deadly heister at the books' heart. "Deadly Edge"
kicks things off by bidding a brutal adieu to the 1960s: Parker
robs a rock concert, but the heist goes sour, and he finds himself
- and his woman, Claire - menaced by a pair of sadistic,
drug-crazed hippies. Slayground turns the hunter into prey, as
Parker gets trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a
bevy of local mobsters. He's low on bullets - but, as anyone who's
crossed his path knows, that definitely doesn't mean he's
defenseless. Finally, in Plunder Squad, job after job disintegrates
into failure and violence, and a rare act of mercy from earlier in
the series comes back to bite Parker - hard. These books by Stark
reveal a master craftsman working at the height of his powers, and
they deserve a place on the bookshelf of every fan of crime
fiction.
This book reveals the roots of structural racism that limit social
mobility and equality within Britain for Black and ethnicised
students and academics in its inherently white Higher Education
institutions. It brings together both established and emerging
scholars in the fields of Race and Education to explore what
institutional racism in British Higher Education looks like in
colour-blind 'post-race' times, when racism is deemed to be 'off
the political agenda'. Keeping pace with our rapidly changing
global universities, this edited collection asks difficult and
challenging questions, including why black academics leave the
system; why the curriculum is still white; how elite universities
reproduce race privilege; and how Black, Muslim and Gypsy traveller
students are disadvantaged and excluded. The book also discusses
why British racial equality legislation has failed to address
racism, and explores what the Black student movement is doing about
this. As the authors powerfully argue, it is only by dismantling
the invisible architecture of post-colonial white privilege that
the 21st century struggle for a truly decolonised academy can
begin. This collection will be essential reading for students and
academics working in the fields of Education, Sociology, and Race.
This book provides a forensic and collective examination of
pre-existing understandings of structural inequalities in Higher
Education Institutions. Going beyond the current understandings of
causal factors that promote inequality, the editors and
contributors illuminate the dynamic interplay between historical
events and discourse and more sophisticate and racialized acts of
violence. In doing so, the book crystallises myriad contemporary
manifestations of structural racism in higher education. Amidst an
upsurge in racialized violence, civil unrest, and barriers to
attainment, progression and success for students and staff of
colour, doing equity and diversity for success in higher education
has become both politically urgent and morally imperative. This
book calls for a redistribution of power across intersectional and
racial lines as a means of decentering whiteness and redressing
structural inequalities in the academy. It is essential reading for
scholars of sociology and education, as well as those interested in
equality and social justice.
This book provides a forensic and collective examination of
pre-existing understandings of structural inequalities in Higher
Education Institutions. Going beyond the current understandings of
causal factors that promote inequality, the editors and
contributors illuminate the dynamic interplay between historical
events and discourse and more sophisticate and racialized acts of
violence. In doing so, the book crystallises myriad contemporary
manifestations of structural racism in higher education. Amidst an
upsurge in racialized violence, civil unrest, and barriers to
attainment, progression and success for students and staff of
colour, doing equity and diversity for success in higher education
has become both politically urgent and morally imperative. This
book calls for a redistribution of power across intersectional and
racial lines as a means of decentering whiteness and redressing
structural inequalities in the academy. It is essential reading for
scholars of sociology and education, as well as those interested in
equality and social justice.
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