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Eight highly trained but retired SAS members find their skills in
demand worldwide. Their team leader Jonnie McBride lives in
Thailand where he is contacted by billionaire Vanessa Stock, whose
twin sister has been kidnapped by a human slave trader. The high
octane story takes its reader on a journey of power, wealth, lust
and murder from America to England, Oman to Cyprus and Turkey in
order to kill the man that Jonnie McBride thought was already dead.
Fictional languages are central to numerous creative works. This
book examines such languages in a wide range of literature, films,
and television shows. Included are alphabetically arranged entries
on particular works. Many of these works are widely taught, such as
All's Well That Ends Well, Gulliver's Travels, Nineteen
Eighty-Four, and Utopia, while others are popular books, films, and
television series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cat's Cradle,
The Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars. Thus the encyclopedia helps
students understand texts central to the curriculum and popular
culture. Each entry discusses the role of imaginary languages in a
particular work. Entries range from antiquity to the present and
close with suggestions for further reading. The encyclopedia ends
with a selected bibliography and includes various helpful finding
aids. Some of the most popular creative works are appealing because
of the artificial worlds their authors create. In many of these
works, fictional languages are essential to the setting and plot,
and often help the author comment on social issues. This
encyclopedia examines fictional and fantastic languages in a broad
range of literature, films, and television shows. Each entry
discusses the features of the invented language central to the work
and relates it to the film, literary text, or television program.
Entries provide suggestions for further reading, and the
Encyclopedia closes with a selected bibliography. Because many of
the works discussed are central to the curriculum, the Encyclopedia
will help students understand these texts and the importance of
language. At the same time, the volume's coverage of popular books,
films, and television series invites students to explore more
critically those works that are most likely to interest them.
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Bets & Breakfasts
Steven Cain
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R222
Discovery Miles 2 220
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Eight highly trained but retired SAS members find their skills in
demand worldwide. Their team leader Jonnie McBride lives in
Thailand where he is contacted by billionaire Vanessa Stock, whose
twin sister has been kidnapped by a human slave trader. The high
octane story takes its reader on a journey of power, wealth, lust
and murder from America to England, Oman to Cyprus and Turkey in
order to kill the man that Jonnie McBride thought was already dead.
Having successfully rescued a group of women from the clutches of a
Turkish slave trader, Jonnie McBride returns to Thailand where he
is contacted by the CIA to carry-out a covert operation to
assassinate the leaders of the Philippines terrorist groups Abu
Sayyaf and the Muslim Islamic Liberation Front. He is informed that
the leaders intend to gather on the island of Siquijor in the
Philippines in order to join forces. McBride and a select number of
his elite team meet in Cebu before traveling to Leyte and then on
to their targets in Siquijor but fi nd the mission is compromised
by a mole within the CIA.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
A double-lunged bong hit of mid-Eighties post-punk college rock,
Gertrude Stein, art films, and the comedic legacy of Laurel and
Hardy (including such great standup teams as HD and Ezra Pound,
Jesus and Judas, and Steve McCaffery and bpNichol). Jeff Derksen
says: 'If reading is sixty-nining, then "dyslexicon" satisfies at
both ends. Stephen Cain disentangles everyday life into its
constituent emotional, intellectual, sexual and cultural parts -
people, the city, books, music - only to recombine them into a new
set of relations ... It's a sexy m-f of a book. Put it on your
turntables.'
With Canada / US relations in the proverbial toilet (American
Standard, of course), Stephen Cain's third book blenderizes 'pop'
culture, politics and poetry to befuddle the border. From the
Howl-like opening rant about the militarism of the US to the
satirical 'History of Canada,' this collection interrogates
nationalism and cultural identity on both sides of the 49th
parallel and attempts to show that Auden was wrong: poetry can make
things happen. American Standard/Canada Dry includes odes to video
games, poems culled from Viagra junk mail and CNN reports on the
war, ruminations on Canadian poets, travelogues, concrete poems,
mistranslations of bird poems, and riffs on peculiar Canadianisms,
including homophonic translations of Quebecois lyrics. Deftly
oscillating between vitriolic verse and humour, the poems in
American Standard/Canada Dry interrogate poetics, nationalism and
Tim Hortons as thoroughly as a burly border avant-guard; they're
your passport to the land of a new political poetry.
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