Author: W. Scott Poole Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1619022885 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 304
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Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of military history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature. From Nosferatu to Frankenstein’s monster, from Fritz Lang to James Whale, the touchstones of horror can all trace their roots to the bloodshed of the First World War. Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of military history, technology, and art in the wake of World War I to show how overwhelming carnage gave birth to a wholly new art form: modern horror films and literature. "Thoroughly engrossing cultural study . . . Poole persuasively argues that the birth of horror as a genre is rooted in the unprecedented destruction and carnage of WWI." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author: KM Merritt Publisher: Blue Fyre Press ISBN: 1951009266 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 308
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It's time to finish the fight... Vola, Sorrel, Lillie, and Talon know their enemy now. And it's time to take the fight to Anders. But they're going to need some help if they're going to keep him from sucking all the magic out of the world. This is a war for everyone. But why would anyone work together when they can fight among themselves? Vola has her work cut out for her to keep the peace between all their allies when no one wants to listen to a black paladin. And the worst culprits are the gods. Anders has already proved he can drain the Virtues themselves but none of them are willing to give up their own autonomy to meet the threat. Vola is convinced a unified and healthy pantheon is the key to beating Anders, but even the Broken doubts it's possible. And how do you fix a broken goddess?
Author: Douglas Bond Publisher: Inkblots Press ISBN: 9781945062001 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Nigel Hopkins finds himself in the trenches of World War I under the command of a teenage atheist, Second Lieutenant C.S Lewis. Nigel and his war dog must learn the source of true courage while facing a desperate enemy in No Man's Land in the final offensive of the war. Meanwhile, underage WAAC Elsie Fleming, working at the field hospital in Etaples, will have her idealism about war challenged by brutal realities she sees in the broken men who return from the front and the many who never return.
Author: Corban Addison Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0593315324 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 465
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"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John Grisham The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the world’s most powerful companies—and, miraculously, they won. As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight. There is Elsie Herring, the most outspoken of the neighbors, who has endured racial slurs and the threat of a restraining order to tell the story of the waste raining down on her rooftop from the hog operation next door. There is Don Webb, a larger-than-life hog farmer turned grassroots crusader, and Rick Dove, a riverkeeper and erstwhile military judge who has pioneered the use of aerial photography to document the scale of the pollution. There is Woodell McGowan, a quiet man whose quest to redeem his family’s ancestral land encourages him to become a better neighbor, and Dr. Steve Wing, a groundbreaking epidemiologist whose work on the health effects of hog waste exposure translates the neighbors’ stories into the argot of science. And there is Tom Butler, an environmental savant and hog industry insider whose whistleblowing testimony electrifies the jury. Fighting alongside them in the courtroom is Mona Lisa Wallace, who broke the gender barrier in her small southern town and built a storied legal career out of vanquishing corporate giants, and Mike Kaeske, whose trial skills are second to none. With journalistic rigor and a novelist’s instinct for story, Corban Addison's Wastelands captures the inspiring struggle to bring a modern-day monopoly to its knees, to force a once-invincible corporation to change, and to preserve the rights—and restore the heritage—of a long-suffering community.
Author: Eirik Saethre Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 0520368517 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 251
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Wastelands is an exploration of trash, the scavengers who collect it, and the precarious communities it sustains. After enduring war and persecution in Kosovo, many Ashkali refugees fled to Belgrade, Serbia, where they were stigmatized as Gypsies, consigned to slums, sidelined from the economy, and subjected to violence. To survive, Ashkali collect the only resource available to them: garbage. Vividly recounting everyday life in an illegal Romani settlement, Eirik Saethre follows Ashkali as they scavenge through dumpsters, build shacks, siphon electricity, negotiate the recycling trade, and migrate between Belgrade, Kosovo, and the European Union. He argues that trash is not just a means of survival: it reinforces the status of Ashkali and Roma as polluted Others, creates indissoluble bonds to transnational capitalism, enfeebles bodies, and establishes a localized sovereignty.
Author: Modiphius Publisher: Modiphius ISBN: 9781912743278 Category : Fallout (Game) Languages : en Pages : 137
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The Fallout: Wasteland Warfare roleplaying game builds on the narrative wargame experience of the tabletop miniatures game and will include new rules for character creation and creating adventures in the wasteland. Delve into abandoned Vaults, ruined cities, strange facilities, and antiquated military bases. Encounter Super Mutants, Raiders, Survivors, Vault Dwellers, the Brotherhood of Steel, the Institute and the Enclave, and many more! Will you roam wide and far, or build up and protect your settlement? For those who want to create your own unique characters or use the faction based Archetype cards to start your own hero and see them grow from adventure to adventure. Includes: Complete rules for tabletop roleplaying in the wasteland, based on the popular Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniatures game. Full rules for character creation, archetypes and original player ideas alongside existing characters from the Fallout universe. Packed with lots of full colour photographic scenes of the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare range to inspire your adventures! Interact with familiar characters and creatures drawn from the world of Fallout. Background on the locations and factions that players can encounter. 3 free adventures in a linked campaign or for use as one-shot missions to support GM's. Guidance for players to build their settlement as a base of operations. Advice and tools to help GM's create and run exciting new adventures in the Fallout universe. Every copy of the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare Roleplaying Game Expansion will come with a printed code to get you a set of free downloadable files: PDF copy of the rulebook, Character cards from Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, Weapon cards from Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, Character Archetype cards, Character Playmat. Can be played as a standalone product using free downloadable cards and a set of the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare Dice (MUH051279) sold separately. Made in the UK.
Author: J.A. Guy Jr Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1387796704 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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In the post nuclear war era, the United States of America is torn into multiple regions, colonies, and groups. There are collective forces sworn to revive America and protect her against all enemies foreign and domestic. In rebellion, are those non-collaborative alliances attempting to create a new world of their own by destroying what's left of the old. The Regional Revolutionists are the strongest non-collaborative alliance inside American territory. The post war created a civil war between multiple aggressors. All claiming the land for themselves and attempting to begin a civilization with their own rules, ignoring the laws and formation of the American country they resided in prior to the war. The War for the Wasteland has begun. *This book contains explicit content*
Author: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262632041 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 700
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A handbook for scholars, students, policy makers, journalists, and peace and environmental activists.A handbook for scholars, students, policy makers, journalists, and peace and environmental activists, Nuclear Wastelands provides concise histories of the development of nuclear weapons programs of every declared and de facto nuclear weapons power, as well as detailed surveys of the health and environmental effects of this development both in these countries and in non-nuclear nations involved in nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining. Among the more obvious but largely deferred costs of the Cold War are those related to the management of radioactive waste. The world is burdened with thousands of unwanted nuclear devices and mounting surpluses of weapons-grade plutonium and enriched uranium. In addition, the process of weapons production and testing has left many lands, aquifers, rivers, lakes, and seas contaminated by a multitude of weapons-related poisons. This book follows the production process step by step and country by country from uranium mining to the final assembly and storage of weapons, analyzing the potential hazards of each step and compiling the most complete information available on the actual health and environmental effects, in each country involved. Nuclear Wastelands includes a wealth of information that has only recently come to light, particularly on the nuclear weapons program of the former Soviet Union. It also features critical analyses of official public communications concerning the health and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons production, bringing to light governmental secrecy and outright deception that have led to the subversion of democratic principles, and have camouflaged the damage done to the very people and lands the weapons were meant to safeguard.
Author: Ed Brisson Publisher: Marvel Entertainment ISBN: 1302521985 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 112
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Collects Avengers Of The Wastelands (2020) 1-5. A new story from the world of OLD MAN LOGAN! In a future where America’s super heroes fell at the Red Skull’s hands over 50 years ago, a new force rises in the Wastelands! Dani Cage wields mighty Mjolnir for the cause of peace, but the Avengers may assemble once more when Doctor Doom’s brutal regime forces Dwight — the owner of the surviving Ant-Man technology — together with Dani and Hulk Jr. in a last-ditch effort to survive! Can they succeed where Logan left off? And what does Captain America’s return herald for the team? The Wastelands are filled with terrors: Baron Blood and his legion of vampires! The Green Goblin! The Enchantress and the Absorbing Man! But none are worse than Doom, and these neophyte Avengers are about to learn that the hard way!
Author: Matthew Quinn Publisher: ISBN: 9781713192367 Category : Languages : en Pages : 286
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"A rip-roaring post-apocalyptic adventure that will have you racing through the pages!"-Jack Conner, New York Times best-selling author of The Atomic Sea.In a desolate world where dirigibles rule the skies and blood soaks the dry earth, a young man joins the fight against a tyrant who has problems of his own.Andrew Sutter returns home from a hunting expedition to find drought-wracked Carroll Town under the thumb of a tax collector from the cannibalistic Flesh-Eating Legion. A riot becomes a battle that leaves Carroll Town in ruins and Andrew alone in the merciless Iron Desert. Saved from certain death by the riders of rebel chieftain Alonzo Merrill, Andrew finds himself fighting for their doomed cause.Meanwhile, Grendel, first lord of the Northlands and the Flesh-Eaters' ultimate master, finds his peace of conquest disintegrating as the warlords under his thumb begin battling one another. He plots a new war to reunite them as the starving Merrills launch their last, desperate offensive.And Andrew may be the one holding the key to victory...Fans of Stephen King's Dark Tower, George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s Corean Chronicles, S.M. Stirling's The Peshawar Lancers, and AMC's Into the Badlands will thrill to this fast-paced first volume of a saga of war and intrigue on a continental scale."Battle for the Wastelands is a gritty, fast-paced war story centering on the powerful concepts of revenge and leadership."--Jason Sizemore, editor of Do Not Go Quietly
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