The Strain

Author: Guillermo Del Toro
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061558249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 615

Book Description
In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world. At New York's JFK Airport an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane . . . and what he finds makes his blood run cold. A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like an all-consuming wildfire—lethal, merciless, hungry . . . vampiric. And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here . . .

The Strain: Mister Quinlan--Vampire Hunter

Author: David Lapham
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506701604
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
Mr. Quinlan, a product of a hellish vampiric ritual gone wrong, seeks to destroy the Master, the powerful vampire who sired him. After he is forced into hiding in the ancient Roman hillsides, he is captured and raised in the arenas as a gladiator. Winning his freedom as a champion against the will of the emperor, Mr. Quinlan is smuggled to Africa to battle foreign hordes. He must survive long enough to carry out his mission--but then his target begins hunting him. Acclaimed comics writer David Lapham traces the dark origin tale of the popular character from the television series The Strain. This volume collects issues #1-#5 of The Strain: Mr. Quinlan.

The Art of the Strain

Author: Robert Abele
Publisher: Insight Editions
ISBN: 9781608874750
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discover the incredible art behind Guillermo del Toro’s much anticipated TV series The Strain, FX and cable television's newest #1 television series. Based on Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s best-selling book trilogy, The Strain is a high-concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with all the hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers battle to control the fate of humanity itself. The Art of The Strain will delve into the amazing design work that went into creating this chilling TV series, including del Toro’s own designs for the menacing beings that pose a threat to humanity’s survival. The book will also feature interviews with key members of the cast and crew and tell the full story of this unique production. Filled with stunning concept art and candid behind-the-scenes imagery, The Art of The Strain will be the perfect accompaniment to this year’s most exciting new television show.

The Fall

Author: Guillermo del Toro
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062011596
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
“A cross between The Hot Zone and ’Salem’s Lot.” —Entertainment Weekly “I cannot wait to see where Del Toro and Hogan take us next.” —James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of Bloodline The wait is over! Guillermo del Toro, one of Hollywood’s most popular and imaginative storytellers (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) and Hammett Award-winning thriller writer Chuck Hogan (Prince of Thieves) return with The Fall—the second blood-chilling volume in their critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling Strain Trilogy. The Fall picks up where The Strain left off—with a vampiric infection spreading like wildfire across America as a small band of heroes struggles to save the dwindling human race from the vampire plague. Horror fiction and dark fantasy fans will be swept up in this epic story that bestselling author Nelson DeMille describes as “Bram Stoker meets Stephen King meets Michael Crichton.”

The Night Eternal

Author: Guillermo del Toro
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007328621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
The nail-biting vampire thriller from the world-famous director of Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy.

The Andromeda Strain

Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307816419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a captivating thriller about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism, which threatens to annihilate human life. Five prominent biophysicists have warned the United States government that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, a probe satellite falls to the earth and lands in a desolate region of northeastern Arizona. Nearby, in the town of Piedmont, bodies lie heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise. What could cause such shock and fear? The terror has begun, and there is no telling where it will end.

Feeling the Strain

Author: Jill Kirby
Publisher: Social Histories of Medicine
ISBN: 9781526123299
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.

Under the Strain of Color

Author: Gabriel N. Mendes
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501701398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
In Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures the history of Harlem's Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, a New York City institution that embodied new ways of thinking about mental health, race, and the substance of citizenship. The result of a collaboration among the psychiatrist and social critic Dr. Fredric Wertham, the writer Richard Wright, and the clergyman Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, the clinic emerged in the context of a widespread American concern with the mental health of its citizens. Mendes shows the clinic to have been simultaneously a scientific and political gambit, challenging both a racist mental health care system and supposedly color-blind psychiatrists who failed to consider the consequences of oppression in their assessment and treatment of African American patients. Employing the methods of oral history, archival research, textual analysis, and critical race philosophy, Under the Strain of Color contributes to a growing body of scholarship that highlights the interlocking relationships among biomedicine, institutional racism, structural violence, and community health activism.

The Omega Strain (The first FREE book in the addictive action thriller series)

Author: Steve P. Vincent
Publisher: Steve P. Vincent
ISBN: 0648055434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
Enjoy this free explosive, pulse-pounding action thriller series by USA Today Bestselling author Steve P. Vincent… A simple mission gone wrong Mitch Herron's business is death and business is good. An assassin without equal, Herron is sent on missions around the world by his shadowy employers, where he cuts down his targets with no second thoughts. His latest mission: eradicate a group of terrorists hell-bent on cleansing the planet with a highly virulent biological weapon. But the latest job is no walk in the park, because Herron is captured and turned into a deadly weapon of a different kind... A desperate battle to stop a catastrophe With only days before he's used to help spread the most lethal contagion in human history, Herron knows he might be the only person able to hunt down the fanatics and stop their attack. But to foil the conspiracy, Herron will have to disobey his training and his employers, putting a target on his own back. As he chases the terrorists across America, action is never far away, and failure will mean death for more than just himself. The clock is ticking.... All thriller, no filler! If you like David Archer’s Noah Wolf series, Mark Dawson’s John Milton series, or Steven Konkoly’s Black Flag series, you’ll love the addictive Mitch Herron action thriller series. Start the series now with this FREE book!

The Strain Makers - The Art of Breeding Long Distance Pigeons

Author: Old Hand
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447482476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
This antiquarian volume contains a complete guide to breeding pigeons, and includes information on strains, pedigee breeding, eggs, selection, cross-breeding, and much more. Written in clear, plain language and full of handy tips and useful information, this timeless text will be of considerable utility to the modern breeder, and would make for a wonderful addition to collections of related literature. The chapters of this book include: 'A Tribute to the Novice Fancier', 'Male and Female Strains', 'The Problem of Inbreeding', 'Starting a Strain', 'The Male Strain', 'The Mysterious 'Nicking Factor'', 'The Producer Hen', 'Classic Pedigree Breeding', 'Perfection of the Egg', 'The Female Line', etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are becoming increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a new introduction on pigeons.