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John Singleton (1968-2019) rocketed from obscurity to the top ranks of Hollywood directors in 1991, when he released his debut film Boyz N the Hood. The poignant coming-of-age story, set in the streets of south central Los Angeles, where Singleton grew up amid gang violence and hip-hop music, earned him Oscar nominations for best original screenplay and best directing. Only twenty-three at the time, he was hailed as a wunderkind and compared to the young Orson Welles. Some have credited him with the mainstreaming of hip-hop music and style in cinema. John ...
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He was never the only one. Markus Murphy's mind has been forever altered. A trained killer reprogrammed with a kinder voice added inside his head. Now he's left struggling to find some form of sanity, but when he's hunted down by other mentally modified fugitives, Murphy must throw his desire for normalcy out the window and fall back on his deadly skills. With his brain reconstructed to feel whispers of remorse, Murphy is forced into helping the CIA neutralize these relentless enemies. But as a malevolent force threatens everyone he loves, even ...
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If God could use these instruments of His grace...He can use us! Biblical characters come alive when we read, reflect, and pray with the Bible. This book, His Instruments: If God Could Use Them...He Can Use Us (Vol. 2) can help us understand the Scriptures better. While His Instruments (Vol. 1) focused on Old Testament characters, His Instruments (Vol. 2) presents an insightful look into the lives of 40 New Testament ones. Father Myladiyil brings each one alive, painting them in vivid strokes that help us to understand the challenges they faced. ...
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Sovremennaya deystvitel'nost' vydvigaet na pervyy plan teoreticheskikh issledovaniy slozhnuyu, kompleksnuyu problemu cheloveka, kotoryy yavlyaetsya tsentral'noy figuroy istoricheskogo protsessa, vystupaet svyazuyushchim zvenom mezhdu prirodoy i obshchestvom. Vysokiy uroven' nauchno-tekhnicheskogo progressa vyzval glubokie preobrazovaniya v estestvennom i sotsial'nom okruzhenii, obusloviv tem samym zametnye (ne tol'ko polozhitel'nye, no i otritsatel'nye) izmeneniya v fiziologicheskoy, psikhicheskoy i sotsial'no-psikhologicheskoy organizatsii cheloveka. V etoy ...
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Do you want to read The Call of The Wild? If so then keep reading... The Call of the Wild, considered by many London's greatest novel, is a gripping tale of a heroic dog that, thrust into the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Adventure and dog-story enthusiasts as well as students and devotees of American literature will find this classic work a thrilling, memorable reading experience. What are you waiting for The Call of The Wild is one click away, select the "Buy ...
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Der "orientalische Familientyrann", die "fügsame Dritte-Welt-Frau" oder der "exotisch-erotische" afrikanische Mann zählen zu jenen Fremdenfantasien, die in den Diskursen der Medien, der Politik - aber auch des Alltags - ihren festen Platz habe. Nur selten werden solche essentialistischen Darstellungen hinterfragt. Wie aber werden sie von Menschen interpretiert, die mit "Fremden" in einem Naheverhältnis leben - einheimische Angehörige interkultureller Partnerbeziehungen und Familien? Die Autorin Gertrud Schmutzer geht davon aus ...
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Things were supposed to be better coming west! Why? Why? Why did the Almighty One do things like this? Why was I left all alone? Katie Kurtz doesn’t know whether she wants to live or die. She finds herself completely alone, with no reason to go on living—until Michael arrives and takes her under his wing. Then there is Josh who, unbeknownst to her, wants to provide for her and protect her. His parents and little brother make her feel like a part of their family, showing her more love than she ever had from her own family. Suddenly, she finds ...
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This world is beautiful but badly broken. "I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place. It is full of conflict and darkness like every good story, a world of surprises and questions to explore. And there's someone behind it; there are uncomfortable answers to the hows and whys and whats. A visual, poetic exploration of the narrative nature of the world and the personality of the Poet behind it all.
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"In reading it I had several splendid shudders. . . . It is a piece of living literature, not merely an evening's entertainment." - E. B. Osborn, Morning Post
"A bang-up ghost-murder-detective story with a background of bleak Northumberland moors, an old house full of haunts, [and] a Roman Centurion who appears . . . with death in his wake." - Scribner's Magazine
"A well nigh perfect admixture of eerie horror, romance and good detecting." -
Saturday Review
"Truly a little masterpiece of a book. Reminiscent of Christie at the height of her ...
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2040…VENTURA CALIFORNIA : Becca Wilde, a terminally ill teenage autistic savant, senses a presence—an intelligence—in The STREAM, the virtual reality entertainment phenomenon created by her tech-billionaire father. She believes the intelligence can create a cure, but her father intends to use radical technology. They are running out of time. Then technology stops working. All of it. No Internet. No screens. Not even cars. But one thing is working—a Russian A.I. that mutated—and is now In the Wild . Becca may ...
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