As Lieutenant Eve Dallas tracks a seductive and ruthless killer through the streets of twenty-first-century New York, she must also face brutal memories from her childhood.
Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets (Bloom's Guides)
Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, is a dark tale of a pretty yet destitute girl who struggles to emerge from a rough tenement district in New York during the Industrial Revolution.
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Batman: War Games, Act Two - Tides
The middle act of the cataclysmic story that alters Batmans world forever! In this second volume the truth behind the criminal activity is revealed, one of Batmans agents is beaten, another killed and a new player emerges on the sceneone assumed gone for good but now ready to seize control over Gothams underworld. The Dark Knight may be powerless to stop the streets from running red with blood, and the police are losing their trust in him and his colleagues.
Performativity and Performance (Essays from the English Institute)
From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what "performance" is all about. At the same moment, "performativity"--a new concept in language theory--has become a ubiquitous term in literary studies. This volume grapples with the nature of these two key terms whose traces can be found everywhere: in the theatre, in the streets, in philosophy, in questions of race and gender, and in the sentences we speak.
"Cosa Nostra" is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity. The mafia has been given many names since it was founded one hundred and forty years ago: the Sect, the Brotherhood, the Honoured Society, and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have changed, the mafia's subtle and bloody methods have remained the same.
