Author: Brea Alepoú
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781092582087
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Hot, needy, alluring... No other words can describe Clent's encounter with the devil.'Lucifer's hand tightened around him. "You can't come yet, boy. I want to play with you more." No one said getting your college degree would be easy. Clent knows that better than anyone. He has been working himself ragged for a while, so when his roommate suggests a night off, Clent is all for it. A night to party, to forget all worries, and just be free. Except that's not how Clent's night goes. Who in their right mind would try and face the devil? Clent obviously isn't in his right mind because that's exactly what he plans to do. Easier said than done. Isn't the devil suppose to be scary and hellish? So why can't Clent get Lucifer out of his head? The devil is sex on two legs and he knows it. Deals will be made and wishes granted. How do you beat the devil at his own game?
In Debt to the Devil
Author: Brea Alepoú
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781092582087
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Hot, needy, alluring... No other words can describe Clent's encounter with the devil.'Lucifer's hand tightened around him. "You can't come yet, boy. I want to play with you more." No one said getting your college degree would be easy. Clent knows that better than anyone. He has been working himself ragged for a while, so when his roommate suggests a night off, Clent is all for it. A night to party, to forget all worries, and just be free. Except that's not how Clent's night goes. Who in their right mind would try and face the devil? Clent obviously isn't in his right mind because that's exactly what he plans to do. Easier said than done. Isn't the devil suppose to be scary and hellish? So why can't Clent get Lucifer out of his head? The devil is sex on two legs and he knows it. Deals will be made and wishes granted. How do you beat the devil at his own game?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781092582087
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Hot, needy, alluring... No other words can describe Clent's encounter with the devil.'Lucifer's hand tightened around him. "You can't come yet, boy. I want to play with you more." No one said getting your college degree would be easy. Clent knows that better than anyone. He has been working himself ragged for a while, so when his roommate suggests a night off, Clent is all for it. A night to party, to forget all worries, and just be free. Except that's not how Clent's night goes. Who in their right mind would try and face the devil? Clent obviously isn't in his right mind because that's exactly what he plans to do. Easier said than done. Isn't the devil suppose to be scary and hellish? So why can't Clent get Lucifer out of his head? The devil is sex on two legs and he knows it. Deals will be made and wishes granted. How do you beat the devil at his own game?
Post Cinematic Affect
Author: Steven Shaviro
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1846944317
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies, together with economic globalization and the financialization of more and more human activities. The 20th century was the age of film and television; these dominant media shaped and reflected our cultural sensibilities. In the 21st century, new digital media help to shape and reflect new forms of sensibility. Movies (moving image and sound works) continue to be made, but they have adopted new formal strategies, they are viewed under massively changed conditions, and they address their spectators in different ways than was the case in the 20th century. The book traces these changes, focusing on four recent moving-image works: Nick Hooker's music video for Grace Jones' song Corporate Cannibal; Olivier Assayas' movie Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento; Richard Kelly's movie Southland Tales, featuring Justin Timberlake, Dwayne Johnson, and other pop culture celebrities; and Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's Gamer.
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1846944317
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies, together with economic globalization and the financialization of more and more human activities. The 20th century was the age of film and television; these dominant media shaped and reflected our cultural sensibilities. In the 21st century, new digital media help to shape and reflect new forms of sensibility. Movies (moving image and sound works) continue to be made, but they have adopted new formal strategies, they are viewed under massively changed conditions, and they address their spectators in different ways than was the case in the 20th century. The book traces these changes, focusing on four recent moving-image works: Nick Hooker's music video for Grace Jones' song Corporate Cannibal; Olivier Assayas' movie Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento; Richard Kelly's movie Southland Tales, featuring Justin Timberlake, Dwayne Johnson, and other pop culture celebrities; and Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's Gamer.
California Demon
Author: Debra Dunbar
Publisher: Debra Dunbar
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In New Hell, only the monsters survive. Eden Alvaro is a licensed Vulture, picking through the aftermath of violence in demon-plagued LA, and fencing her finds to help support her family. But when a crooked cop reports her for a salvage she didn’t take, all hell breaks loose. Stripped of her license, Eden finds herself with a price on her head. When the mercenaries hunting her raid her home, brutalize her family and abduct one of her sisters, Eden turns to the enigmatic Bishop—a man with a reputation for violence who, for the right price, can find just about anything or anyone. With time running out to find her sister before she’s sold into slavery, Eden is determined to get her back—even if she has to slaughter her way through a gang affiliated with the traffickers and face down one of the powerful demons in control of the city. She’ll need every bit of her burgeoning magical powers to bring her sister back alive—and she’ll need to put herself in debt to Bishop. But when it comes to her family, no price is too high for Eden to pay.
Publisher: Debra Dunbar
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In New Hell, only the monsters survive. Eden Alvaro is a licensed Vulture, picking through the aftermath of violence in demon-plagued LA, and fencing her finds to help support her family. But when a crooked cop reports her for a salvage she didn’t take, all hell breaks loose. Stripped of her license, Eden finds herself with a price on her head. When the mercenaries hunting her raid her home, brutalize her family and abduct one of her sisters, Eden turns to the enigmatic Bishop—a man with a reputation for violence who, for the right price, can find just about anything or anyone. With time running out to find her sister before she’s sold into slavery, Eden is determined to get her back—even if she has to slaughter her way through a gang affiliated with the traffickers and face down one of the powerful demons in control of the city. She’ll need every bit of her burgeoning magical powers to bring her sister back alive—and she’ll need to put herself in debt to Bishop. But when it comes to her family, no price is too high for Eden to pay.
Drake
Author: Peter McLean
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 085766512X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A hitman navigates a seedy London shot through with dark magic, demons, and angels in this wickedly hilarious urban fantasy series debut Meet Don Drake: a profane, alcoholic hitman . . . and summoner of demons. Drake owes a gambling debt to one such demon. Forced to carry out one more assassination to clear his debt, Don unwittingly kills an innocent child and brings the Furies of Greek myth down upon himself. Rescued by an almost-fallen angel called Trixie, Don and his magical accomplice, The Burned Man—an imprisoned archdemon—are forced to deal with Lucifer himself whilst battling a powerful evil magician. Now Don must foil Lucifer’s plan to complete Trixie’s fall and save her soul whilst preventing the Burned Man from escaping and wreaking havoc on the entire world. “What connects [Raymond] Chandler, Guy Ritchie, Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer? ‘Not much’ is probably the answer, until now. A punchy debut novel.” —SFX Magazine
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 085766512X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A hitman navigates a seedy London shot through with dark magic, demons, and angels in this wickedly hilarious urban fantasy series debut Meet Don Drake: a profane, alcoholic hitman . . . and summoner of demons. Drake owes a gambling debt to one such demon. Forced to carry out one more assassination to clear his debt, Don unwittingly kills an innocent child and brings the Furies of Greek myth down upon himself. Rescued by an almost-fallen angel called Trixie, Don and his magical accomplice, The Burned Man—an imprisoned archdemon—are forced to deal with Lucifer himself whilst battling a powerful evil magician. Now Don must foil Lucifer’s plan to complete Trixie’s fall and save her soul whilst preventing the Burned Man from escaping and wreaking havoc on the entire world. “What connects [Raymond] Chandler, Guy Ritchie, Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer? ‘Not much’ is probably the answer, until now. A punchy debut novel.” —SFX Magazine
Between Debt and the Devil
Author: Adair Turner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691175985
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woes Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn’t happen because banks are too big to fail—our addiction to private debt is to blame. Between Debt and the Devil challenges the belief that we need credit growth to fuel economic growth, and that rising debt is okay as long as inflation remains low. In fact, most credit is not needed for economic growth—but it drives real estate booms and busts and leads to financial crisis and depression. Turner explains why public policy needs to manage the growth and allocation of credit creation, and why debt needs to be taxed as a form of economic pollution. Banks need far more capital, real estate lending must be restricted, and we need to tackle inequality and mitigate the relentless rise of real estate prices. Turner also debunks the big myth about fiat money—the erroneous notion that printing money will lead to harmful inflation. To escape the mess created by past policy errors, we sometimes need to monetize government debt and finance fiscal deficits with central-bank money. Between Debt and the Devil shows why we need to reject the assumptions that private credit is essential to growth and fiat money is inevitably dangerous. Each has its advantages, and each creates risks that public policy must consciously balance.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691175985
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woes Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn’t happen because banks are too big to fail—our addiction to private debt is to blame. Between Debt and the Devil challenges the belief that we need credit growth to fuel economic growth, and that rising debt is okay as long as inflation remains low. In fact, most credit is not needed for economic growth—but it drives real estate booms and busts and leads to financial crisis and depression. Turner explains why public policy needs to manage the growth and allocation of credit creation, and why debt needs to be taxed as a form of economic pollution. Banks need far more capital, real estate lending must be restricted, and we need to tackle inequality and mitigate the relentless rise of real estate prices. Turner also debunks the big myth about fiat money—the erroneous notion that printing money will lead to harmful inflation. To escape the mess created by past policy errors, we sometimes need to monetize government debt and finance fiscal deficits with central-bank money. Between Debt and the Devil shows why we need to reject the assumptions that private credit is essential to growth and fiat money is inevitably dangerous. Each has its advantages, and each creates risks that public policy must consciously balance.
Payback
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887848001
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Explores debt as a central historical component of religion, literature, and societal structure, while examining the idea of humanity's debt to the natural world.
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887848001
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Explores debt as a central historical component of religion, literature, and societal structure, while examining the idea of humanity's debt to the natural world.
Revenge Capitalism
Author: Max Haiven
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780745340562
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Capitalism has become a system of economic revenge, meted out against oppressed populations around the globe.
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780745340562
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Capitalism has become a system of economic revenge, meted out against oppressed populations around the globe.
Demon's Gate
Author: Steve White
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618244175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
If the Demon Gate is Opened, Nothing Can Ever Close it Again . . . Valdar, heir to the throne of Dhulon, was in the fabled city-state of Schaerisa to pay his kingdom's respects to the recently deceased co-emperor. But then he ran into his old mentor, the sorcerer Nyrthim-who was supposed to be dead. The sorcerer's death had been faked so that he could be free to investigate tales that demons, once banished, were returning to the world. And unfortunately, the tales understated the danger. Once demons ranging from deadly imps to evil demigods had ruled the world. They had been cast out and confined to the nether world only with powerful sorcery, using spells long lost. Now someone is trying to summon the most powerful-and unspeakably dangerous-of these accursed creatures back to the world of men, hoping to conquer it through them. And unless Valdar and his companions at arms can thwart the plan, creatures evil beyond all human conception will return to rule the world. And this time, nothing will drive them back into the darkness. Instead darkness will rule the world forever . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618244175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
If the Demon Gate is Opened, Nothing Can Ever Close it Again . . . Valdar, heir to the throne of Dhulon, was in the fabled city-state of Schaerisa to pay his kingdom's respects to the recently deceased co-emperor. But then he ran into his old mentor, the sorcerer Nyrthim-who was supposed to be dead. The sorcerer's death had been faked so that he could be free to investigate tales that demons, once banished, were returning to the world. And unfortunately, the tales understated the danger. Once demons ranging from deadly imps to evil demigods had ruled the world. They had been cast out and confined to the nether world only with powerful sorcery, using spells long lost. Now someone is trying to summon the most powerful-and unspeakably dangerous-of these accursed creatures back to the world of men, hoping to conquer it through them. And unless Valdar and his companions at arms can thwart the plan, creatures evil beyond all human conception will return to rule the world. And this time, nothing will drive them back into the darkness. Instead darkness will rule the world forever . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
The Debt
Author: Tyler King
Publisher: Forever Yours
ISBN: 145556866X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
"Raw and intense, The Debt had me enthralled from the first chapter. An impressive and addictive debut!" - Leisa Rayven, author of Bad Romeo and Broken Juliet Hadley saved my life . . . and I ruined hers Hadley's my best friend. We share a house, our friends, a life. She knows all my secrets . . . except one. My desperate need for her is inked on my body, it's the best I can do. But Hadley needs to hear the words . . . Growing up as foster kids, Hadley made me feel whole-sane. And what did I do? I destroyed our chance to be together. I ran out on Hadley when I should have stayed, and something broke between us. Now I'll do anything to fix it. I'll never leave her again. I won't ever let her feel afraid again. But the more I try to protect her from my pain, the more I just make things worse. I'm terrified that if I tell her everything, she'll never forgive me. I'm even more terrified that it may be too late to make her mine. I have to try to give her what she needs . . . it's a debt I'm determined to repay.
Publisher: Forever Yours
ISBN: 145556866X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
"Raw and intense, The Debt had me enthralled from the first chapter. An impressive and addictive debut!" - Leisa Rayven, author of Bad Romeo and Broken Juliet Hadley saved my life . . . and I ruined hers Hadley's my best friend. We share a house, our friends, a life. She knows all my secrets . . . except one. My desperate need for her is inked on my body, it's the best I can do. But Hadley needs to hear the words . . . Growing up as foster kids, Hadley made me feel whole-sane. And what did I do? I destroyed our chance to be together. I ran out on Hadley when I should have stayed, and something broke between us. Now I'll do anything to fix it. I'll never leave her again. I won't ever let her feel afraid again. But the more I try to protect her from my pain, the more I just make things worse. I'm terrified that if I tell her everything, she'll never forgive me. I'm even more terrified that it may be too late to make her mine. I have to try to give her what she needs . . . it's a debt I'm determined to repay.
Dark Debts
Author: Karen Hall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150110411X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"When Randa, a reporter for an alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, receives an urgent phone call from her estranged lover, Cam, she rushes to his apartment. She arrives to discover that he's leapt from the building to his death. Police believe that before committing suicide, Cam also murdered someone in a convenience store, but Randa does not believe Cam is capable of such an act. She seeks out Cam's brother, Jack, who is living off the grid, somewhere near Atlanta, in hope of figuring out what really happened. Meanwhile, a Jesuit priest named Michael Kinney has been exiled from New York City to the boondocks of Georgia after making controversial public statements. He has said things that educated people of faith are not supposed to express. Even more problematically, he has fallen in love with a woman, and the last surviving member of his family has kept a shocking family secret"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150110411X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"When Randa, a reporter for an alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, receives an urgent phone call from her estranged lover, Cam, she rushes to his apartment. She arrives to discover that he's leapt from the building to his death. Police believe that before committing suicide, Cam also murdered someone in a convenience store, but Randa does not believe Cam is capable of such an act. She seeks out Cam's brother, Jack, who is living off the grid, somewhere near Atlanta, in hope of figuring out what really happened. Meanwhile, a Jesuit priest named Michael Kinney has been exiled from New York City to the boondocks of Georgia after making controversial public statements. He has said things that educated people of faith are not supposed to express. Even more problematically, he has fallen in love with a woman, and the last surviving member of his family has kept a shocking family secret"--