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Special Agent Marcus Williams and serial killer Francis Ackerman Jr find themselves joining forces once again when a prison officer opens fire from his watchtower on the inmates and guards.

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Twenty four buildings and structures, including the Brooklyn Bridge, the White House, the Hotel del Coronado, and the Washington Monument are presented here, along with their roles in fiction, film, music, and the imagination of people worldwide.

Across cultures and continents and over the centuries the standards of beauty have changed but the desire to portray beauty, to praise beauty, and to possess beauty has never diminished.

The huge popularity of The Apprentice reflects the degree to which business has emerged as a primary force in popular culture. From Martha Stewart to Ben and Jerry, Bill Gates to Anita Roddick, Icons of Business offers indepth profiles of the business leaders whose names and products have become household words.

Notorious criminals have captured our imaginations for years but we don't forget, either, the many people and organizations who fight back. This title profiles the crime fighters in American history.

Horror and the supernatural have fascinated people for centuries, and many of the most central figures appear over and over again.

Biographical essays engagingly tell the story behind the icon, with background including family and education, career trajectory and highlights, and contributions and circumstances that have led to icon status.

This book provides an introduction to 24 iconic figures, real and fictional, that have shaped the detective/mystery genre of popular literature.

Among the featured: -Ray Charles -Little Richard -Fats Domino & New Orleans R&B -Ruth Brown -Sam Cooke -Etta James -James Brown -Aretha Franklin -The Supremes -Otis Redding -Ike & Tina Turner -Curtis Mayfield -Berry Gordy -Stevie Wonder -Marvin Gaye -Smokey Robinson -The Temptations -Prince

Presents the stories of 24 of the most influential and representative Western icons - those that have captured the nation's imagination since the early days of westward exploration. This two-set volume elevates the reader's understanding of oft-romanticized subjects and the conflicts and cultural changes that made them icons.

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Drawing from over 100 interviews, Identical Twins explores the unique status of twinship and how it can affect personal and familial relationships with siblings, romantic partners, and friends.

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Identities on Trial in the United States radically shifts the asylum seeker narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and Southeast Asia. ChorSwang Ngin, with contributions from immigration attorney, Joann Yeh, explores asylum seeker cases through an anthropological and legal lens.

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Pauls Ricoeurs Lectures on Ideology and Utopia are more pertinent than ever forty years later. The chapters in this book reflect the lectures original intricacy as the authors not only insightfully analyze them but also creatively apply them.

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Introduces the concept of the illustrator as a specialist or authority on a particular subject or as an originator of either fiction and/or non-fiction material. This book focuses on illustration, education and theory, in particular the latter stages of undergraduate development and post-graduate study and research.

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This volume on imagery includes more than 3,500 citations and references pertaining to the topic, as well as more than 400 recent annotated entries in a bibliographic section, culled from some 133,000 studies on this topic that have appeared in literature.

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Hilda Llornss Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, is a ground-breaking study of imagesphotographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and filmsabout Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans made by American and Puerto Rican image-makers between 1890 and 1990.

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This study examines the conflict between two visions for Pakistan: a modern constitutional framework and an Islamist state. The author argues that Western liberal ideas were at the root of Pakistans creation, analyzes the societys drift away from its founding philosophy, and assesses optimistic indications of its revival.

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Between 1906 and 2008 seven Presidents are judged to have been mentally ill while in office: Theodore Roosevelt (bipolar disorder), Taft (breathing-related sleep disorder), Wilson (major depressive disorder), Coolidge (major depressive disorder), Hoover (major depressive disorder), Johnson (bipolar disorder), and Nixon (alcohol abuse).