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The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevskys genius for fusing caricature irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour The Gambler is a breathtaking portrayal of an intense and futile obsession Based on Dostoyevskys own experience of financial desperation and the compulsive desire to win money it focuses on the characters that take their places at the gaming tables of Roulettenburg the outspoken aristocratic Grandmamma the mercenary Mademoiselle Blanche the cool mysterious Polina and Alex the authors selfportrait a man gripped by exhilaration and hopelessness Bobok is a blackly comic satire in which a desolate writer becomes drawn into the conversations of the dead and A Nasty Story is a humorous look at the disparity between a mans exaggerated ideal of himself and the sad reality
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40000 francs which lay before him in a heap of gold and banknotes Written in twentysix days to pay off Dostoyevskys own roulette debts The Gambler is a graphic psychological study of addiction accompanied here by a brilliant short story of excruciating social embarrassment Ten new titles in the colourful smallformat portable new Pocket Penguins series
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For those that marveled at his sporting glories OisÃn McConville was a winner In a career that marked him as one of the greatest and most gifted footballers of a generation his life appeared a constant triumph In all he won 11 Ulster titles and four AllIrelands for club and county picking up two AllStars and becoming the top scorer in Ulster football along the way But it was only on the pitch that winning was easy Struggling to match the excitement and noise of Gaelic football his personal life collapsed around him as he failed to fill the void of daily life Rumors began circulating in his home village about how drinking problems had led to the closure of his pub and how his attitude was illsuited to a star intercounty footballer But all missed his true failinggambling What started out as a habit soon became an overwhelming addiction and as his debts mounted football became his only sanctuary It was a place to escape from those he owed and from those trying to tempt him into further darkness McConville has managed to turn his life around with the help of his family and has kicked the gambling habit for good Now as he goes in search of one more AllIreland win with Armagh his triumph over himself is his greatest victory of all
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The leader writer and producer for 2 Live Crewa notorious badmouthed rap group wanted by censors everywheretells how the group began and how they now enjoy the fruits of their foul mouths 25000 first printing
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The leader writer and producer for 2 Live Crewa notorious badmouthed rap group wanted by censors everywheretells how the group began and how they now enjoy the fruits of their foul mouths 25000 first printing
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Some stories can killItalian director Nicolo Funellis lost film comes alive when the maven of the macabre is released after twenty years of VHS imprisonment New hire Annie Watkins preemptive obituaries at Live 5 New Orleans News seem to be killing off famous people A used delivery van causes Katie and Gavins life to take an unimaginable wrong turn into very dark territory A teen orphan with a unique ability is held captive in a secret government lab forced to submit to their whims Vacationers become a grotesque part of the Easter festivities in a small English townTune in sit back and turn up the terror with Video Nasties 16 dark tales and a television pilot script certain to keep you wide awake at night But dont touch that dial it just might kill you
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Some stories can killItalian director Nicolo Funellis lost film comes alive when the maven of the macabre is released after twenty years of VHS imprisonment New hire Annie Watkins preemptive obituaries at Live 5 New Orleans News seem to be killing off famous people A used delivery van causes Katie and Gavins life to take an unimaginable wrong turn into very dark territory A teen orphan with a unique ability is held captive in a secret government lab forced to submit to their whims Vacationers become a grotesque part of the Easter festivities in a small English townTune in sit back and turn up the terror with Video Nasties 16 dark tales and a television pilot script certain to keep you wide awake at night But dont touch that dial it just might kill you
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Now in paperback Gaming the Game delves inside the FBI investigation of illegal gambling involving former basketball NBA referee Tim Donaghy The story examines Donaghys relationships with professional gambler Jimmy Battista and Tommy Martino the intermediary between Donaghy and Battista the involvement of ItalianAmerican crime families in the scheme and the FBIs failed efforts to flip Battista into a cooperating witness
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From Wikipedia Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky Russian IPA fodr mxajlvt dstjefskj listen November 11 1821 February 9 18811 was a Russian writer of novels short stories and essays2 He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov His name has been variously transcribed in English his first name sometimes being rendered as Theodore This is because before the postrevolutionary orthographic reform which amongst other things replaced the Cyrillic letter th with the Cyrillic letter f Dostoyevskys name was written Theodor Dostoyevskys literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political social and spiritual context of 19thcentury Russian society With the embittered voice of the anonymous underground man Dostoyevsky wrote Notes from Underground 1864 which has been called the best overture for existentialism ever written by Walter Kaufmann3 He is often acknowledged by critics as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature4 Dostoyevskys father Mikhail and grandfather Andrey were born in modern central Ukraine56 Mikhail was a doctor and a devout Christian who practised at the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor in Moscow Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow to Mikhail and Maria Dostoyevsky the second of seven children7 The family lived in a small apartment in the Mariinsky Hospital grounds The hospital was located in one of the citys worst areas near a cemetery for criminals a lunatic asylum and an orphanage for abandoned infants This urban landscape made a lasting impression on the young Dostoyevsky whose interest in and compassion for the poor oppressed and tormented was apparent in his life and works
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One reviewer writes Gatewood has written a fascinating indepth biography of Benny Binion Fascinated with the many stories legends of Binion Gatewood a native Texan was a man on a missionto write the definitive work on Binion who died in 1989 This is both a story about Ben Lester Binion who came up the hard way but learned from some of the toughest individuals about the business of gambling and of his impact on Las Vegas The book covers a span of about 60 years beginning in the 1920s when Binion moved to Dallas from his native Pilot Grove Texas and met men like Warren Diamond the Czar of the big citys gambling operations Diamond described Binion at age 19 as streetwise polite and full of dry wit Few know how Binion learned about the games in which he would later reap millions in profits as a casino owner In Dallas he began his education at a craps table at the St George Hotel One incident when a high roller lost 40000 on a single roll of the dice stayed in his memory forever As Gatewood describes the event Binion knew from that day forward that the no limit crap game contained all the excitement of being alive It was an exhilarating experience known only to a chosen few Sixty years later Binion accepted a single craps wager of more than 700000 and lost but later won much of it back from the same man Big nolimit highstakes gambling was a theme on which Binion established his Las Vegas reputation Gatewood quotes Meyer Lansky as describing Binion as a cross between John Wayne and Jesse James after meeting him in Texas
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DISC 1 Video Nasties Draconian Days The critically acclaimed followup documentary to VIDEO NASTIES MORAL PANIC CENSORSHIP AND VIDEOTAPE from director Jake West and producer Marc Morris who continue to uncover the shocking story of home entertainment following the introduction of the 1984 Video Recordings Act The UK was plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by selfaggrandizing
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New York Times BestsellerThe good the bad and the ugly served up BourdainstyleBestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches In The Nasty Bits he serves up a wellseasoned hellbroth of candid often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi revealing what you didnt want to know about the more unglamorous aspects of making television calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson or confessing to lobsterkilling guilt Bourdain is as entertaining as ever Bringing together the best of his previously uncollected nonfictionand including new neverbeforepublished materialThe Nasty Bits is a rude funny brutal and passionate stew for fans and the uninitiated alike Anthony Bourdain is the author of seven books including the bestselling Kitchen Confidential and A Cooks Tour A thirtyyear veteran of professional kitchens he is the host of No Reservations on the Discovery Channel and the executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan He lives in New York City Praise for Anthony Bourdain Bourdains enthusiasm is so intense that it practically explodes off the page Bourdain shows himself to be one of the countrys best food writers His opinions are as strong as his language and his tastes as infectious as his joyNew York Times Book Review Writes the kind of book you read in one sitting then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passagesUSA Today Bourdains prose is utterly riveting swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patoisNew York magazine
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In a darkly funny love story Ray and Jewel Kaiser dive headfirst into the gambling lifestyle of middleclass hedonism that has developed near their hometown only to find themselves yearning for their peaceful earlier world Tour
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First published in Russian in 1866 The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky that follows the story of Alexei Ivanovich a young tutor working for a previously wealthy Russian army general Desperately in love with his benefactors daughter he acquiesces to place a bet for her at the local casino which he winsa bet leads the duo down a desperate path of fortune and ruin The Gambler is a reflection of Dostoyevskys own gambling demons he himself having frequented the casinos of BadenBaden Homburg and SaxonlesBains often starting out by winning small amounts and losing much more in the end Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky 1821 1881 was a Russian novelist essayist short story writer journalist and philosopher His literature examines human psychology during the turbulent social spiritual and political atmosphere of 19thcentury Russia and he is considered one of the greatest psychologists in world literature A prolific writer he produced 11 novels three novellas 17 short stories and numerous other works This volume will appeal to lovers of the short story form and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Dostoyevskys marvellous work Other notable works by this author include Crime and Punishment 1866 Notes from the Underground 1864 and The Idiot 1869 Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive We are republishing this volume now in an affordable modern highquality edition complete with a speciallycommissioned new biography of the author
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The Wicked History of the World presents the foul but fascinating story of humans from brainnibbling Neanderthals to terrified teenage soldiers in the 20th Centuryall in glorious and gory colorIn the best book ever written to prove history teachers wrong pester parents and disgust grandmothers you will find out the truth about the Rules of War and meet fifty of the most vicious villains of all time in a bonus feature pulloutWant to knowThe ghastly fate of Captain CookWhat smelly sport was played by Samurai warriorsWho tried to kill her enemies with a cake made from poisoned bath waterthen let The Wicked History of the World be your guideHistory with the nasty bits left in
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The Nasty Terrible TKID 170 is the autobiography of graffiti writer Julius Cavero aka TKID 170 This autobiography chronicles the life of a gang member turned graffiti artist and style mentor for urban youth an uncensored Bronx Hip Hop story During a gang shootout in a local park Julius Cavero suffered three shots to the leg one nearly severing his major artery left for dead by gang rivals and socalled comrades TKid survived the ordeal only to come facetoface with 3 weeks of intensive surgical procedures In those three weeks Julius Cavero sketched endlessly It was then that he chose to become TKID 170 T for the tall and skinny look he had and KID just because that s what so many people called him At that moment Julius Cavero gave up gang life for a new vocation TKid would now focus on art specifically street art GRAFFITTI The Nasty Terrible TKID 170 retraces his life from the early 1960s to 2005 through his written accounts and artwork including images of painted trains walls canvases drawings and sketches produced over the last thirty years Few artists today can tell a tale like TKID s a ghetto childhood gangbanging and daring feats of graffiti Many who lived in such times either left their lives or their art behind TKID who won fame early on lives to tell the tale and withstood the test of time
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