A dazzling range of unconventional film scripts and texts, many published for the first time, make up Scott MacDonald's newest collection. Illustrated with nearly 100 film stills, this fascinating book is at once a reference work of film history and an unparalleled sampling of experimental "language art." It contributes to the very dissipation of boundaries between cinematic, literary, and artistic expression thematized in the films themselves. Each text and script is introduced and contextualized by MacDonald

Thirty spine-chilling stories from around the world provide plenty of shivers in this spooky collection. Curt up with old friends like Washington Irving’s “Guests from Gibbet Island” and Charles Dickens’s “Chips.” Or make the acquaintance of “The Skull That Spoke” and “The Monster of Baylock” — butt beware of spectral visitors like “The Blood-Drawing Ghost.” This exciting mixture of classic and contemporary tales from Mexico, China, Poland, Nigeria, and other lands near and far is perfect for hair-raising reading!

Short & Shivery invites you to enter a world of restless spirits, impish goblins, and frightening creaturesa world of hair-raising tales guaranteed to send Halloween-style shivers running down your spine. Drawn from the ghostlore of a variety of cultures and countries, these 30 tales have been carefully reconstructed with all their original shuddery details and spine-chilling endings.

The affluent seaside resort of Smalting is unaccustomed to crime. So when human remains are found beneath the floorboards of a beach hut, the community is awash with suspicion. Amateur sleuths Carole Seddon and best friend Jude are drawn into the mystery, and their suspicion quickly falls on attractive Philly Rose, a young Londoner newly arrived in the area, whose boyfriend has recently vanished. Meanwhile, Kelvin Southwest, caretaker of Smalting’s beach huts, seems to be hiding a dark secret, while Reginald Flowers, pompous President of the Smalting Beach Hut Association, becomes increasingly defensive about his own history.

Diana's life was in a rut - she hated her job, she was perpetually single, and she needed a place to live. But then the perfect apartment came along. It seemed too good to be true - because it was. As it turns out, the apartment was already inhabited - by monsters.

Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine deal with a group often Hindu Tantric goddesses, the Mahavidyas, who embody habits, attributes or identities usually considered repulsive or socially subversive. It is within the context of tantric worship that devotees seek to identify themselves with these forbidding goddesses.

When the clock strikes one, a fun-loving mouse runs up the clock. But what happens when the clock strikes two? A cat gets hungry for mouse-tail stew . . . and the chase is on! Hour by hour, more animals - and even a few people - join in. The crowd charges into the barnyard, dashes through the kitchen, and eventually heads right into the middle of town.

While most trading books simply tack money management onto the end of the book as an afterthought, Trading Systems and Money Management recognizes the importance of proven money management principles to the success of a trading program.

In the real world, an advertiser can usually identify the recipient of a persuasive communication.1 But in virtual worlds individuals are free to experiment with different identities; and it is not at all uncommon for veteran residents to have more than one avatar. For example, some people have one avatar that they use for work-related activities and another they inhabit to cruise nightclubs. They can alter their appearance, age, gender, or even choose to take on a nonhuman form.

This book provides examples using the IQuery, ICriteria, QueryOver, and LINQ to NHibernate API’s within the context of an example Guitar Store inventory program. The reader is walked through the creation of a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database, the creation of a Visual Studio 2010 solution consisting of 3 projects (a Window Presentation Foundation (WPF), a Console Application, and a Class Library)