Point Blank

Author : Gary Kleck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351499351
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Point Blank written by Gary Kleck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1990 there were approximately 200 million guns in private hands in the United States, and around half of American households contained a gun. Over 30,000 people a year are killed with guns in suicides, homicides, and accidents, and Americans use guns for defensive purposes as many as a million times a year. There is little doubt that gun violence and control are issues of vital importance, and they continue to inspire national debate. It is doubtful, however, that most gun debates are worth listening to. Not surprisingly, they generally leave their participants exactly where they began, with their biases intact, and onlookers perplexed. Written deliberately to counter an atmosphere of hysteria and extremism, Point Blank, now in paperback, offers logical argument supported by empirical information. It confronts fundamental questions head-on. On its initial publication in 1993, Point Black won the Michael J. Hindelang Award of the American Society of Criminology for the book that "made the most outstanding contribution to criminology," Point Blank reports both original research and assesses existing evidence drawn from a wide variety of academic disciplines, including criminology, sociology, law, and medicine.

Author : Dwayne Epstein
Publisher : IPG
ISBN 13 : 1936182416
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lee Marvin written by Dwayne Epstein and published by IPG. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length, authoritative, and detailed story of the iconic actor's life to go beyond the Hollywood scandal-sheet reporting of earlier books, this account offers an appreciation for the man and his acting career and the classic films he starred in, painting a portrait of an individual who took great risks in his acting and career. Although Lee Marvin is best known for his icy tough guy roles—such as his chilling titular villain in The ManWho Shot Liberty Valance or the paternal yet brutally realistic platoon leader in The Big Red One—very little is known of his personal life; his family background; his experiences in WWII; his relationship with his father, family, friends, wives; and his ongoing battles with alcoholism, rage, and depression, occasioned by his postwar PTSD. Now, after years of researching and compiling interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues; rare photographs; and illustrative material, Hollywood writer Dwayne Epstein provides a full understanding and appreciation of this acting titan's place in the Hollywood pantheon in spite of his very real and human struggles.

Author : Catherine Coulter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101214945
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Point Blank written by Catherine Coulter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-08-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich are up against an unstable villain with a very long memory in this FBI Thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter. The explosive action kicks off as treasure-hunting FBI agent Ruth Warnecki is on the trail of stolen Confederate gold hidden in Winkel’s cave in western Virginia. She never expects to find herself chin-deep in a grisly murder that leaves her nearly dead and rocks the town of Maestro. Then, at a stake-out in Maryland, FBI agents Dillon Savich and Dane Carver are nearly killed in a horrific explosion while attempting to rescue kidnap victim, Pinky Womack. They are led to Arlington National Cemetery where they not only find Pinky, but Savich also takes a fateful call on his cell from an old man out to kill both him and Sherlock. The thing is they have no clue why. Pitted against an insane killer and his psychotic teenage girlfriend, Savich and Sherlock find themselves fighting a hate-driven villain with a grudge worth killing for...

Author : Chris Sandford
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306809217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Springsteen written by Chris Sandford and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1999-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Springsteen turned fifty in 1999—the same year he was inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He remains one of the last true rock stars and nothing less than a cultural icon, with album sales of fifteen million annually and concerts that are instant sellouts worldwide—now more than ever with the revival tour of the E Street Band. In Springsteen, Christopher Sandford takes us back to the Boss's early days in New Jersey and through the sensational hits and rock-god lifestyle of the mid-seventies ... bringing the Springsteen story right up to the present for a second generation of fans. By interviewing virtually all the major figures in Springsteen's life, past and present, and combining that with his own celebrated skill as a writer and critic, Sandford has created a compelling—and often surprising—portrait, one that gives new insight into Springsteen's music and influence and illuminates the many contradictions in his complex makeup.

Author : Scott Ciencin
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1434219143
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Point-Blank Paintball written by Scott Ciencin and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter and Noah Eccleston are twins, so they make great paintball teammates. But when a coach offers them a chance to compete for a single spot on his team, the brothers turn on each other.

Author : Ed Brubaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848562868
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Point Blank written by Ed Brubaker and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric G. Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839025751
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Point Blank written by Eric G. Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Heat (1995), The Limey (1999) and Memento (2000). Eric Wilson's compelling study of the film examines its significance to New Hollywood cinema. He argues that Boorman revises traditional Hollywood crime films by probing a second connotation of 'point blank'. On the one hand, it is a neo-noir that aptly depicts close range violence, but, it also points toward blankness, a nothingness that is the consequence of corporate America unchecked, where humans are reduced to commodities and stripped of agency and playfulness. He goes on to reimagine the film's experimental style as a representation of and possible remedy for trauma. Examining Boorman's formal innovations, including his favouring of gesture over language and blurring of boundaries between dream and reality, he also positions the film as a grimly comical exploration of toxic masculinity and gender fluidity. Wilson's close reading of Point Blank reveals it to be a film that innovatively inflects its own generation and speaks powerfully to our own, arguing that it is this amplitude, which encompasses the many major films it has influenced, that qualifies the film as a classic.

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ISBN 13 : 9780142500507
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Alex Rider Adventure : Point Blank written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.

Author : Jack Hild
Publisher : Gold Eagle
ISBN 13 : 9780373616176
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Point Blank written by Jack Hild and published by Gold Eagle. This book was released on 1987 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Point Blank by Jack Hild released on Jan 23, 1987 is available now for purchase.

Author : RICHARD. STARK
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749021931
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Point Blank written by RICHARD. STARK and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: