Shots In The Dark

Author : Shoji Yamada
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022678424X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shots in the Dark written by Shoji Yamada and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of Archery and the Ryoanji dry-landscape rock garden. Yamada shows how both became facile conduits for exporting and importing Japanese culture. First published in German in 1948 and translated into Japanese in 1956, Herrigel’s book popularized ideas of Zen both in the West and in Japan. Yamada traces the prewar history of Japanese archery, reveals how Herrigel mistakenly came to understand it as a traditional practice, and explains why the Japanese themselves embraced his interpretation as spiritual discipline. Turning to Ryoanji, Yamada argues that this epitome of Zen in fact bears little relation to Buddhism and is best understood in relation to Chinese myth. For much of its modern history, Ryoanji was a weedy, neglected plot; only after its allegorical role in a 1949 Ozu film was it popularly linked to Zen. Westerners have had a part in redefining Ryoanji, but as in the case of archery, Yamada’s interest is primarily in how the Japanese themselves have invested this cultural site with new value through a spurious association with Zen.

Author : Gail Buckland
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821227756
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shots in the Dark written by Gail Buckland and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the role of crime photography in American history, culture, and law enforcement, presenting such photographs as an autopsy study of Lee Harvey Oswald, photographs of the parents of Lizzie Borden, and mug shots of celebrities.

Author : Daniel Zimmerman
Publisher : WildBlue Press
ISBN 13 : 1947290509
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shots in the Dark written by Daniel Zimmerman and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The fascinating story of the 1963 deaths of Boston mobster Rocco Balliro’s girlfriend and her son in a police shootout . . . a real page-turner.”—Dennis N. Griffin, bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of a “Casino” Mobster On a frigid winter night in early 1963, Rocco Anthony Balliro and a pair of associates stormed a darkened apartment on the outskirts of Boston and were immediately embroiled in a deadly shootout with several unseen assailants. Unbeknownst to Rocco at the time, the men who returned his fire were several Boston police officers, waiting in ambush for him. It was, as Rocco later described it, a hastily planned rescue mission that went downhill in a hurry. In the aftermath, his beloved girlfriend and her toddler son lay dead. “Author Daniel Zimmerman, the woman’s nephew, was granted exclusive access to Balliro in prison and met with him over the course of 2 years to hear his side of the story. This book, which chronicles the events of that night, Balliro’s trial, and his attempt to clear his name is a true crime story with a local twist.”—Patch

Author : Marie James
Publisher : Marie James
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shot in the Dark written by Marie James and published by Marie James. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an IT expert and hacker extraordinaire, Wren Nelson is no stranger to discovering all sorts of secrets online. He’s a warrior…when he’s behind his computer, that is. And awkward at best in social situations. His long hours with Blackbridge Security don’t really provide many opportunities to go out and meet people. So what is he supposed to do when a wrong delivery—a questionably large box of bedroom toys—ends up in his hands instead of its intended target? Online stalking has always been his go-to to accumulate information on people, but only seeing Whitney through digital displays isn’t enough. Approaching her doesn’t seem like the best plan either. What he doesn’t know is that this woman is possibly the only one in existence able to give him a run for his money.

Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635570573
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Shot in the Dark written by Lynne Truss and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The charming first novel in a new comic crime series from New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss. It's 1957, and Inspector Steine rather enjoys his life as a policeman in the seaside British town of Brighton. As far as he's concerned, the town has no criminals, which means no crime, and no stress. But much to Steine's irritation, there's a new constable in town-the keen and clever Constable Twitten, who sees patterns in small, meaningless burglaries and insists on the strange notion that perhaps all the crime has not been cleared out quite as effectively as Steine thinks. Worse yet, some of Constable Twitten's ideas could be correct: when renowned theater critic A. S. Crystal arrives in Brighton to tell the detective the secret he knows about the still-unsolved Aldersgate Stick-Up Case of 1945, he's shot dead in his seat. With a new murder, a new constable, and a new lead on the decades-old mystery, the Brighton Police Force must scramble to solve this delightfully droll mystery in “the funniest crime novel of 2018” (Wall Street Journal).

Author : Jon Cohen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393322255
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shots in the Dark written by Jon Cohen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984 it was announced that an AIDS vaccine would be ready for testing in two years. More than 15 years later only one vaccine has made it to a field trial. This text explains the reasons for this slow progress.

Author : Mikal Gilmore
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307423646
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shot in the Heart written by Mikal Gilmore and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged. Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the Heart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: their mother, a black sheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their father, a drunk, thief, and con man. It was a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder. Mikal, burdened with the guilt of being his father's favorite and the shame of being Gary's brother, gracefully and painfully relates a murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born... a house that, in some ways, [he has] never been able to leave." Shot in the Heart is the history of an American family inextricably tied up with violence, and the story of how the children of this family committed murder and murdered themselves in payment for a long lineage of ruin.

Author : Cleo Coyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451488857
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shot in the Dark written by Cleo Coyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cleo Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Dead Cold Brew, comes a delicious new entry in the "fun and gripping" (The Huffington Post) Coffeehouse Mystery series. A smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into a hookup hotspot--until a gunshot turns the landmark coffeehouse into a crime scene. As Village Blend manager Clare Cosi fixes a date for her wedding, her ex-husband is making dates through smartphone swipes. Clare has mixed feelings about these match-ups happening in her coffeehouse. Even her octogenarian employer is selecting suitors by screenshot! But business is booming, and Clare works hard to keep the espresso shots flowing. Then one night, another kind of shot leaves a dead body for her to find. The corpse is an entrepreneur who used dating apps with reckless abandon--breaking hearts along the way. The NYPD quickly arrests one of the heartbreaker's recent conquests. But the suspect's sister tearfully swears her sibling was framed. Clare not only finds reason to believe it, she fears the real killer will strike again. Now Clare is "swiping" through suspects in her own shop--with the help of her globetrotting ex-husband, a man who's spent his life hunting for coffee and women. Together they're determined to find justice before another shot rings out.

Author : Barry Reeves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935752370
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Shot in the Dark written by Barry Reeves and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following author Barry Reeves' move from his native Ireland to New York City, A Shot in the Dark chronicles his bartending experiences in Hell's Kitchen from 1999 all the way through 2012. From hookers, pimps, gangsters, and transvestites, to policemen, firemen, celebrities, and priests--oh, and don't forget the drunken' wankers--Reeves provides his inside take on NYC and packs an arsenal of witty and highly entertaining stories on his interactions with all walks of life. One-night stands, fights, swingers, and joy rides in cop cars run rampant in this explosive and side-splitting memoir. The funniest book written since The Bible.

Author : Tom Lalicki
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429994002
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shots at Sea written by Tom Lalicki and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Nate Fuller is ready for adventure as he boards the Lusitania, the biggest, grandest ocean liner ever to sail the seas. Nate is hoping to sharpen his detective skills with some help from his mentor, Harry Houdini, and to rub elbows with Teddy Roosevelt, as both legendary men are also making the voyage. Everything seems set for a smooth journey to England. Then shots ring out! A cunning would-be killer tries to assassinate the former president. As the waters become choppier, Nate and Houdini must race to find and foil their suspect before he makes a second attempt. With the fast pacing and clever historical detailing that made Danger in the Dark such a "thoroughly enjoyable" read (Kirkus Reviews), Tom Lalicki has created another first-class setting and suspense-filled story line, including revealing details of one of Houdini's famous tricks. Shots at Sea is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.