Expendable

Author : Dorothy B. Hughes
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175093
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expendable Man written by Dorothy B. Hughes and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.

Author : James Alan Gardner
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497625246
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expendable written by James Alan Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where the marginalized of society are sent into space on suicide missions, one woman decides to fight back: “Riveting” (David Feintuch). In Expendable, the first volume of the League of Peoples, Festina Ramos is assigned to escort an unstable admiral to planet Melaquin. Little is known about Melaquin, for every explorer who’s landed there has disappeared. It’s come to be known as the “planet of no return,” and the High Council has made a habit of sending troublesome admirals there in an attempt to get rid of them. It’s clear that this is intended to be Ramos’s last mission, but she doesn’t plan on dying, no matter how expendable she may be.

Author : William Lindsay White
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557509482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Were Expendable written by William Lindsay White and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national bestseller when it was originally published in 1942 and the subject of a 1945 John Ford film featuring John Wayne, this book offers a thrilling account of the role of the U.S. Navy's Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three during the disastrous Philippine campaign early in World War II. The author uses an unusual, but thorough, spellbinding format to tell the story: an interview with four heroic young participants. Ranked "with the great tales of war" by the Saturday Review of Literature, it is a deeply moving book that describes the four officers' extraordinary exploits from the first appearance of Japanese planes over Manila Bay to the squadron's calamitous end-including getting Gen. Douglas MacArthur safely to Australia. Filled with action, drama, and history, this unique portrayal of "America's little Dunkirk" was described by the New York Times as being "almost unbearably painful at times, yet so engrossing that few who begin it will be able to put it down until they have finished its adventure-packed pages."

Author : Barry Blackstone
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666717126
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expendable written by Barry Blackstone and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why the best die young? Who of us hasn’t thought the same thing when we learn of the death of a young Christian with such potential when a fellow believer lives on to wreck his testimony, the reputation of the local church, and the cause of Christ? Having been a pastor now for nearly fifty years I have had nearly a lifetime to ponder the word “expendable” in relationship to not only individuals, but dreams and desires, hopes and wishes, events and expectations. This concept of expendability came home to me years ago when I learned that my grandfather, on my mother’s side, had a brother who died of an illness in his early twenties after only spending a year on the mission field in Peru! Over the portal to a special room that celebrates those that died young in the Hall of the Faithful in Heaven is found, I believe, this superscription: “EXPENDABLE”! I would like to share with you some of the biblical portraits that are hanging from those celestial walls, for if you are looking for the answer to the question I asked, I have come to believe it can only be found in the Bible.

Author : Jeff Rubin
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0735279411
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expendables written by Jeff Rubin and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Globe and Mail Favourite Book of 2020 From the #1 bestselling author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, a provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization, and how the blowback—from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe—will change the developed world. Real wages in North America have not risen since the 1970s. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is beginning to look like a quaint idea from the distant past. If it seems that the middle class is in retreat around the developed world, it is. Former CIBC World Markets Chief Economist Jeff Rubin argues that all this was foreseeable back when Canada, the United States and Mexico first started talking free trade. Growing global inequality is a problem of our own making, he says. And solving it won't be easy if we draw on the same ideas about capital and labour, right and left, that led us to this cliff. Articulating a vision that dovetails with the ideas of both Naomi Klein and Donald Trump, The Expendables is an exhilaratingly fresh perspective that is at once humane and irascible, fearless and rigorous, and most importantly, timely. GDP is growing, the stock market is up and unemployment is down, but the surprise of the book is that even the good news is good for only one percent of us.

Author : James Alan Gardner
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9781568653785
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expendable written by James Alan Gardner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On any given planetdown mission, there's always someone whose job it is to walk into danger and get killed. What must it be like to be him, knowing your lifespan is as short as a fruitfly's?

Author : Sylvester Stallone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578419411
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expendables Go to Hell written by Sylvester Stallone and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chuck Dixon
Publisher : Dynamite
ISBN 13 : 1606901729
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expendables written by Chuck Dixon and published by Dynamite. This book was released on 2010 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prequel to the 2010 motion picture "The Expendables," featuring an original story about the mercenary team that takes place before the events in the movie.

Author : John Lewis Floyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734542127
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expendable written by John Lewis Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Edds
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814722393
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Expendable Man written by Margaret Edds and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? An Expendable Man answers that question through detailed analysis of the case of Earl Washington Jr., a mentally retarded, black farm hand who was convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of a 19-year-old mother of three in Culpeper, Virginia. He spent almost 18 years in Virginia prisons--9 1/2 of them on death row--for a murder he did not commit. This book reveals the relative ease with which individuals who live at society's margins can be wrongfully convicted, and the extraordinary difficulty of correcting such a wrong once it occurs. Margaret Edds makes the chilling argument that some other "expendable men" almost certainly have been less fortunate than Washington. This, she writes, is "the secret, shameful underbelly" of America's retention of capital punishment. Such wrongful executions may not happen often, but anyone who doubts that innocent people have been executed in the United States should remember the remarkable series of events necessary to save Earl Washington Jr. from such a fate.