A Simple Plan

Sometimes Good People Do Evil Things Two brothers and a friend find $4 million in the cockpit of a downed plane. The pilot is dead. No one is looking for the money. To keep it, all they have to do is wait. It all sounded so simple...

Literature & Fiction

Smith, Scott B.

Genre Fiction

St. Martin's Paperbacks

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Corgi Books

Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918–1923 (Russian and East European Studies, 233)

The Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) were the largest political party in Russia in the crucial revolutionary year of 1917. Heirs to the legacy of the People’s Will movement, the SRs were unabashed proponents of peasant rebellion and revolutionary terror, emphasizing the socialist transformation of the countryside and a democratic system of government as their political goals. They offered a compelling, but still socialist, alternative to the Bolsheviks, yet by the early 1920s their party was shattered and its members were branded as enemies of the revolution. In 1922, the SR leaders became the first fellow socialists to be condemned by the Bolsheviks as “counter-revolutionaries” in the prototypical Soviet show trial. In Captives of the Revolution, Scott B. Smith presents both a convincing account of the defeat of the SRs and a deeper analysis of the significance of the political dynamics of the Civil War for subsequent Soviet history. Once the SRs decided to openly fight the Bolsheviks in 1918, they faced a series of nearly impossible political dilemmas. At the same time, the Bolsheviks fatally undermined the revolutionary credentials of the SRs by successfully appropriating the rhetoric of class struggle, painting a simplistic picture of Reds versus Whites in the Civil War, a rhetorical dominance that they converted into victory over the SRs and any left-wing alternative to Bolshevik dictatorship. In this narrative, the SRs became a bona fide threat to national security and enemies of the people—a characterization that proved so successful that it became an archetype to be used repeatedly by the Soviet leadership against any political opponents, even those from within the Bolshevik party itself. In this groundbreaking study, Smith reveals a more complex and nuanced picture of the postrevolutionary struggle for power in Russia than we have ever seen before and demonstrates that the Civil War—and in particular the struggle with the SRs—was the formative experience of the Bolshevik party and the Soviet state.

Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918–1923 (Russian and East European Studies)

History

Americas

University of Pittsburgh Press

Russia

The author, a journalist, describes how alcoholism nearly killed him, and explains how he managed to turn his life around

Coincidences

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Living Business Pr

Living Business: Selected Popular Columns

In ancient Rome, an alter ego, or “the other I,” was considered to be not only a second self but also a trusted friend. It was believed to be distinct from a person’s normal personality. Collected in this book are stories of heroes who not only battle injustice, criminals and super-villains; but they also must battle their other selves. These heroes learn that sometimes the hardest foe to defeat is the one that lies within.  Alter Egos is back in this second volume with sensational short stories and poems written by some of today's best sci-fi and action authors including a story by David J. Fielding, better known as "Zordon" from the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers.

Alter Egos Volume II

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fielding, David J.

Woods, Darren

Wilburn, Jay

Pratt, James

Source Point Press

Bradford, Paul

Howlett, Craige

Reddell, Trace

Jansson, Mathias

Science Fiction

The Orange Bowl Stadium. Put to rest and carted away in 2008. It was an example of a bygone era in sports stadium architecture, when simple design provided a basic function. A place just for football born in the late 1930's. The book is not about football so much, but a visual memory for the scores of fans who may not have realized the last game attended would be their final time in the stadium. The first chapter revisits my family's photos from the 1939 game to the 1970's. Chapter Two begins with the condition of the stadium in January, 2008, and leads to the demolition period. Finally, a chapter of aerial images compiled through the years completes the story. I attempted to capture many of the seat locations and the view to the field. Individual fine art prints are available from any image in the book. The architectural survey was completed in January, 2008, and demolition finished in late spring.

The Orange Bowl: A Photographic Journey & Architectural Survey

AuthorHouse

Analysis of Uncertainty in ETMS Aggregate Demand Predictions

Science & Math

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Gilbo, Eugene P.

Astronomy & Space Science

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Unos jóvenes norteamericanos que pasan unas vacaciones en México ven cómo sus días de diversión se convierten en una pesadilla. Lo que en un principio iba a ser un trekking emocionante por la jungla mexicana, se convertirá en una caza y captura en la que ellos serán las víctimas. Inquietante y aterradora, Las ruinas posee la misma tensión in crescendo que caracterizó a Un plan sencillo, así como recuerda algunas de las mejores obras de Stephen King y la perturbadora novela La playa, de Alex Garland (publicada por Ediciones B y llevada al cine con Leonardo Di Caprio como protagonista). Stephen King dice de ella: Suspense al más puro estilo Ruth Rendell. Smith pretende aterrorizar al lector y lo consigue, y lo hace de una manera directa, sin atajos: Las ruinas es un prolongado grito de horror. La estancia en México de sus protagonistas es el equivalente actual de lo que fuera en su día Tiburón en las playas de Nueva Inglaterra. / Four American tourists vacationing in Cancun make friends with a German traveler and join the hunt for his brother, who has mysteriously vanished after following a new flame to an archeological site. But inadequate planning, horrendous conditions and unforeseen dangers quickly turn this jungle adventure into a fight for survival.

LAS RUINAS (Spanish Edition)

EDB FICCION

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