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During the past few years the worlds has reverberated of names like Seveso, Love Canal, Lekkerkerk, Times Beach, just to name the most publicized ones. All these names are connected with hazardous or toxic waste, waste from business and industry, especially the chemical industry. The list is endless...

Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson’s life pressure her to take her proper place—under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of … submitting to their will, her “evil” twin cracks the whip, so to speak,...

A hot writer who has found the woman of his dreams, a photo journalist with no time for love. And a passionate betrayal that seems unforgivable… Serena Ross finally gets the assignment she's waited ages for. But the excitement is short-lived when she discovers it is none other than renowned...

**Three servings of steamy insta-love, tiger shifter romance, all in one bundle! ** (Books 1-3 in the series) HOT FUR STRIPES  A curvy journalist who has sworn off men of fur; a striped, gorgeous billionaire intent on claiming her. And a deadline to fulfil a life-changing promise. It...

Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: cases in which personal contact between an individual or individuals is initiated by the “occupants” of the spacecraft. Such contact may involve the transportation of the individual from his or her terrestrial surroundings into the spacecraft, where the individual...

Scotland--sweeping forests, tumbling waterfalls. . .and towering highlands where vampire warriors have ruled for centuries. Lethal and charismatic, vampire Lachlan McRae woke on his first night to death and devastation--his clan slaughtered, his fortress destroyed. One hundred and fifty years...

Boston, 1765: In D.B. Jackson's Thieftaker, revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. But for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker who makes his living by conjuring spells that...

Ethan Kaille isn't the likeliest hero. A former sailor with a troubled past, Ethan is a thieftaker, using conjuring skills to hunt down those who steal from the good citizens of Boston. And while chasing down miscreants in 1768 makes his life a perilous one, the simmering political tensions between...

The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) has proven to be the most lethal weapon in the president's arsenal. Shrouded in secrecy, the Command has done more to degrade the capacity of terrorists to attack the United States than any other single entity. And counter-terrorism is only one of its...

劇本要好看、故事要動人，不能光靠靈感和想像！ 你更需要寫，一下筆就能寫，一寫就能賣的關鍵寫作技巧！ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 《為什麼你的故事被打Ｘ》熱銷萬本新裝上市 現在開始，搶救你的爛故事、丟掉你的爛劇本！   寫劇本不只是在說故事，也在賣故事！ 那麼，好故事怎麼寫？ ◎一開始就要奪眼球 　‧故事要開始的正是時候，別拖泥帶水 　‧一定要有事情發生，讓故事往前推進 　‧即使事實不有趣，也要記得加以虛構 ◎製造戲劇張力 ‧來個爆發轉折點，讓戲劇化情節持續推展 ‧最有意思的經歷，都是那些你想忘記的事 ‧不一定要攸關生死才會有驚喜 ◎主角必須很有事 ‧苦頭越多，越能引起觀眾共鳴 ‧麻煩越多，情節越好看 ‧障礙越多，對觀眾來說越精彩 ◎衝突是對話的靈魂所在 ‧對白必須要揭露角色特質 ‧一定要製造衝突與爭吵 ‧不必要的絕不多說 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 劇本是否有趣吸引人，全在於故事是否夠起伏跌宕！ 你沒日沒夜、絞盡腦汁，好不容易完成一個故事，信心滿滿丟出你的劇本，結果卻總是「這個故事不有趣」、「無聊沒有梗」、「引不起共鳴」……而你也不知道這本「曠世巨作」出了什麼問題？ 本書作者以身為劇本諮詢顧問超過20年的經驗，告訴你43個連好萊塢編劇都買單的說故事關鍵技巧，從劇情架構、情節鋪陳、角色塑造、對白設定……一步步讓你丟掉爛劇本，最終成為電影公司搶拍，觀眾搶看的搶手貨。 【前言】這本書對於你的意義 【自序】你需要的不只是好劇本 本書將如何幫助你 PART...

In this hilarious unauthorized, autobiographical parody, Ann Coulter has been approached to be the Vice Presidential candidate in 2016, so she is coming out with a tell-all book.  She will reveal who she is, who she was and who she hopes to be before the left wing media and the Democratic spin...

Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. In A World More Concrete, N. D. B. Connolly uses the history of South Florida to unearth an older and far...

There is a hidden country within the United States. It was formed from the astonishing number of secrets held by the government and the growing ranks of secret-keepers given charge over them. The government secrecy industry speaks in a private language of codes and acronyms, and follows an arcane...

“I forever banish all involved in these crimes to the Back Water Stream area of Blooming Isle where you will live with the trolls for the rest of your lives!” The fairies have been involved in a bloody war with the ogres for centuries with each claiming Century Isle as their own. Instead of...