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A retired Headteacher who thinks he witnesses a kidnapping on his own quiet suburban street starts to question his own sanity, until his path crosses with disgraced journalist Alex Stratton. Stratton's career has never been the same since his parents died in questionable circumstances, which he believes are the result of a lethal conspiracy carried out by a company called Luxy.
Strength In Despair
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There are two main characters in this story - Eve Colman, the young professional who has fallen from financial grace, and Adam Smith, the office temp who hasn't recovered from redundancy. As an educated woman born into privilege Eve represents polite society whereas Adam born into humble origins represents the working classes. An un-beautiful woman who symbolises the lack of beauty in Adam's existence. Her conservative approach to friendship collides with his aloof rules of engagement. Their qualities are different, and the challenge for them both is to find some common ground.
Keywords: flat-share, flatmate, london-england, overdraft, redundancy, tooting-broadway, unfulfilment, urban-setting
The story of an emasculated hero struggling to secure employment.
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The economic principle of supply and demand is contingent upon two curves: the demand curve and the supply curve. The latter determines how much of a good is willing to be supplied at a given time considering the circumstances. The higher the price, the more of an item will be sold, raising the curve. Simultaneously, an age old axiom - "Sex sells" - exists as a wise solution to problems in selling any item, used in marketing strategies worldwide. However, creating a piece of modern wisdom, advertising great Jef I. Richards once said that sex sells only if you're selling sex. All of these things considered, then what happens when the Theory of Supply Curve is applied to selling sex? In a seedy strip club, an average guy realizes that a single dollar will only gain the attentions of a beautiful erotic dancer, but more money offered will raise the curve of what she is willing to supply him. When he offers the right price for a night with her, who will ultimately win? If his money determines the curve, then he should also possess power over her. If sex proves to be the one thing that is not applicable to all of the standing rules, then it's possible that she will determine her own curve.
Sex sells.
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Six heart-of-gold outlaws are looking for that one big score so they can go straight when they stumble across a map to a goldmine. Indiana Jones meets the old west as their quest leads from one complicated puzzle to solve to another while a vindictive Territorial Marshal is hot on their trail, determined to settle an old score.
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Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unable to let them simply wait for the law, he decides to take them into into his cellar and torture them a little before the police arrive.
Keywords: alsatian, animal-attack, bandit, blood, captive, country, cut-telephone-line, cutting-telephone-line, day-in-title, death
Suddenly, on a peaceful Sunday in the country, one man was forced to defend his home and his family!
Adam Smith thinks the law is too kind to killers.
Not since Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS has the screen exploded with such righteous vengeance.
A Quiet Title for An Explosive Movie
Three bank robbers on the run...will they survive the ill-fated...
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Esqueda, an outlaw, attempts to force settlers King and Cordelia Cameron out of his territory. Esqueda's mother raised Rio as her own. Rio has loyalty to Esqueda but also feels the settlers should be able to stay. A showdown between the two raised as brothers is unavoidable.
Keywords: adopted-brother, adopted-son, arson, bandit, bank-robbery, boat, brother-brother-relationship, brother-killing-brother, burnt-down-house, casino
The Outlaw And The Beauty!
A Flaming Drama of Dangerous Love!
Jose Esqueda: Can you imagine a smile on Barton's face?::Rio: It's the only place where a smile could be ugly.
Jose Esqueda: The strong will fight the strong for possession of the weak.::Cordelia Cameron: The meek shall inherit the earth.::Jose Esqueda: Only six feet of it, Senora.
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In the modern day (1920s) story, Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbour, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove. This tale is book-ended by a sequence of the two principals in the Garden of Eden, having the same preoccupations amid the dinosaurs and boulders.
Keywords: fashion
Adam Smith (baptised 16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790 [OS: 5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790]) was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Principles Which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries, Illustrated by the History of Astronomy, prior to 1758, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759, and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776. The latter, usually abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. It earned him an enormous reputation and would become one of the most influential works ever published. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics and capitalism and is still among the most influential thinkers in the field of economics today. In 2009, Smith was named among the 'Greatest Scots' of all time, in a vote run by Scottish television channel STV.
Smith studied social philosophy at the University of Glasgow and at Balliol College in the University of Oxford, where he was one of the first students to benefit from scholarships set up by his fellow Glaswegian John Snell. After graduating, he delivered a successful series of public lectures at Edinburgh, leading him to collaborate with David Hume during the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith obtained a professorship at Glasgow teaching moral philosophy, and during this time he wrote and published The Theory of Moral Sentiments. In his later life, he took a tutoring position that allowed him to travel throughout Europe, where he met other intellectual leaders of his day. Smith then returned home and spent the next ten years writing The Wealth of Nations, publishing it in 1776. He died in 1790 at the age of 67.
Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם, Arabic: آدم, Syriac: ܐܵܕ݂ܵܡ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis, the Qur'an and the Kitáb-i-Íqán. According to the creation myth of Abrahamic religions, he is the first human. In the Genesis creation narratives, he was created by Yahweh-Elohim ("Yahweh-God", the god of Israel), though the term "adam" can refer to both the first individual person, as well as to the general creation of humankind. Christian churches differ on how they view Adam's subsequent behavior (often called the Fall of man), and to the consequences that those actions had on the rest of humanity. Christian and Jewish teachings sometimes hold Adam and Eve (the first woman) to a different level of responsibility for the Fall, though Islamic teaching holds both equally responsible. In addition, Islam holds that Adam was eventually forgiven, while Christianity holds that redemption occurred only later through the sacrifice of God's son, Jesus Christ. Bahá'í Faith, Islam and some Christian denominations consider Adam to be the first Prophet.
Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement. He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Capital (1867–1894); some of his works were co-written with his friend and fellow German revolutionary socialist, Friedrich Engels.
Born into a wealthy middle class family in Trier, formerly in Prussian Rhineland now called Rhineland-Palatinate, Marx studied at both the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians. In 1836, he became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, marrying her in 1843. After his studies, he wrote for a radical newspaper in Cologne, and began to work out his theory of dialectical materialism. Moving to Paris in 1843, he began writing for other radical newspapers. He met Engels in Paris, and the two men worked together on a series of books. Exiled to Brussels, he became a leading figure of the Communist League, before moving back to Cologne, where he founded his own newspaper. In 1849 he was exiled again and moved to London together with his wife and children. In London, where the family was reduced to poverty, Marx continued writing and formulating his theories about the nature of society and how he believed it could be improved, and also campaigned for socialism—he became a significant figure in the International Workingmen's Association.
Lawrence W. (Larry) Reed (born September 29, 1953) is president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), headquartered in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, a position he has held since September 1, 2008. Before joining FEE, Reed served as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Midland, Michigan based free-market think tank. To date, he remains Mackinac’s president emeritus.
Reed's interests in political and economic affairs have taken him as a freelance journalist to 78 countries on six continents since 1985.
Over the past twenty-five years, he has reported on hyperinflation in South America, black markets from behind the Iron Curtain, reforms and repression in China and Cambodia, and civil war inside Nicaragua and Mozambique. Additionally, he spent time with the Contra rebels during the Nicaraguan civil war; and lived for two weeks with Mozambique rebel forces at their bush headquarters in 1991, while the country was engaged at the height of their guerrilla conflict. Among many foreign adventures, Reed visited the ravaged nation of Cambodia in 1989 with his late friend, Academy Award winner Dr. Haing S. Ngor.
Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher,cognitive scientist, historian, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and a major figure of analytic philosophy. His work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology.
Ideologically identifying with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism, Chomsky is known for his critiques of U.S. foreign policy and contemporary capitalism, and he has been described as a prominent cultural figure. His media criticism has included Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), co-written with Edward S. Herman, an analysis articulating the propaganda model theory for examining the media.
According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992, and was the eighth most cited source overall. Chomsky is the author of over 100 books. He is credited as the creator or co-creator of the Chomsky hierarchy, the universal grammar theory, and the Chomsky–Schützenberger theorem.