1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453694303321

Autore

Madden Stacey

Titolo

Poison shy [[electronic resource] /] / Stacey Madden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, : ECW Press, 2012

ISBN

1-77041-075-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Disciplina

C813/.6

Soggetti

Canadian fiction

Canadian literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Misfit".

Sommario/riassunto

Brandon Galloway, a 29-year-old nobody with a history of dead-end jobs, lands a position with a pest control company. When he meets 21-year-old wild child Melanie Blaxley while fumigating her apartment for bed bugs, her vulgar sensuality and reckless promiscuity both attract and repulse him. Before long her world of crazy sex and petty crime starts to take its toll on Brandon's sanity, and he wonders how much more of her he can stand. Then she disappears, and Brandon must find out if it is all just a prank, or if Melanie's wild ways finally led her into danger. A hair-raising thrill ride through the bars and backstreets of a fictional small town, this fast-paced and darkly funny debut novel explores obsession, fear, and the threat of other people.



2.

Record Nr.

UNICASUBO0303703

Titolo

1 / Francesco Guizot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino, : Chiantore, 1945

Descrizione fisica

218 p. : 1 ritr. ; 20 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782932303321

Autore

Mitchell Timothy

Titolo

Rule of experts [[electronic resource] ] : Egypt, techno-politics, modernity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2002

ISBN

0-520-92825-3

1-59734-880-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (429 p.)

Disciplina

330.1220962

338.962

Soggetti

Egypt-- Economic policy

Peasantry

Peasantry - Egypt - History - 20th century

Egypt Economic policy

Egypt Economic conditions 1919-1952

Egypt Economic conditions 1952-

Egypt Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations;



Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; I. PARA-SITES OF CAPITALISM; 1. Can the Mosquito Speak?; 2. Principles True in Every Country; 3. The Character of Calculability; II. PEASANT STUDIES; 4. The Invention and Reinvention of the Peasant; 5. Nobody Listens to a Poor Man; 6. Heritage and Violence; III. FIXING THE ECONOMY; 7. The Object of Development; 8. The Market's Place; 9. Dreamland; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world?Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution