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Ozu

His Life and Films

By: Donald Richie

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Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."—Sight and Sound Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.

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Univ of California Press

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0520032772

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9780520032774

Introducing Japan

By: Donald Richie

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Introducing Japan

By: Donald Richie

Historical, geographical, cultural and economic facts complement colourhotographs to create an introduction to Japan.

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Kodansha International

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477001791X

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9784770017918

Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai

A Historical Novel

By: Donald Richie

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Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai

A Historical Novel

By: Donald Richie

“A tour de force combining a commanding mastery of historical fact and detail, a comprehensive understanding of the human spirit, and a poetic quality of expression that transforms the hearts of all those it touches.” —The Japan Foundation Newsletter Kumagai Naozane was a Japanese warrior famous for having taken the head of the young and handsome samurai Atsumori. This episode has become one of the best-known and best-loved stories in the Japanese historical classic, The Heiké Story (Heike Monogatari). This book is a fictionalized version of Kumagai’s own attempt to come to terms with his past—that real past which is his and that other past which he hears the monks inventing as they compose the text which will eventually become The Heiké Story. As the warrior remembers his past and compares it to its fictional parallel, he evokes the wonders of the city of Heiankyo (Kyoto); the wars which raised the Taira (Heike) clan to power and later reduced it to ruin at the hands of the Genji clan; the battles at the Uji River; life in the imperial court of the retired emperor Go-Shirakawa; and the celebrated final Taira battle—the naval encounter at Dannoura, where the infant emperor Antoku was delivered to the depths of the sea. Among the many pleasures of this brilliantly colored chronicle is how the common humanity of this honest, hopeless man transcends his time and milieu to speak to us, here and now.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462900550

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9781462900558

Viewed Sideways

Writings on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan

By: Donald Richie

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Viewed Sideways

Writings on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan

By: Donald Richie

Over 50 years of essays on Japan from premier film critic, essayist, and novelist, Donald Richie.

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Stone Bridge Press

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1611725143

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9781611725148

Travels in the East

By: Donald Richie

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Travels in the East

By: Donald Richie

Adventures and contemplations throughout the world by a master storyteller, critic, and expatriate writer.

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1611725453

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The Japanese Film

Art and Industry

By: Joseph I. Anderson,Joseph L. Anderson,Donald Richie

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The Japanese Film

Art and Industry

By: Joseph I. Anderson,Joseph L. Anderson,Donald Richie

Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film industry and the continuing unique art of the Japanese film. Now back in print with updated sections, major revaluations, a comprehensive international bibliography, and an exceptional collection of 168 stills ranging over eight decades, this book remains the unchallenged reference for all who seek a broad understanding of the aesthetic, historical, and economic elements of motion pictures from Japan.

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Princeton University Press

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0691007926

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9780691007922

The Inland Sea

By: Donald Richie

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The Inland Sea

By: Donald Richie

An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre."—Publishers Weekly In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His existential ruminations on food, culture, and love and his brilliant descriptions of life and landscape are a window into an Old Japan that has now nearly vanished. Included are the twenty black and white photographs by Yoichi Midorikawa that accompanied the original 1971 edition. Donald Richie (1924-2013) was an internationally recognized expert on Japanese culture and film. Yoichi Midorikawa (1915-2001) was one of Japan's foremost nature photographers.

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Stone Bridge Press

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1611729165

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9781611729160

A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

By: Donald Richie

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A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

By: Donald Richie

Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese

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Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

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0893469742

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9780893469740

A Hundred Years of Japanese Film

A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos

By: ドナルドリッチー

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A Hundred Years of Japanese Film

A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos

By: ドナルドリッチー

Richie offers movie buffs and serious film students a lively, comprehensive overview of Japanese cinema from the end of the 19th century to the present. Updated DVD and VHS listings feature new releases, classic films, and reviews.

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Kodansha International

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4770029950

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9784770029959

The Japanese Film

Art and Industry

By: Joseph L. Anderson,Donald Richie

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The Japanese Film

Art and Industry

By: Joseph L. Anderson,Donald Richie

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0691053510

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The Films of Akira Kurosawa

By: Donald Richie

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The Films of Akira Kurosawa

By: Donald Richie

Film scholars and enthusiasts will welcome this new edition of Donald Richie's incomparable study, last updated in 1984. The Method section, filmography, and bibliography contain new information, and Richie has added chapters on Ran, Dreams, Rhapsody in August, and Madadayo. Kurosawa's films display an extraordinary breadth and an astonishing strength, from the philosophic and sexual complexity of Rashomon to the moral dedication of Ikiru, from the naked violence of Seven Samurai to the savage comedy of Yojimbo, from the terror-filled feudalism of Throne of Blood to the piercing wit of Sanjuro. Running through all Kurosawa's work is a tough, humane, and profoundly ethical concern for the painful, beautiful, frequently ridiculous ambiguities of human life.

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Univ of California Press

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0520220374

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9780520220379

Japanese Portraits

Pictures of Different People

By: Donald Richie

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Japanese Portraits

Pictures of Different People

By: Donald Richie

Nobody has thought as widely and as concretely (therefore, as helpfully) as Richie has about how a single distinctive culture gathers up contradictions, coheres, works, resists change, and changes.--Susan Sontag

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1462902170

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The Image Factory

Fads and Fashions in Japan

By: Donald Richie

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The Image Factory

Fads and Fashions in Japan

By: Donald Richie

Just as a person contrives a style, the purpose of which is integration and the effect of which is presentation, so a nation collectively projects an appearance, a "national" style. Such styles are made of many layers. The deepest layer is composed of the immutable and the traditional. Nearer the surface floats fashion, changeable but sometimes more abiding. And frothing on the surface is fad. By definition a fad is novel and appears from outside. Fads must have instant appeal and do not have a long shelf life. In Japan, an assortment of islands, the outside is often the quality that defines the inside. Japan has a history of chasing fads and fashion. Since the 19th century, foreign products have been welcomed in, from the cult for "squeaky shoes" in the mid-19th century to the current fad for virtual reality girlfriends. Japan s mandate was that, having been opened late, it had to hurry to catch up. Fads provide both a social distraction and a sense of cohesion, indicating not only foreign importation but also native adaptation. The Image Factory is both an investigation into fads, fashions and style such as US Army surplus uniforms, "pachinko," mutating hair colors and an appreciation of their inherent meanings. The Japanese have seized upon fads and fashion as an arm of enterprise to a much greater extent than elsewhere in the world. Ephemerality has been put to work, the transient has become industrialized, and the results are highly conspicuous.

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Reaktion Books

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1861891539

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This Scorching Earth

A Novel of the Occupation of Japan

By: Donald Richie

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This Scorching Earth

A Novel of the Occupation of Japan

By: Donald Richie

This historical novel is set in post-WWII Japan. The Allied Occupation of Japan was more than an amazing military operation: it also created one of the most singular civilizations of modern history. It was made up of some of America's best minds and some of its worst, of some genuine idealists and some who simply "never had it so good," of women hungry for men, men hungry for power, and a fortunate leavening of ordinary, decent people. It was an astonishing and often terrifying little empire—now as dead as those of the Medes and Persians. All these characters—and many more—are skillfully set into the living mosaic which was the Occupation of Japan, in a dramatic story which pulls no punches. And if the reader thinks he detects himself or his friends (or enemies) among its pages, he will agree this historical novel is quite historical. But it's not often that history gets such controversial, sometimes infuriating, often hilarious, and always stimulating novel—which builds up to a final climax guaranteed to rouse the most jaded reader.

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146291280X

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9781462912803

A View from the Chuo Line

And Other Stories

By: Donald Richie

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A View from the Chuo Line

And Other Stories

By: Donald Richie

Fiction. Asian Studies. In this collection of twenty-seven short stories Donald Richie has shown people set in their ways but caught off guard by life itself. The minimality of the form emphasizes that moment of truth which James Joyce called an epiphany--the revelation which he said was the only reason for writing, or reading stories. The people are almost all Japanese--and Richie is not. Yet, though the peculiarities of culture may form them, it is a common humanity which is his subject. If, as Henry James once said, a story consists of a movement toward an understanding, then these small works are true stories--each plants a bonsai-like seed which grows in the mind and achieves its own full form.

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Saru

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096533046X

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9780965330466

Pitching to the Star and Other Short Plays

By: Donald Margulies

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Pitching to the Star and Other Short Plays

By: Donald Margulies

THE STORIES: When Peter finally gets a good break for his Hollywood script, he finds himself PITCHING TO THE STAR of the pilot show. Promised control over something he's worked long and hard on, he finds his integrity and his storyline attacked eve

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Dramatists Play Service Inc

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0822213583

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9780822213581

He Knew Where He Was Going (?)

By: Donald H. Carpenter

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He Knew Where He Was Going (?)

By: Donald H. Carpenter

Before he was a teenager, James Davidson entered a life of promiscuity and experimentation that continues virtually nonstop for the next thirty years. He moves from city to city, entering one marriage or relationship and then another, but always keeping a private compartment in his life, away from the view of others, or so he hopes. Well aware of the dangers and pitfalls of such a life, he nonetheless forges ahead, trying new things that seem to happen naturally, and never discouraged by the occasional setback. It is all part of life, he decides over and over. But is it? Is he in fact on a natural course? Or is he is heading for a terrible collision with reality? Written by Donald H. Carpenter, author of Dueling Voices, 101 Reasons NOT To Murder The Entire Saudi Royal Family, and I Lost It At The Beginning, this new novel explores some of the most controversial areas of private human behavior.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1456868861

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Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and Psychology

By: Donald B. Pope-Davis,Hardin L.K. Coleman,William Ming Liu,Rebecca L. Toporek

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Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and Psychology

By: Donald B. Pope-Davis,Hardin L.K. Coleman,William Ming Liu,Rebecca L. Toporek

Cultural differences affect the way people think, feel, and act. In an increasingly diverse society, multicultural competency in research and counseling is not merely a matter of political correctness. It is a matter of scientific and professional responsibility. Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and Psychology is the first book to offer the theoretical background, practical knowledge, and training strategies needed to achieve multicultural competence. Focusing on a wide range of professional settings, editors Donald B. Pope-Davis, Hardin L.K. Coleman, William Ming Liu, and Rebecca L. Toporek provide a compendium of the latest research related to multicultural competency and the hands-on framework to develop specialized multicultural practices. Promoting an appreciation of cultural differences, this innovative text includes A review of major measures of multicultural competency An analysis of popular empirically supported treatments within the schema of multicultural competency Information on multicultural competencies and accreditation An overview of ethical implications Teaching strategies to achieve multicultural competency Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and Psychology provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding and integrating multiculturalism in all areas of professional practice. Offering directions for growth and development, the editors and a distinguished group of contributors explore emerging issues within the field. An indispensable resource for psychologists, social workers, school counselors, and teachers, this handbook is also an ideal supplementary text for students in counseling and clinical practice courses.

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SAGE Publications

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1452266808

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9781452266800

Visions

19 Short Stories

By: Donald R. Gallo

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Visions

19 Short Stories

By: Donald R. Gallo

Imagine... Nineteen superb stories by today's best-known authors of young adult novels, coming together to create a window of the mind, a vision illuminating the joys and sorrows of young people. These nineteen splendid stories range from tales of tender romance and the delights of mystery and fantasy to the struggles of death, divorce, and growing up. Here are recollections from the past, stories of today, and visions of the future.

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Laurel Leaf

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0440202086

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9780440202080

Luna Park

Short Plays and Monologues

By: Donald Margulies

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Luna Park

Short Plays and Monologues

By: Donald Margulies

Drawing from his own, specific experience, Margulies has indeed created what he calls “a window to the world” at large. The bits and pieces and detritus of our culture have been used to construct a powerful drama about a new and devastating age of anxiety in the United States. July 7, 1994 ranks as an important work by a gifted and growing American playwright."—Chicago Tribune This new anthology by Donald Margulies collects his best short plays and monologues written over the past 24 years. Taken as a whole, the work is an extraordinary representation of a particularly American reality of the twentieth century. His language is exquisite and deceptive in its simplicity, wherein the larger questions of our daily existence emerge and are clarified. The volume contains three major one-act plays including July 7, 1994, the hit of the 1995 Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville; Pitching to the Stars, a darkly comic look at the writers lot in Hollywood; and Luna Park, an elegiac look at the American past and the immigrant experience, based on a short story by Delmore Schwartz. The volume also includes fifteen other short plays and monologues. Donald Margulies is the author of numerous plays, including Dinner with Friends and Collected Stories, both being filmed for television by HBO and PBS. Mr. Margulies lives with his wife and son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at Yale University. Also available by Donald Margulies Dinner with Friends PB $11.95 1-55936-194-8 • USA Collected Stories PB $11.95 1-55936-152-2 • USA Sight Unseen and Other Plays PB $16.95 1-55936-103-4 • USA

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Theatre Communications Group

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1559367512

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9781559367516

The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated

By: Donald Richie

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The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated

By: Donald Richie

In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching. Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. Through his long and distinguished career he managed, like very few others in the teeth of a huge and relentless industry, to elevate each of his films to a distinctive level of art. His Rashomon—one of the best-remembered and most talked-of films in any language—was a revelation when it appeared in 1950 and did much to bring Japanese cinema to the world's attention. Kurosawa's films display an extraordinary breadth and an astonishing strength, from the philosophic and sexual complexity of Rashomon to the moral dedication of Ikiru, from the naked violence of Seven Samurai to the savage comedy of Yojimbo, from the terror-filled feudalism of Throne of Blood to the piercing wit of Sanjuro.

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Univ of California Press

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0520341783

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The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender in Multicultural Counseling

By: Donald B. Pope-Davis,Hardin L. K. Coleman

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The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender in Multicultural Counseling

By: Donald B. Pope-Davis,Hardin L. K. Coleman

Featuring an outstanding group of the leading theorists and researchers from the fields of multicultural psychology and counseling, this book begins with chapters on how the interplay of such variables of class, gender, and race interact in the development of an individual in a pluralistic society. It then presents theories on how to integrate issues of class, gender and race into counseling theory.

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0761911588

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9780761911586

Affected

By: Donald James

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Affected

By: Donald James

Beautiful, complicated, successful defense attorney, Alexandra Collins' world is flipped upside down by the unimaginable. Self destruction, forbidden fruit, and a mysterious admirer threaten her life. Can her best friend, Jason, put her back together, without losing himself? Follow Alex through lies, lust, love and friendship to find meaning in her life, and a reason to fight for it. Will her past, and own personal demons, ruin her and the people she loves? Or will Jay, with the help of his lost love, Adrianna, and Evan, who Alex has only known for a moment, find a way to save her from herself before it's too late?

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Donald James

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069228169X

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9780692281697

Horror and Science Fiction Films III

By: Donald C. Willis

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Horror and Science Fiction Films III

By: Donald C. Willis

The third volume in the author's Horror and Science Fiction Films series covers new titles released from 1981 to 1983, and updates entries in the original list.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810817233

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Baseball Between the Lines

Baseball in the Forties and Fifties as Told by the Men who Played it

By: Donald Honig

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Baseball Between the Lines

Baseball in the Forties and Fifties as Told by the Men who Played it

By: Donald Honig

The exciting story of baseball during and after WWII--when clubs still traveled by train, when night games and artificial lighting became commonplace, when the restrictions were relaxed on Negro players--and when the sport began to become big business. Features Jackie Robinson, DiMaggio, and others. Photos.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803272685

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The Fantasy League Murders

By: Donald Dewey

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The Fantasy League Murders

By: Donald Dewey

Paul Finley Mysteries Book One When private investigator Paul Finley is hired to find a missing teenager who turns up dead, he comes up against the powers-that-be in an affluent Long Island community who have a problem distinguishing sex and murder from their fantasy baseball games. Complicating matters further is his involvement with a beautiful widow whose own elusiveness may or may not be connected to the death of the teenager.

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Sunbury + ORM

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1620069199

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Coming of Age in Popular Culture

Teenagers, Adolescence, and the Art of Growing Up

By: Donald C. Miller

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Coming of Age in Popular Culture

Teenagers, Adolescence, and the Art of Growing Up

By: Donald C. Miller

Documenting the evolution of teens and media from the 1950s through 2010, this book examines the films, books, television shows, and musical artists that impacted American culture and shaped the "coming of age" experience for each generation. The teenage years are fraught with drama and emotional ups and downs, coinciding with bewildering new social situations and sexual tension. For these reasons, pop culture and media have repeatedly created entertainment that depicts, celebrates, or lampoons coming of age experiences, through sitcoms like The Wonder Years to the brat pack films of the 1980s to the teen-centered television series of today. Coming of Age in Popular Culture: Teenagers, Adolescence, and the Art of Growing Up covers a breadth of media presentations of the transition from childhood to adulthood from the 1950s to the year 2010. It explores the ways that adolescence is characterized in pop culture by drawing on these representations, shows how powerful media and entertainment are in establishing societal norms, and considers how American society views and values adolescence. Topics addressed include race relations, gender roles, religion, and sexual identity. Young adult readers will come away with a heightened sense of media literacy through the examination of a topic that inherently interests them.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Conor, Volume I

A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien: Volume I, Narrative

By: Donald Harman Akenson

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A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien: Volume I, Narrative

By: Donald Harman Akenson

The career of Conor Cruise O'Brien reads like the work of several people, not just one. Having served as a diplomat under Sean MacBride, he came to world prominence as special representative to Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, in the then-Congo. Squeezed ruthlessly by big-power politics, he resigned and wrote To Katanga and Back (1962), a classic in modern African history and still the only book to get behind the polished marble façade to reveal how the United Nations works. O'Brien then became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, and battled for academic freedom against one of the most amiable of tyrants, Kwame Nkrumah. He moved on to become the first incumbent of the Schweitzer Chair at New York University. His relations with the "New York intellectuals" of the time were productive, acrimonious, sometimes comic - and part of a central chapter in the intellectual history of America in the 1960s. From 1969 to 1977 O'Brien was probably the most hated person in Ireland, as well as one of the most heroic. One of the first to see the fascistic nature of the Provisional IRA, he began an unrelenting campaign against its terrorism. In that campaign he called into question the basic myths upon which the Irish republic was constructed. His States of Ireland (1972) is the most publicly influential piece of Irish historical writing since John Mitchel's The Last Conquest of Ireland (1860), and many students of Irish history believe that O'Brien's work in the 1970s was crucial to averting civil war in Ireland. Whatever one thinks about this extraordinary man, one cannot ignore him. He may well be the most important Irish nonfiction writer of the twentieth century, with writings as widely scattered as they have been influential. Volume I, Narrative is the biography of one of the most controversial, engaging, and courageous individuals of this century. Volume II, Anthology brings together his best short pieces, many of which originally appeared in such periodicals as the Spectator, the New Republic, Harper's, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Observer, and the New York Review of Books and have never been reprinted. A complete bibliography of O'Brien's work is also provided.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773565108

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9780773565104

Dark Trade

Lost in Boxing

By: Donald McRae

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Lost in Boxing

By: Donald McRae

WINNER OF THE 1996 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE. In the early 1990s, Donald McRae set out to discover the truth about the intense and forbidding world of professional boxing. Travelling around the States and Britain, he was welcomed into the inner sanctums of some of the greatest fighters of the period - men such as Mike Tyson, Chris Eubank, Oscar de la Hoya, Frank Bruno, Evander Holyfield and Naseem Hamed among them. They opened up to him, revealing unforgettable personal stories from both inside and outside the ring, and explaining why it is that some are driven to compete in this most brutal of sports, risking their health and even their lives. The result is a classic account of boxing that remains as fresh and entertaining as when it was first published almost 20 years ago. McRae approaches his subjects with wit, compassion and insight, and the result was a book that was a deserved winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471135381

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All about . . . Crosswords, Vol 4

All about Composers

By: Donald Moore

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All about . . . Crosswords, Vol 4

All about Composers

By: Donald Moore

These 20 puzzles cover the major composers, from J. S. Bach to Leonard Bernstein, from George Gershwin to John Lennon plus many other major current composers included. Special feature: permission is granted for reproducing the puzzles for in-class use! In addition to the puzzles, author Donald Moore includes instructions and use suggestions, helpful word lists, a bibliography and, at the end, complete solutions.

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Alfred Music Publishing

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ISBN 10

0898987563

ISBN 13

9780898987560

Book's by Donald Richie

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