Gary Beadle's Books

Gaz (And my Parsnip) - The Autobiography of Geordie Shore's Ultimate Lad

By: Gary Beadle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Gaz (And my Parsnip) - The Autobiography of Geordie Shore's Ultimate Lad

By: Gary Beadle

You've seen him head home with countless hotties and a megawatt grin on his face â€" now learn how he does it...In 2011, loveable ladies magnet Gary Beadle was jobless and down to his last £20 when he was randomly asked to be in a new reality TV show called Geordie Shore. He'd never even heard of its American predecessor, Jersey Shore, but with his only prospects being his next dole cheque â€" and swayed by the prospect of some great nights out â€" he signed himself up for the challenge. He could never have anticipated the insane new life he was about to lead.From a shy youngster at school, who was the captain of his football team, Gary also never expected the effect he would have on the British public â€" especially its women. After leaving school at 16, Gary fell into a variety of jobs, even having a brief spell in the Royal Marines. Unfortunately, nothing stuck and, by the time he reached 22, he hadn't a clue what to do next â€" until the night he was asked to join the cast of MTV's Geordie Shore.Now, for the first time, Gary reveals what growing up in his native Newcastle was like, explains his winning luck with the ladies, and offers up his much sought after tips on how to bag a bird on a night out: something he's proved he's pretty much an expert at.From job-hunting to making public appearances in front of thousands of screaming girls, Gary is secretly amazed by the change in his fortunes. He may be known for his crazy, fun-loving nature, but there's much more to Gary than girls, booze and nights out. And it's all packed into this â€" his autobiography.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

218

Publisher

Kings Road Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1784184101

ISBN 13

9781784184100

Kneeling with Giants

Learning to Pray with History's Best Teachers

By: Gary Neal Hansen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Kneeling with Giants

Learning to Pray with History's Best Teachers

By: Gary Neal Hansen

This guide to prayer, rooted in centuries of Christian tradition, introduces figures such as St. Benedict, Martin Luther, John Calvin, St. Ignatius, Teresa of Ávila and Andrew Murray. You'll learn how each of these spiritual giants uniquely connected to God through prayer and have an opportunity to practice each different method yourself.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

239

Publisher

InterVarsity Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0830869840

ISBN 13

9780830869848

Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah

By: John Gary Maxwell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah

By: John Gary Maxwell

For years Robert Newton Baskin (1837–1918) may have been the most hated man in Utah. Yet his promotion of federal legislation against polygamy in the late 1800s and his work to bring the Mormon territory into a republican form of government were pivotal in Utah’s achievement of statehood. The results of his efforts also contributed to the acceptance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by the American public. In this engaging biography—the first full-length analysis of the man—author John Gary Maxwell presents Baskin as the unsung father of modern Utah. As Maxwell shows, Baskin’s life was defined by conflict and paradox. Educated at Harvard Law School, Baskin lived as a member of a minority: a “gentile” in Mormon Utah. A loner, he was highly respected but not often included in the camaraderie of contemporary non-Mormon professionals. When it came to the Saints, Baskin’s role in the legal aftermath of the Mountain Meadows massacre did not endear him to the Mormon people or their leadership. He was convinced that Brigham Young made John D. Lee the scapegoat—the planner and perpetrator of the massacre—to obscure complicity of the LDS church. Baskin was successful in Utah politics despite using polygamy as a sledgehammer against Utah’s theocratic government and despite his role as a federal prosecutor. He was twice elected mayor of Salt Lake City, served in the Utah legislature, and became chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court. He was also a visionary city planner—the force behind the construction of the Salt Lake City and County Building, which remains the architectural rival of the city’s Mormon temple. For more than a century historians have maligned Baskin or ignored him. Maxwell brings the man to life in this long-overdue exploration of a central figure in the history of Utah and of the LDS church.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

410

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806189282

ISBN 13

9780806189284

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2

Nonpasserines - Diurnal Birds of Prey through Woodpeckers

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2

Nonpasserines - Diurnal Birds of Prey through Woodpeckers

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John M. Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael C.E. McNall

This volume completes the nonpasserine species and contains accounts for the diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

645

Publisher

UBC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0774844361

ISBN 13

9780774844369

Newgate Narratives Vol 1

By: Gary Kelly

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Newgate Narratives Vol 1

By: Gary Kelly

Presents a representative body of Romantic and early Victorian crime literature. This work contains ephemeral material ranging from gallows broadsides to reports into prison conditions. It is suitable for those studying Literature, Romantic and Victorian popular culture, Dickens Studies and the History of Criminology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

583

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351221418

ISBN 13

9781351221412

The Birth of the Mind

How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates The Complexities of Human Thought

By: Gary Marcus

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Birth of the Mind

How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates The Complexities of Human Thought

By: Gary Marcus

In The Birth of the Mind , award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome project to the development of the brain. Startling findings have recently revealed that the genome is much smaller than we once thought, containing no more than 30,000-40,000 genes. Since this discovery, scientists have struggled to understand how such a tiny number of genes could contain the instructions for building the human brain, arguably the most complex device in the known universe. Synthesizing up-to-the-minute biology with his own original findings on child development, Marcus is the first to resolve this apparent contradiction by chronicling exactly how genes create the infinite complexities of the human mind. Along the way, he dispels the common misconceptions people harbor about genes, and explores the stunning implications of this research for the future of genetic engineering. Vibrantly written and completely accessible to the lay reader, The Birth of the Mind will forever change the way we think about our origins and ourselves.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

296

Publisher

Basic Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0786724633

ISBN 13

9780786724635

Bret Harte

A Bibliography

By: Gary Scharnhorst

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bret Harte

A Bibliography

By: Gary Scharnhorst

The prototype of the modern man of letters as a man of business, Harte epitomized the professional writer in America immediately after the Civil War. Nor was his career short-lived. His collected writings run to twenty-five volumes, and his tales were regularly translated into German, French, Italian, Swedish, Russian, and other languages. Part I of this volume lists first printings and many reprintings and translations of nearly 850 of Harte's poems, stories, and plays. It reconstructs his lecture tours and the performance schedules of several plays and lists texts falsely attributed to him. Part II lists a number of documentary sources, many of them new to Harte scholarship, including interviews, a selection of Harte obituaries, and archives that hold Harte manuscripts.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

278

Publisher

Scarecrow Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0810830671

ISBN 13

9780810830677

Religion in the Oval Office

The Religious Lives of American Presidents

By: Gary Scott Smith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Religion in the Oval Office

The Religious Lives of American Presidents

By: Gary Scott Smith

Continuing the work of Faith and the Presidency (OUP 2006), Gary Scott Smith takes on eleven more US presidents and examines the role religion played in their policies, personal lives, and decisions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

665

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199391394

ISBN 13

9780199391394

White Zombie

Anatomy of a Horror Film

By: Gary D. Rhodes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

White Zombie

Anatomy of a Horror Film

By: Gary D. Rhodes

The 1932 horror film White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi has received controversial attention from film reviewers and scholars--but it is unarguably a cult classic worthy of study. This book analyzes the film text from nearly every possible viewpoint, using both academic and popular film theories. Also supplied is an extensive intellectual history of the predecessor works to White Zombie, as well as information on the significance it carried for subsequent books and films, its theatrical release around the country, its modern cultural influence, and the attempts to restore the film to its original state. Other noteworthy features of this work include an in-depth biography of White Zombie director Victor Halperin, the first complete study of his life and career, and 244 images and photographs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

361

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476604916

ISBN 13

9781476604916

Shakespeare and the Law

By: Gary Watt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Shakespeare and the Law

By: Gary Watt

Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical practices of dramatists and lawyers were informed by the renaissance of classical practice. It argues that Shakespeare was not primarily concerned with the technical accuracy of law, legal ideas, and legal performances, but with their capacity to generate dramatic interest through dispute, trial, the breaking of bonds, and the bending of rules. It follows that all Shakespeare's plays are in a sense “law plays”. Rhetorical practices can emerge as performances of power, but in Shakespeare's works they show more as instances of the human instinct to challenge power by playing with rules. Shakespeare employs the special magic of legal language, actions, and materials to conjure playgoers to act as a critical jury to events transacted on stage. This calls for close attention to Shakespeare's poetic sound effects and the ways they prompt audiences to confer a fair hearing.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

209

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198877099

ISBN 13

9780198877097

The Civil War Years in Utah

The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight

By: John Gary Maxwell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Civil War Years in Utah

The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight

By: John Gary Maxwell

In 1832 Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormons’ first prophet, foretold of a great war beginning in South Carolina. In the combatants’ mutual destruction, God’s purposes would be served, and Mormon men would rise to form a geographical, political, and theocratic “Kingdom of God” to encompass the earth. Three decades later, when Smith’s prophecy failed with the end of the American Civil War, the United States left torn but intact, the Mormons’ perspective on the conflict—and their inactivity in it—required palliative revision. In The Civil War Years in Utah, the first full account of the events that occurred in Utah Territory during the Civil War, John Gary Maxwell contradicts the patriotic mythology of Mormon leaders’ version of this dark chapter in Utah history. While the Civil War spread death, tragedy, and sorrow across the continent, Utah Territory remained virtually untouched. Although the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—and its faithful—proudly praise the service of an 1862 Mormon cavalry company during the Civil War, Maxwell’s research exposes the relatively inconsequential contribution of these Nauvoo Legion soldiers. Active for a mere ninety days, they patrolled overland trails and telegraph lines. Furthermore, Maxwell finds indisputable evidence of Southern allegiance among Mormon leaders, despite their claim of staunch, long-standing loyalty to the Union. Men at the highest levels of Mormon hierarchy were in close personal contact with Confederate operatives. In seeking sovereignty, Maxwell contends, the Saints engaged in blatant and treasonous conflict with Union authorities, the California and Nevada Volunteers, and federal policies, repeatedly skirting open warfare with the U.S. government. Collective memory of this consequential period in American history, Maxwell argues, has been ill-served by a one-sided perspective. This engaging and long-overdue reappraisal finally fills in the gaps, telling the full story of the Civil War years in Utah Territory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

373

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806155272

ISBN 13

9780806155272

Newgate Narratives Vol 3

By: Gary Kelly

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Newgate Narratives Vol 3

By: Gary Kelly

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

494

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351221337

ISBN 13

9781351221337

Worktowners at Blackpool

Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s

By: Gary Cross

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Worktowners at Blackpool

Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s

By: Gary Cross

Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

254

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134953437

ISBN 13

9781134953431

The Birth of the Mind

How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought

By: Gary Fred Marcus

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Birth of the Mind

How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought

By: Gary Fred Marcus

A psychologist offers a detailed study of the genetic underpinnings of human thought, looking at the small number of genes that contain the instructions for building the vastly complex human brain to determine how these genes work, common misconceptions about genes, and their implications for the future of genetic engineering. 30,000 first printing.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

296

Publisher

Basic Civitas Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0465044050

ISBN 13

9780465044054

Morning Comes to Elk Mountain

Dispatches from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

By: Gary Lantz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Morning Comes to Elk Mountain

Dispatches from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

By: Gary Lantz

Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} Organized as a series of monthly journal entries, Morning Comes to Elk Mountain is Lantz’s response to ten years of exploring the rough and unexpected beauty of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Oklahoma. A combination of memoir, natural history, Native American history, and geology, this book is enriched by 20 color photos and a map to appeal to the seasoned visitor as well as the newcomer to the refuge. The national wildlife refuge that’s the focus of the book was among the first established by President Theodore Roosevelt. He helped save the Wichitas from miners and land speculators, and instead the harsh yet scenic area became the nation’s first bison refuge, established to keep this American icon from slipping into extinction. Today the refuge hosts more than a million visitors a year, most of them coming to hike the trails, climb the rocks, photograph bison and prairie dogs, or simply commune with a beautiful, wild area that remains a spiritual landscape for the Kiowa and Comanche Indians who call it home. “The manuscript is incomparable in its depth and breadth of natural and human history of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and, by extension, of southwestern Oklahoma. Anyone with even a passing interest in the refuge or western Oklahoma would absorb abundant knowledge of the entire region nowhere else available in one volume.”—Gary Clark, author of Backroads of the Texas Hill Country: Your Guide to the Most Scenic Adventures and columnist for the Houston Chronicle “I enjoyed the narrative and the intimacy of the story as well as the photography.”—George Maxey, geology professor

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

268

Publisher

University of North Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1574415271

ISBN 13

9781574415278

Hawthorne's Redemption

The Mystery of The ScArlet Letter

By: Gary P. Cranford

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hawthorne's Redemption

The Mystery of The ScArlet Letter

By: Gary P. Cranford

This book serves to feed human nature with both a religious and literary mood. It may bring the reader a little closer to an understanding of life's complexities, or it may challenge the reader's own philosophical self, as he or she discovers the unraveling of Hawthorne's. The editor of the book, which has been composed from his memory of an unknown student's work, claims to have unearthed a rare discovery that may unveil a mystery that has puzzled the best of minds in the literary field for many years. In the words of its author, his purpose is clear: "I have thought to publish my interpretations of Hawthorne's novel so that those critics in the field of literature, who will, may have additional cause for which to expound their intelligence, either in trying to better understand this mystery, or to salvage the old cherished ambiguities by which the public brain is presently intoxicated. If I am correct in only a few of my impressions, hopefully the main ones, we shall have to reappraise Hawthorne as a literary prophet who hoped for and predicted a future time when mankind would look more favorable upon the creation, man." Both the author and editor send the reader on a journey into the mind and heart of an American icon which have too long been misunderstood and underappreciated. He asks the reader to drink deep from the depths of his or her own intuitive awakenings, and encourages each to rediscover the man who created The Scarlet Letter. In so doing, one may see the vexations and conflicts in his own life as a "dark necessity" to be endured, as in the character of his beloved Hester, who speaks to the heart of every human, and in behalf of our own human nature.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

569

Publisher

AuthorHouse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1477270159

ISBN 13

9781477270158

In Search of the Paper Tiger

A Sociological Perspective of Myth, Formula, and the Mystery Genre in the Entertainment Print Mass Medium

By: Gary Hoppenstand

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In Search of the Paper Tiger

A Sociological Perspective of Myth, Formula, and the Mystery Genre in the Entertainment Print Mass Medium

By: Gary Hoppenstand

The author examines the process of social life and the relationship of myth, popular formula, and the mystery genre to social psychology. The book presents social construction of reality theory as a methodology upon which the structure of mass-mediated popular fiction can be examined, postulating definitions of myth and formula and advancing a new language of literary analysis that acknowledges the socially defining, democratizing experience of popular fiction. Social-psychological analysis is focused on the mystery genre and examines its taxonomy, including the supernatural, fiction noir, gangster, thief, thriller, and detective formulas.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

146

Publisher

Popular Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0879723564

ISBN 13

9780879723569

Smokin' Rockets

The Romance of Technology in American Film, Radio and Television, 1945-1962

By: Patrick Lucanio,Gary Coville

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Smokin' Rockets

The Romance of Technology in American Film, Radio and Television, 1945-1962

By: Patrick Lucanio,Gary Coville

Science and technology had a significant influence on American culture and thought in the years immediately following World War II. The new wonders of science and the threat of the Soviet Union as a powerful new enemy made science fiction a popular genre in radio, television, and film. Mutant creatures spawned by radioactive energy and intergalactic dictators unleashing horrific weapons upon Earth were characteristic of science fiction at the time and served as warnings to the very real dangers posed by the atomic age. This work examines science and science fiction in American culture beginning in the year World War II ended and going to 1962, the year of John Glenn's orbital flight and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The radio work of Arch Oboler and the significance of his "Rocket from Manhattan," which aired only one month after the dropping of the first atomic bomb and asked serious questions about the use of atomic energy, are examined. Other topics are the conflict between the free world and the Communist world in the context of science fiction plot lines, the dangers of science as shown in films like Godzilla, Them!, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and radio and television programs, the flying saucer phenomenon and the treatment of such stories in the media (with special attention given to the 1956 documentary UFO), the changing and more positive depictions of scientists, television programs like Flash Gordon and Space Patrol, the shift in the balance of world power due to the successful launching of Sputnik I by the Russians in 1957, the "end of the world" theme in science fiction, and the American journey into space.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

078641233X

ISBN 13

9780786412334

Breaking Through Barriers to Boys' Achievement

Developing a Caring Masculinity

By: Gary Wilson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Breaking Through Barriers to Boys' Achievement

Developing a Caring Masculinity

By: Gary Wilson

Examines research findings and provides strategies to help teachers break through the barriers and raise boys' achievement. The emphasis is not simply increasing academic achievement but developing a 'caring masculinity'.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

181

Publisher

A&C Black

Published Date

ISBN 10

140819354X

ISBN 13

9781408193549

The Story of Drama

Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Greeks to the Present

By: Gary Day

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Story of Drama

Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Greeks to the Present

By: Gary Day

Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this book offers readers an exceptional study of the development of both genres, grounded in analysis of landmark plays and their context. It argues that sacrifice is central to both genres, and demonstrates how it provides a key to understanding the grand sweep of Western drama. For students of literature and drama the volume serves as an accessible companion to over two millennia of drama organised by period, and reveals how sacrifice represents a through-line running from classical drama to today's reality TV and blockbuster movies. Across the chapters devoted to each period, Day explores how the meanings of sacrifice change over time, but never quite disappear. He charts the influences of religion, social change and politics on the status and purposes of theatre in each period, and on the drama itself. But it is through a close study of key plays that he reveals the continuities centred around sacrifice that persist and which illuminate aspects of human psychology and social organisation. Among the many plays and events considered are Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmorphia, Menander's The Bad-Tempered Man, the spectacles of the Roman Games, Seneca's The Trojan Women, Plautus's The Rope, the Cycle plays and Everyman from the Middle Ages, Shakespeare's King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, Jonson's Every Man in His Humour, Thomas Otway's The Orphan, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, Beckett' Waiting for Godot, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, Sarah Kane's Blasted and Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy. A conclusion examines the persistence of ideas of sacrifice in today's reality TV and blockbuster movies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1408183536

ISBN 13

9781408183533

Showbus

The Woburn and Duxford Years

By: Gary Seamarks

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Showbus

The Woburn and Duxford Years

By: Gary Seamarks

Nostalgic pictures looking back on the heyday of the UK's biggest bus event at the two main sites that held them, Woburn and Duxford.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

188

Publisher

Amberley Publishing Limited

Published Date

ISBN 10

1445693534

ISBN 13

9781445693538

African Creeks

Estelvste and the Creek Nation

By: Gary Zellar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

African Creeks

Estelvste and the Creek Nation

By: Gary Zellar

A narrative of the African Creek community

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

374

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806138157

ISBN 13

9780806138152

EBOOK: What Is Film Theory?

By: Richard Rushton,Gary Bettinson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

EBOOK: What Is Film Theory?

By: Richard Rushton,Gary Bettinson

...[A]uthoritative, always engaged, and grounded in the detailed study of well chosen films. This is an exceptionally useful introduction, and good to read." Professor James Donald, The University of New South Wales, Australia This engaging and accessible book explores major debates in contemporary film theory, providing a detailed introduction to the central arguments advanced by film theorists since the 1960s. What is Film Theory? outlines the discipline's key theoretical concepts, perspectives, and traditions, and critically examines the assertions posited by exemplary film theorists and philosophers of film. A step-by-step approach to these issues guides the reader through the central topics of film theory. Beginning with a discussion of structuralism and semiotics, and moving through debates on psychoanalysis, feminism, Screen theory, and cultural studies, the authors then examine the perspectives of 'post-theory', cognitivism, and historical poetics, as well as recent developments such as audience research and the 'cinema of attractions'. Analysis of the major theories is supported with detailed and wide-ranging case studies of particular films, including Singin' in the Rain, The Searchers, Tout va bien, Jaws, Do the Right Thing, Brokeback Mountain, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. These case studies are accompanied by a series of illustrative film and production stills. What is Film Theory? is indispensable reading for all students of Film and Media Studies, as well as for general readers interested in the debates which have defined film theory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

216

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published Date

ISBN 10

0335240380

ISBN 13

9780335240388

Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London

Communities and Reforms

By: Gary G Gibbs

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London

Communities and Reforms

By: Gary G Gibbs

Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London presents linked microhistorical studies of five London parishes, using their own parish records to reconstruct their individual operations, religious practices, and societies. The parish was a foundational institution in Tudor London. Every layperson inhabited one and they interacted with their neighbors in a variety of parochial activities and events. Each chapter in this book explores a different parish in a different part of the city, revealing their unique cultures, societies,, and economies against the backdrop of presiding themes and developments of the age. Through detailed microhistorical analysis, patterns of collective behavior, parishioner relationships, and parish leadership are highlighted, providing a new perspective on the period. The reader is drawn into the local neighborhoods and able to trace how people living in the Tudor era experienced the tumultuous changes of their time. This book is ideal for scholars and students of early modern history, microhistory, parish studies, the history of the English reformation, and those with an interest in administrative history of the late medieval and early modern periods.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

202

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429640439

ISBN 13

9780429640438

The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law

Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production

By: Gary Watt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law

Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production

By: Gary Watt

From Trump's 'make America great again' to Johnson's 'build back better', performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law 'makers' do it too: A courtroom trial is a 'truth factory' in which facts are not found but forged. The 'court of popular opinion' is another such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its products faulty. Where courts of law aim to make civil peace, 'trial by Twitter' makes civil strife. Even in 'mainstream' media, journalists make news for public consumption, so that all news is to an extent 'fake news'. In a world of making, how can we separate craft from craftiness? With insights from disciplines including law, politics, rhetoric, media studies, psychology, sociology, marketing, and performance studies, The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law offers a constructive way to approach controversies from transgender identity to cancel culture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

317

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009336401

ISBN 13

9781009336406

Newgate Narratives Vol 4

By: Gary Kelly

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Newgate Narratives Vol 4

By: Gary Kelly

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

476

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351221280

ISBN 13

9781351221283

Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841 Vol 5

By: Harriet Devine Jump,Gary Kelly

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841 Vol 5

By: Harriet Devine Jump,Gary Kelly

The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

550

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1040242480

ISBN 13

9781040242483

Breakout

Profiles in African Rhythm

By: Gary Stewart

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Breakout

Profiles in African Rhythm

By: Gary Stewart

Based on exclusive interviews, Breakout tells the often riveting personal stories of fourteen popular musicians—some well known, others not—from Zaire, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The first book on African pop music to look closely at the lives of the musicians themselves, Breakout deals with four African musical genres: soukous, highlife, afro-beat, and palm wine. Amid Africa's deepening economic and political crises of the last two decades, African musicians who developed these genres faced the need to cross cultural boundaries, or "break out," and achieve a hit in the international marketplace. Challenging conventional assumptions, Gary Stewart demonstrates for the first time the true dimensions of this struggle to create music that will qualify as both an authentic cultural expression and an export commodity. From accounts of the outrageous Fela, who snipes at African leaders and recounts his days with Isis in ancient Egypt, to S. E. Rogie, who lurches from the pinnacle of stardom in West Africa to delivering pizzas in California, to Olatunji, who finds new life with the Grateful Dead, these are the stories of Africans straddling traditional life and an encroaching modernity—and also the stories of third world musicians surmounting political and economic chaos at home and carrying their music to a world dominated by Western cultural and economic power.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

172

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226774066

ISBN 13

9780226774060

Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works

By: Thomas Middleton,Gary Taylor,John Lavagnino

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works

By: Thomas Middleton,Gary Taylor,John Lavagnino

Thomas Middleton is one of the few playwrights in English whose range and brilliance comes close to Shakespeare's. This handsome edition makes all Middleton's work accessible in a single volume, for the first time. It will generate excitement and controversy among all readers of Shakespeare and the English classics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

2018

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198185693

ISBN 13

9780198185697

Discovery Men

The Fairweather Party and Montana's El Dorado

By: Gary R. Forney

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Discovery Men

The Fairweather Party and Montana's El Dorado

By: Gary R. Forney

There is no available information at this time.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

211

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1469104318

ISBN 13

9781469104317

Kate Field

The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist

By: Gary Scharnhorst

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Kate Field

The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist

By: Gary Scharnhorst

Kate Field was among the first celebrity journalists. A literary and cultural sensation, she reported the news while frequently becoming news herself because of her sharp wit and vibrant presence. She wrote for several prestigious newspapers, such as the Boston Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Herald, as well her own Kate Field’s Washington. Field’s friends and professional acquaintances included Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot. Legendary novelist Henry James patterned the character of Henrietta Stackpole after her in The Portrait of a Lady. In this eloquent and immensely readable biography, Gary Scharnhorst offers a fascinating, often poignant portrait of a fiercely intelligent and enormously independent woman who contributed significantly to America’s intellectual and social life in the late nineteenth century. Kate Field was an outspoken advocate for the rights of black Americans and founder of the first woman’s club in America. She campaigned to make Yosemite a national park and saved John Brown’s Adirondack farm for the nation. The range of Field’s activities should foster interest in her biography from students and scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, women’s studies, journalism, and biography, and from both public and academic libraries.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

336

Publisher

Syracuse University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0815608748

ISBN 13

9780815608745

The Columbia History of American Television

By: Gary Edgerton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Columbia History of American Television

By: Gary Edgerton

Television is a form of media without equal. It has revolutionized the way we learn about and communicate with the world and has reinvented the way we experience ourselves and others. More than just cheap entertainment, TV is an undeniable component of our culture and contains many clues to who we are, what we value, and where we might be headed in the future. Media historian Gary R. Edgerton follows the technological developments and increasing cultural relevance of TV from its prehistory (before 1947) to the Network Era (1948-1975) and the Cable Era (1976-1994). He begins with the laying of the first telegraph line in 1844, which gave rise to the idea that images and sounds could be transmitted over long distances. He then considers the remodeling of television's look and purpose during World War II; the gender, racial, and ethnic components of its early broadcasts and audiences; its transformation of postwar America; and its function in the political life of the country. He talks of the birth of prime time and cable, the influence of innovators like Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, Roone Arledge, and Ted Turner, as well as television's entrance into the international market, describing the ascent of such programs as Dallas and The Cosby Show, and the impact these exports have had on transmitting American culture abroad. Edgerton concludes with a discerning look at our current Digital Era (1995-present) and the new forms of instantaneous communication that continue to change America's social, political, and economic landscape. Richly researched and engaging, Edgerton's history tracks television's growth into a convergent technology, a global industry, a social catalyst, a viable art form, and a complex and dynamic reflection of the American mind and character. It took only ten years for television to penetrate thirty-five million households, and by 1983, the average home kept their set on for more than seven hours a day. The Columbia History of American Television illuminates our complex relationship with this singular medium and provides historical and critical knowledge for understanding TV as a technology, an industry, an art form, and an institutional force.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

512

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

023151218X

ISBN 13

9780231512183

Hard Oiler!

The Story of Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad

By: Gary May

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hard Oiler!

The Story of Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad

By: Gary May

A hard-luck Yankee fortune seeker. A Hamilton wagon maker hoping to sell cars to the new railways. A howling swamp so isolated and foul that pioneer farmers had steered it a wide miss. An unlikely trio indeed. And yet these three seemingly unconnected elements came together at just the right moment in time, to create one of the great but little known stories of Canada’s early years. Hard Oiler! is the story of how oil was discovered near Sarnia, Ontario, one hundred and forty years ago, and how the subsequent exploitation of that oil gave birth to what is arguably the world’s most important industry today. This great Canadian milestone can be traced back to the summer of 1858 when James Miller Williams struck oil in Lambton County, in Southwestern Ontario. Soon thereafter Williams dug the first commercial oil well in North America - if not the world - and began refining and marketing his product as machine lubricant and lighting oil. This set off a chain of events that resulted in the establishment of an industry on which our very life today is so heavily dependent. Hard Oiler! traces these events including the gold rush-like frenzy that saw the overnight rise and decline of the frontier town of Oil Springs, and the creation of the much more permanent community of Petrolia, which still flashes its Victorian charm to this day. It also recalls the exotic adventures of Lambton oil drillers as they travelled the globe opening up oil fields from Java to the Ukraine, and from America to Venezuela and the Middle East.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

271

Publisher

Dundurn

Published Date

ISBN 10

1554881846

ISBN 13

9781554881840

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 1

Nonpasserines - Introduction, Loons through Waterfowl

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael McNall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 1

Nonpasserines - Introduction, Loons through Waterfowl

By: Wayne Campbell,Neil K. Dawe,Ian McTaggart-Cowan,John Cooper,Gary W. Kaiser,Michael McNall

This first volume of a remarkable four-volume set on the birds of British Columbia covers eight-six species of nonpasserines, from loons through to waterfowl. Detailed species accounts provide unprecedented coverage of these birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns. Introductory chapters look at the province’s ornithological history, its environment and the methodology used in the volumes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

533

Publisher

UBC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0774844434

ISBN 13

9780774844437

Empire and Globalisation

Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850–1914

By: Gary B. Magee,Andrew S. Thompson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Empire and Globalisation

Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850–1914

By: Gary B. Magee,Andrew S. Thompson

Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often made trade and investment with racial 'outsiders' less appealing, thereby skewing economic activities toward communities perceived to be 'British'. By highlighting the importance of these networks to migration, finance and trade, this book contributes to debates about globalisation in the past and present. It reveals how the networks upon which the era of modern globalisation was built quickly turned in on themselves after 1918, converting racial, ethnic and class tensions into protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia. Avoiding such an outcome is a challenge faced today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

315

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1139487671

ISBN 13

9781139487672

The Life of Mark Twain

The Early Years, 1835-1871

By: Gary Scharnhorst

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Life of Mark Twain

The Early Years, 1835-1871

By: Gary Scharnhorst

This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of Clemens’s life, because the whole of that epic life cannot be compressed into a single volume. In The Life of Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst has chosen to write a complete biography plotted from beginning to end, from a single point of view, on an expansive canvas. With dozens of Mark Twain biographies available, what is left unsaid? On average, a hundred Clemens letters and a couple of Clemens interviews surface every year. Scharnhorst has located documents relevant to Clemens’s life in Missouri, along the Mississippi River, and in the West, including some which have been presumed lost. Over three volumes, Scharnhorst elucidates the life of arguably the greatest American writer and reveals the alchemy of his gifted imagination.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

719

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826274005

ISBN 13

9780826274007

Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse

From Religious Enemies to Allies and Friends

By: Gary K. Waite

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse

From Religious Enemies to Allies and Friends

By: Gary K. Waite

Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse explores for the first time the extent to which the unusual religious diversity and tolerance of the Dutch Republic affected how its residents regarded Jews and Muslims. Analyzing an array of vernacular publications, this book reveals how Dutch writers, especially those within the nonconformist and spiritualist camps, expressed positive attitudes toward religious diversity in general, and Jews and Muslims in particular. Through covering the Eighty Years War (1568-1648) and the post-war era, it also highlights how the Dutch search for allies against Spain led them to approach Muslim rulers. The Dutch were assisted in this by their positive relations with Jews, and were thus able to shape a more affirmative portrayal of Islam. Revealing noticeable differences in language and tone between English and Dutch publications and exploring societal attitudes and culture, Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse is ideal for students of British and Dutch early-modern cultural, intellectual, and religious history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351108972

ISBN 13

9781351108973

Book's by Gary Beadle

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email