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Seven Years in Sodom

By: Gary Paul Lukas

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SEVEN YEARS IN SODOM SEVEN FRANCISCO, AN URBAN MISSION REVEALS: - A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF AN URBAN MISSIONARY AND HIS FAMILY. - A HISTORY OF THE CITY AND ITS CHURCHES - A RISE AND FALL OF MANY. - A PLANTING OF A CHURCH - A PATHWAY FEW WOULD DARE TROD. - A DIVIDED CITY - A CHOICE AND A CALL. - A LOOK AT ITS BEAUTY AND ITS DARKSIDE. - A VIEW OF THE CITY'S HEART OR PERHAPS THAT OF A NATION. - A FAITHFUL GOD IN THE MIDST OF HIS PEOPLE. AS TOLD BY THE FORMER "CHAPLAIN OF BROADWAY

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Xulon Press

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ISBN 10

161215056X

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9781612150567

Natural Selection

Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books

By: Gary Giddins

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Natural Selection

Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books

By: Gary Giddins

Long recognized as America's most brilliant jazz writer, the winner of many major awards--including the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award--and author of a highly popular biography of Bing Crosby, Gary Giddins has also produced a wide range of stimulating and original cultural criticism in other fields. With Natural Selection, he brings together the best of these previously uncollected essays, including a few written expressly for this volume. The range of topics is spellbinding. Writing with insight, humor, and a famously deft touch, he offers sharp-edged perspectives on such diverse subjects as Federico Fellini and Jean Renoir, Norman Mailer and Ralph Ellison, Marlon Brando and Groucho Marx, Duke Ellington and Bob Dylan, horror and noir, the cartoon version of Animal Farm and the comic book series Classics Illustrated. Giddins brings to criticism an uncommon ability, long demonstrated in his music writing, to address in very few words an entire career, so that we get an in-depth portrait of the artist beyond the film, book, or recording under review. For instance, Giddins offers a stunning reappraisal of Doris Day, who he terms "the coolest and sexiest female singer of slow ballads in film history." He argues eloquently for a reconsideration of the forgotten German-language novelist Soma Morgenstern. In a section on comedy, he offers fresh perspectives on the three great silent film stars--Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd--while resurrecting the legendary Jack Benny and reevaluating the controversial Jerry Lewis. There's also a memorable look at Bing Crosby's film career (he calls Crosby's blockbuster Going My Way "a neglected masterpiece") and a close examination of Marcel Carne's beloved Children of Paradise. Of course, Giddins also supplies excellent commentary on jazz: major and underrated figures, and especially the uses of jazz in film. A wonderful gathering of little-known treasures, Natural Selection will broaden the perception of Gary Giddins as one of our most important cultural critics.

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434

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019517951X

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9780195179514

Lugosi

His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers

By: Gary Don Rhodes

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Lugosi

His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers

By: Gary Don Rhodes

He was born Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko on October 20, 1882, in Hungary. He joined Budapest's National Theater in 1913 and later appeared in several Hungarian films under the pseudonym Arisztid Olt. After World War I, he helped the Communist regime nationalize Hungary's film industry, but barely escaped arrest when the government was deposed, fleeing to the United States in 1920. As he became a star in American horror films in the 1930s and 1940s, publicists and fan magazines crafted outlandish stories to create a new history for Lugosi. The cinema's Dracula was transformed into one of Hollywood's most mysterious actors. This exhaustive account of Lugosi's work in film, radio, theater, vaudeville and television provides an extensive biographical look at the actor. The enormous merchandising industry built around him is also examined.

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McFarland

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1476600775

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9781476600772

Marketing

An Introduction

By: Gary Armstrong

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Marketing

An Introduction

By: Gary Armstrong

Appropriate for students taking an introductory course in marketing at both the college and university levels. This text balances theory, applications, and pedagogy to provide an effective teaching and learning tool. The "Road to Marketing" aids help students learn, link, and apply important concepts.

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784

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Prentice Hall

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0130391271

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9780130391278

Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk

By: Gary Antonacci

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Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk

By: Gary Antonacci

The investing strategy that famously generates higher returns with substantially reduced risk--presented by the investor who invented it "A treasure of well researched momentum-driven investing processes." Gregory L. Morris, Chief Technical Analyst and Chairman, Investment Committee of Stadion Money Management, LLC, and author of Investing with the Trend Dual Momentum Investing details the author’s own momentum investing method that combines U.S. stock, world stock, and aggregate bond indices--a formula proven to dramatically increase profits while lowering risk. Antonacci reveals how momentum investors could have achieved long-run returns nearly twice as high as the stock market over the past 40 years, while avoiding or minimizing bear market losses--and he provides the information and insight investors need to achieve such success going forward. His methodology is designed to pick up on major changes in relative strength and market trend. Gary Antonacci has over 30 years experience as an investment professional focusing on under exploited investment opportunities. In 1990, he founded Portfolio Management Consultants, which advises private and institutional investors on asset allocation, portfolio optimization, and advanced momentum strategies. He writes and runs the popular blog and website optimalmomentum.com. Antonacci earned his MBA at Harvard.

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238

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071849459

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9780071849456

Under Eros Wings

By: Gary Paul Lukas

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Under Eros Wings

By: Gary Paul Lukas

MISSIONS! MISSIONS! MISSIONS! Jesus has called each of us out! [Matt. 28: 19; Mk. 16: 15] Where has He called me to Go? How can I obey this calling? How do I prepare? How do I get there? If I can't go and really have to stay, what is my part in obeying Jesus' Command to Go? This volume tells of the struggle to fulfill a calling to foreign missions. Obedience sent Gary and his family to London. The mission: To Teach and to Reach. From a small Training college Gary was involved in training others to serve their local church or to serve on a foreign field. Each weekend at "The Hub of the Universe" the Gospel was presented as the world filtered past Gary and "the Piccadilly Preachers." More than a million lost souls were given the opportunity to meet Jesus. You and I have heard our Lord's command. The needs of the lost are crying in our ears. Now, what is your response?

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290

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Xulon Press

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1545647887

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9781545647882

Book's by Gary Paul Lukas

Seven Years in Sodom

Seven Years in Sodom

Natural Selection

Natural Selection

Lugosi

Lugosi

Marketing

Marketing

Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk

Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk

Under Eros Wings

Under Eros Wings

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