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Demographic Vistas

Television in American Culture

By: David Marc

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Demographic Vistas

Television in American Culture

By: David Marc

In Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to focus on key personalities and genres in ways that reward serious students and casual viewers alike. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Horace Newcomb and a new introduction by the author that discusses the ways in which the nature of television criticism has changed since the book's original publication in 1984. A new final chapter explores the paradox of the diminishing importance of over-the-air broadcasting during the period of television's greatest expansion, which has been brought about by complex technologies such as cable, videocassette recorders, and online services.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812202716

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9780812202717

Emans, Laufer, Goldstein's Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

By: S. Jean Emans,Marc R. Laufer

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Emans, Laufer, Goldstein's Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

By: S. Jean Emans,Marc R. Laufer

Offering multidisciplinary guidance to all health care practitioners who provide clinical care for children and adolescents, the 7th Edition of Emans, Laufer, Goldstein’s Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology has been extensively revised to keep you up to date in this complex field. You’ll find comprehensive coverage of the full spectrum of medical and surgical approaches to common and uncommon problems – everything from infants with vulvar rashes, to the child with early or late onset of puberty, to adolescents and young adults with ovarian cysts or STDs. More than 40 experts in the field, led by editors from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, have contributed to ensure this classic text remains relevant and useful in daily practice.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975107454

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9781975107451

Michael Douglas

A Biography

By: Marc Eliot

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Michael Douglas

A Biography

By: Marc Eliot

A groundbreaking portrait of one of Hollywood’s most successful stars, from critically acclaimed and bestselling biographer Marc Eliot Through determination, inventiveness, and charisma, Michael Douglas emerged from the long shadow cast by his movie-legend father, Kirk Douglas, to become his own man and one of the film industry’s most formidable players. Overcoming the curse of failure that haunts the sons and daughters of Hollywood celebrities, Michael became a sensation when he successfully brought One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, starring his friend Jack Nicholson, to the screen after numerous setbacks, including his father’s own failed attempts to make it happen. This 1975 box-office phenomenon won Michael his first Oscar (the film won five total, including Best Picture), an award Kirk hadn’t won at the time, and solidified the turbulent, competitive father-son relationship that would shape Michael’s career and personal life. In the decades that followed, Michael established a reputation for taking chances on new talent and projects by producing and starring in the hugely successful Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile movies, while cultivating a multifaceted acting persona—edgy, rebellious, and a little dark—in such films as Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and Disclosure. Yet as his career thrived, Michael’s personal life floundered, with an unhappy and tumultuous first marriage, rumors of infidelity (especially with leading ladies such as Kathleen Turner), and a headline-grabbing stint in rehab. Rocked by a series of tragedies, including Kirk’s strokes, his son Cameron’s incarceration, and his own fight against throat cancer, Michael has emerged triumphant, healthy, and happy in his marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, a Welsh actress twenty-five years his junior, and their new young family. In Michael Douglas, Marc Eliot brings into sharp focus this incredible career, complicated personal life, and legendary Hollywood family. Eliot’s fascinating portrait of the lows and remarkable highs in Michael’s life—including the thorny yet influential relationship with his father—breaks boundaries in understanding the life and work of a true American film star.

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Crown

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0307952371

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9780307952370

Household Horror

Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects

By: Marc Olivier

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Household Horror

Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects

By: Marc Olivier

A scholar examines 14 everyday objects featured in horror films and how they manifest their power and speak to society’s fears. Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine fashioned Carrie’s prom dress, and houseplants might kill you while you sleep. In Household Horror, Marc Olivier highlights the wonder, fear, and terrifying dimension of objects in horror cinema. Inspired by object-oriented ontology and the nonhuman turn in philosophy, Olivier places objects in film on par with humans, arguing, for example, that a sleeper sofa is as much the star of Sisters as Margot Kidder, that The Exorcist is about a possessed bed, and that Rosemary’s Baby is a conflict between herbal shakes and prenatal vitamins. Household Horror reinvigorates horror film criticism by investigating the unfathomable being of objects as seemingly benign as remotes, radiators, refrigerators, and dining tables. Olivier questions what Hitchcock’s Psycho tells us about shower curtains. What can we learn from Freddie Krueger’s greatest accomplice, the mattress? Room by room, Olivier considers the dark side of fourteen household objects to demonstrate how the objects in these films manifest their own power and connect with specific cultural fears and concerns. “Provides a lively and highly original contribution to horror studies. As a work on cinema, it introduces the reader to films that may be less well-known to casual fans and scholars; more conspicuously, it returns to horror staples, gleefully reanimating works that one might otherwise assume had been critically “done to death” (Psycho, The Exorcist, The Shining).” —Allan Cameron, University of Auckland

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Indiana University Press

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0253046580

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9780253046581

Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand

By: Marc Woodworth

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Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand

By: Marc Woodworth

Marc Woodworth's book covers the album's long and unorthodox period of writing, recording, sequencing, and editing. It includes interviews with members of the band, manager Pete Jamison, web-master and GBV historian Rich Turiel and Robert Griffin of Scat Records. At least sixty-five songs were recorded and considered for the album and five distinct concepts were rejected before the band hit upon the records final form. One late version, very nearly released, contained only a few of Bee Thousand's definitive songs. The rest were left out and nearly ended up in the boxes of cassette out-takes cluttering up Robert Pollard's basement. The story of Guided By Voices transformation from an occasional and revolving group of complete unknowns to indie-rock heroes is very much part of the story behind the making of Bee Thousand. In addition to providing a central account of how the record was made, Woodworth devotes a substantial chapter to the album's lyrics. Robert Pollard's lyrics are described by critics, when they're described at all, as a brand of tossed-off surrealism, as if his verbal sensibility is somehow incidental to the songs themselves. Nothing could be further from the truth. Woodworth offers a sustained discussion of Pollard's work as a writer of often sublime, beautiful, and very human lyrics. The third key section of the book covers aesthetics. Woodworth considers the great appeal of the do-it-yourself nature of Bee Thousand and reflects on the larger importance of the strain of alternative rock for which this record is a touchstone.

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169

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441148477

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9781441148476

Hollywood's New Yorker

The Making of Martin Scorsese

By: Marc Raymond

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Hollywood's New Yorker

The Making of Martin Scorsese

By: Marc Raymond

A fresh look at the director’s career.

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SUNY Press

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1438445717

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9781438445717

American Rebel

The Life of Clint Eastwood

By: Marc Eliot

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American Rebel

The Life of Clint Eastwood

By: Marc Eliot

In American Rebel, bestselling author and acclaimed film historian Marc Eliot examines the ever-exciting, often-tumultuous arc of Clint Eastwood's life and career. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood--one of film's greatest living legends--represents some of the finest cinematic achievements in the history of American cinema. Eliot writes with unflinching candor about Eastwood's highs and lows, his artistic successes and failures, and the fascinating, complex relationship between his life and his craft. Eliot's prodigious research reveals how a college dropout and unambitious playboy rose to fame as Hollywood's "sexy rebel," eventually and against all odds becoming a star in the Academy pantheon as a multiple Oscar winner. Spanning decades, American Rebel covers the best of Eastwood's oeuvre, films that have fast become American classics: Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, and Gran Torino. Filled with remarkable insights into Eastwood's personal life and public work, American Rebel is highly entertaining and the most complete biography of one of Hollywood's truly respected and beloved stars–-an actor who, despite being the Man with No Name, has left his indelible mark on the world of motion pictures.

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Crown

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0307336891

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9780307336897

Crossroads and Cultures, Volume II: Since 1300

A History of the World's Peoples

By: Bonnie G. Smith,Marc Van De Mieroop,Richard von Glahn,Kris Lane

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Crossroads and Cultures, Volume II: Since 1300

A History of the World's Peoples

By: Bonnie G. Smith,Marc Van De Mieroop,Richard von Glahn,Kris Lane

Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World’s Peoples incorporates the best current cultural history into a fresh and original narrative that connects global patterns of development with life on the ground. As the title, “Crossroads,” suggests, this new synthesis highlights the places and times where people exchanged goods and commodities, shared innovations and ideas, waged war and spread disease, and in doing so joined their lives to the broad sweep of global history. Students benefit from a strong pedagogical design, abundant maps and images, and special features that heighten the narrative’s attention to the lives and voices of the world’s peoples. Test drive a chapter today. Find out how.

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672

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Macmillan

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0312442149

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9780312442149

Crossroads and Cultures, Volume B: 500-1750

A History of the World's Peoples

By: Bonnie G. Smith,Marc Van De Mieroop,Richard von Glahn,Kris Lane

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Crossroads and Cultures, Volume B: 500-1750

A History of the World's Peoples

By: Bonnie G. Smith,Marc Van De Mieroop,Richard von Glahn,Kris Lane

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Macmillan

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0312571674

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9780312571672

Bereavement and Adaptation

A Comparative Study of the Aftermath of Death

By: Marc Cleiren

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Bereavement and Adaptation

A Comparative Study of the Aftermath of Death

By: Marc Cleiren

This book offers a critical review of the main psychological theories on adaptation after loss followed by an overview of the results of the empirical research on bereavement. It also reflects on the results of the Leiden Bereavement Study, which compares the consequences of death.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317740483

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9781317740483

Crossroads and Cultures, Combined Volume

A History of the World's Peoples

By: Bonnie G. Smith,Marc Van De Mieroop,Richard von Glahn

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A History of the World's Peoples

By: Bonnie G. Smith,Marc Van De Mieroop,Richard von Glahn

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Macmillan

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0312410174

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9780312410179

The American Play

1787-2000

By: Marc Robinson

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The American Play

1787-2000

By: Marc Robinson

In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has--and has not--changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, and many others. Robinson reads each work in an ambitiously interdisciplinary context, linking advances in theater to developments in American literature, dance, and visual art. The author is particularly attentive to the continuities in American drama, and expertly teases out recurring themes, such as the significance of visuality. He avoids neatly categorizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays and depicts a theater more restive and mercurial than has been recognized before. Robinson proves both a fascinating and thought-provoking critic and a spirited guide to the history of American drama.

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Yale University Press

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030015612X

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9780300156126

Expert PHP and MySQL

Application Design and Development

By: Marc Rochkind

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Expert PHP and MySQL

Application Design and Development

By: Marc Rochkind

Expert PHP and MySQL takes you beyond learning syntax to showing you how to apply proven software development methods to building commerce-grade PHP and MySQL projects that will stand the test of time and reliably deliver on customer needs. Developers of real-world applications face numerous problems that seem trivial on the surface, but really do take some skill to get right. Error handling is about more than just the mechanics in the PHP syntax, but also about handling MySQL errors, logging those errors, and about hiding information about application internals that error messages sometimes can expose. Meet these challenges and more head-on! Author Marc Rochkind shows how to begin a project right, with a clear contract and set of written requirements. You’ll learn about project organization, setting up a solid development environment, connecting with client personnel. Database design is essential, and Expert PHP and MySQL has you covered with guidance on creating a sound model and database, and on pushing functionality into the database as appropriate; not everything should be done in PHP. Error handling is covered at both the PHP and MySQL levels. Application structure is covered. Guidance is provided on reporting. And finally there is conversion. In Expert PHP and MySQL you’ll explore the following: The popular and widely used combination of PHP and MySQL Commercial-grade application of language and database features Human factors such as planning and organization Organizing a project to meet requirements and satisfy the customer Structuring an application for efficient development and future modification Coding PHP for productivity, reliability, security Generating online, downloadable, and printed reports Converting existing data to the new application

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Apress

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1430260084

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9781430260080

Mighty Marvelous Little Books

New York

By: Gerald Hoberman,Marc Hoberman

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Mighty Marvelous Little Books

New York

By: Gerald Hoberman,Marc Hoberman

The Gerald & Marc Hoberman Collection's Mighty Marvelous Little Books Are Now Available in A Pre-Packed, 24-Count Countertop Display!

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1919734724

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9781919734729

London

By: Marc Hoberman

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London

By: Marc Hoberman

This volume features text and illustrations from the gift book London published by the Gerald and Marc Hoberman Collection.

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Hoberman

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1919734856

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9781919734859

The Resiliency Playbook

By: Kasthuri Henry,Marc Hoberman

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The Resiliency Playbook

By: Kasthuri Henry,Marc Hoberman

The Resiliency Playbook aims to be your practical hands-on guide to a self-discovery journey. It helps you to first identify our limitations and then expand upon them to intentionally thrive. The only constant in life is change. Without resiliency, navigating the speed and volume of change would be simply daunting. The BAN Plan introduced in this book is expected to 1. Facilitate the identification of the Basic realities of your current challenges 2. Formulate the necessary Adjustments to successfully navigate through your challenges 3. Implement the New game plan to fully live your life purpose It is our hope that we help you push your boundaries to lead an evolving life at home, school, and work; not just to live, but thrive with purpose as you continually grow as a whole person.

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1735955531

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Demographic Vistas

Demographic Vistas

Emans, Laufer, Goldstein's Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Emans, Laufer, Goldstein's Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas

Household Horror

Household Horror

Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand

Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand

Hollywood's New Yorker

Hollywood's New Yorker

American Rebel

American Rebel

Crossroads and Cultures, Volume II: Since 1300

Crossroads and Cultures, Volume II: Since 1300

Crossroads and Cultures, Volume B: 500-1750

Crossroads and Cultures, Volume B: 500-1750

Bereavement and Adaptation

Bereavement and Adaptation

Crossroads and Cultures, Combined Volume

Crossroads and Cultures, Combined Volume

The American Play

The American Play

Expert PHP and MySQL

Expert PHP and MySQL

Mighty Marvelous Little Books

Mighty Marvelous Little Books

London

London

The Resiliency Playbook

The Resiliency Playbook

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