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The Memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer

By: Richard Rohmer

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The Memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer

By: Richard Rohmer

A commander of the Order of Military Merit and an Officer of the Order of Canada, Richard Rohmer's military career began in World War II, where he flew over the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, one of a tour of 135 missions for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross. It was this service as a pilot that led to a unique meeting with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Sixty years later Rohmer was appointed the Chair of the Canadian government's D-Day Commemoration Advisory Committee. From negotiating the agreement that led to the McMichael Art Gallery, to lobbying the federal government to develop Canada's north, to re-organizing the militia, Rohmer has been at the centre of many diverse and wide-ranging events in the last half-century. He has flown with President John F. Kennedy, welcomed Queen Elizabeth to Juno Beach on the sixtieth anniversary of D-Day, and written biographies of E.P. Taylor and Peter Munk.

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155002518X

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A Richard Rohmer Omnibus

By: Richard Rohmer

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A Richard Rohmer Omnibus

By: Richard Rohmer

Three of Rohmers fast-paced, best-selling novels in one volume: Ultimatum, Exxoneration, and Periscope Red.

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1550024604

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9781550024609

A Richard Rohmer Omnibus

By: Richard Rohmer

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A Richard Rohmer Omnibus

By: Richard Rohmer

Three of Rohmers fast-paced, best-selling novels in one volume: Ultimatum, Exxoneration, and Periscope Red.

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Ultimatum 2

By: Richard Rohmer

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Ultimatum 2

By: Richard Rohmer

In this action-packed saga, the American president, fed up with paying Russia to clean up its nuclear waste, plans to build an international nuclear waste disposal site in Canada.

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Generally Speaking

The Memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer

By: Richard Rohmer

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The Memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer

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A History of the French New Wave Cinema

By: Richard Neupert

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A History of the French New Wave Cinema

By: Richard Neupert

The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques. A History of the French New Wave Cinema offers a fresh look at the social, economic, and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as well as detailed studies of the most important New Wave movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Richard Neupert first tracks the precursors to New Wave cinema, showing how they provided blueprints for those who would follow. He then demonstrates that it was a core group of critics-turned-directors from the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma—especially François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Jean-Luc Godard—who really revealed that filmmaking was changing forever. Later, their cohorts Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast continued in their own unique ways to expand the range and depth of the New Wave. In an exciting new chapter, Neupert explores the subgroup of French film practice known as the Left Bank Group, which included directors such as Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda. With the addition of this new material and an updated conclusion, Neupert presents a comprehensive review of the stunning variety of movies to come out of this important era in filmmaking.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299217035

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Everything Is Cinema

The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard

By: Richard Brody

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Everything Is Cinema

The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard

By: Richard Brody

When Jean-Luc Godard, exemplary director of the French New Wave, wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Among the greatest cinematic innovations, Godard's films shift fluidly from fiction to documentary, from criticism to art. Similarly, his persona projects shifting images - cultural hero, impassioned loner, shrewd businessman. Hailed by filmmakers as a - if not the - key influence, Godard has entered the modern canon, a figure as mysterious as he is indispensable." "In Everything is Cinema, critic Richard Brody has amassed hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and collaborators to demystify the elusive director and paint the fullest picture yet of his life and work. Paying as much attention to Godard's revolutionary technical inventions as to the political and emotional forces of the postwar world, Brody traces an arc from the director's early critical writing, through his popular success with Breathless and Contempt, to the grand vision of his later years. He vividly depicts Godard's wealthy, conservative family, his fluid and often disturbing politics, his tumultuous dealings with fellow filmmakers, and his troubled relations with women."--Jacket.

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Macmillan

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0805068864

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Modern European cinema and love

By: Richard Rushton

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Modern European cinema and love

By: Richard Rushton

Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard and Éric Rohmer. The book approaches questions of love and marriage from a philosophical perspective, applying the ideas of authors such as Stanley Cavell, Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray and Alain Badiou, while also tracing key concepts from Freudian psychoanalysis. Each of the filmmakers engages deeply with notions of modern love and marriage, often in positive ways, but also in ways that question the institutions of love, marriage and the ‘couple’.

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Manchester University Press

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1526149427

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9781526149428

Chromatic Cinema

A History of Screen Color

By: Richard Misek

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Chromatic Cinema

A History of Screen Color

By: Richard Misek

Chromatic Cinema Color permeates film and its history, but study of its contribution to film has so far been fragmentary. Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving images, from hand painting in early skirt dance films to current trends in digital color manipulation. In this richly illustrated study, Richard Misek offers both a history and a theory of screen color. He argues that cinematic color emerged from, defined itself in response to, and has evolved in symbiosis with black and white. Exploring the technological, cultural, economic, and artistic factors that have defined this evolving symbiosis, Misek provides an in-depth yet accessible account of color’s spread through, and ultimate effacement of, black-and-white cinema.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444332392

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Ghost in the Machine

By: Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir

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Ghost in the Machine

By: Warren Murphy,Richard Sapir

Buried in his debts, billionaire Randal T. Rumpp makes a deal with a fiend who is intent on sending the Big Apple into the darkest depths of the earth, and only Remo and Chiun can stop him.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1035999331

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The Pursuit of Oblivion

A Social History of Drugs

By: Richard Davenport-Hines

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The Pursuit of Oblivion

A Social History of Drugs

By: Richard Davenport-Hines

The most important study on this subject in years, perhaps ever' Phillip Knightley, SUNDAY TIMES A history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed housewives, exhausted labourers, high-powered businessmen, playboys, sex workers, pop stars, seedy losers, stressed adolescents, defiant schoolchildren, the victims of the ghetto, and happy young people on a spree. It is also the history of one bad idea, prohibition. 'You'll find almost everything you ever wanted to know about drugs in this work, except how to get hold of them' Simon Garfield, FINANCIAL TIMES 'Everyone with any influence on government policy should read this book and wake up before it is too late' Phillip Knightley, SUNDAY TIMES

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1780225423

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9781780225425

Film & Light

The History of Filmlighting is the History of Film

By: Richard Blank

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Film & Light

The History of Filmlighting is the History of Film

By: Richard Blank

A comprehensive history of film lighting, from its earliest origins to the heyday of Hollywood dominance - and beyond. This is a book about the art of lighting, "the relevance of pictures, and the responsibility of all those who take pictures of the world and show them". In an age of constant digital snapshots, with their mercilessly artless recording of everything around us, the award-winning director and scriptwriter Richard Blank makes a compelling case for this increasingly neglected art, and for sustaining "the awareness of its responsibility". In Film & Light, Richard Blank draws on examples from a century of pioneering filmmakers - from Griffith to Buñuel, Ophüls to Altman, Rossellini to Scorsese, Eisenstein to Wong Kar-Wai - to trace the historical development of lighting technology, analyse the changing "rules" and techniques of film lighting, and define the key terms surrounding the technical innovations of its art. The close attention he brings to bear on these modern masters - from DeMille to De Sica to Lars von Trier, Niblo to Murnau to Siodmark, via Maurice Tourneur and Fritz Lang, Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles - brilliantly illuminates the hidden art of these past masters, as well as the troubled social context by which they each variously came to shine.

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Alexander Verlag Berlin

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389581394X

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Badlands

A Novel of Suspense

By: Richard Montanari

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Badlands

A Novel of Suspense

By: Richard Montanari

A teenage runaway’s body is found in the basement of a rancid tenement building in the desolate, dangerous North Philly district dubbed the Badlands. The inexplicable cause of death: drowning. Months later, this dormant homicide case stirs back to life. A confession to the bizarre murder sends Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano rushing to make an arrest. But what they find will chill these hardened veterans to the bone. As the body count grows, a terrifying design literally takes shape. Pieces of a gruesome puzzle are being set into place by a madman using the city as his game board. His playthings are the innocent, and his opponents–and pawns–are Byrne and Balzano, who must, before time runs out, decipher the truth about a shadowy house of horrors and its elusive master.

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Ballantine Books

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0345492439

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Amazed By Life

Confessions of a Non-Religious Believer

By: Richard L. Rapson

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Amazed By Life

Confessions of a Non-Religious Believer

By: Richard L. Rapson

Richard L. Rapson is Professor of History at the University of Hawaii. He received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D from Columbia University. Previous to coming to Hawaii, he taught at Amherst, Stanford University, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has written a dozen books of history and has co-authored three works of multidisciplinary scholarship with his wife, Elaine Hatfield. He has also co-authored with her six novels and was co-psychotherapist from 1982 to 1997. The Danforth Foundation honored him as one of the nation?s best teachers.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462805892

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Four Novels of Suspense

The Rosary Girls, The Skin Gods, Merciless, Badlands

By: Richard Montanari

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Four Novels of Suspense

The Rosary Girls, The Skin Gods, Merciless, Badlands

By: Richard Montanari

In internationally bestselling author Richard Montanari’s acclaimed suspense series, veteran homicide cops Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano crack some of the most shocking and terrifying cases ever to hit Philadelphia. From a killer who re-creates Hollywood death scenes to a madman who uses the City of Brotherly Love as his gruesome game board, Byrne and Balzano have seen it all in their relentless pursuit of justice. This convenient eBook bundle takes you back to the beginning with four chilling novels: The Rosary Girls, The Skin Gods, Merciless, and Badlands. Includes an excerpt from Richard Montanari’s The Echo Man, now available exclusively as an eBook. Of this explosive new thriller, bestselling author Thomas Cook raves: “With The Echo Man, we are in the hands of one of the best in the business.”

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Ballantine Books

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0345534549

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9780345534545

Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series

By: Richard B. Armstrong,Mary Willems Armstrong

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Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series

By: Richard B. Armstrong,Mary Willems Armstrong

The first editon was called "the most valuable film reference in several years" by Library Journal. The new edition published in hardcover in 2001 includes more than 670 entries. The current work is a paperback reprint of that edition. Each entry contains a mini-essay that defines the topic, followed by a chronological list of representative films. From the Abominable Snowman to Zorro, this encyclopedia provides film scholars and fans with an easy-to-use reference for researching film themes or tracking down obscure movies on subjects such as suspended animation, viral epidemics, robots, submarines, reincarnation, ventriloquists and the Olympics ("Excellent" said Cult Movies). The volume also contains an extensive list of film characters and series, including B-movie detectives, Western heroes, made-for-television film series, and foreign film heroes and villains.

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McFarland

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1476612307

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9781476612300

The Stolen Ones

By: Richard Montanari

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The Stolen Ones

By: Richard Montanari

In Richard Montanari's chilling new suspense novel, a sealed-off network of secret passages connects all of Philadelphia to the killer hidden within. Luther Wade grew up in Cold River, a warehouse for the criminally insane. Two decades ago the hospital closed it doors forever, but Luther never left. He wanders the catacombs beneath the city, channeling the violent dreams of Eduard Kross, Europe's most prolific serial killer of the 20th century. A two-year-old girl is found wandering the streets of Philadelphia in the middle of the night by detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. She does not speak, but she may hold the key to solving a string of murders committed in and around Priory Park. As the detectives investigate, more bodies are found at Priory Park, and they're drawn closer and closer to the doors of Luther's devious maze and the dark secrets of Cold River.

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Hachette+ORM

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0316244694

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9780316244695

Godard

By: Richard Roud

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Godard

By: Richard Roud

Richard Roud's Godard, first published in 1967 as 'Number One' in the seminal Cinema One series, was the first monograph on the great film-maker to be published in English, and one that reveals a unique intimacy between the author and his subject. Roud's provocative and far-reaching analysis shows an intuitive understanding of the aesthetic, intellectual and political context in which Godard worked, paying particular attention to his 'political' cinema, including the ferocious masterpiece Weekend (1967). In his foreword to this reissue, Michael Temple provides an overview of film criticism on Godard, arguing that, more than forty years since its publication, Roud's book remains at the forefront of writings on the director. Temple pinpoints how Roud was uniquely placed as a contemporary of Godard's to follow the film-maker's career from one explosive film to the next, charting the course of the Godardian star even as Roud's own career as a critic and festival programmer was unfolding. He contends that Roud's study was 'a pure product – and a faithful reflection – of a certain tendency in British film culture at the end of the 1960s: cinéphile, progressive, European, intellectual, metropolitan.' For Temple, Roud's work remains a lucid summary of what Godard had already achieved by the end of the 1960s, and provides a suggestive model of cultural criticism with which to approach subsequent aspects of Godard's multimedia artistic adventure.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838715975

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9781838715977

Shutter Man

By: Richard Montanari

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Shutter Man

By: Richard Montanari

Plagued with a rare disease that prevents him from recognizing faces, Billy carries a photograph in his pocket that is his only way of identifying his next target. Killing is in Billy's bloodline, as a member of Philadelphia's dangerous Farren crime family. While Billy stalks Philadelphia, Detective Kevin Byrne is assigned to a series of bizarre home-invasion cases and is joined by his former partner-turned-assistant district attorney, Jessica Balzano. Their investigations circle Byrne's childhood neighborhood of Devil's Pocket, and they find themselves revisiting a crime from Byrne's past that has haunted him for decades. What Byrne witnessed as a child in Devil's Pocket jeopardizes the Farren family -- which makes him the next target on Billy's hit list. A multigenerational story of hardship, guilt, and redemption, Shutter Man is Byrne and Balzano's most tense and personal case to date. One of The New York Times's 10 Best Crime Novels of 2016

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Mulholland Books

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0316244783

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9780316244787

Progress in Drug Research

By: Hao Wu,Eric J. Lien,Linda L. Lien,Richard M. Schultz,Vishnu Ji Ram,Esteban Domingo,Paul Spence,Satya P. Gupta,Suraj P. Bhat,Elcira C. Villarreal

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Progress in Drug Research

By: Hao Wu,Eric J. Lien,Linda L. Lien,Richard M. Schultz,Vishnu Ji Ram,Esteban Domingo,Paul Spence,Satya P. Gupta,Suraj P. Bhat,Elcira C. Villarreal

Progress in Drug Research is a prestigious book series which provides extensive expert-written reviews on a wide spectrum of highly topical areas in current pharmaceutical and pharmacological research. It serves as an important source of information for researchers concerned with drug research and all those who need to keep abreast of the many recent developments in the quest for new and better medicines.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3764369876

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9783764369873

Film and the Anarchist Imagination

By: Richard Porton

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Film and the Anarchist Imagination

By: Richard Porton

Bearded bomb-throwers, self-indulgent nihilists, dangerous subversives.these characteristic clichés of anarchists in the popular imagination are often reproduced in the cinema. In Film and the Anarchist Imagination, the first comprehensive survey of anarchism in film, Richard Porton deconstructs such stereotypes while offering an authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. From the early cinema of Griffith and René Clair, to the work of Godard, Lina Wertmüller, Lizzie Borden and Ken Loach, Porton analyzes portrayals of anarchism in film, presenting commentaries and critiques of such classics as Zéro de Conduite, Tout Va Bien, and Love and Anarchy. In addition, he provides an excellent guide to the complex traditions of anarchist thought, from Bakunin and Kropotkin to Emma Goldman and Murray Bookchin, disclosing a rich historical legacy that encompasses the Paris Commune, the Haymarket martyrs, the anarcho-syndicalists of the Spanish Civil War, as well as more familiar contemporary avatars like the Situationists and the enragés of May 1968.

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Verso

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1859847021

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9781859847022

Not Like Us

How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, And Transformed American Culture Since World War II

By: Richard Pells

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Not Like Us

How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, And Transformed American Culture Since World War II

By: Richard Pells

Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American mass culture. Pells provides a new paradigm for understanding the survival of local and national cultures in a global setting.

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Basic Books

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0786723963

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The Rough Guide to Film

By: Jessica Winter,Lloyd Hughes,Richard Armstrong,Tom Charity

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The Rough Guide to Film

By: Jessica Winter,Lloyd Hughes,Richard Armstrong,Tom Charity

The Rough Guide to Film is a bold new guide to cinema. Arranged by director, it covers the top moguls, mavericks and studio stalwarts of every era, genre and region, in addition to lots of lesser-known names. With each film placed in the context of its director’s career, the guide reviews thousands of the greatest movies ever made, with lists highlighting where to start, arranged by genre and by region. You’ll find profiles of over eight hundred directors, from Hollywood legends Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to contemporary favourites like Steven Soderbergh and Martin Scorsese and cult names such as David Lynch and Richard Linklater. The guide is packed with great cinema from around the globe, including French New Wave, German giants, Iranian innovators and the best of East Asia, from Akira Kurosawa to Wong Kar-Wai and John Woo. With overviews of all major movements and genres, feature boxes on partnerships between directors and key actors, and cinematographers and composers, this is your essential guide to a world of cinema.

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Penguin

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1405384980

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9781405384988

Caged Eagle

A Novel

By: Richard Rohmer

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Caged Eagle

A Novel

By: Richard Rohmer

Caged Eagle is the life story of a dynamic, ruthless WWII fighter reconnaissance pilot who returns to Canada in 1944 to take control of one of the country's largest entrepreneurial empires. His flying adventures and corporate intrigue propel him into being a senator and one of Canada's most powerful and wealthly men. Caged Eagle is full of unexpected twists and turns right to the final page.

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St. John's, Nfld. : Killick Press

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1894294483

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9781894294485

Sir John A.'s Crusade and Seward's Magnificent Folly

By: Richard Rohmer

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Sir John A.'s Crusade and Seward's Magnificent Folly

By: Richard Rohmer

International intrigue on the eve of the birth of a nation at Britain’s Highclere Castle, aka Downton Abbey. In late 1866, John A. Macdonald and other Fathers of Confederation arrived in London to begin discussions with Britain to create Canada. Macdonald and two of his colleagues stayed briefly at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, the stately home of the Fourth Earl of Carnarvon, Britain’s colonial secretary. Those are the facts. Today Highclere Castle is widely known as the real-life location for the popular television series Downton Abbey. In Richard Rohmer’s novel, Macdonald talks with Carnarvon at Highclere about legislation to give Canada autonomy, the danger of Irish Fenian assassination plots, and the proposed American purchase of Alaska from Russia. Later, back in London, a fire partially destroys Macdonald’s hotel room, and the future prime minister, trying to curb his fondness for alcohol, woos and marries his second wife, Agnes. In the end, Macdonald wins the passage of the British North America Act but fails in his bid for Alaska when U.S. Secretary of State William Seward buys that strategic territory. Secret deals, romance, and international intrigue all figure in this rousing tale of historical speculation set on the eve of the birth of a nation.

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1459709861

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9781459709867

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