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Onscreen and Undercover

The Ultimate Book of Movie Espionage

By: Wesley Britton

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Onscreen and Undercover

The Ultimate Book of Movie Espionage

By: Wesley Britton

Wes Britton's Spy Television (2004) was an overview of espionage on the small screen from 1951 to 2002. His Beyond Bond: Spies in Fiction and Film (2004) wove spy literature, movies, radio, comics, and other popular media together with what the public knew about actual espionage to show the interrelationships between genres and approaches in the past century. Onscreen and Undercover, the last book in Britton's Spy Trilogy, provides a history of spies on the large screen, with an emphasis on the stories these films present. Since the days of the silent documentary short, spying has been a staple of the movie business. It has been the subject of thrillers, melodramas, political films, romances, and endless parodies as well. But despite the developing mistrust of the spy as a figure of hope and good works, the variable relationship between real spying and screen spying over the past 100 years sheds light on how we live, what we fear, who we admire, and what we want our culture—and our world—to become. Onscreen and Undercover describes now forgotten trends, traces surprising themes, and spotlights the major contributions of directors, actors, and other American and English artists. The focus is on movies, on and off camera. In a 1989 National Public Radio interview, famed author John Le Carre said a spy must be entertaining. Spies have to interest potential sources, and be able to draw people in to succeed in recruiting informants. In that spirit, Wes Britton now offers Onscreen and Undercover.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313086508

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9780313086502

Community Policing, Chicago Style

By: Wesley G. Skogan,Susan M. Hartnett

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Community Policing, Chicago Style

By: Wesley G. Skogan,Susan M. Hartnett

Police departments across the country are busily "reinventing" themselves, adopting a new style known as "community policing". This approach to policing involves organizational decentralization, new channels of communication with the public, a commitment to responding to what the community thinks their priorities ought to be, and the adoption of a broad problem-solving approach to neighborhood issues. Police departments that succeed in adopting this new stance have an entirely different relationship to the public that they serve. Chicago made the transition, embarking on what is now the nation's largest and most impressive community policing program. This book, the first to examine such a project, looks in depth at all aspects of the program--why it was adopted, how it was adopted, and how well it has worked.

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274

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Oxford University Press

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0195350448

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Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way

18th-Century Methods for Today's Organic Gardeners

By: Wesley Greene

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Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way

18th-Century Methods for Today's Organic Gardeners

By: Wesley Greene

A Colonial Williamsburg garden historian outlines traditional methods for planting and tending 50 different kinds of vegetables, profiling such 18th-century utilities as shelter paper and fermented manure while sharing complementary weather-watching guidelines, organic techniques and seed-saving advice.

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258

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Rodale

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1609611624

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9781609611620

The Regency Crisis and the Whigs 1788-9

By: John W. Derry,John Wesley Derry

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The Regency Crisis and the Whigs 1788-9

By: John W. Derry,John Wesley Derry

Dr Derry shows that the three-month controversy over the Regency in 1788-9 was the first stage in the break-up of the old Whig party.

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260

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Cambridge University Press

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0521048214

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9780521048217

Princetonians, 1784-1790

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Ruth L. Woodward,Wesley Frank Craven

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Princetonians, 1784-1790

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Ruth L. Woodward,Wesley Frank Craven

These volumes, the fourth and fifth, complete the series of biographical sketches of students at Princeton University (the College of New Jersey in colonial times). They cover pivotal years for both the nation and the College. In 1784, the war with England had just ended. Nassau Hall was still in a shambles following its bombardment, and the College was in financial distress. It gradually regained financial and academic strength, and the Class of 1794 graduated in the year of the death of President John Witherspoon, one of the most important early American educators. The introductory essay by John Murrin, editor of the series since 1981, explores the postwar context of the College. The two volumes contain biographies of 354 men who attended with the classes of 1784 through 1794 and two other students whose presence at the College in earlier years has only now been demonstrated. During these years Princeton accounted for about an eighth of all A.B. degrees granted in the United States. It was the young republic's most "national" college, although it had nearly lost its New England constituency and was instead beginning to draw nearly 40 percent of its students from the South. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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683

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Princeton University Press

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1400861268

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9781400861262

The Connecticut State Constitution

By: Wesley W. Horton

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The Connecticut State Constitution

By: Wesley W. Horton

The Connecticut State Constitution is the only comprehensive analysis of the Connecticut Constitution and its individual provisions. In this fully revised second edition, Wesley W. Horton presents a comprehensive overview of Connecticut's constitutional historical development from 1635 to the present--spanning 375 years of constitutional history--and discusses cases of particular importance. Also included are a bibliographical essay, table of cases, tables relating to constitutional conventions and amendments, and a general index, offering significant sources for further study. The Connecticut Supreme Court has been a leader in developing state constitutional precedents independent of the precedents of the United States Supreme Court, such as in recent gay marriage and de facto school segregation cases. This book elaborates in detail on the rich Connecticut history concerning these and similar topics, often involving equal protection, due process or criminal procedure. The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States is an important series that reflects a renewed international interest in constitutional history and provides expert insight into each of the 50 state constitutions. Each volume in this innovative series contains a historical overview of the state's constitutional development, a section-by-section analysis of its current constitution, and a comprehensive guide to further research. Under the expert editorship of Professor G. Alan Tarr, Director of the Center on State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, this series provides essential reference tools for understanding state constitutional law. Books in the series can be purchased individually or as part of a complete set, giving readers unmatched access to these important political documents.

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Oxford University Press

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0199995958

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9780199995950

A Critical History of Television's The Red Skelton Show, 1951-1971

By: Wesley Hyatt

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A Critical History of Television's The Red Skelton Show, 1951-1971

By: Wesley Hyatt

The Red Skelton Show was on the air for 20 years, the longest-running primetime network comedy variety series on television. It was a top 10 series for nine years--an accomplishment surpassed only by Gunsmoke and Home Improvement. The series has a few unimpressive achievements too, such as becoming the first top 10 series to be cancelled by a network. Here is the history of The Red Skelton Show, beginning with its debut in 1951, one of the top five that year. The show then declined in popularity, moved from CBS to NBC in 1953, slowly rose back to the top. In its glory days of the 1960s it became an hour long show and finished at number two in two different years. The cancellation of the show by CBS in 1970 despite its place in the top 10 was a surprise; the last season back with NBC was a failure. Appendices list cast and crew credits and special guests by season, and offer information on the post-Red Skelton lives of many of the principal players.

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McFarland

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147660875X

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9781476608754

Emmy Award Winning Nighttime Television Shows, 1948-2004

By: Wesley Hyatt

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Emmy Award Winning Nighttime Television Shows, 1948-2004

By: Wesley Hyatt

Since the early days of television, well before most households had a set, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has been handing out honors for the industry's best efforts. Now fans can read about their favorites--and perhaps rediscover some forgotten pleasures--in this reference to prime time and nighttime Emmy winners. Beginning with the heated charade contest known as Pantomime Quiz, which won Most Popular Program of 1948 in the first Emmy Awards ceremony (held in 1949), each of more than 100 winning shows gets star treatment with an entry that includes the year of award or awards, air times, hosts, guests, casts and a full discussion of the show's history and run. Many of the entries include original interviews with cast or crew members. With such rich information, each show's entry constitutes a chapter in the history of television through the story of the show and the people who made it happen. The best of variety, drama, game shows, comedies, adventures and many more categories are featured. An appendix offers interesting facts and figures and ranks shows according to such statistics as longest run, longest delay from debut to win, and most Emmys won.

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485

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McFarland

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0786423293

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9780786423293

ACCIDENTAL COLLECTOR (cl)

By: Wehr

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ACCIDENTAL COLLECTOR (cl)

By: Wehr

Readers who fell in love with The Eighth Lively Art will delight in the stories and profiles that the painter and paleontologist Wesley Wehr has collected in this follow-up to his earlier memoir of Pacific Northwest artistic and intellectual life in the 1950s and 1960s. Above all, these are Wehr's accounts, distilled by passionate recollection, of what some remarkable artists and thinkers brought out in him and in each other--stories of creative people and how they inspired, influenced, challenged, and occasionally infuriated one another.

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University of Washington Press

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0295802561

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9780295802565

Book's by Wesley Windsor

Onscreen and Undercover

Onscreen and Undercover

Community Policing, Chicago Style

Community Policing, Chicago Style

Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way

Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way

The Regency Crisis and the Whigs 1788-9

The Regency Crisis and the Whigs 1788-9

Princetonians, 1784-1790

Princetonians, 1784-1790

The Connecticut State Constitution

The Connecticut State Constitution

A Critical History of Television's The Red Skelton Show, 1951-1971

A Critical History of Television's The Red Skelton Show, 1951-1971

Emmy Award Winning Nighttime Television Shows, 1948-2004

Emmy Award Winning Nighttime Television Shows, 1948-2004

ACCIDENTAL COLLECTOR (cl)

ACCIDENTAL COLLECTOR (cl)

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