is the new batman film only getting good reviews in sympathy for heath ledger?
it was getting great reviews before heath ledger died
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Anarchism Introduction: Assassination Market, the Raven, Black Flag, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, the Anarchists, Pacific Street Films $26.27 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Assassination market, The Raven, Black Flag, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, The Anarchists, Pacific Street Films, Anarkismo.net, Camera del Lavoro, Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo, Recipes for Disaster, Heathian anarchism, Expect Resistance, Anarchy Comics, Alternative Press Review, Red and Anarchist Skinheads, Anarchism in Ukraine, Mu |
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Animation Unlimited: Innovative Short Films Since 1940 $11.56 Featuring 50 seminal short films by key animators from around the world, this book discusses the work of early pioneers such as Oskar Fischinger and Jan Svankmajer as well as contemporary animators such as Larry Cuba, Tim Hope and Run Wrake. All of the films included are independently produced personal work. Most of the featured directors make a living in commercial animation but, freed from the constraints of a client brief, they use their short films to experiment with new ideas and techniques, many of which subsequently find their way into commercial applications. Labors of love, these films can take years to complete – each second of the film may consist of up to 25 frames of animation. Grouped according to four main themes, all forms of animation are covered, including 2D, 3D, Claymation, stop frame and web/Flash animation. Each project is accompanied by a 500-word review including comments from the director. Details of software and method along with the internet address of the production company are given in the technical credits. |
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Anna May Wong: A Complete Guide to Her Film, Stage, Radio and Television Work $35 Anna May Wong, born in Los Angeles in 1905 to a traditional family that did not support her ambition, is the only Asian-American actress to have achieved stardom during Hollywood’s Golden Age. In her youth she went to hundreds of motion pictures and studied the actors. She remained single to avoid a conventional Chinese marriage that could endanger her career. With her beauty and grace, she gradually became the darling of the intelligentsia, inspiring poems, songs, and crowds of admirers in the British Isles, Europe, and China. During World War II, she toured the United States, New Zealand, and Australia for the benefit of the Chinese war relief. Leaving a legacy of some 60 film appearances, numerous stage and television shows, and several radio spots, Wong remains an outstanding role model for Asian-American performers. This book covers Anna May Wong’s entire career through detailed filmographic entries, each containing critical commentary as well as standard cast and technical credits, synopses, and newspaper and magazine reviews. The separate sections detail Wong’s stage work and radio and television appearances. Information on Wong’s beginnings in Los Angeles and personal life is also provided. Philip Leibfried is also the author of Rudyard Kipling and Sir Henry Rider Haggard on Screen (2000, $45). He has written for Films in Review, Filmfax and Hollywood Review. He lives in New York City. Researcher Chei Mi Lane lives in St. Louis, Missouri. |
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Anne Baxter: A Bio-Bibliography $92.95 New – This bio-bibliography describes Baxter’s life and career in the different production media, providing full credits, synopses, and review sources for the films and plays. |
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Azteca Films, Inc., Petitioner, V. General Casualty Company of America. U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings $19.95 New – The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation’s highest court by leading legal practitioners – many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This coll |
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Banned Films $51.09 New – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! For nearly the entire history of film production, certain films have been banned by film censorship or review organizations for political or moral reasons. Censorship standards vary widely by country, and can vary within an individual country over time due to political change or shifting moral attitudes. Many countries have government-appointed or private commissions to censor and rate productions for film and television exhibition. While it is c |
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Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Globalization, Communication and the New International Order $41.74 Used – The massive international flows of films, television programs, and other media around the world have long posed vital questions of culture and power. But how can we best understand this central feature of the modern world? Is a model of “cultural imperialism” a valid way of understanding global communications as we approach the end of the century? In this broad-ranging analysis of the new international context of world communication, an international group of leading scholars review and t |
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Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Globalization, Communication and the New International Order $51.11 New – The massive international flows of films, television programs, and other media around the world have long posed vital questions of culture and power. But how can we best understand this central feature of the modern world? Is a model of “cultural imperialism” a valid way of understanding global communications as we approach the end of the century? In this broad-ranging analysis of the new international context of world communication, an international group of leading scholars review and ta |
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Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Globalization, Communication and the New International Order $67.27 New – The massive international flows of films, television programs, and other media around the world have long posed vital questions of culture and power. But how can we best understand this central feature of the modern world? Is a model of “cultural imperialism” a valid way of understanding global communications as we approach the end of the century? In this broad-ranging analysis of the new international context of world communication, an international group of leading scholars review and ta |
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Biology: Concepts and Applications (Casebound with CD-ROM and Printed Access Card Biologynow?, Infotrac(r) 2-Semester, Vmentor? $167.52 BIOLOGY: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS supplies an 800 page, introductory issues-oriented approach with enormous instructional power. Starr supports mastery throughout while encouraging the critical thinking students need as citizens, voters, parents, and consumers. The Impacts, Issues and How Would You Vote? features new to this edition make biology come alive. An Impacts, Issues case study opens each chapter focusing on a biology-related societal issue. Short films that expand on the issue are on the free Student CD. Each chapter’s How Would You Vote? asks students to consider biology-related news, apply knowledge, cast a vote on the web and see state and nationwide voting tallies. With the updated edition, the 1pass code that accompanies all new copies provide online access to 1) BiologyNow, a learning tool that helps students assess their unique study needs through pretests, post-test and personalized learning plans; 2) InfoTrac, a library of full text articles; 3) vMentor, a live tutoring service and 4) How Do I Prepare, a feature that allows students to review basic math, chemistry, and other skills that will help them more easily master introductory biology. In addition the updated edition also offers a new InfoMark online Reader which contains pre-selected relevant articles that pair with the content presented. This allows instructors to find outside readings in just one click. Plus a new appendix that contains an Annotated Journal Article shows students how researchers develop and analyze their research. |
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Biomimetic Materials Chemistry $305 * Provides new insights into materials science* Indicates the value of biology in materials science* Demonstrates how new interdisciplinary studies are influencing the fields of materials science and chemistry* Surveys this new field and shows what progress has been made as well as indicating the potential of these applications* Leading scientists review biomimetic approaches to the synthesis and processing of nanoparticles, thin patterned films, ceramics, and organic-inorganic composites* Focuses on molecule synthesis, templating, organized construction and microstructural processing of biomimetic materialsrelated titles are: – Meyers: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology- Silver: Biocompatibility Vol.1: Polymers |
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Canine Radiographic Anatomy: An Interactive Instuctional CD-ROM $26.76 New – Designed specifically for students, practitioners, and technicians, this simple, interactive computer learning program is a great educational tool for anyone who wants to learn (or review) the normal radiographic anatomy of dogs. The program begins with an overview of basic radiology concepts, with explanations of x-rays and radiographs, radiographic densities, views and orientation of films, and artifacts. The rest of the program focuses on the identification of specific anatomic structur |
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Carbon Materials for Advanced Technologies $228.82 New – The inspiration for this book came from an American Carbon Society Workshop entitled “Carbon Materials for Advanced Technologies” which was hosted by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1994. Chapter 1 contains a review of carbon materials, and emphasizes the structure and chemical bonding in the various forms of carbon, including the four allotropes diamond, graphite, carbynes, and the fullerenes. In addition, amorphous carbon and diamond films, carbon nanoparticles, and engineered carbo |
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Castaways of the Image Planet: Movies, Show Business, Public Spectacle $0.99 Sixteen years of film criticism from one of America’s leading cultural critics.Castaways of the Image Planet collects sixteen years’ worth of Geoffrey O’Brien’s essays on film and popular culture, most originally published in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Film Comment, Filmmaker, and the New York Times. The topics range from the invention of cinema to contemporary F-X aesthetics; from Shakespeare films to “Seinfeld”; from ’30′s screwball comedies to Hong Kong martial-arts movies; from the roots of sexploitation pictures to the televising of Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony. There is an emphasis on the unpredictable interactions between film as a medium apt for expressing the most private dreams and film as the mass literature of the modern world, subject to all the pressures of financing and marketing. Many of the pieces are profiles of individual directors or actors—Orson Welles, Michael Powell, Ed Wood, Marlon Brando, Alfred Hitchcock, Dana Andrews, The Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby—whose careers are probed to look for the point where private obsession meets public myth-making. Author Biography: Geoffrey O’Brien is the editor-in-chief of the Library of America and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is a widely published poet, critic, editor, and cultural historian and has been honored with a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Institute for the Humanities. He lives in New York City. |
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Ceramic Interconnect Technology Handbook $149.95 Ceramics were among the first materials used as substrates for mass-produced electronics, and they remain an important class of packaging and interconnect material today. Most available information about ceramic electronics is either outdated or focused on their materials science characteristics. The Ceramic Interconnect Technology Handbook goes beyond the traditional approach by first surveying the unique properties of ceramics and then discussing design, processing, fabrication, and integration, as well as packaging and interconnect technologies.Collecting contributions from an outstanding panel of experts, this book offers an up-to-date overview of modern ceramic electronics, from design and material selection to manufacturing and implementation. Beginning with an overview of the development, properties, advantages, and applications of ceramics, coverage spans electrical design, testing, simulation, thermomechanical design, screen printing, multilayer ceramics, photo-defined and photo-imaged films, copper interconnects for ceramic substrates, and integrated passive devices in ceramic substrates. It also offers a detailed review of the surface, thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties of various ceramics as well as the processing of high- and low-temperature cofired ceramic (HTCC and LTCC) substrates.Opening new vistas and avenues of advancement, the Ceramic Interconnect Technology Handbook is the only source for comprehensive discussion and analysis of nearly every facet of ceramic interconnect technology and applications. |
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Characterization of High Tc Materials and Devices by Electron Microscopy $87 This is a clear and up-to-date account of the application of electron-based microscopies to the study of high-Tc superconductors. Written by leading experts, this compilation provides a comprehensive review of scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and scanning transmission electron microscopy, together with details of each technique and its applications. Introductory chapters cover the basics of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, including a chapter devoted to specimen preparation techniques and microanalysis by scanning transmission electron microscopy. Ensuing chapters examine identification of new superconducting compounds, imaging of superconducting properties by low-temperature scanning electron microscopy, imaging of vortices by electron holography and electronic structure determination by electron energy loss spectroscopy. The use of scanning tunneling microscopy for exploring surface morphology, growth processes and the mapping of superconducting carrier distributions is also discussed. Final chapters consider applications of electron microscopy to the analysis of grain boundaries, thin films and device structures. Detailed references are included. This book will interest graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics and material science. |
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life $20 The Barnes & Noble Review June 1997 The cover of Jon Lee Anderson’s biography Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life features a familiar image of the mythic revolutionary. Banners and newspapers across the island of Cuba are trumpeting 1997 as “the year of the 30th anniversary of the death in combat of the heroic guerrilla and his comrades.” And while his popularity continues to swell, Che’s name and face are increasing sales. Five new biographies, six new films, posters, T-shirts, key chains, and Fischer’s Revolution Skis all flaunt his image. But the depth and volume of Jon Lee Anderson’s biography redeem the diminishing effects of such widespread commercialization. Anderson digs well beneath the iconography to reveal Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the man and his immortal revolutionary spirit.The paradigm of revolutionary appearance and behavior, Che Guevara has become better known as an icon of revolution and a champion of the oppressed than for his political activities. Anderson had unprecedented access to Che’s personal archives, Cuban government files formerly sealed to outsiders, and information from the former Soviet Union; he also conducted interviews with scores of Che’s closest friends. His book invites readers to explore the character of a man whose “unshakable faith in his beliefs was made more powerful by his unusual combination of romantic passion and a coldly analytical mind.” Anderson’s careful research takes readers from Che’s Argentinean upbringing through his medical school training, from the evolution of his revolutionary fervor and his relationship with Fidel Castro tohisexecution at age 39 in Bolivia, providing an effortless rendition of a man who would spawn legends. |
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life $159 The Barnes & Noble Review June 1997 The cover of Jon Lee Anderson’s biography Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life features a familiar image of the mythic revolutionary. Banners and newspapers across the island of Cuba are trumpeting 1997 as “the year of the 30th anniversary of the death in combat of the heroic guerrilla and his comrades.” And while his popularity continues to swell, Che’s name and face are increasing sales. Five new biographies, six new films, posters, T-shirts, key chains, and Fischer’s Revolution Skis all flaunt his image. But the depth and volume of Jon Lee Anderson’s biography redeem the diminishing effects of such widespread commercialization. Anderson digs well beneath the iconography to reveal Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the man and his immortal revolutionary spirit.The paradigm of revolutionary appearance and behavior, Che Guevara has become better known as an icon of revolution and a champion of the oppressed than for his political activities. Anderson had unprecedented access to Che’s personal archives, Cuban government files formerly sealed to outsiders, and information from the former Soviet Union; he also conducted interviews with scores of Che’s closest friends. His book invites readers to explore the character of a man whose “unshakable faith in his beliefs was made more powerful by his unusual combination of romantic passion and a coldly analytical mind.” Anderson’s careful research takes readers from Che’s Argentinean upbringing through his medical school training, from the evolution of his revolutionary fervor and his relationship with Fidel Castro tohisexecution at age 39 in Bolivia, providing an effortless rendition of a man who would spawn legends. |
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life $20 The Barnes & Noble Review June 1997 The cover of Jon Lee Anderson’s biography Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life features a familiar image of the mythic revolutionary. Banners and newspapers across the island of Cuba are trumpeting 1997 as “the year of the 30th anniversary of the death in combat of the heroic guerrilla and his comrades.” And while his popularity continues to swell, Che’s name and face are increasing sales. Five new biographies, six new films, posters, T-shirts, key chains, and Fischer’s Revolution Skis all flaunt his image. But the depth and volume of Jon Lee Anderson’s biography redeem the diminishing effects of such widespread commercialization. Anderson digs well beneath the iconography to reveal Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the man and his immortal revolutionary spirit.The paradigm of revolutionary appearance and behavior, Che Guevara has become better known as an icon of revolution and a champion of the oppressed than for his political activities. Anderson had unprecedented access to Che’s personal archives, Cuban government files formerly sealed to outsiders, and information from the former Soviet Union; he also conducted interviews with scores of Che’s closest friends. His book invites readers to explore the character of a man whose “unshakable faith in his beliefs was made more powerful by his unusual combination of romantic passion and a coldly analytical mind.” Anderson’s careful research takes readers from Che’s Argentinean upbringing through his medical school training, from the evolution of his revolutionary fervor and his relationship with Fidel Castro tohisexecution at age 39 in Bolivia, providing an effortless rendition of a man who would spawn legends. |
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Chemical Mechanical Planarization of Microelectronic Materials $175 Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) plays an important role in today’s microelectronics industry. With its ability to achieve global planarization, its universality (material insensitivity), its applicability to multimaterial surfaces, and its relative cost-effectiveness, CMP is the ideal planarizing medium for the interlayered dielectrics and metal films used in silicon integrated circuit fabrication. But although the past decade has seen unprecedented research and development into CMP, there has been no single-source reference to this rapidly emerging technology-until now.Chemical Mechanical Planarization of Microelectronic Materials provides engineers and scientists working in the microelectronics industry with unified coverage of both the fundamental mechanisms and engineering applications of CMP. Authors Steigerwald, Murarka, and Gutmann-all leading CMP pioneers-provide a historical overview of CMP, explain the various chemical and mechanical concepts involved, describe CMP materials and processes, review the latest scientific data on CMP worldwide, and offer examples of its uses in the microelectronics industry. They provide detailed coverage of the CMP of various materials used in the making of microcircuitry: tungsten, aluminum, copper, polysilicon, and various dielectric materials, including polymers. The concluding chapter describes post-CMP cleaning techniques, and most chapters feature problem sets to assist readers in developing a more practical understanding of CMP.The only comprehensive reference to one of the fastest growing integrated circuit manufacturing technologies, Chemical Mechanical Planarization of Microelectronic Materials is an important resource for research scientists and engineers working in the microelectronics industry.An indispensable resource for scientists and engineers working in the microelectronics industryChemical Mechanical Planarization of Microelectronic Materials is the only comprehensive |
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Chest Radiology $28.95 *120 USMLE-type questions*Targets what you really need to know *Student-tested and reviewed PreTest® is the medical student’s most dynamic weapon for mastering the USMLE Step 2. *Designed to simulate radiology exam questions *Double-checked by recently tested students *Mimics the real exam, question by question PreTest is the closest you can get to seeing the test before you take it. This one-of-a-kind test prep guide helps you: *Learn to correctly interpret chest films *Get to know material likely to be tested on the exam *Practice with 120 multiple-choice questions correlated to chest x-rays films *Build confidence, skills, and knowledge There are plenty of answers out there. But only PreTest® delivers USMLE-type questions, in USMLE format. Open this PreTest for: *120 board-type questions *Concise discussions of commonly seen chest films *Best prep there is for radiology portion of USMLE Step 2 Great for course review and clinical rotations, too! Radiology: PreTest asks the right questions so you’ll know the right answers. Open it and start learning what’s on the test. “This will really help with the expanded diagnostic sections.” —a medical student preparing for the USMLE Step 2 |
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Chris Henry Coffey $51.6 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Chris Henry Coffey is an American-born actor best known for his portrayal of an internet predator in the 2010 film Trust, “one of the year’s best films” according to Roger Ebert in his March 31, 2011 review. It also stars Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Viola Davis, Noah Emmerich, and Liana Liberato, and is directed by David Schwimmer. Trust premiered at the Toronto |
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Cinephile: Intermediate French Language and Culture Through Film $25.47 New – A second year college textbook that uses films, fully integrated in each chapter, to facilitate a review of linguistic concepts in the context of the whole language. It expands skills in listening, speaking, writing and reading French. |
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Cinephile: Intermediate French Language and Culture Through Film: Second Edition $46.99 New – A second year college textbook that uses films, fully integrated in each chapter, to facilitate a review of linguistic concepts in the context of the whole language. It expands skills in listening, speaking, writing and reading French. |
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Control and Optimization of Multiscale Process Systems $79.95 Interest in the control and optimization of multiscale process systems has been triggered by the need to achieve tight feedback control and optimal operation of complex processes, such as deposition and sputtering of thin films in semiconductor manufacturing, which are characterized by highly coupled macroscopic and microscopic phenomena. Drawing from recent advances in the dynamics and control of distributed parameter processes for which continuum laws are applicable as well as stochastic modeling of phenomena at mesoscopic/microscopic length scales, control and optimization of multiscale process systems has evolved into a very active research area of systems and control engineering.This book—the first of its kind—presents general methods for feedback controller synthesis and optimization of multiscale systems, illustrating their application to thin-film growth, sputtering processes, and catalytic systems of industrial interest. Beginning with an introduction to general issues on control and optimization of multiscale systems and a review of previous work in this area, the book discusses detailed modeling approaches for multiscale processes with emphasis on the theory and implementation of kinetic Monte Carlo simulation, methods for feedback control using kinetic Monte Carlo models, stochastic model construction and parameter estimation, predictive and covariance control using stochastic partial differential equation models, and both steady-state and dynamic optimization algorithms that efficiently address coupled macroscopic and microscopic objectives. Key features of the work: * Demonstrates the advantages of the methods presented for control and optimization through extensive simulations.* Includes new techniques for feedback controller design and optimization of multiscale process systems that are not included in other books.* Illustrates the application of controller design and optimization methods to complex multiscale |
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Corona Charging of Synthetic Polymer Films $50.1 New – Synthetic polymer films are most widely used as materials for the production of stable charged films. One of the simplest and most widespread methods for charging the polymers involves the use of corona discharge in air at room temperature. The corona discharge creates high energy oxygen-containing charged particles, which are accelerated by the electric field of the corona and then interact with the surface of the polymer films. This book is a review of three aspects of synthetic polymer |
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Crit. Essays-Books/Israel 4: Books on Israel, Volume IV $80.45 New – Original review essays that provide critical commentary on recently published books and films on Israeli society, culture, politics, and religion.This book is part of a series of review volumes sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies that provides a framework for discussion of research and scholarship on all aspects of Israeli society. It brings together original review essays commenting on issues in Israeli society, culture, politics, religion, literature, and film. The authors’ e |
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Critic – The Entire Series DVD (Full Frame) $22.29 Full Frame – Jay Sherman (voiced by Jon Lovitz) is a New York film critic who hates most of the films he has to review. To top it all off, he’s balding, divorced, and his personal life is a shamble… |
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Crystalline Cellulose and Derivatives: Characterization and Structures $249 This book constitutes a valuable, concise and up-to-date guide for the materials and life science community interested in cellulose and related materials. Reliable crystal structures of all cellulose polymorphs and cellulose derivatives determined are critically reviewed and discussed. Models are represented in graphs together with a collection of geometrical data as well as the atomic coordinates for further use. The background for fiber diffraction, computer-aided modeling and spectroscopic investigations is briefly introduced and also included are the necessary molecular data from oligosaccharides as a basis for structure evaluations. X-ray diffraction patterns and spectroscopic diagrams are presented as references to characterize cellulosic materials and to serve as fingerprint tools for the exploration of unknown specimens of cell walls and of industrially processed films and fibers as well as solid-state materials. Cellulose as an abundant renewable material has stimulated basic and applied research throughout the years, as addressed in a historical review, and has inspired significant progress in polymer science. In recent years cellulose has gained renewed importance as a raw material and still possesses high potential for future applications. Academia and industry may equally profit from this comprehensive survey. |
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DVD Delirium Volume 4 The International Guide to Weird and Wonderful Films on DVD & Blu-ray $16.72 DVD Delirium is the world’s only A-to-Z guide specially designed for collectors of cult, horror, exploitation, arthouse, erotic, thriller, action, foreign language, and just plain weird movies. Hundreds of fascinating films are reviewed in depth by one of the world’s foremost DVD and Blu-ray experts. The ALL NEW DVD Delirium Volume 4 perfectly compliments the previous three volumes, covering a brand new selection of the world’s greatest cult movies on DVD and Blu-ray. This edition of the ultimate guide to home entertainment stands alone as an essential book for all film fanatics. It also features a comprehensive index to this volume, plus a full listing of all the films reviewed in volumes 1, 2 & 3, which combine with this book to give readers almost 2,500 DVD and Blu-ray reviews!DVD and Blu-ray collecting is a minefield for the serious fan. If readers want to know whether or not to buy a particular film, this book will become their first point of reference. If it saves them from buying even one second-rate disc, it will have paid for itself right away! Plus, readers can discover masses of amazing films they did not even know had been released. No film fan should be without this definitive guide book! *** Picture and Audio quality of discs discussed in depth*** Special Features listed and examined*** Language and Subtitle options highlighted*** Full synopsis and review of each film*** DVD case size – designed to be stocked in DVD departments as well as book stores. |
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Debris/Ice/Tps Assessment and Integrated Photographic Analysis for Shuttle Mission Sts-41 $36.52 New – Original publisher: [Kennedy Space Center, Fla.]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, John F. Kennedy Space Center, [1990] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)60362979 Subject: Space debris. Excerpt: …Documents: OMI S0007, OMI $ 6444 Initial report to NTD and verbal Report: briefing to Level Ii at L + 8 hours; generate PR’s. Launch Data Review 5 ) Objective: Detailed review of high speed films video tapes, and photographs from pad cameras, range trackers, aircraft and vehicle onboard cameras |
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Diagnostic Picture Tests in Clinical Infectious Diseases $75 New – With infectious disease practice no longer confined to traditional fever and tropical medicine hospitals, visual recognition of clinical signs of infectious disease and the correct interpretation of infected blood films is expected of all medical examination candidates and trainees. The picture/question design of this new book provides an ideal self-assessment and review aid. |
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Diamond Films and Coatings $151.58 New – This excellent, in-depth review of diamond films and coatings covers their properties, growth, deposition, characterization, and applications. The eight chapters are written by experts in their field. Early studies on synthetic diamonds were done in the 1950s and 1960s, however, their use and importance were not recognized until the late 1970s and early 1980s. These coatings are now being used in high temperature and tribological applications, optics and electro-optics applications, and ce |
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Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex $109.22 New – This “superb, fascinating, authoritative firsthand account” (Science Books & Films, starred review) documents the 1988 discovery and excavation of a unique fossil–a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. Paleontologist John Horner describes how he and his team painstakingly excavated the fossil. Full-color photos and illustrations. An NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children. |
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Digital Fantasy Painting $207.33 New – Featuring work from 36 renowned fantasy artists, this book helps the reader to master the skills, techniques and tools needed to create cutting-edge paintings. Dazzling visual imagery in films such as “The Matrix” and “Bladerunner”, as well as the sophisticated graphics of contemporary computer games, have created a new generation of digital artists. This book is a practical introduction to inspire those wanting to work or play in 3D graphics. It begins with a review of the most popular so |
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Douglas Haig (Actor) $127.95 New – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Douglas Haig (born March 9, 1920) was an American child actor appearing in films in the 1920s and 1930s. His career began at age two in silent films and (unlike many silent film actors) continued into sound films (“talkies”). From 1928 onward he appeared in at least 14 films. As a small child he was placid and pleasant- looking. In a scholarly review of Attorney for the Defense, a 1932 sound film, his performance is described as very annoying. Th |
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Eagle Lion Films, Inc. V. Szekely U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings $21.93 New – The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation’s highest court by leading legal practitioners – many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This coll |
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Educational Films Corporation of America V. Ward U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings $27.99 New – The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation’s highest court by leading legal practitioners – many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This coll |
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Electroactive Polymer Electrochemistry $213 ‘A comprehensive review of the current state of the theoretical development in this important area of potential application of conducting polymers, and is very timely…The editor-author is to be congratulated for his marathon efforts and the production of a significant contribution to the literature.’ -TRIP This three-part series provides undergraduate and graduate students in electrochemistry and materials science with a broad understanding of electroactive polymers. In Part I, renowned scientists examine the fundamental principles underlying electrochemical behavior of electroactive polymer materials. Contributors focus on the fundamentals of charge percolation and conductivity behavior associated with the membrane properties of electroactive polymer films. Part I also includes coverage of the phenomenon of heterogeneous redox catalysis at electroactive polymer modified electrodes. |
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Emergency Medicine Q&A, Third Edition $71 The perfect Q&A review for the emergency medicine boardsEmergency Medicine Q&A: Pearls of Wisdom contains more than 800 multiple-choice questions to prepare students for the written section of their certification exam. Ideal for those planning for certification, recertification, or the annual in-service exam, it focuses on core content required for the boards.Formatted to mirror the style of questioning you’ll experience on the boards, this newly designed and thoroughly updated guide complements other review material and works well in conjunction with core textbooks. In order to improve memory retention, the authors provide only the correct answer, along with a detailed explanation to help you evaluate your knowledge of the material. Among the disorders covered are abdominal, immunological, traumatic, psychobehavioral, cutaneous, thoracic, and cardiovascular.Features:Over 800+ multiple choice questions with detailed answers.NEW chapter on prehospital and administrative aspects of Emergency Medicine.Updated chapter on medical imaging written by an ultrasound expert, with over 20 films for review.Updated questions on toxicology from a board-certified toxicologist.Expanded chapters on Psychobehavioral, Thoracic and Respiratory, and Pediatric Emergencies with 25% more questions. |
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Encyclopedia of Privacy $25.65 Writing in their famous Harvard Law Review article of 1890, Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren asserted what many have considered one of the most cherished American values: the right to be let alone. Yet in this post-9/11 world, it seems that personal privacy is under siege. New threats to privacy have arisen in the face of competing social, political, and economic demands, rapid technological change, and an intrusive and voyeuristic mass media. Citizens are barraged on a daily basis with stories of corporate data mining, government surveillance programs, identity theft, and computer hacking of personal information. As a result, citizens are becoming increasingly concerned about their personal privacy as well as their privacy rights. This encyclopedia, the first of its kind, comprehensively overviews various aspects of privacy throughout U.S. history, including significant legal cases, events, laws, organizations, individuals, technology, and terms. With some 225 alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 100 leading scholars and experts in the field, this inclusive and authoritative work will appeal to those interested in both historical and contemporary notions of privacy in the United States. Readers will learn of the significance of technology in today’s society, its helpful and harmful effects on citizens’ privacy, and what to expect in the future. Entries Include: Abortion Anti-Wire Tap Statutes Biometric Identifiers Carnivore COINTELPRO Data Brokers DNA and DNA Banking Freedom of Information Act Global Positioning Satellites Identity Fraud Library Records National Identification Card Open Meeting Laws Privacy Torts Right to Be Let Alone Search Warrant Social SecurityNumber Telecommunications Act of 1996 Telemarketing United States Postal Service USA Patriot Act Workplace Privacy And Many More. Entries cite print and electronic resources, and the Encyclopedia closes with a listing of books, organizations, websites, films, and other sources of informa |
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Encyclopedia of Privacy (Volumes 1 and 2) $200 Writing in their famous Harvard Law Review article of 1890, Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren asserted what many have considered one of the most cherished American values: the right to be let alone. Yet in this post-9/11 world, personal privacy is more threatened than ever. This book provides students and general readers a comprehensive overview of privacy in contemporary America. Included are some 225 alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 100 expert contributors. Entries cover such topics as the USA PATRIOT act, abortion rights, wiretapping, telemarketing, identity theft, DNA databases, Internet and email privacy, and numerous other concerns. Entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a bibliography of books, websites, organizations, and films.New threats to privacy have arisen in the face of competing social, political, and economic demands, rapid technological change, and an intrusive and voyeuristic mass media. Citizens are barraged on a daily basis with stories of corporate data mining, government surveillance programs, identity theft, and computer hacking of personal information. As a result, citizens are becoming increasingly concerned about their personal privacy as well as their privacy rights.This encyclopedia, the first of its kind, comprehensively overviews various aspects of privacy throughout U.S. history, including significant legal cases, events, laws, organizations, individuals, technology, and terms. With some 225 alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 100 leading scholars and experts in the field, this inclusive and authoritative work will appeal to those interested in both historical and contemporary notions of privacy in the United States. Readers will learn of the significance of technology in today’s society, its helpful and harmful effects on citizens’ privacy, and what to expect in the future. Entries cite print and electronic resources, and the |
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Entertainers In British Films $86.95 Representing the first attempt to compile a complete catalog of the entertainers who appeared on film in Great Britain from the invention of the cinema in the mid-1890s to the present, this innovative book covers more than 2,000 entertainers. Each entry gives the entertainer’s specialty, a chronological listing of his/her films, and the titles of the songs sung, played, or danced to. Uniquely, the catalog lists appearances in shorts and especially series of shorts, such as Ace Cinemagazine, Eve’s Film Review, and Pathe Pictorial, as well as other prewar series of “cinemags.” Newsreel performances are also included. |
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Entertainment Website Introduction: Gocomics, Itv.com, Deezer, the Spoony Experiment, Popjustice, I Love Music, Rate Your Music, Vgmix, Ilike $23.28 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gocomics, Itv.com, Deezer, the Spoony Experiment, Popjustice, I Love Music, Rate Your Music, Vgmix, Ilike, Nowthatsfuckedup.com, Drum and Bass Arena, Itv Player, Media Take Out, Timmy Big Hands, Stv Player, Mtv Music, Ny Rock, Australian Music Online, Singshot, What They Play, Overqualified, Korean Movie Database, Tothegame, Trendio.com, Dotmusic, Livedaily, Internet Theatre Database, Filmfront, Fametracker, Lowculture, Ifilm, Movie Review Query Engine, Airlock Alpha, College Football News, Cats That Look Like Hitler, Cool Beans World, Scottish Theatre Forum, Fileplanet, Allociné, Espew, Classical Archives, Codeorgan, Pagat.com, Poptext, Special Delivery, Goldmic, Nehked, Metroleap Media Inc., Dark Horizons, Mobile17, Cricketarchive, Banglacafe, Filmsite.org, Howstat, Raidió Idirlíon. Excerpt: Airlock Alpha , formerly SyFy Portal, is an entertainment news website focusing on science-fiction , fantasy and comic book television series and films. History The site debuted August 13, 1998 as “Syfyman’s World”, later renamed “SyFy World”. In 2000, SyFy World became part of Trek Nation, the parent network of TrekToday. In 2001, the site merged with the Star Trek Portal website and relaunched as “SyFy Portal”. On February 23, 2009 the site announced a rebranding under the new name of Airlock Alpha. No reason outside of a new marketing strategy was given for the name change at the time, but on March 16, 2009, SCI FI Channel announced that it was changing its name to Syfy , and Airlock Alpha revealed that it had sold its former brand name to an undisclosed party a month earlier. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at logo AlloCiné is a service organization providing information on the programs of french cinema , especially |
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Epitaxy $200.19 New – In a uniform and comprehensive manner the authors describe all the important aspects of the epitaxial growth processes of solid films on crystalline substrates, e.g. processes in which atoms of the growing film mimic the arrangement of the atoms of the substrate. Emphasis is put on sufficiently fundamental and unequivocal presentation of the subject in the form of an easy-to-read review. A large part of this book focuses on the problems of heteroepitaxy. The most important epitaxial growth |
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Esther Muir $76.8 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Esther Muir (March 11, 1903 – August 1, 1995) was a character actress on Broadway and in Hollywood films. Muir was born in Andes, New York and began modeling in New York City while still a high school student. She soon won a role in a show called Greenwich Village Follies. She participated in the Earl Carroll Vanities and in the International Review. The latter sh |
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Face $9.99 On a chill and stormy day, a man slips and plunges over a cliff into an experience that will change his life forever. But Helio Cara’s fall from a cliff is not merely a fall that results in horrific disfigurement. It is a fall from grace.The fabric of his daily existence comes unraveled as jobless, penniless, deserted by lover and friends; he is driven from his home by horrified neighbors. At last, using needle, thread, and razor blades, he determines to reconstruct his own face and to rebuild a place for himself in the world. Face is the story of a man at the limit of existence who finds the patience and courage to change himself. With power, intensity and sparseness of poetry, it voices the predicament of all people who partake of a culture, which separates the individual’s notion of self from his sense of community. “The author reveals the immense power of human will and obsession…an original, complex portrait of survival.” (The New York Times Book Review) Author Bio: Cecile Pineda is the author of five novels: The Love Queen of the Amazon, Frieze, Face, Redoubt and Bardo99. Her debut novel, Face, has been optioned by Rubicon Films, Ltd. Prior to her career as a novelist, Pineda founded and directed her own experimental ensemble theater company dedicated to the development of original performance works. She has taught fiction writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, in San Diego, and presently at Mills College in Oakland, California. |
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Face $16 On a chill and stormy day, a man slips and plunges over a cliff into an experience that will change his life forever. But Helio Cara’s fall from a cliff is not merely a fall that results in horrific disfigurement. It is a fall from grace.The fabric of his daily existence comes unraveled as jobless, penniless, deserted by lover and friends; he is driven from his home by horrified neighbors. At last, using needle, thread, and razor blades, he determines to reconstruct his own face and to rebuild a place for himself in the world. Face is the story of a man at the limit of existence who finds the patience and courage to change himself. With power, intensity and sparseness of poetry, it voices the predicament of all people who partake of a culture, which separates the individual’s notion of self from his sense of community. “The author reveals the immense power of human will and obsession…an original, complex portrait of survival.” (The New York Times Book Review) Author Bio: Cecile Pineda is the author of five novels: The Love Queen of the Amazon, Frieze, Face, Redoubt and Bardo99. Her debut novel, Face, has been optioned by Rubicon Films, Ltd. Prior to her career as a novelist, Pineda founded and directed her own experimental ensemble theater company dedicated to the development of original performance works. She has taught fiction writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, in San Diego, and presently at Mills College in Oakland, California. |
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Faithful To Fenway $15.96 Read the review at MLB.comThe Green Monster. Pesky’s Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey Way. To baseball fans this list of bizarre phrases evokes only one place: Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Built in 1912, Fenway Park is Americas oldest major league ballpark still in use. In Faithful to Fenway, Michael Ian Borer takes us out to Fenway where we sit in cramped wooden seats (often with obstructed views of the playing field), where there is a hand-operated scoreboard and an average attendance of 20,000 fewer fans than most stadiums, and where every game has been sold out since May of 2003. There is no Hard Rock Café (like Toronto's Skydome), no swimming pool (like Arizona's Chase Field), and definitely no sushi (which has become a fan favorite from Baltimore to Seattle). As Borer tells us in this captivating book, Fenway is short on comfort but long on character.Faithful to Fenway investigates the mystique of the ballpark. Borer, who lived in Boston before and after the Red Sox historic 2004 World Series win, draws on interviews with Red Sox players, including Jason Varitek and Carl Yastrzemski, management, including Larry Lucchino and John Henry, groundskeepers, vendors, and scores of fans to uncover what the park means for Boston and the people who revere it. Borer argues that Fenway is nothing less than a national icon, more than worthy of the banner outside the stadium that proclaims, “America's Most Beloved Ballpark”. Certainly as one of New England's greatest landmarks, Fenway captures the hearts and imaginations of a deferential and devoted public. There are T-shirts, bumper stickers, banners, and snow globes that honor the ballpark. Fenway shows up in popular films, novels, television commercials, and in replicated form in people's backyards—and coming in 2008 to Quincy, Massachusetts, is Mini-Fenway Park, a replica stadium built especially for kids.Full of legendary stories, |
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Faithful To Fenway $75.21 Read the review at MLB.comThe Green Monster. Pesky’s Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey Way. To baseball fans this list of bizarre phrases evokes only one place: Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Built in 1912, Fenway Park is Americas oldest major league ballpark still in use. In Faithful to Fenway, Michael Ian Borer takes us out to Fenway where we sit in cramped wooden seats (often with obstructed views of the playing field), where there is a hand-operated scoreboard and an average attendance of 20,000 fewer fans than most stadiums, and where every game has been sold out since May of 2003. There is no Hard Rock Café (like Toronto's Skydome), no swimming pool (like Arizona's Chase Field), and definitely no sushi (which has become a fan favorite from Baltimore to Seattle). As Borer tells us in this captivating book, Fenway is short on comfort but long on character.Faithful to Fenway investigates the mystique of the ballpark. Borer, who lived in Boston before and after the Red Sox historic 2004 World Series win, draws on interviews with Red Sox players, including Jason Varitek and Carl Yastrzemski, management, including Larry Lucchino and John Henry, groundskeepers, vendors, and scores of fans to uncover what the park means for Boston and the people who revere it. Borer argues that Fenway is nothing less than a national icon, more than worthy of the banner outside the stadium that proclaims, “America's Most Beloved Ballpark”. Certainly as one of New England's greatest landmarks, Fenway captures the hearts and imaginations of a deferential and devoted public. There are T-shirts, bumper stickers, banners, and snow globes that honor the ballpark. Fenway shows up in popular films, novels, television commercials, and in replicated form in people's backyards—and coming in 2008 to Quincy, Massachusetts, is Mini-Fenway Park, a replica stadium built especially for kids.Full of legendary stories, |
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Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark $5.41 Read the review at MLB.comThe Green Monster. Pesky’s Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey Way. To baseball fans this list of bizarre phrases evokes only one place: Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Built in 1912, Fenway Park is Americas oldest major league ballpark still in use. In Faithful to Fenway, Michael Ian Borer takes us out to Fenway where we sit in cramped wooden seats (often with obstructed views of the playing field), where there is a hand-operated scoreboard and an average attendance of 20,000 fewer fans than most stadiums, and where every game has been sold out since May of 2003. There is no Hard Rock Café (like Toronto's Skydome), no swimming pool (like Arizona's Chase Field), and definitely no sushi (which has become a fan favorite from Baltimore to Seattle). As Borer tells us in this captivating book, Fenway is short on comfort but long on character.Faithful to Fenway investigates the mystique of the ballpark. Borer, who lived in Boston before and after the Red Sox historic 2004 World Series win, draws on interviews with Red Sox players, including Jason Varitek and Carl Yastrzemski, management, including Larry Lucchino and John Henry, groundskeepers, vendors, and scores of fans to uncover what the park means for Boston and the people who revere it. Borer argues that Fenway is nothing less than a national icon, more than worthy of the banner outside the stadium that proclaims, “America's Most Beloved Ballpark”. Certainly as one of New England's greatest landmarks, Fenway captures the hearts and imaginations of a deferential and devoted public. There are T-shirts, bumper stickers, banners, and snow globes that honor the ballpark. Fenway shows up in popular films, novels, television commercials, and in replicated form in people's backyards—and coming in 2008 to Quincy, Massachusetts, is Mini-Fenway Park, a replica stadium built especially for kids.Full of legendary stories, |
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Falling Liquid Films $89.64 New – This research monograph gives a detailed review of the state-of-the-art theoretical methodologies for the analysis of dissipative wave dynamics and pattern formation on the surface of a film falling down a planar, inclined substrate. |
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Fast-Talking Dames $37 Witty and brash, the fast-talking dames in film comedies of the 1930s and ‘40s offered moviegoers a new, independent version of American womanhood. In this widely acclaimed book, Maria DiBattista paints vivid portraits of the grandest fast-talking dames of the era, including Katharine Hepburn, Irene Dunne, and Barbara Stanwyck, and discusses what their films had to say about men, happiness, and the power of speech.Author Biography: Maria DiBattista is professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton University, where she also chairs the film studies committee and serves on the women’s studies faculty. Selected as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review |
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Feminisms in the Cinema $70.95 New – “Feminisms in the Cinema provides a platform for both women filmmakers and the women who analyze their films.” –Bloomsbury Review..”. invaluable… [demonstrates] how gender and genre intersect… how feminisms are flourishing, at home and abroad.” –Women’s Review of BooksWell-known feminist theorists juxtapose their work with that of women filmmakers. Each writer addresses some aspect of marginality, discussing it as a political strategy and as a challenge to power structures. |
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off $16 FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF: POCKET MOVIE GUIDEOne of John Hughes’s most charmingly offbeat films, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is certainly among the most overtly humorous of his canon of teen movies. It is also one of his best-remembered, its profile challenged only by the acclaimed The Breakfast Club which was released the year beforehand. Contrasting perfectly with the more serious, issue-based tone of Pretty in Pink which immediately preceded it in the same year, Hughes’s wittily incisive dialogue was never as razor-sharp as when delivered by the smart-mouthed high school slacker Ferris Bueller. Today Hughes is just as well known for the scripts he created for hugely popular family films throughout the 1990s, including Chris Columbus’s blockbuster Home Alone (1990), Brian Levant’s Beethoven (1992) and Nick Castle’s Dennis the Menace (1993), written under his pen-name of Edmond Dantès. But even these accomplishments couldn’t compare to the artistic diversity of his output throughout the eighties. Although it is easy to remember Hughes for his meteorically successful teen movies right the way through the including The Breakfast Club (1985) and Ferris Bueller’s Day (1986), he was every bit as adroit in his handling of suburban satires such as Mr Mom (1983) and Uncle Buck (1989), his wry observations of the great American holiday in National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) and The Great Outdoors (1988), the trials of an exasperated everyman commuter in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), and the expectation of anxious new parents in She’s Having a Baby (1988). Throughout the course of Hughes’s career, there has rarely been a lack of variety in his choice of subject matter. REVIEW OF THE AUTHOR’S BOOK JOHN HUGHES AND EIGHTIES CINEMA ON AMAZONIf like me, you were fortunate enough to live through and grow up during the 80′s and early 90′s, you’ll remember just how rich comedy was back then. This book on it’s own puts most comedies of the modern |
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Film Adaptation And Its Discontents $25.32 Most books on film adaptation—the relation between films and their literary sources—focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation. Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported the institution of literature rather than fostering the practice of literacy, Thomas Leitch considers how the creators of short silent films attempted to give them the weight of literature, what sorts of fidelity are possible in an adaptation of sacred scripture, what it means for an adaptation to pose as an introduction to, rather than a transcription of, a literary classic, and why and how some films have sought impossibly close fidelity to their sources. After examining the surprisingly divergent fidelity claims made by three different kinds of canonical adaptations, Leitch’s analysis moves beyond literary sources to consider why a small number of adapters have risen to the status of auteurs and how illustrated books, comic strips, video games, and true stories have been adapted to the screen. The range of films studied, from silent Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to The Lord of the Rings, is as broad as the problems that come under review. |
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Film Review $26.35 New – A film annual which covers every UK cinema release of the year up to June 1995, with reviews, cast lists, credits and over 200 photographs from films such as THE LION KING, SHALLOW GRAVE and PULP FICTION. Includes information on video releases, news on the top-grossing stars and details of the year’s film festivals and awards. |
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Film Review $17.17 New – “Film Review” annual is the definitive journal of record of the movie business for the English-speaking world. Covering every single film to receive a theatrical release in the UK–and many which have not, “Film Review” has over the years reviewed more than 16,000 films and covered over 60 years of incredible achievement and evolution in the movie business. The 2007-8 edition is as definitive as ever, but the new editorial team have made important changes to the structure and format of thi |
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Film Review $29.19 Film Review annual is the definitive journal of record of the movie business for the English-speaking world. Covering every single film to receive a theatrical release in the UK–and many which have not– Film Review has over the years reviewed more than 16,000 films and covered over 60 years of incredible achievement and evolution in the movie business. The 2009-10 edition is as definitive as ever, but the new editorial team continue to make key changes to the structure and format of this year”s annual, including: more hard-hitting contemporary articles, covering vital topics in cinema today; broader international coverage of World Cinema and Film Festival screenings; capsule reviews, cast lists and credits for all the year”s new releases; details of major awards and film festivals; and more. |
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Film Review $0.99 Used – “Film Review” annual is the definitive journal of record of the movie business for the English-speaking world. Covering every single film to receive a theatrical release in the UK–and many which have not, “Film Review” has over the years reviewed more than 16,000 films and covered over 60 years of incredible achievement and evolution in the movie business. The 2007-8 edition is as definitive as ever, but the new editorial team have made important changes to the structure and format of th |
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Films Set in El Salvador (Study Guide): Salvador, Voces Inocentes, Romero $54.95 New – This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Salvador, Voces Inocentes, Romero. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Salvador (film) – In 1986, the film grossed a total of $1,500,000 in the United States. Salvador was popular among critics, but relatively unsuccessful at the box office. As of July 13, 2009, the review |
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Films Shot In Idaho (Study Guide) $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Heaven’s Gate, Wild Wild West, Napoleon Dynamite, Come and Get It, Dante’s Peak, Northwest Passage, Moving, Pale Rider, Breakfast of Champions, Bronco Billy, Bus Stop, Sun Valley Serenade, Duchess of Idaho, Breakheart Pass, Talent for the Game. Excerpt: Breakfast of Champions Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 film adapted and directed by Alan Rudolph from the novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Bruce Willis stars as Dwayne Hoover, a car dealer who is quickly losing touch with himself and reality. Albert Finney plays science fiction writer Kilgore Trout , a character who appears in several of Vonnegut’s other stories. Nick Nolte plays Dwayne’s cross-dressing business associate Harry LeSabre. Omar Epps is cast as Wayne Hoobler, a jailbird attempting to work on Dwayne’s lot. Glenne Headly turns in a memorable performance, cast as Francine Pefko, Dwayne Hoover’s secretary. Production Lukas Haas makes a cameo as Bunny, Dwayne’s homosexual son, who, in the novel, plays piano in the lounge at the Holiday Inn . For legal reasons, in the film Bunny instead plays at the AmeriTel Inn. Much of the film was shot in and around Twin Falls , Idaho . Kurt Vonnegut makes a one-line cameo as a TV commercial director. Vonnegut’s reaction At the close of the Harper Audiobook edition of Breakfast of Champions , there is brief conversation between Vonnegut and long-time friend and attorney, Donald C. Farber in which the two, among jokes, disparage this loose film adaptation of the book as “painful to watch.” Critical reception Breakfast of Champions received negative reviews, scoring a 25 % on Rotten Tomatoes . In his review for The New York Times , Stephen Holden wrote, “In many ways, Breakfast of Champions is an incoherent mess. But it never compromises its zany vision of the country |
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Films for the Community in Wartime $16.42 New – Publisher: New York city: National board of review of motion pictures, inc. Subjects: Motion pictures World War, 1939-1945 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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Films for the Community in Wartime $24 Used – Publisher: New York city: National board of review of motion pictures, inc. Subjects: Motion pictures World War, 1939-1945 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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Films for the Community in Wartime $24 New – Publisher: New York city: National board of review of motion pictures, inc. Subjects: Motion pictures World War, 1939-1945 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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Films for the Community in Wartime $20.43 Publisher: New York city: National board of review of motion pictures, inc. Subjects: Motion pictures World War, 1939-1945 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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Films for the Community in Wartime $16.42 Used – Publisher: New York city: National board of review of motion pictures, inc. Subjects: Motion pictures World War, 1939-1945 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue $25.95 “Johnson and Petrie have produced an admirable book. Anyone who wants to make sense of Tarkovsky’s films—a very difficult task in any case—must read it.” —The Russian Review”This book is a model of contextual and textual analysis…. the Tarkovsky myth is stripped of many of its shibboleths and the thematic structure and coherence of his work is revealed in a fresh and stimulating manner.” —Europe-Asia Studies”[This book,] with its wealth of new research and critical insight, has set the standard and should certainly inspire other writers to keep on trying to collectively explore the possible meanings of Tarkovsky’s film world.” —Canadian Journal of Film Studies”For Tarkovsky lovers as well as haters, this is an essential book. It might make even the haters reconsider.” —CineasteThis definitive study, set in the context of Russian cultural history, throws new light on one of the greatest—and most misunderstood—filmmakers of the past three decades. The text is enhanced by more than 60 frame enlargements from the films. |
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Films of Joel and Ethan Coen $35 Filmmaker brothers Joel and Ethan Coen got their start in the independent film business in 1984 with their debut feature Blood Simple, which won the award of Best Dramatic Feature at Sundance in 1985 and was hailed as one of the best films of the year by the National Board of Review. Since their early success, the Coen Brothers have built a name for themselves and gone on to create other big-name movies such as Raising Arizona, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski. This book is a comprehensive account of these four films and Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy. Production information and in-depth analysis and critique are provided, as well as discussions on how each movie functions in the broader context of the Coens’ work, and the themes, strategies, and motifs often utilized by the CoensAuthor Biography: Writer and educator Carolyn R. Russell lives in West Newbury, Massachusetts. |
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Folkloristics: An Introduction $2.15 “Excellent.” —The Reader’s Review”Anybody contemplating the study and pursuit of folklore… will benefit from reading this presentation thoroughly to determine your place in this most exciting scholastic world.” —Come-All-YeThis is the most complete and up-to-date study of folklore and folklore methodologies available. The authors describe the pervasiveness of folklore, including its uses in literature, films, television, cartoons, comic strips, advertising, and other media in a variety of cultures. |
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Food Engineering: Integrated Approaches $166.86 New – This book presents a significant and up-to-date review of various integrated approaches to food engineering. Distinguished food engineers and food scientists from key institutions worldwide have contributed chapters that provide a deep analysis of their particular subjects. Emerging technologies and biotechnology are introduced, and the book discusses predictive microbiology, packing materials for foods, and biodegradable films. This book is mainly directed to academics, and to undergradua |
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Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History: Starring the Great Character Actors of Hollywood’s Golden Age $29.72 New – Nothing grabs the mind like a finely crafted film. Memorable liners strike an instant impression, and classic imagery provides celluloid art for us to enjoy time and again. Manny Pacheco has studied motion pictures for the stars of yesteryear, he presents a review of timeless films, which also uniquely capture seldom told accounts of America’s story. Bypassing the legendary stars from the Studio Era’s Golden Age, Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History focuses on the character actors and act |
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Frontiers in Magnetism of Reduced Dimension Systems $136.44 Frontiers in Magnetism of Reduced Dimension Systems presents a definitive statement of our current knowledge and the state of the art in a field that has yet to achieve maturity, even though there are a number of potential applications of thin magnetic films and multilayers, such as magnetic sensors, data storage/retrieval media, actuators, etc. The book is organized into 13 chapters, each including a lecture and contributed papers on a similar subject. Five chapters deal with theoretical descriptions of electron transport phenomena, relaxation processes, nonlinear paramagnetic interactions, phase transitions and macroscopic quantum effects in magnetic films and particles. The description of different characterization techniques occupies an important place in the book. Separate chapters are dedicated to magnetic resonances (FMR, SWR, NMR), magneto-optical spectroscopy, controlling chaos, magnetoelastic phenomena and magnetic resonance force microscopy. A further chapter gives a detailed review, spread over a number of papers, of materials in current use in information storage devices. |
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Functional Gradient Materials and Surface Layers Prepared by Fine Particles Technology $56 The term ‘functional gradient materials’ was coined in Japan in the 1980s to describe a class of materials having spatially homogenous microstructures and properties. These materials can be used successfully in such applications as electronic devices, optical films, anti-wear and anti-corrosion coatings, thermal barrier coatings and biomaterials. The materials are fabricated with the use of nanoparticles, leading to greatly improved performance. Nanoparticle technology is not straightforward, however, demanding a modification of methods for processing and characterization. This book provides graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, engineers and senior scientists with an in-depth review of aspects of the field, ranging from synthetic methods to a variety of applications. The different approaches to material synthesis are described, giving the reader a better understanding of the complex phenomena involved. Characterization and the evaluation of properties are also discussed. |
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Functional Gradient Materials and Surface Layers Prepared by Fine Particles Technology $89.95 The term ‘functional gradient materials’ was coined in Japan in the 1980s to describe a class of materials having spatially homogenous microstructures and properties. These materials can be used successfully in such applications as electronic devices, optical films, anti-wear and anti-corrosion coatings, thermal barrier coatings and biomaterials. The materials are fabricated with the use of nanoparticles, leading to greatly improved performance. Nanoparticle technology is not straightforward, however, demanding a modification of methods for processing and characterization. This book provides graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, engineers and senior scientists with an in-depth review of aspects of the field, ranging from synthetic methods to a variety of applications. The different approaches to material synthesis are described, giving the reader a better understanding of the complex phenomena involved. Characterization and the evaluation of properties are also discussed. |
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George Cukor $49.63 New – Through 50 years and 50 films–from “Holiday” and “The Philadelphia Story” to “Camille” and “My Fair Lady”–George Cukor created some of Hollywood’s greatest motion pictures. The first book to discuss Cukor’s homosexuality openly, “George Cukor: A Double Life” is a sympathetic portrait of a man “whose long career is all the more impressive given the double life he was forced to lead”–”Los Angeles Book Review”. b&w photos. |
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George Cukor $91.95 New – Through 50 years and 50 films–from “Holiday” and “The Philadelphia Story” to “Camille” and “My Fair Lady”–George Cukor created some of Hollywood’s greatest motion pictures. The first book to discuss Cukor’s homosexuality openly, “George Cukor: A Double Life” is a sympathetic portrait of a man “whose long career is all the more impressive given the double life he was forced to lead”–”Los Angeles Book Review”. b&w photos. |
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God’s Coach: The Hymns, Hype, and Hypocrisy of Tom Landry’s Cowboys $117.45 New – Skip Bayless breaks through the clouds of myth and misfortune generated by pro football’s most powerful PR machine to show readers a befuddled coach, whose quarterbacks shrewdly ignored his play calls, whose truly Christian work kept him from studying game films, and a man who came to believe his own publicity. “A savvy, dirt-dishing expose”.–Kirkus Reviews”. . . . a breathless, can’t-put-it-down read!”–Los Angeles Times Book Review. |
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God’s Coach: The Hymns, Hype, and Hypocrisy of Tom Landry’s Cowboys $792.02 New – Skip Bayless breaks through the clouds of myth and misfortune generated by pro football’s most powerful PR machine to show readers a befuddled coach, whose quarterbacks shrewdly ignored his play calls, whose truly Christian work kept him from studying game films, and a man who came to believe his own publicity. “A savvy, dirt-dishing expose”.–Kirkus Reviews”. . . . a breathless, can’t-put-it-down read!”–Los Angeles Times Book Review. |
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God’s Coach: The Hymns, Hype, and Hypocrisy of Tom Landry’s Cowboys $132.29 New – Skip Bayless breaks through the clouds of myth and misfortune generated by pro football’s most powerful PR machine to show readers a befuddled coach, whose quarterbacks shrewdly ignored his play calls, whose truly Christian work kept him from studying game films, and a man who came to believe his own publicity. “A savvy, dirt-dishing expose”.–Kirkus Reviews”. . . . a breathless, can’t-put-it-down read!”–Los Angeles Times Book Review. |
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God’s Coach: The Hymns, Hype, and Hypocrisy of Tom Landry’s Cowboys $135.74 New – Skip Bayless breaks through the clouds of myth and misfortune generated by pro football’s most powerful PR machine to show readers a befuddled coach, whose quarterbacks shrewdly ignored his play calls, whose truly Christian work kept him from studying game films, and a man who came to believe his own publicity. “A savvy, dirt-dishing expose”.–Kirkus Reviews”. . . . a breathless, can’t-put-it-down read!”–Los Angeles Times Book Review. |
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Great Flicks: Scientific Studies of Cinematic Creativity and Aesthetics $22.14 New – What does it take to make a great motion picture? What do we even mean by cinematic greatness? What is more important: movie awards, critical acclaim, or box office success? Who has the biggest impact: the writer, the director, or the actors? Scientific research has provided some provocative answers. This review of cinematic creativity and aesthetics is confined to scientific studies carried out by a multidisciplinary group of researchers. Do great films receive both shiny trophies and fi |
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