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by L.M. Myles, Liz Barr, Nina Allan
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In Companion Piece, editors L.M. Myles (Chicks Unravel Time) and Liz Barr bring together a host of award-winning female writers, media professionals and more to examine the wide array of humans, aliens and tin dogs who have accompanied the Doctor in his adventures throughout time and space.
Tansy...
The Science of Game of Thrones
From the genetics of royal incest to the chemistry of death by molten gold - sifting fact from fantasy in the Seven Kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A myth-busting, jaw-dropping, fun-filled tour through the science of your favorite fantastical world.
Award-winning comedian and popular-science writer Helen Keen uncovers the astounding science behind the mystical, blood-soaked world of Game of Thrones, answering questions like: Is it possible...
by Nikki Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
It's been 10 years since Buffy Summers first walked into the Sunnydale High library and came face-to-face with her Watcher, who told her she was the Chosen One who would save the world from vampires. In the seven seasons that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was on TV, we watched her kill her true love (but...
Glamour, Gidgets, and the Girl Next Door
Television's Iconic Women from the 50s, 60s, and 70s
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Glamour, Gidgets, and the Girl Next Door is the latest creation from entertainment biographer and pop culture consultant Herbie J Pilato. Based on exclusive celebrity interviews, this book runs the gamut of female television legends, from Donna Douglas (who played Elly May Clampett on The Beverly...
Pride, Prejudice and Popcorn
TV and Film Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Three great love stories that started it all
Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights are three of the greatest novels in English literature. Now joining them is Pride, Prejudice and Popcorn, a decidedly different take on these classics. You will laugh with delight as you learn:
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by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The world's fascination with Bond is unstoppable. James Bond is the greatest British fictional hero of the post-war era. He also has a huge following in the US - and around the world - as a legendary Cold War warrior, and now as a daredevil able to take on the villains of the post-Cold War world....
by Peter Normanton
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
An engrossing A-Z of over 60 gory years of slasher and splatter movies, from Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later to Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters.
Here you will find the low-down on over 250 movies with entries from 23 different countries. The index, which includes every movie mentioned in the...
Management Lessons from Movies
100 Management Tips from World Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2017
Cinema is often a bold reflection of the world we live in. It speaks for the voiceless, aspires for the meek and brings hope to the despairing. Cinema is all encompassing, cinema is liberating! Wouldn't a medium as powerful as this, definitely have a lesson or two for management professionals as well?...
A Brief Guide To OZ
75 Years Going Over The Rainbow
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
What if Dorothy Gale wasn't the only person who went to see the Wizard of Oz?
MGM's landmark 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, did not mark the beginning of adventures in Oz. Both before and since, dozens of tales have been told of the Marvellous Land of Oz, and its inhabitants...
by Graeme Burk, Robert Smith?
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
In Time, Unincorporated, the best essays and commentary from a range of Doctor Who fanzines are collected and made available to a wider audience. In spirit, this series picks up the torch from Virgin's License Denied collection (1997), concentrating some of the most delightful, insightful and strange...
by Sarah Casey Benyahia
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Crime films have, since the earliest days of cinema, been popular with audiences, industry and critics alike and encompassed a diverse range of subjects, styles and themes. The genre provides a range of pleasures for the spectator, from taking on the role of the detective in the pursuit of clues in...
Conspiracy Cinema
Propaganda, Politics and Paranoia
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The only guide to this emerging genre of cinema. Still marginalized by mainstream media, conspiracy theories are a growing influence on the contemporary political imagination, thanks to internet distribution of conspiracy cinema documentaries presenting conspiratorial explanations everything from 9/11...
Amazon Fire TV
The Insider Secrets on Amazon Fire TV Unveiled
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Are you looking for a hassle free way to operate your Amazon Fire TV device? This user guide is written just for you. The Amazon Fire TV User Guide contains lucid examples and illustrations to allow you to gain full mastery over operating the device. This is the most comprehensive and best user guide...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
He-Man and She-Ra entranced boys and girls everywhere with their animated adventures that offered cartoon excitement and moral guidance. Now, Dark Horse Books is proud to present the official companion to He-Man and the Masters of the Universeand She-Ra: Princess of Power, featuring story synopses,...