Field: 704 books
by Field Eugene
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A charming book about a person who is deeply in love with books. The work is a collection of sketches and stories and covers the adventures and expeditions undertaken by the protagonist. The unique theme and the idiosyncratic style in which they are dealt makes it worth-reading.
Impeccably Dressed
How Costume in Pepe-le-Moko Constructs Jean Gabin as Object of the Erotic Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Does Laura Mulvey’s theory, that only women can be the object of the erotic gaze in cinema, still hold true if films that lie beyond mainstream Hollywood are examined? Through close analysis of the 1937 French film Pépé-le-Moko, this paper examines those aspects of the filmmakers’ craft which influence...
Evading the Issue
Hollywood and the Social Problem Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Tino Balio, in his book The American Film Industry, said that the Production Code meant that American films could not deal with political or social issues ‘in an honest and truthful fashion’. This incisive essay tests out the legitimacy of Balio’s claims, using The Lost Weekend (directed by Billy...
by Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hannah Field, Malini Roy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take...
The Intellectual Struggle for Florence
Humanists and the Beginnings of the Medici Regime, 1420-1440
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
The Intellectual Struggle for Florence is an analysis of the ideology that developed in Florence with the rise of the Medici, during the early fifteenth century, the period long recognized as the most formative of the early Renaissance. Instead of simply describing early Renaissance ideas, this volume...
by Norma Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
When the Emperor Hirohito died in 1989, Japanese newspapers had to use a special, exalted word to refer to his death, and had to depict his life uncritically, as one beginning in turbulence but ending in magnificent accomplishment. To do otherwise would have exposed them to terrorism from the vigilant...
by Lynda Field
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
This little book will inspire you to embrace change and face life with a positive attitude. It will help you take control of your destiny and change your life for the better - forever.
by Charles Kellogg Field, Will Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Genius has been defined as a capacity for taking pains.
Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities
Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Drawing on research from the New England Climate Adaptation Project, “Managing Climate Risks for Coastal Communities” introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change. The authors maintain that local climate adaptation efforts require collective commitments to risk...
by Amanda J Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This fascinating book explores the way that Sherlock Holmes has been appropriated by British businesses to advertise everything from carpets and tyres, to honey and whisky. Somerset Maugham believed that Holmes had survived so long in the public imagination because Arthur Conan Doyle had hammered the...
Adding 15 years to life, can we? yes we can- Definition of good health
what is the definition of good health anyway
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Describing the definition of good health with medical parameters , parameters we all have to develop habit to achieve and maintain , whether it is our weight or our blood pressure.
Tell Me a Story
Using Narratives to Break Down Barriers in Composition Courses
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Stories have great power. This book attempts to harness that power to help students grow and develop as writers. It argues that stories and narratives can be utilized in the composition classroom, specifically first-year composition (FYC) to break down barriers. Throughout a given semester, stories...
by Frank Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Based on two conferences, this volume explores trends during the 1960s and 1970s in inner city areas in the United Kingdom. It describes how the inner city is losing jobs and skilled workers and, as the population falls, the number of disadvantaged people and those claiming benefits is increasing....
by Henry Field
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This book is meant to challenge, is often controversial, even something of a whistleblower and, being radical, does not settle for the status quo as I speak out against these terrible times we live in. It is about dealing with life and death with all that that means in joy and heartache and the realities...