Luke: 965 books
Jungian Film Studies
The essential guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Jungian film studies is a fast-growing academic field, but Jungian and post-Jungian concepts are still new to many academics and film critics. Helena Bassil-Morozow and Luke Hockley present Jungian Film Studies: The Essential Guide, the first book to bring together all the different strands, issues...
by Luke Young
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
What do you get when you take the amazing GONE GIRL story, replace the lame anniversary treasure hunts with deadly SAW movie-esque traps and have all the craziness investigated by lunatic detectives channeling the ones from the television show THE KILLING? You get an unputdownable and hilarious parody...
Charles Urban
Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 - 1925
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world’s first successful natural colour moving picture system. He was also a pioneer in the filming of war, science, travel, actuality and news, a fervent advocate...
by Luke McCallin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Luke McCallin, author of The Pale House and The Man from Berlin, delivers a dark, compelling thriller set in post-World War II Germany featuring ex-intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt.
A year after Germany’s defeat, Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin’s civilian police force....
by Luke E. Harlow
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery. The central...
Soldiering for Freedom
How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and middle-aged among them, along with other black men in the free and border slave states, joined the Union...
by Luke Mayville
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Long before the "one percent" became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power of a class he called simply "the few"—the wellborn, the beautiful, and especially the rich. In John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy, Luke Mayville explores Adams’s deep concern...
Blood Knots
A Memoir of Fathers, Friendship, and Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A “special and magnetic” memoir of one man’s lifelong love of fishing, the connection between man and nature, and the man who taught him about both (Carl Hiaasen, New York Times–bestselling author).
As a child in the 1960s, young British schoolboy Luke Jennings was fascinated by the...
The Dream-Centered Life
Discovering What Drives You
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Wake Up to Bigger Dreams!
Have you stopped pursuing the life of your dreams? Did someone or something steal the passions that made your heart beat fast?
It’s possible—for the first time or once again--to become that wide-eyed, visionary dream-chaser!
It starts by realizing...
by Luke Harding
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper, The Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service --the successor to the KGB--had broken into his apartment. He found himself tailed by men in leather jackets,...
Joyce's Ghosts
Ireland, Modernism, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
For decades, James Joyce’s modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe’s urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure.
In Joyce’s Ghosts, Luke Gibbons mounts a powerful argument...
Reclaiming Epicurus: Penguin Special
Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Epicureanism has been diluted into a byword for gourmet dining, but does the original ancient Greek 'philosophy of the Garden' contain insight that could save the world? Luke Slattery argues that reading Epicurus could help us rethink our materialist ways and challenge the inevitability of man-made...
by Luke Stetzik
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Part 1: Rickshaws & Robotic Talons
Classification: Surrealist, Dark Comedy, Symbolic
Synopsis:
100 precisely nonsensical short stories speckled with punchy dark humor and "random" details creating a surreal but meaningful message.
Part 2: Minka & Linka
Classification: Tragedy,...
Daddy's Curse 3
True stories of child slavery survivors, #3
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Another classic from the bestselling author of the Daddy's Curse Series.
Seeds of Malevolence
Bat Erdene was the only child of rich oriental parents. Growing up, he had everything a kid should want, except the most important thing—parental affection. From the outside, Bat had a perfect...