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Photographic Composition
A Visual Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
"Those of you who follow this blog know that Dr. Richard Zakia, former RIT professor, is one of my all time favorite photo gurus. We send each other pictures. We talk about looking into pictures - and not just looking at them. Big difference.. Dr. Richard Zakia, a.k.a. Dick, is the co-author,...
Carnage & Courage
A Memoir of FDR, the Kennedys, and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This “sparkling memoir” sweeps readers along with the astounding true story of a socialite who would devote her life to her country in war and in peace (Kitty Kelley, award winning biographer).
At President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s behest, young Page Wilson left the United States to serve...
Gothic Fantasy
The Fims of Tim Burton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Edwin Page takes us on a journey through the films of Tim Burton, through which we gain insights into the mysterious, and somewhat reclusive film director responsible for them. A book ideally suited to film studies and media studies, at school and undergraduate level, this book has analysis of the...
by Edwin Page
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
From Reservoir Dogs in 1992 to the Kill Bill series of films, the films of Quentin Tarantino have always provoked a reaction from critics and audiences alike - many attracting a cult-like following. Edwin Page discusses each of the eight films written and directed by Tarantino, and explores the complexity...
Maximum Velocity
The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time.
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by James Lynn Page
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
James Lynn Page has written a creative and practical guide to an ancient and mysterious tradition that is enjoying an astonishing revival worldwide. He separates fact from fiction, myth from magic, and brings the reader closer to the truth in this fascinating study of the Celts: their traditional ceremonies,...
Embroidered Ground
Revisiting the Garden
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
A memorable book about making a renowned garden work
In Embroidered Ground: Revisiting the Garden, the acclaimed author and garden designer Page Dickey writes of the pitfalls, challenges, successes, and myriad pleasures of the twenty-nineyear-long process of creating her own remarkable garden,...
Thanks, But This Isn't for Us
A (Sort of) Compassionate Guide to Why Your Writing is Being Rejected
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
A fun, practical guide that reveals the essentials of good fiction and memoir writing by exposing the most common mistakes literary writers make.
All great works of fiction and memoir are unique-but most bad novels, stories, and memoirs have a lot in common. From clunky dialogue to poorly sketchedout...
Revelation Road
One mans journey to the heart of apocalypse and back again
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
If you're reading this, we're still alive. The end of the world has not occurred. But it can't be long now, can it?
For two thousand years, the Book of Revelation has inspired countless conspiracy theorists, film-makers, writers and artists, as well as theologians and teachers. But why are...
by Hezekiah Butterworth, James Whitcomb Riley, John Bowring
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
CONTENTS: HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH 1. First New England Christmas JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY 2. A Defective Santa Claus JOHN BOWRING 3. Watchman, Tell Us of the Night JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 4. A Christmas Carmen JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 5. The Mystic's Christmas L. FRANK BAUM 6. Little Bun Rabbit LEO TOLSTOY...
Man on Fire
A Stunt of a Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
If you've watched an Australian film, TV show or ad during the past fifty years, chances are you've seen stuntman Grant Page - falling from the sky, jumping off cliffs, crashing motorbikes, rolling cars, hang-gliding over skyscrapers, or setting himself on fire. He's fearless, forensic and there's...
The Toughest Beat
Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -- in numbers and political clout. In The Toughest Beat, Joshua Page argues in crisp, vivid prose that the Golden State's prison boom fueled the rise...
by Dan Clawson, Max Page
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Higher education is more important than ever, for individual success and for national economic growth. And yet higher education in the United States is in crisis: public funding has been in free fall; tuition has skyrocketed making colleges and universities less accessible; basic structures such as...
All is Fair
A heart-warming and captivating family saga
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Through highs and the lows, good times and the bad, life on the fair is unforgettable
Julie and Dicky Otterman arrive at Grundy’s fair with an extraordinary new act: the motorcycle extravaganza, The Wall of Death. This seemingly happy couple are the talk of the town, but all is not as it seems,...