Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo, Paperback - Werner Herzog

"Hypnotic....It is ever tempting to try to fathom his restless spirit and his determination to challenge fate."--Janet Maslin, New York Times Werne...

An analysis of the extraordinary films and life of director Werner Herzog.Illustrations: 107 illustrations, 40 in colour

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Werner HerzogNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 206 x 19Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

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Reducere. Over the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred interviews....

Reducere. In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and c...

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time. It is a remarkable narr...

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From Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the bestselling behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cul...

Reducere. Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn ...

The Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism's and Christianity's sacred books. Why these texts, and how were they tra...

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Publisher: Merlin Unwin BooksAuthor(s): James BattyIllustration(s): 26 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dime...

Phillips reveals how Mughal, Manchu and Western imperialists developed common strategies of 'define and conquer' and 'define and rule' to subjugate...

Target balances are the largest single item in some of the balance sheets of the Eurosystem's national central banks (NCBs), and yet very little is...

Reducere. The American people overwhelmingly supported the nation's entry into the Spanish-American War of 1898, which led to U.S. imperial expansion into th...

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The dread of death is a problem nearly as old as time itself. Our awareness of our own mortality has been famously referred to by William James as ...

Reducere. In his second volume of poetry, Clyde Hurlston seeks to illuminate every corner of his own interiority; in an effort to escape both the restrictive...

Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and G...

A "timely and hugely important" memoir of Justice John Paul Stevens's life on the Supreme Court (New York Times).When Justice John Paul Stevens ret...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Susan (University of Auckland, New Zealand) WatsonNumber of pages: 336Collection: Contemporary Studi...

The Making of the Modern Christmas - J. M. Golby

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Reducere. Between 1539 and 1542, two thousand indigenous Mexicans, led by Spanish explorers, made an armed reconnaissance of what is now the American Southwe...

*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts of Britain *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading" The Romans] thinking tha...

Reducere. Hoosier hysteria is synonymous with Indiana's crazy love affair with basketball. For some, it harkens back to the final four teams that met as a re...

From television documentaries and a steady output of critical works to retrospective art exhibitions and Austin Powers, the sixties fascinate us. T...

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This thorough study of the moral values of the Nibelungen and of their paradoxical behaviour posits the work as an indictment of a society that res...

Sword of Empire: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas from Columbus to Cortés, 1492-1529 is, by design, an approachable and accessible history of s...

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There is an intriguing correlation between the physical warfare of an infantryman and the spiritual warfare of a follower of Jesus Christ. Both of ...

180 South takes readers behind the scenes of the film, 180 South, made by Chris Malloy, to learn more about the people who made the original overla...

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The Making of the Cape Verdean is a book written about Cape Verdeans who migrated from the Cape Verde Islands in the late 1800's to the 1970's to N...

Using the form of a novel it shows how under the guidance of a Hermit a young man in danger of taking his own life is taught how to develop and dee...

We are first and foremost a spirit living in a natural body - learning to see, hear, and access the spirit realm and its principles. This training ...

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Reducere. "The Conquest of Bread" is an 1892 work by Peter Kropotkin. Kropotkin outlines what he believes are the main problems with both feudalism and capit...

Reducere. In his second volume of poetry, Clyde Hurlston seeks to illuminate every corner of his own interiority; in an effort to escape both the restrictive...

Reducere. Here is enough useless information for everyone. In "The Book of Totally Useless Information, " Don Voorhees has compiled over two hundred explanat...

Reducere. In the summer of 1974 the movie Death Wish stunned audiences with its powerful story of an enraged businessman who hits the streets with a handgun ...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Tom McCarthyNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 28Cover type: Paperback / sof...

DescriptionCalifornia's early history was both colorful and turbulent. After Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it was c...

A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth in Europe during High Middle Ages transformed it from a world of small separate communi...

The new edition of The Making of Modern South Africa provides a comprehensive, current introduction to the key themes and debates concerning the hi...

The complete collection of 'the Tony Hancock of journalism' Jeffrey Bernard's first Low Life Spectator series, with all the original illustrations.