Golden Age, Paperback

Reducere. Every fan of the Universal Horror films of the 1930s knows that James Whale directed four of the best of those films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old ...

Reducere. The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-ce...

A long overdue exploration of gay representation on British TV from its 'golden age' to the launch of the liberal Channel 4

Reducere. "Sylvia had on the wrong stockings for her dress, and her lipstick was all crooked, so I think things are pretty grim." Lovely, foolish Sylvia Cole...

Reducere. When she had let down her case, she locked her bedroom door. And then she put out the light and climbed out of the window. Marooned as a baby, Vale...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy was Minnesota, a land known for its stoic farmers, reasonable politics, and comfortable casseroles, a hotbed of the wacky and wild w...

Reducere. DescriptionForbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film offers the first thorough examination of the exploitation cinema while capturin...

Reducere. "They are letting me say good-bye. I'm to be shot to-morrow. It will be over by the time you get this..." Laura stood, pale and trembling, in the v...

Reducere. You have a business. A brand. Or at least an idea. Maybe you started a social media account. Maybe you even grew that account. And made some conten...

Reducere. Ice is still. Death is still. But no living flesh should be as still as this... Agent Stephen Enderby, known in Russia as Red Stefan, meets Elizabe...

A multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture by uncovering a traditio...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challeng...

Reducere. "How would you like to be a rocket? A stranger for a week, an heiress for a week, then down with the stick and a stranger again." Imperious, warm-h...

Reducere. Announcer, Television Broadcaster, and Author, Frank Waters, writes about "The Golden Age Of Show Jumping" when riders and their horses were as fam...

Reducere. DescriptionA narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans ...

DescriptionThis study offers a reading of Don Quixote to argue that this work was more than just hilariously comic entertainment. Rather, it belong...

Reducere. East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: The sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bon...

Reducere. "Thou hast betrayed, and thou hast slain..." What is the mystery shrouding the lovely but sinister Annam stone, stolen from a remote shrine? Every ...

Murder by Jury: "If there is any place one would think himself safe, it would be in a jury room, locked up with fellow members of a jury, consideri...

Reducere. "I hate him worse than I hate snails, and worms, and slugs, and spiders with hairs down their legs..." Bride-to-be Mally was an unlikely fugitive f...

Reducere. Ten years He had been dead ten years Uncannily alike in appearance were the twins, Jim and Jack Laydon. Both, too, loved beautiful Evelyn Prothero....

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Reducere. I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who ...

Reducere. She held the candle steady and, stooping, touched the smeared patch with the tip of her finger. The stain was blood. When Sarah Marlowe, secretary ...

As battles over school desegregation helped define a generation of civil rights activism in the United States, a less heralded yet equally importan...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mike OlszewskiAuthor: Janice OlszewskiRemember when TV was just three channels and the biggest celebrities in Cleveland wer...

Reducere. "She's a hula mula wula girl, She's a crazy daisy nightmare My baby's a scream." David Fordyce wasn't looking forward to his birthday party, an ann...

Reducere. In American pop art, gangster rap, punk rock, and gay filmmaking, there is a Continental Divide between East Coast and West Coast culture typified ...

Reducere. There was a hand pressed against the window, a large hand that looked unnaturally white, the blood driven from it by the pressure of a man's weight...

Reducere. Why can no-one stay at the Dower House? Amabel Grey, a charming and lovely widow, had not seen scientist Julian Forsham since she chose to marry an...

Reducere. Gualicho takes a bite out of the ornithopod's back as it runs away from her, causing it to stumble and fall. She jumps on top of the body and rips ...

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DescriptionThe combined events of the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the first transcontinental railroad opening in 1869, and the financial...

A vivid account of the men and women who revealed the treasures of Ancient Egypt to the world, from the first decipherment of hieroglyphics to the ...

Reducere. Just because you can't respect a movie doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. A seminal text of the VHS nostalgia movement, The Golden Age of Crap serves...

Reducere. DescriptionMurder in the poisoned bosom of a genteel, if alarmingly dysfunctional, family in the English countryside.Dennyford is a "peaceful littl...

Reducere. DescriptionTogether they looked down at the inert sprawling figure of a man fantastically dressed in red-and-white-striped pyjama trousers, with a ...

DescriptionShazam made his debut in Whiz Comics in 1940, and outsold his biggest competitor, Superman, by 14 million copies a month. It wasn't long...

An insider's story of creativity and innovation at Apple under Steve Jobs. Creative Selection shows readers how a small group of people developed a...

In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enli...

Reducere. Description"I want to catch them. To do that we've got to lead them on. Now listen to me."Elbert J. Pakenham of New York City is among just nine su...

New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick transports readers to 1930s California, where glamour and seduction spawn a multitude of sins . . .

Reducere. DescriptionIt had been so quickly done that he felt almost as if a little knife had actually flashed by him and stuck, quivering, in the door at hi...

The Power of Your Truth in the Golden Age, by author Angela Mia White, makes you feel as if you're entering a new world because you are. It holds a...

DescriptionIn 2002, Ulf Haukenes entered a severe depression with anxiety due to several years of using party drugs and experimenting with his cons...

Reducere. Fatal Shadows (1933): In the early morning hours after the natives' frenetic celebration of the Sultan's birthday, beautiful Ailsa Brownley is foun...

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For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria...

Explores the history of the famous cathedral as part of the School of Chartres through its great teachers Fulbertus, Bernadus Silvestris, John of S...

The enthralling true story of the curious life and career of Maud West, one of Britain's first and best-known female detectives.

Reducere. Description"I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal snows. I approached...

Reducere. "There'll be blue murder here before Christmas " A number of parties heading for a luxurious holiday spot, are forced by severe winter weather to p...

Reducere. Description"A" is for Adamski is your ultimate resource guide to the early UFO contactees and their encounters with such interplanetary ambassadors...

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"A well written, informed, and at times exciting account" (Choice) of the field of Egyptology, part two of Thompson's bestselling monumental histor...

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When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer co...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals.Between 1890 and 1920, American wr...

Reducere. In this accessibly written history, Amira K. Bennison contradicts the common assumption that Islam somehow interrupted the smooth flow of Western c...

Reducere. During the 1966-1967 Illinois high school basketball season, tiny Bluford High School, having just over a hundred students, reached the lowest ebb ...

Reducere. Katharine Hepburn stars in what play at the climax of Stage Door? Can you name the classic in which a cigarette is put out in a jar of cold cream? ...

Reducere. Prepare yourself for macabre spectacle and contes cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from fa...

Quite simply, Go to the Games with Humble: Kern Tips and the Golden Age of SWC radio is a one-of-a-kind book. For the first time, the history of th...

Kenneth Grahame captured the imagination of the English speaking world with his books in the early 1900s. Later "The Wind in the Willows" and "The ...

Reducere. The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, ...

Amanda Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of 'Til Death Do Us Part, transports readers to 1930s California, where glamour and seduction s...

Reducere. A thorough examination of the history of the Templars in Spain and Portugal - Explores the mysteries surrounding the location of Templar enclaves -...

Reducere. Description3 More Reps showcases the golden age of Bodybuilding, and it's superstars. It is more than a training book. It is a collector coffee tab...

DescriptionReal news traveled fast, even in the days before internet connections. During the New Deal and World War II, Washington elites turned to...

Reducere. The monumental classic collection that studies the ancient Christian writers and their teachings about the early Church.