The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film, Hardcover - Frank Gray

This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 19...

This major new study examines, for the first time, the US, Canadian, and British policies formulated in reaction to the mass atrocities at the birt...

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With 2018 marking 200 years since }Frankenstein{'s first publication, Levy provides an engrossing insight into the fascinating world of science in ...

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Reducere. What was the "Classical Revolution" in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these qu...

The techniques of early astrology are shown to have been at the foundation of science in this reclaiming of the alleged pseudoscience's value acros...

Anna Held was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater du...

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The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-d...

While the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how its roots lie in World War...

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The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy.Illustrations: 16 pages of B&W photographs

Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On th...

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The hugely popular introduction to one of the most important painters of the twentieth century, reissued in the brand new hardback British Artists ...

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DescriptionA illustrated biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his...

Reducere. The Father of Spin is the first full-length biography of the legendary Edward L. Bernays, who, beginning in the 1920s, was one of the first and mos...

Reducere. In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career"In...

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'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detectorPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Amit KatwalaNumber of pa...

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A collection of essays, paintings, and personal correspondence celebrates the life and legacy of Frederic Bazille, an instrumental but largely unsu...

Reducere. Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much ...

Reducere. DescriptionA vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los AngelesWhen Walter O'Malley moved his Br...

Reducere. America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society...

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Reducere. Winner of the Gold Dagger Award A fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal inv...

JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the imported ideologies of ...

Reducere. Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and ...

Reducere. For too long those who explain emotional discomfort on the basis of lived experience and those who blame chemistry have been at loggerheads. As Dr....

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A true-crime account of one of the greatest - and first - forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence and d...

Reducere. Get it, read it, and pass it on.--Bill Moyers""Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them I want ...

Reducere. Now in paperback, the life and legacy of the much-overlooked yet highly influential Robert Goddard--the brilliant, eccentric, and controversial pio...

DescriptionThe wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of 24-hour news How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broad...

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As the founder of financial futures and initiator of Globex, the world's first global electronic trading system, Leo Melamed revolutionized the fin...

Reducere. Selected as a 2020 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of MichiganIn 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime...

The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of 24-hour news How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on th...

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How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy.When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to...

Reducere. It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial pow...

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

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Reducere. Sometimes our understanding of our universe is given a huge boost by one insightful thinker. Such a boost came in the first half of the twentieth c...