The Savvy Sphinx. How Garbo Conquered Hollywood, Hardback - Robert Dance

Including over a hundred beautiful images, The Savvy Sphinx charts Greta Garbo's rise and her long self-imposed exile as the queen who abdicated he...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncAuthor(s): Robert GottliebIllustration(s): 2-Color Throughout; 268 Photographs Reproduced in Duotone / Biblio...

"Fans of Hollywood's golden age will find this collection of interviews conducted over many years revealing...an enlightening picture emerges of Ti...

Hollywood producer Frank Jurado has hired former stuntman-turned-private investigator David Spandau to discover who's behind a sinister smear campa...

Italy's political disaster analysed

Publisher: SkiraAuthor(s): Anthony HadenGuestIllustration(s): 240 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 314Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 312 x 3...

Everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together, and what that means for us.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Ashley WardNu...

The inspirational story of the Bentley Boys and Le Mans - the race they made their own.Illustrations: 8pp mono plates, 1c endpapers

In 1976, a young Swede named Bjorn Borg put a stranglehold on the Wimbledon men's singles title that proved unbreakable for the next five years. No...

Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now...

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Reducere. Nina Mae McKinney has been described as Hollywood's first Black movie star, and yet her name is often missing from film histories and encyclopedias...

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A rare, controversial, and totally no holds barred memoir from one of Hollywood's greats.

Reducere. Jane's Fame tells the fascinating story of Jane Austen's renown, from the years of rejection the author faced during her lifetime to the global rec...

Greta Garbo's enduring legend derives from her incandescent performances as a woman in love in such classics as Camille, Queen Christina and Grand ...

Reducere. In his memoir, O. G. Fillmore Slim breaks down how he went from being the most prolific pimp in America, the legendary gentleman Mack, to an eminen...

The first complete history of Star Wars, from Lucas's early drafts to the present day.

From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped hist...

A practical step by step guide on how to sell and influencePublisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): Rebecca ParryNumber of pages: 144Publication d...

From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation's founding to the tw...

From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes an eye-opening journey through American history that unearths and debunks the myths we'v...

Reducere. DescriptionTechnology doesn't hate you. It treats everyone the same. You don't have to be "tech savvy" to launch a podcast. Persistence, patience a...

The first book about Jane Austen to dissect the industry around her - a completely original approach to one of Britain's most enduring popular nove...

The extraordinary story of the development and spread of the English language, from Dark Age Britain to the age of the Internet.

A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media. -- .Illustrations: 4 bla...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Jonathan SchroederIllustration(s): 292 colour photosNumber of pages: 552Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 211 x ...

A witty story about how to turn one's shortcomings into their greatest strength!

Publisher: North Star EditionsAuthor(s): Christine HaNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 184 x 236 x 11Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

New research and evidence that the Sphinx is thousands of years older than previously thought - Contrasts what Egyptologists claim about the Sphinx...

Reducere. Folio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in central Mexico. As a...

Reducere. How did your favorite young actors get started? What kind of training did they get, and how did they find their agent or manger? How did they manag...

Reducere. DescriptionHalf of all marriages end in divorce--and then there are the really unhappy ones.--Joan Rivers Do you suppose that the person who first ...

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DescriptionThe story of the cocktail --"the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet, " according to H.L. Mencken --featuring 45 recipes fo...

What is less well known, though, is how close this iconic company came to total collapse in 2003. Brick by Brick is the compelling story of a Danis...

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