Triumph Over Containment. American Film in the 1950s, Hardback - Robert P. Kolker

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Robert P. KolkerIllustration(s): 37 black & white images, 21 colour imagesNumber of pages: 232Publica...

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great ...

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagno...

DescriptionNew York Times BestsellerSoon to be a Netflix documentaryThe bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged ...

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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great ...

Illustrates an extraordinary period of British history covering everything from rationing to rock and roll.Illustrations: 1, 000 colour

With contemporary advertising and sales catalogues as its sources, this book represents an exhaustive study of the Ikora and Myra lines in glass pr...

Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germany's Hrtgen Forest. Focusing on the bitterly fought battle b...

Reducere. "Letters to Imogene" provides detailed behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the well known and lesser known battles of World War II, including cam...

Reducere. J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for ...

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great ...

This book draws on empirical analysis to question traditional assumptions about emergencies as 'exceptions' and to develop an alternative conceptua...

Israel, Arab states, and the United States have been conducting and experiencing various kinds of containment in recent years, as part of confronti...

Reducere. When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert B. PippinThe crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unu...

Reducere. DescriptionCommunities in the United States are chapters in the great story of this country. And while many of these chapters are well known in our...

Reducere. "An indispensible study" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience that presents a provo...

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Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

A stunning new collection of railway photographs showcasing 1950s steam

The North American P-51 Mustang powered by the British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin/Packard engine was, quite simply, the best long-range escort fig...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Robert SingerIllustration(s): 64 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2021Dime...

Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cin...

Reducere. Imagine that you are a believer living in a communist country. You live with the knowledge that at any time you could be imprisoned, tortured, or k...

Publisher: Bonnier Books LtdAuthor(s): Robert JeffreyIllustration(s): 8ppNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 232 x 21Cover ...

For almost three decades, Georgia Tann was nationally lauded for her work at her children's home. In reality she was selling many of her charges - ...

Reducere. "Growing Up In Bay Ridge Brooklyn" Part of The Brooklyn past series of books.... In which neighborhood in Brooklyn did you grow up? Do you yearn fo...

Reducere. Angel in the Whirlwind is the epic tale of the American Revolution, from its roots among tax-weary colonists to the triumphant Declaration of Indep...

Publisher: American Mathematical SocietyAuthor(s): William P. MinicozziNumber of pages: 325Collection: Graduate Studies in MathematicsPublication d...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anne CleelandIn this, the fourth installment of the Doyle & Acton mystery series, Detective Sergeant Doyle realizes that se...

Un film de fictune care se petrece in lumea fascinanta a unuia dintre cele grozave scandaluri ale anilor 1970, American Hustle/Teapa in stil americ...

Reducere. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn, the derelict HMS Jersey was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of...

DescriptionThe American Civil Rights Movement: A documentary history collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Ci...

Reducere. Barry Seal: Trafic in stil American e povestea incredibil de adevarata a unui pilot care a reusit sa conduca una din cele mai mari operatiuni sub a...

Literature Into Film Film Into Literature. Case Studies in American Literature and Film - Ileana Jitareu Chiru

This book consists of short essays on approximately fifty American political films. It explores the extent to which films take on the political iss...

Adam R. Ochonicky gives a critical overview of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings in film and literature. Starting with the fr...

Focusing on a conflict in Alabama during the 1980s, Robert Daniel Rubin considers how conservative evangelicals forged a political identity. To pro...

This is an inspiring story of an ordinary woman's spirited fight against cancer which defied all the odds. But it is also a signpost for anyone who...

A cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, Excavating the Future explores the popular archae...

A sharply focused, fine-grained analysis of one critical province during the Vietnam War, Robert Thompson's work demonstrates how pacification is b...

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A nostalgic look at what it was really like to be a 1950s mother and how the baby-boom generation was madePublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s)...

William Thurston's work has had a profound influence on mathematics. He connected whole mathematical subjects in entirely new ways and changed the ...

This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring adventure serials, unearthing a thriving film cultur...

A critical review of documentary in the 21st century.

Offers a systematic study of the effects of the comprehensive reform of traditional Chinese theatre conducted in the 1950s and '60s, and is based o...