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Not to be Missed

Author : Kenneth Turan
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 158648396X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Not to be Missed written by Kenneth Turan and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The images and memories that matter most are those that are unshakeable, unforgettable. Kenneth Turan’s fifty-four favorite films embrace a century of the world’s most satisfying romances and funniest comedies, the most heart-stopping dramas and chilling thrillers. Turan discovered film as a child left undisturbed to watch Million Dollar Movie on WOR-TV Channel 9 in New York, a daily showcase for older Hollywood features. It was then that he developed a love of cinema that never left him and honed his eye for the most acute details and the grandest of scenes. Not to be Missed blends cultural criticism, historical anecdote, and inside-Hollywood controversy. Turan’s selection of favorites ranges across all genres. From All About Eve to Seven Samurai to Sherlock Jr., these are all timeless films—classic and contemporary, familiar and obscure, with big budgets and small—each underscoring the truth of director Ingmar Bergman’s observation that “no form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”

Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and published by Merriam-Webster Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical dictionary which profiles over 30,000 individuals, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women

Author : Elizabeth Ewan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474436274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women written by Elizabeth Ewan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fascinating lives on every page, the Dictionary offers concise entries that illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to the early twenty-first century, as well as the worldwide Scottish diaspora.

The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law

Author : Roger K. Newman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300113005
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law written by Roger K. Newman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law presents succinct and lively entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law. Casting a wide net, editor Roger K. Newman includes individuals from around the country, from colonial times to the present, encompassing the spectrum of ideologies from left-wing to right, and including a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Entries are devoted to the living and dead, the famous and infamous, many who upheld the law and some who broke it. Supreme Court justices, private practice lawyers, presidents, professors, journalists, philosophers, novelists, prosecutors, and others--the individuals in the volume are as diverse as the nation itself. Entries written by close to 600 expert contributors outline basic biographical facts on their subjects, offer well-chosen anecdotes and incidents to reveal accomplishments, and include brief bibliographies. Readers will turn to this dictionary as an authoritative and useful resource, but they will also discover a volume that delights and entertains. Listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law: John Ashcroft Robert H. Bork Bill Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg Patrick Henry J. Edgar Hoover James Madison Thurgood Marshall Sandra Day O'Connor Janet Reno Franklin D. Roosevelt Julius and Ethel Rosenberg John T. Scopes O. J. Simpson Alexis de Tocqueville Scott Turow And more than 700 others

The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary

Author : David Crystal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521567800
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary written by David Crystal and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 14,000 brief entries covering persons both past and present

Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions

Author : Gerald H. Anderson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802846808
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions written by Gerald H. Anderson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.

Chambers Biographical Dictionary

Author : Joan Bakewell
Publisher : Chambers
ISBN 13 : 9780550106933
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Chambers Biographical Dictionary written by Joan Bakewell and published by Chambers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionaries of biography.

Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists

Author : George A. Cevasco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313036497
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists written by George A. Cevasco and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-12-09 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials, political figures and writers and artists concerned with the environment. Some of the subjects are well known. The accomplishments of others are little known. Each entry contains a succinct but careful evaluation of the subject's career and contributions. Entries also include up-to-date bibliographies and information concerning manuscript sources.

A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists

Author : Philip Arestis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781843761396
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists written by Philip Arestis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation.

Presidents

Author : Neil A. Hamilton
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108168
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Presidents written by Neil A. Hamilton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of American presidents are listed in order of election to office. Includes personal and professional information, timelines of life, and unusual facts.

Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen

Author : Elizabeth L. Ewan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626603
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen written by Elizabeth L. Ewan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single-volume dictionary presents the lives ofindividual Scottish women from earliest times to the present. Drawing on newscholarship and a wide network of professional and amateur historians, itthrows light on the experience of women from every class and category inScotland and among the worldwide Scottish diaspora.The BiographicalDictionary of Scottish Women is written for the general reading public andfor students of Scottish history and society. It is scholarly in itsapproach to evidence and engaging in the manner of its presentation. Eachentry makes sense of its subject in narrative terms, telling a story ratherthan simply offering information. The book is as enjoyable to read as it iseasy and valuable to consult. It is a unique and important contribution tothe history of women and Scotland.The publisher acknowledges support fromthe Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Executive Equalities Unit towardsthe publication of this title.

The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure

Author : C. D. Rose
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 161219379X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure written by C. D. Rose and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject. Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world’s pre-eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin. The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment: the definitive appreciation of history’s least accomplished writers. Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard-earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who’s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency. It is, in short, a treasure.

Southern Writers

Author : Joseph M. Flora
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807148555
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Southern Writers written by Joseph M. Flora and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. What constitutes a "southern writer" is always a matter for debate. Editors Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel have used a generous definition that turns on having a significant connection to the region, in either a personal or literary sense. New to this volume are younger writers who have emerged in the quarter century since the dictionary's original publication, as well as older talents previously unknown or unacknowledged. For almost every writer found in the previous edition, a new biography has been commissioned. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject.

A New and General Biographical Dictionary

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)

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Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders

Author : Harold Josephson
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313225656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders written by Harold Josephson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important reference tool surveys the multifaceted field of peace activism from 1800 to 1980. The dictionary defines the parameters of peace advocacy, surveys the different approaches taken in antiwar efforts, and provides information on many individuals who have either contributed to organized peace efforts or who have questioned war and organized violence. More than 250 authors from 15 nations have written 750 biographical entries about public advocates of peace; antiwar activists; leaders in organizations devoted to world peace; those who have worked to prevent armed conflicts; and writers, artists, and many others who have played major roles in the cause of peace. Although many of the subjects come from the United States and Europe, important subjects from Canada, Latin America, Africa, East Asia, and South Asia are also represented. Besides providing basic biographical information, each entry concentrates on the subject's work, ideas, and activity as a peace leader and also contains a short bibliography of works about the subject, works by the subject, and manuscript materials if available. Carefully indexed and cross-referenced, the volume contains an introductory overview of nineteenth- and twentieth-century peace efforts, gives a selective chronology of peace movements, and provides an appendix listing the peace leaders by country. No other volume provides such a comprehensive survey of peace leaders throughout the world as this one. The Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders will undoubtedly prove to be an invaluable research and reference tool for scholars and students of international relations, international law, and political philosophy.

The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 5Th Ed

Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748108505
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 5Th Ed written by David Thomson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both more and less than history, a work of imagination in its own right, a piece of movie literature that turns fact into romance.' Gavin Lambert was reviewing the first edition of David Thomson's monumental work in 1975. In the eight years since the third edition was published, careers have waxed and waned, reputations been made and lost, great movies produced, trends set and scorned. This fourth edition has 200 entirely new entries and every original entry has been re-examined. Thus the roster of directors, actors, producers, screenwriters and cameramen is both historical and contemporary, with old masters reappraised in terms of how their work has lasted. Each of the 1,000 profiles is a keenly perceptive, provocative critical essay. Striking the perfect balance between personal bias and factual reliability, David Thomson - novelist, critic, biographer and unabashed film addict - has given us an enormously rich reference book, a brilliant reflection on the art and artists of the cinema.

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

Author : David Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435291164
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The New Biographical Dictionary of Film written by David Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author returns with old entries updated and 300 new ones--from Luc Besson to Reese Witherspoon--making more than 1,300 in all. In addition to the new "musts," key figures from film history are included.