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Bit Player

Author : Janet Dawson
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1564747476
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Bit Player written by Janet Dawson and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Delightful....In flashbacks, Dawson does a fine job bringing WWII-era Los Angeles to life.” -Publishers Weekly (2/28/11) What now remains of Hollywood's Golden Era? A wealth of publicity materials was distributed nationwide to theaters, but they were usually treated as rubbish and disposed of when each movie finished its run. However, a surprising number of posters, still production photos, lobby cards, inserts, title cards, and the like have survived, and some of these memorabilia are of enormous value to collectors. Like any objects of value, these occasionally motivate crimes-sometimes even murder. PI Jeri Howard scours Northern California from the Bay Area to Sonoma County to the Eastern Sierra, trying to connect events of sixty years ago with the murder of a prominent arts patron and avid collector of Hitchcock memorabilia-and learns a lot about her grandmother’s years as a bit player in Hollywood along the way. With frequent flashbacks to the late 1930s and early ’40s, Bit Player features the life of bit player Jerusha Layne, who may figure in the unsolved murder of an aspiring leading man.

Bit Player

Author : Stephen Hess
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815737009
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Bit Player written by Stephen Hess and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful, often humorous look at how Washington works, or doesn't The title “Bit Player” perfectly reflects Stephen Hess's long and distinguished career as a Washington insider. As a 25-year-old, recently discharged Army private in 1958, he suddenly found himself as part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s speechwriting team that ultimately helped draft the famed “Farewell Address” warning of the influence of the “military industrial complex.” Then over the next two decades, Hess played bit roles aiding Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan—along the way observing up-close those presidents and many other senior political leaders. During his subsequent four-and-a-half decades at the Brookings Institution, Hess was well-positioned to monitor and comment on the achievements and failures of successive administrations. This memoir by a certified member of Washington's old-guard establishment is rich with insight into contemporary American democracy, poignant in its reflections of avoidable missteps by even the best and most experienced leaders, and consistently good-humored in the author's self-awareness of his own role behind the scenes of political power. Now in his mid-eighties, still involved at Brookings as a “senior fellow emeritus,” Hess uses this memoir to look back at what he describes as concentric circles of research, travel, advising, writing, and teaching. But more than just a memoir, Bit Player offers deeply informed commentary on the major political actors and seminal events in the nation's capital over the past six decades. One of the foremost authorities on media and government in the United States, Stephen Hess is a senior fellow emeritus in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He first joined Brookings in 1972 and was distinguished research professor of media and public affairs at the George Washington University (2004–2009). Hess served on White House staff during the Eisenhower and Nixon presidencies and as advisor to Presidents Ford and Carter.

Internet and Network Economics

Author : Xiaotie Deng
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540771050
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Internet and Network Economics written by Xiaotie Deng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2007, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in December 2007. The contents were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on equilibrium, information market, sponsored auction, network economics, mechanism design, social networks, advertisement pricing, computational general equilibrium, network games, and algorithmic issues.

Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations

Author : Brian Hayes
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536072
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations written by Brian Hayes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability. Brian Hayes wants to convince us that mathematics is too important and too much fun to be left to the mathematicians. Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations is his entertaining and accessible exploration of mathematical terrain both far-flung and nearby, bringing readers tidings of mathematical topics from Markov chains to Sudoku. Hayes, a non-mathematician, argues that mathematics is not only an essential tool for understanding the world but also a world unto itself, filled with objects and patterns that transcend earthly reality. In a series of essays, Hayes sets off to explore this exotic terrain, and takes the reader with him. Math has a bad reputation: dull, difficult, detached from daily life. As a talking Barbie doll opined, “Math class is tough.” But Hayes makes math seem fun. Whether he's tracing the genealogy of a well-worn anecdote about a famous mathematical prodigy, or speculating about what would happen to a lost ball in the nth dimension, or explaining that there are such things as quasirandom numbers, Hayes wants readers to share his enthusiasm. That's why he imagines a cinematic treatment of the discovery of the Riemann zeta function (“The year: 1972. The scene: Afternoon tea in Fuld Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey”), explains that there is math in Sudoku after all, and describes better-than-average averages. Even when some of these essays involve a hike up the learning curve, the view from the top is worth it.

The Play's the (Destructive) Thing

Author : Matt Prager
Publisher : Matt Prager
ISBN 13 : 1937402096
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Play's the (Destructive) Thing written by Matt Prager and published by Matt Prager. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you always somehow either wind up creating or getting swept up in a bunch of big relationship dramas? If so, time to live your life offstage, and THE PLAY’S THE (DESTRUCTIVE) THING will show you how.

Ethereal Users Guide

Author : Richard Sharpe
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411600851
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Ethereal Users Guide written by Richard Sharpe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2001 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethereal is one of those packages that many network managers would love to be able to use, but they are often prevented from getting what they would like from Ethereal because of the lack of documentation. This document is part of an effort on the part of the Ethereal team to improve the accessibility of Ethereal. We hope that you find it useful, and look forward to your comments.

Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures

Author : Luke Ong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642120318
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures written by Luke Ong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2010, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in March 2010, as part of ETAPS 2010, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. The 25 revised full papers presented together with the abstract of the keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 full paper submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on semantics of programming languages, probabilistic and randomised computation, concurrency and process theory, modal and temporal logics, verification, categorical and coalgebraic methods, as well as lambda calculus and types.

Bits to Bitcoin

Author : Mark Stuart Day
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262551071
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Bits to Bitcoin written by Mark Stuart Day and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and other topics for the general reader. Most of us feel at home in front of a computer; we own smartphones, tablets, and laptops; we look things up online and check social media to see what our friends are doing. But we may be a bit fuzzy about how any of this really works. In Bits to Bitcoin, Mark Stuart Day offers an accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and related topics for the general reader. He takes the reader from a single process to multiple processes that interact with each other; he explores processes that fail and processes that overcome failures; and he examines processes that attack each other or defend themselves against attacks. Day tells us that steps are digital but ramps are analog; that computation is about “doing something with stuff” and that both the “stuff” and the “doing” can be digital. He explains timesharing, deadlock, and thrashing; virtual memory and virtual machines; packets and networks; resources and servers; secret keys and public keys; Moore's law and Thompson's hack. He describes how building in redundancy guards against failure and how endpoints communicate across the Internet. He explains why programs crash or have other bugs, why they are attacked by viruses, and why those problems are hard to fix. Finally, after examining secrets, trust, and cheating, he explains the mechanisms that allow the Bitcoin system to record money transfers accurately while fending off attacks.

Codes of Fair Competition

Author : United States. National Recovery Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Codes of Fair Competition written by United States. National Recovery Administration and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Code of Fair Competition for the Mechanical Packing Industry as Approved on May 14, 1934

Author : United States. National Recovery Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1490 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Code of Fair Competition for the Mechanical Packing Industry as Approved on May 14, 1934 written by United States. National Recovery Administration and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Code of Fair Competition for the Motion Picture Industry

Author : United States. National Recovery Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Code of Fair Competition for the Motion Picture Industry written by United States. National Recovery Administration and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hollywood Unknowns

Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628469064
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Unknowns written by Anthony Slide and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first history devoted to extras from the silent era through the present. Hollywood Unknowns discusses the relationship of the extra to the star, the lowly position in which extras were held, the poor working conditions and wages, and the sexual exploitation of many of the hardworking women striving for a place in Hollywood society. Though mainly anonymous, many are identified by name and, for perhaps the first time, receive equal billing with the stars. And Hollywood Unknowns does not forget the bit players, stand-ins, and doubles, who work alongside the extras facing many of the same privations. Celebrity extras, silent stars who ended their days as extras, or members of various ethnic groups—all gain a deserved luster in acclaimed film writer Anthony Slide's prose. Chapters document the lives and work of extras from the 1890s to the present. Slide also treats such subjects as the Hollywood Studio Club, Central Casting, the extras in popular literature, and the efforts at unionization through the Screen Actors Guild from the 1930s onwards. Slide chronicles events such as John Barrymore's walking off set in the middle of the day so the extras could earn another day's wages, and Cecil B. DeMille's masterful organizing of casts of thousands in films such as Cleopatra. Through personal interviews, oral histories, and the use of newly available archival material, Slide reveals in Hollywood Unknowns the story of the men, women, and even animals that completed the scenes on the silver screen.

Jealous but Not Bitter

Author : J. Clews
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450249469
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Jealous but Not Bitter written by J. Clews and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to all things Joe! Telling true stories of London, Ontario, Jealous But Not Bitter is a satirical tongue-in-cheek look at average Joesthe men and women who make this world go around. From truck drivers to teenagers, security guards to secretaries, cashiers to construction workers, the irreverent to the immature: all who are downtrodden, overlooked and overworked, will enjoy these hilarious true stories about the bumbling nobodies, grunts and gumbies who are just trying to get by. Jealous But Not Bitter is chock full of information that all everyday workers need to know, such as: How to impress during the job interview How to deal with your stupid boss How to call in sick (when youre not sick) What to say when you screw up at work The stories in this collection offer some very intriguing information, some of which will be useful and some that is just plain silly: like what to say if your feet smell, the secret to looking young, cavemen in heaven, bricklayers on Mars, and much more. So sit back, have a drink, laugh, and enjoy!

The Only Writing Series You'll Ever Need Screenwriting

Author : Madeline Dimaggio
Publisher : Adams Media
ISBN 13 : 1598692887
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book The Only Writing Series You'll Ever Need Screenwriting written by Madeline Dimaggio and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2007-01-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insider info you need! Writing scripts for the big screen takes more than a big idea--it requires passion, perseverance, and insider know-how. The Only Writing Series You'll Ever Need: Screenwriting is your go-to resource for mastering the complete screenwriting process. Taking you step by step from idea to deal, you'll learn how to: Write a sellable script Create real and credible dialog Find an agent and market the script the right way Edit and revise--over and over and over again Live the life of a full-time screenwriter Ideal for those writers who want to perfect their craft and shop their script around, The Only Writing Series You'll Ever Need: Screenwriting is your break into this exciting career!

A/V A to Z

Author : Richard W. Kroon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457406
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book A/V A to Z written by Richard W. Kroon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining more than 10,000 words and phrases from everyday slang to technical terms and concepts, this dictionary of the audiovisual language embraces more than 50 subject areas within film, television, and home entertainment. It includes terms from the complete lifecycle of an audiovisual work from initial concept through commercial presentation in all the major distribution channels including theatrical exhibition, television broadcast, home entertainment, and mobile media. The dictionary definitions are augmented by more than 700 illustrations, 1,600 etymologies, and nearly 2,000 encyclopedic entries that provide illuminating anecdotes, historical perspective, and clarifying details.

Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965

Author : Barry Monush
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557835512
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965 written by Barry Monush and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1,000 photos!

The Business of TV Production

Author : Craig Collie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139463357
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Business of TV Production written by Craig Collie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television is the dominant mass medium of the current era. Its lifeblood in whatever form it takes is content - the programs it broadcasts to the public. This book is an insider's view of the business of production of TV programs, for university-level courses and for those in the industry wanting to upgrade their skills. It is the story of the TV producer, and the leadership of creative people, the management of resources of production (including funding) and the guiding of the production process. Covering all genres of television - drama and comedy, documentary and current affairs, infotainment and reality TV - it goes step-by-step through the journey from program idea to program delivery and beyond.