Orchid

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022642703X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Orchid by : Jim Endersby

Download or read book Orchid written by Jim Endersby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning history of the orchid: “an engaging and enlightening account of one of the Earth's most mythologized botanical wonders” (Richard Conniff, author of House of Lost Worlds). At once delicate, exotic, and elegant, orchids are beloved for their singular, instantly recognizable beauty. Found in nearly every climate, the many species of orchid have had varying forms of significance in countless cultures over time. Following the orchid’s journey from Ancient Greek medicine to twentieth century detective novels, science historian Jim Endersby explores the flower’s four recurring themes: science, empire, sex, and death. Orchids were a symbol of the exotic riches sought by 19th century Europeans in their plans for colonization. They became subjects of scientific scrutiny for Charles Darwin, who investigated their methods of cross-pollination. As Endersby shows, orchids—perhaps because of their extraordinarily diverse colors, shapes, and sizes—have also bloomed repeatedly in films, novels, plays, and poems, from Shakespeare to science fiction. Featuring many gorgeous illustrations from the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Orchid: A Cultural History was awarded the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize by the History of Science Society. It is an enchanting tale not only for gardeners and plant collectors, but anyone curious about the flower’s obsessive hold on the imagination in history, cinema, literature, and more.

Dreamlings 3

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781726195553
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (955 download)

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Book Synopsis Dreamlings 3 by : Edwina Mc Namee

Download or read book Dreamlings 3 written by Edwina Mc Namee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7.99 3.99 INTRODUCTORY PRICE FOR LIMITED TIME Contains free pdf inside Step into this whimisical land of magical designs. If you love to color this book is for you.Unleash the artist within.There is something for everyone here. Hours of stress relief, fun and creative expression are a few colored pencil strokes away. Features 25 beautifully designed images Each one a single page so no bleed through Most images are printed on both white and black paper so 2 copies of each. 8.5 x 11 so perfect size to frame

Hollywood in Kodachrome

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062265555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood in Kodachrome written by David Wills and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood in Kodachrome by David Wills has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Coloring Book

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ISBN 13 : 9781884907982
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Coloring Book written by Diana Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

By Myself and Then Some

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062016598
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book By Myself and Then Some written by Lauren Bacall and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to project an audacious spirit and pursue on-screen excellence. The product of an extraordinary mother and a loving extended family, she produced, with Humphrey Bogart, some of the most electric and memorable scenes in movie history. After tragically losing Bogart, she returned to New York and a brilliant career in the theatre. A two-time Tony winner, she married and later divorced her second love, Jason Robards, and never lost sight of the strength that made her a star. Now, thirty years after the publication of her original National Book Award–winning memoir, Bacall has added new material to her inspiring history. In her own frank and beautiful words, one of our most enduring actresses reveals the remarkable true story of a lifetime so rich with incident and achievement that Hollywood itself would be unable to adequately reproduce it.

Hammett Unwritten

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Publisher : Seventh Street Books
ISBN 13 : 1616147148
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Hammett Unwritten by : Owen Fitzstephen

Download or read book Hammett Unwritten written by Owen Fitzstephen and published by Seventh Street Books. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A worthless bird statuette -- the focus of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. And much more. As Dashiell Hammett closes his final case as a private eye, the details of which will later inspire his most famous book, he acquires at a police auction the bogus object of that case, an obsidian falcon statuette. He casually sets the memento on his desk, where for a decade it bears witness to his literary rise. Until he gives it away. Now, suffering writer’s block, the famous author begins to wonder about rumors of the falcon’s “metaphysical qualities,” which link it to a powerful, wish-fulfilling black stone cited in legends from around the world. He can’t deny that when he possessed the statuette he wrote one acclaimed book after another, and that without it his fortunes have changed. As his block stretches from months to years, he becomes entangled again with the scam artists from the old case, each still fascinated by the “real” black bird and its alleged talismanic power. A dangerous maze of events takes Hammett from 1930s San Francisco to the glamorous Hollywood of the 1940s, a federal penitentiary at the time of the McCarthy hearings, and finally to a fateful meeting on New Year’s Eve, 1959, at a Long Island estate. There the dying Hammett confronts a woman from his past who proves to be his most formidable rival. And his last hope.

Lost Cat

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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606996428
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Lost Cat by : Jason

Download or read book Lost Cat written by Jason and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detective is walking down the street. It is raining. He sees a “Lost Cat” poster. A minute later he sees the cat from the photo. He picks it up and goes back to the poster. He calls the number. A woman answers. He turns up at her place and gives her the cat. She invites him in from the rain for a cup of coffee. They talk and find out they have a lot in common: both are divorced and living alone. Some days later he invites her out for a dinner. She accepts. He shows up at the agreed time. She doesn’t. He calls her home and knocks on her door. No answer. He asks the neighbors. They haven’t seen her. She has disappeared. He makes some phone calls and investigates, but can’t find her. He gets a new client and has to start working on a new case. In his head he continues their conversation. Lost Cat, the new graphic novel by Jason (after years of “graphic novellas” of less than 50 pages, arguably his first genuine graphic NOVEL) is both a playful take on the classic detective story, and a story about how difficult it is to find a sister spirit, someone you feel a real connection to―and what do you do if you lose that person?

Take This Book On A Cruise Ship

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595444849
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Book Synopsis Take This Book On A Cruise Ship by : Ricky Ginsburg

Download or read book Take This Book On A Cruise Ship written by Ricky Ginsburg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After you've played your twenty-seventh game of shuffleboard . today, and one more lobster dinner is going to force you to grow claw crackers, find a quiet place with a comfortable deck chair. I've heard people say that a cruise ship is exciting and boring, riotous and relaxing, and they'll either never travel any other way again or move to the desert. Nevertheless, everyone seems to agree-the ships are always packed with enough people to make single-file a lifestyle. Here's a book to take with you when you do locate an unpopulated corner of your floating pool deck. Two dozen ways to escape from anxious deckhands laden with fresh towels, single women and men seeking a night, a cruise, or a bankroll, and those wonderful toddlers who think every solid object is a drum. The stories are grouped together in groups of three with some obvious, well maybe not always obvious, connection. Read them slowly, alone or with a friend, if that's your reason for taking the ship in the first place. Take your time, though, don't rush; save a few stories for the lifeboat.

Dark Passage

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Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598534467
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Dark Passage written by David Goodis and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. David Goodis experienced a brief celebrity when his novel Dark Passage (1946) became the basis for a popular movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The story of a man railroaded for his wife’s murder and forced to assume a different identity after escaping from prison becomes in Goodis’s hands a lyrical evocation of urban fear and loneliness. Other David Goodis novels available as Library of America E-Book Classics include: Nightfall, The Burglar, The Moon in the Gutter, and Street of No Return.

My Cocaine Museum

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226790150
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis My Cocaine Museum by : Michael Taussig

Download or read book My Cocaine Museum written by Michael Taussig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la República, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museum's failure to acknowledge the African slaves who mined the country's wealth for almost four hundred years. Combining natural history with political history in a filmic, montage style, Taussig deploys the show-and-tell modality of a museum to engage with the inner life of heat, rain, stone, and swamp, no less than with the life of gold and cocaine. This effort to find a poetry of words becoming things is brought to a head by the explosive qualities of those sublime fetishes of evil beauty, gold and cocaine. At its core, Taussig's museum is about the lure of forbidden things, charged substances that transgress moral codes, the distinctions we use to make sense of the world, and above all the conventional way we write stories.

From Page to Screen

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Publisher : Detroit : Gale Research
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis From Page to Screen by : Joyce Moss

Download or read book From Page to Screen written by Joyce Moss and published by Detroit : Gale Research. This book was released on 1992 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists 1400 16mm films, videos, or laser discs adapted from books for young people.

Actresses of a Certain Character

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786427469
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Actresses of a Certain Character by : Axel Nissen

Download or read book Actresses of a Certain Character written by Axel Nissen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Information presented regarding birth, death, film credits and analyzes each player's unique talents, signature roles and career development. Representative range of backgrounds, character types and career experiences including actresses such as Agnes Moorehead, Thelma Ritter, Beulah Bondi, Sara Allgood, and Jessie Ralph, among others. A fascinating tour through Hollywood's big studio era and the lives of its characters"--Provided by publisher.

Dark Passage

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Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781853753091
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Dark Passage by : David Goodis

Download or read book Dark Passage written by David Goodis and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After successful plastic surgery on his face, a man wrongly convicted of murder hides out in an apartment in San Francisco. Tension builds in this tale of a fugitive hiding from the law as he feverishly works to prove his innocence.

Murder with a Twist

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Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 073874493X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Book Synopsis Murder with a Twist by : Tracy Kiely

Download or read book Murder with a Twist written by Tracy Kiely and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting New York to attend a cousin's birthday gala, Nic and Nigel Martini are looking forward to cocktails with old friends and a pampered stay at the Ritz. But when the birthday girl's gold-digging cad of a husband goes missing, the Martini family worries that the social event of the season may turn into a story for the scandal sheets. Nigel's condescending aunt begs former detective Nic to find sleazy Leo, despite the fact that it would be better for everyone if he just stayed lost. Trailing a "married bachelor" with a penchant for trouble isn't pretty; in fact it's downright deadly. Assisted by Nigel and their newly adopted Bullmastiff, Nic must tangle with her old underworld connections if she hopes to hunt down the dirtiest Martini. Praise: "Even teetotalers will enjoy these Martinis. Here's hoping Kiely will treat readers to another round."—Kirkus Reviews "A toast to Tracy Kiely for her wonderful, entertaining homage to The Thin Man. From the opening scene...the reader knows Murder with a Twist is going to be delightful."—Mystery Readers Journal "Witty, droll, and hilariously spot on."—Hank Phillipi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author

Choice

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Turner Classic Movies Presents Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014751682X
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Turner Classic Movies Presents Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide written by Leonard Maltin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to classic films from one of America's most trusted film critics Thanks to Netflix and cable television, classic films are more accessible than ever. Now co-branded with Turner Classic Movies, Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide covers films from Hollywood and around the world, from the silent era through 1965, and from The Maltese Falcon to Singin’ in the Rain and Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Thoroughly revised and updated, and featuring expanded indexes, a list of Maltin’s personal recommendations, and three hundred new entries—including many offbeat and obscure films—this new edition is a must-have companion for every movie lover.

Orwell

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252035615
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Orwell by : Jeffrey Meyers

Download or read book Orwell written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of forty essays written between 1968 and 2009.