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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 366 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From her creation of the first 'Approval Matrix' in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has known all along that what we watch is who we are. In this collection, including several substantive, never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television beginning with Buffy--as she writes, a show that was so much more than its critical assessment--the evolution of female...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 747 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""I don't believe in tame poetry. Poetry busts guts."--Frank Stanford. The poetry publishing event of the season, this six-hundred-plus page book highlights the arc of Frank Stanford's all-too-brief and incandescently brilliant career. Despite critical praise and near-mythic status as a poet, Frank Stanford's oeuvre has never fully been unified. The mystery and legend surrounding his life-and his suicide before the age of thirty-has made it nearly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The influential sportswriter traces the career of Roger Federer and his own story against a history of professional tennis, exploring such topics as the psychology of fandom and the techniques that shaped Federer's victories and rivalries. --Publisher's description.
Publisher
Passport International Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the dawn of rock and roll and the cultural phenomenon surrounding it, featuring interviews with Little Richard, Sam Phillips, Bo Diddley, Mac Davis, Glen Campbell, Ray Manzarek and others, as well as performances by Bill Haley and the Comets, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Ricky Nelson, The Treniers, and The Moonglows.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction-above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea-that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica,...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 223 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do you write about a place like this? THE STRANGERS' HOUSE asks this question of the region's greatest writers, living and dead. What have they made of Northern Ireland - and what has Northern Ireland made of them? Northern Ireland is roughly the same size as the State of Connecticut, yet has produced...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 250 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Orientalist framework, treating manga as the exotic antithesis to American and European comics. In reality, the history of manga is deeply intertwined with Japan's avid importation of Western technology and popular culture in the early twentieth century. Comics and the Origins of Manga reveals how popular...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Who do you say that I am?" Uttered by Jesus Christ, this profound question has presented an age old challenge to believers, skeptics, scholars, and rulers. In attempting to answer this question, The True Jesus goes straight to the unimpeachable source: the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Only in the Gospels, says author David Limbaugh, do we com face to face with the Son of God, Whose sublime teachings, miraculous actions, and divine essence...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 848 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A no-holds-barred oral history of the return of Star Trek to television and its transition from cult phenomenon to blockbuster franchise. It is told exclusively by the people who were there, in their own words--sharing the inside scoop they've never told before, unveiling the oftentimes shocking truth behind the history of Star Trek, and chronicling the trials, tribulations--and tribbles--that have remained deeply buried secrets... until now. The...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 560 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An incisive, no-holds-barred oral history, told exclusively by the people who were there during the first 25 years of Star Trek, in their own words, sharing the inside scoop they've never revealed before, unveiling the oftentimes shocking true story of the history of Star Trek, and chronicling the trials, tribulations--and tribbles--that have remained deeply buried secrets--until now.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi posits the idea that maps help people understand where they are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain human realities. The author explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices for plotting and executing their work, making crucial decisions about what to include and what to leave out, in order to get from here to there, without...
Series
Publisher
Benbella
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
x, 196 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twentieth-century authors such as Rosemary Clement-Moore, Paul Collins, Sarah Beth Durst, and Nigel Rodgers examine the characters and stories of Rick Riordan. Includes an introduction by Rick Riordan.
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