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Book An Epic and Puranic Bibliography  up to 1985  Annotated and with Indexes

Download or read book An Epic and Puranic Bibliography up to 1985 Annotated and with Indexes written by Heinrich von Stietencron and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Epic Television Miniseries

Download or read book Epic Television Miniseries written by John De Vito and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To paraphrase silent movie queen Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's classic 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, "The epic miniseries are big! It's television that got small!" This is especially true when one compares such iconic epic miniseries as Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), Roots (1977), Holocaust (1978), Shogun (1980), The Winds of War (1983), War and Remembrance (1988-89) and Angels in America (2003) to today's ordinary television programming. This work traces the historical trajectory of the epic miniseries and delves into the character archetypes and themes that recur in the genre, giving close critical attention to more than 40 miniseries. A filmography is included.

Book The Anarchy Tour

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mick O'Shea
  • Publisher : Omnibus Press
  • Release : 2012-11-20
  • ISBN : 0857127977
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book The Anarchy Tour written by Mick O'Shea and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘Anarchy in the UK Tour’ should have just been a collection of twenty gigs like any other, spanning venues across the UK… It was December 1976, and a coach drove off down a London street like any other. On board were the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Heartbreakers, while The Damned, who were also on the bill, followed behind. However, two days earlier on the Today Show, tour, the Sex Pistols’ had lit a fire in the popular consciousness. What should have been an inconsequential three-minute interview descended into farce when the show’s host goaded Sex Pistols’ guitarist Steve Jones into saying ‘something outrageous’. Local councils began to ban the tour and agreed “Most of these groups would be vastly improved by sudden death”. Author Mick O Shea dissects the whirlwind that followed these punk-rock heavyweights and the sheer force of their rebellion against popular culture. He has interviewed band members, managers, roadies and audiences to tell the true story of how anarchy once gripped the nation.

Book Doniphan s Epic March

Download or read book Doniphan s Epic March written by Joseph G. Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846-1847, a ragtag army of 800 American volunteers marched 3,500 miles across deserts and mountains, through Indian territory and into Mexico. There they handed the Mexican army one of its most demoralizing defeats and helped the United States win its first foreign war. Their leader Colonel Alexander Doniphan, also a volunteer, was a "natural soldier" of towering stature who became a national hero in the wake of his wartime exploits. Doniphan was a small-town Missouri lawyer untrained in military matters when he answered President Polk's call for volunteers in the war with Mexico. Working from a host of primary sources, Joseph Dawson focuses on Doniphan's extraordinary leadership and chronicles how the colonel and his 1st Missouri Mounted Regiment helped capture New Mexico and went on to invade Chihuahua. Contending with wildfires, sandstorms, poor provisions, and the threat of attack from Apaches, they eventually came face-to-face with the formidable cannon and cavalry of a much larger Mexican force. Yet, at the Battle of Sacramento, these hardy volunteers outflanked General Jose Heredia's army and claimed a stunning American victory on foreign soil. Dawson explores and analyzes the many facets of Doniphan's exploits, from the decision to proceed to Chihuahua in the wake of the Taos Revolt to the tactics that shaped his victory at Sacramento, describing that battle in heart-stopping detail. He tells how Doniphan's legal expertise enabled him to supervise America's first military government administering a conquered land at Santa Fe and highlights Doniphan's remarkable cooperation with U.S. Army officers at a time when antagonism typified relationships between volunteers and regulars. He also introduces readers to other key personalities of the campaign, from fellow officers Stephen W. Kearny and Meriwether L. Clark to James Kiker, the controversial scout whom Doniphan reluctantly trusted. Dawson's thorough account captures the expansionist mood of America in the mid-nineteenth century and helps us understand how American soldiers were motivated by the idea of Manifest Destiny. His portrait of Doniphan and his troops reinforces the importance of the citizen-soldier in American history and provides a new window on the war that changed forever the hopes and dreams of our border nations.

Book Stealing All Transmissions

Download or read book Stealing All Transmissions written by Randal Doane and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stealing All Transmissions is a love story. It’s the story of how The Clash fell in love with America, and how America loved them back. The romance began in full in 1977, when select rock journalists and deejays aided the band’s quest to depose the rock of indolence that dominated American airwaves. This history situates The Clash amid the cultural skirmishes of the 1970s and culminates with their September 1979 performance at the Palladium in New York City. This concert was broadcast live on WNEW, and it concluded with Paul Simonon treating his Fender bass like a woodcutter’s ax. This performance produced one of the most exhilarating Clash bootleg recordings, and the photo of Simonon’s outburst which graced the cover of the London Calling LP was recently deemed the greatest rock’n’roll photograph of all time. That night marked one of the last opportunities for American audiences to see The Clash as a punk band, teetering between conviction and uncertainty, before they became a seriously brilliant rock group. Stealing represents a distinctive take on the history of punk, for no other book gives proper attention to the forces of free-form radio, long-form rock journalism, or Clash bootleg recordings, many of which are now widely available on the web. This story, which takes its title from the 1981 single “Radio Clash,” includes original interviews with key figures from the New York punk scene. This secret history concludes with an analysis of how we listen to music today and its impact on the written word.

Book Jacksons Number Ones

Download or read book Jacksons Number Ones written by Craig Halstead and published by Authors On Line Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jackson family, between them, have scored over 200 hits since November 1969, when the Jackson 5's I Want You Back entered Billboard's Hot 100 and Hot R&B singles charts in the States. I Want You Back went on to become the first Jackson no.1 - the first of 50 (and counting!). It is these chart toppers that form the A-Z backbone of this book - 20 by Janet, 20 by Michael, seven by the Jackson 5, two by Jermaine and one by the Jacksons, plus a further seven with a Jackson connection. The book also features a comprehensive Fact File section, including: Top 100 Jackson singles, Chartography (USA & UK), the Jacksons in the USA, and the Jacksons in the UK and around the world.

Book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science written by Allen Kent and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1992-10-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."

Book Information Ethics

Download or read book Information Ethics written by Lee Freeman and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Ethics provides an up-to-date discussion of the main ethical issues that face today's information-intensive society, including the areas of intellectual property rights, privacy, accessibility and censorship.

Book  What the Heck Are You Up To  Mr  President

Download or read book What the Heck Are You Up To Mr President written by Kevin Mattson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the events that led up to Jimmy Carter's infamous 1979 "malaise" speech places it against a backdrop of such events as the gas crisis and the Iran-hostage situation while explaining that the speech had far greater relevance than its reception reflected, in an account that also claims the speech inadvertently set a course for the conservative movement. Reprint.

Book Department of Justice

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Department of Justice written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of Justice Authorization and Oversight  1981

Download or read book Department of Justice Authorization and Oversight 1981 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World Government

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas Hagger
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2010-11-26
  • ISBN : 1846946018
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The World Government written by Nicholas Hagger and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dream of world government is becoming a reality. A Universalist blueprint for a philanthropic, democratic supranational World State. ,

Book Islamic Revolution

Download or read book Islamic Revolution written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monty Python

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas McCall
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2013-11-26
  • ISBN : 078647811X
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Monty Python written by Douglas McCall and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological listing of the creative output and other antics of the members of the British comedy group Monty Python, both as a group and individually. Coverage spans between 1969 (the year Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted) and 2012. Entries include television programs, films, stage shows, books, records and interviews. Back matter features an appendix of John Cleese's hilarious business-training films; an index of Monty Python's sketches and songs; an index of Eric Idle's sketches and songs; as well as a general index and selected bibliography.

Book Extraterritoriality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victor Fan
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2019-07-17
  • ISBN : 1474440444
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Extraterritoriality written by Victor Fan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of the Umbrella Movement (2014), this book traces how Hong Kong's extraterritoriality has been framed: in its position of being doubly occupied and doubly abandoned by contesting juridical, political, linguistic and cultural forces. Extraterritoriality scrutinises creative works in mainstream cinema, independent films, television, video artworks and documentaries - especially those by marginalised artists - actively rewriting and reconfiguring how Hong Kong cinema and media are to be defined and located.

Book Technical Abstract Bulletin

Download or read book Technical Abstract Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Part of King Henry VI

Download or read book The First Part of King Henry VI written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-04-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Part of King Henry VI gives us Shakespeare's portrait of Joan of Arc, a prelude to key events in the Hundred Years War.