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Book The Films of Akira Kurosawa  Third Edition  Expanded and Updated

Download or read book The Films of Akira Kurosawa Third Edition Expanded and Updated written by Donald Richie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching. Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. Through his long and distinguished career he managed, like very few others in the teeth of a huge and relentless industry, to elevate each of his films to a distinctive level of art. His Rashomon—one of the best-remembered and most talked-of films in any language—was a revelation when it appeared in 1950 and did much to bring Japanese cinema to the world's attention. Kurosawa's films display an extraordinary breadth and an astonishing strength, from the philosophic and sexual complexity of Rashomon to the moral dedication of Ikiru, from the naked violence of Seven Samurai to the savage comedy of Yojimbo, from the terror-filled feudalism of Throne of Blood to the piercing wit of Sanjuro.

Book Man and Wife in America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hendrik Hartog
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2002-05-30
  • ISBN : 9780674038394
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Man and Wife in America written by Hendrik Hartog and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the means to escape that relationship. How was this possible? And how did wives and husbands experience marriage within that legal regime? These are the complexities that Hendrik Hartog plumbs in a study of the powers of law and its limits. Exploring a century and a half of marriage through stories of struggle and conflict mined from case records, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage. He describes the myriad ways the law shaped and defined marital relations and spousal identities, and how individuals manipulated and reshaped the rules of the American states to fit their needs. We witness a compelling cast of characters: wives who attempted to leave abusive husbands, women who manipulated their marital status for personal advantage, accidental and intentional bigamists, men who killed their wives' lovers, couples who insisted on divorce in a legal culture that denied them that right. As we watch and listen to these men and women, enmeshed in law and escaping from marriages, we catch reflected images both of ourselves and our parents, of our desires and our anxieties about marriage. Hartog shows how our own conflicts and confusions about marital roles and identities are rooted in the history of marriage and the legal struggles that defined and transformed it.

Book A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures     By Thomas Taylor  The third edition

Download or read book A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures By Thomas Taylor The third edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics  Third Edition

Download or read book Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics Third Edition written by Stephen B. Maurer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-01-21 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised for a one-semester course, this well-known and highly regarded book is an outstanding text for undergraduate discrete mathematics. It has been updated with new or extended discussions of order notation, generating functions, chaos, aspects of statistics, and computational biology. Written in a lively, clear style that talks to the reader, the book is unique for its emphasis on algorithmics and the inductive and recursive paradigms as central mathematical themes. It includes a broad variety of applications, not just to mathematics and computer science, but to natural and social science as well. A manual of selected solutions is available for sale to students; see sidebar. A complete solution manual is available free to instructors who have adopted the book as a required text.

Book Anthropology  the Study of Man

Download or read book Anthropology the Study of Man written by Edward Adamson Hoebel and published by New York : McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1966 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Wilkie Collins Chronology

Download or read book A Wilkie Collins Chronology written by W. Baker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds on a critical and scholarly revival of interest in Collins. Baker draws upon biographical revelations and the recent publication of Collins's letters to provide a unique insight into both the man and the writer. The volume will appeal to all students of Collins and those with an interest in the life of Nineteenth-century England.

Book The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat  And Other Clinical Tales

Download or read book The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales written by Oliver Sacks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected with an entertaining voice.

Book New Testament Made Easier  3rd Edition

Download or read book New Testament Made Easier 3rd Edition written by David J. Ridges and published by Cedar Fort Publishing & Media. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 1831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted teacher and gospel scholar David J. Ridges brings the New Testament to life with his well-known teaching skills in this third edition of The New Testament Made Easier. This enhanced version now includes hundreds of additional brief notes and commentary, plus many verses from the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible and the full text of the best-selling book Our Savior Jesus Christ, His Life and Mission to Cleanse and Heal.; ; An invaluable bonus to this edition, Our Savior Jesus Christ takes the reader on an intimate journey through the Savior’s mortal life. It begins with the pre-existence, highlights the Lord’s three-year ministry, and reverently concludes with the final week of his mortality.; ; Join the tens of thousands of readers who have experienced spiritual growth from reading and pondering the books in this series. Understand for yourself and celebrate the cleansing, healing power of the Atonement, the Resurrection, and the Savior's continuing ministry to bring us back to the Father.; ; A POWERFUL STUDY GUIDE; ; • Quickly gain a basic understanding of the New Testament with the help of brief notes within and between the verses, accompanied by bolding for teaching emphasis.; ; Example:; John 16:23; 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.; ; • Transfer the brief notes into your own scriptures to increase your understanding of the New Testament now and in the future.; ; • Better understand the symbolism in the Savior’s parables.;

Book Women  Men and Language

Download or read book Women Men and Language written by Jennifer Coates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which language and gender intersect. In this pioneering book, bestselling author Jennifer Coates explores linguistic gender differences, introducing the reader to a wide range of sociolinguistic research in the field. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book introduces the idea of gender as a social construct, and covers key topics such as conversational practice, same sex talk, conversational dominance, and children’s acquisition of gender-differentiated language, discussing the social and linguistic consequences of these patterns of talk. Here reissued as a Routledge Linguistics Classic, this book contains a brand new preface which situates this text in the modern day study of language and gender, covering the postmodern shift in the understanding of gender and language, and assessing the book’s impact on the field. Women, Men and Language continues to be essential reading for any student or researcher working in the area of language and gender.

Book Renaissance Drama

Download or read book Renaissance Drama written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RENAISSANCE DRAMA Experience the best and most noteworthy works of Renaissance drama This Third Edition of Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments is the latest installment of a groundbreaking collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covering not only the popular drama of the period, Renaissance Drama includes masques, Lord Mayor shows, royal performances, and the popular mystery plays of the time. The selections fairly represent the variety and quality of Renaissance drama and they include works of scholarly and literary interest. Each work included in this edition comes with an insightful and illuminating introduction that places the piece in its historical and cultural context, with accompanying text explaining the significance of each piece and the ways in which it interacts with other works. New to this edition are: The famous entertainment for Elizabeth at Kenilworth George Peele’s remarkably inventive The Old Wives’ Tale The oft-forgotten history of Thomas of Woodstock, predecessor to Shakespeare’s Richard II John Lyly’s Gallathea, a work which explores gender and love, written for the Children’s Company at Saint Paul’s Ben Johnson’s Volpone and the controversial Epicoene Perfect for scholars, teachers, and readers of the English Renaissance, Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments belongs on the bookshelves of anyone with even a passing interest in the drama of its time.

Book The Complete Angler  Or  The Contemplative Man s Recreation

Download or read book The Complete Angler Or The Contemplative Man s Recreation written by Izaak Walton and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Constitutional Context

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen S. Sullivan
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
  • Release : 2007-04-23
  • ISBN : 0801896738
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book Constitutional Context written by Kathleen S. Sullivan and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative reassessment of the 19th century American women’s movement calls into question its attack on common law traditions. While the United States was founded on principles of freedom and equality, its legal traditions are based in British common law. In the nineteenth-century, women’s rights advocates argued that this led to a contradiction: common law rules concerning property and the status of married women were at odds with the nation’s principles. Conventional wisdom suggests that this tactic was successful. But in Constitutional Context, historian Kathleen S. Sullivan offers a fresh perspective. In revisiting the era’s congressional debates, state legislation, judicial opinions, news accounts, and work of political activists, Sullivan finds that the argument for universal, abstract rights was not the only—or even the best—path available for social change. Rather than establishing a new paradigm of absolute rights, the women’s movement unwittingly undermined common law’s ability to redress grievances. This contributed to the social, cultural, and political stagnation that characterizes the movement today. A challenging and thoughtful study of what is commonly thought of as an era of progress, Constitutional Context provides the groundwork for a more comprehensive understanding and interpretation of constitutional law.

Book Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Court of Appeals  New York  No  314

Download or read book Court of Appeals New York No 314 written by Court of Appeals and published by . This book was released on with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First Deficiency Appropriation Bill  1919

Download or read book First Deficiency Appropriation Bill 1919 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spectator

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 672 pages

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: