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Book Os 39 degraus  The thirty nine steps

Download or read book Os 39 degraus The thirty nine steps written by John Buchan and published by Editora Landmark LTDA. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No centenário de sua publicação, a Editora Landmark lança um dos mais eletrizantes thrillers de ação e espionagem do século XX. Richard Hannay, engenheiro de minas sul-africano e herói da guerra, vê-se involuntariamente envolvido numa complicada história em que os incidentes desafiam as probabilidades e se desenrolam ao longo dos limites do possível. A história se passa em Londres e acompanha as desventuras de Richard Hannay tenta espantar o tédio levando uma vida de playboy, até conhecer um vizinho misterioso com uma informação bombástica: haverá um assassinato político na cidade capaz de jogar toda a Europa em um conflito sem precedentes. Essa informação muda o rumo da vida do personagem principal e quando um homem aparece morto em sua sala de visitas, Hannay se engaja no combate às forças hostis, na verdade uma organização alemã terrorista, mergulhando-o em uma aventura repleta de pistas falsas, vilões traiçoeiros e reviravoltas. O febril thriller, publicado em 1915, trocou o estilo descritivo e cerebral das histórias de Sherlock Holmes pela narrativa enxuta e ágil que iria influenciar as tramas de suspense do cinema e os livros protagonizados pelo mais famoso agente secreto, James Bond. O romance é tão ágil e cheio de reviravoltas que foi adaptado pelo mestre do suspense Alfred Hitchcock em 1935, sendo considerado como um dos melhores filmes de ação de seu período inglês e um dos quatro melhores filmes do século XX pelo British Film Institute. Os elementos existentes na obra de John Buchan seriam largamente explorados por Hitchcock como as reviravoltas na trama e a necessidade de um homem inocente tendo que fugir para preservar sua vida, elementos também vistos em vários outros de seus filmes, como Intriga Internacional.

Book The First True Hitchcock

Download or read book The First True Hitchcock written by Henry K. Miller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitchcock’s previously untold origin story. Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger "the first true Hitchcock movie," the one that anticipated all the others. And yet the story of how The Lodger came to be made is shrouded in myth, often repeated and much embellished, even by Hitchcock himself. The First True Hitchcock focuses on the twelve-month period that encompassed The Lodger's production in 1926 and release in 1927, presenting a new picture of this pivotal year in Hitchcock's life and in the wider film world. Using fresh archival discoveries, Henry K. Miller situates Hitchcock's formation as a director against the backdrop of a continent shattered by war and confronted with the looming presence of a new superpower, the United States, and its most visible export—film. The previously untold story of The Lodger's making in the London fog—and attempted remaking in the Los Angeles sun—is the story of how Hitchcock became Hitchcock.

Book Theory of the Novel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Stevick
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1967-10
  • ISBN : 0029314909
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Theory of the Novel written by Philip Stevick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1967-10 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive collections of theoretical essays on various facets of the novel.

Book The 39 Steps

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0573697140
  • Pages : 113 pages

Download or read book The 39 Steps written by and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan; from the movie of Alfred Hitchcock licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited; and an original concept by Nobby Dimon and Simon Corble."

Book PNF in Practice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan S. Adler
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-04-17
  • ISBN : 3662041340
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book PNF in Practice written by Susan S. Adler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The approach here is based on the concepts set out by Dr. Herman Kabat and taught by Margaret Knott, and this second edition adds many new illustrations including demonstrations of the techniques and pictures of actual patient treatment. The gait section has been expanded with an introduction to normal components and photos of patient treatment. The mat section has also been enlarged and includes illustrations of patient treatment.

Book Occupational Safety and Hygiene

Download or read book Occupational Safety and Hygiene written by Pedro Arezes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupational Safety and Hygiene presents selected papers from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene – SHO2013 (Guimarães, Portugal, 14-15 February 2013), which was organized by the Portuguese Society for Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SPOSHO). The contributions from 15 different countries focus on: - Occupational safety - Risk assessment - Safety management - Ergonomics - Management systems - Environmental ergonomics - Physical environments - Construction safety - Human factors The papers included in the book are mainly based on research carried out at universities and other research institutions, but they are also based on practical studies developed by Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) practitioners within their companies. As a result, this book will be useful to get acquainted with the state-of-the-art of the research within the aforementioned domains, as well as with some practical tools and approaches that are currently used by OHS professionals worldwide.

Book Iberian Cities

Download or read book Iberian Cities written by Joan Ramon Resina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary study explores the explosion of cultural, social, linguistic, and architectural development in urban and rural settlements on and surrounding the Iberian peninsula during the 20th century.

Book A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Download or read book A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese written by Mark Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable tool for learners of Portuguese, this Frequency Dictionary provides a list of the 5000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a twenty-million-word collection of Portuguese (taken from both Portuguese and Brazilian sources), which includes both written and spoken material, this dictionary provides detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including the English equivalent, a sample sentence, and an indication of register and dialect variation. Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index. Throughout the frequency listing there are also thrity thematically-organized ‘boxed’ lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing and relations. An engaging and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of Portuguese vocabulary. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415419970 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.

Book Lina Bo Bardi  Drawings

Download or read book Lina Bo Bardi Drawings written by Zeuler Lima and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Fundaciâo Joan Mirâo, February 15-may 19, 2019.

Book True to the Spirit

Download or read book True to the Spirit written by Colin MacCabe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty percent of Hollywood productions each year are adaptations--films that use an already published book, dramatic work, or comic as their source material. If the original is well known, then for most spectators the question of whether these adaptations are "true to the spirit" of the original is central. The recent wave of adaptation studies dismisses the question of fidelity as irrelevant, mistaken, or an affront to the unstable nature of meaning itself. The essays gathered here, mixing the field's top authorities (Andrew, Gunning, Jameson, Mulvey, and Naremore) with fresh new voices, take the question of correspondence between source and adaptation as seriously as do producers and audiences. Spanning examples from Shakespeare to Ghost World, and addressing such notable directors as Welles, Kubrick, Hawks, Tarkovsky, and Ophuls, the contributors write against the grain of recent adaption studies by investigating the question of what fidelity might mean in its broadest and truest sense, what it might reveal of the adaptive process, and why it is still one of the richest veins of investigation in the study of cinema.

Book Novels Into Film

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Bluestone
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Novels Into Film written by George Bluestone and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Translator s Dialogue

Download or read book The Translator s Dialogue written by Giovanni Pontiero and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Translator's Dialogue: Giovanni Pontiero" is a tribute to an outstanding translator of literary works from Portuguese, Luso-Brasilian, Italian and Spanish into English. The translator introduced authors such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, Clarice Lispector and Jose Saramago to the English reading world.Pontiero's essays shed light on the process of literary translation and its impact on cultural perception. This process is exemplified by Pontiero the translator and analyst, some of the authors he collaborated with, publishers' editors and literary critics and, finally, by an unpublished translation of a short story by Jose Saramago, "Coisas."

Book A Repertoire of Contemporary Portuguese Poetry

Download or read book A Repertoire of Contemporary Portuguese Poetry written by Victor K. Mendes and published by Tagus. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at younger poets and a revisit of the major poets, Luís de Camóes and Fernado Pessoa, through articles and reviews

Book Terra Portuguesa

Download or read book Terra Portuguesa written by Vergílio Correia and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greenmantle

Download or read book Greenmantle written by John Buchan and published by London : Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1916 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum.

Book Hitch

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Russell Taylor
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2013-04-16
  • ISBN : 1448211611
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Hitch written by John Russell Taylor and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Alfred Hitchcock is as intriguing, revealing, perverse, and entertaining as any of his classic films. 'The best book yet about the movies' most famous director' Publisher's Weekly 'No one will ever top Hitch' Jimmy Stewart One of cinema's greatest directors, a virtuoso visual artist, and a genius of the suspense genre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) is universally known for such masterpieces as Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds. But he was also a famously difficult and complex man, prone to arguing with studios and stars alike. In writing this biography, John Russell Taylor, a distinguished film critic and friend of Hitchcock's, enjoyed his full cooperation. Based on numerous interviews, with photos from the private family albums, and an in-depth study of the making of his last film, this biography of the director is as intriguing, revealing, perverse, and entertaining as any Hitchcock classic.

Book Translation Studies at the Interface of Disciplines

Download or read book Translation Studies at the Interface of Disciplines written by João Ferreira Duarte and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation Studies has been defined in terms of spatial metaphors stressing the need for disciplinary border crossings, with the purpose of borrowing different approaches, orientations and tools from diverse academic fields. Such territorial incursions have resulted in a more thorough exploration of the home province, as this volume is designed to show. The interdisciplinary nature of the venture arises out of the multiplicity of terrains involved and the theoretically motivated definition of the object itself. Translation has been perceived as communication in context, hence the study of translated texts as facts of target cultures means that they need to be investigated within particular situational and sociocultural environments, an enterprise which necessarily requires the collaboration of various disciplines.This volume has grown out of a conference held at the University of Lisbon in November 2002 and collects a selection of papers that focus: on the crossdisciplinarity of Translation Studies, offering new perspectives on the current space of translation; on the importation and redefinition of theories, methodologies and concepts for the study of translation; and on the complex interplay of text and context in translation, creating dynamic interfaces with Sociology, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Discourse Analysis, Cultural History, among other disciplines.