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Book Studying Scarlet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Craig Stephen Copland
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-08-25
  • ISBN : 9781500955731
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Studying Scarlet written by Craig Stephen Copland and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starlet O'Halloran has traveled from Georgia to London in search of her husband, Brett Steward. She and Momma arrive at 221B Baker Street and ask for the help of Sherlock Holmes. The great detective initially turns them down but once he learns that three men who are connected to Starlet and Brett have already been murdered, he agrees, and the game is afoot. Fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Gone with the Wind will enjoy this parody. Holmes, Watson and Starlet not only have to find Brett, but then, together, they have to save the British Empire.

Book Analog Circuit Design

Download or read book Analog Circuit Design written by Jim Williams and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analog Circuit Design

Book A Foreign Affair

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  • Author : Gerd Gemünden
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2008-04-30
  • ISBN : 0857450662
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book A Foreign Affair written by Gerd Gemünden and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish émigré from Central Europe? This book underscores this complex issue, unpacking underlying contradictions where previous commentators routinely smoothed them out. Wilder emerges as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism and the world of entertainment as well as with an awareness of literary culture and the avant-garde, features that lead to productive and often highly original confrontations between high and low.

Book Memory Before Modernity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erika Kuijpers
  • Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9789004261242
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Memory Before Modernity written by Erika Kuijpers and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the practice of memory in early modern Europe, showing that this was already a multimedia affair with many political uses, and affecting people at all levels of society; many pre-modern memory practices persist until today.

Book Spaceland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rudy Rucker
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2003-07-04
  • ISBN : 1429980079
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Spaceland written by Rudy Rucker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-07-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention. When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world, which she calls Spaceland, is something like a rug, but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions, and he agrees. After that it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life, until Momo's scheme turns out to have angles he couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake. Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants. In the tradition of Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel, Flatland, Rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. Spaceland is Flatland on hyperdrive! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book The Adventure of Charlotte Europa Golderton

Download or read book The Adventure of Charlotte Europa Golderton written by Craig Stephen Copland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLOTTE EUROPA GOLDERTON. In the original Sherlock Holmes story about Charles Augustus Milverton, "the worst man in London," was shot and sent to his just reward. But now another diabolical scheme of blackmail has emerged centered in the telegraph offices of the Royal Mail. It is linked to an archeological expedition whose director disappeared one night. Someone is prepared to do murder to protect their ill-gotten gain and possibly steal a priceless treasure. Holmes is hired by not one but three women who need his help. Buy it now, download, and enjoy.

Book The Cambridge History of American Literature  Volume 7  Prose Writing  1940 1990

Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Literature Volume 7 Prose Writing 1940 1990 written by Sacvan Bercovitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VII of the Cambridge History of American Literature examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Christopher Bigsby discusses American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson, showing how innovations in theatre anticipated a world of emerging countercultures and provided America with an alternative view of contemporary life. Morris Dickstein describes the condition of rebellion in fiction from 1940 to 1970, linking writers as diverse as James Baldwin and John Updike. John Burt examines writers of the American South, describing the tensions between modernization and continued entanglements with the past. Wendy Steiner examines the postmodern fictions since 1970, and shows how the questioning of artistic assumptions has broadened the canon of American literature. Finally, Cyrus Patell highlights the voices of Native American, Asian American, Chicano, gay and lesbian writers, often marginalized but here discussed within and against a broad set of national traditions.

Book Studying Scarlet   Large Print

    Book Details:
  • Author : Craig Stephen Copland
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2014-09-26
  • ISBN : 9781502535139
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Studying Scarlet Large Print written by Craig Stephen Copland and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starlet O'Halloran has come to London looking for her wayward husband, Brett Steward. She seeks help from Sherlock Holmes. He refuses the case until he learns that three men have already been murdered who were connected to Starlet and Brett. Then this unlikely crew of Southerners and Londoners, and a couple of unexpected new characters, must work together to save the King and the Empire. Fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Gone with the Wind will enjoy this parody. It is the first in a series of New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Craig Stephen Copland.

Book The Underground History of American Education

Download or read book The Underground History of American Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Dracula

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  • Author : W. Hughes
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2000-08-08
  • ISBN : 0230598870
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Beyond Dracula written by W. Hughes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Dracula represents an important critical departure from the customary psychoanalytical approach to the writings of Bram Stoker. Reading Stoker as a participant in Victorian and Edwardian cultural life, the volume examines the breadth of Stoker's novel-length fiction, as well as his journalism, biographical writings and short fiction. In its considerations of questions of religion, censorship, gender and medicine, the volume will interest not merely readers of the Gothic but those involved in the study of Victorian and Edwardian culture.

Book The Late Victorian Gothic

Download or read book The Late Victorian Gothic written by Hilary Grimes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist séances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. Hilary Grimes shows that both new technology and explorations into the ghostly aspects of the mind made agency problematic. When notions of agency are suspended, Grimes argues, authorship itself becomes uncanny. Grimes's study is distinct in both recognizing and crossing strict boundaries to suggest that Gothic literature itself resists categorization, not only between literary periods, but also between genres. Treating a wide range of authors - Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Du Maurier, Vernon Lee, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sarah Grand, and George Paston - Grimes shows how fin-de-siècle works negotiate themes associated with the Victorian and Modernist periods such as psychical research, mass marketing, and new technologies. With particular attention to texts that are not placed within the Gothic genre, but which nevertheless conceal Gothic themes, The Late Victorian Gothic demonstrates that the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.

Book The Making of Citizen Kane  Revised Edition

Download or read book The Making of Citizen Kane Revised Edition written by Robert L. Carringer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-10-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizen Kane, widely considered the greatest film ever made, continues to fascinate critics and historians as well as filmgoers. While credit for its genius has traditionally been attributed solely to its director, Orson Welles, Carringer's pioneering study documents the shared creative achievements of Welles and his principal collaborators. The Making of Citizen Kane, copiously illustrated with rare photographs and production documents, also provides an in-depth view of the operations of the Hollywood studio system. This new edition includes a revised preface and overview of criticism, an updated chronology of the film's reception history, a reconsideration of the locus of responsibility of Welles's ill-fated The Magnificent Ambersons, and new photographs.

Book Handbook of Creative Writing

Download or read book Handbook of Creative Writing written by Steven Earnshaw and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition 54 chapters cover the central pillars of writing creatively: the theories behind the creativity, the techniques and writing as a commercial enterprise. With contributions from over 50 poets, novelists, dramatists, publishers, editors, tutors, critics and scholars, this is the essential guide to writing and getting published. DT A 3-in-1 text with outstanding breadth of coverage on the theories, the craft & the business of creative writing DT Includes practical advice on getting published & making money from your writing New for this edition: DT Chapters on popular topics such as 'self-publishing and the rise of the indie author', 'social media', 'flash fiction', 'song lyrics', 'creative-critical hybrids' and 'collaboration in the theatre' DT New and updated exercises to help you practice your writing DT Up-to-date information on teaching, copyright, writing for the web & earning a living as a writer DT Updated Glossary of Terms

Book The Bald Headed Trust

    Book Details:
  • Author : Craig Stephen Copland
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2014-07-01
  • ISBN : 9781500394219
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book The Bald Headed Trust written by Craig Stephen Copland and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovers of Sherlock Holmes mysteries will enjoy this new story, written today but as faithful as possible to the characters, heroes, villains, language, and setting of the original Sherlock Holmes. Dr. Watson insists on taking his friend on a short vacation to the seaside in Plymouth. What begins as a tedious journey quickly turns into a puzzling and finally a diabolical adventure, as the great detective, aided by some unusual recruits to the Company of Irregulars must match wits first with bank robbers and eventually with the evil professor himself.

Book The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Download or read book The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike written by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cinema s Doppelg  ngers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Doug Dibbern
  • Publisher : punctum books
  • Release : 2021-06-14
  • ISBN : 1953035620
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Cinema s Doppelg ngers written by Doug Dibbern and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema's Doppelgängers is a counterfactual history of the cinema - or, perhaps, a work of speculative fiction in the guise of a scholarly history of film and movie guide. That is, it's a history of the movies written from an alternative unfolding of historical time - a world in which neither the Bolsheviks nor the Nazis came to power, and thus a world in which Sergei Eisenstein never made movies and German filmmakers like Fritz Lang never fled to Hollywood, a world in which the talkies were invented in 1936 rather than 1927, in which the French New Wave critics didn't become filmmakers, and in which Hitchcock never came to Hollywood. The book attempts, on the one hand, to explore and expand upon the intrinsically creative nature of all historical writing; like all works of fiction, its ultimate goal is to be a work of art in and of itself. But it also aims, on the other hand, to be a legitimate examination of the relationship between the economic and political organization of nations and film industries and the resulting aesthetics of film and thus of the dominant ideas and values of film scholarship and criticism. Doug Dibbern's first book, Hollywood Riots: Violent Crowds and Progressive Politics in American Film, won the 2016 Peter Rollins Prize. He has published scholarly essays on classical Hollywood filmmakers, film criticism for The Notebook at Mubi.com, and literary essays for journals like Chicago Quarterly Review and Hotel Amerika. He has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University, where he teaches now in the Expository Writing Program.

Book On Sunset Boulevard

Download or read book On Sunset Boulevard written by Ed Sikov and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in 1998, describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director of such classics as Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year Itch, and Sabrina. This definitive biography takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from Billy Wilder's birth outside of Krakow in 1906 to Vienna, where he grew up, to Berlin, where he moved as a young man while establishing himself as a journalist and screenwriter, and triumphantly to Hollywood, where he became as successful a director as there ever was. Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment"Wilder's cinematic legacy is unparalleled. Not only did he direct these classics and twenty-one other films, he co-wrote all of his own screenplays. Volatile, cynical, hilarious, and driven, Wilder arrived in Hollywood an all-but-penniless refugee who spoke no English. Ten years later he was calling his own shots, and he stayed on top of the game for the next three decades. Wilder battled with Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Bing Crosby, and Peter Sellers; kept close friendships with William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, and Walter Matthau; amassed a personal fortune by way of blockbuster films and shrewd investments in art (including Picassos, Klees, and Mir's); and won Oscars--yet Wilder, ever conscious of his thick accent, always felt the sting of being an outsider. On Sunset Boulevard traces the course of a turbulent but fabulous life, both behind the scenes and on the scene, from Viennese cafes and Berlin dance halls in the twenties to the Hollywood soundstages of the forties and the on-location shoots of the fifties and sixties. Crammed with Wilder's own caustic wit, On Sunset Boulevard reels out the story of one of cinema's most brilliant and prolific talents.