Download or read book Truly Madly Deadly The Unofficial True Blood Companion Large Print 16pt written by Becca Wilcott and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Truly, Madly, Deadly: The Unofficial True Blood Companion" is at once an introductory guide to the first two seasons of HBO's immensely popular vampire series "True Blood," and an all - in - one treasure tomb for the ''truest'' of fans. Created by Alan Ball, the Oscar - winning writer of "American Beauty" and creator of HBO's cult ensemble sensation "Six Feet Under," in 2009 "True Blood" surpassed "The Sopranos" as the largest ever audience for a cable show at over 12.4 million viewers a week, relaunching the career of Oscar winner Anna Paquin, and introducing international audiences to Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsg rd, and Ryan Kwanten, to name only a few of the award - winning cast. This book offers in - depth biographies of each major cast member, along with pictures and fan quotes; guides to each episode along with a host of fun facts and behind - the - scenes anecdotes; sidebars providing additional cast or character info; full chapters, which tackle some of the greater underlying themes of "True Blood" such as the paranormal and the politics of race, sexuality, and gender; an overview of literary and cinematic vampires; an in - depth look at how social media has contributed to the success of the show, including interviews with the Twitter "True Blood" players; tributes to the supporting cast, including an interview with Kristin Bauer (Pam Ravenscroft); and an exclusive interview with, and introduction to, Charlaine Harris, author of the bestselling "Sookie Stackhouse" novels, on which the series is loosely based.
Download or read book Truly Madly Deadly written by Becca Wilcott and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion to the wildly popular HBO series True Blood is at once an introductory guide to the first two seasons of the vampire saga and a treasure trove for the legions of true believers who follow the show. Created by Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning writer of American Beauty and creator of HBO's cult ensemble sensation Six Feet Under, True Blood surpassed The Sopranos as the largest-ever audience for a cable show at more than 12.4 million viewers a week. It has revitalized the career of Oscar-winner Anna Paquin and has introduced international audiences to Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgård, and Ryan Kwanten and an extensive, award-winning cast. Exclusive interviews, in-depth biographies of cast members, an episode guide, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes flesh out the fictional characters as well as the actors who inhabit the roles. Some of the underlying themes of the series—such as the politics of race, sexuality, and gender—are explored, and chapters on paranormal phenomena and the literary and cinematic histories of vampires are also included. In addition, this analysis offers an introduction to author Charlaine Harris, whose popular Sookie Stackhouse novels were the inspiration for the television series, as well as a discussion of the role of the fan base and social media in the phenomenal rise of this television sensation.
Download or read book The British in the Sudan 1898 1956 written by R. Collins and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Southern Sudan 1883 1898 written by Robert O. Collins and published by New Haven, Yale U. P. This book was released on 1962 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the Madhist invasions of the Southern Sudan, their success, and finally their defeat by the forces of the Congo Free State.
Download or read book Plato s Defence of Poetry written by Julius A. Elias and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignorant, irrational and irresponsible: these are the terms used by Plato when referring to poets. Yet the philosopher acknowledged that he was not insensible to the charms of poetry, and many would agree that Plato's myths are themselves poetry of the very first rank. In Plato's Defence of Poetry--the first full-scale treatment of the subject since 1905--Julius A. Elias demonstrates that Plato offers a defence of poetry in response to his own famous challenge. This study restores the myths to their proper place in the Platonic corpus by showing their methodological relationship to the dialectic and their substantive connection to Plato's theories of knowledge, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. While agreeing that for Plato, poetry must be harnessed to the service of truth and socially desirable values, Elias shows that poetry is indispensable to the philosopher: when the audience would reject a more obviously didactic approach, poetry makes accessible and palatable truths demonstrable by reason. Furthermore--and this is the most novel and important feature of this study--Elias argues that the myths embody the indemonstrable axioms of Plato's system. Plato was aware that in every system, including mathematics, certain fundamental presuppositions necessarily remain unproven. Rather than assert them dogmatically, Plato expresses these undercurrents poetically so as to capture their emotional persuasiveness while defining their relevance. In Plato's Defence of Poetry, the myths themselves are interpreted afresh in light of these claims.
Download or read book Soviet Policy for the 1980s written by Archie Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-12-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The State in Socialist Society written by Neil Harding and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1984-06-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of all the essays in this collection is the problem of state power in Communist regimes. The problematic nature of the relationship between state and society has troubled the marxist tradition since its inception and continues to be an unresolved issue for its contemporary theorists. Western attempts to characterise the state formations of Communist regimes are equally notoriously debatable and fraught with methodological problems. Both indigenous and Western attempts to theorise these formations are thoroughly reviewed in the early chapters of this book. Later chapters, each written by an expert in the field, go on to explore particular issues (the problem of nationalism within a multi-national state, for instance) or the recent experience of selected Communist regimes in attempting to adapt their institutions to meet new problems. Special attention is paid to the USSR in view of the enormous significance of the Soviet State and the extent to which it has served as a model. Other case studies have been included on the basis that these state formations display unique features (Yugoslavia), that size and importance commends them (China), or that failure in the process of institutional adaptation is instructive for their pathology (Poland). What this book sets out to do is to bring a variety of approaches and a varied expertise to bear upon a very large but relatively neglected issue in contemporary politics—the nature of the state formations of Communist regimes.
Download or read book Europe and the Middle East written by Albert Hourani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Search of Eurocommunism written by Richard Kindersley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dynamics of Identification written by Francis Mading Deng and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wehrmacht and German Rearmament written by Wilhelm Deist and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-18 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emergence of the Modern Middle East written by Albert Hourani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Dinka and Their Songs written by Francis Mading Deng and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singing is very popular among the Dinka. With ox songs, although the practice may now be dying, every man is traditionally supposed Singing is very popular among the Dinka. With ox songs, although the practice may now be dying, every man is traditionally supposed to compose his own songs. In that sense, every Dinka man is not only a singer, but also a poet. Other categories of songs in this volume are composed by experts. There are also expert listeners who play the role of recorders. The composer works on creating a portion of the song and when he feels that he has a completed piece, he calls on the listener to "Hold this". The listener then memorizes that portion of the song while the composer moves on to construct another portion. The process goes on until the song is completed. The institution of singing is rapidly being transformed. Songs are now being accompanied by music that is significantly influenced by external forms from the Arab North or the West. Just as people used to sing everywhere, one now hears songs being played in cars, sometimes loud enough to be a public entertainment on the streets, as cars pass by. The songs in this volume cover all aspects of Dinka life in forms that are rapidly changing. The Dinka and their Songs was originally published to much critical acclaim by Oxford University Press in 1973. It is now republished here, with a new Preface by the author, by Africa World Books, whose founder, Peter Lual Reech Deng, has made it his mission to record and preserve the oral history and indigenous culture of his people.
Download or read book The Human Factor in Changing Africa written by Melville J. Herskovits and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on the problems of change and resistance to change that mark the African sub-continent, this book examines Africa's place in the world from earliest times. It considers the nature of its peoples in their prehistoric development, the ways in which their cultures were oriented, and the ways in which these cultures guided their reactions to European ideas. It also assesses the human responses to industrial, technological and economic changes and the re-discovery by the Africans of African culture. Originally published in 1962.
