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"This brand-new edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die covers more than a century of movie history. Every film profile is packed with details including the director and cast, a plot summary and production notes, and little-known facts relating to the film's history, "--Amazon.com.
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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully...
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Headpress
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2013.
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English
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This book is an ambitious, exhaustive and utterly obsessive attempt to make sense of over a century of exploitation & cult cinema, and how that has interacted with the mainstream. Arnold Schwarzenegger went from being 'Hercules in New York' to Governor of the wealthiest U.S. State! Ronald Reagan once starred alongside Bozo the Chimp before he became the ruler of the free world. Millions flock to see the blockbuster likes of 'The Avengers' and 'The...
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Thames & Hudson
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2013.
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English
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Film scholar David Thomson focuses in on a series of moments-- which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery-- from 72 films across a 100-year-plus span. Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inextricably tied to the text. Thomson's moments range from a set of Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic-- Citizen...
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After posting a one-star review for a poorly written--but gruesome--horror novel, Emma Carpenter is dragged into an online argument with the author himself, but when disturbing incidents start happening at night, Emma digs into his life and work, discovering a sadistic man who is capable of anything.
After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy--or very, very dangerous--in...
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Gale, Cengage Learning
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[2018]
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English
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Reviews movies that are available on DVD or tape. Each entry includes title, alternate titles, one to four bone rating, year released, MPAA rating, brief review, length, format, country of origin, cast, technical personnel, awards and made-for-television/cable/video designations.
16) Books of the century: a hundred years of authors, ideas and literature : from the New York times
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Times Books
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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