#123 - Gene D.Phillips - Beyond the Epic

Author or Editor: Gene D.Phillips
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2006
Pages: 545
Size: 13.5MB

Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908-1991) was a prominent director in the world of twentieth-century cinema, responsible for such classics as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, and Lawrence of Arabia. British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major artistic voice with his epic storytelling and panoramic depictions of history, but he was also a highly skilled film editor in Great Britain before he became a director who brought an art-house sensibility to big market films.

Lean's approach to filmmaking was far different from that of his contemporaries. He carefully chose his projects and, as a result, directed only sixteen films in a span of more than forty years. Those films, however, are some of the landmarks of motion-picture history. In addition to his epics, Lean also made adaptations of well-known novels, including Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and A Passage to India, and plays, including Brief Encounter.

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#122 - Stuart Redman - English Vocabulary in Use - Pre Int and Intermediate

Author or Editor: Stuart Redman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Pages: 265
Size: 5.0MB

I learned to write by listening and, later, by reading; I learned to write by writing; I learned to write by teaching others how to write. I didn’t so much write this book as remember it; what you have here is everything I haven’t forgotten of what’s come to me from a life lived in sentences— most of them other people’s.

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#121 - Mark Tredinnick - Writing Well

Author or Editor: Mark Tredinnick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Pages: 239
Size: 1.0MB

I learned to write by listening and, later, by reading; I learned to write by writing; I learned to write by teaching others how to write. I didn’t so much write this book as remember it; what you have here is everything I haven’t forgotten of what’s come to me from a life lived in sentences— most of them other people’s.

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#120 - Peter Ward - Picture Composition for Film and Television

Author or Editor: Peter Ward
Publisher: Focal Press
Published: 2003
Pages: 264
Size: 9.07MB

In the last years of the nineteenth century, moving pictures were viewed in penny arcades on Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope. This peepshow allowed the solo viewer to crank a handle, peer into a darkened box and watch in fascination the dim flickering silent representations of movement. This was quickly supplanted by projected images, but the mystery of a miniature world continued to have a strong attraction. After 45 years as a cameraman, I am still intrigued by a similar magic whenever I look through a viewfinder. There is a concentration of the field of view into a small intense, two-dimensional image that is quite unlike normal perception.

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#119 - A.J. Bishop - Didactics of Mathematics as a Scientific Discipline

Author or Editor: A.J. Bishop
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Pages: 467
Size: 4.29MB

Since the work of the International Commission for Mathematics Instruction (ICMI) at the beginning of this century, nobody can challenge the fact that scientific work has been done in the field of teaching and learning mathematics. This research work has been carried out by mathematicians, psychologists, educational scientists, mathematics teacher trainers, and mathematics teachers themselves. However, scientific communication on these issues long remained in its infancy, particularly on an international level; much work was done in isolation; and it was rare to find people who considered that they belonged to a separate scientific discipline, independent from mathematics or educational science.

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#118 - Cathy Haase - Acting for film

Author or Editor: Cathy Haase
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: 2003
Pages: 215
Size: 1.82MB

Acting for Film is a book about acting in motion pictures and the techniques that can be used to act in front of the camera. It’s written to the actor, which is what I am, and discloses some of the approaches to film acting that have been prevalent in American movies. Being an actor, I have a very practical, yet personal approach to things. Whatever the technique or philosophy is, it has to work for me in the field; it has to work when the camera is rolling. Every actor is a unique instrument that only he or she knows how to play, so my advice to you is, take everything in, keep what works for you, and leave the rest for later.

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#117 - Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell - English Vocabulary in Use - Elementary

Author or Editor: Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Pages: 168
Size: 4.26MB

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#116 - Alan Thomas - Bernard Williams: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus

Author or Editor: Alan Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Pages: 221
Size: 1.08MB

At the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was one of the most influential philosophers in Anglo-American philosophy. His contribution to philosophy was very wide-ranging, from metaphysics and epistemology to moral, social, and political philosophy. In the history of philosophy, he made contributions to ancient philosophy, to scholarship on Descartes and to a wide range of other historical subjects.

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#115 - Steven M. Sanders - The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film

Author or Editor: Steven M. Sanders
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2008
Pages: 232
Size: 3.17MB

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) and Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998) take place in dystopic cities set in the future of what appears to be our world.1 Both literally and metaphorically, these are dark cities. Blade Runner is set in Los Angeles in 2019. The city is a gloomy, rainy, commercially driven, multiethnic megalopolis composed of street-level stall vendors, abandoned downtown buildings, and huge modernist and Mayanesque complexes housing the most powerful members of society...

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#114 - John Wesson - The Science of Soccer

Author or Editor: John Wesson
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
Published: 2002
Pages: 199
Size: 3.17MB

Football is by far the world’s most popular game. Millions play the game and hundreds of millions are entertained by it, either at football grounds or through television. Despite this the scientific aspects of the game have hardly been recognised, let alone discussed and analysed. This is in contrast to some other games which have received much more attention, particularly so in the case of golf.

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#113 - Richard Side and Guy Wellman - Grammar and Vocabulary for CAE and CPE

Author or Editor: Richard Side and Guy Wellman
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Published: 1999
Pages: 286
Size: 14.1MB

This book is for any advanced student of English but it is particularly relevant to people studying for the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) or the Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) exams. We assume that anybody using this book has a reasonable knowledge of and ability to use English, at least up to Cambridge First Certificate standard.

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#112 - Michael Barkun - A Culture of Conspiracy

Author or Editor: Michael Barkun
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Pages: 243
Size: 1.40MB

In the summer of 1994, less than a year before he blew up the Oklahoma City federal building, Timothy McVeigh visited Area 51, the secret installation north of Las Vegas, Nevada, where legend has it that the U.S. government keeps captured UFOs.

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#111 - Glen Darragh - A to Zed, A to Zee - Differences between British and American English

Author or Editor: Glen Darragh
Publisher: Stanley
Published: 2000
Pages: 118
Size: 7.41MB

This book is intended for Americans and Britons who want to understand each other better, and for foreign students of either American or British English who want to familiarise (or familiarize) themselves with the other main variety of the language. According to George Bernard Shaw, the United States and England are two great nations separated by a common tongue. In fact, most of
the time the two peoples understand each other fairly well, or think they do. The accent is different, of course, but it presents no more of a barrier than any regional accent would. Differences in grammar, syntax and spelling are relatively minor. The main differences, and they are huge, are lexical and cultural.

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#110 - Jo Ann Gordon - Vocabulary Builder

Author or Editor: Jo Ann Gordon
Publisher: Super Duper Publications
Published: 1998
Pages: 189
Size: 7.20MB

A Vocabulary building book for children.

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#109 - Tony McEnery - Swearing in English

Author or Editor: Tony McEnery
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Pages: 248
Size: 1.63MB

Swearing in English uses the spoken section of the British National Corpus to establish how swearing is used, and to explore the associations between bad language and gender, social class and age. The book goes on to consider why bad language is a major locus of variation in English and investigates the historical origins of modern attitudes to bad language. The effects that centuries of censorious attitudes to swearing have had on bad language are examined, as are the social processes that have brought about the associations between swearing and a number of sociolinguistic variables.

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#108 - Silas Walter Adams - The Legalized Crime of Banking and a Constitutional Remedy

Author or Editor: Silas Walter Adams
Publisher: Meador Publishing
Published: 1958
Pages: 234
Size: 453KB

The pauper (the Federal Reserve Bank) with assets of $52 billion with no productive know how, and less than 100,000 stockholders, loaned the rich man (The United States Government) with well over $350 billion in physical assets plus $250 billion in productive capacity and know how, with 170 million stockholders, $300 billion to fight World War II. Can you imagine the greatest corporation on earth, with 170 million stockholders and assets running over $600 billion, turning to a corporation with less than 100,000 stockholders and assets of only $52 billion to borrow money?

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#107 - Dole Food Company, Inc. - Encyclopedia of Foods: A Guide to Healthy Nutrition

Author or Editor: Dole Food Company, Inc.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2002
Pages: 516
Size: 29.8MB

Nutrition is important to all of us. What we eat has a profound effect on our health and our enjoyment of life. Although there is a large amount of valid scientific information dealing with various aspects of nutrition, there is, unfortunately, even more misinformation. The average person thus has difficulty separating fact from fiction.

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#106 - William H. Cropper - Great Physicists

Author or Editor: William H. Cropper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Pages: 500
Size: 9.58MB

This book tells about lives in science, specifically the lives of thirty from the pantheon of physics. Some of the names are familiar (Newton, Einstein, Curie, Heisenberg, Bohr), while others may not be (Clausius, Gibbs, Meitner, Dirac, Chandrasekhar). All were, or are, extraordinary human beings, at least as fascinatingas their subjects. The short biographies in the book tell the stories of both the people and their physics.

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#105 - Mark Nettle - Developing Grammar in Context with Answers

Author or Editor: Mark Nettle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Pages: 328
Size: 9.58MB

Developing Grammar in Context provides clear explanations and lively practice focusing on key grammar areas. Using spoken and written examples drawn from the Cambridge International Corpus, Developing Grammar in Context will help learners consolidate and deepen their understanding of how English really works. It can be used in the classroom or for self-study. Key Features: * Language is shown in authentic contexts to encourage learners to focus on meaning as well as structure. * A range of practice activities cater for different needs and help learners think about their own learning. * Language areas are presented inductively to help engage learners' attention.

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#104 - John C.Maxwell - The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork

Author or Editor: John C.Maxwell
Publisher: NELSON IMPACT
Published: 2003
Pages: 226
Size: 753KB

Every day, in some way, you are part of a team. The question is not, 'Will you participate in something that involves others?" The question is, "Will your involvement with others be successful?" The answer to that question can be found in this workbook.
Everyone knows that teamwork is a good thing—in fact, it's essential! But how does it really work? What makes a winning team? Why do some teams go straight to the top, seeing their vision become reality, while others seem to go nowhere?

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#103 - Knud Haakonssen - The Cambridge Companion to ADAM SMITH

Author or Editor: Knud Haakonssen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Pages: 394
Size: 1.7MB

Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith’s comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith’s system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse, in fact, also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This companion volume provides an up-to-date examination of all aspects of Smith’s thought.

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#102 - Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie - The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists

Author or Editor: Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Pages: 1062
Size: 12.5MB

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English-language work
to provide a survey of ancient natural science, from its beginnings through to the end of late antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world’s experts in the field have compiled this Encyclopedia, including entries which are not mentioned in any other reference work – resulting in a unique and hugely ambitious resource which will prove indispensable for anyone seeking the details of the history of ancient science.

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#101 - Kenneth Copeland - The Laws of Prosperity

Author or Editor: Kenneth Copeland
Publisher: Kenneth Copeland Publications
Published: 1974
Pages: 111
Size: 286KB

God first began dealing with me about the laws that govern prosperity in 1967. I was conducting a series of meetings in a very small church in a very small town in the Texas panhandle. For years I had entertained the idea that success was not an accident, that luck has nothing to do with it. I had read books of different kinds on this idea but had not found any answers that satisfied me. It didn’t occur to me that the Bible was written by the most successful individual alive—God!

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