Memoir & Biography
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Apollonia on my Mind: The memoir of a paraplegic ocean scientist [Paperback]
Nicholas C. Flemming (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9789464260328
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Honor Frost Foundation General Publication
Volume: 2
The ocean conceals secrets, ancient, modern, and future. Nic Flemming's memoir recounts the life of a pioneer in ocean science. Each chapter describes a thread that structured his work: underwater cities, submerged Ice Age caverns dripping with st... .... Learn More -
In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin [Paperback]
Ian Scott (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780813180526
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Because screenwriter Robert Riskin spent most of his career collaborating with legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra, Riskin's own unique contributions to film have been largely overshadowed. With five Academy Award nominations to his credit fo... .... Learn More -
Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley [Paperback]
Jeffrey Spivak (Author)
£21.50ISBN: 9780813154084
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Characterised by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley's unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever. From his years on Broadway to the director's chair, ... .... Learn More -
Rare Birds: An American Family [Paperback]
Dan Bessie (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780813153681
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's leading birdwatcher, sixties hippies, a Dutch stowaw... .... Learn More -
Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant [Paperback]
Victoria Amador (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780813154657
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Legendary actress and two-time Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland is best known for her role as Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). She often inhabited characters who were delicate, elegant, and refined. At the same time, she was a... .... Learn More -
Charles Boyer: The French Lover [Hardback]
John Baxter (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9780813155524
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
For generations of film and theatre audiences, Charles Boyer was the archetypal Frenchman - cultured, courteous, seductive, yet never quite at home in a culture not his own. Even his murmuring baritone voice echoed that loss, giving him the very e... .... Learn More -
Film's First Family: The Untold Story of the Costellos [Paperback]
Terry Chester Shulman (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780813151946
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Scandal, adultery, secret marriages, celebrity, divorce, custody battles, suicide attempts, and alcoholism - the trials and tribulations of the Costellos were as riveting as any Hollywood feature film. Written with unprecedented access to the fami... .... Learn More -
Arlen Specter: A Biography [Hardback]
Evan Laine (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9780822946762
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
From his early work as a lawyer on the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to his days as Philadelphia's district attorney to his thirty-year career as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Spe... .... Learn More -
Changing the Game: My Career in Collegiate Sports Marketing [Paperback]
Jim Host (Author); Eric A. Moyen (Other)
£16.00ISBN: 9780813180427
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Many Kentuckians and fans of intercollegiate athletics are familiar with the name Jim Host. As founder and CEO of Host Communications, he was the pioneer in college sports marketing. Host's prevailing innovation in collegiate sports was the concep... .... Learn More -
Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film [Paperback]
Alan K. Rode (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9780813180434
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Academy Award-winning director Michael Curtiz (1886-1962) - whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) - was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his unprecede... .... Learn More