Biography

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9789464260335
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

ISBN: 9780813180526
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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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

ISBN: 9780813153735
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr. Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army. The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen-year-old Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War. Because... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9780813155524
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
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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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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