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Historic Hiking Trails
A Directory of Over 900 Routes with Awards Available to Hikers
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Approximately 900 hiking trails in the United States take hikers along routes or past sites of historical importance and offer commemorative embroidered patches or other souvenirs of the outing. These trails allow hikers to gain a new appreciation for history and actually experience it, instead of...
The Klondike Stampede
As It Appeared to One of the Thousands of Cheechacos Who Participated in the Mad Rush of 1898-1899
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Life was harsh and dangerous for the prospectors of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898–1899. But it was also a grand adventure. Few got rich but those who survived had a tale to tell. Wallis R. Sanborn’s entertaining narrative of his journey from Illinois to the Yukon provides rare insight into the...
Shaw and the Actresses Franchise League
Staging Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Early 20th century non-commercial theaters emerged as hubs of social transformation on both sides of the Atlantic. The 1904–1907 seasons at London’s Royal Court Theatre were a particularly galvanizing force, with 11 plays by Bernard Shaw—along with works by Granville Barker, John Galsworthy...
by Ruth Bienstock Anolik
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Eighteenth-century England witnessed major social and economic changes, including the commodification of property, person and text through legal containments—enclosure, coverture, primogeniture, copyright. English Gothic authors responded with tropes that worked to dispel the assurances of possession—the...
Riccardo Freda
The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In an eclectic career spanning four decades, Italian director Riccardo Freda (1909–1999) produced films of remarkable technical skill and powerful visual style, including the swashbuckler Black Eagle (1946), an adaptation of Les Miserables (1947), the peplum Theodora, Slave Empress (1954) and a...
Gene Hackman
The Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Gene Hackman (b. 1930) has been described as the best actor of his generation. During almost half a century as an American film, television and stage actor, film producer and author, he was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning the Best Actor for The French Connection (1971) and the Best Supporting...
Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, film producer, and film and stage director, best known for his memorable supporting roles in independent films. Considered one of the best actors of his generation, he died of a drug overdose at age 46 after years...
by Roberto Curti
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
A self-taught culinary virtuoso, Francesco Bracali is one of Italy’s top chefs. He and his brother, Luca, a sommelier, own the two-Michelin-stars restaurant Bracali in Massa Marittima, Tuscany. Once an unpretentious tavern run by their parents, the brothers turned it into a fine dining place where...
by Roberto Curti
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda dying or retiring and young filmmakers such as Lamberto Bava (Macabro, Demons) and Michele Soavi (The Church) surfacing. Horror films proved commercially successful in the first...
Vending Machines
An American Social History
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest reference to a vending machine was made by Hero—a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who probably lived in Alexandria during the first century...
The Innovative Use of Materials in Architecture and Landscape Architecture
History, Theory and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This book is about materials. The fundamental properties and technical aspects are reviewed within a context of a material’s history, the theories of its meaning and making, and its use. Information about the sustainability aspects of each material is included (as a critical necessity in construction)....
by Mark S. Reinhart
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This is a complete reference work to the history of Batman big screen works, from the 1940s serials through the campy 1960s TV show and film, and up through the series of Warner Bros. summer blockbusters that climaxed with Christopher Nolan’s 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises. Chapters on each Batman...
Drawn from the Classics
Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The graphic novel is the most exciting literary format to emerge in the past thirty years. Among its more inspired uses has been the superlative adaptation of literary classics. Unlike the comic book abridgments aimed at young readers of an earlier era, today’s graphic novel adaptations are created...
Toy Stories
The Toy as Hero in Literature, Comics and Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Toys—those celebrated childhood cohorts and lead actors in children’s imaginative play—have a fantastic history of heroism in fiction. From teddy bears that guard sleeping babies to plastic soldiers and cowboys who lay siege to wooden block castles, toys are often the heroes of the stories children...