David Mamet
From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright: an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from a filmmaker who's always played by his own rules. Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like ... [... more]
Random House |
The Academy Awards: The Complete Unofficial History
 A SUPER Reference Book!: I bought this book when it originally come out. It is a GREAT book! Beautiful Pictures, Info, tidbits..... The price is Great! If your into the movies and awards. Do NOT pass the Gem up. "Hello, Gorgeous!": The maxim & [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Carolyn Forche
Carolyn Forché is the author of Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award; The Country Between Us, which received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Society of America; and The Angel of History, awarded ... [... more]
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Mary Hogan
Susanna Barringer, celebrity reporter, is off to Hollywood for the Academy Awards. She'll parade down the red carpet, schmooze with the stars, and land a leading story for Scene magazine. But when her ticket to fame is lost on her first day in ... [... more]
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Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D.
Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., is clinical professor in psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the editor and author of thirteen books. He is a founding fellow and the president-elect of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, the ... [... more]
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False Prophet
Stan Rice (1942-2002) was the author of seven previous collections of poetry. For many years he was a professor at San Francisco State University. He received the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Academy of American Poets, among other awards. Rice, ... [... more]
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Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo, author of the brilliant novel, Night of the Aurochs, was one of the most prolific and important literary figures of our time. His more than sixty screenplays include Spartacus, Exodus, Papillon, and the Academy Award-winning The ... [... more]
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Andrej Krystoforski
Andrej Krystoforski was born in Poland during World War II. After earning a master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, he began working as an illustrator and designer. Several years after receiving an art scholarship from the ... [... more]
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The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy
From Amazon.com: In 1995, a New York University physicist named Alan Sokal, frustrated by what he considered the misuse of science by academic philosophers and literary critics, decided to play a meaningful prank. After studying the arcane jargon of [... more]
CDN$26.50
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Star Style at the Academy Awards: A Century of Glamour
Wake the dead: A dull book for people who know nothing about the subject. The photos are barely accaptable, especially for the subject matter. Example: Joanne Woodward's extraordinary outfit (given her persona) for the Oscar she gave to Davis Lean for [... more]
CDN$31.26
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Christianity in the Academy: Teaching at the ...
Recommended for personal contemplation: Christianity In The Academy: Teaching At The Intersection Of Faith And Learning distills the wisdom of author Harry Lee Poe (Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture, Union University), who also serves as the [... more]
CDN$25.99
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Tree Outside The Academy
From Amazon.com: For the most part, Thurston Moore's first solo endeavor since 1995's Psychic Hearts will allow the noise police to stay away. The Sonic Youth ringleader goes at it acoustically, far from his customary cacophonic experimentation, forming [... more]
CDN$17.99
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