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American filmmaker John Cassavetes (1929-1989) made only nine independent films during a quarter...
Known and Unknown: A Memoir
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Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713
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Throughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as a series of well-ordered colonial...
BP Blowout: Inside the Gulf Oil Disaster
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The inside story of the worst environmental disaster in American history BP Blowout is the first...
Hope for Common Ground: Mediating the Personal and the Political in a Divided Church
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Much like the rest of the country, American Catholics are politically divided, perhaps more so now...
The Adventures of Form and Content: Essays
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An astounding work of doubles by Albert Goldbarth, "a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart"...
The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English
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Was there more to medieval and Renaissance comedy than Chaucer and Shakespeare? Bien sur. For a real...
The Story of Film
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An updated edition of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, now...
Strangers in a New Land: What Archaeology Reveals About the First Americans
J.M. Adovasio and David Pedler
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Where did Native Americans come from and when did they first arrive? Several lines of evidence, most...
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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Meticulously directed by David Lean at a then-record studio cost of $13 million, the Sam Spiegel...