Baghdad During the Abbasid Caliphate: From Contemporary Arabic and Persian Sources
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The history of Baghdad as a metropolis coincides with the history of the rise and fall of the...
Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion
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Now available in paperback, Mad Men Carousel collects Matt Zoller Seitz's celebrated critical essays...
Sixty Stories
Donald Barthelme and David Gates
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This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers...
Dictator
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"Confirms Harris' undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary...
David McK (3562 KP) rated Dante's Peak (1997) in Movies
Jul 9, 2020
In reverse release date order: Armageddon and Deep Impact. Or Volcano and Dante's Peak (this one), aka the one in which James Bond helps the future mother of the saviour of mankind (sorry, sorry: Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton) rescue her kids from an exploding volcano after they go up said mountain for plot reasons.
A pretty standard by-the-numbers disaster movie, then, with the expected pyrotechnics, clunky dialogue and, yep, even the town meeting where the inhabitants refuse to listen..
The Aviator (2004)
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Howard Hughes was a wily industrialist, glamorous movie producer and unstoppable American innovator...
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
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Late-period Hammer horror movie, based on Bram Stoker's 'The Jewel of the Seven Stars'. An...
Grant: A Biography
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The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to...
Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners
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In Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners, Lucy Miller Murray transforms her decades of...
60 Years of Combat Aircraft - From WWI to Vietnam War: 1914-1974
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From the Battle of the Marne to the end of the Vietnam War, this "first half" of the 20th Century...