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From the iconic Casablanca to Orson Welles's seminal Citizen Kane, from the optimistic It's a Wonderful Life to the exotic Thief of Baghdad, the films of the 1940s are now recognized as some of the greatest of all time. And while the forties was the decade hailed nostalgically ever since as Hollywood's golden age, it also saw the emergence of a dark new undercurrent in pop culture-the sinister world of gumshoes, gangsters, double-crossing dames, and blind alleys that became known as film noir.
Long before the era of the television trailer and satellite media junket, studios lured audiences to theaters with graphically bold poster art, gorgeously illustrated by classically trained artists adept at capturing the nuances of Veronica Lake's seductive glance, Humphrey Bogart's world-weary eyes, Bette Davis's icy stare, and hundreds of other stars at their best and most glamorous. All of the era's legendary stars are included in this volume: Lauren Bacall, Robert Mitchum, Barbara Stanwyck, Rita Hayworth, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Marlene Dietrich, and hundreds of others. Film Posters of the '40s brings to ife in lavish full-color an era in film history that will never be forgotten.
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9 weeks and I don't have the book yet.......2007-02-01
Why does Amazon advertize items that they do not have? I ordered this on November 21, 2006. Today, January 31, 2007, I still do not have the book. Also, this review screen required me to rate the item - so I chose 1 star. You can't rate something you don't have.
A lost art -vintage posters.......2005-08-02
This is a wonderful book in the series with wonderful reproductions of the posters of the decade. Makes a wonderful gift for someone who loves movies as well as a great coffee table book. Highly recommended
Great to see the evolution of the vintage movie poster and how different posters from around the world compare.
Another great one to add to my collection.......2003-02-18
I have all the books by Tony Nourmand and all i can really say is that if you are a fan of movies and you appreciate art then this collection is for you! I have also discovered many movies that i had never seen until i saw the poster in Tony's books. Great stuff!
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Lawrence Weiner: Books 1968-1989
Lawrence Weiner
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The Literate Cat: A Photographic Celebration
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The Literate Cat is both photographic essay and literary anthology - a delight to the eye and the mind. No other animal has stimulated the literary imagination more than the cat, moving authors as diverse as Samuel Johnson and Edgar Allan Poe to the highest eloquence and most moving tributes. And no other animal delights its admirers more with its fluidity, visual variety, and grace. This fascinating volume will provide cat lovers with many hours of pleasure as they contemplate the beauty and profundity of the world's most interesting and independent creature. (100 full-color photographs)
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What's done is done, and cannot be undone...can it? How delicate is the reality we know? How small a change would it take to totally alter our world? During the D-Day charge at Normandy, the Allies' charge is stalled out by extra Me-262 bombers and other Axis air forces that didn't exist in our history. On June 13, Eisenhower makes his inspection flight early and pays the ultimate price - and the past is changed even more. How far can the changes go before they tear reality apart?
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The up-to-date, acclaimed guide to writing and selling screenplays to today's film and TV markets. This is the new screenwriter's bible.
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Still Unbeatable.......2007-04-27
I'll go straight to the point: the part on character creation and development is worth all the books published about the subject in the last twenty years. The simple-straightforward-logical method displayed here is simply unbeatable.
This is really an old book, but don't make the mistake to think of it as outdated. Sure, it's kind of weird read things as "recent films like Rambo" but all the eighties movies that he mentions and uses as practical examples are totally time tested.
Also, I would pay its full price for the single analysis of The Karate Kid included. Laugh if you want. I'm sure you will learn a lot.
A final thought: There are two kinds of "how-to" books. The ones that should be called "how-should" (yeah, that ones that tell you how a good script should look judging by the subsequent movie, i can do that too) and real "how-to's", that guide you step by step with a logical process so you can learn.
Obviously, Hauge's book stands proud among the last ones. Thank you, Mike, wherever you are.
I love this book.......2007-04-17
I just finished taking a continuing education course on script writing at my local college and this book has been very helpful with supplimenting what I learned. It is packed with all kinds of info and is very easy to read. There are several good books out there and this is one of them.
AWESOME Book for anyone who wants to learn or improve your Screen writing.......2007-03-31
I purchased this book and Mike's Hero's Journey DVD and he has a great way to explain the magic of screen writing, his advices and examples are clear and helps you apply right away to your screen writing. I enjoyed very much reading his book and seeing his DVD. I highly recommend any book or materials from Mike to anyone that might be aspiring to become a screen writer or wants to improve your screen writing techniques.
The best first book on screenwriting without a doubt.......2006-12-24
First of all, I feel I have to say that English is not my mother language, but never mind; I have read this book easily. To be honest, I've just read only a first half of the book; the second part - An Analysis of The Karate Kid - I was not interested in.
However, the first half (which is about 160 to 170 pages) gave me the full insight of the ingredients of a good screenplay and how to obtain them. Although the book is not perfect, I think that after reading it you can easily write your first screenplay with the confidence.
These days I am reading Ray Frensham's Teach Yourself Screenwriting which (in my opinion) has more extensive approach to screenwriting, although it is more concise written. However, the knowledge gained from the Writing Screenplays that sell helps me great to absorb the material from that book very easy.
So, if you want to start learning how to write screenplay from the beginning, first read Writing Screenplays That Sell, and you will not regret. On the contrary, you will be very satisfied with that decision. After that, you can read any book you like or immediately start writing you first screenplay, whatever you wish.
How great is this book? I've bought five copies!.......2006-11-02
If my house were burning, and I could only rescue ONE screenwriting book of the 60 that I own and (yes) have read, it would be Michael Hauge's "Writing Screenplays That Sell."
While it is terrific for the beginner, I had already written three scripts before reading this book, but the advice and guidance in this book focused me so well that I now judge my writing experience as "pre-Hauge," and "post-Hauge." Post-Hauge, I have had five scripts reach Semi-Final stage in the Nicholl Fellowship, and three have been optioned.
I have also bought this book as gifts for five friends, including my son, who said that they wanted to learn how to write a feature script.
You won't go wrong following the advice in this book.
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- The Quiet King
- Give this book a chance
- Uninteresting and monotonous -- a complete bore
- An important book that goes beyond music! DMC becomes a man!
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King of Rock: Respect, Responsibility, and My Life with Run-DMC
Darryl McDaniels , and
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Darryl McDaniels, better known as DMC, is only one-third of the groundbreaking rap group Run-DMC, but his trend-setting style and street-smart wisdom have made him a star in his own rite. Darryl formed Run-DMC fifteen years ago with two friends, and since then the group has been transforming rap and hip-hop into the most popular music in the world, while building a fan base that quietly rivals the biggest acts in rock 'n' roll. From the streets of Hollis, Queens to the world's largest arenas, Darryl and Run-DMC blazed the trail that would take rap and hip-hop to the top of the charts, but as pioneers the group would also face a number of trials and tribulations.In King of Rock: Respect, Responsibility and My Life with Run-DMC, Darryl candidly talks for the first time about his career as a rap artist and the people he has met along the way. Through hilarious anecdotes and thoughtful reflection, Darryl shares the wisdom he has accumulated in his thirty-two years, detailing his battles with fame, money, drugs, and alcohol. Darryl's sharp, flavorful tales of the rise of the group, and the fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses he offers into the rap and hip-hop world capture the excitement and the hardship of being in the spotlight, while also revealing the knowledge he has gained along the way.Written from the distinct perspective of an artist who has been an integral part of the rap and hip-hop scene since day One, King of Rock is at once the story of Run-DMC and the memoir of Darryl McDaniels-a boy from Queens trying to make it in the big-time. With confidence, compassion and an acute awareness of life's troubles and rewards, Darryl traces his experiences growing up and into the rap mogul DMC, to settling into marriage, becoming a father, and shifting his focus to respect, responsibility and peace. King of Rock is a sharply observed, unpretentious and often very funny account of being a part of one of the most important acts in the history of popular music.AUTHORBIO: Darryl McDaniels, better known as DMC, is a member of the legendary rap group Run-DMC.He lives in New Jersey.
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The Quiet King.......2003-04-18
This book was released but only a few days before Run Dmc made it's final New Orleans appearance at the House of Blues.As I left the concert that night,outside of the Marriott Hotel, a soft timid voice spoke out "Hey man,I sure like all that Adidas you have on."It was DMC.As I was completely charmed and engaged for those next few moments by this gentle giant,so will you be by this wonderful memoir.Covering his entire life and carreer and alcoholism and consequent pancreaitis, Mr.McDaniels quietly tells raps greatest story.The only flaw for was that theres not enough insight into the actual creative or studio process that quite literally changed pop music.(C'mon,"How'd ya do it Dee?"!!)Other than that,this along with Chuck D's caustic "Fight the Power",are a must read.
Give this book a chance.......2001-07-15
Anyone who is a fan of Run DMC or rap will love this book for the behind-the-scenes look at the early days of the group and the music. Anyone looking for a human interest story about maturing and becoming a man despite decadent surroundings will also probably be pleasantly surprised. Although it is a good read for anyone of any age, I would seriously suggest that this book should be required reading for high school kids. It really teaches a lot of great life lessons in a way that kids can relate to. It paints the picture of what most kids would consider to be the ideal existence - that of an international rock superstar living a life of decadence - and then gives the reader a very clear picture of why such a lifestyle is not so ideal. In doing this, it makes the reader question a lot of their own beliefs (e.g. "If only I made $X more a year, then I'd be happy" and "If I could have women falling at my feet, I'd be the luckiest guy in the world."). I would argue that it may help kids change the course of their lives early on and avoid having to learn a lot of hard lessons by experience.
The only (minor) flaw is that the book uses a lot of street slang and poor grammar. In general, I have no problem with writing in a vernacular if it helps put a story in its proper context or helps an author relate to a particular audience, but it is out of place here considering the content of the book. Gangster rap acts defend the violence and disrespect common to their music by claiming that they are only reporting what they see on the streets and are acting the way they act in real life. D adamantly opposes their behavior and discusses the flaws with their arguments, suggesting that they should aspire to be better people and do positive things with their talent and popularity. To be consistent with this line of thinking, the book should be presented in proper english. Surely, in editing the book, Haring must have noticed the many times the author switched tenses mid-sentence and used "ain't"s, etc. This would lead one to believe that there was a conscious effort to leave the poor language and slang in the book. The question then becomes: How is intentionally sounding ignorant any different than ganster rappers intentionally "keepin' it real"?
But if you look past the language and get to the meat and bones, you will find that the book has a whole lot to offer and that Darryl is a great guy. I can hardly wait for his solo album....
Uninteresting and monotonous -- a complete bore.......2001-06-26
I read about half of the book and couldn't muster up the energy to open it back up again. The book is quite boring - aside from D's tales on the road with Run DMC. I hardly think that Darryl lives up to be the voice of reason he assumes himself to be. Half of the half I read was spent trying to convince the reader of how ignorant we are to today's rap music and how the state of the industry is at an all time low. Give me a break, please.
...And those pictures of him are all out completely friggin' stupid.
An important book that goes beyond music! DMC becomes a man!.......2001-04-11
Who knew DMC was the soul of Run-DMC?
This is an important book, and if there is any justice, it will sell well, be read widely, and have as much influence as the early Run-DMC music did. This is NOT your typical, ghost-written celeb bio. Even those who know nothing about DMC the musician can be helped and uplifted by this book.
Oh, sure, there are the usual rock anecdotes about life on the road, the women, the parties, the money, and the drugs. (What?!? Run-DMC doing drugs? Unfortunately, yes.) There are even quite a few amusing stories about the genesis of Run-DMC (did you know that Run and DMC hated the name at first, but were convinced to use it by Russell Simmons?) There is talk of career highlights (playing "Live Aid,") the glasses, and writing lyrics. For those interested in rock history, there is ample enough grist for them.
What makes this an important book, though, is where rock-stardom ends and growth begins-- and DMC pulls no punches in laying out what he sees as the straight dope on what it means to be a real man, and what he hopes for the future of both rock music and society as a whole.
He does this in a powerful way that few rock stars (or even regular guys) ever attempt: by laying out his own mistakes for all to see (including almost dying from alcohol poisoning,) taking responsibility for them, and then talking about what he learned from them. It is painful to read at times, but even more powerful because of that.
D says things in this book that no one in the music industry has had the balls to say-- but you don't feel like he's criticizing, he's just calling it like he sees it. He thinks that a lot of the rap-metal groups are just calling up the negative vibe, that a lot of the other rap that glorifies money is just hurting the normal kid by skewing his priorities, and that fame and adoration should be given to those making lasting musical contributions (like Eric Clapton) not the to flavor of the moment. He talks about Tupac's death in a way that might surprise you.
D also talks about organized religion, spirituality, being a father, and, above all, being true to himself.
Above all, he encourages you to be true to yourself, too.
When we finish the book, we feel like we've met a real man and a person of some substance who is struggling to make his life and the world around him a better place.
It is totally understandable, after reading this book, why DMC is almost nowhere to be found on the latest Run-DMC album.
He has grown beyond Run and Run-DMC. And as we can see by that sorry "Crown Royal" album, maybe D was right in pulling out.
You can tell that all of this has been hard on D, that he is trying to grow as a person and a musician in a situation that wants him to stay the same.
All I can say to D is: Live Positive Forever and Ever.
You're doing the right thing, man, no matter how hard it is.
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Time, Space and the Market: Retroscapes Rising
Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
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Rich with Insight.......2004-07-09
To write the chapters of this book, Sherry and Brown tapped some of the keenest minds currently investigating marketing and consumption questions with the perspicacious eye of anthropologists and cultural observers. Moving from the spiritual to the theoretical, there is also some very solid theory-building scholarship present in the book.
My taste in ethnography tends to run towards the more personal, and it is for this reason that I find the most personal chapters of the book-like those by Holbrook, Sherry, Schau, and Brown-to be the most satisfying. I find the book to be most powerful when its authors are the most authentic and the most autoethnographic. If I can fault the editors for anything, it would be for not drawing enough of their contributor's personal perspectives, the idiosyncratic, from the rich context of retroscapes. Perhaps this is a flaw with the entire field of consumer research. As scholars, we are reticent to emerge from behind our prose as living, emotional beings with rich experiences. This makes us vulnerable, exposed, but it is also the richest source of our knowing and our experience, as Holbrook's masterful chapter readily demonstrates.
Ethnographers and phenomenologists like Dilthey, right up to current scholars like Laurel Richardson, Norman Denzin, and Caroline Ellis have been urging scholars of all stripes to place more personal voices within our emotionally distant research narratives. Time, Space, and the Market proves it can be done. It does a superb job of realizing some of this representational potential. But the achievement is realized only in patches and spots.
All this talk of preferences for personal voices, however, should not be read as slighting the theoretical impact of the book. For those interested in building theory about retailing and retro, there is material aplenty here. The book will rewards careful and even leisurely reading by anyone interested in what it means to shop in contemporary societies, what it means to be contemporary, in what are the tensions of living and marketing in a particular era positioned vis à vis other particular historical milieux. An underlying theme of deep and continuing interest is the tension between commercialization and culture, between the worlds of communities, and the universe of marketplaces. This topic will not go away, and the variety of interesting topics and approaches here can help to inform a variety of individual contributions to its study.
The book has wonderful European-American representation, which provides North American readers with a sense of some of the genuinely exciting research taking place on the other side of the Atlantic. While there are definite variations in the quality of its chapters, this is the price paid for reflecting diversity. In summary, there are generally few Marketing books that one could recommend to people outside the field as having merit as entertaining in themselves. I believe that several of the chapters in Time, Space, and the Market actually hit that high bar of accessibility, insight, and sheer provocative fun. This is a book that deserves to be read.
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Understanding Television: Essays on Television as a Social and Cultural Force
Richard Adler
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Who better to guide expectant mothers through this nine-month miracle than the legions of women who have come before them and have shared similar cravings, hormonal highs and lows, backaches, and bliss?
By turns sentimental, sweet, and sometimes silly, Pregnant for 100 Years is a collection of tales of pregnancies past and present, shared by moms-and a few observations by other innocent bystanders. It will entertain, enlighten, and enrich the nine months of pregnancy...even when it feels a hundred years long.
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Fun read and a good gift..........2004-10-08
This is a fun book and it makes a great gift!
When I read it, it took my back several years to when I was expecting and prompted fun memories.
I have been giving this as a present when a good friend or family member tells me they are expecting. I always hear back that the recipient read it right away, and enjoyed it.
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420 Pages of Text..Facsimile Edition
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In Sands of Empire, veteran political journalist and award-winning author Robert W. Merry examines the misguided concepts that have fueled American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. The emergence in the George W. Bush administration of America as Crusader State, bent on remaking the world in its preferred image, is dangerous and self-defeating, he points out. Moreover, these grand-scale flights of interventionism, regime change, and the use of pre-emptive armed force are without precedent in American history.
Merry offers a spirited description of a powerful political core whose ideas have replaced conservative reservations about utopian visions -- these neocons who "embrace a brave new world in which American exceptionalism holds sway," imagining that others around the globe can be made to abandon their cultures in favor of our ideals. He traces the strains of Wilsonism that have now merged into an adventurous and hazardous foreign policy, particularly as described by William Kristol, Francis Fukuyama, Max Boot, and Paul Wolfowitz, among others. He examines the challenge of Samuel Huntington's supposition that the clash of civilizations defines present and future world conflict. And he rejects the notion of The New York Times's Thomas L. Friedman that America is not only the world's role model for globally integrated free-market capitalism, but that it has a responsibility to foster, support, and sustain globalization worldwide.
From the first president Bush to Clinton to the second Bush presidency, the United States has compromised its global leadership, endangered its security, and failed to meet the standard of justified intervention, Merry suggests. The country must reset its global strategies to protect its interests and the West's, to maintain stability in strategic areas, and to fight radical threats, with arms if necessary. For anything less than these necessities, American blood should remain in American veins.
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"In Sands of Empire, veteran political journalist and award-winning author Robert W. Merry examines the misguided concepts that have fueled American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. The emergence in the George W. Bush administration of America as Crusader State, bent on remaking the world in its preferred image, is dangerous and self-defeating, he points out. Moreover, these grand-scale flights of interventionism, regime change, and the use of pre-emptive armed force are without precedent in American history. Merry offers a spirited description of a powerful political core whose ideas have replaced conservative reservations about utopian visions -- these neocons who ""embrace a brave new world in which American exceptionalism holds sway,"" imagining that others around the globe can be made to abandon their cultures in favor of our ideals. He traces the strains of Wilsonism that have now merged into an adventurous and hazardous foreign policy, particularly as described by William Kristol, Francis Fukuyama, Max Boot, and Paul Wolfowitz, among others. He examines the challenge of Samuel Huntington's supposition that the clash of civilizations defines present and future world conflict. And he rejects the notion of The New York Times's Thomas L. Friedman that America is not only the world's role model for globally integrated free-market capitalism, but that it has a responsibility to foster, support, and sustain globalization worldwide. From the first president Bush to Clinton to the second Bush presidency, the United States has compromised its global leadership, endangered its security, and failed to meet the standard of justified intervention, Merry suggests. The country must reset its global strategies to protect its interests and the West's, to maintain stability in strategic areas, and to fight radical threats, with arms if necessary. For anything less than these necessities, American blood should remain in American veins. "
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Progress/Decline and Globalization.......2006-02-23
The author's thesis stands in and of itself but comes wrapped up in a series of ruminations on Progress, Decline, Toynbee, Spengler and Fukuyama, plus Huntington. This wrapper makes the book very interesting, and yet it is questionable whether the interpretation given is really correct. The question of the idea of progress, after an all too partial history of the idea's own progressions, is then mapped onto the Bush foreign policy. The change of scale is misleading and counterproductive. Similar problems arise with the cyclical views of Toynbee and Spengler. Then the Hegelian End of History thesis is grafted onto the discussion in a way that doesn't quite fit. In a way it is good to raise these issues and attempt the 'philosophy of history' genre as a backdrop to cultural discussion, but the key to doing that has been lost, if it was ever found, and the result is a kind of ad hoc historicism. The idea of progress gets a bum rap these days, and that's not surprising if it is claimed that Bush is its representative. But the idea, on the right scale, is an essential component to historical understanding. The problem is that historical dynamics and the machinations of ideologicalpolicy mongers become scrambled.
I think, beyond the analysis, the cautionary critique of the false universalism of imperial presidents remains of value in the book, but the overall result goes begging for some relief from the cliches of rival pastiche versions of the philosophy of history. Interesting book in any case.
The right way to reconcile the contradictions of cyclical theories, the idea of progress and the confusion over Hegel's 'end of history' can be found in the reviewer's _World History and The Eonic Effect_. The works of Spengler/Toynbee and naive versions of the Progress idea need to be scrapped/upgraded to something more usable.
Good History, but a Sometimes Difficult Read.......2005-12-26
Merry's primary point is that President Bush's emphasis on "Missionary Democracy" is both naive (a recent Russian poll found 53% opposed Democracy, with only 22% supporting) and likely also counterproductive.
Most of the book covers various theories of history in an effort to build a foundation for analysis of Iraq. However, the book could have instead simply focused on an overall history of Iraq - a "nation" made up of people more loyal to their historic tribes than any overall nationalistic spirit. Thus, Sunni's are likely to relinquish centuries-long control, and the Shia's will not give up their dream of a government dominated by higher clergy. Merry believes that the Bush team failed to think about the likely outcome of deposing Hussein - fragmentation, and should have first listened to experts before proceeding. The result was that the U.S. was surprised to not be greeted as liberators, but instead as occupiers.
Finally, Merry concludes that the U.S. in a cultural "war with Islam." Few others refer to it as such; however, our non-stop insensitive actions (eg. establishing a large, permanent base in Saudi Arabia, support/bias for Israel, prisoner abuses, invading Iraq) that antagonize countless passionate Islamic followers seem to steadily make the situation worse.
Excellent Concise Serb History Lesson.......2005-11-11
Besides challenging the reader to think about our foreign policy towards peoples not of our culture, Robert Merry covers a history of the tragedies of the Serbian people. This history I was totally ignorant of and I could not help wondering if our officials in Washington considered the history of the Balkans when we became involved in the Bosnian war. The author is highly readable. His book is a must read for students of the middle eastern culture.
I submit............2005-09-18
...a review in the way of a question. Mr. Albert Lee, I ask you this: how often do you have to replace the microchip in the back of your head? Curious......
A bracing tonic.......2005-09-13
The idea that America can go everywhere, and do anything, in a quest to reshape the world into a likeness of our own Western free-market society is one that has been embraced by both the left and right in U.S. history, as Merry explains, so this book isn't at all partisan, which makes it refreshing. It is essentially a plea, supported by a historical outline, that Americans realize a couple of essential facts: That we are in a civilizational war with Islam -- and not "a few angry fanatics" -- and that our idealistic impulses, like trying to turn Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc., into democracies, only deepen the dangers we face. Whether you buy all, or any, of this, it is important that it be said, and Merry says it in a concise, interesting, and forceful manner. Idealists in foreign policy from Wilson to G.W. Bush have led us into peril, Merry argues, and it is time for some old-fashioned realpolitik, balance-of-power diplomacy. Essential reading for the thinking segment of America that neither hates Bush nor loves him blindly.
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- Jane Cumberbatch's Pure Style Living
- Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them
- Gilbert's Living with Art w. CD-ROM and Timeline
- Marketing Precedes the Miracle
- Aardvarks to Zebras: A Menagerie of Facts, Fiction, and Fantasy About the Wonderful World of Animals
Film Posters of the 30s: The Essential Movies of the Decade (Film Posters of the Decades)
Film Posters of the 50s: Essential Posters of the Decade from the Reel Poster Gallery Collection (Film Posters)
Picture Show: Classic Movie Posters from the TCM Archives
Film Posters of the 70s: Essential Movies of the Decade
Film Posters of the 80's
