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A Gun for Sale By:Graham Greene Published on 1992-01 by Penguin Click The Button Below To Download The Book The detective, Mather, searches for a professional assassin, who unknowingly has kidnapped Mather's fiancee Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Fancy Drills for Evening and Other Entertainments By:Butterick Publishing Company, limited Published on 1892 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Life: The Movie By:Neal Gabler Published on 2011-04-27 by Vintage Click The Button Below To Download The Book The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment. Neal Gabler calls them |lifies,| those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, Kenneth Starr vs. William Jefferson Clinton. Real Life as Entertainment is hardly a new phenomenon, but the movies, and now the new information technologies, have so accelerated it that it is now the reigning popular art form. How this came to pass, and just what it means for our culture and our personal lives, is the subject of this witty, concerned, and sometimes eye-opening book. |A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life.|...

A Century of home remedies By:Campbell County Senior Citizen's Center, Inc. (Campbell County, Wyo.),Morgan County Council on Aging (Morgan County, Ohio) Published on 197? by Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

The Art of Blizzard Entertainment By:Nick Carpenter Published on 2013-02-12 by Insight Editions Click The Button Below To Download The Book Over the past two decades, Blizzard Entertainment has had a tremendous impact on the world of games and global pop culture. From its humble beginnings as a three-person console-game development studio in 1991 to the creation of the blockbuster Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® series, Blizzard has a history of crafting stunning worlds of science fiction and fantasy. The company’s distinctive gameplay and storytelling styles have captivated an international audience numbering in the tens of millions whose passion cannot be quelled. Twenty years after Blizzard opened its doors, the company’s World of Warcraft® boasts the title of the world’s most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, and the studio is widely recognized as one of the leaders in creatively driven game development. An epic volume of art and behind-t...

Showtime! The Entertainment Industry By:Nick Hunter Published on 2012-08-01 by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP Click The Button Below To Download The Book It’s incredible how much the entertainment industry has evolved over the past 100 years. Music, movies, and television now generate massive amounts of money for the prime players involved. Readers will feel like entertainment executives as they learn about what goes on behind the scenes of a hit movie, TV show, or song. Eye-catching photographs and fascinating information about popular stars and movies make the topics of business and finance accessible and relevant to all readers. Thought-provoking questions in fact boxes throughout the text encourage deeper evaluation of the issues. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Amusing Ourselves to Death By:Neil Postman Published on 2005-12-27 by Penguin Click The Button Below To Download The Book What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. |It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demand...

Inventing Entertainment By:Brian Dolan Published on 2009-01-16 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Click The Button Below To Download The Book Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story of contemporary life. The player piano made the American music industry-and American music itself-modern. For years, Tin Pan Alley composers and performers labored over scores for quick ditties destined for the vaudeville circuit or librettos destined for the Broadway stage. But, the introduction of the player piano in the early 1900s, transformed Tin Pan Alley's guild of composers, performers, and theater owners into a music industry. The player piano, with its perforated music rolls that told the pianos what key to strike, changed musical performance because it made a musical piece standard, repeatable, and easy rather than something laboriously learned. It also created a national audience...

Shirley By:E. V. Cunningham,Howard Fast Published on 1964 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Alcohol and Entertainment Licensing Law By:Colin Manchester,Susanna Poppleston,Jeremy Allen Published on 2008-02-11 by Taylor & Francis Click The Button Below To Download The Book This comprehensive and authoritative guide to licensing law is co-authored by the UK’s only professor of licensing law and two eminent licensing practitioners. It provides a detailed exposition and contextual analysis of the legal provisions governing the licensing of alcohol and entertainment under the Licensing Act 2003, encompassing both the legislative and decision-making framework of the Act as well as its implications for human rights. Fully updated and revised, it covers the various forms of authorization for licensable activities and licence and certificate conditions that might be attached as well as the enforcement and appeal provisions of the Act. This new edition, building on the highly acclaimed original work published in 2005, includes subsequent legislative changes and case law decisions. N...

Caught in Play By:Peter G. Stromberg Published on 2009-05-28 by Stanford University Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book Most of us have become so immersed in a book or game or movie that the activity temporarily assumed a profound significance and the outside world began to fade. Although we are likely to enjoy these experiences in the realm of entertainment, we rarely think about what effect they might be having on us. Precisely because it is so pervasive, entertainment is difficult to understand and even to talk about. To understand the social role of entertainment, Caught in Play looks closely at how we engage entertainment and at the ideas and practices it creates and sustains. Though entertainment is for fun, it does not follow that it is trivial in its effect on our lives. As this work reveals, entertainment generates commitments to values we are not always willing to acknowledge: values of pleasure, self-indulgence, and consumption. For more information, please vis...

Media and Entertainment Law By:Sandi Towers Published on 2008-05-05 by Cengage Learning Click The Button Below To Download The Book Media and Entertainment Law has been purposely designed and written to keep the reader’s interest with up-to-date legal issues. Throughout the book, media and entertainment law ethics issues are discussed. A full chapter devoted to ethics is added with suggestions presented on how to make better ethical choices, how to guide ethical considerations, and how to potentially correct ethical issues that are not in alignment with corporate or business guidelines. Chapters are arranged in a thoughtful and logical order, to take the student, practitioner, or interested reader from the beginnings of freedom of speech, press, and expression; and into cutting edge, current events that highlight areas such as copyrights, advertising, pornography, censorship of the media, cable and satellite television, digital and satellite radio, and the Internet. Important Notice: M...

Shocking Entertainment By:Annette Hill Published on 1997 by Indiana University Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book This exploration of violence in films questions why adults are often entertained by films that social and cultural consensus considers extreme and brutal. Hill argues that understanding the process of viewing violence is one way to open up the current debate concerning the effects of violence to include objective and broad-minded responses to this phenomenon. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I By:Clémentine Tholas-Disset,Karen A. Ritzenhoff Published on 2015-05-06 by Springer Click The Button Below To Download The Book Humor and entertainment were vital to the war effort during World War I. While entertainment provided relief to soldiers in the trenches, it also built up support for the war effort on the home front. This book looks at transnational war culture by examining seemingly light-hearted discourses on the Great War. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

People Entertainment Almanac By:People Magazine,Cader Books Published on 2000 by Time Home Entertainment Incorporated Click The Button Below To Download The Book Discusses current entertainment; profiles celebrities, performers, writers, and royalty; and reviews books, movies, and music albums. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Multiculturalism and the Mouse By:Douglas Brode Published on 2009-01-27 by University of Texas Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book In his latest iconoclastic work, Douglas Brode—the only academic author/scholar who dares to defend Disney entertainment—argues that |Uncle Walt's| output of films, television shows, theme parks, and spin-off items promoted diversity decades before such a concept gained popular currency in the 1990s. Fully understood, It's a Small World—one of the most popular attractions at the Disney theme parks—encapsulates Disney's prophetic vision of an appealingly varied world, each race respecting the uniqueness of all the others while simultaneously celebrating a common human core. In this pioneering volume, Brode makes a compelling case that Disney's consistently positive presentation of |difference|—whether it be race, gender, sexual orientation, ideology, or spirituality—provided the key paradigm for an eventual emergence of multicul...

The Story of Ferdinand By:Munro Leaf Published on 2018-10 by Viking Books for Young Readers Click The Button Below To Download The Book A true classic with a timeless message! All the other bulls run, jump, and butt their heads together in fights. Ferdinand, on the other hand, would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when Ferdinand is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? The Story of Ferdinand has inspired, enchanted, and provoked readers ever since it was first published in 1936 for its message of nonviolence and pacifism. In WWII times, Adolf Hitler ordered the book burned in Nazi Germany, while Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, granted it privileged status as the only non-communist children's book allowed in Poland. The preeminent leader of Indian nationalism and civil rights, Mahatma Gandhi--whose nonviolent and pacifistic practices went on to inspire Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.--even called it his favorite book. The story was ada...