Carti 1981

Carol Leonnig (Author)

Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

Editura: RANDOM HOUSE LARGE PRINT

Anul aparitiei: 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work--the determinative work--in this field. . . . Terrifying."--Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6--by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius and I Alone Can Fix It NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency's once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into ...

Paul Emil Erdman (Author)

The Last Days of America

Editura: SIMON & SCHUSTER

Anul aparitiei: 1981

Monroe Engel (Author)

Fish

Editura: ATHENEUM BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 1981

Noonuccal Oodgeroo (Author)

Father Sky and Mother Earth

Editura: WILEY

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Father Sky and Mother Earth Father Sky and Mother Earth created a beautiful world. They filled the world with plants and animals, and everyone lived in peace and happiness ... until Human Animals came along with their noise, rubbish, smoke and oil. The animals ran away and plants began to die. This cautionary story, accompanied by colourful illustrations, has a happy ending. Discover how the worried Human Animals stop the destruction. Author, poet and illustrator Oodgeroo, of the tribe Noonuccal, was born in 1920 on North Stradbroke Island in Queensland. Here she lived for most of her life, working tirelessly on behalf of Aboriginal people. She died in 1993. Father Sky and Mother Earth, contains a vital message, as relevant today as it was when the story was first published in 1981.

Erik Skare (Author)

Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Islamist Writings on Resistance and Religion

Editura: I B TAURIS

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Founded in 1981, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions, both in terms of its history and ideology. Yet no in-depth translation of its ideological corpus exists. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive account of the ideology of PIJ in the movement's own words. Based on the author's extensive fieldwork and archival research in the occupied Palestinian territories and Lebanon, the book comprises the PIJ's written texts produced since 1979, translated here into English for the first time. In addition to the primary texts, the book includes expert commentary from the author for each source to help explain the context and the broader significance of the documents. The key contention of the book is that although PIJ employs Islamic signifiers and symbolism, its ideology is strikingly similar to the anti-colonialism of the PLO in the 1960s, and in stark contrast to Hamas. A comprehensive resource on the PIJ, it covers: - PIJ beliefs about the Palestinian problem- what type of Islamism the PIJ espouses- how the PIJ regards Shiites and Iran- how it can be understood as an Islamist organization- what it ...

Karra Porter (Author)

Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women's Professional Basketball League, 1978-1981

Editura: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR

Anul aparitiei: 2006

As the popularity of women's basketball burgeons, Karra Porter reminds us in Mad Seasons that today's Women's National Basketball Association, or WNBA had its origins in a ragtag league twenty years earlier. Porter tells the story of the Women's Professional Basketball League WBL, which pioneered a new era of women's sports. Formed in 1978, the league included the not-so-storied Dallas Diamonds, Chicago Hustle, and Minnesota Fillies. Porter's book takes us into the heart of the WBL as teams struggled with nervous sponsors, an uncertain fan base, and indifferent sportswriters. Despite bouncing paychecks, having to sleep on floors, and being stranded on road games, the players endured and thrived. Karra Porter brings to life the pioneers of the WBL: "Machine Gun" Molly Bolin, who set lasting scoring records--then faced an historic custody battle because of her basketball career; Connie Kunzmann, a popular player whose murder rocked the league; Liz Silcott, whose remarkable talents masked deeper problems off the court; Ann Meyers, who went from an NBA tryout to the league she had rebuffed; Nancy Lieberman, whose flashy play and marketing savvy were unlike anything the women's game had ...

Steven H. Gale (Author)

Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process

Editura: UNIV PR OF KENTUCKY

Anul aparitiei: 2021

While best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter (1930--2008) had an equally successful career writing screenplays. His collaborations with director Joseph Losey garnered great attention and esteem, and two of his screenplays earned Academy Award nominations: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and Betrayal (1983) . He is also credited for writing an unproduced script to remake Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita. Much scholarship has been dedicated to the subject of Pinter as playwright, but the rich landscape of his work in film has been left largely undisturbed.In Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process, Steven H. Gale, the world's foremost Pinter scholar, analyzes Pinter's creative process from initial conception to finished film. Gale makes careful, point-by-point comparisons of each stage in the screenplay's creation -- the source material, the adaptations themselves, and the films made from the scripts -- in order to reveal the meaning behind each film script and to explain the cinematic techniques used to express that meaning.Unlike most Pinter scholars, who focus almost solely on the written ...

Arthur Ganz (Author)

Realms of the Self: Variations on a Theme in Modern Drama

Editura: NEW YORK UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 1981

Herbert Kaufman (Author)

The Administrative Behavior of Federal Bureau Chiefs

Editura: BROOKINGS INST

Anul aparitiei: 1981

Most of the people who keep tabs on the workings of the federal government, no matter what the re

Edith Wharton (Author)

The House of Mirth: The Play of the Novel, Dramatized by Edith Wharton and Clyde Fitch, 1906

Editura: FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 1981

The House of Mirth, novel turned drama, provides an interesting case history of a novelist's attempt

John Kennedy Toole (Author)

Confederacy of Dunces

Editura: AMEREON LTD

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. Now, for the first time, John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece is available in a large print edition. Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans, A confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their presence-Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses. Included here is the introduction that writer and New ...

Maxwell J. Fry (Author)

Financial Intermediation in Small Island Developing Economies

Editura: COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT

Anul aparitiei: 1981

In recent years, considerable attention has been focused on the process of financial intermediation,

Jaffee Annette Williams (Author)

Adult Education

Editura: ONTARIO REVIEW PR

Anul aparitiei: 1981

Popoff Martin

Yes: A Visual Biography I: 1968 - 1981

Editura: Wymer Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2022

Documents the progressive rock pioneer's first twelve years from the release of their eponymous debut album through to 1980's Drama. Popoff takes you on a journey from the early days to the hugely successful seventies; to the union with The Buggles - a world apart from the seventies but continuing to delight their legion of fans. Page dim. 219 x 307 x 25 Weight: 1548 grams

Alfred's Basic Piano Library Lesson 2

Editura: Alfred Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.

Anul aparitiei: 1981

Page dim. 296 x 227 x 5 Weight: 176 grams

Mad Matters A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies

Editura: Brown Bear Press

Anul aparitiei: 2013

In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: "An important new movement is sweeping through the western world.... The 'mad, ' the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society's asylums are coming together and speaking for themselves." Mad Matters is the first Canadian book to bring together the writings of this vital movement, which has grown explosively in the years since. With contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, as well as activists and psychiatric survivors, it presents diverse critical voices that convey the lived experiences of the psychiatrized and challenges dominant understandings of "mental illness." The connections between mad activism and other liberation struggles are stressed throughout, making the book a major contribution to the literature on human rights and anti-oppression.

Hobsbawm Eric

The Forward March of Labour Halted?

Editura: Verso Books

Anul aparitiei: 1981

Page dim. 220 x 140 Weight: 400 grams

McLennan Gregor

Marxism and the Methodologies of History

Editura: Verso Books

Anul aparitiei: 1981

Page dim. 190 x 130 Weight: 500 grams

Johnson Brandon

BEYOND HEAVEN CHICAGO HOUSE PARTY FLYERS - VOLUME II, FROM 1981-1992

Editura: Almighty & Insane Books

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Page dim. 154 x 225 x 11 Series: BEYOND HEAVEN Weight: 290 grams

Fury Alexander

Vivienne Westwood Catwalk The Complete Collections

Editura: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2021

The first comprehensive overview of Vivienne Westwood's womenswear collections, from her 1981 catwalk debut to today. Page dim. 201 x 287 x 54 Series: Catwalk Weight: 2660 grams