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by Larry Kagele
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
As with any field you go into, you need to be prepared. You must know where to go to get the information to do the job well. This booklet is a guide to help you get over the major obstacles that you might face trying to obtain your objective--being a good working actor.
Bumping Into Geniuses
My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
A giant of the music industry grants an all-access pass to the world of rock and roll, with mesmerizing stories of thirty0five years spent working with legends
Danny Goldberg has been a hugely influential figure in the world of rock and roll. He did PR for Led Zeppelin; he managed the career...
by Bill Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Deep Characterization explores the difference between characters created to act out a story for an audience and characters created to act out a writer's internal dramas. A story writtenfor an audience is a promise to take that audience on a story journey; a story written for the writer's...
by William Castle
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Nostalgia vies with rollicking good fun in these anecdote-studded memoirs of legendary horror director William Castle. Remember the Lloyds of London life insurance policy that protected moviegoers if they were frightened to death by "Macabre"? Or the theatre seats that buzzed when "The...
Hess
The Last Oil Baron
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
A glimpse of the savvy that built a global corporation from scratch
Hess: The Last Oil Baron profiles a titan of the oil industry, mapping the journey of the quintessential American dream. The story of Leon Hess follows an immigrant kosher butcher's son as he builds an oil dynasty that may...
The Return of the Moguls
How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The Return of the Moguls chronicles an important story in the making, one that will affect more than just the newspaper business—it has the power to change democracy as we know it. Over the course of a generation, the story of the daily newspaper has been an unchecked slide from record profitability...
Genius in Disguise
Harold Ross of The New Yorker
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This hugely entertaining biography of the founding editor of The New Yorker tells the diverting story of how Ross and the brilliant group of people he gathered around him--including James Thurber, Charles Addams, Dorothy Parker, and John O'Hara--devised the formula that made the magazine such a popular and critical success. Photos & cartoons.
The Fall of the House of Forbes
The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Forbes: the legendary name in finance journalism. Synonymous with wealth, grand excess, glamour, and fun as well as style, insight, gossip, and hard-nosed reporting, the media empire and the family behind it form a remarkable story that has never been told. Now, in The Fall of the House of Forbes,...
by Fred Vogelstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google—and how it's reshaping the way we think about technology
The rise of smartphones and tablets has altered the industry of making computers. At the center of this change are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies, leaders, and commercial...
Makers
The New Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
**3D Robotics co-founder and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. **
In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design...
Fins
Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Brew chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the remarkable life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling,...
by Andrew J. Rausch
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
“Grindhouse” is a term that refers to theaters that primarily showed exploitation films. There were a handful of these theaters on 42nd Street in New York City. These theaters showed a variety of films that generally featured sex, violence, and bizarre subject matter. These included slasher films,...
by Anthony Slide
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaranteed to contain something "offensive" for everyone.Chapters on subjects as varied as camp and fascism in Hollywood, Hedda Hopper and the PORKY'S...
One Family's Journey
Canfor and the Transformation of British Columbia's Forest Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Peter Bentley recounts the exciting journey shared with his esteemed father, Leopold "Poldi" Bentley, and his uncle in the building of a major forest products company.
Bentley has a unique perspective on the rise and fall - and the subsequent reinvention - of western Canada's forest...