Annette: 987 books
Restyling Factual TV
Audiences and News, Documentary and Reality Genres
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Addressing the wide range of programmes and formats from news, to documentary, to popular factual genres, Annette Hill’s new book examines the ways viewers navigate their way through a busy, noisy and constantly changing factual television environment.
Restyling Factual TV addresses the wide...
Murder in the Métro
Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Dorée station in the Paris Métro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer left behind little forensic evidence. This first-ever...
Richard III
The Maligned King
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
In 2012 Annette Carson formed part of the team that discovered King Richard III's mortal remains, verified in 2013 by forensics including DNA matching. In response to the recent upsurge of interest, her 2009 paperback has been updated with details of the discovery plus new illustrations, and a larger...
by Annette Langer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2010
What's funny about a brain injury or breast cancer? You'll be surprised. These true-life stories show the "funny side" of some not-so-funny challenges and demonstrate the upside to the struggles with illness and injury and the triumphs in overcoming them. Langer uses examples from her own...
The Green Heart of the Tree
Essays and Notes on a Time in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Woudstra's literary essays, rooted in personal experience and travel, are long and loving looks into the mysterious heart of Africa. Her writings explore topics as diverse as volcanic eruptions and wild trees, African art and ritual, life in Rwanda, and turtle eggs in warm sand. "Like Annie Dillard,...
by Annette Carson
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Ever since the discovery of his lost grave in Leicester, the eyes of the world have been drawn to the twists and turns surrounding England’s King Richard III… Annette Carson, acclaimed author and expert on Richard’s reign (and one of the team who found him), has published A Small Guide to the...
Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen
Expressive Movement for Performers
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed. And in order to bring authenticity and believability to a character, it has become increasingly vital for actors to be aware of movement and...
Pure Land
A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures and the Search for Heaven on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Pure Land is the story of the most brutal murder in the history of the Grand Canyon and how McGivney's quest to investigate the victim's life and death wound up guiding the author through her own life-threatening crisis. On this journey stretching from the southern tip of Japan to the bottom of Grand...
by Annette Debo
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In The American H.D., Annette Debo considers the significance of nation in the artistic vision and life of the modernist writer Hilda Doolittle. Her versatile career stretching from 1906 to 1961, H.D. was a major American writer who spent her adult life abroad; a poet and translator who also wrote...
Cinematic Overtures
How to Read Opening Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A great movie’s first few minutes provide the key to the rest of the film. Like the opening paragraphs of a novel, they draw the viewer in, setting up the thematic concerns and stylistic approach that will be developed over the course of the narrative. A strong opening sequence leads the viewer...
by Annette Oaks Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
This booklet is designed to help you decide when during the day or evening you are at your best intellectually, physically, and emotionally.
by Annette Oaks Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
The life story of Helen Thompson Jensen and what she was able to accomplish during her lifetime despite being able to use only her head.
Subjects and Citizens
Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends with the most crucial social, political, and...
by Annette Oaks Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This book is a guide to assist parents, teachers and others associated with an extra-active (Hyperactive, ADD, ADHD) child in their lives. It has practical suggestions to make life easier for both the adults and the child as the child progresses through the daily ups and downs in his or her life....