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For over 100 years, Paramount Pictures has been captivating movie and television audiences worldwide with its alluring imagery and compelling stories. Arising from the collective genius of Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky, and Cecil B. DeMille during the 1910s, Paramount Pictures is home to such enduring...

The history of Hollywood is often seen only through the lens of the major studios, forgetting that many of Tinseltown�s early creations came from micro-studios stretched along Sunset Boulevard in an area disparagingly known as Poverty Row. Here, the first wave of West Coast moviemakers migrated to...

A fanciful place from which to start explorations of artistic value, this illustrated guidebook offers simple, understandable instructions to improve all drawing styles, helping bring emotion to the artwork and pushing artists beyond their limits. Offering more than 70 examples and exercises along...

The Cambridge History of India, Ancient India is an authoritative history of India from the beginning of history until the time after Alexander the Greats conquest. 26 chapters and over 500 full-length pages discuss topics such as the geography of India, the ethnic origins of its people, the history of the Aryans and the Jains, and Indias interactions with Greece, Persia, Scythia, and Parthia.

Great reading for young men, ages 10- 20, about the adventures of a group of young men who fly planes.

A chronicle of a common man who lived through quite recent and eventful times. He went to many places  and had some uncommon experiences which among other things proved to him that war, in particular, is not the cleverest occupation for mankind. Especially when it is at it’s most absurd

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays...

THE TEMPEST Early in the year 1918 two great storms visited the coast of North Queensland. One centred off the port of Mackay, four hundred miles to the south of Dunk Island, on 21st January, and the Other about twenty-five miles to the north, on 10th March. Forty-eight hours prior to the Mackay storm...

With over 120,000 copies sold, this unique contemporary work brings the timeless Tibetan Bardo teaching into current American culture and language, with 49 days of readings for someone who has died or who is preparing for the dying experience. This book has been and still remains an important tool...

Theurgy means "the science or art of divine works." In alchemy, this process is called the "Great Work," which is the purification and exaltation of our "lower" nature by the proper application of esoteric principles, so that it may become united with its higher counterparts, whereby we may attain...

To what extent can we speak of Buddhism as a religion—a system which rejects a belief in an immortal soul and an eternal God? We shall do well not to seek to answer this by fitting our reply into the limits of a ready-made definition. Buddhism implies a certain attitude to the universe, a conception...

The 1947 Roswell incident was not a weather balloon but the result of not one or two but three UFO crashes! For sixty-four years the truth has remained hidden until two people have finally come forth to give their first-hand eye witness account of what really happened. They call themselves the forgotten...

Canonised a saint by Pope Benedict in 2010, Mary MacKillop was born in Australia in 1842, of a modest family, and by her teenage years was intensely engaged in the religious education of children, a passion which consumed her life of Christian service. Her contribution to education in those formative...