Peter Shelley: 12 books
Gwen Verdon
A Life on Stage and Screen
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
American dancer, singer and actress Gwen Verdon (1925–2000) won four Tony awards for her work on Broadway and also appeared in films and on television. Stricken with rickets as a child, Verdon overcame severe leg deformity through ballet training, making her film debut at 11 as a solo ballerina...
Neil Simon on Screen
Adaptations and Original Scripts for Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Neil Simon is the most successful American playwright on Broadway, and the winner of many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and a Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime Achievement. Many of his plays have been adapted into films and made-for-television movies,...
Anne Bancroft
The Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) was an American film, television and stage actress, stage producer and film director. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, she won the “Triple Crown”—an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy. Her stage portrayal of Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker won the Tony...
Sandy Dennis
The Life and Films
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
This is the first book-length study of the American actress Sandy Dennis (1937–1992). Winner of two successive Tony Awards for her work in the theatre in 1963 and 1964, she moved into film in supporting roles. For her performance in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Dennis won the Best Supporting...
Gene Hackman
The Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Gene Hackman (b. 1930) has been described as the best actor of his generation. During almost half a century as an American film, television and stage actor, film producer and author, he was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning the Best Actor for The French Connection (1971) and the Best Supporting...
Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, film producer, and film and stage director, best known for his memorable supporting roles in independent films. Considered one of the best actors of his generation, he died of a drug overdose at age 46 after years...
by Peter H. Riddle, Shelley Hustins
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Christmas is a time for celebration, for families, and especially for the giving of gifts, and there can be no greater gift than to share ones home. Kindness brings its own rewards, and sometimes more, as the family in No Room discovers when a stray cat appears on their doorstep one snowy Christmas...
A World-Systems Reader
New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language...
Tabloid Tales
Global Debates over Media Standards
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2000
Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing...
by Jennifer Clapp, H Richard Friman, Eric Helleiner
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Illicit cross-border flows, such as the smuggling of drugs, migrants, weapons, toxic waste, and dirty money, are proliferating on a global scale. This underexplored, clandestine side of globalization has emerged as an increasingly important source of conflict and cooperation among nation-states, state...
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War
Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions—spanning developments for more than one hundred years—may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Colleagues representing different traditions...
The Book of Fungi
A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Colorful, mysterious, and often fantastically shaped, fungi have been a source of wonder and fascination since the earliest hunter-gatherers first foraged for them. Today there are few, if any, places on Earth where fungi have not found themselves a home. And these highly specialized organisms are...