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Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas
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In this irresistible Christmas tale with a Parisian twist, the author of "We'll Always Have Paris" learns how Christmas is celebrated in his adopted city.
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We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light
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For more than a century, Americans and Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris. Most were tourists, but a significant number had other motives, ranging from learning to paint or write, to finding a rich husband; from escaping racism and politics to gaining a sexual education. John Baxter arrived because he had fallen in love with a French ...
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Basic and clinical endocrinology
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This is the best-selling reference in endocrinology! Authoritative, concise, and current, this "all-in-one" text focuses on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of endocrine disorders. Written by recognized authorities and featuring more than 350 two-color illustrations, the {"Seventh Edition" has been updated to reflect the latest in ...
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Hollywood in the Thirties
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A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
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An obsessed bibliophile writes about his travels around the world searching for elusive books, and writes amusingly and informatively about his quests, both successful and hopeless.
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Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
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John Baxter
The most complete account yet of one of the most original and stimulating film-makers of the post-war years: Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove, Lolita, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Barry Lindon, Full Metal Jacket ! A biography of this pre-eminent cultural figure is long overdue. Few film-makers have managed to maintain ...
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Buñuel
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John Baxter
A biography of the Spanish film director known for his collaboration with Salvador Dali, which yielded the short film "Un Chien Andalou" in 1928, and its famously horrific image of a razorblade slicing an eyeball. In his later films, such as "Los Olvidados" and "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", variously critiqued social behavior and ...
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De Niro: A Biography
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John Baxter
The life of Hollywood's number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas. Robert De Niro is the pre-eminent Hollywood character performer of our time: film portraits like the young Don Vito ...
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Carnal Knowledge: Baxter's Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Sex
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John Baxter
For the expert to the novice, Baxter's "Carnal Knowledge" is an education in the culture of sex. Featuring more than 500 entries and 150 photographs, this is the definitive reference to all things erotic.
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George Lucas : a biography
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John Baxter
The first major biography (since 1983) of the great movie mogul George Lucas, whose marketing techniques have transformed the film business. His fourth Star Wars film, The Phantom Menace, released in 1999, was perhaps the most eagerly awaited cinematic event of all time. George Lucas is one of the most innovative bigtime players on the movie ...
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Aristotle's Poetics
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John Baxter (Editor), Aristotle, J P Atherton (Editor)
In "The Poetics", Aristotle discusses the essential elements of poetry and drama, making the work one of the earliest examples of literary criticism. Acting as both literary theorist and critic, Aristotle examines the Greek epic poetry, tragedy, and comedy of his day, and concludes that poetry is both more philosophical and more important than ...
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Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas
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John Baxter
As "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" thrills moviegoers, a major biography takes readers inside the life of its brilliant and visionary creator.
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Hossier Farmboy in Lincoln's Army: The Civil War Letters of Pvt. John R. McClure of the 14th Indiana Regiment
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Richard Day (Illustrator), John L Niblack, Judge (Preface by), Nancy Niblack Baxter (Compiled by)
John R. McClure was an eighteen-year-old farmboy from Indiana who went with his cousin to join the Army of the Potomac in 1861, when the Civil War first began. This book is a collection of his letter written to friends and family back home and details the Civil War from a first-person perspective.
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The fire came by : the riddle of the great Siberian explosion
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John Baxter, Thomas R. Atkins
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The American Military Tradition: From Colonial Times to the Present
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John M Carroll (Editor), Colin F Baxter (Editor)
"The American Military Tradition" focuses on central questions about the nation's military heritage: who fought America's wars, and how did they fight them? To answer these questions, the essays presented here trace the evolution of America's military tradition from reliance on the citizen-soldier - the minuteman of the American Revolution - to ...
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Sixty years of Hollywood
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The Bidders
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A Pound of Paper
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By the 1960s a copy of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock without its dust jacket was worth about #500. But with its dust jacket more like #2,000 - if you could find one. The last copy with a perfect jacket to come on the market changed hands at #50,000. Brighton Rock was a high-point, but first editions of other early Greene books weren't much less ...
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Listen to This!: Leading Musicians Recommend Their Favorite Artists and Recordings
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Alan Reder, John Baxter
A unique musical reference listing artist and album favorites, not from critics, but from the musicians and artists themselves.
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We'll Always Have Paris
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For more than a century, Americans and Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris. Most were tourists, but a significant number had other motives, ranging from learning to paint or write, to finding a rich husband; from escaping racism and politics to gaining a sexual education. John Baxter arrived because he had fallen in love with a French ...
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Steven Spielberg: The Unauthorised Biography
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John Baxter
Steven Spielberg is one of the most successful film-makers in history. His hits include "Jaws", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial", "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List". This biography charts Spielberg's career from his boyhood 8mm home movies to the epic sweep of "Schindler's List" and beyond. It tells the story ...
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The Fire Came by
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The Making of Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie
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Shakespeare's Poetic Styles: Verse Into Drama
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John Baxter
First published in 1980. At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits of thought and feeling which define the significance of human actions. Baxter analyses the way in which these limits are reached.
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Blue Peter. 17th book
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Biddy Baxter, Edward Barnes, John Adcock, British Broadcasting Corporation
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