Neal Gabler, whose biography of Walter Winchell was named best nonfiction book of 1994 by "Time," now presents the definitive biography of one of the most important figures in 20th-century American entertainment and culture. Given complete access to the Disney Archives, Gabler paints an illuminating portrait of a legendary visionary. 32 pages of ...
A sweeping, vital biography of Walter Winchell, the most powerful and, at times, the most feared journalist in the America of his day. Credited with the tabloiding of America, Winchell revealed who was cavorting with gangsters or chorus girls, who was engaging in financial shenanigans, and who was frolicking with whom. Photographs.
It might seem an ironic fact that Hollywood, which churned out the dreams and fantasies that helped shape mainstream American culture, was built largely by the efforts and visions of a few Eastern European Jewish immigrants. These men--Adolph Zucker, the Warner brothers, Louis B. Mayer, Harry Cohn, Carl Laemmle, and William Fox--may be long gone ...
The physical geography course enrolls the largest number of students in the geography discipline. The new fifth edition will have a stronger pedagogical program, a beautiful visual appeal and will be completely updated. Gabler's new fifth edition emphasizes the student's involvement in the learning process and promotes a student's interaction with ...
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, Ninth Edition, uses the combined expertise of four respected geographers to show how Earthas physical geography impacts humans, and how humans impact Earthas physical geography. The text emphasizes three essential themes to demonstrate the major roles for the discipline -- Geography as a Physical Science, Geography as the ...
"Real life as entertainment" is explored as one of America's most original cultural critics reveals how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything of importance into one vast public entertainment.
It might seem an ironic fact that Hollywood, which churned out the dreams and fantasies that helped shape mainstream American culture, was built largely by the efforts and visions of a few Eastern European Jewish immigrants. These men--Adolph Zucker, the Warner brothers, Louis B. Mayer, Harry Cohn, Carl Laemmle, and William Fox--may be long gone ...
Provides a practical pre-service training program across all secondary subjects by grounding a constructivist approach in seven discrete instructional areas. This groundbreaking text is the only teacher education text with components that shift the focus from a teacher-centered to a student-centered context-whil infusing a key component of ...
Through the figure of Broadway hack, Walter Winchell, this book builds a picture of the influence of the media on popular culture and history. Winchell made and broke people in the public eye and supported or disowned political and social issues, until rendered impotent by the advent of television.
Designed to both supplement and complement information presented in the ESSENTIALS OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, this lab manual contains over 50 exercises. These lab exercises have a range of both length and difficulty, and were designed to help students achieve a greater understanding and appreciation of physical geography.
Alex has fun fooling his family and his fellow third graders when he finds a brand of bubble gum that turns him invisible, but his pranks get out of hand on Halloween night.
The author of "An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood" makes his case for entertainment as one of the most powerful forces of the 20th century, where everyone becomes a performance artist acting out his own life.
Unlike current deconstruction readings of early American literature that assert the relativity of language and of moral vision. Janet Gabler-Hover's "Truth in American Fiction" contends that most of the major novelists of 19th-century American consciously discriminated in their works between the moral and immoral use of language. They could be ...
For anyone starting their first career search, returning to the job market, or thinking about changing careers, the Internet can be a one of the most important sources of career information available. But the sheer volume of web-sites can be overwhelming. Career Exploration on the Internet, 2nd Edition compiles in one, easy-to-use resource descrip-
As a young Bohemian prince sets off to rescue a beautiful princess being held captive by an evil sorcerer, he meets three extraordinary fellows--Tall, Wide, and Sharp-Eye. This jolly crew joins up with the prince to beat the sorcerer at his own game. The resulting adventure is a perfect read-aloud text deftly rendered in bright watercolors.
Mr. Skola likes to take his grade-school Tourist Club to visit places parents would never dare go. This time the club is off to see the sites of the mysterious castle of Kost. They are having a wonderful day--until the guard tells them, "Just make sure your tourists get out of here by five. There will be a full moon tonight . . ". Full-color ...
In the only guide to Northeastern whitewater, paddlers of all skill levels will find invaluable information for planning their whitewater excursions. More than 110 classic whitewater runs are described in this complete revision of an AMC classic. Updated information includes: -- degree of difficulty, river level, average & maximum gradient, and ...
Current conversations on the state of academia contain a broad sense of crisis over changes in the body of university knowledge - the decline of literature, the unbridling of ethnic studies, the growth of various applied programs, and so on. Much of the concern revolves around a perceived deterioration of the academic core in which, the thinking ...
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