Two years after the death of his wife, oceanographer and former Navy SEAL, Atticus Young attempts to reconcile with his rebellious daughter, Giona, by taking her on the scuba dive of a lifetime, swimming with a group of humpback whales off the coast of Maine. But the beauty of the sea belies a terror from the deep. A horrific creature as immense ...
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A phenomenom known as crustal displacement shifts the earth's crust, repositioning continents and causing countless deaths. In the wake of the global catastrophe, the world struggle to take care of its displaced billions. But Antarctica, freshly thawed and blooming has emerged as a new hope. Rather than wage a world war no nation can endure, the ...
FROM THE ICE. . . A mammoth, flash frozen in solid ice 10,000 years ago is brought to the surface by a team of scientists. An act of sabotage frees the giant from its icy tomb and reveals the secret held inside. OUT OF THE MAMMOTH. . . The body of an ancient woman, cloaked in furs, slides out of the mammoth's belly. But it is not the woman that ...
Imagine a world where soldiers regenerate and continue fighting without pause, and where suicide bombers live to strike again. This is the dream of Richard Ridley, founder of Manifold Genetics, and he has discovered the key to eternal life: an ancient artifact buried beneath a Greek inscribed stone in the Peruvian desert. When Manifold steals the ...
This instructional manual, combined with proprietary worksheets, charts and fill-in lists, is designed to give screenwriters a better way to focus on the task of writing a screenplay.
A phenomenon known as crustal displacement shifts the Earth's crust, repositioning continents and causing countless deaths. In the wake of the global catastrophe, the world struggles to take care of its displaced billions. But Antarctica, freshly thawed and blooming, has emerged as a new hope. Rather than wage a world war no nation can endure, the ...
Arseny Tarkovsky is the neglected Russian poet, father of the acclaimed film director Andrei Tarkovsky. This new book gathers together many of Tarkovsky's most lyrical and heartfelt poems, in Virginia Rounding's clear, new translations. Many of Tarkovsky's poems appeared in his son's films, such as Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice. ...
The German Romantic poet Friedrich Hlderlin (1770-1843) is one of the very greatest poets - of any era. Hlderlin's poetry is airy, radiant and incredibly lyrical. This selection features many of his best odes, poems and hymns, from the whole span of his career. Michael Hamburger is a respected poet and critic. He has translated Rilke, Celan and ...
This new study looks at the films of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, concentrating on Blade Runner, and films such as Minority Report, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, among others. T he themes and concerns of Dick's fiction are explored in relation to the movies made from his fiction. By far the most significant segment of the book is taken up with ...
A new cultural analysis of J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of Middle-earth and author of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and other books. This new critical study explores Tolkien's major writings (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics, The Letters, The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth volumes), Tolkien and ...
A full-length journey through the erotic and magical underworld of one of Britain's best poets, Peter Redgrove. Packed with quotes from Redgrove's most powerful pieces.
Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006) was a Polish artist, animator and filmmaker who lived in France for much of his life. He is the author of European art cinema masterpieces Goto: Island of Love, Blanche and Immoral Tales, some surreal animated shorts, and controversial films such as The Beast. This new book concentrates on Borowczyk's feature films, ...
A critical survey of the novelist who died in 1990. The author studies in detail all of Durrell's work; the late series of novels The Avignon Quintet, the Tunc and Nunquam novels, the travel books, the Antrobus diplomatic sketches, the letters, the poetry, and the books that made Durrell's name in the late 1950s, The Alexandria Quartet. Robinson ...
A new collection of essays. H.W. Fawkner's essay Venus explores issues of reading, movement, love and sex, the 'amorous self', and affectivity in A Glastonbury Romance. Ian Hughes looks at the genre of Powys's novels, and how the philosophical romances were influenced by Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean. Janina Nordius discusses the crucial ...
A very powerful feminist and public speaker, Dworkin is the author of the highly influential book Pornography: Men Possessing Women, of which Mary Daly wrote: 'An original, brilliant, courageous work combining massive and precise research with incisive analysis.' Cited by many feminists, often in passing, often in a negative light, Dworkin has ...
An exploration of how the United Kingdom would fare in a nuclear war; nuclear politics; nukespeak and 'nuclear theology'; atomic bomb tests and 'accidents'; American bases in the UK; the superpowers' military programmes and strategies; the cost of nuclear war; British civil defence; the Gulf War, 'infowar' and 'smart' technology; nuclear attack ...
This is the first major critical study of the art of Cornish painter Kurt Jackson (b. 1961). Jackson's landscapes have been exhibited widely, and are becoming more popular. Every aspect of Jackson's art is analyzed, including his paintings of West Cornwall, the Scillies, France, Greece, the Mediterranean, and the themed projects: South Crofty mine ...
With company mergers an ever-present feature of daily business life in Europe and the wider world, it is essential that practitioners legal, corporate and financial become familiar not only with the regulatory law governing merger activity but also with the growing body of case law embodied in the decisions of the European Commission. EC Merger ...
A new study of the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930), director of iconic films such as Breathless, Weekend, Pierrot le Fou, Passion and Vivre Sa vie. This book explores 27 of Godard's major films, from Breathless to Notre Musique, and includes a scene by scene analysis of Godard's controversial 1985 film of the Virgin Mary, Je Vous Salue, ...
This work contains everything you need to know on this area. It provides detailed analysis of the laws and procedures governing compulsory purchase of land by the State and the entitlement to compensation, explaining how and why the law stands in its present form. * The origins of the legislation and case law are discussed and the book provides ...
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