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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “charles brackett”
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  • "It's the Pictures That Got Small"

    Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age

    by Charles Brackett ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    "Brackett's diaries read like a funnier, better-paced version of Barton Fink." — NewsweekScreenwriter Charles Brackett is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as "the happiest couple in Hollywood," collaborating on such classics as The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard. He was also a perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • PLANET STORIES [ Collection no.7 ]

    by Clifford D. Simak, Leigh Brackett, Henry Hasse, Charles R. Tanner, Carl Jacobi ...
    Series Book 7 - Back to the Planet Stories
    TWO THRILLING NOVELETS OF OTHER WORLDSMESSAGE FROM MARS ....... Clifford D. SimakThe last of Earth’s pioneers stood on the rusty sands of Mars, his ship a total wreck —knowing his world was doomed unless it received the answer to a cosmic riddle.THRALLS OF THE ENDLESS NIGHT ....... Leigh BrackettThe Ship held an ancient secret that meant life to the Survivors of Terra’s lost colony. Yet to reveal ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Playing at War

    Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games

    by Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Matthew E. Stanley, Daniel Farrell, Dr. James Frusetta, Dr. Jonathan S. Jones, John R. Legg, Dr. Holly Pinheiro, Jacopo della Quercia, Nick Sacco, Dr. David Silkenat, Dr. Kathleen Logothetis Thompson, Dr. Charles R. Welsko, Dr. Katherine L. Brackett, Dr. Stephen Edwards, Aaron M. Phillips, Dr. Erzsebet Fazekas, Christian McWhirter, Blake Hill ...
    Series series American Wars and Popular Culture
    Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video games that topically engage the period surrounding the American Civil War, from the earliest console games developed in the 1980s through the web ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Expectations and Eyre: Dickens, Brontë, Brackett [The road to Sinharat by Leigh Brackett/ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens/Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë]

    by Leigh Brackett;Charles Dickens;Charlotte Brontë ...
    Book 1: Embark on an interstellar adventure with “The Road to Sinharat by Leigh Brackett.” Brackett's captivating tale takes readers to the exotic and perilous world of Sinharat, where Eric John Stark faces challenges, mysteries, and a quest for identity in this classic science fiction masterpiece.Book 2: Immerse yourself in the compelling narrative of “Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.” ... Read more

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    Last Call for Sector G (Unabridged)

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    by Leigh Douglass BRACKETT ...
    Narrated by Charles Price, Joseph Gonzales, Jimmy Leone, Larry Rice ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 34 min

    Lloyd Durham has already lost his footing once in the labyrinth of politics and intrigue that is The Hub, capital planet-city of the galactic federation. Now his second chance-- a seemingly simple errand involving switched destinations and the code-word 'darkbirds'-- is starting to look like a last call, as parties with varying agendas and no reluctance with weapons are closing in with a vengeance ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Expectations(Illustrated)

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Illustrated Edition: Includes 20 captivating illustrations that bring key scenes to life.Bonus Content: Features a detailed summary, character list, and an insightful biography of Charles Dickens.Step into the world of Great Expectations, one of Charles Dickens' most beloved novels, where ambition, love, and self-discovery collide. Follow the journey of Pip, an orphan with humble beginnings, whose ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Great Expectations

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Series series The Works of Charles Dickens presented by Kobo Editions
    “He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”Imagine getting the chance to have everything you’ve ever wanted. For young Pip, an orphan working at a forge, that chance comes in the form of a mysterious fortune that allows him to rise through the ranks of society and become a gentleman. Along the way he loses his ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

    by Zachary Schrag ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.Zachary Schrag begins by ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Great Expectations

    by Charles Dickens ...
    It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s.From the outset, the reader is "treated" by the terrifying encounter between Pip, the protagonist, and the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is a graphic book, full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships, "the hulks," barriers and chains, and fights to the death. It therefore combines intrigue and ... Read more

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  • Searching for Black Confederates

    The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth

    by Kevin M. Levin ...
    Series series Civil War America
    More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Civil War in Popular Culture

    Memory and Meaning

    by Lawrence A. Kreiser, Randal Allred ...
    "An important read for anyone trying to sort through the current social and political controversy over the question of how do we memorialize the Civil War." — Strategy PageDividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and ... Read more

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