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Competing with Idiots

Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait

by Nick Davis ...

A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood's most dazzling—and famous—brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both.One most famous for having written Citizen Kane (with Orson Welles, as most recently portrayed in David Fincher's acclaimed Netflix film, Mank); the other, All About Eve; one, who only wrote screenplays but believed ... Read more

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A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood's most dazzling—and famous—brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both.One most famous for having written Citizen Kane (with Orson Welles, as most recently portrayed in David Fincher's acclaimed Netflix film, Mank); the other, All About Eve; one, who only wrote screenplays but believed
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You Had To Be There

by Jane Mendelsohn, Stewart F Lane, Nick Davis ...

In 1972, a little-known Toronto production of Godspell brought together an extraordinary collection of young performers who would go on to transform comedy, theatre, television, and popular culture.Martin Short. Gilda Radner. Eugene Levy. Andrea Martin. Victor Garber. Paul Shaffer.Long before they became household names, they shared a stage, experimented with new ideas, forged lasting friendships, ... Read more

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In 1972, a little-known Toronto production of Godspell brought together an extraordinary collection of young performers who would go on to transform comedy, theatre, television, and popular culture.Martin Short. Gilda Radner. Eugene Levy. Andrea Martin. Victor Garber. Paul Shaffer.Long before they became household names, they shared a stage, experimented with new ideas, forged lasting friendships,
... Read more
Future Ready

A Changemaker's Guide to the Exponential Revolution

by Nick Davis ...

Every day, legacy business models and traditional best practices are transforming around us, driven by technologies like AI, blockchain, 5G, and quantum computing that are radically altering our future vision. As a leader and innovator, you're facing an accelerating pace of change that makes it more difficult than ever to navigate the murky future ahead. You need to cut through the noise and hype, ... Read more

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Every day, legacy business models and traditional best practices are transforming around us, driven by technologies like AI, blockchain, 5G, and quantum computing that are radically altering our future vision. As a leader and innovator, you're facing an accelerating pace of change that makes it more difficult than ever to navigate the murky future ahead. You need to cut through the noise and hype,
... Read more
Jamaica - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Nick Davis, Culture Smart! ...

Series series Culture Smart!
Laid back, sun-drenched tropical paradise, or hotbed of drug-related crime and violence? Neither stereotype is true. Jamaica suffers from a PR problem, created largely by tabloid headlines written thousands of miles away. The reality is more complex and more fascinating. Despite its small size, Jamaica punches above its weight. Its footprints in sport and music are, like its people, larger than ... Read more

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Laid back, sun-drenched tropical paradise, or hotbed of drug-related crime and violence? Neither stereotype is true. Jamaica suffers from a PR problem, created largely by tabloid headlines written thousands of miles away. The reality is more complex and more fascinating. Despite its small size, Jamaica punches above its weight. Its footprints in sport and music are, like its people, larger than
... Read more
Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural

Edited by Nandini Das, Nick Davis ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the ... Read more

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This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the
... Read more
Stories of Chaos

Reason and its Displacement in Early Modern English Narrative

by Nick Davis ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear and Paradise Lost. Written in a period newly set on finding practical application for available systems of reasoning, these texts confront in their different ways reason’s absolute limitation in the face of a Real which it cannot adequately represent to itself or ... Read more

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First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear and Paradise Lost. Written in a period newly set on finding practical application for available systems of reasoning, these texts confront in their different ways reason’s absolute limitation in the face of a Real which it cannot adequately represent to itself or
... Read more
Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience

by Dr Nick Davis ...

Reading a wide range of early modern authors and exploring their cultural-historical, philosophical and scientific contexts, Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience examines the shift in focus from reliance on shared experience to placing of trust in individualized experience which occurs in the writing and culture of the period. Nick Davis contends that much of the era's literary ... Read more

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Reading a wide range of early modern authors and exploring their cultural-historical, philosophical and scientific contexts, Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience examines the shift in focus from reliance on shared experience to placing of trust in individualized experience which occurs in the writing and culture of the period. Nick Davis contends that much of the era's literary
... Read more
The Desiring-Image

Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema

by Nick Davis ...

The Desiring-Image yields new models of queer cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on close formal analysis of diverse films as well as innovative contributions to current film theory. The book defines "queer cinema" less as a specific genre or in terms of gay and lesbian identity, but more broadly as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexual desire and orientation as potentially fluid ... Read more

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The Desiring-Image yields new models of queer cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on close formal analysis of diverse films as well as innovative contributions to current film theory. The book defines "queer cinema" less as a specific genre or in terms of gay and lesbian identity, but more broadly as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexual desire and orientation as potentially fluid
... Read more
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Cypherium

Bridging CBDC, DeFI and Web3

by Nick Davis ...

Narrated by Aedemon Maure ...

Unabridged

1 hour 50 min

Reddit User:"I agree it's a hidden gem and now most of my portfolio, it checks all the boxes. I have done a ton of research on the company and love everything I am hearing. It will get a little bit higher than XRP, and that's being conservative"From the Author:Cypherium wants to keep a low profile, but for how long? Cypherium, the crypto gem that potentially can make your dreams come true. If you ... Read more

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Reddit User:"I agree it's a hidden gem and now most of my portfolio, it checks all the boxes. I have done a ton of research on the company and love everything I am hearing. It will get a little bit higher than XRP, and that's being conservative"From the Author:Cypherium wants to keep a low profile, but for how long? Cypherium, the crypto gem that potentially can make your dreams come true. If you
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Competing with Idiots

Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait

by Nick Davis ...

Narrated by Nick Davis ...

Unabridged

13 hours 3 min

A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood's most dazzling—and famous—brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both.One most famous for having written Citizen Kane (with Orson Welles, as most recently portrayed in David Fincher's acclaimed Netflix film, Mank); the other, All About Eve; one, who only wrote screenplays but believed ... Read more

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A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood's most dazzling—and famous—brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both.One most famous for having written Citizen Kane (with Orson Welles, as most recently portrayed in David Fincher's acclaimed Netflix film, Mank); the other, All About Eve; one, who only wrote screenplays but believed
... Read more

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Vanderbilt

The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe ...

Narrated by Anderson Cooper ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth ... Read more

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New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth
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The Madness of Crowds

A Novel

by Louise Penny ...

Narrated by Robert Bathurst ...

Series Audiobook 17 - Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Unabridged

14 hours 51 min

"Robert Bathurst's narration is calm, collected, and earnest, reflecting the blend of emotion and professionalism that Gamache embodies as an investigator. It's perfect for listeners seeking both captivating intrigue and insightful reflection." - BookPageChief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novelYou’re a coward ... Read more

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"Robert Bathurst's narration is calm, collected, and earnest, reflecting the blend of emotion and professionalism that Gamache embodies as an investigator. It's perfect for listeners seeking both captivating intrigue and insightful reflection." - BookPageChief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novelYou’re a coward
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