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One of the most original and unsettling filmmakers of all time—the creator of the horror classics Dracula and Freaks, among others—Tod Browning is also one of the most enigmatic directors who ever worked in Hollywood. A complicated, troubled, and fiercely private man, he confounded would-be biographers hoping to penetrate his secret, obsessive world—both during his lifetime and afterward. Now, film historians David J. Skal and Elias Savada join forces for the first full-length biography of the man who earned a reputation as "the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema."

Are you stressed to the max and about to explode? Is your world closing in? Are disappointments and despair derailing your dreams? Is fear and anxiety swallowing your energy and snuffing out your light? Do you need to keep going but don't know how? Are you looking for ways to change the narrative and triumph again? If you've asked yourself those questions, you're not alone. I asked myself the same questions, and then I found the answers. You have arrived at the perfect place for some heart-centered stress management! If you're ready for change, then this book is for you.

A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman. Drawn from Gaiman’s trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art Matters is an embodiment of this remarkable multimedia artist’s vision - an exploration of how reading, imagining, and creating can transform the world and our lives.

Do you watch movies with your eyes open? You buy your tickets and concessions, and you walk into the theater. Celluloid images flash at 24 frames per second, and the hypnotic sequence of moving pictures coaxes you to suspend disbelief and be entertained by the implausible. Unfortunately, many often suspend their beliefs as well, succumbing to subtle lessons in how to behave, think, and even perceive reality.

This step is crucial; in the third session we explore personal branding and how it can land you work. If you’ve been struggling to figure out what your personal brand is, then this is for you!

Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II - and they were legion - Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air Corps Moffet Field. Seeing war on the horizon, Jimmy Stewart, at the height of his fame after Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and his Oscar-winning turn in The Philadelphia Story in 1940, had enlisted several months earlier.

Random Facts You Should Know: WTF Edition is jam-packed with fun and strange facts that you will be itching to unpack in any conversation to impress those around you. Whether you enjoy listening through these by yourself, with a partner, or with a group, you are bound to lose track of time while having a laugh and learning something new.

In this audiobook is a world. An audio world created by two awkward guys who share their lives on the internet! We are Dan and Phil and we invite you on a journey inside our minds through your ears! From reading the stories of our actual births, to verbally exploring Phil's teenage diary, and pontificating about all the reasons why Dan's a fail. Learn how to draw the perfect cat whiskers, get aural advice on how to make YouTube videos, and how will this quiz work discover which of our dining chairs represents you emotionally.

This book is a scientific expedition to research and explore the enterprise-grade big data appliances with blended OLTP and OLAP capabilities. Enterprise database systems with the aid of big data analytics create an intelligent ecosystem by taming and wrangling the data coming from extreme-disparate sources of structured and unstructured channels with massive parallelization techniques to discover, visualize, predict, and action the patterns and trends of mashups of big data.

The world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades. By the man the New York Times calls "a comic institution himself", the only comedian (26 years in stand-up) to have made Elie Wiesel laugh, as well as having appeared on The Tonight Show (140 times, second only to Bob Hope, but who's counting). From the director of TV comedy series Mad About You, Seinfeld, Friends, Weeds, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Peace Work, written and read by Spike Milligan. "I had not informed my parents of my return. I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was for me - they were away...." The seventh and last volume of Spike Milligan's memoirs sees our hero returning from war and Italy...but to what? Aside from shooting large, inaccurate guns at Germans, all he has done for five long years is blow a trumpet....

“There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate,” he wrote. “When he can’t afford it and when he can.” The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. “I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it,” she wrote. “I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace.”

In the early 20th century, World War I was the most devastating event humanity had yet experienced. New machines of war left tens of millions killed or wounded in the most grotesque of ways. The Great War remade the world's map, created new global powers, and brought forth some of the biggest problems still facing us today. But it also birthed a new art form: the horror film, made from the fears of a generation ruined by war. From Nosferatu to Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man, the touchstones of horror can all trace their roots to the bloodshed of the First World War.

For filmmakers and video producers who struggle with sales and marketing. This book will help them build an automated marketing and lead generation system. Unlike DIY marketing efforts, which often rely on luck, this book offers a proven road map to building commercial confidence and attracting more clients. This book is for you if you run a small video production business and you want to position yourself to dominate your market, charge premium prices, and enjoy a six-figure video production empire!

Una peli por semana es un libro de introducción al cine que te propone 52 filmes para ver y analizar a lo largo de un año. Una selección realizada por Jesús Iglesias, autor de la popular cuenta de crítica cinematográfica La peli de la semana, para que cada mes puedas elegir de cuatro a seis filmes, cada uno ampliamente comentado y repleto de datos que saciarán tu ambición cinéfila.

Today's world wants to know you and the real story behind why you do what you do. Whether you have a product to sell, a company mission to share or an audience to entertain, people are far more likely to engage if you deliver a well-crafted story with an emotional core. Bobette Buster is a story consultant, lecturer and screenwriter who works with major studios and in top film programmes all over the world. She shares the tools used by some of the world's best storytellers and helps you apply them to your own.

Grandes temas a través de la historia y el cine es un libro dirigido a todo aquel interesado en conocer en profundidad algunos de los problemas más relevantes de nuestra historia pasada y presente. Analizado con gran rigor histórico y redactado de forma didáctica y amena, la autora aborda cuestiones claves como los nacionalismos, las represiones políticas, el enfrentamiento entre la ciencia y la fe, las grandes plagas de la historia o las minorías religiosas y étnicas. Cada uno de estos temas se entreteje en torno a una serie de películas seleccionadas.

In an increasingly urbanized world, urban terrain has become a greater factor in military operations. Simultaneously, advances in military technology have given military forces sharply increased capabilities. The conflict comes from how urban terrain can negate or degrade many of those increased capabilities. What happens when advanced weapons are used in a close-range urban fight with an abundance of cover? Storming the City analyzes the performance of the US Army and US Marine Corps in urban combat in four major urban battles of the mid-20th century.

The funniest band in the world, The Horne Section (fronted by Taskmaster's Alex Horne), tell you everything you need to know to be a music genius - with bizarre tales, absurd history and unbelievable facts. Band leader Alex Horne has also added some special tasks throughout the book, so listeners will be making their own music in no time at all - without even leaving the house!

A short life of Dickens which celebrates the impact of the theatre on his life and work. Two hundred years after his death, Dickens’s work is more popular than ever, in a variety of media, most of them undreamed of during his lifetime. Over the last few decades of intensive research, Dickens the man has become much better known to us and the sheer originality of his personality blazes forth as never before.