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This book is in part the story of a friendship over thirty years centering on love of nature and two men's quests to understand how to save what they love. At turns literary and scholarly, these essays, poems and public presentations also document not only the evolution of their ideas and expressions of this love, but reflect American culture's own dialogue about nature and conservation. In heartfelt prose and vivid language, these two friends...

This groundbreaking book by one of Britain's leading film historians is the first to take on this major genre in all its complexity. It takes to heart Ken Loach's view that "the only reason to make films that are a reflection on history is to talk about the present." With this proposition as his starting point, James Chapman examines the place of historical films in British cinema history and film culture. Through in-depth case studies of four...

Since the terrible events of 11 September 2001, a tremendous amount of literature has been produced on Islam and Islamic extremism by scholars, the media, and numerous government agencies. The overwhelming majority of these works go to great lengths to paint Islam in an exceptionally favorable light, distancing this "religion of peace" from the actions of its adherents who perpetrated the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In ...

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Popular cinema is saturated with images and narratives of empire. With "Projecting Empire", Chapman and Cull have written the first major study of imperialism and cinema for over thirty years. This welcome text maps the history of empire cinema in both Hollywood and Britain through a serious of case studies of popular films including biopics, adventures, literary adaptations, melodramas, comedies and documentaries, from the 1930s and "The Four...

Swashbucklers is the first study of one of the most popular and enduring genres in television history - the costume adventure series. -- .

Excerpt from Travels in the Interior of South Africa, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising Fifteen Years Hunting and Trading, With Journeys Across the Continent From Natal to Walvis Bay, and Visits to Lake to and the Victoria Falls The narratives of Travel comprehended within these volumes extend, as will be seen, over a lengthened period, and cover a wide area of the African continent. With, indeed, a single great and striking exception - whose name is o...

Excerpt from The Music, or Melody and Rhythmus of the English Language: In Which Are Explained, and Applied to Their Proper Purposes, on Principles New in This Country, the Five Accidents of Speech, Viz, Accent, Quantity, Emphasis, Pause, and Force, or Quality of Sound, Illustrated With Symbolic Marks, and a Musical Notation The following Synopsis of the Music, or Melody and Rhythmus of Language, is published principally with the view of faci...

Murphy's Law states that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, and has claimed almost all of us as a victim at one point or another. However, there are several other laws that can cause havoc. Chapman and his family fell prey to the lesser-known 'law of the journey', which states that the longer a trip is, the more likely things are to go wrong...

Excerpt from Travels in the Interior of South Africa, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprising Fifteen Years' Hunting and Trading, With Journeys Across the Continent From Natal to Walvisch Bay, and Visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls Politics - Engagement between Damaras and Africaners Start again for the Interior - Final Determination to leave the Country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books...

The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while remaining emphatically 'British' in content and outlook. This book analyses eight of these dramas - Spooks, Foyle's War, Hustle, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Downton Abbey, Sherlock and Broadchurch - which have all proved popular with audiences an...

Excerpt from Tracts for the Times on Infant Baptism: To Which Is Added Questions on the Mode of Baptism In presenting to the public this work, styled "Tracts For The Times, " we deem it proper to make known the circumstances under which it appears, and the design it is intended to accomplish. This will constitute the whole of the preface. Our friends, knowing that we have carefully examined the subject of Infant Baptism, not only in the ligh...

Discovering Hitchcock, master of spies

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