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New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American childhood. The chapters in this collection examine contemporary children's literature, film, and video games to explore the ways in which everyday realities...

Die alternde Kosmetikvertreterin Lisa Schindler hat sich in die Wohnung des jungen New Yorker Ehepaars Paul und Jennifer Montgomery eingeschlichen und geht nun auf deren obskuren Parties ein und aus. Eines Tages hecken die drei ein satanisches Spielchen aus: Ein ahnungsloser Lieferantenjunge soll von der Dame des Hauses verführt und in der verfänglichen Situation dann von ihrem Mann Paul überrascht werden. Was als Witz gedacht war, soll sich z...

Die alternde Kosmetikvertreterin Lisa Schindler hat sich in die Wohnung des jungen New Yorker Ehepaars Paul und Jennifer Montgomery eingeschlichen und geht nun auf deren obskuren Parties ein und aus. Eines Tages hecken die drei ein satanisches Spielchen aus: Ein ahnungsloser Lieferantenjunge soll von der Dame des Hauses verführt und in der verfänglichen Situation dann von ihrem Mann Paul überrascht werden. Was als Witz gedacht war, soll sich z...

This collection approaches the deconstruction of American ¿childhood¿ from a wide variety of critical, interdisciplinary lenses and gestures toward the construction of a more realistic, twenty-first century definition of ¿childhood¿¿one which is defined by the real-life struggles of childhood and not by romanticized notions of ¿innocence.¿

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The first major biography in more than two decades of one of motion pictures' greatest comedians and filmmakers, by acclaimed film historian and biographer of W. C. Fields, Preston Sturges, James Whale, and Spencer Tracy.It was James Agee who christened Buster Keaton "The Great Stone Face." Keaton's face, Agee wrote, "ranked almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was also irred...

There are those among us who are awakening to a world of reflection, where science and faith are meeting in the dynamic fabric of what is felt or experienced on a vibrational level of awareness. Everything from the colors we are attracted to, the texture of the clothes we wear, how we are touched, foods we eat, and conversations we have is a part of a purposeful design in resolve. Each of us has chosen to incarnate to fulfill 'energetic contra...

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James Spader und Rob Lowe in einem packenden Thriller von Regie-Ass und Oscarpreisträger Curtis Hanson (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL)

Love on Fire is a collection of poetry about love, ranging from sexy and sensual to funny and whimsical, and everything in between. Perhaps readers will even see a bit of their own love lives reflected within.About the AuthorJames Curtis is the first in his family to author a book. He served 26 years in the United States Army, traveling extensively within the United States and abroad. He is currently retired and makes his home in Virginia.

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A biography of the 1930s film director, James Whale, best known for "Frankenstein" and subsequent horror classics, whose success was short-lived. His career faltered and, being openly homosexual, he found work increasingly hard to get. He eventually committed suicide.

Back in the 1960's, the private investigators were able to disprove fraudulente injury claims by gaining the confidence of claimants and having them perform activities that they had the doctors, attorneys, insurance adjusters and courts convinced could not be performed. The millions of dollars saved by the insurance companies using the 'Rope Job' came to a sudden halt in 1970 due to claimants attorneys filing law suits against the insurance co...

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