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This book traces George Clooney's career from hit television medical drama ER to Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Ocean's Eleven (2001) and beyond. Paul McDonald argues that although Clooney's star persona has many similarities with that of Classical Hollywood movie stars such as Cary Grant, the actor, producer and activist is also a very 21st century transmedia celebrity.

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Toni Morrison's ground-breaking novel, 'Beloved', is one of the most successful novels of all time, selling millions of copies internationally and inspiring critical commentary from scholars of the highest distinction. Its influence is such that it is studied by students of literature around the world and is often cited as one of the most significant books of modern times. However, its popularity belies its difficulty: many find the novel hard...

As we walked up to the waterfall, the land was brown and dusty. When we arrived at the falls, everywhere the water touched was green and growing. In the same way, everywhere Jesus reaches, we see growth in dry situations. I hope that everywhere we went, we left behind life. During our clinics, I prayed to see with the eyes of Jesus and be his hands and feet to a desperate world. Well, that desperate world doesn't change when we leave Uganda. E...

As we walked up to the waterfall, the land was brown and dusty. When we arrived at the falls, everywhere the water touched was green and growing. In the same way, everywhere Jesus reaches, we see growth in dry situations. I hope that everywhere we went, we left behind life. During our clinics, I prayed to see with the eyes of Jesus and be his hands and feet to a desperate world. Well, that desperate world doesn't change when we leave Uganda. E...

When the videocassette recorder was launched on the consumer market in the mid-1970s, it transformed home entertainment. Bringing together complementary but also competing interests from the consumer electronics industry and the film, television and other copyright industries, video created a new sector of media business. Two decades later, DVD reinvented video media for the digital age. DVD provided consumers with an innovative form of entert...

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Version 4.0 of the SPIKEware Rapid Decision Support SAS Macro package! Over 250 time-tested SAS macros to make your everyday SAS Programming steps much easier! This technical User's Guide will help you maximize your SAS Software experience.

This Training Guide is a truly informative and unique book, full of reliable and tested information - written for the admirers of this wonderful breed. It is an easy-to-read, and in-depth text which you will thoroughly enjoy, and it contains a wealth of interesting facts and reliable information. Contributed to by a series of specialist Belgian Sheepdog trainers, this is a must have addition to your collection.

A truly informative Guide for your Belgian Tervuren Shepherd" You will greatly benefit from this easy-to-read Guide Book which will help you along with your lovely Belgian Tervuren Shepherd. It contains a wealth of helpful and reliable information, along with detailed advice for current or soon-to-be owners.

Comic novelist and critic Paul McDonald explores the philosophy of humour in a book that will appeal to philosophers and creative writers alike. One aim of this book is to assess theories of humour and laughter. It concentrates mainly on philosophical approaches to humour- including those of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Descartes, Hobbes, Bergson, Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Freud and Bakhtin, but also explores such fields as cultural studie...

Through a deft integration of star and film industry studies, Hollywood Stardom reveals the inextricable bonds between culture and commerce in contemporary notions of film stardom.

This is a brutally honest, no-holds-barred memoir of a cop's time on the street. it is a "scorching, devastating book" (Lawrence Block). Told in short story format, it chronicles a young man's journey from idealistic rookie to scarred, cynical veteran.

Teenage Trebbo is chased around town after a bad skunk deal made with Black Country gangsta, Blubber-T. Meanwhile, his health visitor mum, Hazel, struggles to keep the family together. Tired of mopping up after her husband's absurd mishaps, it's no wonder she seeks comfort in her own obsessions.

Despite the insatiable public appetite for all things Star Wars, the more analytical side of the saga is all too often ignored. This book offers a new way of seeing George Lucas' space opera--particularly the prequel trilogy, a series never given a fair chance because of constant comparisons to the iconic originals. In the classic style of Joseph Campbell, the trilogy is viewed through the lens of myth and metaphor, revealing a body of work no...

It seems unlikely that a place as far off the beaten track as Aiken, South Carolina, would become the preferred wintering location for the denizens of New York society. But from the late 1800s, the most recognized names in America--the Vanderbilts, the Whitneys, and even the Roosevelts--began coming to this charming Southern city to escape the cold, relax among the oaks, and play. And play they did, establishing Aiken as an international polo ...

Paul McDonald's book is the second in the Humanities Ebooks Contemporary American Literature Series, edited by Christopher Gair and Aliki Varvogli. Given that postmodernism has been associated with doubt, chaos, relativism and the disappearance of reality, it may appear difficult to reconcile with American optimism. Laughing at the Darkness demonstrates that this is not always the case. In examining the work of, among others, Sherman Alexie, W...

Comic novelist and critic, Paul McDonald, provides an accessible, revealing guide to Joseph Heller's seminal anti-war novel, Catch-22. McDonald succinctly contextualises the book both in relation to the author's life, and key developments in modern American literature. The book offers a thorough summary and analysis of the plot, addresses important characters such as Colonel Cathcart, Milo Minderbinder, Major Major, and Doc Daneeka, and explai...