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1) Citizen Kane
Pub. Date
[1941]
Language
English
Description
Feature film: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Documentary: Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
LEARNING is a repetitive process. We repeat what we are doing until it goes from a strained, awkward action to a smooth flowing one. Seldom does someone get an action right the very first time. Don't despair. For that reason, I have also repeatedly stressed issues of importance. The more you hear something, the more you do it, the more natural it will become. Imagination, like our other muscles, must be exercised, stretched, and stimulated in all...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas... wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. In...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
06/02/2015.
Language
English
Description
Professional and aspiring writers, including those who wish to self-publish, will find indispensable tools in this practical, complete, and time-saving popular resource. Business and Legal Forms for Authors and Self-Publishers contains all of the essential forms for success, including assignment confirmations, contracts between author and agent, publisher, collaborator, designer, printer, sales representative, book distributor, and more, copyright...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams’s quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor, William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and anguish eventually found an admiring audience in America and especially in Europe. The New York Times called Stoner “a perfect novel,” and a host of writers
...Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
All writers yearn for success and recognition. And now we are entering a golden era in which self-publishers are in the driver's seat. In The Author's Toolkit, aspiring authors, students, and even established writers will find the resources they need to achieve their goals and avoid common writer pitfalls. Updated and expanded to cover the changes in copyright fees and registration, the newest developments in electronic publishing, the growth of ebooks...
7) Fools die
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Merlyn, a famous writer, is addicted to Las Vegas Casinos and the delights of Hollywood.
9) The book bible: how to sell your manuscript - no matter what genre - without going broke or insane
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Hundreds of thousands of books come out every year worldwide. So why not yours? In The Book Bible, New York Times bestseller and wildly popular Manhattan writing professor Susan Shapiro reveals the best and fastest ways to break into a mainstream publishing house. Unlike most writing manuals that stick to only one genre, Shapiro maps out the rules of all the sought-after, sellable categories: novels, memoirs, biography, how-to, essay collections,...
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
A collection of the American Film Institutes top ten movies of all time in one convenient box for binge watching. Titles included: Schindler's List (Rated R), the Graduate (Rated PG), Lawrence of Arabia (PG), the Godfather (Rated R), On the Waterfront (Not Rated), Casablanca (Rated PG), the Wizard of Oz (Rated G), Singin' in the Rain (Rated G), Citizen Kane (Rated PG), Gone With the Wind (Rated G)
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