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This is the basic reference guide to the international cinema. Put it next to your TV and VCR and you'll be able to answer the questions that inevitably arise when you watch a movie: "What other films has she been in?"; "Haven't I heard that director's name before?"; and "What in tarnation is a gaffer?" The Film Encyclopedia contains biographies and filmographies of actors, directors, producers, and cinematographers, as well as screenwriters, editors, musical directors, production designers, and critics. You can look up films by nationality and find a history of a given country's contribution to the art. Technical data is also indexed, so you can read not only about film stock and the apparatus of the camera, but also about the duties of the gaffer, the key grip, and the best boy. The book's introduction states that Ephraim Katz, who died in 1992, set out to write "the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia of world cinema ever published in the English language." The Film Encyclopedia contains more information than any other single-volume film reference and is also the best written movie guide of its kind. Because most of the entries were written by Katz himself, reading this book is like talking to a witty and learned film historian who has devoted his life to understanding--and loving--the cinema.
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A completely revised and udpated edition of the classic film reference which has sold nearly 150,000 copies in its previous editions.
Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive one–volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed Bible of the movie industry. With up–to–date additions, this fifth edition features more than 7,000 A–Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including:
– Directors, producers, stars, screenwriters, and cinematographers
– Styles, genres, and schools of filmmaking
– Motion picture studios and film centers
– Film–related organizations and events
– Industry jargon and technical terms
– Inventions, inventors, and equipment
– Plus, an index of Academy Award winning films and artists, top grossing films, and much more.
Customer Reviews:
The International Film encyclopedia.......2007-05-14
This 5th edition is like all the ones before a very complete source of information on stars in the movie industie, but also about many others in de film industry.
The best
CINEMA ENCYCLOPEDIA.......2007-05-06
This encyclopedia is a MUST HAVE for those who enjoy films at home or at the theatre.
Hard to beat.......2006-11-28
Without a doubt this is still the best all-around film encyclopedia available to the general public. Actors and actresses, directors, producers, photographers, costume designers, composers, and screenwriters are all included, from the silent era to the present. Each person gets a short biographical entry with a fairly complete listing of all movies they were involved with (these listings can be quite extensive). Movie associations and film terminology are also listed and explained. Individual movies are not listed as separate entries, however. My only quibble with this 5th edition is with the statement on the editor's note page that claims "we continue to keep our word and do not eliminate any of the more than 8,000 entries" - which I assume means from previous editions. Yet in comparing it with the first edition (1979) in just the first 20 pages (out of over 1500) I count a half-dozen or so names that are missing that were included in the first. Perhaps these names were taken out in the 2nd or 3rd editions, but that still makes the claim hard to justify. But this is a minor complaint; this volume should be on every movie lover's shelf.
The Film Encyclopedia 5e....by Ephraim Katz.......2006-11-10
I updated from an earlier edition on this book. I consider this to be an esssential for the movie lover. Not a book with movie reviews, but a (large) volumn of info of all types. Bio's of the stars & performers list all of their films. Many articles on techniques, etc make this a 1 volumn source of info on just about anything movie wise.
My Finger-tip Reference Guide.......2006-11-04
This is the 3rd edition I have purchased, since the info continually changes. It's the most comprehensive guide to information about the movie industry and I will continue to buy each new edition. I highly recommend it to any one who enjoys movie history and trivia.
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- A valuable guide to a wealth of literature
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The Divine Library: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the Sacred Texts and Spiritual Literature of the World
Rufus C. Camphausen
Manufacturer: Inner Traditions
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ASIN: 0892813512
Release Date: 1992-06-01 |
Book Description
This directory to the primary religious literature of past and present cultures includes references to available editions, translations, and commentaries.
Customer Reviews:
A valuable guide to a wealth of literature.......2000-10-20
Whether you are a spiritual seeker or a lover of great literature--or both--you will find Camphausen's "Divine Library" to be an essential guide. An amazingly concise and informative "mini-encyclopedia," the book contains chronologically-ordered entries on major works of sacred literature.
This is truly a multifaith and multicultural guide, spanning the globe and the millennia. The Qur'an, the Pop Wuj (or Popol Vuh) of the Quiche Mayas, the Kojiki of Japan, the New Testament, the Dhammapada, the Zohar--all these and more are in here. Camphausen also includes texts--such as the Iliad or the Kalevala of Finland--which, despite their theological and supernatural content, are not always recognized as sacred literature. He treats each text respectfully and accurately, and frequently provides useful bibliographic references.
The book's many reproductions of sacred art make it a rich visual feast. Also noteworthy are the reproductions of pages from the actual works being described; Camphausen shows us the cuneiform of the Gilgamesh epic, the Egyptian hieroglyphics of the Pyramid Texts, and a wealth of other writing systems.
At just over 200 pages, this is far from a complete guide. Where, for example, is Mary Baker Eddy's "Science and Health"? The Urantia Book? The Principia Discordia? I'm sure other readers could cite additional oversights; perhaps these could be corrected in a future edition.
Despite these oversights, "The Divine Library" is an outstanding reference work. It is a book that I turn to frequently, and I highly recommend it.
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On-the-go Instrction Because your time is valuable... All Audio All on the go! Beginning level instruction is presented in an all-audio format on 4 digitally-recorded CDs. You have the opportunity to learn on the go, taking advantage of time normally wasted. Study in your car, while exercising, doing yard work anywhere you can safely listen to a CD player. No accompanying books are needed to help you complete the lesson activities. Why can t learning be fun? It can! Linguaphone has chosen to present the allTalk series in an entertaining, soap-opera format. No dry old teacher with a monotone voice putting you to sleep, you follow the adventures of a visitor to a Spanish-speaking country as she interacts with individuals in a variety of interesting situations, learning the language and beginning to understand the culture. Actually learn the language Tired of spending money on language courses that don t work? Did you ever think the problem could be with the course and not you? With Linguaphone s unique learning sequence: Listen, Understand, Speak, you will find yourself actually using the language in no time at all! You are presented with a unit of the language, it is then broken down and explained to you, then you put it back together with greater understanding than just repeating what you may not have understood in the first place. . . . and learn it well! The all Talk methodology not only teaches well, but will have you speaking and understanding basic spoken Spanish in no time at all. Other popular all-audio courses require four times the cds, four times the money and four times the time to do what Linguaphone s allTalk Basic does with 4-one hour CDs.
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Since 9/11, the rush to learn about Islam has been a common goal for a broad spectrum of Americans - from politicians, to clergy, to soccer moms. Indeed, a lack of knowledge of this religion has publishers scrambling for titles. Mohammed's Monsters represents that rare project - scholarly in tone, yet highly readable - that sets it apart. Essays from leading experts, including David Bukay and Louis Rene Beres, outline the broad dimensions of Islam, while filling in important details. Careful to distinguish between moderate Moslems and radicals who have adopted monstrous methods of dealing with the West, this is a work of utmost importance.
Customer Reviews:
Very comprehensive.......2005-08-27
Despite the shocking and controversial title this book is a very intelligent collection of scholarly work on the subject of radical Islam, radical Islamic treatment of minorities in the Middle east, the challenge of Radical Islam in Europe and the question of what to do about it. Patrick Sookhdeo writes a sobering account of genocide in the Sudan. Raphael Israeli covers the `re-islamization' of the Balkans and examines the role of Jihadis and imported Arabs in the Kosovo war and the Bosnian war. K.P.S. Gill and Ajai Shni look at islams role in south east Asia, particularly the Islamist terror in Thailand and Indonesia, and perhaps leading the reader to look deeper at Islamic terror in China and the Phillipines. Joseph Farah and Shaul Shay take a deeper look into the maturization of the new radical Islam in the Afghan war, and Algeria and Lebanon and how they single handedly declared war on the rest of the world. Also noted here is how in the west Islamists and their apologists `play the press'. A third section covers `unconventional weapons' but unfortunately doesn't cover the unconventional means, whereby terrorism has learned to defeat armies since democracies and western nations with western concepts of Human rights cannot confront radical Islam on the battlefield fairly. Islamists use and exploit the west's laws in order to defeat the west and murder `infidels'. David Bukay does an excellent job of summing up the book which he edited. This is a new edition to book examining the role of Islamism and its mutli-faceted approach is helpful because it gives the reader a variety of perspectives. The book is both scholaraly and intelligent and easy to grasp for the general audience. The inflammatory title may distract some from this book, but this is a very down to earth well reasoned address of many islamist issues and islamist causes many of which, like South east asia, go unnoticed.
Seth J. frantzman
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This up-to-date and comprehensive electronic book on DVD-ROM presents an enormous library of documents and publications covering every aspect of volcanoes and related subjects, with coverage of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) material, along with volcano disaster and survivor material from FEMA. The United States is third in the world, after Japan and Indonesia, for the number of active volcanoes. Since 1980, as many as five volcanoes have erupted each year in the United States. Eruptions are most likely to occur in Hawaii and Alaska. For the Cascade Range in Washington, Oregon, and California, volcanoes erupt on the average of one to two each century. Volcanoes produce a wide variety of hazards that can kill people and destroy property. Large explosive eruptions can endanger people and property hundreds of miles away and even affect global climate. A volcano is a vent through which molten rock escapes to the earth's surface. Unlike other mountains, which are pushed up from below, volcanoes are built by surface accumulation of their eruptive products - layers of lava, ashflows, and ash. When pressure from gases within the molten rock becomes too great, an eruption occurs. Volcanic hazards include gases, lava and pyroclastic flows, landslides, earthquakes, and explosive eruptions. Eruptions can be relatively quiet, producing lava flows that creep across the land at 2 to 10 miles per hour. Explosive eruptions can shoot columns of gases and rock fragments tens of miles into the atmosphere, spreading ash hundreds of miles downwind.
Volcanoes usually give warning that they will erupt. USGS scientists have developed a forecasting system to alert public officials and the general public to the fact that a volcano may erupt. Most eruptions at Hawaiian volcanoes are not explosive and are characterized by the relatively quiet outflow of very fluid lava. These eruptions can still be deadly, because the lava may be erupted in huge volumes, and on steeper slopes, fluid lava can rapidly travel many miles from its source. The island of Hawaii (the largest of the Hawaiian islands) experiences thousands of earthquakes associated with active volcanoes each year. Most of these are too small to feel, but about once a decade, a large quake shakes the entire island and causes widespread damage. Before and during an eruption, many small earthquakes occur as molten rock forces its way through the upper parts of a volcano's interior. Such quakes often provide early warnings of changes in eruptive activity. In the past few thousand years, the volcanoes of the Cascade Range, which stretches from northern California into British Columbia, have produced more than 100 eruptions, most of them explosive. However, individual Cascades volcanoes can lie dormant for many centuries between eruptions, and the great risk posed by volcanic activity in the region is therefore not always apparent. When Cascades volcanoes do erupt, high-speed avalanches of hot ash and rock (pyroclastic flows), lava flows, and landslides can devastate areas 10 or more miles away, and huge mudflows of volcanic ash and debris (lahars) can inundate valleys more than 50 miles downstream.
This incredible DVD-ROM is packed with over 82,000 pages, much of it reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The disc contains nearly 4 gigabytes of material in over 21,000 files!
Contents include thousands of spectacular photographs, information on hazards and hazard reports, monitoring data, news, research projects, and very extensive individual coverage of volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Yellowstone, Alaska, and Hawaii.
Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat form
Average customer rating:
- Flawed, Dull, Superficial, Indispensable
- Looks more like a tourist guide.
- Excellent Companion to Little Known world wars
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World Conflicts: A Comprehensive Guide to World Strife Since 1945
Patrick Brogan
Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0810835517 |
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Reviews of the previous edition: Excellently informative...lucid and convincing. This is a well-constructed and thoroughly useful book. --THE INDEPENDENT (UK) The origins of each individual war are carefully analysed, and its course equally carefully chronicled.--TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT (UK)
Customer Reviews:
Flawed, Dull, Superficial, Indispensable.......2000-03-24
Although flawed, WC is informative, almost comprehensive, and quite handy--it's a 682pp paperback you can read at the pool, but don't expect to make friends; the cover looks downright anti-social. His analyses are rather slanted in the expected, standard Anglo-English mode, i.e., he spends 20pp. on Northern Ireland (cf., only 8pp on all of Korea, and 13pp on China). And although he does bash America where it needs obvious bashing (eg., United Fruit, the CIA, etc.) his unabashedly liberal stance forces his hand into rather superficial, yet standard, conclusions concerning the nature of nation building, modernization, and repressive and totalitarian regimes. While endorsing the democracy/free-market system is hardly a bad thing, it does seem small minded to think of it as a panacea. There are functional reasons for countries to 'choose' other systems, especially when confronted with internal chaos and external threats (eg., Islamic Fundamentalism, extreme nationalism, Communism, Fascism, centralized economic systems, and totalitarianism may not be stupid mistakes made by crazy and evil men, but unpleasant yet necessary means to an end). But all books have their bias, and PB's is probably the most palatable to the most people. Also, this book is basically a micro-encyclopedia. It is not a profound treatise on the clash of peoples with historical necessity, whatever that may be. In fact, it's not profound at all, but it is informative. The prose is text-bookish, and he has a thing for using the same 1-2 cliches throughout the book (one of which is, 'to the tune of', as in,'to the tune of 2 billion dollars'.) But this is beyond nit-picking. A more important flaw is the sporadic lack of explanation. Granted, he can't write everything, but it gets increasingly frustrating to read a series of 'whats' without any 'whys'. Eg., PB writes, correctly, that Thailand backed the Khmer Rouge and that Israel backed Somoza, but no reasons are given. This turns what should be interesting history into a confused and very boring shopping list of disjointed facts, free from both causation and meaning.
Admittedly, this is somewhat unfair. The book is over 600pp as it is, and one can't accuse PB for being prolix. If he included penetrating insights at every needed point, the book would be in volumes.
As the reviewer from Mexico discovered, the book is not perfect. If you know a lot about a particular area, PB's thumbnail sketch may upset you. But again, this is unfair. The world is a big place, if PB were to make all distinctions and treat all conflicts to, let's say, 25pp, then the book would be roughly 1500pp long. Also, one of the beauties of the book is its inclusion of conflicts (and even countries) which most people don't know about or remember. WC provides the starting point for deeper analysis. (You can't look it up on the web or in the library if you don't know that it exists.) In sum: it's a great learning tool. It may not be as good as I had hoped, but it's well used, I have no regrets. At best and worst, WC will show even the most informed how little they know about many contemporary conflicts. Even if one doesn't learn much from WC--all this fact stuff doesn't 'stick' well--exposure to one's ignorance is very enlightening. And if the book creates more questions than it answers, all the better. Until something better comes along, WC is indispensible, and there is little point in waiting for that to happen.
Looks more like a tourist guide........1999-07-23
Brogan's title is a very ambitious one for a book in which he fails to separate the Colombian case (decades of violent guerrilla and terrorism) from the drug wars,who fails to note that there are five and not four Central Asia former USSR replublics, who includes Mexico (situated in North America, a geographic area regardless of economic and cultural differences) in a broad and superfluous Central America chapter. The book can not be rated above a conventional tourist guide where you get a brief summary of the conutry's history and current situation. Waste of paper.
Excellent Companion to Little Known world wars.......1999-06-10
This is a truly excellent book. I picked it up in England, started reading it on the plane back to the States, and couldn't put it down. The author manages to describe almost every important armed conflict since the end of World War II in breathtaking clarity. Through this book I found about wars that I never knew existed. As a bonus, the author also throws in a chapter about all of the different terrorist groups-fascinating reading.
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- The Ghost Map
- The Goal
- The God Delusion
- The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot
- The Human Record: Sources of Global History Volume II: Since 1500
- The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World
- The Knight at Dawn (Magic Tree House, No. 2) (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
- The Plot Against America
- The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Islam (and the Crusades) (Politically Incorrect Guides)
- The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma
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American Film Institute Desk Reference: The Complete Guide to Everything You Need to Know about the Movies
Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2007 (Plume Paperback)
The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, Updated & Revised (Film Critics of the New York Times)
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