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  • 3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes

    by Patrick Cozzi, Kevin Ring ...
    Supported with code examples and the authors' real-world experience, this book offers the first guide to engine design and rendering algorithms for virtual globe applications like Google Earth and NASA World Wind. The content is also useful for general graphics and games, especially planet and massive-world engines. With pragmatic advice throughout ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • All Day Looking For His Hat ...

    Essays on Jack Kerouac and other Stories

    by Kevin Ring ...
    Jack Kerouac 1922-1969. On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Visions of Cody, Desolation Angels, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, Mexico City Blues, The Town and the City, Vanity of Duluoz and many more. Coming from the notebooks, the burning typewriter, the racing imagination of Jack Kerouac, who described himself as a ‘… strange, solitary, catholic mystic …’ – he was celebrated ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Legend and Tragedy

    by David Morrell ...
    Few movie stars made as great an impact as Marilyn Monroe. Although she died in 1962, a half century later she remains vivid in popular culture, even to those who have never seen her films. Two of the men she married, Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, themselves made a powerful cultural impact.In this moving essay, David Morrell analyses Monroe's poignant life, which had more significance than any ... Read more

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  • The Great Movies

    by Roger Ebert ...
    America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made.Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offered a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies collects one hundred of these essays, each one of them a gem of ... Read more

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  • Alfred Hitchcock

    A Life in Darkness and Light

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  • The Big Goodbye

    Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

    by Sam Wasson ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpieceChinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making.In Sam Wasson's telling, ... Read more

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  • Dark Victory

    The Life of Bette Davis

    by Ed Sikov ...
    The legendary Hollywood star blazes a fiery trail in this enthralling portrait of a brilliant actress and the movies her talent elevated to greatnessShe was magnificent and exasperating in equal measure. Jack Warner called her "an explosive little broad with a sharp left." Humphrey Bogart once remarked, "Unless you're very big she can knock you down." Bette Davis was a force of nature—an ... Read more

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  • 5001 Nights at the Movies

    by Pauline Kael ...
    The celebrated, multi-award-winning film critic's intelligent guide to the movies—with more than 2,800 reviews."A master of synopsis, Pauline Kael has contrived to tell us between the covers of one book what eight decades of film are about and who is in them and behind them, and to reflect, swiftly but astutely, on what they signify. No one else has done that; no one else could have done that." ... Read more

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  • Marlon Brando

    by Patricia Bosworth ...
    This biography of the legendary actor "offers a fascinating look into his charismatic genius" ( Library Journal).In 1948 Marlon Brando stunned audiences and critics alike with his revolutionary, raw, and improvisational approach to acting. He became a symbol of a new, rebellious generation that was sick of conventions and committed to genuine emotion and unvarnished truth. From his breakout role ... Read more

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  • Cary Grant

    A Celebration

    by Richard Schickel ...
    Richard Schickel's text, combining critical analysis and a re-interpretation of all the available biographical information, masterfully maps the intersections where a great star's personal history and his screen personality met in a style as elegant, graceful and witty as the actor himself. ... Read more

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  • Silent Movies

    The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture

    by Peter Kobel ...
    Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and memorabilia, Peter Kobel has created the definitive visual history of silent film. From its birth in the 1890s, with the earliest narrative shorts, through the brilliant full-length features of the 1920s, Silent Movies captures the greatest directors and actors and their ... Read more

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  • Joan Crawford

    Hollywood Martyr

    by David Bret ...
    In the first biography of Joan Crawford to give the full, uncensored story, bestselling author David Bret tells Crawford's rags to riches climb, from working in a Kansas City laundry to collecting an Oscar for her defining role in Mildred Pierce, and on to her devotion to Christian Science and reliance on vodka. He discusses the star's legendary relationship with Clark Gable, her countless love ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD