wyszukanych pozycji: 45
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Foreign Films in America: A History
ISBN: 9780786417643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Foreign films once enjoyed a position of prominence on American theater screens. By the start of World War I, however, the United States' film industry was strong enough to challenge that foreign presence and foreign films in American have been insignificant ever since. For about a century, the Hollywood cartel has dominated the production, distribution, and exhibition of movies domestically and around the world. This work traces the history of the foreign film in America from its domination in the early days to its low standing in the present, looking at the attempts made by foreign...
Foreign films once enjoyed a position of prominence on American theater screens. By the start of World War I, however, the United States' film industr...
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239,44 zł |
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Parking Cars in America, 1910-1945: A History
ISBN: 9780786470075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With its decentralized urban areas, pollution, and mostly inadequate public transit systems, today's America pays a heavy price for its auto dependency. This volume explores one of the more pressing aspects of the automobile problem--storage--from 1910 to the end of the World War II, contrasting the reality and perception of car parking as found in the pages of the popular newspapers and magazines of that period. From early bans on street parking to street widening efforts to the introduction of parking lots, garages, and parking meters, it chronicles attempts to accommodate the...
With its decentralized urban areas, pollution, and mostly inadequate public transit systems, today's America pays a heavy price for its auto dependenc...
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181,08 zł |
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Masquerading in Male Attire: Women Passing as Men in America, 1844-1920
ISBN: 9781476673615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Looks at women who passed themselves off as men for a variety of reasons. This book is about a large number of women who were engaged in individual revolt against an obscenely unfair economic system that discriminated openly and egregiously against women. For virtually all the women profiled in this book the act of passing as a man was an act of rebellion against patriarcy.
Looks at women who passed themselves off as men for a variety of reasons. This book is about a large number of women who were engaged in individual re...
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297,80 zł |
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Women and Bicycles in America, 1868-1900
ISBN: 9781476679853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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327,27 zł |
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Movies at Home: How Hollywood Came to Television
ISBN: 9780786440801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The relationship of Hollywood and television, initially turbulent, has ultimately been profitable from the first sally in what was expected to be a war of attrition, up through the soliciting of movies by major networks, independent stations, basic cable networks, premium cable channels, pay-per-view systems and even the corner video store.
The relationship of Hollywood and television, initially turbulent, has ultimately been profitable from the first sally in what was expected to be a wa...
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181,08 zł |
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Actors Organize: A History of Union Formation Efforts in America, 1880-1919
ISBN: 9780786432837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This work offers a detailed history of American actors' attempts to unionize in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Actors' unions of this period faced a staggering amount of struggles, including a heavy industry reliance on the blacklist, severe media attacks on individual actors, and the frequent formation of illegitimate company unions. This work focuses specifically on the two main unions of the time, the White Rats Actors' Union of America and the Actors' Equity Association. The author chronicles the formation of the unions along with their achievements in the following...
This work offers a detailed history of American actors' attempts to unionize in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Actors' unions of t...
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239,44 zł |
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American Television Abroad: Hollywood's Attempt to Dominate World Television
ISBN: 9780786476169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Once the major Hollywood studios got over their loathing of television as an entertainment medium, they moved quickly to dominate both domestic and international programming. In the United States, the eight major studios controlled an overwhelming majority of all programming by the early 1950s. Their efforts in foreign markets were not quite so successful, but by the 1990s U.S. distributors controlled about 75 percent of the international television trade.
Once the major Hollywood studios got over their loathing of television as an entertainment medium, they moved quickly to dominate both domestic and in...
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239,44 zł |
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Extras of Early Hollywood: A History of the Crowd, 1913-1945
ISBN: 9780786473304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pity the extras. Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--right through the dream factory's golden era. The struggles of extras to unionize were followed by internal struggles as the extras fought for a voice within that union. It is a story about too few jobs for far too many extras, some of whom were lured to Hollywood by what seemed to be rags-to-riches tales of stardom but were likely little more than industry publicity plants. Once lured to the film capital the reality was much different: low pay, little or no work, ripoffs from private...
Pity the extras. Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--right through the dream factory's golden...
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239,44 zł |
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Piracy in the Motion Picture Industry
ISBN: 9780786414734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Corings and comodules are fundamental algebraic structures, which can be thought of as both dualisations and generalisations of rings and modules. Introduced by Sweedler in 1975, only recently they have been shown to have far reaching applications ranging from the category theory including differential graded categories through classical and Hopf-type module theory to non-commutative geometry and mathematical physics. This is the first extensive treatment of the theory of corings and their comodules. In the first part, the module-theoretic aspects of coalgebras over commutative rings are...
Corings and comodules are fundamental algebraic structures, which can be thought of as both dualisations and generalisations of rings and modules. Int...
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239,44 zł |
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The Electric Car in America, 1890-1922: A Social History
ISBN: 9781476676715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader, even the dominant force, in the early American car market. They were clean, odorless, noiseless and they were mechanically simple, compared to their rivals. Yet just two decades later the electric car was dead. This book explores this early history of the electric car.
The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader, even the dominant force, in the early American car market. They were clean, odorless, noise...
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297,80 zł |
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Ticket Scalping: An American History, 1850-2005
ISBN: 9780786428052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ticket scalping is as much an American staple as apple pie. Beginning as early as the mid?1800s, scalpers, known as ?sidewalk men, ? were charging all the traffic would bear for event tickets. Although these speculators were generally viewed as pariahs, legal attempts to limit their activities were far from successful. Over the years, as moral objections to scalping dimmed, the public became more tolerant as the practice became increasingly prevalent. This volume details the ways in which scalping has changed over the years from a one-man business to an agency-controlled enterprise. The book...
Ticket scalping is as much an American staple as apple pie. Beginning as early as the mid?1800s, scalpers, known as ?sidewalk men, ? were charging all...
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239,44 zł |
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Masking America, 1918-1919: Efforts to Control the Great Influenza Pandemic
ISBN: 9781476694498 / Miękka / 2024 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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443,99 zł |
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Death in a Hansom Cab; The 1904 Persecution of Nan Patterson
ISBN: 9781777037017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,95 zł |
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Age Discrimination by Employers
ISBN: 9780786410101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This work examines age discrimination as it relates to the employment sector in the US throughout the 20th century: how the issue has been treated by the media, the extent of age bias, how older workers were viewed, the reasons and rationales used by employers and responses of governments.
This work examines age discrimination as it relates to the employment sector in the US throughout the 20th century: how the issue has been treated by ...
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239,44 zł |
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Police Violence in America, 1869-1920: 256 Incidents Involving Death or Injury
ISBN: 9781476664835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Police violence is not a new phenomenon. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, police officers in America assaulted or killed many ordinary citizens. Based on newspaper accounts from 1869 to 1920, this history provides a chronological listing of interactions between police and unarmed citizens in which the citizens - some of them minors - were assaulted or killed.
Police violence is not a new phenomenon. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, police officers in America assaulted or killed many ordinary citiz...
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181,08 zł |
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Women Serial and Mass Murderers: Profiles of 85 Killers Worldwide, 1580-1990
ISBN: 9780786476176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is at 31.4 years that the average woman multiple murderer kills the first of her 17 victims, whom she usually knows or is related to. The preferred method is poison, usually arsenic. She is more likely to prey on the vulnerable--the very young or the very old--than her mail counterpart. Her killing spree lasts five years; when caught, she shows little remorse.
It is at 31.4 years that the average woman multiple murderer kills the first of her 17 victims, whom she usually knows or is related to. The preferred...
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152,20 zł |
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Parricide in the United States, 1840-1899
ISBN: 9780786445233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The case of Lizzy Borden stands out in the history of sensational criminal cases, but she was not the only person to be accused of killing her parents. This book examines 103 selected cases of individuals charged with parricide - the murder of a father or mother - in the United States.
The case of Lizzy Borden stands out in the history of sensational criminal cases, but she was not the only person to be accused of killing her parents...
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122,96 zł |
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Women and Capital Punishment in America, 1840-1899: Death Sentences and Executions in the United States and Canada
ISBN: 9780786438235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book profiles the lives and cases of selected women sentenced to capital punishment in America between 1840 and 1899, most of whom were executed by hanging. The book is divided into chapters by decades, chronologically following the long and heated debate regarding women and capital punishment.
This book profiles the lives and cases of selected women sentenced to capital punishment in America between 1840 and 1899, most of whom were executed ...
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239,44 zł |
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Endorsements in Advertising: A Social History
ISBN: 9780786420438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The use of endorsements and testimonials to sell anything imaginable is a modern development, though the technique is centuries old. Before World War I, endorsement ads were tied to patent medicine, and were left with a bad reputation when that industry was exposed as quackery. The reputation was well earned: claims of a product's curative powers sometimes ran opposite the endorser's obituary, and Lillian Russell once testified that a certain compound had made her ?feel like a new man.? Distrusted by the public, banished from mainstream publications, endorsements languished until around 1920,...
The use of endorsements and testimonials to sell anything imaginable is a modern development, though the technique is centuries old. Before World War ...
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239,44 zł |
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The National Security League, 1914-1922: Wall Street and the War Machine
ISBN: 9781476682860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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327,27 zł |