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Product Description: A critic and a screenwriter, Paul Schrader is also responsible for directing films such as "American Gigolo" and "Cat People". This book charts in his own words Schrader's journey from critic to screenwriter to director and includes a selection of his most influential critical essays...read more

Directions for the signs for twenty-five words used by various Native Americans accompanies information about the customs, daily life, religious beliefs, and history of these peoples

Presents a biography of the forty-second president, who survived a difficult childhood with an abusive stepfather to become the youngest governor of Arkansas and serve two terms as American president

Presents a biography of the forty-second president, who survived a difficult childhood with an abusive stepfather to become the youngest governor of Arkansas and serve two terms as American president

'Are things ugly or are they just not beautiful? The answer to this and many other questions can be found in this encyclopedia, the first large-scale comprehensive English-language reference on aesthetics and destined to be a classic in the field. Drawing from experts in the areas of philosophy, art, history, psychology, feminist theory, legal theory, and many more, the encyclopedia presents 600 signed essays alphabetically arranged. Most entries include a headnote clarifying the topic. Entries rangefrom the philosophical essay on ugliness, to the more reality-based article on the impact of AIDS on the arts. Comprehensive coverage includes key figures, concepts, periods, theories, and movements in the history of aesthetics.'--'Outstanding ReferenceSources: the 1999 Selection of New Titles', American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.

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In a series of personal anecdotes and incisive profiles, a journalist chronicles the desperate, ultimately successful struggle of a small, self-created army of Bosnian Muslims from the Bihac region of Bosnia, who, for three years, held off an offensive led by the Serb-run Yugoslavian National Army. 20,000 first printing.

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Product Description: Following the success of the hardback edition, 'French Culture and Society' is now available in paperback. It offers an introduction to French culture and society and a route-map to further study. Designed specifically with undergraduates in mind, it contains around 450 short and accessible explanations of the key words, events, figures and concepts in France since 1918...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)