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"Sam Goldwyn's career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he produced an enormous number of films--including such classics as Wuthering Heights, S…
Orson Welles remains one of the most discussed figures in cinematic history. In the centenary year of Welles's birth, James Naremore presents a revised third edition of this incomparable study, including a new section on the unfinished film The Other Side of the Wind. Naremore a…
The international creation of typefaces after 1950 was decisively influenced by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. His Univers typeface and the machine-readable font OCR-B, which was adopted as an ISO standard, are milestones, as is his type for the Paris airports, which s…
Describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil that eventually led to the development of spread-spectrum radio, cell phones, and GPS systems.
Alexander Hamilton rose from humble beginnings to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation. This book is the first detailed narrative study of his role in foreign policy to appear in more than thirty years. It focuses on Hamilton'…
"This is the first book-length study of African American Renaissance man Paul Robeson (1898-1976). Singer, actor, author, lawyer, athlete, pacifist and civil rights activist, Robeson was also the first African American to receive top billing in motion pictures. Two appendices co…
Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe
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Bogen er en samling af personlige historier og oplevelser fortalt af mænd og kvinder fra det amerikanske forsvar, der har forrettet tjeneste i enten Irak eller Afghanistan. Soldaterne fortæller blandt andet om de følelser, der gik igennem dem, før, under og efter kamphandlinger,…
Le Corbusier and the tragic view of architeture
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Indlæg fra et symposium afholdt i 1992.