“‘Til It Happens to You” is a piano ballad featured prominently in the documentary film The Hunting Ground, which addresses the sensitive and timely topic of sexual assault on college campuses. Performed by Lady Gaga and penned by songwriting legend Diane Warren, the tune hangs on an emotive arrangement appropriate to the song’s heavy subject…
Read more“‘Til It Happens to You” is a piano ballad featured prominently in the documentary film The Hunting Ground, which addresses the sensitive and timely topic of sexual assault on college campuses. Performed by Lady Gaga and penned by songwriting legend Diane Warren, the tune hangs on an emotive arrangement appropriate to the song’s heavy subject…
Read moreA political scientist, scholar and the best-selling author of Stalking the Elephant: My Discover of America describes the War of 1812 and discusses the strange alliance of a Shawnee chieftain and an English Major-General. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“ErcIeR43bhYC”, 500,400);
Read moreA political scientist, scholar and the best-selling author of Stalking the Elephant: My Discover of America describes the War of 1812 and discusses the strange alliance of a Shawnee chieftain and an English Major-General. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“ErcIeR43bhYC”, 500,400);
Read moreEsteemed scholar and theater aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. Ten Thousand Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls one memorable production for each year from 1960 to 2010. These are not conventional reviews, but essays using…
Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation’s capital. On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its…
Read moreThis book offers a timely examination of the relationship between Shakespeare and contemporary digital media. By focusing upon a variety of ‘Shakespearean’ individuals, groups and communities and their ‘online’ presence, the book explores the role of popular internet culture in the ongoing adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays and his general cultural standing. The description of certain…
Read moreSet in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The “haunting…tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey” (The New York Times), Lisey’s Story is a literary masterpiece—an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath. Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound…
Read moreWho is Jot Soora? Devoted fiance of movie star Monima Das, gifted programmer at software giant MysoreTech, or deadly Assassin with a secret? When Jot stumbles into a layer of code deep in his company’s new device, the discovery threatens his relationship, his job, and his life. It also reveals shocking links to an ancestral…
Read more“You were supposed to observe Goldfinger, not borrow his girlfriend.” — From the film Goldfinger Provides information about the making of the movie and its aim at the American market. Looks at the influence of Bond in general, and Goldfinger in particular, on Hollywood action thriller blockbuster movies Examines the secret behind Bond’s continued movie…
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