Michael Powell

The bad boys of history and their twisted achievements, recounted, with tongue-in-cheek attitude, in gory detail.

The Twisted Achievements of the Most Brutal and Sadistic Individuals the World Has Ever Known

101 People You Won't Meet in Heaven

The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations. Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for winters where dark and cold descend fast and there is little else to do but roam mesa tops, work, and wonder what the future holds. The town has 4,500 residents and the high school arena seats 7,000. Fans drive thirty, fifty, even eighty miles to see the fast-paced and highly competitive matchups that are more than just games to players and fans. Celebrated Times journalist Michael Powell brings us a narrative of triumph and hardship, a moving story about a basketball team on a Navajo reservation that shows how important sports can be to youths in struggling communities, and the transcendent magic and painful realities that confront Native Americans living on reservations. This book details his season-long immersion in the team, town, and culture, in which there were exhilarating wins, crushing losses, and conversations on long bus rides across the desert about dreams of leaving home and the fear of the same.

A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation

Canyon Dreams

The Acting Bible: The Complete Resource for Aspiring Actors

Film of the ballet based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of a young girl who cannot stop thinking about her red dancing shoes. In this modern version, Vicky Page finds herself caught between simple human passion and artistic devotion to the ballet.

The Red Shoes

A Thousand Paths to Patience (Thousand Paths to)

101 Diseases You Don't Want to Get

Matt Forbeck

Con your way into a scholarship. Sleep with your professors. Crash a closed course. Sell your organs for beer money. Get textbooks for free. And more... This book has schooled its readers before...but not like this. This guide is a full-scale assault on the ivory towers of academia, teaching students the ins and outs of college life--from how to handle obnoxious roommates (retaliation) to how to make it onto the dean's list (cheat). With 101 entries providing a crash course in college survival, this next Forbidden Knowledge installment is perfect for senior and freshman fans alike who aren't afraid of double-secret probation.

101 Things NOT Every Student Should Know How to Do

Forbidden Knowledge - College

Could you use a little more danger in your life? A little more edge? A little more fun? With this book, you get it all. From crashing a wedding to starting a riot, stealing a car to making moonshine, there's nothing you can't learn how to do -- even if you shouldn't.

101 Things NOT Everyone Should Know How to Do

Forbidden Knowledge

English is full of beauty and surprises, yet despite being the lingua franca of the globalization world, it has a reputation for being difficult to learn because its grammar has also so many quirks and contradictions. Did you know: - "Terry loves yogurt" is an example of illeism - preposition stranding is a bogus rule - sometimes it's acceptable to begin a sentence with "but" or "and" - "Could you pass the salt?" is "whimperative" - it's OK to boldly split infinitives Many of us don't even know the basics, so not only does Grammar Geek reveal obscure grammar rules and bogus ones you can safely ignore, it's also a handy primer, so in the future you'll have no excuse for dangling a modifier or misplacing a semicolon.

Grammar Geek

Shouldn't life come with an instruction manual? Now it does. Here's a how-to guide to 101 things that everyone should know--but many of us don't! The tips range from the domestic, such as how to unclog a backed-up sink and chop an onion without tears, to the outdoorsy, such as how to pitch a tent and build a blazing campfire. Readers will learn how to get a barber-quality shave at home, avoid or treat a hangover, iron and fold clothes properly, give a memorable toast, and avoid jet lag. And it's all written in a straightforward style that backs solid information with illustrations and diagrams that can help anyone grasp the concepts easily.--Publisher.

101 Things You Should Know how to Do

Smith Magic Collection (Brown University)

The Daisy Bank Printing and Publishing Company of Manchester

Do the Dead Talk?

Over 50 different games and hundreds of questions are included in this kit. How to make your own wheel of fortune, how to be the perfect quiz-master (the nicest or the nastiest), crazy ideas for stunts and even how to video your own TV game show. The kit includes full-colour stickers, prize vouchers and game show money to cut out and award the lucky winners.

Create Your Own Game Show

Mind Games

This collection of interviews reveals the mind and the tactics of a master filmmaker who is woefully under-known, even as his films are widely celebrated throughout the world

Interviews

Mehmet Turgut

Ashok Kumar Mahapatra

Natarajan Muthukumar

Pituitary apoplexy is a rare and life-threatening complication that occurs in 0.6–10.5% of all patients with pituitary adenomas. Unfortunately, pituitary apoplexy is often misdiagnosed before surgery. Furthermore, in spite of all the advances in imaging techniques and therapeutic methods, its optimal management is still controversial owing to the limited individual experience and the very variable clinical course of the condition. This book provides an in-depth review of knowledge of the management of pituitary apoplexy, with an emphasis on clinical and neuroradiological findings and treatment modalities, medical and surgical. In addition, it supplies clinicians and investigators with detailed information on current evidence and considers future areas of investigation and innovative therapeutic philosophies. Both the editors and the authors are leading international authorities in the field.

Pituitary Apoplexy

How to break out of prison. Light a fart on fire. Become a fake medium. Streak at a sporting event. Start a riot. Live in an airport. Perform an exorcism. Walk on hot coals. Be excused from jury duty. Become a mafia boss. And many more.

101 Things Not Everyone Should Know How to Do

Create twenty unique and whimsical Christmas cross-stitch designs with this latest addition to the Twenty to Make series. Emulate Michael Powells distinctive cross-stitch style to make Christmas cards or samplers as special gifts for friends and family. Designs range from festive candle arrangements to vintage winter street scenes, and each design is accompanied by an easy-to-follow stitching guide.

Twenty to Make: Christmas Cross Stitch

"Much, much more than the reminiscences of a film director. It's a rich, beautifully detailed history of a time, a place, and a world gone by--the British film industry from the 1920s through the late 1940s, in which every remembrance . . . is filtered through [Powell's] poetic genius . . . as absorbing as any novel".--Martin Scorsese. 30 photos.

An Autobiography

A Life in Movies

The late director offers a behind-the-scenes look at the film industry, detailing clashes with studio bosses and critics, the destruction of his career, and the greats with whom he worked

Million Dollar Movie

Ian Christie

Emeric Pressburger

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp traces, in flashback, the intertwined lives of a dashing young officer and his German Counterpart from their first encounter, fighting a duel in Berlin in 1902, to a double defeat - the gallant British officer becomes a crusty old Blimp, and his gallant German counterpart arrives in England as a pathetic refugee from Nazi Germany. The plot is juxtaposed to that of the British officer's thrice lost love - which introduces a disturbing undercurrent of romantic pessimism into what might otherwise seem a nostalgic chronicle. This volume also contains documentary material relevant to Powell and Pressburger's struggle to get the film made in war-torn Britain.

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