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Endurance

An Epic of Polar Adventure

by Frank Arthur Worsley ...

The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance.You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." ... Read more

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The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance.You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps."
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Captives of the Zone

(diary#1)

by Arthur Frank ...

Series Book 1 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
More than 80 books and over 6 million copies of the Stalker book series have sold in Russia and in Germany.The official S.T.A.L.K.E.R book series has taken on a new image — graphic novels that will immerse you in the world of the Zone where dangerous anomalies lie in wait for the Stalkers at every turn and where hideous mutants and zombies are on a continuous hunt for man. A Swedish tourist named ... Read more

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More than 80 books and over 6 million copies of the Stalker book series have sold in Russia and in Germany.The official S.T.A.L.K.E.R book series has taken on a new image — graphic novels that will immerse you in the world of the Zone where dangerous anomalies lie in wait for the Stalkers at every turn and where hideous mutants and zombies are on a continuous hunt for man. A Swedish tourist named
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The Silent Movies of W. C. Fields: How They Created The Basis for His Fame in Sound Films

by Arthur Frank Wertheim ...

The Silent Movies of W. C. Fields: How They Created The Basis for His Fame in Sound FilmsArthur Frank Wertheim's groundbreaking book is the first to examine W.C. Fields' twelve silent movies and how they influenced his later career in sound films. The author concludes that Fields might never have become one of the premier comedians during the Golden Age of Sound Films without first embarking on a ... Read more

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The Silent Movies of W. C. Fields: How They Created The Basis for His Fame in Sound FilmsArthur Frank Wertheim's groundbreaking book is the first to examine W.C. Fields' twelve silent movies and how they influenced his later career in sound films. The author concludes that Fields might never have become one of the premier comedians during the Golden Age of Sound Films without first embarking on a
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The Author's Handbook

by Arthur Frank ...

Arthur Frank has been the leader of writers groups for about eight years and has taught fiction writing at the collegiate level for several years. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America. He used to be in the consumer magazine business after leaving a corporate career in labor relations behind. He has seen any number of aspiring writers struggle incredibly trying to carve out a career in the ... Read more

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Arthur Frank has been the leader of writers groups for about eight years and has taught fiction writing at the collegiate level for several years. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America. He used to be in the consumer magazine business after leaving a corporate career in labor relations behind. He has seen any number of aspiring writers struggle incredibly trying to carve out a career in the
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Einar, Prince of Thieves

by Arthur Frank ...

Life was never easy for Einar Thorson. His father, Knute, Norse royalty and Thane of Holgar, was killed in a raid by the subhuman Wendol, and went to Valhalla. Einar was a mere stripling and too young ascend to his rightful heritage as Thane. His cowardly uncle Stig usurped his title and sent Einar with the raiders in the hopes that he would be killed and no longer be a problem. Odin smiled on him ... Read more

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Life was never easy for Einar Thorson. His father, Knute, Norse royalty and Thane of Holgar, was killed in a raid by the subhuman Wendol, and went to Valhalla. Einar was a mere stripling and too young ascend to his rightful heritage as Thane. His cowardly uncle Stig usurped his title and sent Einar with the raiders in the hopes that he would be killed and no longer be a problem. Odin smiled on him
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Social Dance

A Short History

by Arthur Franks ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
Originally published in 1963 and authored by the then Editor of the Dancing Times, this was a pioneer work discussing not only the origins and development of many social dance forms from early times, but also relating these forms to their environment. As well as its role in social history, the book analyses the role of dance as a prime creative power in Renaissance spectacles which depicted and ... Read more

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Originally published in 1963 and authored by the then Editor of the Dancing Times, this was a pioneer work discussing not only the origins and development of many social dance forms from early times, but also relating these forms to their environment. As well as its role in social history, the book analyses the role of dance as a prime creative power in Renaissance spectacles which depicted and
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W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen

Becoming a Character Comedian

by Arthur Frank Wertheim ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway’s most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies.As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at the Motion Picture Academy, the book explores how Fields years as a Follies entertainer portraying a beleaguered husband and a captivating conman became a landmark turning point in his career, leading ... Read more

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This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway’s most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies.As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at the Motion Picture Academy, the book explores how Fields years as a Follies entertainer portraying a beleaguered husband and a captivating conman became a landmark turning point in his career, leading
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Ethnographically Speaking

Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics

by Carolyn Ellis, Michael V. Angrosino, Arthur P. Bochner, Kathryn Church, Teresa Beverly Dent, Douglas Flemons, Arthur Frank, Kenneth Gergen, Mary Gergen0, H. L. Goodall1, Ross Gray2, Shelley Green3, Scott Hoy4, Vrenia Ivonoffski5, Elaine Jenks6, Stacy Holman Jones7, Christine Kiesinger8, Lesa Lockford9, Ernest Lockridge0, Ron Pelias1, Picart Kay2, Laurel Richardson3, Janice Rushing4, Christina Sinding5, Andrew C. Sparkes6, Paul Stoller7, Lisa Tillmann-Healy8 ...

Series series Ethnographic Alternatives
This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment, experiential understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement, and intimate ... Read more

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This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment, experiential understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement, and intimate
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The Wounded Storyteller

Body, Illness, and Ethics Second Edition

by Arthur Frank ...

Narrated by Trevor Thompson ...

Unabridged

8 hours 19 min

Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory, Arthur W. Frank's book has reached a large and diverse following, ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory, Arthur W. Frank's book has reached a large and diverse following,
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The Western Front

A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

by Nick Lloyd ...

**"A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration.…Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War." —Lawrence James, TimesThe Telegraph • Best Books of the YearThe Times of London • Best Books of the YearA panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare.**The Western Front evokes images of ... Read more

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**"A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration.…Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War." —Lawrence James, TimesThe Telegraph • Best Books of the YearThe Times of London • Best Books of the YearA panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare.**The Western Front evokes images of
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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

by Linda Colley ...

Longlisted for the Cundill History PrizeProfiled in The New YorkerNew York Times Book Review • Editors’ ChoiceVivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions.A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutio... ... Read more

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Longlisted for the Cundill History PrizeProfiled in The New YorkerNew York Times Book Review • Editors’ ChoiceVivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions.A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutio...
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American Republics

A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

by Alan Taylor ...

**Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young ... Read more

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**Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young
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