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    True Noir

    The Assassination of Anton Cermak

    by Max Allan Collins ...
    Narrated by Anthony LaPaglia, Renée Taylor, Bill Smitrovich, Katee Sackhoff, Richard Portnow, Barry Bostwick, Jeffrey Combs, PJ Byrne, John Kapelos, Jesse Spencer, Louis Lombardi, a full cast, Kris Carr, C. Thomas Howell, Adam Arkin, Michael Rosenbaum, Don McManus, Curtis Armstrong, Vincent Pastore, Devon Conrad, David Strathairn, Corey Landis, Saverio Guerra, Bill Mumy, William Sadler, Rob Roy Fitzgerald, Patton Oswalt, Nicholas Turturro ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 27 min

    In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.From the legendary author of ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Are Only Ghosts

    A Remarkable Novel of Survival in the Wake of WWII

    by Jeffrey L. Richards ...
    **An exhilarating, brutally candid saga about sexuality and war, tenderness and trauma, young passion and fierce hate, as a teenage boy’s unexpected, complicated relationship with a Nazi officer in a WWII death camp is resurrected in 1960s New York City.We Are Only Ghosts depicts queer desire against the horrors of death camps and the psychosis of those who got out alive—haunted forever by those ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Sex, Dissidence and Damnation

    Minority Groups in the Middle Ages

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    For the authorities in medieval Europe, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. It was to be crushed - initially by reason and argument, eventually by torture. Jeffrey Richards examines the wretched lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals and uncovers a common motive for their persecution: sexual aberrance. ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Applied AI and Natural Language Processing Workshop

    Explore practical ways to transform your simple projects into powerful intelligent applications

    by Krishna Sankar, Jeffrey Jackovich, Ruze Richards, Ridhima Garg, Sasikanth Kotti, Ankit Malik, Sagnik Pal, Robert Ridley, Priyanka Singh ...
    With the help of engaging activities, learn how to leverage Amazon Web Services for building serverless intelligent applications that can process information in no timeKey FeaturesLearn how to integrate Amazon’s Simple Storage Services with AI and NLP projectsGet to grips with serverless computing and its applicationsCreate intelligent applications such as chatbots and image recognition modelsBook ... Read more

    $27.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Are Only Ghosts: Sneak Peek

    by Jeffrey L. Richards ...
    **Be one of the first to read this sneak preview sample edition before the full length novel comes out!An extraordinary, emotionally intense novel spanning World War II Europe to 1960s New York City with an unsettling psychological edge, We Are Only Ghosts depicts not only the horrors of the death camps but the toll on those who survived—powered by a story of the unexpected, complicated connection ... Read more

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  • Visions of Yesterday

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Film is an important source of social history, as well as having been a popular art form from the early twentieth century. This study shows how a society, consciously or unconsciously, is mirrored in its cinema. It considers the role of the cinema in dramatizing popular beliefs and myths, and takes three case studies – American populism, British imperialism, German Nazism – to explain how a nation ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Beyond Bars

    Rejoining Society After Prison

    by Jeffrey Ian Ross, PhD, Stephen C. Richards, PhD ...
    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 17 min

    The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world, with currently over 7 million adults and juveniles in jail, prison, or community custody. Because they spend enough time in prison to disrupt their connections to their families and their communities, they are not prepared for the difficult and often life-threatening process of reentry. As a result, the percentage of these ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • China and the Chinese in Popular Film

    From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Consul of God (Routledge Revivals)

    The Life and Times of Gregory the Great

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Gregory the Great, whose reign spanned the years between 590 and 604 A.D., was one of the most remarkable figures of the early medieval Papacy. Aristocrat, administrator, teacher and scholar, he ascended the throne of St Peter at a time of acute crisis for the Roman Church.Consul of God, first published in 1980, revises the traditional picture of Pope Gregory. It examines how he organised the ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • The Lost Worlds of John Ford

    Beyond the Western

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jeffrey Richards develops and broadens our understanding of Ford's film-making oeuvre by studying his non-Western films through the lens of Ford's life and abiding preoccupations. Ford's other cinematic worlds included Ireland, the Family, Catholicism, War ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Golden Age of Pantomime

    Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. It remains as true today as it was in the 1830s, that a visit to the pantomime constitutes the first theatrical experience of most children and now, as then, a successful pantomime season is the key to the financial health of most theatres. Everyone ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

    476-752

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    There has been a tendency to the view the history of the early medieval papacy predominantly in ideological terms, which has resulted in the over-exaggeration of the idea of the papal monarchy. In this study, first published in 1979, Jeffrey Richards questions this view, arguing that whilst the papacy’s power and responsibility grew during the period under discussion, it did so by a series of ... Read more

    $91.99 USD