“This absorbing tale, documenting the forgotten history of early moviemaking in St. Augustine, is a must-read for film enthusiasts.”—Janelle Blankenship , coeditor of European Visions: Small Cinemas in Transition “Very few people have any idea that St. Augustine played any role in early film history. This book brings St. Augustine into a much larger film conversation.”—Christina Lane, author of Magnolia “This richly detailed book tells the story of early filmmakers’ adven...

When Thomas suffered a stroke, his life changed overnight. Movement was lost, routines disrupted, and the future uncertain.Let's go for a walk follows his gradual return to mobility and independence through daily effort, physiotherapy, and small, determined steps forward.Along the way, Thomas turns to poetry, nature, and simple rituals-sit spotting, forest bathing, walking, gardening-to support his recovery and restore a sense of meaning.This is a story of ...

Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida NonfictionFlorida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book AwardArguably no man did more to make over a city—or a state—than Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of America’s elite.Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine tells the story of how one of the wealthiest men in America spared no expense in...

Discover the history of ancient iran that spans from iran’s mysterious origins to the islamic conquest. Ancient persia conjures images of extravagant palaces, beautiful gardens, mighty armies, and all-powerful kings, queens, and princes. The beginnings of iranian antiquity are enigmatic, but from the cradle of the western zagros mountains came the greatest empires the world has ever known. The elamites, medians, achaemenids, parthians, and sassanids all sprang from interlinked cultural ori...

Near the end of the nineteenth century, Standard Oil millionaire Henry Morrison Flagler ventured to St. Augustine, Florida, America's Oldest City, and transformed it into an exotic travel destination for the social elite. He raised magnificent, fanciful Spanish Renaissance hotel palaces on what had been orange grove and salt marsh. Then he connected his creation with the outside world by building a modern railroad system. Flagler's hotels stand as monuments to innovation in architecture an...

As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders persist in pursuing it? Was there another path that would have produced more constructive relations or better prepared Washington to face the challenge Russia poses today?With a practitioner's eye honed during decades of work on Russian...

In Unending Crisis, Thomas Graham Jr. examines the second Bush administration's misguided management of foreign policy, the legacy of which has been seven major--and almost irresolvable--national security crises involving North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine, and nuclear proliferation. Unending Crisis considers these issues individually and together, emphasizing their interrelationship and delineating the role that the neo...

Thomas Graham Jr. played a role in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement signed by the United States during the past thirty years. As a U.S. government lawyer and diplomat, he helped to shape, negotiate, and secure U.S. ratification of such cornerstones of international security as SALT, START, and the ABM, INF, and CFE treaties as well as conventions prohibiting biological and chemical weapons.Graham’s memoir offers a history of ...

Sapphire, as the Preface explains, is a tale or saga of perhaps the most dangerous period of the Cold War. This was a time when the two superpower antagonists seeking the mastery of the world were challenging each other in important peripheral areas around the world, risking dangerous escalation to major war. At the same time they were creating enormous arsenals of total destruction on hair trigger alert in a situation where neither side had a good idea what the other was doing, therefore ...

New York Times best-seller and 2012 ECPA Book of the Year.Join Billy Graham as he reflects upon his life, recounts God's many gifts, and shares the challenges of fading bodily strength while still standing strong in his commitment to finish life well.Nearing Home—written by Reverend Billy Graham in his nineties—is a deeply personal memoir that explores how our strength can continually be found in the foundational truths of Scriptur...

Conseguirá esquecer o doloroso passado e reconhecê-lo como seu marido em todos os sentidos?A obrigação do rei de Marwan era casar-se com uma esposa adequada, mas antes teria de conseguir obter o divórcio da mulher que o tinha traído.Localizar a sua mulher? Fácil.Gerir a intensa paixão que havia entre eles? Possível.Descobrir que tinha dois filhos? Impossível.Desolada quando o seu bonito príncipe a abandonou, os gémeos de Chrissie Whitaker eram o únic...

Aquilo era um pacto de alcova para ter um herdeiro.Cesario di Silvestri era muito rápido com as mulheres, era um furacão. Bastavam-lhe alguns minutos para levar para a cama as mulheres mais sofisticadas da Europa…Mas havia uma exceção: Jessica Martin, a tímida veterinária que se negara a ser o seu brinquedo sexual durante um fim de semana. Mas quando os familiares de Jess, num ato de irresponsabilidade, roubaram um valioso retrato em Halston Hall, a mansão que Cesario tinha...