On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide is a comprehensive overview of the film, television, and theatrical career of Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011). Including an introduction, biographical chronology, and guide to her entire career, Matthew Kennedy gives a critical assessment of each film and performance. This Opinionated Guide gives direction to anyone unfamiliar with Miss Taylor's work as an actress and elegantly guides readers who desire to explore her career and her impact on...

Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television, and radio. Born the child of vaudevillians, she was on stage by age three. With her casual sex appeal, distinctive cello voice, megawatt smile, luminous saucer eyes, and flawless timing, she came into widespread fame in Warner Bros. musicals and comedies of the 1930s, including Bl...

The Metaspace Chronicles presents a tale of Earth reborn. Two centuries after Earth's civilization has crashed due to failing alien tech we never understood, the "wizard" of Rado fights to establish a school to teach alien "magic" to rebuild civilization with a hybrid of human and alien tech. Will unification of a shattered nation come from cooperation, or conquest? War is looming.

A sweeping look at the career of a truly singular Hollywood star In the oceans of ink devoted to the monumental movie star/businesswoman/political activist Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (1932-2011), her beauty and not-so-private life frequently overshadowed her movies. While she knew how to generate publicity like no other, her personal life is set aside in this volume in favor of her professional oeuvre and unique screen dynamism. In On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Gu...

After failing alien tech has caused a fall of civilization, tech exposure has developed humans capable of replicating and fixing it. In a struggle to bring together the shards of America, will it be reunification under democracy - the revival of the Union? Or will it be consolidation by conquest, as a tyrant pursues dreams of empire?As war is coming to the remains of the Midwest, the court "wizard" of Rado fights not just for his Governor, but for his dream: a school to train adept...

The TRIPS Agreement was implemented in the WTO to gain access to a functioning dispute settlement mechanism that could authorize trade sanctions. Yet TRIPS and the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding are based on systems that developed independently in WIPO and GATT. In this book, Matthew Kennedy exposes the challenges created by the integration and independence of TRIPS within the WTO by examining how this trade organization comes to grips with intellectual property disputes. He contrast...

Contains all three volumes in the epic scifi fantasy.AES: Gamers and Gods I --- He was Asklepios, a physician in ancient Greece, until he resurrected a dead man. Thunderbolted by Zeus in 1250BC, he awakens in 2051 to find himself digitally incarnated as living software in a gaming server. Why? To fight an alien god for the freedom of Earth. But can Asklepios, Homer's "Blameless Physician", whom the Romans called Aesculapius, learn how to survive, and defeat the Devourer of Millions ...

Spinspace continues the saga of a wizard's attempt to rebuild a fallen civilization. As Xander's school accepts its first class of student wizards, powerful forces seek to undermine all that is being built..including the fragile new Union of States.

A saga called Uniquely Creative by reviewers continues. AES (Asklepios, Aesculapius to the Romans) has fought the good fight. Now he is gone...but he left a son behind him, a surprise virtual conception in Darla's avatar. MACHAON, the son of Asklepios, continues his father's battle for the freedom of humans as the universe holds its breath.He will face Sekhmet, the Destroyer of Rebellions, the lioness-headed goddess of ancient Egypt who nearly destroyed mankind once. Her strength i...

Zeus has bet it all on this one. ALEXANOR (the grandson of Asklepios) will face the Egyptian god SET himself, in a winner-take all fight for the freedom of Earth's humans. Set, the ancient Egyptian god of Chaos, Warfare, Storms, and Foreign Lands is known for two things:His head is an animal never identified by human archaeologists -- it is called The Set AnimalHe has never lost a duel.Join ALEXANOR as he struggles to learn what it is to be human, to ...

In book 3 of the Metaspace Chronicles, the Xander School is finally getting some traction as students from across the continent risk their lives for the opportunity of a lifetime. But rival powers are taking notice and the new crew of wizard will have to take their game to the next level if they are going to have a place in the future. The Queen of Angeles and others do not look kindly on this free dissemination of psionic skills, and will stop at nothing to cripple the new School and even...

Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television, and radio. Born the child of vaudevillians, she was on stage by age three. With her casual sex appeal, distinctive cello voice, megawatt smile, luminous saucer eyes, and flawless timing, she came into widespread fame in Warner Bros. musicals and comedies of the 1930s, including Bl...