‘Most directors have one film for which they are known or possibly two’, Francis Ford Coppola has said. ‘Akira Kurosawa has eight or nine.’ Through his many masterpieces such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, High and Low, Yojimbo, Kagemusha and Ran, Kurosawa’s (1910–1998) work has influenced the most acclaimed directors working today, from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg to Martin Scorsese. His groundbreaking innovations in both cinematogr...

The opalescent deserts of the American Southwest have become romantic icons in the public imagination through the words of writers, the images of artists and photographers, and the visual storytelling of filmmakers. In this spirited, personal, beautifully written book, Peter Wild explores the lives and works of sixteen writers whose words have shaped our visions of the opal desert.Wild begins with Cabeza de Vaca, whose Relación of his desert wanderings sent treasure-hungry...

Es geht um die Existenz und die Vertreibung schlechter Geister, Dämonen, schlechter Gesellen hier auf Erden... die Ihr Unwesen treiben in den Seelen und der Geistigen-Welt der Menschen...eben dort wo Glaube, die Hoffnung und auch Aberglaube verbreitet sind... den geistig spirituellen und religiösen Weg aus der mentalen Not des menschlichen Lebens in die er geraten kann... zu entfliehen...

Frischer Apfelduft, samtige Pfirsichhaut, kräftiges Salatgrün: Ein Bummel über den Wochenmarkt ist ein Fest für die Sinne. Doch unsere vielfältigen Sinneserfahrungen sind für uns oft so selbstverständlich, dass wir sie gar nicht wirklich wahrnehmen. Aufmerksam und offen bei den Sinneserfahrungen zu verweilen, ermöglicht, dass in ihnen Sinn aufscheint. Denn wie der Duft eines Apfels oder der Klang eines Akkords ist auch die Gotteserfahrung momentan und will je neu wahrgenommen werden. So wi...

Graham Boynton's Wild is the definitive biography of photographer Peter Beard, a larger-than-life icon who pushed the boundaries of art and scandalized international high society with his high-profile affairs.He was the original 20th century "enfant terrible" with the looks of a Greek god who blazed like a comet across the worlds of art, photography, and fame. The scion of several old WASP fortunes, he was by instinct an adventurer, and the more dangerous t...

As he did with Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth, editor Peter Wild has pulled together an eclectic list of talented writers who take their cue from one of the world’s best loved bands—The Smiths. Please is sure to please fans of The Smiths, Morrisey, and guitarist Johnny Marr—as well as contributors such as Nic Kelman, Willy Vlautin, and Catherine O’Flynn.

War veteran Peter Ash tracks a murderer and his criminal family through the most forbidding and stark landscape he has ever encountered, in the latest thriller from the bestselling author of The Drifter.Losing ground in his fight against post-traumatic claustrophobia, war veteran Peter Ash has no intention of getting on an airplane--until a grieving woman asks Peter to find her eight-year-old grandson. The woman's daughter has been murdered. Erik, the dead...

Wie kann es sein, dass das vermeintlich höchstentwickelte Wesen auf diesem Planeten seinen Lebensraum selbst zerstört?Haben wir unser Schicksal wirklich selbst in der Hand oder agieren wir nicht – wie jede andere Tierart auch – überwiegend instinktgesteuert? Augenscheinlich ja: Unfähig zu vorausschauendem, langfristigem Denken, rein an unmittelbarer Bedürfnisbefriedigung interessiert, plündert die Menschheit die Ressourcen des Planeten hemmungslos aus und steuert s...

The author of Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931–1941 chronicles Japan's dramatic reversal of fortune as Allied forces gained advantage during WWII.In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians feared a future under Hirohito. The fate of half of mankind wa...

Now a DreamWorks movie available on Prime Video!This #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from a Caldecott Honor winner tells an extraordinary story full of action and thought-provoking questions as a robot learns to survive—and live—in the wilderness.Can a robot survive in the wilderness?When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. S...

The enchanting new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling THE WILD ROBOT series from award-winning author-illustrator Peter Brown, packed full of glorious illustrations.Roz the robot has made an unlikely home for herself on an idyllic island dense with forests, wildflowers and friendly animal inhabitants - including her own young son Brightbill the gosling. Life on the island is perfect, until a dying seal washes ashore and warns of dangerous, cloud...

Die langen heißen Sommer zogen Peter Kurzeck einst ins südfranzösische Uzès. Aber mit den Jahren merkt er, dass die Winter noch viel schöner sind. Von seiner winterlichen Provence erzählt Peter Kurzeck auf Mein wildes Herz: von Ausflügen nach Nîmes und Avignon; Sätzen über Rembrandt; vier Bahnhofsuhren mit vorwurfsvollem Blick, die in der Wohnung ticken, beinahe so wie die seit Monaten vor sich hergeschobene Steuererklärung; von der unter südlichem Licht und Mistral sich endlos ausdehnende...