The epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde-and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, foreverIt's the mid-1960s, and westerns, war movies and blockbuster musicals-Mary Poppins, The Sound of Mu...

When Danielle dials the wrong number and gets Mark on the line, he surprises her with making a fantasy of hers come true.Only there's one small catch: no sex, no talking, but a whole lot of orgasms...

**One of The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time • A National Book Critics Circle finalist • One of People's top 10 books of 2021 •An instant New York Times bestseller • Named a best book of the year by NPR and TimeA magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges*—some of the worst largely unknown until now—by th...

**One of The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time“One of the great works of film history of the decade.” —SlateNow a Netflix original documentary series, also written by Mark Harris: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most important directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever**Here is the remarkable, untold story of how five major Hollywood directors—John Ford, G...

The novel follows the story of Charlie Eddington, a former Major League Baseball player who, at the age of 42, is invited to join a minor league team as a coach. Eddington is faced with the challenge of working with a new generation of ballplayers while reflecting on his own career and life experiences in baseball.Mark Harris's "With the Procession" is appreciated for its insights into the world of baseball, its depiction of the sport's culture and the challenges faced by athletes as they ...

Glass and Water is the first book on underwater photography for freedivers. With contributions from expert underwater photographers, this book teaches the skills, knowledge and equipment necessary to successfully pursue underwater photography without scuba gear.Rather than seeking to replace books on underwater photography, Glass and Water focuses on freediving techniques, equipment and photo opportunities. By carefully choosing or adapting freediving and photogra...

Winner of the 1991 New American Writing Award.Originally published in 1952, this poignant, romantic biography of the poet Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) is well worth a second chance. From early on, Lindsay was a wanderer, tramping hundreds of miles along country roads, visiting small towns, never holding a job, writing poems of uplift and defiance, and giving them, or his drawings, away on the streets, selling them for food or declaiming them on the lecture circuit. A...

During the colonial and postcolonial eras, local people in lowland South America experienced exploitation from outsiders. But as new kinds of societies emerged from engagements between outside and Indigenous communities, Indigenous Amazonians formed strategic alliances to defend livelihoods, territory, and symbolic values, as well as to curb exploitation, predation, and threats.The contributors in Indigenous Alliance Making bring together historical analyses with anthropol...

God and the Book of Nature develops theological views of the natural sciences in light of the recent theological turn in science-and-religion scholarship and the ‘science-engaged theology’ movement. Centered around the Book of Nature metaphor, it brings together contributions by theologians, natural scientists, and philosophers based in Europe and North America. They provide an exploration of complementary (and even contesting) readings of the Book of Nature, particularly in light...

The Science of Global Warming Remediation examines the workings of a complex chemical system using concepts such as chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and oxidation/reduction. It focuses on preventing environmental deterioration as well as using environmental chemistry for environmental cleanup or remediation. Further, it describes how to utilize mechanical, chemical, and biological methods to detoxify contaminated land or water. The book also considers how environmental legislati...

Environmental issues are an ever-increasing focus of public discourse and have proved concerning to religious groups as well as society more widely. Among biblical scholars, criticism of the Judeo-Christian tradition for its part in the worsening crisis has led to a small but growing field of study on ecology and the Bible. This volume in the Oxford Handbook series makes a significant contribution to this burgeoning interest in ecological hermeneutics, incorporating the best of internation...