Gain the essential skills of a professional grip to become the jack and master of all trades on any movie or television show set. This new edition has been fully updated and revised and will enable aspiring and professional grips to discover vital insider tips ranging from how to operate cutting-edge rigging and lighting equipment to performing difficult camera mounts on aircraft, boats, trains, and cars.Seasoned Hollywood grip Michael G. Uva teaches you to install, set up, maintai...

Uva's Guide To Cranes, Dollies, and Remote Heads is a comprehensive guide to all the latest equipment-what it is, how to use it and where to find it. This new book is designed to provide the more experienced professional with a streamlined reference to the equipment without the how-to information beginners require. Like the Grip Book 2E, it lists standards and features of all the different types of equipment covered, and with the recent explosion of new equipment introduced into the film i...

Readers of Mike Uva's GRIP BOOK who are interested in more detailed information on the work of the grip department will welcome his new rigging manual, clearly detailing all the ways to mount cameras and lights both on a set as well as on location.The book covers the latest truss systems, rigging equipment and portable stages, as well as lifts, boom arms and camera mounts for every type of moving vehicle. The book is not limited to equipment specifications, however; Uva offers tips...

Spectacle, myth, fable - these words instantly leap to mind when considering director Sergio Leone's celebrated films. His popularization of the Spaghetti Western genre, through works like A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), continues to have a profound impact on filmmakers worldwide. In this exciting new study, Italian film scholar Christian Uva explores a side of Leone's works rarely before discussed: the political. Grappling with the co...

Free Speech in Russia = Jail and danger to one's life. The chemistry for peace is slow, reluctance to cross the red line.

The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before.This second edition has been revised and updated throughout and includes a new chapter on the description and modelling of individual health care costs, thus broadening the book’s readership to...

A Florida Mystery Twenty Years in the MakingIf you liked The Trespasser by Tana French, The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen, or New Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton, you’ll love The Miracle of St. Lazarus.Miami, Florida 1992: A few weeks after Hurricane Andrew wreaks devastation and havoc across South Florida, a father and his infant daughter crash their car into a canal. The man’s body is recovered, but his baby girl is never found.Twenty-three years later: After reports...

Genesis is about facing adversity, following an unconventional trend, poised with delusional, thoughts. Justice is executed without contemplating the full impact of consequences. After liberating from a shady past, the protagonist comes around. As a space explorer, searching for exoplanets, the main character, develops a relationship with a trained robot. The connection is priceless. Vinegar Affirmation deals with a single parent, coping with an autistic child. With agonizing news of his t...

When a young girl presumed dead for decades is spotted in Miami, long-buried secrets begin to emerge in a thriller by the acclaimed Cuban-American author.In 1992, a few weeks after Hurricane Andrew wreaks havoc across South Florida, a father and his infant daughter crash their car into a canal in Miami. The man’s body is recovered, but his baby girl is never found. Then, twenty-three years later, reported sightings of the girl begin to emerge. And the impossibly co...

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Code of the Fates, is a science fiction & fantasy story that chronicles the adventures of the unlikely hero Captain, in the post oil age. Thousands of years into the future, world scientists compete to improve the human animal with woolier and keener traits from the animal kingdom. The fate of humanity's free will hangs in the balance when a potential mind-control weapon is implanted in the brain of a young man nick-named Code-E. To curb the potential world dominating power of a few greedy...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Extreme race, city festival, global phenomenon - the New York Marathon is much more than a never-ending run.On top of the 50,000 plus participants who actually run the race, it’s an event that involves millions of people when you include the thousands of volunteers, the hundreds of thousands of supporters lining the streets of the metropolis par excellence, and the global TV audience watching at home.