Why are filmmakers such as J.J. Abrams, Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino continuing to shoot their movies on celluloid in the digital age of cinema? Are these filmmakers choosing the photochemical process of celluloid images purely for aesthetics purposes? Or could their preference for celluloid have something to do with analogue's intimate connection to the subject of lack and desire?Capturing Digital Media: Perfection and Imperfection in Contemporary Film and ...

The Rumours Collection from Mills & BoonIncluding:Rumours: The Legacy of RevengeRumours: The Dishonoured CopelandsRumours: The Ruthless RavensdalesRumours: The Billion-Dollar BridesRumours: The One-Night HeirsRumours: The Secret Billionaires

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Corsica, the French island in the Mediterranean Sea, southeast of France and west of Italy. Corsica was "often conquered, never subdued" and has been successively Pisan and Genovese but has been French since 1768 and it enjoys a special constitutional status. A mountain in the sea, Corsica is also called the island of beauty. The diversity of its scenery, as well as the non-intrusiveness of its development and tourism, m...

During the opening decades of the twentieth century, highly visible red-light districts occupied entire sections of many American cities. Prostitution, still euphemistically referred to as the “social evil,” became one of the dominant social issues of the progressive era.Mark Thomas Connelly places the response to prostitution during those years within its complete social and cultural context. He shows how the antiprostitution movement became a focus for many of the anxieties and s...

More than a century after Appomattox, the Civil War and the idea of the"Lost Cause" remain at the center of the southern mind. God and GeneralLongstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the Lost Cause from thefirst generation of former Confederates to more recent times, when the Lost Causehas continued to endure in the commitment of southerners to their regionalculture.Southern writers from the Confederate period through thes...

On a November afternoon in 1864, the weary Gen. John Bell Hood surveyed the army waiting to attack the Federals at Franklin, Tennessee. He gave the signal almost at dusk, and the Confederates rushed forward to utter devastation. This book describes the events and causes of the five-hour battle in gripping detail, particularly focusing on the reasons for such slaughter at a time when the outcome of the war had already been decided.The genesis of the senseless tragedy, according to M...

A 36-year-old housewife presents in the emergency department complaining of progressively increasing breathlessness over the lasttwo weeks, accompanied by wheeze and a productive cough. You are the medic on duty...100 Cases in Radiology presents 100 radiological anomalies commonly seen by medical students and junior doctors on the ward, in outpatient clinics or in the emergency department. A succinct summary of the patient's history, examination and initial investi...

EDGAR AWARD WINNER • After a high-level assassination, a professional hitman becomes a target himself and must fight to survive—while evading the government analyst who’s suddenly on his trail—in this “brilliantly plotted thriller” (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry.With an Introduction by Michael Connelly**“Shrewdly planned and executed.”—**The New York Times Book Review

With the police hot on his tail, an infamous hit man flees to the United States to exact revenge in this “exciting [and] suspenseful” (The Washington Post Book World) sequel to the Edgar Award winner The Butcher’s Boy.“A bravura performance.”—Chicago TribuneHe came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he’s a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sl...

"A master class in thriller writing" from the New York Times bestselling author of The Butcher's Boy and Sleeping Dogs ( Los Angeles Times).In Thomas Perry's Edgar Award–winning debut The Butcher's Boy, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia leaves countless mobsters dead and then disappears. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believes he ever existed.Many years later, the Butch...

“[Thomas Perry is] a master of nail-biting suspense.”—Los Angeles TimesIn this explosive new novel from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Butcher’s Boy, Blood Money, and other novels of “dazzling ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review), Thomas Perry gives us a thriller even more startling than his most recent bestseller, Pursuit. In Dead Aim, an unsuspecting man tries to help a young woman on the ed...

A detective’s murder investigation takes a perilous turn when she becomes the elusive serial killer’s next target in this “bone-chilling [and] transfixing crime story” (The New York Times) from the award-winning author of The Butcher’s Boy.“A fast-paced thriller . . . tightly plotted, with a lot of action and plenty of twists.”—The Denver PostWhen the cousin of Los Angeles underworld figure Hugo Poole is found sho...