A glamorous and nostalgic celebration of the summer through stunning retro photographs of Hollywood beautiesThe author of the acclaimed photo compilations Vegas Gold, Hollywood in Kodachrome, Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis, and Audrey: The 60s, now presents a glamorous and nostalgic celebration of summer at the beach, captured in 150 stunning vintage photographs featuring beloved female celebrities, models, and starlets from the 1930s through the 1...

In a film career spanning more than five decades, Frank Sinatra proved to be a roulette wheel of constantly spinning talent, the likes of which Hollywood has rarely seen. Film history is filled with stars created by the studio system. Occasionally, however, a performer emerged who, against all preconceived odds of what a star should be or look like, knocked down the walls of convention by becoming nothing other than what they already were. Frank Sinatra was the embodiment of this fundament...

Marco is a bitter and frustrated loner, convinced of his untapped potential. He begins to document what he hopes will be looked on in later years as the memoirs of a self conquering, meteoric rise to unspecified fame and renown. However, through an act of immediate redemption, he comes to be involved with the distressing life of an elderly man from his estate. These unfortunate circumstances are contrasted by the beginning of a relationship, which had brought a new lease of happiness into ...

Product Research 101: The Essential Guide on How to Find the Perfect Niche and Product That Sells, Discover How to Find Hot Niche Markets and Winning Products That Would SellAre you looking to start your own business? That's great! If you're starting an online business, having a website is not enough to ensure success. You have to do your research and make sure that you find a paying niche that you can market products and services to. When you have a target niche, you can focus all...

Inanimation is the third book by author David Wills to analyze the technology of the human. In Prosthesis, Wills traced our human attachment to external objects back to a necessity within the body itself. In Dorsality, he explored how technology is understood to function behind or before the human. Inanimation proceeds by taking literally the idea of inanimate or inorganic forms of life. Starting from a seemingly naïve question about what it mea...

Film history is filled with stars created by the studio system. Occasionally, however, a performer emerged who, against all preconceived odds of what a star should be or look like, knocked down the walls of convention by becoming nothing other than what they already were. Frank Sinatra was the embodiment of this fundamental truth. The legacy of his work stands apart from many of his contemporaries, who essentially based their performances on an extension of a core character type. Sinatra, ...

Killing Times begins with the deceptively simple observation—made by Jacques Derrida in his seminars on the topic—that the death penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time by preempting the typical mortal experience of not knowing at what precise moment we will die. Through a broader examination of what constitutes mortal temporality, David Wills proposes that the so-called machinery of death summoned by the death penalty works by exploiting, or perverting, the machinery of time ...

Originally published in 1945, this is a concise account of the remarkable experiment with boys carried out by the author of The Hawkspur Experiment. The war put this latter experiment into abeyance, but gave its author an opportunity to practice his principles on a group of younger difficult boys. Aged from eight to fourteen, these boys were the "throw-outs" of the Evacuation Scheme, but before the Barns experiment had been long in operation troublesome boys were being evacuated n...

The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the so-called delinquent, the misfit, the maladjusted. He was the first Englishman to train as a psychiatric social worker and was well known for his books The Hawkspur Experiment, The Barns Experiment, etc.Originally published in 1970, this book describes another experiment with a hostel for boys leaving schools for maladjusted children and lacking any settled home from which to enter the community. It demon...

Originally published in 1941 and written in an attempt to dispute the popular assumption at the time that a ‘bit of discipline’ is what is needed for the correction of young men who show delinquent tendencies, this book is much more than that.Basically an account of a kind of voluntary Borstal Institution of which the author was head from 1936 to 1940, its interest on reissue in 1967 lay in the fact that it contained the germinal ideas of most of the day’s newest methods in penal t...

The events of September 11, 2001 brought terrorism to the forefront, but Al-Qaeda is not the first group to try using political violence against the United States to make Washington change its policies. In the 1980s terrorism was rampant; from Latin America to Europe and the Middle East, a host of groups demanded changes in American foreign policy and were willing to bomb, assassinate, kidnap, and hijack to pressure the government to act.The First War on Terrorism examines...

Haruki Murakami is one of the world’s best-known living authors, whose complex yet accessible novels have been translated into dozens of languages. His idiosyncratic and densely symbolic prose, often considered a form of magical realism, resonates with readers around the world. This book will argue that his signature style was formulated in order to explore the posttraumatic mind, often mimicking dissociation. Having initially begun writing in order to heal himself of vari...