วันอังคารที่ 1 พฤษภาคม พ.ศ. 2555

Thomas Betterton: The Greatest Actor of the Restoration Stage

Product Description Product DescriptionRestoration London's leading actor and theater manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses; he was intimately involved in the theater's responses to politics, and became a friend of leading literary men such as Pope and Steele. His innovations in scenery and company management, and his association with the dramatic inheritance of Shakespeare, helped to change the culture of English theater. David Roberts's entertaining study unearths new documents and draws fresh conclusions about this major but shadowy figure. It contextualizes key performances and examines Betterton's relationship to patrons, colleagues and family, as well as to significant historical moments and artifacts. The most substantial study available of any seventeenth-century actor, Thomas Betterton gives one of England's greatest performing artists his due on the tercentenary of his death.Book DescriptionDescribed by Samuel Pepys as 'the best actor in the world', Thomas Betterton was the most respected actor and manager of the Restoration stage. David Roberts presents an array of new findings and conclusions about Betterton's life and career in this detailed and entertaining biography.

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Strictly from Hungary

Product Description Product DescriptionKnown for his best-selling military histories, Ladislas Farago also wrote a witty tribute to his homeland, Strictly from Hungary. Noting that Hungary has produced some of the world's most renowned artists, scientists, and financiers as well as its share of world-class con-artists, charlatans, and rakes, Farago sets out to explain just how one tiny country can be responsible for so much talent, both good and bad. Using stories from his days as a struggling writer in the bustling caf? scenes of Budapest and New York City, Farago demonstrates the Hungarian knack for remaining irrepressible and optimistic even in the face of catastrophe. Here we meet Zoltan, a fellow Bohemian who presents his astonished benefactor with a play "about nothing," a theme later made famous by another writer of Hungarian descent, Jerry Seinfeld. Farago also introduces us to "Baby Kiss," a vivacious Hungarian beauty queen, and the story of how she ended up in Fort Worth, Texas; Orkeny, a double agent for America at the height of the Cold War who "spiced up" his reports to keep everyone happy, and the author's own experience getting mustered into the supposedly non-existent Royal Hungarian Army. Farago's reminiscence validates what most Hungarians believe: that Hungary is the center of the world and that everyone has some connection to the land of the Magyars. In that spirit, Farago learns that George Washington himself was "strictly from Hungary."

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Arnold Daghani's Memories of Mikhailowka: The Illustrated Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor

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The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. VI: September 1924-December 1927

Product Description Product Description"If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual, to see the day of Africa's glory. . . . I shall write the history that will inspire the millions that are coming and leave the posterity of our enemies to reckon with the hosts for the deeds of their fathers."--Marcus Garvey upon his imprisonment in the Atlanta federal penitentiary, 1925The sixth volume of The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers spans the great divide in the affairs of the American Garvey movement that resulted from the imprisonment of its charismatic leader in 1925. The volume tells the story of Garvey's failed efforts to win the appeal against his conviction for mail fraud, his incarceration, the legal battle to win his freedom, and the massive grass-roots petition movement mobilized in his defense. The activism inspired by Garvey's imprisonment was confounded by internecine struggles within the hierarchy of the movement and by growing financial difficulties, including the failure of the Black Cross Navigation and Trading Company, the loss of Liberty Hall, and the bankruptcy of Liberty University. The volume ends with Garvey's release from prison and his deportation from America. Although he never returned to the United States, Garvey continued his forceful shaping of the history of the movement that bore his name, first from Jamaica and then from his final exile in Britain.

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The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis: The Berlin Years

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วันจันทร์ที่ 30 เมษายน พ.ศ. 2555

ArcOne X540D-0900 Xtreme Fixed Auto-Darkening Black Viper Helmet with X540D filter

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Vestil APPL-500-A Aluminum Turn Handle Appliance Cart, 8" x 2-1/2" Wheel, 350 lbs Capacity, 24-1/2" Width x 60" Height x 13" Depth

Product Description Product DescriptionThis cart is ideal for moving large, bulky and heavy appliances and awkward loads. A strap and tension bar is included with this unit to hold the product in place while transporting up or down stairways, hills or uneven surfaces. The lightweight aluminum appliance cart is ideal for moving items up and down stairways.

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