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What can Dory remember? Who are her parents? In Finding Dory, Pixar Animation Studios sets out to answer these questions, to the delight of Finding Nemo fans. The Art of Finding Dory offers a look at the creative process behind the making of this...

How did Friday the 13th begin as a movie about a grieving mother killing camp counselors and spawn a movie in which a nanobot enhanced, hockey masked man destroys a space station? Similarly, how did A Nightmare on Elm Street evolve from a film by Wes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorTitan Magazines publishes TV and movie-themed titles for franchises Star Wars, Star Trek, and MarvelBook InformationISBN 9781787736139Author TitanFormat...

A complete and in-depth look at the art of the newest Star Trek trilogy. Covering the creation of Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond, this lavish art book contains never-before-seen concept art and designs, as well as...

A behind-the-scenes guide to the long-awaited return of one of cinema's most iconic aliens: The Predator! Go behind the scenes of the epic new movie The Predator with interviews with the cast and crew, rare interviews in a step-by-step guide to the...

Turner Classic Movies presents a festival of film frights, spanning monster greats to modern and classic horror to family-friendly cinematic treats that capture the spirit of Halloween, complete with reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and a trove of...

The Exorcist Effect is a fascinating historical study of the ongoing relationship between horror movies and Western religious culture, with a focus on the period from 1968 to the modern day. Taking its name from the 1973 film The Exorcist, which was...

The documentary has achieved rising popularity over the past two decades thanks to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Despite this, documentary studies still tends to favor works that appeal primarily to specialists and scholars. Reclaiming...

The Godfather and Philosophy is comprised of twenty-eight chapters by philosophers, who reflect upon the ethical and metaphysical issues raised in The Godfather novels and movies, beginning with the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo and the 1972 movie by Francis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994411273Author Stewart HomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Ledatape OrganisationPublisher Ledatape OrganisationWeight(grams) 399g

This essential reference book details everything the novice needs to know about the genre and everything the well-read fan is calling out for. Lavishly illustrated and expertly informed, it is edited by Tim Dedopulos and David Pringle, editor and...

Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of...

What Happened to Governance in Kashmir is a telling tale on the state of governance in Kashmir; the policies and strategies adopted by Indian state and the successive patronage governments to grapple with the multifarious problems of the state. Kashmir...

The possibility of democracy-enhancing uses and anti-democratic abuses of referendums reveals a paradox: mechanisms of democracy can be exploited to do violence to the basic principles of democracy. The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums seeks to...

In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid's legalisms have been described as frivolous, humorous, and ornamental. Law and Love in Ovid challenges this wide-spread, but...

Across the globe guilt has become a contentious issue in discussions over historical accountability and reparation for past injustices. Guilt has become political, and it assumes a highly visible place in the public sphere and academic debate in fields...

A syncretistic and millenarian religious movement, the Yiguandao (Way of Pervading Unity) was one of the major redemptive societies of Republican China. It developed extremely rapidly in the 1930s and the 1940s, attracting millions of members. Severely...

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual...

The gap between the abundance of American higher education talent and the immense foreign demand for it is the great chasm in global education. It is a gulf of lost opportunities. It is also a space of great economic potential. This book describes the...

This book explores what it has meant for India and Pakistan to act as sovereign states entangled at birth by an unsatisfactory partition. Sovereignty is conventionally understood as a means to achieve the goals that states set for themselves. The book...

Judah Friedlander is the world champion, the greatest athlete in the world, a master of the martial arts, the only extra-dark blackbelt to ever exist. He's banned from China because he's too good at karate; that's why they built The Great Wall - to keep...

Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielberg's most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four sequels, a legion of worldwide fans, and a wide range of merchandise covering everything from action figures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839583Author Brooke VitaleFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 89mm * 64mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905929454Author H. R. GigerFormat HardbackPage Count 660Imprint Edition Patrick FreyPublisher Edition Patrick Frey

Wow! Work has extracted the best years of your life so far, and with a salary and benefits package, a vast amount of experience and wisdom accumulated, and mortgage and education costs covered, you've survived! But what do you want to do when you grow...

The official art book for the animated movie The Amazing Maurice, based on the Carnegie Medal-winning Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett Maurice is a streetwise talking tomcat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of talking...

Capture the magic of Christmas with darling amigurumi These adorable crocheted characters and their miniature accessories tell the heartwarming classic story of " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas." Easy-to-follow instructions will teach you to make a...

A refreshing new practical approach to documentary filmmaking, Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking equips new and veteran filmmakers with the knowhow to make artistically rewarding documentaries for less money, less hassle, and less time. Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478978Author Richard WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Faber and Faber IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Film is a kind of magic, a world of shadows and light, where anything is possible and the dead come back to life. Film can persuade us to believe in anything and special effects can work miracles. It is therefore the perfect medium for expressing occult...

Did Silence of the Lambs leave you reaching for a smooth bottle of dry red wine?After reading The Shining did you have an unaccountable urge to sip a red rum concoction?And did Bram Stoker's Dracula induce a craving for... well, perhaps the less said...

Clementine is intent on finding someone (anyone!) to take her for a walk, but everyone is just too busy. When it is finally time to go for a walk, Clementine is nowhere to be found.About the AuthorAnnie White illustrates and writes for children from her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686937Author G. H. JanusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books

Horror films have always reflected their audiences' fears and anxieties. In the United States, the 2000s were a decade full of change in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the contested presidential election of 2000, and the wars in Iraq and...

FIRING ON ALL FOUR CYLINDERS! Haruka reluctantly saves the day again and again, but now he wants nothing more than to go home to his cave and enjoy his loner life! But fate has grander designs in store for the hapless young lad. Word of an ancient,...

This second edition of No other Way To Tell It defines the form, analyses its codes and conventions, and reviews contrasting histories in America and British practice - taking into account new developments since the first edition.These include...

Aimed at teachers and students new to the subject, Studying Horror Cinema is a comprehensive survey of the genre from silent cinema to its twenty-first century resurgence. Structured as a series of thirteen case studies of easily accessible films, it...

Producer Hal Roach wanted to match his success with Laurel and Hardy by producing films with a female comedy team. So in 1931 he teamed up Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts for a series of two reel shorts that were quickly successful. When Pitts left the studio...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683838661Author Brooke VitaleFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 89mm * 64mm...

Accompanying an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, Inspiring Walt Disney explores the influences of the art and architecture of France on Walt Disney and his studio artists, highlighting in particular the Disney classics of hand-drawn animation,...