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Nitric Oxide by B. Mayer 9783642630262
Booksplease Price: £46.58Nitric oxide (NO) has been discovered to play a fundamental role in a number of biological phenomena. This book describes various aspects of nitric oxide biology, physiology and pharmacology. It is... -
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation by Kenneth Turan 9780300292367
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.86Kenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it "Sharply observant."-Farran Smith Nehme,... -
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation Kenneth Turan 9780300254495
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Kenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it One was a tough junkman's son, the other... -
Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer by Scott Eyman 9780743269179
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £26.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743269179Author Scott EymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &... -
The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Greg Mitchell
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production. Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out... -
How to Stay Safe When Entering the Healthcare System: A Physician Walks across the Country to Raise Awareness of the Need to Improve Healthcare Safety by David B Mayer 9781627344067
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £24.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627344067Author David B MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher... -
Starring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon by Samuel Garza Bernstein 9781493074457
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493074457Author Samuel Garza BernsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe... -
Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald by Edward Baron Turk 9780520222533
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £30.89Jeanette MacDonald, the movie musical's first superstar, was an American original whose onscreen radiance mirrored a beguiling real-life personality. Based in large part on the author's exclusive... -
The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons by Samantha Barbas 9780520249851
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £22.72Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of... -
C'mon, Get Happy: The Making of Summer Stock by David Fantle
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. Despite its riveting production history, charismatic lead actors, and classic... -
When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics by Donald T. Critchlow 9780521199186
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.41Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a... -
From Walt to Woodstock: How Disney Created the Counterculture by Douglas Brode 9780292702738
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become... -
Van Johnson: MGM's Golden Boy by Ronald L. Davis 9781496803856
Booksplease Price: £31.89Van Johnson's dazzling smile, shock of red hair, and suntanned freckled cheeks made him a movie-star icon. Among teenaged girls in the 1940s, he was popularized as the bobbysoxer's heartthrob.He won... -
MGM Tino Balio (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) 9781138913660
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.13The winner of the 2019 Peter C. Rollins Book AwardThis is the first comprehensive history of MGM from its origins in 1905 to the present. Following a straightforward chronology corresponding to... -
Twentieth Century Fox: The Complete History of Hollywood's Maverick Studio by Scott Eyman
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.50March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, Twentieth Century-Fox was one of the preeminent... -
The Tailor Made Man by Claudio Macor 9781786823120
Booksplease Price: £12.27William "Billy" Haines was a popular silent screen MGM movie star who was fired by Louis B Mayer because he was gay and refused to give up his lifelong partner, Jimmie Shields, and marry the silent... -
Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille by Scott Eyman 9780743289566
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.99The authoritative biography of the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille: "if this were a movie, it would get four stars, two thumbs up, and an A" ( The Dallas Morning News ). * Hollywood... -
The Bird in the Tree: Book One of The Eliot Chronicles Elizabeth Goudge 9781473655942
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Lucilla has spent a lifetime making the Hampshire estate of Damerosehay a tranquil haven for the Eliot family. When her favourite grandson, David, falls in love with an unsuitable woman Lucilla feels... -
A City of Bells: The Cathedral Trilogy by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63The story of a quiet cathedral town, of an orphan who finds a new home, of two people who fight to separate themselves from the ghost of a man whose mystery has cast a spell that only his return can... -
Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf by Alan Shuback
Booksplease Price: £24.13Horse racing was so popular and influential between 1930 and 1960 that nearly 150 racing themed films were released, including A Day at the Races, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry, and National Velvet. This... -
Gentian Hill by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Unable to bear the prospect of a life at sea, young Anthony O'Connell deserts his ship at Torquay and escapes into the Devonshire countryside under a new name. When Stella Sprigg, adopted daughter of... -
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood by Frederica Sagor Maas 9780813121222
Booksplease Price: £34.39" Freddie Maas's revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio... -
Ideal Beauty: The Life and Times of Greta Garbo by Lois W. Banner 9781978806504
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56One of the silver screen’s greatest beauties, Greta Garbo was also one of its most profound enigmas. A star in both silent pictures and talkies, Garbo kept viewers riveted with understated... -
The Herb of Grace: Book Two of The Eliot Chronicles Elizabeth Goudge 9781473655966
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.71The second in the classic trilogy about the Eliots of Damerosehay.War has left David Eliot a changed man. Returning to the family home, he slowly begins to put the pieces of his life together... -
Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life by Lynn Haney 9780786716562
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.15His first screen test was a disaster, his features were large and irregular, his left ear outsized the right, yet he would one day be headlined as the Most Handsome Man in the World. And most of his... -
The White Witch by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Local squire Robert Haslewood is gripped by the prospect of war. Following his boyhood hero, he leaves his family and travels away from their Oxfordshire village to fight for the Parliamentarian... -
The Heart of the Family: Book Three of The Eliot Chronicles by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The third in the classic family saga about the Eliots of Damerosehay.Despite the success and acclaim he has found as an actor, David Eliot struggles with the demands of his career. His brittle... -
Towers in the Mist: The Cathedral Trilogy by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A charming tale of hope and love, set amid the dreaming spires of Elizabethan Oxford.When Faithful Crocker, an impoverished young man with a love of learning, travels to Oxford in the hope of... -
Opsin-free Optogenetics: Technology and Applications by Yubin Zhou 9781032249223
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £82.70Optogenetics represents a breakthrough technology capable of dynamically modulating molecular and cellular activity in live cells with high precision. This transformative technology made it possible... -
The Savvy Sphinx: How Garbo Conquered Hollywood by Robert Dance
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.06From the late 1920s through the thirties, Greta Garbo (1905-1990) was the biggest star in Hollywood. She stopped making films in 1941, at only thirty-six, and thereafter sought a discreet private... -
Neuron Signaling in Metabolic Regulation by Qingchun Tong 9780367744663
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89This book focuses on neuron signaling in the regulation of metabolism and body weight, and especially on methods used in these studies. Obesity and related metabolic syndromes have reached epidemic... -
Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screen by Ruth Barton 9780813147093
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.71Noted for his charisma, talent, and striking good looks, director Rex Ingram (1893 1950) is ranked alongside D. W. Griffith, Marshall Neilan, and Erich von Stroheim as one of the greatest artists of... -
Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £22.24Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuously captivated audiences. Born Hedwig Kiesler, she... -
John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars by Eve Golden 9780813141626
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.70Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897--1936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts... -
John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars by Eve Golden 9780813196497
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.97Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897-1936) was among the world's most recognisable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts... -
The Rosemary Tree Elizabeth Goudge 9781473656260
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Michael Stone was once a famous author. That was before he went to prison. Now, recently released, Michael needs a new beginning. Weighed down by failure and despair, the town of Silverbridge seems... -
This Is The City: Making Model Citizens In Los Angeles by Ronald J. Schmidt Jr. 9780816641918
Booksplease Price: £26.58A history of the urban and political forces in L.A. that sought to create virtuous and docile citizensJack Webb's Los Angeles, a Southern California paradise built of confidence games and real estate... -
CIty of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's by Otto Friedrich 9780062326041
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.82In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand... -
Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £19.88"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay... -
The Dean's Watch: The Cathedral Trilogy by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99A rich and beautiful story, set in a quiet cathedral city.When cathedral dean Adam Ayscough encounters clockmaker Isaac Peabody, their unlikely friendship touches the lives of the entire community...