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1776
In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. The darkest hours of that tumultuous year were as dark as any Americans have known. Especially in our own tumultuous time, 1776 is powerful testimony to how much is owed to a rare few in that brave founding epoch, and what a miracle it was that things turned out as they did. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough's 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history..
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Tales from Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions
Margaritaville may not appear on a map, but it does exist--at least in the brilliantly creative, sometimes slightly skewed imagination of Jimmy Buffett Tales from Margaritaville is a collection of short stories (some purely fiction, some based in truth) so vividly packed with restless dreamers, wild wanderers, and pure gypsy souls that just reading it is a wild adventure. Travel along with a cowboy named Tully Mars, as he heads from Heartache, Wyoming, to Graceland, and relive the autobiographical odyssey of a third-generation sailor and first-rate musical outlaw. With unforgettable stories that present the true roamer's twin loves--the sea and the road-- Tales from Margaritaville is one "smooth sailing book of infinite imagination" ( Chicago Sun-Times). .
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Beasts Factual and Fantastic (The Medieval Imagination)
Beasts Factual and Fantastic is the first in the Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books that will draw on manuscript illuminations from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance Each volume will focus on a particular theme or subject as represented by medieval artists. Often, as in the case of the imaginary beasts that readers will encounter in this volume, artists depicted that which they did not see or know, but which was nonetheless shaped by the prevailing beliefs, fears, and rudimentary science of the time. In other cases, manuscript illuminators recorded what they indeed did see--which, centuries later, reveals much about the world in which they lived. This inaugural volume features vivid and charming details from the wealth of manuscripts in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library, along with a lively text; together both word and image provide an accessible and delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world. Future volumes in this series will cover such topics as costumes, portraiture, and marginalia, among others..
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Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends
* Where did Sinbad Sail?* Who Fired the Phoenix?* The Boy Who Cried Werewolf* The Great Rough Beast* Postscript on Prester John* The Secret of Hyperborea* What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet? And many more--fictional? authoritative? fantastic? deadpan?--investigations into the real, the true…and the things that should be true PREFACE BY PETER S. BEAGLE ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE BARR “Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, nobody knows what a wombat looks like and everyone knows what a dragon looks like.” Not a novel, not a book of short stories, Adventures in Unhistory is a book of the fantastic--a compendium of magisterial examinations of Mermaids, Mandrakes, and Mammoths; Dragons, Werewolves, and Unicorns; the Phoenix and the Roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the Moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and--revealed at last--the Secret of Hyperborea. The facts are here, the foundations behind rumors, legends, and the imaginations of generations of tale-spinners. But far from being dry recitals, these meditations, or lectures, or deadpan prose performances are as lively, as crazily inventive, as witty as the best fiction of the author, a writer praised by Gardner Dozois as “one of the great short story writers of our times.” Who, on the subject of Dragons, could write coldly, dispassionately, guided only by logic? Certainly not Avram Davidson. Certain facts, these facts, deserve more than recitation; they deserve flourish, verve, gusto, style--the late, great Avram Davidson’s unique voice. That prose which, in the words of Peter S. Beagle’s Preface to this volume, “cries out to be read aloud.” .
Price: $6.23
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Scriptwriting for High-Impact Videos: Imaginative approaches to delivering factual information, Second Edition
Whether you're just starting out or firmly entrenched in the field of informational video, you'll find this exciting new edition a scriptwriter's bible filled with stimulating examples and thought-provoking questions to unleash your creativity. You'll learn how to turn ideas into high-impact scripts-for corporate, medical, religious educational, and government videos. You'll be given a systematic, step-by-step approach to the creative process that you can adapt to virtually any situation. And you'll be shown proven techniques for communicating visually and writing for the ear, seven essential strategies for improving any video, plus guidelines for involving content experts and decision makers in the process while still maintaining creative control. Also inside:
Numerous examples and ideas to spark your imagination, including project proposals, creative treatments, research and interview questions, techniques for using drama and humor, and a complete list of creative approaches you can adapt to your next script. .
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Reality TV: Factual Entertainment and Television Audiences
What is the purpose of reality television? Does it provide information and education to the audience, or are the program makers simply exploiting real people's lives for the purposes of entertainment? Can we rely on documentaries to follow the ethics of programme making in terms of truth and accuracy? Real TV offers a wide-ranging, international, contemporary investigation into the field of factual entertainment, combining historical, theoretical, economic, aesthetic and empirical approaches. The book also provides a sustained investigation into ethical issues and public interest in order to show that such concepts are integral to an understanding of the development of factual entertainment. The current growth rate for "real" TV in factual and fictional television programs, film and websites on both sides of the Atlantic, has given rise to international debate about the function and influence of factual entertainment on audiences and mass media. Real TV presents a timely reflection on the development of factual entertainment and audience attraction to increasingly problematic hybrid forms of factual TV..
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How Come They Always Had The Battles in National Parks? A Factual and Funny Survey of American History from the Beginning Through the Civil War
Peter Bales is probably the only standup comic in America with a Ph.D. in history He has written a humorous, irreverent, yet historically accurate look at our country's past from earliest times through the Civil War. Ideal for young people who want to learn and older folks who'd like to refresh their memories, this book proves that history can be both interesting and fun..
Price: $14.95
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