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Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King

Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King

Foster Hirsch

Foster Hirsch shows us the man—enraging and endearing—and his brilliant work. From the Hardcover edition.
A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio

A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio

Foster Hirsch

" Based on firsthand observations and numerous interviews, Hirsch's examination of the Studio's origins reveals how its graduates forever shaped the American stage and screen.
Acting Hollywood Style

Acting Hollywood Style

Foster Hirsch

Noted theater and film critic Hirsch has gathered rare photographs that show actors, from Rudolph Valentino to Meryl Streep, who embody aspects of the Hollywood Style--a unique blend of personality, acting ability, and sheer "star power". ...
Who's Afraid of Edward Albee?

Who's Afraid of Edward Albee?

Foster Hirsch

Sensitive critical study is a perceptive introduction to the work of a great American playwright.
The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir

The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir

Foster Hirsch

Originally published: San Diego, Calif.: A.S. Barnes, 1981.
Laurence Olivier on Screen

Laurence Olivier on Screen

Foster Hirsch

Traces the career of the distinguished British actor, discusses his approach to acting, and examines his major roles on film
Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir

Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir

Foster Hirsch

EDetours and Lost HighwaysE begins with the Orson Welles film ETouch of EvilE (1958) which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera.
The Darkest Path

The Darkest Path

Jeff Hirsch

USA TODAY bestselling author Jeff Hirsch once again creates a futuristic world with stunning, dramatic realism.
Norman Foster: selected and current works of Foster and Partners

Norman Foster: selected and current works of Foster and Partners

Norman Foster

The work described in this volume can never be considered ordinary and the office of Foster and Partners has done more than most in recent years for high tech architecture.
Why We Never Danced the Charleston

Why We Never Danced the Charleston

Harlan Greene

Hirsch's and Ned's eyes locked; in the cacophony, you could almost hear ancient voices shrieking down the centuries. Salome was dancing ... All they really want for me to do is gild the lily of Hirsch and Ned's lovemaking. They expect a string ...
Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway

Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway

Foster Hirsch

Five years later, Kurt Weill fled the Nazis to come to America, where he soon emerged as one of the most admired composers of the Broadway musical stage.
The Hirsch Chumash: Sefer Shemos

The Hirsch Chumash: Sefer Shemos

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Since it first appeared, nearly 150 years ago, the Hirsch Commentary on Chumash has gained worldwide popularity for the breathtaking scope of insight and information it offers to scholar, student, and layman alike.This expansive work ...
Harold Prince and the American Musical Theater

Harold Prince and the American Musical Theater

Foster Hirsch

This comprehensive study of the career of one of Broadway's most influential director/producers discusses the quintessential elements of Prince's theatrical work and assesses his impact on both the American and British musical theater
Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations

Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations

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Hirsch, Arnold R. (1992). 'Simply aMatter of Blackand White: The Transformation ofRace and Politics in Twentieth CenturyNew Orleans'. CreoleNew Orleans:Race and Americanization. Eds. ArnoldR. Hirsch and JosephLogsdon. BatonRouge ...
Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

Marianne Hirsch

Hirsch and Spitzer present the first historical account of Jewish Czernowitz in the English language and offer a profound analysis of memory's echo across generations.
Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture

Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture

Deyan Sudjic

A biography of Lord Foster, one of the world's foremost architects, written with his full co-operation. Norman Foster is a phenomenon - as an architect, but also as an individual.
Norman Foster

Norman Foster

Daniel Treiber

This book documents the key buildings from Foster's early years and goes on to review the works between 1976 and 1992 that have earned Sir Norman Foster international recognition.
Norman Foster

Norman Foster

Daniel Treiber

This book documents the key buildings from Foster's early years and goes on to review the works between 1976 and 1992 that have earned Sir Norman Foster international recognition.
Vintonia

Vintonia

David Tracy Jones

Mrs. Edith Mary Foster's brother, Arthur Cooke, died at Indianapolis in March 1951. - Edith Mary (Cooke) Foster and Wheeler Foster have the following three children: a. Vivian Cooke (Foster) Zarth (b. July 1901, wife of Randolph Zarth, ...
Guide to U.S. Foundations, Their Trustees, Officers, and Donors

Guide to U.S. Foundations, Their Trustees, Officers, and Donors

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... Catherine, Portland Women's Union, OR, 45490 (FD2) Hinkamp, AnneC, Trotter Family Foundation, IL, 15209 Hinkes, .... Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, CA, 1476 (FD) Hirsch, Bryan L., Gladys and jack Hirsch Family Foundation, ...
Soil

Soil

Rebecca Hirsch

Rebecca Hirsch. Others, such as mushrooms, are bigger. The aboveground part of a mushroom grows from long threads the soil richer take nitrogen from the air and turn. in the soil. Termites and Soil Some termites live in homes built from a ...
The Reichstag: Foster + Partners

The Reichstag: Foster + Partners

Norman Foster

In the 1990s Norman Foster transformed Berlin's Reichstag from a historical symbol of Germany's defeat and division to an architectural beacon for twenty-first century democracy, as can be seen in this generously illustrated book.
The Treesearcher

The Treesearcher

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Mr. Terry James Hickman, 19c University Village West, 1600 West Plum, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 (H 143) Wish ancestry of the following: Michal FOSTER, b. 8 Sept 1767; Mary FOSTER, b. 14 June 1769; Rachal FOSTER, b. 23 May 1772 ...
Michael Foster and the Rise of the Cambridge School of ...

Michael Foster and the Rise of the Cambridge School of ...

Gerald L. Geison

CHAPTER FOUR FOSTER ON HIS WAY TO CAMBRIDGE Michael Foster sprang from yeoman stock. For generations his ancestors had farmed in 1.lertfordshi re and Bedfordshire, between London and Cambridge, The Fosters were ...
Jewish social studies

Jewish social studies

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.(1842), p. 5. 59. Henry John Marks, Narrative of Henry John Marks (2nd ed., London, 1840), p. 4. 60. Ridley Herschell, Conversion of Mr. and Mrs. Levi '(New York, 1852). 61. Shemoel Hirsch, The History and Conversion of Shemoel Hirsch  ...
W.B. Yeats: A Life

W.B. Yeats: A Life

R. F. Foster

A Life R. F. Foster, Robert Fitzroy Foster. Dublin. 1881-1887. At any rate if I had not been an unsuccessful & struggling man Willie 5cJack would not have been so strenuous -&Lily &Lollie? Perhaps they'd have been married like your daughter ...
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960

Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960

Arnold R. Hirsch

In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation.
The Western Journal of Black Studies

The Western Journal of Black Studies

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Laurence Foster, a Black Anthropologist: His Life and Work" New York Times, “ Laurence Foster, Anthropologist,” 19 August ... YOLANDA T. MOSES Introduction Like many other social scientists of the depression era, Laurence Foster was an ...

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