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  'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes…'   For now, the label on his hospital co... More

The Chronicles of Narnia return to the silver screen in Summer 2008 with the eagerly awaited Prince Caspian! The Pevensies are back in Narnia but this time, everything is different.There is trouble in Narnia and it’s up to Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy to save the land they love!Parents can really... More

Table of contents 1. Theory of metal cutting 2. Cutting tool materials 3. Machinability aspects in machining 4. Turning, boring, planing and shaping 5. Drilling and reaming 6. Deep-hole drilling and trepanning 7. Milling practice 8. Broaching 9. Grinding process 10. Gear-cutting practice... More

Marlene Dietrich once said, "I am not a myth." But by referencing the term, Dietrich only reinforces the fact more emphatically. For, using almost any common dictionary definition of that word, Dietrich is a myth. Her image was fashioned by director Josef von Sternberg in films like The Blue Angel, ... More

Just as "Book Lust" and "Music Lust" supplied thousands of new reading and listening recommendations, "Movie Lust" continues the Lust series tradition, offering 1,300 film recommendations for the discerning movie lover.... More

Humphrey Bogart is a legend and an icon whose magic has not dissipated with time. The wounded tough guy image Bogart molded over the decades of his career still resonates. There is a truth to this image; audiences sense that the world-weariness, the angst, and the vulnerability, which made him an ic... More

With the help of this game plan, readers learn how to crack into each market of the film industry (except acting) and then parlay an entry-level job into a show-business career.Looking for a career in the film business? Look no further. Making it in Hollywood is possible. But only if you have a work... More

This work takes readers inside the White House, Pentagon, and Baghdad's Green Zone to understand for themselves the disintegration of Iraq--and how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war. Photos throughout.The first book of its kin... More

During the heyday of the studio system spanning the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, virtually all the American motion picture industry's money, power, and prestige came from a single activity: selling tickets at the box office. Today, the movie business is just a small, highly visible outpost in a media univ... More

India produces more films than any other country in the world, and these works are avidly consumed by non-Western cultures in Afirca, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and by the Indian communities in Australia, Britain, the Caribbean Island, and North America. Jyotika Virdi focuses on how this domin... More

A lively romp through the fascinating world of Hindi cinema, Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief tracks the making of Omkara, Vishal Bhardwaj's highly acclaimed adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, from the hours-long script narration for the actors to the star-studded premiere. Interspersed with in... More

For more than six decades she has been a part of our lives. Now acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli looks past the tabloid version of Elizabeth's life and offers the first-ever fully realized portrait of this American icon. You'll meet her controlling mother who plotted her daughter's success... More

A collection of classic essays by French scholars in what has come to be known as New History. A departure was made, almost six decades ago, from the established historiography of the time which focused on the documented achievements and failings of the ruling dynasties. The new history took cognisa... More