“william macnab”

Presiding over the "golden era" of the British Film Industry from the mid to late 1940s, J. Arthur Rank financed movies such as "Oliver Twist," "The Red Shoes," "Brief Encounter," "Caesar and Cleopatra" and "Black Narcissus," Never before, and never since, has the industry risen to such heights. "J.... More

Tracing the development of theater and music hall stars and their usually awkward transition into film, Geoffrey Macnab explores the failure of British cinema to create its own stars. Through closely focused essays on key figures (Novello, Fields, Formby, Dors, Bogarde, Mason, Matthews), he offers a... More

Learn why GE has always had the best inventors, the best strategic planners, and the best results. William Rothschild, who witnessed GE's revolution firsthand, explains the five keys that made GE a global phenomenon - and gives managers a complete toolkit for duplicating its remarkable success. He e... More

Table of contents 1 Partial Dynamics 2 The Two Body Problem 3 Earth Satellite Operations 4 Rigid Body Dynamics 5 Satellite Attitude Dynamics 6 Gyroscopic Instruments 7 Rocket Performances 8 Reentry Dynamics 9 The Space Environment 10 The Restricted Three Body Problem 11 Interpl... More

In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the... More

Ever since the first furore was created on publication day in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. In essence this is a novel about lovelessness -- `only an idiot has no grief; only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enou... More

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they car the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, the author presents a portrait of ex... More