CREATE YOUR AUTHENTIC PATH TO WIN AT LIFE\nWhat does winning at life mean to you? Is something keeping you from victory? Are you afraid to dream big? Do you lack self-belief? Are you just living on autopilot?\nLet’s stop that now. You can change. You have the power.\nFormer USC All-American and NFL quarterback Paul McDonald takes you Thru the Tunnel where you’ll get an inside look at the life of elite athletes that illustrate how you can become empowered to create the life you’ve always wanted.

Thru the Tunnel: True Stories of Sports and Life That Empower Your Spirit

Sports & Outdoors

McDonald, Paul

Baric, Jack

Biographies

GameChange

Cinema's glamor has always been inseparable from star performances and star images. On its first publication in 1980, this book set new standards for critical and theoretical rigor in the field of star studies. Through the intensive examination of films, magazines, and advertising--as well as critical texts--Richard Dyer analyzes the historical, ideological, and aesthetic significance of stars, changing the way we understand screen icons. Paying particular attention to Marlon Brando, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Fonda, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Redford, and John Wayne, Stars is an indispensable textbook. This new edition features a supplementary chapter by Paul McDonald that traces developments in star studies since the first appearance of Richard Dyer's classic study.

Stars

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

British Film Institute

With a rapier wit and a sharp eye for the absurdity of the human condition, this hilarious novel holds its focus on the issues and struggles common to every familyWhen Trebbo's dad Minty bursts into song in response to Frank Wilson's classic "Do I Love You" on a fried chicken advert on TV, he triggers a disastrous chain of events. In showing Trebbo's girlfriend Tiffany the "very athletic" style of dancing that was allegedly once his forte, he lands himself straight in hospital. Here his enthusiasm for the dance scene is rekindled when a young nurse, Kylie, invites him to an anniversary all-nighter at Fanny's nightclub—and he starts to assemble his old soul mates together. Meanwhile teenage Trebbo is chased around town after a bad skunk deal made with "gangsta," Blubber-T—and health-visitor mom, Hazel, struggles to keep the family together. Tired of mopping up after her husband's absurd mishaps, it's no wonder she seeks comfort in her own obsessions—or that there's a new man in her life.

Do I Love You?

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Tindal st Pr Ltd

Hollywood Stardom

By integrating star studies and film industry studies, Hollywood Stardom reveals the inextricable bonds between culture and commerce in contemporary notions of film stardom. 
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<li>Integrates the traditions of star studies and industry studies to establish an original and innovative mode of analysis whereby the ‘star image’ is replaced with the ‘star brand’</li> <li>Offers the first extensive analysis of stardom in the ‘post-studio’ era</li> <li>Combines genre, narrative, acting, and discourse analysis with aspects of marketing theory and the economic analysis of the film market</li> <li>Draws on an extensive body of research data not previously deployed in film scholarship</li> <li>A wide range of star examples are explored including George Clooney, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, and Julia Roberts</li> </ul>

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Wiley/Blackwell

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta’s survival in the Second World War. It was a battle which decided the outcome of the war in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Adrian Warburton, the airman described in the subtitle by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, went missing in 1944 in a single-seat American aircraft. He had flown at least 395 operational missions mostly from Malta. Unusually for a reconnaissance pilot, ‘Warby’ as he was known was credited with nine aircraft shot down. He lay undiscovered for sixty years. He is the RAF’s most highly decorated photo-recce pilot. In Malta, Adrian met Christina, a stranded dancer turned aircraft plotter in the secret world deep beneath Valletta’s fortress walls. She too was decorated for heroism. Together, they became part of the island’s folklore. How important was Malta and the girl from Cheshire to the man behind the medals? This tale takes the form of a quest opening in a cemetery in Bavaria and closing in another in Malta. In between, the reader is immersed within the tension and drama surrounding Malta’s Greater Siege retracing the steps of the main characters over the forever changed face of the island following its heroic victory.

Malta’s Greater Siege: & Adrian Warburton DSO* DFC** DFC (USA)

Historical

Pen and Sword Aviation

The world premiere of the musical stage play _Star of Strait Street_ took place in Valletta on 4 April 2017. It celebrates the life of Christina Ratcliffe, an English singer and dancer who became an aircraft plotter in Malta in the Second World War. She worked in the underground Royal Air Force operational headquarters beneath Lascaris Bastion in Valletta. This is Christina’s story and that of other British and Maltese girls employed by the RAF. It is also the story of Philip Glassborow’s hit musical _Star of Strait Street_. In June 1942 fifty-three female civilian plotters worked at Lascaris, some as young as fourteen. Six including Christina were decorated for gallantry. What they did, how they lived and how some of them died is told in part using their own words. Their descriptions of life beneath the most intensive, prolonged bombing the world has ever seen are extraordinary and rare: female perspectives at the heart of military conflict. Described in the _Times of Malta_ in 1942 as ‘Christina of George Cross Island’, she herself said Malta ‘is carved on my heart’. For years after the Second World War in small corner cafés and bars that are such a feature of Malta’s towns and villages, people talked about a remarkable RAF photo-recce pilot called Warby and his stunning companion Christina, a true heroine, they said. Yet she died alone and unnoticed and was buried in a shared grave. Now the memory of what she and the _LADIES OF LASCARIS_ achieved has been brought back to life for a well-deserved encore in writing and on the stage.

Ladies of Lascaris: Christina Ratcliffe and the Forgotten Heroes of Malta's War

Community & Culture

Pen and Sword History

The world premiere of the musical stage play Star of Strait Street took place in Valletta on 4 April 2017. It celebrates the life of Christina Ratcliffe, an English singer and dancer who became an aircraft plotter in Malta in the Second World War. She worked in the underground Royal Air Force operational headquarters beneath Lascaris Bastion in Valletta.This is Christina's story and that of other British and Maltese girls employed by the RAF. It is also the story of Philip Glassborow's hit musical Star of Strait Street.In June 1942 fifty-three female civilian plotters worked at Lascaris, some as young as fourteen. Six including Christina were decorated for gallantry. What they did, how they lived and how some of them died is told in part using their own words. Their descriptions of life beneath the most intensive, prolonged bombing the world has ever seen are extraordinary and rare: female perspectives at the heart of military conflict.Described in the Times of Malta in 1942 as 'Christina of George Cross Island', she herself said Malta 'is carved on my heart'. For years after the Second World War in small corner cafés and bars that are such a feature of Malta's towns and villages, people talked about a remarkable RAF photo-recce pilot called Warby and his stunning companion Christina, a true heroine, they said. Yet she died alone and unnoticed and was buried in a shared grave.Now the memory of what she and the Ladies of Lascaris achieved has been brought back to life for a well-deserved encore in writing and on the stage.

Ladies of Lascaris: Christina Ratcliffe and The Forgotten Heroes of Malta's War

This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta's survival in the Second World War. It was a battle which decided the outcome of the war in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Adrian Warburton went missing in 1944 in a single-seat American aircraft. He had flown at least 395 operational missions mostly from Malta. Unusually for a reconnaissance pilot, Warby as he was known was credited with nine aircraft shot down. He lay undiscovered for sixty years. He is the RAFs most highly decorated photo-recce pilot.In Malta, Adrian met Christina, a stranded dancer turned aircraft plotter in the secret world deep beneath Vallettas fortress walls. She too was decorated for heroism. Together, they became part of the islands folklore. How important was Malta and the girl from Cheshire to the man behind the medals? This tale takes the form of a quest opening in a cemetery in Bavaria and closing in another in Malta. In between, the reader is immersed within the tension and drama surrounding Malta's Greater Siege retracing the steps of the main characters over the forever changed face of the island following its heroic victory.

Malta's Greater Siege & Adrian Warburton DSO* DFC** DFC (USA): The Most Valuable Pilot in the RAF

Leaders & Notable People

Video and DVD Industries (International Screen Industries)

Video and DVD Industries examines the business of video entertainment and provides the first study looking at DVD from an industrial perspective. Detailing divisions in the video business, the book outlines industry battles over incompatible formats, from the Betamax/VHS war, to competing laserdisc systems, alternatives such as video compact disc or Digital Video Express, and the introduction of HDDVD and Blu-ray high-definition systems. Chapters also look at the formation of international markets in the globalization of video media, the contradictory responses of the Hollywood studios to video and DVD, and the legal and technological measures taken to control industrialized video piracy.

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Thru the Tunnel: True Stories of Sports and Life That Empower Your Spirit

Stars

Do I Love You?

Hollywood Stardom

Hollywood Stardom

Malta’s Greater Siege: & Adrian Warburton DSO* DFC** DFC (USA)

Ladies of Lascaris: Christina Ratcliffe and the Forgotten Heroes of Malta's War

Ladies of Lascaris: Christina Ratcliffe and The Forgotten Heroes of Malta's War

Malta's Greater Siege & Adrian Warburton DSO* DFC** DFC (USA): The Most Valuable Pilot in the RAF

Video and DVD Industries (International Screen Industries)