Making Sense of Movies is a film appreciation text that focuses on the Hollywood style of moviemaking to examine the aesthetic, historical, and theoretical aspects of film studies. The text focuses on a limited number of significant movies to provide greater depth of knowledge and understanding, gradually expanding the number of films with each chapter.

Making Sense of Movies: Filmmaking in the Hollywood Style

Humor & Entertainment

Stanley,Robert

Movies

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

A sophisticated and accessible application of the newest theoretical work in public-policy history and legal studies, this book is a detailed account of how a permanent income tax was enacted into law in the United States. The tax originated as an apology for the aggressive manipulation of other forms of taxation, especially the tariff, during the Civil War. Levied with very low rates on a small proportion of the population and raising little revenue, the early tax was designed to preserve imbalances in the structure of wealth and opportunity, rather than to ameliorate or abolish them, by strengthening the status quo against fundamental attacks by the political left and right. This book shows that the early course of income taxation was more clearly the product of centrist ideological agreement, despite occasional divergences, than of "conservative-liberal" allocative conflict.

Dimensions of Law in the Service of Order: Origins of the Federal Income Tax, 1861-1913

History

Americas

Oxford University Press

Do all the new bells and whistles of Adobe Photoshop 5 have you buzzing with anticipation, but also leave you with a healthy dose of intimidation? Do you wish you could find a book that not only tells you what Photoshop's features are, but real-world uses for them? Do you wish you could find a book that takes into consideration the fact that not everyone is van Gogh? Do you just want to quickly and easily get up to speed on the latest features? You're holding the answer to all of these questions (and more) in your hand.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop 5 (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Alpha

Do all the new bells and whistles of Adobe Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3 have you buzzing with anticipation, but also leave you with a healthy dose of intimidation? Do you wish you could find a book that not only tells you what Photoshop's features are, but real-world uses for them? Do you wish you could find a book that takes into consideration the fact that not everyone is van Gogh? Do you just want to quickly and easily get up to speed on the latest features? The CIG to Photoshop is just what you need!

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 6

Computers & Technology

Programming

King George's keys: A record of experiences in the overseas service of the Crown

Johnson

Think Like A Millionaire: Building Wealth Without Savings

Business & Money

Personal Finance

Independently published

Making Sense of Media: A Cultural-Historical Approach

How to Draw Wings of Fire Dragons: The Fun and Simple Step by Step Way to Draw and Color All The Wings of Fire Dragons Characters

Computer Science

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