Author: Joe Mitchell ChapplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yellowstone National Park
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A'top O' the World
Author: Joe Mitchell ChapplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yellowstone National Park
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Tales from the Top of the World
Author: Sandra K. AthansPublisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1467701262
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The journey up Mount Everest is never easy. Climbers risk their lives as they struggle around jagged towers of ice, over snow-covered boulders, and across gaping crevasses. Pete Athans knows these dangers well. He has climbed Mount Everest fourteen times and reached the summit seven times. What is it like to climb the highest mountain on Earth? In this book, you'll follow Pete to the top—and learn about his adventures along the way.
The National Magazine
Author: Education in the School of Dreams
Author: Jennifer Lynn PetersonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822378914
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial motion picture theaters. These short films, also known as "scenics," depicted tourist destinations and exotic landscapes otherwise inaccessible to most viewers. Scenics were so popular that they were briefly touted as the future of film. But despite their pervasiveness during the early twentieth century, travelogues have been overlooked by film historians and critics. In Education in the School of Dreams, Jennifer Lynn Peterson recovers this lost archive. Through innovative readings of travelogues and other nonfiction films exhibited in the United States between 1907 and 1915, she offers fresh insights into the aesthetic and commercial history of early cinema and provides a new perspective on the intersection of American culture, imperialism, and modernity in the nickelodeon era. Peterson describes the travelogue's characteristic form and style and demonstrates how imperialist ideologies were realized and reshaped through the moving image. She argues that although educational films were intended to legitimate filmgoing for middle-class audiences, travelogues were not simply vehicles for elite ideology. As a form of instructive entertainment, these technological moving landscapes were both formulaic and also wondrous and dreamlike. Considering issues of spectatorship and affect, Peterson argues that scenics produced and disrupted viewers' complacency about their own place in the world.
Editor & Publisher
Author: Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z
Author: Charles Dudley WarnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Catholic World
Author: Library of the World's Best Literature
Author: Charles Dudley WarnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
World on the Brink
Author: Dmitri AlperovitchPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541704150
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The leading national security expert who predicted Putin’s intention to invade Ukraine argues that China’s Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years—with dire stakes for America and the world if he is not deterred We are fully in the midst of Cold War II, this time with China. Taiwan is a new West Berlin, a perilous strategic flashpoint where localized events could trigger a devastating war between nuclear powers. But this outcome is far from inevitable. Laying out the grand strategy for the United States and allies to avoid this fate, the highly respected security analyst Dmitri Alperovitch reveals key actions that could enable America to win the race for the twenty-first century. This sharp, timely book is the essential blueprint for preventing a catastrophe.
Munsey's Magazine for ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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