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John Sayles
In the vein of Never Let Me Go and Killers of the Flower Moon, one of America's greatest storytellers sheds light on an American tragedy- the Wounded Knee Massacre, and…
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A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
"It gets under the skin of this extraordinary time in a way that few historical novels do. Sayles writes superbly about the…
Noah Gittell
FeaturingField of Dreams,The Bad News Bears,A League of Their Own, and more: aprobing and entertaining work at the intersection of pop culture and sports
Baseball has always been a symbol…
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David R. Shumway
A consideration of the distinctly independent filmmaker’s explicitly political cinema
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Jack Ryan
John Sayles has remained a maverick, writing, directing, editing and even acting in his own films. This book chronicles Sayles’ career - including the story of his inauspicious beginning as…
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Conducted over a period of twenty years, these interviews span John Sayles’s career as a writer, director, and sometimes actor. Sayles is always direct and candid. In each conversation, he…
Mark Bould
John Sayles is considered by many to be the godfather of American independent film. After an apprenticeship scripting exploitation movies, he became a fully-fledged filmmaker, often writing, directing, editing and…
Filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture. This collection offers coverage of Sayles’s craft and content, with a…
The rules of practice in the civil courts of record of the state of Texas - Third Edition, Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of…
The rules of practice in the civil courts of record of the state of Texas is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of…
After cheating the hangman twice--once after the Battle of Culloden in Scotland and again at Marshalsea Prison--Jamie MacGillivray is sentenced to indentured servitude in colonial America where he teams up…
Title: Annotated Civil Statutes of the State of Texas: Containing the General Civil Statutes of the Twentieth Legislature (Special Session) and of the Twenty-First, Twenty-Second and Twenty-Third Legislatures (General and…
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Rich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose.
With an Introduction that describes the making of his films, this book is a collection of filmmaker John Sayles’ acclaimed work.
Before becoming an Oscar(-nominated screenwriter and celebrated independent filmmaker, Sayles was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. Now he presents his first short story collection in 25 years.
What choices - creative, practical and technical - make a movie what it is? In this text, a writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full…
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Nominated for the National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977, this novel explores the lives of working-class people, of fathers and sons, during the turbulent…
John Sayles,Henry Sayles
Title: Early Laws of Texas: General Laws from 1836 to 1879, Relating to Public Lands, Colonial Contracts, Headrights, Pre-emptions, Grants of Land to Railroads and Other Corporations, Conveyances, Descent, Distribution…
John Sayles, Henry Sayles
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
John Sayles, Texas Sayles, Henry Sayles
John Sayle Watterson
Sports, Watterson argues, open a window into the presidency, shedding new light on presidential behavior and offering new perspectives on the office and the sporting men-and women-who have and will…
In this history of America’s popular pastime, the author shows how college football has evolved over 100 years from a simple game played by college students into a lucrative, semi-professional…
John 1825-1897 Sayles
Jim Tully
Features memories of an Irish-American growing up log-shack poor in small-town Ohio. This autobiography digs into the soil of the author’s native Ohio to show what life was like in…
Charles Sayle
George Charles Williamson,Charles Sayle
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Reuben Aldridge Guild
Memorial address on the late John Whipple Potter Jenks - Professor of Zoology Emeritus and Curator of the Museums, Delivered Before the Faculty and Students of Brown University in Sayles…
John Wycliffe,Alfred W 1859 Pollard,Charles Edward Sayle
John Smith,Charles Deane
Title: New Englands Trials; declaring the successe of 26 ships employed thither within these six yeares: with the benefit of that Countrey by sea and land: and how to build…
John Smith
Title: New England trials: declaring the successe of 26 ships employed thither within these sixe yeares: with the benefit of that countrey by sea and land: and how to build…
