This book explores the complex, multifaceted and contested subject of risk in the film business. How risk is understood and managed has a substantial impact upon which films are financed…

An examination of key compliance-gaining techniques with the goal of making sense of their form, effects, mediators, and moderators. The text emphasizes how compliance-gaining techniques don't rely on applying pressure…

Susan Blackbury is amazed on the day her dog, Patch, starts speaking to her after a game of ball in the park. He tells her that he thinks their neighbour…

Students and academics involved with literary studies and history will find this exploration of the British cultural understanding of India extremely useful. The essays within this collection cover a wide…

Dear Reader, Before you is a unique compilation of the poetry of my maternal grandfather, Michael Franklin Ellis - a.k.a. Gramp. This short manuscript highlights a selection of verses from…

Rosalind Franklin: air-raid warden, scientist, pioneer. Uncover fascinating facts about the extraordinary life of trailblazing scientist, Rosalind Franklin.

A Fathers Hand: Lessons for Life from Father to Son, is a moving, spiritual, and very important gift from Dad. This is not a book of demands, but gentle reminders…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s deep admiration for distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt guided him into politics. Roosevelt rose quickly in New York political circles. Then, he was stricken with paralysis from the…