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  Mandela - A Film and Historical...

  Nelson Mandela

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  A behind-the-scenes glimpse at the making of the motion picture, plus a look into the life of the revolutionary statesman whose story inspired the film. 
   
  This official companion book to the epic major feature film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom retraces the life of Nelson Mandela, weaving together his own words and historic humanitarian efforts with cinematic narrative and exclusive behind-the-scenes content. This is a combination of dramatic recreations and history, featuring film stills alongside archival photographs of actual events; commentary from the acclaimed cast and filmmakers plus interviews with Mandela’s own family and comrades; excerpts from his books and personal papers, with lush, full-color panoramas of the South African landscapes where the film was shot on location. Fans of the movie and Mandela admirers, whatever their age, will relish this unique look at the making of an epic motion picture and the life of a beloved historical icon.

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  Americans Are Drowning In...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Collectively, Americans owe nearly a trillion dollars of medical debt, and Congress is trying to figure out a policy response. But in the meantime, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on an unusual non-profit’s effort to relieve the burden of medical debt for those in need.

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  Sandro Botticelli

  Victoria Charles

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  Botticelli is a painter not of facts, but of ideas, and his pictures are not so much a representation of certain objects as a pattern of forms. Nor is his colouring rich and lifelike; it is subordinated to form, and often rather a tinting than actual colour. In fact, he was interested in the abstract possibilities of his art rather than in the concrete. For example, his compositions, as has just been said, are a pattern of forms; his figures do not actually occupy well-defined places in a well-defined area of space; they do not attract us by their suggestion of bulk, but as shapes of form, suggesting rather a flat pattern of decoration. Accordingly, the lines which enclose the figures are chosen with the primary intention of being decorative.
      It has been said that Botticelli, “though one of the worst anatomists, was one of the greatest draughtsmen of the Renaissance.” As an example of false anatomy we may notice the impossible way in which the Madonna’s head is attached to the neck, and other instances of faulty articulation and incorrect form of limbs may be found in Botticelli’s pictures. Yet he is recognised as one of the greatest draughtsmen: he gave to ‘line’ not only intrinsic beauty, but also significance. In mathematical language, he resolved the movement of the figure into its factors, its simplest forms of expression, and then combined these various forms into a pattern which, by its rhythmical and harmonious lines, produces an effect upon our imagination, corresponding to the sentiments of grave and tender poetry that filled the artist himself.
      This power of making every line count in both significance and beauty distinguishes the great master- draughtsmen from the vast majority of artists who used line mainly as a necessary means of representing concrete objects.

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  Capturing Light - The Epic...

  David Sartore, Joel Taylor

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  Capturing Light: The Epic Journey of Photograph 
  Introducing "The History of Photography: A Picture of Innovation." Witness the development of a medium that has captured the human experience in its most fleeting moments and grand historical sweeps. 
  Uncover the layers of this visual saga with: 
  📸 Pioneering Perspectives: Explore the origins of photography and the geniuses whose visions gave rise to a new form of art and documentation. 
  🔍 Technological Evolution: Trace the advancements from the first grainy images to the high-definition clarity of contemporary cameras, understanding the science that made it possible. 
  🎨 Artistic Revolution: Delve into the ways photography has reshaped our approach to art, from candid street snapshots to the curated expressions of the gallery wall. 
  🌐 Cultural Impact: Examine the role of photography in shaping our social history, politics, and collective memory, proving itself as a tool of both truth and manipulation. 
  Each chapter develops an understanding of how every snapshot is a frame in the reel of history—to educate, to inspire, and to provoke reflection on this powerful form of human expression. 
  Are you ready to focus on the milestones of photographic ingenuity? To zoom in on the moments that have changed the way we see the world? To appreciate the breadth and depth of photography's impact on society? 
  Open "The History of Photography" and immerse yourself in the story of how we have come to picture our reality, one shutter click at a time. 📚📸🌐

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  Author's Playhouse - Volume 7

  Ben Hecht, Ben Luchen Ferman

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  The screenplay writer in Hollywood was a pen-for-hire.  Whatever your status elsewhere in the world here, in Hollywood, you were usually a high-paid weekly contract where your talents, your genius, were at the beck and call of others who spoke of Art but were really mad but we're really the mouthpieces of Commerce. 
   
  But radio for the Hollywood studio system was all about marketing.  On that basis something approaching art could be produced on a regular basis.  This series produced some real gems from all manner of writers as their short stories and plays were remade for a radio audience.  With high production values courtesy of the money from the shows sponsor, Philip Morris, the expert writers and cast delivered marvelous works, as we're about to find out.

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  Explodobook - The World of 80s...

  John Rain

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  The 1980s. A time of fear: fear of the unknown, fear of your neighbours, fear of drugs, fear of sex, fear of strangers, fear of videos, and the very real fear that the world would end at any moment in an awful, and very sudden, nuclear attack.  However, in those times of turmoil and worry, there was a comfort that soothed the mind, and acted as a quiet balm: action movies.  Video shops were bursting at the seams with rampant gunfire, sex, drugs, rock, roll, cars on fire, people on fire, guns, bombs, and people dressed in army fatigues (and that was just the staff). Heroes were born shrouded in fire and violent revenge, they were not only armed with guns, but also red-hot quips, that served as a muscly arm around the shoulder, and a wink that everything was going to be okay.  So thank you Arnold, Sylvester, Sigourney, Bruce, Eddie, Charles, Patrick, Mel, Chuck and everyone else that made it happen. You saved the world, in your own inimitable way.  Join John Rain, the author of the critically-acclaimed Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod, as he examines a choice selection of the greatest action movies from the decade when the explosion was king.

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