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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Russell Crowe, Sam Neill, Winter Hall, Clive Revill, Temuera Morrison, Alan Dale, Karl Urban, Bruce Spence, Ian Mune, Marton Csokas, Cliff Curtis, Rupert Julian, Michael Dorman, Martin Campbell, Geoff Murphy, Tavalia Griffin, Martin Henderson, Kevin Smith, Vincent Ward, Timothy Balme, Chris Rankin, Kieren Hutchison, Dwayne Cameron, Terence Bayler, Jonathan Hardy, Lawrence Makoare, Bret Mckenzie, Manu Bennett, Shane Rangi, Jemaine Clement, Daniel Gillies. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Russell Ira Crowe est un acteur néo-zélandais et australien, né le 7 avril 1964 à Wellington, en Nouvelle-Zélande. Il est célèbre pour ses rôles dans des grands films comme Révélations, Gladiator (pour lequel il a gagné un Oscar), Un homme d'exception et Master and commander : De l'autre côté du monde. Russell Crowe est né à Wellington, sur North Island en Nouvelle-Zélande, il a 4 ans lors que sa famille déménage en Australie. Il y devient une star de la télévision australienne, notamment grâce à la série Spyforce. Le premier pas vers la reconnaissance critique est marqué par son apparition dans The crossing, un drame sur l'amitié, la loyauté qui en découle et les relations amoureuses. En effet, pour son premier rôle principal il incarne Johnny, dont le meilleur ami Sam décide de partir en ville pour sa carrière professionnelle, laissant derrière lui Meg, la femme qu'il aime. Cette dernière va alors peu à peu se rapprocher de Johnny qui se laisse tenter par le charme de Meg. Lorsque Sam réapparait, Johnny est tiraillé entre son ami et la femme dont il est tombé amoureux, remettant en question tout son environnement affectif. La critique encense le film et Russell Crowe est nommé pour l'oscar australien du meilleur...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Kapitel: Ernest Rutherford, Keri Hulme, Sam Neill, Russell Crowe, George Silk, Hayley Westenra, Richard Pearse, Peter Jackson, Peter Fraser, Edmund Hillary, Richard Seddon, Vincent Ward, Robert Stout, John Ballance, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, Joseph Ward, Katherine Mansfield, Ronald Syme, Apirana Ngata, George William Forbes, Winston F. Ponder, Edward Stafford, William Fox, Peter C. B. Phillips, Neil Finn, Mazhar Krasniqi, Niki Caro, Kate Sheppard, Stuart Dryburgh, Charles Philippe Hippolyte de Thierry, Leonard Cuff, Keith Holyoake, William Gilbert Puckey, Frank Worsley, Lucy Lawless, William E. Trautmann, Jeanette Fitzsimons, Te Rangi Hīroa, Alfred Domett, Juliet Marillier, Arthur Lydiard, Minnie Maria Dronke, Robert Muldoon, David Warbeck, Rewi Alley, Nancy Wake, Elsie Locke, Henry Blundell, Frederick Whitaker, Alexander Aitken, Lloyd Jones, Essie Summers, Bill Pearson, Mary Scott, Len Lye, Gary Thain, Bic Runga, Mary Ann Müller, Cherry Wilder, George Edward Grey, Keith Edward Bullen, Arthur D. Trendall, Samuel Duncan Parnell, Andrew Mehrtens, Metiria Turei, Mark Todd, Graham Henry, Kevin Smith, Henry Sewell, Temuera Morrison, Winston Peters, Cameron Duncan, William Liley, Derek Freeman, Zoë Bell, Georg Jacoby, Daniel Bedingfield, Michael King, Brian Talboys, Witi Ihimaera, Raymond Firth, Maurice Gee, Marton Csokas, Kenneth Keith, Ron Scarlett, Anna Paquin, Melanie Lynskey, Daniel Patrick O'connell, Kiri Te Kanawa, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, David Lange, Edwin Carr, Russell Brice, Roy Patrick Kerr, Rebecca Gibney, Mike Nock, Rick Laird, Reginald Hamlin, George Campbell Munro, William Bradfield, Rupert Julian, Karl Urban, Brendan Cole, Te Atairangikaahu, Russel Norman, Richard Curtis, Colin Murdoch, Martin Campbell, Michael Hurst, Ngaio Marsh, Judy Millar, David Baker-Gabb, Richard Taylor, Algernon Thomas, Blyth Tait, William Stewart, Donald Mcintyre, Phil Goff, Rob Guest, Tim Bevan, Fleur Adcock, Alyn Ware, Charles Higham, Lesli...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Russell Crowe, Sam Neill, Winter Hall, Clive Revill, Temuera Morrison, Alan Dale, Karl Urban, Bruce Spence, Ian Mune, Marton Csokas, Cliff Curtis, Rupert Julian, Michael Dorman, Martin Campbell, Geoff Murphy, Tavalia Griffin, Martin Henderson, Kevin Smith, Vincent Ward, Timothy Balme, Chris Rankin, Kieren Hutchison, Dwayne Cameron, Terence Bayler, Jonathan Hardy, Lawrence Makoare, Bret Mckenzie, Manu Bennett, Shane Rangi, Jemaine Clement, Daniel Gillies. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Russell Ira Crowe est un acteur néo-zélandais et australien, né le 7 avril 1964 à Wellington, en Nouvelle-Zélande. Il est célèbre pour ses rôles dans des grands films comme Révélations, Gladiator (pour lequel il a gagné un Oscar), Un homme d'exception et Master and commander : De l'autre côté du monde. Russell Crowe est né à Wellington, sur North Island en Nouvelle-Zélande, il a 4 ans lors que sa famille déménage en Australie. Il y devient une star de la télévision australienne, notamment grâce à la série Spyforce. Le premier pas vers la reconnaissance critique est marqué par son apparition dans The crossing, un drame sur l'amitié, la loyauté qui en découle et les relations amoureuses. En effet, pour son premier rôle principal il incarne Johnny, dont le meilleur ami Sam décide de partir en ville pour sa carrière professionnelle, laissant derrière lui Meg, la femme qu'il aime. Cette dernière va alors peu à peu se rapprocher de Johnny qui se laisse tenter par le charme de Meg. Lorsque Sam réapparait, Johnny est tiraillé entre son ami et la femme dont il est tombé amoureux, remettant en question tout son environnement affectif. La critique encense le film et Russell Crowe est nommé pour l'oscar australien du meilleur...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Keith Urban, Alfred Shout, Sam Neill, Pat Hanna, Margaret Urlich, Cal Wilson, G K Saunders, Jon Stevens, Camille Keenan, Pat Evison. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Keith Lionel Urban (born October 26, 1967) is a New Zealand born Australian country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban began his career in Brisbane having moved to Caboolture, Australia at an early age. In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States in 1992. Eventually, Urban found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Records and charted two singles on the Billboard country charts. Still signed to Capitol, he made his solo American debut in 1999 with the album Keith Urban. Certified platinum in the U.S., it also produced his first American Number One in "But for the Grace of God". His breakthrough hit was the Number One "Somebody Like You", from his second Capitol album Golden Road (2002). This album also earned Urban his first Grammy Award win for "You'll Think of Me", its fourth single and the third Billboard Number One of his career. 2004's Be Here, his third American album, produced three more Number Ones, and became his highest-selling album, earning 4× Multi-Platinum certification. Love, Pain ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, DCNZM, OBE (born 14 September 1947) is a an Australian and New Zealand actor.He is perhaps best known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. He has also had a number of high-profile roles including: the lead in Reilly, Ace of Spies, the adult Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Merlin in the miniseries Merlin, the executive officer, Capt 2nd Class Vasily Borodin in The Hunt for Red October, Lord Friedrich Hoffman in Snow White: A Tale of Terror, and Alisdair Stewart in The Piano.Most recently he played Cardinal Wolsey in the Peace Arch Entertainment production for Showtime, The Tudors. ... Read more

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Chapters: Sam Neill, Margaret Wilson, Witi Ihimaera, David Henry Lewis, John Belgrave, Len Castle, Patricia Grace, Joy Cowley, Penny Jamieson, Ranginui Walker. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, DCNZM, OBE (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand actor. He is perhaps best known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. He has also had a number of high-profile roles including: the lead in Reilly, Ace of Spies, the adult Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Merlin in the miniseries Merlin, the executive officer, Capt 2nd Class Vasily Borodin in The Hunt for Red October, Lord Friedrich Hoffman in Snow White: A Tale of Terror, and Alisdair Stewart in The Piano. Most recently he played Cardinal Wolsey in the Peace Arch Entertainment production for Showtime, The Tudors. Neill was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, the second son of Dermot Neill, a Harrow- and Sandhurst-educated army officer and third generation New Zealander, and his English wife, Priscilla. At the time of Neill's birth, his father was stationed in Northern Ireland, serving with the Irish Guards. The family were the owners of Neill and Co., the largest liquor retailers in New Zealand. Neill returned with his family to New Zealand in 1954, where he attended the Anglican boys' boarding school Christ's College, in Christchurch. He then went on to study English literature at the University of Canterbury, where he had his first exposure to acting. While at Canterbury University he resided at College House (University of Canterbury), where he held the position of Chief Castigator and Crime Crusher (CCACC). He then moved to Wellington to continue his tertiary education at Victoria University, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21188633 ... Read more

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Chapters: Danyon Loader, James R. Flynn, Janet Frame, Robert Lawson, Sam Neill, William Tucker, Daryl Tuffey, Archibald Mcindoe, Stewart Graeme Guthrie, Anton Oliver, Patrick Moran, Greg Turner, Norman Lowther Edson, Harold Gillies, Hone Tuwhare, John Turnbull Thomson, Mervyn Thompson, Alexander Herdman, Pete Hodgson, Sydney Smith, Tony Brown, Weller Brothers, Josh Kronfeld, Ralph Hotere, Yvette Williams, Heather Roy, Warren Cooper, Byron Kelleher, Emily Hancock Siedeberg, Belinda Colling, Benjamin Farjeon, Ernest Duncan, Johnny Jones, Hone Kouka, Tuhawaiki, Pinky Agnew, John Mckenzie, Grahame Sydney, George Smith Duncan, Ian Fraser, Foss Shanahan, Lydia Wevers, Garrick Tremain, Kelvin Deaker, Thomas Ellison, Peter Mcskimming, John Cargill, Jan Mortimer, Henry Miller, Ken Bloxham. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 191. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Robert Arthur Lawson (1 January 1833 3 December 1902) was one of New Zealand's pre-eminent 19th century architects. It has been said he did more than any other designer to shape the face of the Victorian era architecture of the city of Dunedin. He is the architect of over forty churches, including First Church for which he is best remembered, but also other buildings, such as Larnach Castle, a country house, with which he is also associated. Born at Newburgh, in Fife, Scotland, he emigrated in 1854 to Australia and then in 1862 to New Zealand. He died aged 69 in Canterbury, New Zealand. Lawson is acclaimed for his work in both the Gothic revival and classical styles of architecture. He was prolific, and while isolated buildings remain in Scotland and Australia, it is in the Dunedin area that most surviving examples can now be found. Today he is held in high esteem in his adopted country. However, at the time of his death his reputatio...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5517326 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Ernest Rutherford, Keri Hulme, Sam Neill, Russell Crowe, George Silk, Hayley Westenra, Richard Pearse, Peter Jackson, Peter Fraser, Edmund Hillary, Richard Seddon, Vincent Ward, Robert Stout, John Ballance, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, Joseph Ward, Katherine Mansfield, Ronald Syme, Apirana Ngata, George William Forbes, Winston F. Ponder, Edward Stafford, William Fox, Peter C. B. Phillips, Neil Finn, Mazhar Krasniqi, Niki Caro, Kate Sheppard, Stuart Dryburgh, Charles Philippe Hippolyte de Thierry, Leonard Cuff, Keith Holyoake, William Gilbert Puckey, Frank Worsley, Lucy Lawless, William E. Trautmann, Jeanette Fitzsimons, Te Rangi Hīroa, Alfred Domett, Juliet Marillier, Arthur Lydiard, Minnie Maria Dronke, Robert Muldoon, David Warbeck, Rewi Alley, Nancy Wake, Elsie Locke, Henry Blundell, Frederick Whitaker, Alexander Aitken, Lloyd Jones, Essie Summers, Bill Pearson, Mary Scott, Len Lye, Gary Thain, Bic Runga, Mary Ann Müller, Cherry Wilder, George Edward Grey, Keith Edward Bullen, Arthur D. Trendall, Samuel Duncan Parnell, Andrew Mehrtens, Metiria Turei, Mark Todd, Graham Henry, Kevin Smith, Henry Sewell, Temuera Morrison, Winston Peters, Cameron Duncan, William Liley, Derek Freeman, Zoë Bell, Georg Jacoby, Daniel Bedingfield, Michael King, Brian Talboys, Witi Ihimaera, Raymond Firth, Maurice Gee, Marton Csokas, Kenneth Keith, Ron Scarlett, Anna Paquin, Melanie Lynskey, Daniel Patrick O'connell, Kiri Te Kanawa, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, David Lange, Edwin Carr, Russell Brice, Roy Patrick Kerr, Rebecca Gibney, Mike Nock, Rick Laird, Reginald Hamlin, George Campbell Munro, William Bradfield, Rupert Julian, Karl Urban, Brendan Cole, Te Atairangikaahu, Russel Norman, Richard Curtis, Colin Murdoch, Martin Campbell, Michael Hurst, Ngaio Marsh, Judy Millar, David Baker-Gabb, Richard Taylor, Algernon Thomas, Blyth Tait, William Stewart, Donald Mcintyre, Phil Goff, Rob Guest, Tim Bevan, Fleur Adcock, Alyn Ware, Charles Higham, Lesli...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: Russell Crowe, Alan Dale, Lucy Lawless, Anna Paquin, Sam Neill, Melanie Lynskey, Gabriel Reid, Karl Urban, Zoë Bell, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Temuera Morrison, Jemaine Clement, Cliff Curtis, Nyree Dawn Porter, Brian Sergent, Rena Owen, Campbell Cooley, Lani Tupu, Rose Mciver, Emma Lahana, Jay Laga'aia, Marton Csokas, Pat Hanna, Amy Morrison, Caleb Ross, Craig Parker, Dwayne Cameron, Robyn Malcolm, Alison Routledge, Peter Daube, Kylie Bax, Lisa Harrow, Dean O'gorman, Harry Sinclair, Lee Donoghue, Johnny Barker, Billy T. James, Kerry Fox, Clive Revill, Martin Henderson, Annie Whittle, Nancy Brunning, Russell Harrison, Sabine Crossen, Andrew Robertt, Miriama Smith, George Henare, Hori Ahipene, Nina Byron, Olivia Tennet, Sarah Thomson, Alison Bruce, Willa O'neill, David Warbeck, Jared Turner, Rosalind Allen, Tama Matheson, Paul Mciver, Geoff Dolan, Liddy Holloway, Nathaniel Lees, Holly Shanahan, Craig Hall, Wi Kuki Kaa, Jodie Dorday, Lawrence Makoare, Peter O'brian, Jacinta Wawatai, Ian Mune, Redmond Phillips, John Leigh, Prince Tui Teka, Stuart Devenie, Michelle Langstone, Kirk Torrance, Alan Brough, Sala Baker, Anton Tennet, Sara Wiseman, Marissa Stott, Denis Lill, Oscar Kightley, Susan Brady, Kate Elliott, John Tui, Ingrid Park, Paul Mclaughlin, Charles Mesure, Madeleine Sami, Danny Mulheron, Guy Doleman, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Theresa Healey, Matthew Sunderland, Cameron Rhodes, Ronald Sinclair, Carolyn Dando, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Nola Luxford, Angela Bloomfield, Camille Keenan, Daniel Logan, Ewen Solon, Rupert Julian, Paolo Rotondo, Robert Pollock, Pete Smith, Loren Horsley, Matt Whelan, Ian Gilmour, Julian Arahanga, Bruce Hopkins, Simone Kessell, Sarah Mcleod, Don Selwyn, Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, Thomas Robins, Jed Brophy, Andy Wong, Lori Dungey, Alistair Browning, Patrick Kake, Peter Mckenzie, Aaron James Murphy, Peta Rutter, Patrick Wilson, Ismay Johnston, Priyanka Xi, Megan Gay, Jeremy Brennan, Amber Mcwilliams, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25695 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Daniel Day-Lewis, Pierce Brosnan, Gabriel Byrne, Herbert Wilcox, Peter O'toole, Ciarán Hinds, J.m. Kerrigan, Sam Neill, Brendan Gleeson, Arthur Shields, Michael Gambon, Cyril Cusack, Niall Macginnis, Richard Harris, Colin Farrell, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Michael Fassbender, Cillian Murphy, Dan O'herlihy, Patrick Mcgoohan, William Morgan Sheppard, Barry Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Patrick Magee, Glenn Quinn, Stuart Townsend, Norman Rodway, Dylan Moran, Stephen Gately, Dermot Walsh, Edward Mulhare, Jim Norton, Jim Sheridan, Devon Murray, Hugh O'conor, Joe Lynch, Brían F. O'byrne, Spike Milligan, Domhnall Gleeson, Hugh Leonard, Liam Cunningham, Frank Kelly, Jason Barry, Jonas Armstrong, Conor Mcpherson, Robert Sheehan, Ardal O'hanlon, Peter Caffrey, Aidan Gillen, Glen Hansard, Colin O'donoghue, Andrew Simpson, Ed Byrne, Nick Dunning, Sean Lawlor, Edward Olive, Dudley Digges, Jack Macgowran, Jamie Dornan, Derrick O'connor, Jason O'mara, Forrester Harvey, Tommy Duggan, Dave Allen, James Sheridan Knowles, Pat Shortt. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Daniel Day-Lewis est un acteur irlando-britannique né le 29 avril 1957 à Londres. Il est connu pour des interprétations marquantes et variées (aristocrate, petit voyou, marginal, homosexuel ou criminel) chez des réalisateurs tels que Martin Scorsese, Stephen Frears, Jim Sheridan ou encore James Ivory. Il est aussi réputé pour être l'un des acteurs les plus sélectifs de l'industrie, avec seulement cinq films depuis 2007. Son interprétation de Christy Brown dans My Left Foot (1989) lui a valu l'Oscar et le BAFTA du meilleur acteur, celle de Daniel Plainview dans There Will Be Blood (2007) l'Oscar, le BAFTA, le Golden Globe et le Screen Actors Guild Award. Cela en...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Toronto Raptors Head Coaches, Lenny Wilkens, Gene Keady, Kevin O'neill, Sam Mitchell, List of Toronto Raptors Head Coaches, Butch Carter, Jay Triano, Darrell Walker, Brendan Malone, Joe Harrington, Brian James. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Selected by St. Louis Hawks Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens (born October 28, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is a retired American basketball player and coach in the NBA. He was inducted twice into the Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player and then later as a coach in 1998. On November 29, 2006 he was hired as vice chairman of the Seattle SuperSonics' ownership group, and was later named the Sonics' President of Basketball Operations on April 27, 2007. On July 6, 2007 Wilkens resigned from the Sonics organization. Wilkens currently is seen on Northwest FSN Studio as a College Hoops analyst and occasionally appears on Northwest College Hoops at game nights. Wilkens grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. His father was African American and his mother was Irish. Wilkens was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. At Boys High School, Wilkens was a basketball teammate of longtime Major League Baseball star Tommy Davis. Wilkens was a two-time All-American (1959 and 1960) at Providence College. He led the team to their first NIT appearance in 1959, and to the NIT finals in 1960. When he graduated, Wilkens was, with 1,193 points, the second-ranked scorer in Friar history (he has since dropped to twentieth as of 2005). In 1996, Wilkens' #14 jersey was retired by the college, the first alumnus to receive such an honor. Wilkens was drafted sixth overall by the St. Louis Hawks in the 1960 NBA Draft. He played for the Hawks (1960-1968), Seattle SuperSonics (1968-1972), Clev...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=859537 ... Read more

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Chapters: Brian Friel, Charles Beattie, Sam Neill, Linda Martin, Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, Benedict Kiely, Gerard Mcsorley, Junior Mcbrine, John Gorman, Lee Mulhern, Jimmy Kennedy, Justin Mcmahon, Dermot Mccaffrey, David Bates, Whitey Mcdonald, Sheelagh Murnaghan, Peter V. E. Mcclintock, John White, William Mccreery, Arty Mcglynn, Fabian Monds, Alice Milligan, Sharon Owens, James Mcbrine, Pat Sharkey, George Maguire. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Brian Friel (born 9 January 1929) is an Irish dramatist, theatre director and author. Friel was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, the son of Patrick "Paddy" Friel. His father was a primary school teacher and later a councillor (or 'corporater') on Londonderry Corporation (as it was, up until 1970, officially called), the local city council in Derry. Friel's mother, Mary McLoone, was postmistress of Glenties, County Donegal. He attended St Columb's College in Derry, received his B. A. from St. Patrick's College, Maynooth (1945-48), and qualified as a teacher at St. Joseph's Training College in Belfast, 1949-50. He married Anne Morrison in 1954, with whom he has four daughters and one son; they remain married. Between 1950 and 1960, he worked as a Maths teacher in the Derry primary and intermediate school system, taking leave in 1960 to pursue a career as writer, living off his savings. In 1966, the Friels moved from 13 Malborough Street, Derry to Muff, County Donegal, eventually settling outside Greencastle, County Donegal. He was appointed to the Seanad Éireann in 1987 and served until 1989. In 1989, BBC Radio launched a "Brian Friel Season", a series devoted a six-play season to his work, He was the first living playwright to receive such an honour. In 1999 (April-August), Friel's 70th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=143244 ... Read more

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Chapters: Charles Upham, Sam Neill, Robbie Deans, Michael Cullen, Edgar James "Cobber" Kain, Luscombe Searelle, John Wright, John Ernest Harper, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Simon Maling, Arthur Guinness, William Pember Reeves, Denis Marshall, Clifton Firth, Peter Fulton, Miles Warren, Jock Hobbs, Tom Lowry, Leigh Hart, John Anderson, William Young, John Lyttelton, 11th Viscount Cobham, Bill Hamilton, Paul Wilson, John Mcmillan, Tiaki Omana, Edgar Stead, John Darwin, Don Elder, Denis Glover, William Millton, George Helmore, Henry Rodolph Wigley, John Davies Wilder Ormond, Herbert William Williams, George Vincent Gerard, Bruce Deans, James Reid, Tim Wallis, Mark Hadlow, James Ryan, Michael Fowler, Sam Harding, Peter Elworthy, Westby Brook Perceval, Cyril Mountfort. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 156. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Order of Honour Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham VC ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs. John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) invites a group of scientists, played by Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern, to inspect the park prior to its public opening. Sabotage sets the dinosaurs loose, and the technicians and visitors attempt to escape the island. Spielberg acquired the rights to the novel before its publication in 1990, and Crichton was hired to adapt his novel. David Koepp wrote the final draft, which left out much of the novel's exposition and violence, and also made numerous changes to the characters. Spielberg hired Stan Winston Studios to create animatronics to portray the dinosaurs, shots of which were then mixed with newly developed computer-generated imagery by Industrial Light & Magic. ... Read more

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Following the war, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes close to a young woman struggling to accept the harsh realities of their situation. Then a Morse code signal is picked up and the submarine must set sail through the bleak ocean to search for signs of life. ... Read more

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haunting...
I read this book over 10 years ago and it is still one of the few books that I can honestly say left a mark on me. I remember finishing it in my english class and bawling my eyes out. I would highly recommend this book.

dull, dull, DULL! also very dated
After reading almost half of it, I could not bring myself to finish this book - I will just see the movie to see what the fuss is all about. For some reason this book is highly rated among lovers of apocalyptic fiction, but I fail to see why.

The writing is pretty bland, the language sounds stiltedly formal and old, and the characters are not well developed at all. The main premise is also very dated to the early cold war.

If you read any other reviews, you know that the novel is about the aftermath of a major nuclear war between the northern powers of Russia, China, and US. The survivors in Australia are waiting for radioactivity to spread slowly to them and kill them. In the mean time they go about their lives as usual (minus imported goods of course), whilst waiting for the bitter end.

The dialog, plot, and characters are so dull that I could not bother to care if the apocalyptic premise was actually plausible or interesting.

I think the reason why this book is popular is that it captures the cold war psyche of the 1950s and it influenced thinking about nuclear weapons and concern about the survival of humankind.

This novel is a dated period piece. Sort of like a pre-renaissance medieval painting, which by modern standards would be ugly and primitive, but played some role in depicting the history of its era and perhaps in the history of art.

Do not read this unless you are crazy about 1950s early nuclear cold war history.

Thoughtful Reading
What would you do if you knew the world was ending in a few short weeks?The book looks at several people in Australia and how they deal with the end of the world caused by radiation poisoning after World War III.Even though countries in the southern hemisphere didn't participate in the war, they suffer the consequences of radiation sickness as well.This isn't a book about life after an event de-populates most of the earth and how to go on.In this bookEVERYONE will die.The book is actually about coming to terms with the enevitable.Once read On TheBeach, you will still be thinking about it. Although written many years ago, it still seems timely.If you compare the time period (mid 50's) to today, would things be different?Would mankind react differently?That's what keeps you thinking!

We live as much as we can
I had trouble reading the first fifty or so pages of this book.Shute's cadences are hard to get a handle on, and he has some awkward attributive tags on his dialogue.I initially had no sympathy for half the characters.

I had trouble reading the last thirty pages of this book.Once I picked up the rhythm that Shute used to tell his story I became immersed in the world he created.The book changed from a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel to something greater.On the Beach transcends generic boundaries and becomes an elegy for the human race in an extinction that has not happened yet.I had trouble reading because of the tears in my eyes.

On the Beach is one of the most emotionally powerful books I have read in a long time.After putting it down, I tried to reflect and determined it had been almost a decade, when I read Lawrence's _Sons and Lovers_ that I was so moved by a book.I have a tender heart, but this book is not emotionally manipulative in a transparent way that cheapens the effect.On the Beach is powerful because it asks and answers fundamental questions about our being in a way that is truthful to what it means t be human.

Shute asks: "What do we do in the face of death?"He shows that we live as much as we can. We love.We make plans for the future.While we face death individually, we move towards it collectively.We are all cosigned to the same fate, but we do not have the certainty of the time that his characters do.On the Beach is an extended metaphor in a way, and as such is both an elegy and a celebration of what it means to be human.Sometimes that is beauty in the face of horror, and both come from the same root.

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Holly wants her family to say Elemeno P. But they don't understand what it is. It isn't until Holly begins to say it out loud that they realize what she means. Then the who family joins in and sings the ABC song. A heartwarming story by best-selling author Sam McBratney. Both parents and children will identify with the comical misunderstanding.Share-a-Story books feature fun ideas for storytelling from renowned reading consultant Bernice E. Cullinan, activities to enjoy after reading the story, bright photographic introductory pages that help make storytime a really special and rewarding experience. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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MJ O'Nell. How He Does It: Sam T Jack
This is a Kessinger Publishing Legacy reprint of a biography of the somewhat notorious Sam T Jack. Although the date of the original publication is not given it must have been written in 1895. His youth was described. His role in the development of burlesque, introducing black females to the stage and the careers of many female performers is given in some detail. It is difficult to assess the historical authenticity of such a book but it is of interest as a contemporary report of the middleyears of the gilded age.

It precedes some of his more interesting years - the St Louis Exhibition of 1896, development of the `coochee-coochee' or `tootsie-wootsie'and licensing issues with his theatre -`an aggregation of legs and low comedy', a house of `sensational and vulgar exhibitions' and `an emporium of sensationalism; were still to come. Jack died in 1899 leaving an unusual will. ... Read more