Author: E F Benso
Publisher: The Echo Library
Keywords: progress, lucia
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1406810347
ISBN-13: 9781406810349

Author: E.F. Benso
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: mapp, miss
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2008-11-21
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1434473988
ISBN-13: 9781434473981

Miss Mapp, a small-minded, small-town heiress of "a certain age," leads a full life . . . of spying on (and attempting to best) her neighbors. A classic comic novel from the author of "Queen Lucia." "This latest book is clever, as all that [Benson] does is clever, light, amusing, satirical, written in the smooth and easy style his earlier books have made familiar to us. Its people are real: one acknowledges their verisimilitude, and is deeply, humbly grateful to that beneficent fortune which was so kind as to cast one’s lot elsewhere than in Tilling, the home of Miss Mapp." -- The New Y

Author: Jackson J. Benso
Publisher: University of Nebraska Pre
Keywords: guthrie, biography, sky
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0803222866
ISBN-13: 9780803222861

Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. “Bud” Guthrie Jr. brought a blazing realism to the story of the West. That realism, which astounded and even shocked some readers, came out of the depth of Guthrie’s historical research and an acuity that had seldom been seen in the work of Western novelists. In Under the Big Sky, the latest in his celebrated series of biographies of Western writers, Jackson J. Benson details the life and work of this true giant

Author: Sara Benso
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: city, guide, vegas, las, planet, lonely
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1741046777
ISBN-13: 9781741046779

Discover Las VegasSlurp borsch and vodka after-hours at a Cirque du Soleil hangoutCool off in a room full of minty snow after an aphrodisiac-oil massageIndulge your inner showgirl with a new blonde bob and red-ostrich boaLeave Las Vegas on a Route 66 road trip and see the Grand Canyon between your feetIn This Guide:One expert author, 500 hours of research, 152 restaurants, 15 graveyard steak specialsVegas Voices and Gambling chapters offer a peek into real-life Vegas and tips from our poker guruEleven handy casino floor plans, plus details on the ubergreen Springs Preserve and tips on a sustai

Author: Richard Benso
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Keywords: picture, printed
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0870707213
ISBN-13: 9780870707216

The Printed Picture traces the changing technology of picture-making from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the vital role of images in multiple copies. The book surveys printing techniques before the invention of photography; the photographic processes that began to appear in the early nineteenth century; the marriage of printing and photography; and the rapidly evolving digital inventions of our time. From woodblocks to chromolithographs, from engravings to bar codes, from daguerreotypes to contemporary color photographs, the book succinctly examines the full range of pictorial pro

Author: Sara Benso
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: encounter, vegas, las
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 1741049938
ISBN-13: 9781741049930

What Will Your Las Vegas Encounter Be?Strutting down the Strip in your brand new Jimmy ChoosGetting swept up in the frenzied world of Cirque du Soleil contortionistsLingering over dry-aged Angus ribeye steak and sweet-potato cheesecakeSliding through a shark tank followed by cocktails poolsidePerfecting you poker face as you risk your paycheck in Texas Hold’emSipping martinis and getting manicured before an all-night dance sessionDiscover Twice the City in Half the TimeHandy full-color pull-out map includes all venues in the bookOur expert author recommends the very best shows, eateries,

Author: Stephen Benso
Publisher: Wayne State University Pre
Keywords: theory, folktale, fiction, influence, cycles
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0814329497
ISBN-13: 9780814329498

Analyzes how the folktale has influenced the development of narrative theory and how postmodern fiction has drawn on the folktale to experiment with diverse narrative concepts.