Author: Graydon Carter
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: wild, stories, making, iconicfilms, graduates, reds, fair, tales, hollywood, rebels, vanity
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-12-10
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143114719
ISBN-13: 9780143114710

The stories behind the stories of some of Hollywood’s most iconic movies The magazine world ’s monthly arbiter of culture, personality, and world affairs, Vanity Fair has always offered the definitive insider’s look at Hollywood power and glamour since its relaunch twenty-five years ago. Now, for the first time ever, Vanity Fair presents a one-of-a-kind collection featuring thirteen behind-the- scenes stories on some of cinema’s most iconic films-including pictures as varied as All About Eve, Cleopatra, Sweet Smell of Success, Rebel Without a Cause, and Saturday Night F

Authors:Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter,
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: vanity, fair, pages, recession, tales, new, hangover
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0061964425
ISBN-13: 9780061964428

Vanity Fair presents 21 true stories of the new hard times Where did all the billions go? Commissioned by the editors at Vanity Fair magazine, The Great Hangover is an eye-opening collection of essays on the global economic crisis by fifteen of the most respected contemporary business writers in America, including: Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate) on the atmosphere of uncertainty and fear that preceded the demise of Bear Stearns . . . Michael Lewis (Liar’s Poker) on Iceland’s bizarre national implosion . . . Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down) on the decline of The Ne

Authors:Mark F. Twight, Don Graydon,
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Keywords: fast, light, climbing, alpinism, extreme
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1999-09-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0898866545
ISBN-13: 9780898866544

Big, high routes at the edge of a climber’s ability are not the places for inventing technique or relying on old habits. Complacency can lead to fatal errors. So where does the hard-core aspirant or dreamer turn? The only master class in print, Extreme Alpinism delivers an expert dose of reality and practical techniques for advanced climbers. Focusing on how top alpine climbers approach the world’s most difficult routes, Twight centers his instruction on the ethos of climbing the hardest routes with the least amount of gear and the most speed. Throughout, Twight makes it clear tha

Authors:Gerald M. Ackerman, Graydon Parrish,
Publisher: Art Creation Realisation
Keywords: drawing, course, gerome, leon, bargue, jean, charles
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-10-31
List price: $112.50
ISBN-10: 286770166X
ISBN-13: 9782867701665

The Bargue-Gerome Drawing Course is a complete reprint of a famous, late nineteenth century drawing course. It contains a set of almost two hundred masterful lithographs of subjects for copying by drawing students before they attempt drawing from life or nature. Consequently it is a book that will interest artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of drawings. It also introduces us to the work and life of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue. The Drawing Course consists of three sections. The first consists of plates drawn after casts, usually of antique examples.

Authors:Thomas Eugene Avery, Graydon Lennis L. Berli,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: interpretation, airphoto, sensing, remote, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1992-01-26
List price: $138.00
ISBN-10: 0023050357
ISBN-13: 9780023050350

This book traces step-by-step the fundamental principles and processes involved in acquiring and interpreting aerial photographs and then in applying the data from these images to specific situations. Extensively revised to include more color plates, line drawings and photographic images this book is ideal in introducing readers to remote sensing and photographic interpretation. Overview of Remote Sensing, Photo-Optical Remote Sensing, Principles of Airphoto Interpretation, Principles of Photogammetry, Aircraft and Satellite Photography, Electro-Optical Remote Sensing, Microwave and Acoustical

Authors:K. Codell Carter, Barbara Carter,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: ignaz, semmelweis, biography, scientific, fever, childbed
Number of Pages: 143
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1412804671
ISBN-13: 9781412804677

The life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever places his life, and his discovery (the cause of childbed fever was a result of a spread of infection because medical personnel in hospitals did not wash their hands thoroughly after conducting autopsies), in the context of his times. While everyone in his era rejected his account because his theory was fundamentally inconsistent with existing medical beliefs about how diseases were transmitted, in time Semmelweis was proven to be correct. His work led to the adoption

Authors:K. Codell Carter, Barbara R. Carter,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: contributions, medical, studies, semmelweis, ignaz, fever, scientific, biography, childbed
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1994-05-30
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0313291462
ISBN-13: 9780313291463

In the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of women died each year from childbed fever. The Carters describe birthing conditions and medical practices in Vienna during the time when young Semmelweis began to work in a maternity clinic there. He discovered that childbed fever arose because medical personnel did not wash adequately after dissecting corpses before doing vaginal examinations of women in labor. After he required students to disinfect themselves, the mortality rate immediately dropped. However, Semmelweis’s views were not accepted by the senior physicians who believed the di