Author: Jos Willems
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: studies, jazz, armstrong, louis, discography, complete
Number of Pages: 470
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $60.50
ISBN-10: 0810857308
ISBN-13: 9780810857308

A discography of jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong’s groundbreaking musical career, with detailed information about all his works, from professionally made commercial releases to amateur and unissued recordings.

Author: Angel Smith
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: historical, europe, dictionaries, spain, dictionary
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 2009-01-16
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0810858495
ISBN-13: 9780810858497

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Spain is an unrivalled reference guide to Spanish history and politics from the Middle Ages to the present. With its chronology, introductory essay, and over seven hundred dictionary entries on major Spanish organizations, including political parties, trade unions, and state bodies; the various regions and languages which comprise Spain, including Catalonia and the Basque Country; and major figures in Spanish culture and the arts, the Historical Dictionary of Spain allows readers to easily follow the major changes Spain has undergone.

Author: Tay Garnett
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: directing
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-02
List price: $46.75
ISBN-10: 0810830469
ISBN-13: 9780810830462

An essential text on filmmaking that every student, scholar, and teacher of films should own. In it, some of the motion picture industry’s most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Howard Hawks, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Blake Edwards, François Truffaut, and Renè Clair answer questions on the decisions that all directors must make before filming a movie, questions that help the reader understand the concept of filmmaking. They cover all aspects of filmmaking including script choices, planning, casting, actor choices, editing, rehearsing, and music scori

Author: James Gunn
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: fiction, science, inside
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2006-03-21
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 0810857146
ISBN-13: 9780810857148

James Gunn has had a long and distinguished career in science fiction. In addition to his stories and novels, he has written extensively about the reading, writing, and criticism of science fiction. Many of these essays were published in The Science of Science-Fiction Writing (Scarecrow, 2002). A second collection of essays, Inside Science Fiction, was originally published in 1992, and is now available in this revised, updated, and expanded edition. With the addition of five new articles written since 1992, Inside Science Fiction represents Gunn’s latest thoughts about the genre and offe

Author: Matthew Candelaria
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: fiction, science, theories, speculation, speculations
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-02
List price: $46.20
ISBN-10: 081084902X
ISBN-13: 9780810849020

Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, development, current status, and future directions of the field through articles contributed by well-respected science fiction writers, teachers, and critics. This book can be used as a textbook for courses in theory as well as courses in science fiction literature and science fiction writing.

Author: Richard E. Oster
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: ephesus, ancient, bibliography
Number of Pages: 181
Published: 1987-09-01
List price: $58.30
ISBN-10: 0810819961
ISBN-13: 9780810819962

A bibliography of over 1,500 titles on the history and artifacts of ancient Ephesus. "Brings together works that might otherwise have been very hard to locate... " --CHOICE

Author: Stephen Taylor
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: studies, jazz, series, discography, broadcasts, waller, air, radio, fats
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2006-03-20
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 0810856565
ISBN-13: 9780810856561

A documentation of radio and television appearances by the Jazz pianist and entertainer Thomas _Fats_ Waller, from his first broadcast in 1923 at age 19, until his final airing shortly before his premature death in 1943. Also including a comprehensive discography and previously unpublished photos.