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Despite its enduring popularity with both broadcasters and audiences, the quiz show is marginalized in studies of popular television. Su Holmes takes a fresh approach to quiz shows while also revisiting, updating, and expanding existing quiz show scholarship. Discussing "Double Your Money, " "The $64, 000 Dollar Question, " "Twenty-One, " "The Price is Right, " "Who Wants to be a Millionaire, " and "The Weakest Link, " Holmes addresses the rel...

Despite its enduring popularity with both broadcasters and audiences, the quiz show is marginalized in studies of popular television. Su Holmes takes a fresh approach to quiz shows while also revisiting, updating, and expanding existing quiz show scholarship. Discussing "Double Your Money, " "The $64, 000 Dollar Question, " "Twenty-One, " "The Price is Right, " "Who Wants to be a Millionaire, " and "The Weakest Link, " Holmes addresses the rel...

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on "European Shakespeares, " which highlights how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. Contributors to this issue come from Europe, North America, South Africa, and India. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, essays in this volume consider issues of character and the genre o...

Ford F-Series: America's Pickup Truck documents the origin and evolution in many never-before-published historic photographs and gallery illustrations, from deep within the archives of Ford Motor Company. As the only official Ford book celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the Ford F-Series, this volume explores the F-Series both in terms of its design and engineering as well as its impact on people and popular culture. Ford F-Series: Americ...

Christmas just isn't Christmas without The Nutcracker! This beautiful book, which includes a fully orchestrated CD of the score, invites children to dance, prance, and relive the ballet long after the tree comes down. Peter Malone's exquisite illustrations capture all the magic of The Nutcracker's most memorable scenes: the Christmas Eve party, Godfather Drosselmeyer's spellbinding visit, and the ferocious battle between the Mouse King and the...

Beginning with "Godzilla, " Colette Balmain follows the evolution of Japanese horror from the 1950s to contemporary classics such as "Ringu" and "Ju-On: The Grudge." Divided thematically, she identifies the vengeful virgin, the demonic child, the doomed lovers, and the supernatural serial killer, relating them to traditional Japanese mythology and folk-tales. She also unpacks the aesthetics of the Japanese horror film and the uses of setting, ...

Eight Decades is a selection of previously published articles and essays by one of reform Judaism's most acclaimed twentieth-century rabbis and scholars, W. Gunther Plaut.

Recently I looked back over twenty-five years of walking with God by gathering these poems from my journals. This Psalm-like journey was an outpouring to God from what He was showing me daily through His Word, as well as in everyday life as I walked through His world. Near the end of 2005, my wife urged and God nudged me to publish these works. This is how this first collection of prose came to be.

Offers appetising alternatives for parents who find themselves succumbing to the fastest and easiest (and least healthy) choices. This title develops a month's worth of meals for kids of all ages that includes, for example, pureed cauliflower in macaroni cheese, and cabbage in spaghetti and meatballs. It provides humorous personal anecdotes.

Introducing a major literary talent, "The White Tiger" offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen.Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and tr...

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Prominente Persönlichkeiten wurden gebeten, ihr liebstes Gedicht auszuwählen und in einem kurzen Essay zu erzählen, was es ihnen bedeutet. Auf diese Weise ist nicht nur eine Auswahl entstanden, die all die großen Dichter versammelt - gleichzeitig bezeugt sie die Faszination und Wirkungskraft der Poesie in der Türkei. Der essayistische Dialog zwischen den Dichtern und den zeitgenössischen Interpreten wirft zudem zahlreiche Schlaglichter auf di...

Drei Frauen verschwinden spurlos. Eine Woche später findet man sie wieder: verwahrlost und psychisch gebrochen. Sie befanden sich in den Händen eines Psychopathen, den die Presse den Seelenbrecher nennt.Wenig später wird der Seelenbrecher wieder aktiv, ausgerechnet in einer psychiatrischen Luxusklinik. Ärzte und Patienten müssen feststellen, dass man den Täter unerkannt eingeliefert hat, kurz bevor die Klinik durch einen Schneesturm von der Au...

Die berühmte Märchen-Sammlung von Richard von Volkmann-Leander als ungekürzte Lesung. Elf Sprecher-Stars der Titania Medien-Hörspiele interpretieren 22 phantasie- und stimmungsvolle Märchen - mal heiter, mal berührend. Mit Arianne Borbach (u. a. dt. Stimme von Catherine Zeta-Jones), Hörspiel-Legende Dagmar von Kurmin, Evelyn Maron (Kim Basinger), Monica Bielenstein (Emma Thompson), Rita Engelmann (Catherine Deneuve), Viola Sauer (aspekte, ZDF)...

Victor Hugos berühmter Roman über menschliche Schicksale im Schatten der großen Kathedrale Notre-Dame ist in der neuen Hörspiel-Version von Titania Medien wahrlich hochspannendes Kino für die Ohren. Viele bekannte Synchronschauspieler, die sonst großen Hollywood-Stars ihre Stimme leihen, hauchen den Charakteren des dramatischen Geschehens um den missgestalteten Glöckner Quasimodo und die junge Zigeunerin Esmeralda pralles Leben ein.

Montalbano sieht sich mit einem rätselhaften Mordfall konfrontiert, als er Angelo Pardo in obszöner Position tot in dessen Wohnung auffindet. Alles deutet auf ein Verbrechen aus Leidenschaft hin, gab es doch mehrere Frauen, die um Pardos Gunst buhlten. Aber auch wenn die weiblichen Zeugen alles daransetzen, dem Commissario die Sinne zu verwirren, verliert er doch nie den Blick für das Wesentliche ...

Part captivating memoir, part gorgeous coffee-table book, "Alchemy" offers an exclusive look into the art of fine jewelry making, by way of famed designer Temple St. Clair and the eclectic sources of her aesthetic inspiration.

For seven years, Ginger Freeman has been driven to make Grant Kelley pay for letting her brother die. But being in the company of loving, newfound friends and having a new relationship with God could change her hardened heart.

The managing partner and executive chef of Commander's Palace in New Orleans share recipes for more than 100 dishes using fare from the sky, sea, and land. Non-game substitutions are included.

Edited by Oates, the living master of the short story ("Buffalo News"), this handsome volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American fiction has to offer.