Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on [...]

Everybody knows that hard work, luck and talent each plays a role in our working lives. In his landmark book, Adam Grant illuminates the importance of a fourth, increasingly critical factor - our reciprocity, the way we interact with others when exchanging value. GIVE AND TAKE changes our fundamenta[...]

A valuable and engaging guide to applying for-and getting-grants in the humanities and social sciences Scholars in the humanities and social sciences need money to do research. This book shows them how to get it. In this accessible volume, Raphael Folsom shares proven strategies in a series of short[...]

In this, the only book available to combine both theoretical and practical aspects of x-ray diffraction, the authors emphasize a 'hands on' approach through experiments and examples based on actual laboratory data. Part I presents the basics of x-ray diffraction and explains its use in obtaining str[...]

In this new biography of General Ulysses S. Grant, acclaimed Civil War historian, Edward G. Longacre, examines Grant's early life and his military career for insights into his great battlefield successes as well as his personal misfortunes. Longacre concentrates on Grant's boyhood and early married [...]

A definitive portrait of the talented and charismatic actor provides a close-up look at his turbulent personal life and extraordinary Hollywood career, offering a revealing glimpse of the former Archibald Leach's troubled childhood, ambiguous sexuality, dabbling with LSD, and other dramatic episodes[...]

The Hall of Fame story of Grant Fuhr, the first black superstar in the National Hockey League and the last line of defense for the Edmonton Oilers dynasty, told through Fuhr's 10 most important games. Grant Fuhr was the best goalie in the league at a time when hockey was at its most exciting. Wayne [...]

An inspiring guide to an ancient biblical form of prayer explains how the Genesis Prayer can be used by people of any faith, cites its relevance in the modern world, identifies mathematical codes encrypted in the prayer that can unlock biblical secrets, and cites the prayer's use in the manifestatio[...]

For centuries the MacLeod brothers have held themselves apart from the clan to protect mortals from the demons and gods bound to their warrior souls. Until a woman enters their lives despite the legend of the curse and captivates Lucas Macleod. He is magnificently strong - and dangerously seductive.[...]

The most reckless and fierce of the MacLeod brothers, Quinn is a prisoner of the god inside him, tormented by his inability to save his family from slaughter. His fury governs him, and day by day he loses himself to the darkness in his soul. But Quinn has a profound yearning for a woman's love...Rai[...]

Sent on a dangerous mission into the shadowy world of the Druids, Galen must find a powerful ancient relic to defeat the enemies of Castle MacLeod. But what he discovers is far more powerful - and far more dangerous. A Druid lass whose beauty is as spellbinding as any magic...Reaghan is the most enc[...]

A Warrior's Passion - Driven by the fierce god within him, highlander Ian Kerr is sworn to fight for the land he loves - and the brother he lost. But when he's transported four centuries into the future, he finds himself fighting his own desires - for a beautiful, bewitching woman who could hold a w[...]