A Hollywood Insider Takes You Inside Hollywood! Richard Bare knows the film industry. He has worked with Spielburg and Lucas, discovered James Garner, and has been nominated for numerous awards, including three Oscars. Now this award-winning Hollywood veteran shares his experiences, advice, and tech[...]

The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director-what Time magazine called a "must read"-reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the po[...]

HR leaders and practitioners: master the financial analysis skills you need to become true strategic business partners, gain an equal seat at the table, and get boardroom and CFO buy-in for your initiatives! In this one-of-a-kind book, Dr. Steven Director covers everything mid-to-senior-level HR pro[...]

Written by one of the UK's most respected working directors, this book is a practical guide to directing in theatre. Based on her experiences of holding workshops for drama students, A-Level students, and undergraduates, this is a practical beginner's guide to the process, with specific advice o[...]

Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these ina[...]

This book continues the official history of the CIA begun in Arthur Darling's The Central Intelligence Agency Ludwell Lee Montague's book is one of the first documents, along with Darling's history, to be declassified and made available under the CIA's Historical Review Program, launched in 1985. Mo[...]

This new edition, revised and expanded to discuss all of Kubrick's films including Eyes Wide Shut again received the approval of the reclusive director, who before his death allowed the use of illustrations taken directly from his films' frames. The result is a frame-by-frame examination of the inim[...]

Beginning with the triple impulses of Naturalism, symbolism and the grotesque, the bulk of the book concentrates on the most famous directors of this century - Stanislavski, Reinhardt, Graig, Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht, Artuaud and Grotowski. Braun's guide is more practical than theoretical, deline[...]