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The ArtsApril 2011Roy Ward Baker
by Geoff Mayer, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
This book traces the career of Roy Ward Baker, one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry. He directed the landmark British film Morning Departure (1949), worked at Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood in the early 1950s where he directed Marilyn Monroe's 'breakthrough' film (Don't Bother to Knock), and followed this with a succession of fine films for Rank, culminating in the best version of the Titanic disaster, A Night to Remember in 1958. Yet within three years he was unable to secure a job in the British film industry and he moved to television series such as The Avengers, The Saint and Minder. Later Baker re-emerged as a major director of science-fiction (Quatermass and the Pit) and horror films (Asylum). Geoff Mayer provides an industrial and aesthetic context in which to understand the interrelationship between a skilled classical director and the transformation of the British film industry in the 1950s. ;
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October 1990Josephine Baker
oder Wie eine Frau die Welt erobert. Eine Biographie
by Rose, Phyllis / Englisch Julius, Liselotte; Vorwort von Rose, Phyllis
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September 2021Josephine Baker
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Agathe Sorlet
Josephine liebte den großen Auftritt auf der Bühne. Weil in ihrer Heimat Rassentrennung herrschte, ging sie nach Paris. Dort tanzte sie in zahlreichen Shows und verzauberte das Publikum. Außerdem wurde sie zum Filmstar und arbeitete sogar als Spionin. Später kehrte sie zurück in die USA und kämpfte für Bürgerrechte. Sie adoptierte 12 Kinder aus der ganzen Welt und nannte sie ihre „Regenbogenfamilie“. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Künstlerin, Pilotin oder Wissenschaftler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700July 2012Reading and politics in early modern England
by Geoff Baker
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2016The European Union's fight against terrorism
by Christopher Baker-Beall
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MedicineSeptember 2023Situating religion and medicine in Asia
Methodological insights and innovations
by Michael Stanley-Baker
This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book's central question is to what extent 'religion' and 'medicine' have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are 'religion' and 'medicine' the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?
