2013, ISBN: 9781854142931

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Hardback. Very Good., 3, Hammer Of The Gods (Blu-ray + VUDU Digital Download) New, Sealed, Unopened! Shelf Worn Slip-on Storage Case... An Action epic that sees a passionate young man… Mehr…

Hardback. Very Good., 3, Hammer Of The Gods (Blu-ray + VUDU Digital Download) New, Sealed, Unopened! Shelf Worn Slip-on Storage Case... An Action epic that sees a passionate young man transform into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long lost brother Hakan The Ferocious, whose people are relying on him to restore order to their kingdom. Ivan Kaye does a great job portraying a pederast Ivar the Boneless. While I don't agree with the direction the film took with the character, Kaye pulls off the role very well. Viewers may recognize Kaye as King Aella from History Channel's "Vikings" television series.Another veteran from History Channel's "Vikings" is Clive Standen as Hagen, the main character's closest companion. In History Channel's series Standen plays Ragnar's brother Rollo and Standen pulls off the look and temperament of a Viking in this film just as well.James Cosmo plays as King Bagsecg and although he gets little screen time he steals every scene where he plays the main character's bitter, dying, father. Viewers may recognize him from "Game of Thrones" where Cosmo portrays Jeor Mormont.Game of Throne's Alexandra Dowling also makes an appearance as Anges. Finlay Robertson plays the main character's scheming brother Harald. Some might recognize him from the BAFTA award winning episode "Blink" from BBC's "Doctor Who" television series. Region 1 - U.S. and Canada. Approx. 99 minutes., Magnolia Studio, 2013, 6, The Cat From Outer Space by Ted KeyPublished April 13th 1978 by Archway/ Pocket BooksISBN: 0671561065ISBN-13: 9780671561062#: 56106-5Paperback4 x 7 inches, 166 pagesNovelization of the Disney movie: A spaceship? A telepathic cat who communicates with humans and wears a collar with magic power? That's Jake, an unusual cat who landed on Earth when his spaceship was hit by "space garbage" in the Earth's atmosphere. Now that he's on Earth, all he wants is to escape. But, with the military and the most brilliant scientists in the land trying to capture him, it won't be easy.The fun and excitement begin when jake and his friends, Wilson, Link, and Liz, plan all kinds of outrageous schemes to outwit everyone - to get Jake off the ground and back to his home in outer space!---------------------------PlotAn unidentified flying object makes an emergency landing on Earth and is taken into custody by the United States government. The occupant of the "flying saucer" turns out to be a strange cat-like alien named Zunar-J-5/9 Doric-4-7. Since the Mother Ship cannot send a rescue party before it leaves the solar system, the cat sets about investigating how to repair the ship himself. Using a special collar that amplifies telekinetic and telepathic abilities, he follows the military to the Energy Research Laboratory (or E.R.L.), where they hope to learn how the UFO's power source works. One of the lab's scientists, Dr. Frank Wilson, attracts the cat's attention when his theory on the power source, while ridiculed by the rest of the staff, is actually on the right track.The cat follows Frank to his office, where Frank nicknames him Jake. Another scientist, Dr. Liz Bartlet, storms into his office, upset at Frank's sense of humor in light of such an important scientific discovery. Frank is able to calm her down, mostly by introducing Jake and inviting her to dinner. After Liz leaves, Jake reveals his true nature to Frank, demonstrating his abilities and offering to exchange his advanced knowledge on energy for Frank's assistance. That evening, the pair plan to break into the military base where Jake's ship is being kept, but must dodge Liz who has arrived for their date with her own cat, Lucybelle. Jake feigns being sick, allowing them to proceed to the base. At the base, Frank uses a back-up collar to fly to the top of the ship and attach a diagnostic device. Jake learns that he needs an element that he calls "Org 12". When Jake reveals the element's atomic weight, Frank realizes that "Org 12" is elemental gold.Back at Frank's apartment, Frank tells Jake that an amount of gold costing $120,000 will repair Jake's ship. Dr. Norman Link, a colleague of Frank's, comes over to watch horse races and football games on which he has wagered money. Jake uses his powers to help Link's horse win the race, prompting Jake and Frank to convince Link to help them by parlaying all of his bets to win the money. However, Jake gets knocked out by a well-meaning vet that was brought in by Liz because she thought Jake was still sick. Frank informs Liz of the situation and the group heads to a local pool hall where Link has placed his bets. Learning the last game in the parlay was lost and desperate to raise the money needed, they agree to a game of pool with a hustler named Sarasota Slim. Frank's first attempt to use Jake's collar fails, but Jake regains consciousness in time to manipulate the final game and win the money they need to acquire the gold for Jake's ship.However, an industrial spy named Stallwood, who works for a master criminal named Olympus, has learned of their activities, as has the military. Frank and Jake manage to elude the military and the criminals, only to have Link, Liz and Lucybelle captured by Olympus and his men. They plan to ransom them back for the collar, which forces Jake to send his ship back to the awaiting Mother Ship and stay on Earth in order to help rescue his friends. Jake and Frank use a broken-down biplane to rescue Liz and Lucybelle from Olympus's helicopter, which crashes, but Olympus, Stallwood and their men survive and are presumably arrested. In the final scene, Jake is allowed to stay on Earth as a representative of an off-world "friendly power", with Jake applying for and being granted United States citizenship.---------------------------Ted Key (born Theodore Keyser; August 25, 1912 May 3, 2008), was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon panel Hazel, which was later the basis for a television series of the same name, and also the creator of Peabody's Improbable History.Born in Fresno, California, Key was the son of Latvian immigrant Simon Keyser, who had changed his name from Katseff to Keyser, and then to "Key" during World War I. Though his family thereafter went by Key, Theodore Keyser did not legally adopt the name until the 1950s. Attending the University of California, Berkeley, Key became the art editor of the student newspaper, The Daily Californian, and was associate editor of the campus humor magazine, the California Pelican and was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. After graduating from college in 1933, Key relocated to New York City, where he published cartoons and illustrations in a number of periodicals, including Better Homes and Gardens, Collier's, The New Yorker, Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, McCall's, Cosmopolitan, TV Guide, Mademoiselle, Look and Judge. Key also worked as associate editor of Judge in 1937.Key's most famous creation, the single-panel Hazel, about a wry and bossy household maid, came to Key in 1943 in a dream that he drew the next morning and sent to The Saturday Evening Post, where it was accepted and began running regularly. He soon afterward gave the character a name and employment at the Baxter household. In 2008, the cartoonist's son, Peter Key, said, "He picked the name Hazel out of the air, but there was an editor at The Post who had a sister named Hazel. She thought her brother came up with the name, and she didnt speak to him for two years."The cartoon ran until the weekly magazine ceased publication in 1969. Hazel was then picked up for newspaper syndication by King Features Syndicate. With the increased output of six cartoons a week, Key hired veteran gag cartoonist Stan Fine to lend a hand.Key later adapted his comic panel into the television show Hazel, starring Shirley Booth as the titular maid. It ran from 1961 to 1964 on NBC; for its final 1965 season, the show switched to CBS. Key continued to draw the strip until his retirement in 1993. King Features reprints panels in over 50 newspapers as of 2008.Key's other work in the comics field includes Diz and Liz, a two-page feature that ran in Jack and Jill magazine from 1961 to 1972, as well as creating the segment Peabody's Improbable History for producer Jay Ward's animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Key also provided illustrations for the long-running "Positive Attitude" series of motivational pamphlets and posters, published biweekly by Economics Press Inc. from the 1960s to the 1980s.Key also wrote radio plays during the 1930s and 1940s. His radio drama, The Clinic, broadcast on NBC, was chosen for Max Wylie's Best Broadcasts of 1939-40 anthology.He was the screenwriter for three Disney films (The Cat from Outer Space, Million Dollar Duck and Gus), and he created several classic children's books, including Phyllis and The Biggest Dog in the World (later adapted into the film Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World).During World War II, Key served with the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946, primarily in public relations, where he wrote a play aimed at recruiting women into military service. Key retired in 1993, but King Features continued to syndicate Hazel using material he had prepared for his retirement. Hazel still runs today in some 50 newspapers.Diagnosed with bladder cancer in late 2006, Key suffered a stroke in September 2007. He was 95 at the time of his death in Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania. Key was married twice; his first wife, Anne, died in 1984, and Key was survived by second wife Bonnie and by three sons: Stephen, David and Peter., Archway/ Pocket Books, 1978, 0, Abilene, Texas: Noble Craft Books, 1983. AS6 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED by Billie Sol Estes with "I Love you & God Loves you. 76820 915-597-7045" written on the half-title page in very good condition in poor dust jacket. Dust jacket worn with scattered wrinkling, crease, tears, scuffing, rubbing, and discolored. Book has some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.25"x6.25", 205 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Billie Sol Estes was an American businessman and financier best known for his involvement in a business fraud scandal that complicated his ties to friend and future U.S. President Lyndon Johnson. [Fraud Schemes] In the late 1950s, Estes was heavily involved in the Texas anhydrous ammonia business. He produced mortgages on nonexistent ammonia tanks by convincing local farmers to purchase them on credit, sight unseen, and leasing them from the farmers for the same amount as the mortgage payment, paying them a convenience fee as well. He used the fraudulent mortgage holdings to obtain loans from banks outside Texas who were unable to easily check on the tanks. At the same time, United States Department of Agriculture began controlling the price of cotton, specifying quotas to farmers. The program included an acreage allotment that normally was not transferable from the land it was associated with, but which could be transferred if the original land was taken by eminent domain. Estes worked out a method to purchase large numbers of cotton allotments, by dealing with farmers who had been dispossessed of land through eminent domain. He convinced the farmers to purchase land from him in Texas and transfer their allotments there, with a mortgage agreement delaying the first payment for a year. Then he would lease the land and allotments back from the farmer for $50 per acre. Once the first payment came due, the farmer would intentionally default and the land would revert to Estes; in effect, Estes had purchased the cotton allotments with the lease fees. However, because the original sale and mortgage were a pretext rather than a genuine sale, it was illegal to transfer the cotton allotments this way. Estes, however, a smooth talker revered by many of his fellow members of the Churches of Christ, asserted the allegations as politics. In 1962, after information came to light that Estes had paid off four Agriculture officials for grain storage contracts, President John F. Kennedy ordered the Justice Department and FBI to open investigations into Estes' activities and determine if Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman had also been "compromised" (Freeman was cleared). Congress conducted hearings on Estes' business dealings, including some that led to Vice President Johnson, a long-time associate of Estes. In 1963 Estes was tried and convicted on charges related to the fraudulent ammonia tank mortgages on both federal and state charges and was sentenced to 24 years in prison. His state conviction was later overturned by the United States Supreme Court in Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532 (1965). His appeal hinged upon the alleged impossibility of a fair trial due to the presence of television cameras and broadcast journalists in the courtroom. He prevailed by a 5-4 vote. Estes was paroled in 1971. Eight years later, he was convicted of other fraud charges and served four more years. Oscar Griffin, Jr., the journalist who uncovered the storage tank scandal, later received the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for his articles for a weekly newspaper in Pecos, Texas. To improve his 1961 candidacy for Reeves County school board, Estes offered the local newspaper large advertising buys in exchange for not opposing him. The Pecos Independent responded with an editorial that said, "We will put our advertising columns up for sale, as will any other newspaper, but we WILL NOT sell our editorial support." In response, Estes launched the rival Pecos Daily News on August 1, 1961. He spent about $600,000 and the Independent lost $400,000. It was nearly bankrupt when Griffin, its editor, ran (February 12, 1962) the first of four articles describing Estes's fraud but without naming him. Estes was arrested ten days after the last article ran in March. After his arrest, the Daily News went into receivership and the Independent bought it and merged the two newspapers into the Pecos Enterprise. When Griffin died in 2011, Estes remarked, "It's a good riddance that he left this world." . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Noble Craft Books, 1983, 3, Harrow: Capital Transport, 2005. 320 pages. 1.12Kg. Blue cloth boards MINT in a Near MINT d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and coloured route maps. This book gives details of over 40 unfurfilled schemes that were presented to Parliament between 1880 and 1914. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Near MINT. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book., Capital Transport, 2005, 5, U.S.A.: MacFarlane Walter & Ross, 1994. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Macfarlane Walter & Ross, Toronto, 1994. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition 3rd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SYNOPSIS: When Brian Mulroney's Tories left office in 1993, Canadians breathed a collective sigh of relief. There had been boondoggles, cover-ups, and scandals aplenty - and the strong suspicion that among those in power many had looked after themselves and their cronies at the expense of the citizens who had elected them. Canadians knew they didn't like the Tory regime, but they didn't know half the story. Veteran investigative reporter Stevie Cameron does know, and the tale she tells confirms the worst charges of the Tories' critics. Her spellbinding account of nine years of political corruption uncovers a cast of shrewd opportunists, freelance rogues, and thieves in high places whose connections stretched from the office of the prime minister to the dens of organized crime. On the Take chronicles flagrant kick-back schemes, bid-rigging on government contracts, misappropriation of parliamentary budgets, favors to corporate supporters of the party, and an unprecedented orgy of patronage appointments that didn't end until the day Mulroney left office. It details the most effective political fund raising apparatus ever assembled in Canada - at its height raking in $25 million in a single year - that was built on a well-crafted system of rewards, from gala dinners at 24 Sussex to lucrative government contracts. And it unmasks the coterie of loyalists - some more powerful than any cabinet minister - who surrounded Mulroney and who came to Ottawa determined to use their influence to line their own pockets. Presiding over all of this was a prime minister who was incapable of ridding his government of corruption, who enjoyed an imperial lifestyle while in office, and who left government with a personal wealth that has never been fully revealed. After almost a decade of the Mulroney Tories, Canadians lost faith in their government and came to despise a once proud party. What the Conservatives did to deserve their reputation for sleaze - and their defeat at the hands of Canadian voters - is Stevie Cameron's story. Stevie Cameron is among Canada's leading political journalists. For nearly eight years her Globe and Mail column was the source of countless news breaking stories on the workings of federal and provincial governments. A former host of CBC's fifth estate, she is currently a contributing editor at Mclean's, a columnist for Equity magazine, and a frequent commentator on CBC radio and television. Her first book, Ottawa Inside Out (1989), was a national bestseller. Research Associates Rod Mcdonnell and Andrew McIntosh are investigative journalists at the Gazette. Both have won Quebec's top journalism awards, and McIntosh is a recent recipient of a National Newspaper Award., MacFarlane Walter & Ross, 1994, 3, Capital Transport Publishing. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Hardback. 1854142933 . Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage for international shipping.; Dust jacket unmarked, unclipped, slightly age-toned at fore edge of front, boards unmarked, corners sharp, binding tight, no ownership marks, pages unmarked, colour and b+w illustrations.; 9.4 X 7.2 X 1.1 inches; 320 pages ., Capital Transport Publishing, 2005, 3, Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1994. BOOK: Front Free Endpaper Missing; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: When Brian Mulroney's Tories left office in 1993, Canadians breathed a collective sigh of relief. There had been boondoggles, cover-ups, and scandals aplenty - and the strong suspicion that among those in power many had looked after themselves and their cronies at the expense of the citizens who had elected them. Canadians knew they didn't like the Tory regime, but they didn't know half the story. Veteran investigative reporter Stevie Cameron does know, and the tale she tells confirms the worst charges of the Tories' critics. Her spellbinding account of nine years of political corruption uncovers a cast of shrewd opportunists, freelance rogues, and thieves in high places whose connections stretched from the office of the prime minister to the dens of organized crime. On the Take chronicles flagrant kick-back schemes, bid-rigging on government contracts, misappropriation of parliamentary budgets, favours to corporate supporters of the party, and an unprecedented orgy of patronage appointments that didn't end until the day Mulroney left office. It details the most effective political fundraising apparatus ever assembled in Canada - at its height raking in $25 million in a single year - that was built on a well-crafted system of rewards, from gala dinners at 24 Sussex to lucrative government contracts. And it unmasks the coterie of loyalists - some more powerful than any cabinet minister - who surrounded Mulroney and who came to Ottawa determined to use their influence to line their own pockets. Presiding over all of this was a prime minister who was incapable of ridding his government of corruption, who enjoyed an imperial lifestyle while in office, and who left government with a personal wealth that has never been fully revealed. After almost a decade of the Mulroney Tories, Canadians lost faith in their government and came to despise a once proud party. What the Conservatives did to deserve their reputation for sleaze - and their defeat at the hands of Canadian voters - is Stevie Cameron's story. Stevie Cameron is among Canada's leading political journalists. For nearly eight years her Globe and Mail column was the source of countless newsbreaking stories on the workings of federal and provincial governments. A former host of CBC's fifth estate, she is currently a contributing editor at Maclean's, a columnist for Equity magazine, and a frequent commentator on CBC radio and television. Her first book, Ottawa Inside Out (1989), was a national bestseller. Research Associates Rod Macdonell and Andrew McIntosh are investigative journalists at the Gazette. Both have won Quebec's top journalism awards, and McIntosh is a recent recipient of a National Newspaper Award.. First Edition 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Fair/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1994, 2.5, Capital Transport. Used - Like New. 2005. Hardcover. Fine. Dj is Like New., Capital Transport, 5, Capital Transport, Harrow, 2005. Hardcover. Good., Capital Transport, Harrow, 2005, 2.5, Harrow, Middlesex. UK: Capital Transport Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 2005. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 1854142933 Bound in blue cloth, with silver titles to spine, this dated 2005 First Edition hardcover is VG, in good jacket (unclipped). 320pp, with b/w and colour illustrations. Jacket is rubbed along top edge, with a patch of water damage to top of rear cover, near spine. Slightly seeped through to boards, but hardly noticable. Previous owner's name tippexed out on FFEP, otherwise internaly clean. All VG. ., Capital Transport Publishing, 2005, 3, B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. New. 15 x 23 cm. In the rapidly changing technological scenario and the advent of television Channels, Internet and pod casting, the very survival of radio as a media is under serious question. Dr. Pradipto Bandyopadhyay, the architect of many path-breaking initiatives in News Services Division, All India Radio during 2006-09 is of the view that conventional radio and its role as a public service broadcaster and going to stay in India in the foreseeable future. There has been a paradigm shift in AIR`s style of presentation and content during the period. Dr. Bandyopadhyay has documented the changes and their inside story in an interesting first person account before they are lost in oblivion and become a subject matter of the probing archaeological experts. Radio`s content must have a structure which Dr. Bandyopahyay has described as `sound sculpture`. It will remain relevant to any discerning listener from the toiling masses in the field, the elite and ever the alienated individuals with loneliness syndromes, to the group and individualists alike. `Radio Communication at Close Range` has delved deep into the whole gamut of issues concerning radio right from Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose to the present day workers of AIR. It is a saga of radio`s comeback and a sure step ahead in fulfillment of man`s information needs. CONTENTS: Preface; 1. Introduction 2. Future of Radio News 3. Turning Point 4. Expansion of News 5. Convergent Journalism 6. National Conference of Heads of RNUs 7. Scheme of Part Time Correspondents (PTCs) 8. Public Service Broadcasting and New Features 9. Samar Basu Memorial Lecture 10. Proceedings of the Workshop on Future Challenges before Radio News 11. Radio in India : Not only a Come Back but also a Leap Forward 12. Public Relations and Societal Communication Today Printed Pages: 324., B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2010, 6, Harrow: Capital Transport, 2005. This book reveals over 40 unfulfilled tube schemes that were presented to Parliament between 1880 and the start of the First World War, as well as many proposed variations to the tubes that were constructed. 320 pages. Blue boards in jacket. Illustrated with many maps and plans, mainly in colour. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 24.5 Cm x 18.5 Cm., Capital Transport, 2005, 6<

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[EAN: 9781854142931], Neubuch, [PU: Capital Transport, Harrow], TRANSPORT GENERAL, RAILWAYS, LONDON UNDERGROUND, SUBWAY, TUBE, Jacket, This book reveals over 40 unfulfilled tube schemes t… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781854142931], Neubuch, [PU: Capital Transport, Harrow], TRANSPORT GENERAL, RAILWAYS, LONDON UNDERGROUND, SUBWAY, TUBE, Jacket, This book reveals over 40 unfulfilled tube schemes that were presented to Parliament between 1880 and the start of the First World War, as well as many proposed variations to the tubes that were constructed. 320 pages. Blue boards in jacket. Illustrated with many maps and plans, mainly in colour. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 24.5 Cm x 18.5 Cm<