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  • All the President’s Men

    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy Award nominations.Through a close reading of key scenes, performances and stylistic decisions, Christian Keathley and Robert B. Ray show how the film derives its narrative power through a series of ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and Ray Bradbury Short Story Collection, The

    38 Science Fiction Short Stories

    Unabridged

    32 hours 14 min

    Journey into four legendary worlds of classic science fiction with The Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and Ray Bradbury Short Story Collection. This anthology brings together visionary tales of space exploration, futuristic societies, strange technologies, alien encounters, and the fragile line between humanity and the unknown. Perfect for fans of vintage science fiction, golden age ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery

    From Empty Page to Finished Mystery in Just 52 Weekends--A Dynamic Step-by-Step Program

    by Robert J. Ray ...
    Like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, Sara Paretsky and Thomas Harris, you, too, can learn the trade secrets of quality detective fiction.It's true. Just one year from now, you can deliver a completed mystery novel to a publisher--by writing only on weekends. Authors Robert J. Ray and Jack Remick guide you through the entire mystery-writing process, from creating a killer to polishing off the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Weekend Novelist

    Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to a day job? Robert J. Ray and coauthor Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this proven practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends. The Weekend Novelist shows writers of all levels how to divide their writing time into weekend work sessions, and how to handle character, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The ABCs of Classic Hollywood

    by Robert B. Ray ...
    Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate." What are those hidden things? Can we invent a method that will ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

    by Robert B. Ray ...
    Robert B. Ray examines the ideology of the most enduringly popular cinema in the world--the Hollywood movie. Aided by 364 frame enlargements, he describes the development of that historically overdetermined form, giving close readings of five typical instances: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Godfather, and Taxi Driver. Like the heroes of these movies, ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • The Structure of Complex Images

    by Robert B. Ray ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as “acting”? How do movies like Casablanca and Breathless store the film and world histories of their generations? How can we ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • Walden x 40

    Essays on Thoreau

    by Robert B. Ray ...
    Provocative and illuminating essays on Thoreau's masterwork, shedding new light on its enduring inspiration and philosophical depth.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parents' house in Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin he built himself on the land of his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He described his time there, just over two years, as an experiment in "living deliberately." His ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Grinding It Out

    The Making of McDonald's

    by Ray Kroc ...
    Narrated by Stephen Bel Davies ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food-service automation, franchising, shared national training, and advertising have earned him a place beside the men and women who have founded not only businesses, but entire empires. But even more interesting than Ray Kroc the business man is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Return to Zeropoint Ii

    Ho'oponopono for a Better Reality

    by Robert F. Ray ...
    Hooponopono seems like magic, but it is not magic at all. It is real and within your grasp. Return to Zeropoint is our system of teaching how to use Hooponopono in an easy and straightforward manner. We take away the pain of learning and get to the nuts and bolts without struggle and strife. Leave your problems and pain behind, and move forward with the life of joy that you deserve. It is within ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • For the Night is Dark

    Darkness, our most primitive fear since shadows first stirred.Within the pages of this horror anthology you will be taken back into the past, down to the depths of the ocean and across the borderline between our world and the next. You will see snapshots from the lives of small children, old-time cockney gangsters and aimless stoners. You will journey into the darkest house on the darkest street, ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children

    Recent experience with interventions designed to promote the well-being of children and to prevent mental health problems has identified particular challenges in families with disordered parents. These families are often very difficult to engage in mental health promotion and prevention programs, and they may be especially resistant to intervention. The Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD