how one company's audacious plan to organize everything we know
Stross, Randall E
2008
A behind-the-scenes look at Google, Randy Stross reveals Google's new plan--including such potentially disruptive intiatives as free downloadable software, and GoogleEarth and GoogleMaps satellite technology.
Presents a series a informational and biographical sketches on world leaders, past and present, that have made an impact on the fight for human rights, worldwide. Includes essays, interviews, and speeches with contributions from Nelson Mandela and Mohandas Gandhi.
Profiles Adolf Hitler; members of his inner circle, such as Hermann G?ring, Heinrich Himmler, and Albert Speer; and others who played major roles in the Third Reich and Final Solution, including Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann; and includes documents and a list of further resources.
from the Whiskey Rebellion and the War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and war in Iraq
Craughwell, Thomas J.
2008
Provides accounts of twenty cases in which U.S. presidents made bad decisions that altered the course of history, including Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Acts, Franklin Roosevelt's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and George W. Bush's war in Iraq.
Provides a detailed biography of American novelist Edith Wharton, discussing her journeys through Europe, her peers, the places she lived, unhappy marriage, passionate affair, literary works, and much more. Includes photographs.
A collection of essays examining the history and practice of performance and theater in the classical world, including a glossary of theatrical terms and a listing of playwrights and plays.
Discusses the development of dramatic arts in Christian Europe, describing religion, recreation, and commerce as the major influences, and covers the effect of monastic reform on Biblical translation and the use of allegory, the transition from the Gothic theatre to neoclassical play construction and representation, and more.
Chronicles the history of Japanese theater from the third century B.C. through the late twentieth century; also includes a glossary and an extensive bibliography.
the essential history of acting, from classical times to the present day
Benedetti, Jean
2007
Discusses the history of acting and the philosophy surrounding it as an art and craft, covering classical views about rhetoric and oratory, Shakespeare, modern performance art, and various theoreticians, movements, and dramatists from Diderot to Bertolt Brecht.
An introduction to ancient Greek theater that explains how the plays were first performed and what they meant in their original social context, discussing key components including the performer, the audience, ritual, gender, and politics.
