From Pinewood to Hollywood: British Filmmakers in American by I. Scott

By I. Scott

This book is concerning the emigration, movie careers and socio-cultural impression of British filmmakers relocating to Hollywood within the studio period. It offers with a number of the unknown and ignored émigrés, in addition to the prime lighting who based, initiated and ensured that American movie turned the prime nationwide cinema of the 20th century.

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The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, Vol. 2 by Garma C.C. Chang

By Garma C.C. Chang

Writer: collage Books

Date of book: 1962

Binding: hardcover

Edition: first Printing

Condition: Very Good/Good

Description: octavo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Copyright date 1962 first printing volumes within the slipcase blue and tan textile over forums with gold and black lettering and layout at the entrance and at the backbone. Brown within covers back and front. mild foxing the 1st few pages. Blue tent to the head web page edges no tears or bent pages nor any writing either volumes coated within the plastic conceal a few gentle put on to the toe of the books. Slipcase has put on alongside for edges. gentle soiling to the head slipcase, put on alongside the backbone corners. The lifestyles tale and educating of the best poet-Saint ever to seem within the heritage of Buddhism. Books textual content are brilliant and fresh, tight binding, a great set of books.<

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Biopiracy. Imitations not Innovations by Suman Sahai, Prasmi Pavithran, Indrani Barpujari

By Suman Sahai, Prasmi Pavithran, Indrani Barpujari

Wisdom, in all its manifestations, is effective. Of specific value is the data inherent within the wisdom structures of rural and indigenous groups built because of lengthy and non-stop interplay with the advanced ecosystems which they inhabit. known as Indigenous wisdom or IK, this data is really a hugely refined expertise and has been the mainstay of survival of groups specially within the key sectors of nutrition and health and wellbeing. With constructing international locations being the repository of a massive a part of the world's organic assets it's not staggering that individuals and groups of those international locations were innovating, deciding upon, holding and keeping neighborhood species for a long time. Biodiversity, and the indigenous wisdom linked to it, is a unique power of the neighborhood groups which are present in present day constructing international locations.

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