A Third Face

Author: Samuel Fuller
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557836274
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
(Applause Books). Winner of Best Non-Fiction for 2002 Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Review! Samuel Fuller was one of the most prolific and independent writer-director-producers in Hollywood. His 29 tough, gritty films made from 1949 to 1989 set out to capture the truth of war, racism and human frailties, and incorporate some of his own experiences. His film Park Row was inspired by his years in the New York newspaper business, where his beat included murders, suicides, state executions and race riots. He writes about hitchhiking across the country at the height of the Great Depression. His years in the army in World War II are captured in his hugely successful pictures The Big Red One , The Steel Helmet and Merrill's Marauders . Fuller's other films include Pickup on South Street ; Underworld U.S.A. , a movie that shows how gangsters in the 1960s were seen as "respected" tax-paying executives; Shock Corridor , which exposed the conditions in mental institutions; and White Dog , written in collaboration with Curtis Hanson ( L.A. Confidential ), a film so controversial that Paramount's then studio heads Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner refused to release it. In addition to his work in film, Samuel Fuller (1911-1997) wrote eleven novels. He lived in Los Angeles with his wife and their daughter. A Third Face was completed by Jerome Henry Rudes, Fuller's longtime friend, and his wife, Christa Lang Fuller. "Fuller wasn't one for tactful understatement and his hot-blooded, incident-packed autobiography is accordingly blunt ... A Third Face is a grand, lively, rambunctious memoir." Janet Maslin, The New York Times ; "Fuller's last work is a joy and an important addition to film and popular culture literature." Publishers Weekly ; "If you don't like the films of Sam Fuller, then you just don't like cinema." Martin Scorsese, from the book's introduction

A Third Face

Author: Samuel Fuller
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 9780375401657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592

Book Description
A self-portrait by the late filmmaker describes his New York youth, his work in the newspaper world, his military career during World War II, and his rise to success in Hollywood as a writer, director, and producer known for his gritty, frequently violent portrayals of the dark side of American life. 15,000 first printing.

The Third Face of Coins

Author: Martin Kari
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504307003
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
How many faces do coins have? If you answered two, then this book is for you. In it the author explores the third face of coinsthat extra aspect that often goes unnoticed. Here are twelve topics social, political, and philosophicalthat have that third side to them. Join the author as he explores a colorful diversity of facts interspersed with his personal philosophies. Everything from the society of ants (just how much do we have in common with these creatures?) to the study of terrorism as a disease (how sick are we?) is covered. This is philosophy for every man. No university degree is needed to follow the path laid out through these issues. Read with an open mind, and you will want to join the dialogue of tolerance encouraged by the author.

The Third Face of War

Author: Lyndon Baines Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 14

Book Description

Face the Issues

Author: Carol Numrich
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780201846720
Category : Critical thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Face the Issues is an exciting and highly successful approach to listening comprehension and discussion for intermediate and high-intermediate students. Each of the twelve units is based on an authentic radio broadcast taken from National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Students are presented with interesting and relevant content in unedited everyday speech including hesitations, redundancies, and various dialectical patterns.

Americas

Author: Peter Winn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520245013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724

Book Description
PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: "Rare is the book in English that provides a general overview of Latin America and the Caribbean. Rarer still is the good, topical, and largely dispassionate book that contributes to a better understanding of the rest of the hemisphere. Peter Winn has managed to produce both."—Miami Herald "This magisterial work provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the complex tapestry of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean."—Foreign Affairs "A clear, level-headed snapshot of a region in transition…. Winn is most interesting when he discusses the larger issues and to his credit he does this often."—Washington Post Book World "Balanced and wide-ranging…. After canvassing the legacies of the European conquerors, Winn examines issues of national identity and economic development…. Other discussions survey internal migration, the role of indigenous peoples, the complexity of race relations, and the treatment of women." —Publishers Weekly

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0586085718
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 107

Book Description
A study of heroism in the myths of the world - an exploration of all the elements common to the great stories that have helped people make sense of their lives from the earliest times. It takes in Greek Apollo, Maori and Jewish rites, the Buddha, Wotan, and the bothers Grimm's Frog-King.

Aesthetic Surgery of the Forehead and Upper Third of the Face

Author: Anthony P. Sclafani
Publisher: PMPH-USA
ISBN: 9781607951537
Category : Face
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
This book is part of a a seven volumes series covering the full spectrum of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery - each written by a nationally recognized facial plastic surgeon detailing their own clinical techniques and practices. Each volume is generously illustrated with superb clinical and surgical photos and numerous detailed case study photos. This series will be of great value to both experienced surgeons and as a teaching tool for resident level physicians and can be purchased individually or as a set. Designed to serve as a comprehensive text for procedures of the forehead and upper third of the face, this text presents all traditional and cutting edge treatments, allowing for detailed instruction as to proper patient selection, technique and patient management for patients with aesthetic needs in the upper third of the face and forehead. These procedures are discussed in a clear and concise fashion, and the anatomy, history, rationale, scientific basis, necessary instrumentation, techniques and modifications, post-operative course and potential complications are clearly delineated and illustrated.

Human Face Recognition Using Third-Order Synthetic Neural Networks

Author: Okechukwu A. Uwechue
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461540925
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Human Face Recognition Using Third-Order Synthetic Neural Networks explores the viability of the application of High-order synthetic neural network technology to transformation-invariant recognition of complex visual patterns. High-order networks require little training data (hence, short training times) and have been used to perform transformation-invariant recognition of relatively simple visual patterns, achieving very high recognition rates. The successful results of these methods provided inspiration to address more practical problems which have grayscale as opposed to binary patterns (e.g., alphanumeric characters, aircraft silhouettes) and are also more complex in nature as opposed to purely edge-extracted images - human face recognition is such a problem. Human Face Recognition Using Third-Order Synthetic Neural Networks serves as an excellent reference for researchers and professionals working on applying neural network technology to the recognition of complex visual patterns.

About Face

Author: Alan Cooper
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118766571
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 724

Book Description
The essential interaction design guide, fully revised and updated for the mobile age About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Fourth Edition is the latest update to the book that shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design. This comprehensive guide takes the worldwide shift to smartphones and tablets into account. New information includes discussions on mobile apps, touch interfaces, screen size considerations, and more. The new full-color interior and unique layout better illustrate modern design concepts. The interaction design profession is blooming with the success of design-intensive companies, priming customers to expect "design" as a critical ingredient of marketplace success. Consumers have little tolerance for websites, apps, and devices that don't live up to their expectations, and the responding shift in business philosophy has become widespread. About Face is the book that brought interaction design out of the research labs and into the everyday lexicon, and the updated Fourth Edition continues to lead the way with ideas and methods relevant to today's design practitioners and developers. Updated information includes: Contemporary interface, interaction, and product design methods Design for mobile platforms and consumer electronics State-of-the-art interface recommendations and up-to-date examples Updated Goal-Directed Design methodology Designers and developers looking to remain relevant through the current shift in consumer technology habits will find About Face to be a comprehensive, essential resource.