Presenting an account of the history of the wooden bowl, this book details evidence of the turners craft dating back 4000 years, and also looks at the development of lathe technology, as well as the tools and timbers used. It also features photographs that show priceless, gold-adorned vessels buried with Saxon Kings.

Follow along the path to LightWave enlightenment as 30 of the world's leading 3D artists share their secret tips and tricks with you. In this book of collective wisdom, you will learn about hidden software features, time-saving tricks, and professional techniques for achieving better results in less time.

This edition contains all chapters from the original 1986 edition plus critical analyses of the films of Martin Scorcese and Michael Cimino, a political assault on the films of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and in in-depth meditation on Brian De Palma.

This deck brings the Minor Arcana to life in a way that is easy to understand and interpret. It features nature imagery and energies to enchant and excite both pagans and non-pagans, experts and novices.

Wood explores the relationships between narrative form and style and sexual politics, probing the political and sexual ramifications of fascism and cinema, marriage and the couple, romantic love, and representations of women, race and gender in films from the United States, Europe, and Japan.

This volume is a study of the classic western film Rio Bravo , which, according to the author, remains beyond politics, as an argument as to why we should all want to go on living .

Examines the most successful literary adaption of a clutch of 1990s films based on Henry James' The Wings of the Dove (Ian Softley, 1997). The author is interested in the nature of cinema adaptations of classic literature and it is in this context that he has written.

For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. This title collects all published film criticism by Andrew Britton, a singular voice in film studies whose promising career was cut short by his untimely death.