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  • Predators And Ghost
    David Tucker
    Predators and Ghosts explores the quiet skills of tracking, observation, and survival where wilderness instinct and human behavior intersect.Drawing from years spent hunting, studying animal movement, and operating in high-risk environments, this book examines how predators both natural and human move through the world unseen. It focuses on reading terrain, understanding sign, ...
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    13,69 €

  • Nature Of The Beast Continues
    David Mills / Ray Tucker
    Nature of the Beast Continues is a gripping, firsthand account of life inside the Tennessee prison system from the unique perspective of a career corrections official. David Mills Ray Tucker draws on decades of experience, rising through the ranks from frontline correctional officer to Regional Administrator, overseeing multiple facilities across East and West Tennessee.In vivi...
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    16,18 €

  • The Carrier
    Elizabeth Alsobrooks / Rob Tucker / Shawn David Brink
    They say the veil between the realm of the living and dead is thinnest on one particular night of the year. Depending on your location or beliefs you may call that night All Hallows Eve or Samhain or Halloween. Whatever you call it, what would you do if you found yourself suddenly dead, but not gone? As in, you are still in your body, but your body is now a cadaver. Or what if ...
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    33,63 €

  • John Hodiak
    David C. Tucker
    He became a star overnight as surly, sexy, usually shirtless Kovac in Hitchcock’s Lifeboat (1944). Handsome and personable, John Hodiak (1914-1955) embraced his heritage as the son of Polish-Ukrainian immigrants, making him a rare Golden Age actor whose true ethnicity (and birth name) were widely known by moviegoers. Starting in radio, Hodiak was brought to Hollywood by MGM,...
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    57,46 €

  • The Digital Parenting Guidebook
    David Tucker
    Technology has more benefits than we can possibly list. As Christians, however, we have to look at its negative effects, especially on children. The data is as convincing as it is alarming. Technology is directly responsible for increased teenage anxiety and depression, exposure to pornography, sex trafficking and online predators, screen addiction, and more.What if parents had...
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    19,14 €

  • Rochelle Hudson
    David C. Tucker
    Rochelle Hudson’s career as an actress was planned from the start (born in 1916) by her ambitious stage mother. Given rigorous dance and musical training as a child, Hudson won her first film contract at the age of 14. A WAMPAS Baby Star in 1931, she co-starred with actors such as W.C. Fields, Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Will Rogers and Fredric March in classic films lik...
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    58,53 €

  • S. Sylvan Simon, Moviemaker
    David C. Tucker
    He was Red Skelton’s favorite director, and mentored Lucille Ball in the art of physical comedy. In his 15-year Hollywood career, S. Sylvan Simon (1910-1951) directed and/or produced more than 40 films, with stars like Lana Turner, Abbott and Costello, and Wallace Beery. Though he loved to make moviegoers laugh, he demonstrated his versatility with murder mysteries, war stor...
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    58,56 €

  • The Fry Site
    David M. Stothers / Patrick M. Tucker
    The Fry site (33Lu165) was an Ottawa (Odawa) farmstead on the lower Maumee River of Ohio that existed A.D. 1814-1832. Excavations revealed an Ottawa bark burial with trade goods, a cabin or shack, and an animal pen or compound. The material culture consisted of a wide variety of Native and Euro-American manufactured artifacts, including trade silver. The bark burial with trade ...
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    53,84 €

  • Pine-Thomas Productions
    David C. Tucker
    Dubbed 'The Dollar Bills,' William H. Pine and William C. Thomas made 1940s Hollywood take notice with their B movies for Paramount that gave solid entertainment while cutting costs to the bone. In the 1950s, with television looming, Pine-Thomas Productions began making bigger-budget films with stars including James Cagney and Jane Wyman, and incorporating trends like 3-D. '...
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    73,25 €

  • El Duro Trato
    David Tucker
    El Duro Trato describe con gran detalle y con una prosa elegante el conflicto de voluntades entre un padre famoso y su ambicioso hijo mediano. Richard Tucker, el estelar tenor estadounidense de la época dorada del Metropolitan Opera, exigía que su hijo se convirtiera en cirujano. Rechazando los deseos de su padre, David quería seguir los pasos de este hacia el escenario de la ó...
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    22,98 €

  • Gale Storm
    David C. Tucker
    On December 31, 1939, nationwide radio audiences listened as 17-year-old Josephine Owaissa Cottle, a Texas schoolgirl, won Gateway to Hollywood’s new talent competition. Her prize was a movie contract at RKO and a memorable stage name--'Gale Storm.' One of the United States’ most beloved entertainers, she appeared in 35 films, starred in two hit television series (one was My...
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    58,70 €

  • The Hard Bargain
    Burton Spivak / David Tucker
    The Hard Bargain describes in vivid detail and elegant prose the clash of wills between a famous father and his hard-driving middle son. Richard Tucker, the American superstar tenor from the golden age of the Metropolitan Opera, demanded that his son become a surgeon. Rejecting his fathers wishes, David wanted to follow his father onto the opera stage. Their struggle over David...
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    23,07 €

  • Martha Raye
    David C. Tucker
    On stage from her childhood, Martha Raye (1916-1994) proudly embraced the role of the clown, her gift for slapstick comedy enhanced by a fine singing voice. She became a star with her first feature film, Rhythm on the Range (1936), as the zany, loudmouthed girl looking for love--or chasing it as it ran away. She won popular and critical acclaim with The Martha Raye Show (195...
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    42,92 €

  • Joan Davis
    David C Tucker / David C. Tucker
    The Emmy-nominated star of the classic 1950s sitcom I Married Joan, Joan Davis (1912-1961) was also radio’s highest paid comedienne in the 1940s--and she displayed her unique brand of knockabout comedy in more than forty films. This book provides a complete account of her career, including a filmography with critical commentary, and the most detailed episode logs ever compil...
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    51,36 €

  • Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx
    David Tucker
    Samuel Beckett once wrote that were he in the ’unfortunate position’ of a critic studying his work, one of his points of departure would be the ideas of the seventeenth-century philosopher, Arnold Geulincx. Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing ’a literary fantasia’ is the first full-length study to document the extent of the influence Geulincx’s philosophy had on Beckett...
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    66,78 €

  • Illuminating the Dark Arts of War
    David Tucker
    Since 9/11, the dominant view is that we have entered an era of ’new conflict’ in which technology has empowered non-state actors who now pose unprecedented and unmanageable threats to U.S. national security.This unique work studies a range of threats, from homegrown and foreign terrorism to the possibility of cyber- or Chinese sabotage and fears of religious subversion to chal...
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    61,38 €

  • Eve Arden
    David C. Tucker
    The remarkable career of American actress Eve Arden (1908-1990) is thoroughly chronicled from her earliest stage work in 1926 (under her given name Eunice Quedens) to her final television role in a 1987 episode of Falcon Crest. Included are detailed descriptions and critical commentaries of the actress’s 62 feature film appearances between 1929 and 1982, notably her Oscar-no...
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    43,89 €

  • The Dial Of Ahaz Spiritualized. By A Layman In The Country. Revised And Corrected By P. Williams,
    David Tucker
    The Dial Of Ahaz Spiritualized, authored by David Tucker, offers readers a unique spiritual reflection, revised and corrected by P. Williams. This work delves into the scriptural narrative of the Dial of Ahaz, presenting it through a spiritual lens to illuminate profound truths relevant to Christian life. The author, identified as 'A Layman In The Country,' brings a fresh persp...
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    15,82 €

  • Lost Laughs of ’50s and ’60s Television
    David C. Tucker
    Originally broadcast on American television between 1952 and 1969, the 30 situation comedies in this work are seldom seen today and receive only brief and often incomplete and inaccurate mentions in most reference sources. Yet these sitcoms (including Angel, The Governor and J.J., It’s a Great Life, I’m Dickens ... He’s Fenster and Wendy and Me), and the stories of the talen...
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    42,76 €

  • Abstracts from Norfolk City Marriage Bonds [1797-1850]
    David Tucker / George Holbert Tucker
    Compiled originally in 1934, Mr. Tucker’s transcription of marriage bonds for the city of Norfolk, Virginia is the most complete collection of these records we know of and one of the most painstakingly assembled. The core of the volume consists of 3,600 marriage bonds, arranged in chronological order, as found in the Norfolk Borough Court House. Typically, the bonds give the fu...
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    34,47 €

  • The Dunlap Farmstead
    David Stothers / Patrick Tucker
    Historical and archaeological investigations of the Robert Dunlap family farmstead from 1831 to 1839. ...
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    54,71 €

  • Shirley Booth
    David C Tucker / David C. Tucker
    An Oscar-winning Best Actress for her tour-de-force role in Come Back, Little Sheba, Shirley Booth would ultimately win every major acting award that could be bestowed on an actress. Awarded three Tony Awards, two Emmys, and a Golden Globe, Booth was described by the judges at the Cannes Film Festival as 'The World’s Best Actress.' Yet today fans know her best as the warm-he...
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    51,30 €

  • The Women Who Made Television Funny
    David C. Tucker
    Most of the bright and talented actresses who made America laugh in the 1950s are off the air today, but their pioneering Hollywood careers irrevocably changed the face of television comedy. These smart and sassy women successfully negotiated the hazards of the male-dominated workplace with class and humor, and the work they did in the 1950s is inventive still by today’s sta...
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    43,91 €

  • My Own Monster
    David Tucker / Jeff Tucker / Ramona Tucker
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    12,44 €

  • Empire of Liberty
    David C. Hendrickson / Robert W. Tucker
    This work examines Jefferson’s legacy for American foreign policy in the light of several critical themes which continue to be highly significant today: the struggle between isolationists and interventionists, the historic ambivalence over the nation’s role as a crusader for liberty, and the relationship between democracy and peace. Written by two distinguished scholars, this b...
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    92,56 €

  • The Fall of the First British Empire
    David C. Hendrickson / David Hendrickson / Robert W. Tucker
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    41,20 €