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Jack Anderson

    Tento autor se specializuje na právo a je vyšším přednášejícím na Queen's University Belfast.

    The Peculiar Case at House Aber
    The Saudi Connection
    Millennium
    The Legality of Boxing
    Shooting Movies Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot
    Art without Boundaries
    • Shooting Movies Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot

      Becoming a Cinematographer

      • 368 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      4,1(10)Ohodnotit

      Offering a project-driven approach, this guide to cinematography serves as an apprenticeship in book form. It encompasses techniques applicable to both film and video, allowing readers to learn from a master in the field. The hands-on projects aim to enhance practical skills and deepen understanding of cinematographic principles.

      Shooting Movies Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot
    • The Legality of Boxing

      A Punch Drunk Love?

      • 240 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení
      3,0(1)Ohodnotit

      Focusing on the legal framework surrounding prize fighting, this book offers a comprehensive examination of boxing's legality. It analyzes the historical and contemporary legal responses to the sport, providing insights into its status within legal theory and practice. This unique assessment serves as a critical resource for understanding the complexities and challenges of boxing in the legal realm.

      The Legality of Boxing
    • Millennium begins with an alien visitor - disguised as a human - appearing in our nation's capital, with a dire warning. He is a renegade from an advanced civilization out to destroy a race believed to be irredeemably violent and dangerous - the human race. But before he can deliver his message, the alien falls victim to human violence. Pursued by an obsessed government agent and a crazed drug dealer, both of whom are after his alien technology, the visitor has only one chance for survival. The future of the human race now hinges on a hard-bitten journalist in the twilight of his career and his beautiful, impetuous assistant.

      Millennium
    • The Saudi Connection

      • 320 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      Ron Wright's reputation and career as a journalist crashed and burned due to a massive cover-up scandal involving his sources. He was forced to hand back his Pulitzer Prize and his marriage crumbled. But Ron never lost his nose for troublesome leads, and as all good reporters know, sometimes trouble gets the scoop on you instead of the other way around.After a long-trusted source is mysteriously killed, Ron receives a cryptic message that catapults him into the lead of a lifetime: Saudi Arabian royalty are funding a powerful terrorist group in America...a group with a decades-old plot to launch the most vicious attack ever perpetrated on American soil.

      The Saudi Connection
    • The Ultimate Donor

      Replacing Your Sick Heart with the Heart of Christ

      • 182 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení

      Using heart transplantation as a metaphor, this book explores the parallels between becoming a follower of Christ and the journey of a heart transplant recipient. It discusses the stages of recognizing one's spiritual need, receiving the transformative heart of Christ, and living a disciplined life post-transplant. The narrative emphasizes that just as a heart transplant requires a donor's sacrifice, the Christian faith is rooted in the ultimate sacrifice made for humanity. Through this analogy, it highlights themes of renewal and spiritual transformation.

      The Ultimate Donor
    • 'A superb debut, playing cleverly with the concepts of memory and loss' GUY MORPUSS, author of FIVE MINDS'Will stay with you long after the last page' ADAM HAMDYGenius. Maverick. Monster. 'A place free of judgement... for a life free of pain'Since his beloved wife died, Arthur has lost all hope. He doesn't care about his high-powered job, his increasingly distressed mother, his future... Even his therapist cannot help him with his grief. In desperation, his mother seeks out the only person who can: Dr Elizabeth Codelle. Controversial genius, Dr Codelle runs the world's most exclusive clinic. Eye-wateringly expensive, the clinic is located on a small private island and takes only one patient at a time - but it gets results. Codelle doesn't just treat her clients, she claims to entirely cure them. And she is insistent that Arthur must stay on the island until he is all better. Whatever that takes.A hugely original, clever and thought-provoking thriller about one woman's vision and just how far you might go to cure grief.

      The Grief Doctor