Fighting Stars

Fighting Stars
Author: Kyle Barrowman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2024-09-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350365777

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Fighting Stars provides a rich and diverse account of the emergence and legacies of Hong Kong martial arts cinema stars. Tracing the meanings and influence of stars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi , and Donnie Yen against the shifting backdrops of the Hong Kong film industry, the contributors to this important volume highlight martial arts stars' cultural reach, both on a local and global scale. Each of the chapters, written by a host of renowned international scholars, focuses on an individual film star, considering issues such as martial arts practices and philosophies, gender and age, national identities and conflicts, cinematic genres and aesthetic choices in order to understand their local and transnational cultural influence.

Fighting Stars

Fighting Stars
Author: Hiram Alfred Cody
Publisher: Librorium Editions
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2018-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3965082647

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Although Charles Stanfield was a wealthy man he was far from happy. Everything that money could buy was at his command. He had merely to give the order and it would be fulfilled without delay. From a worldly point of view he was an outstanding example of a prosperous man who had fought his way to the top of the ladder of success. By many he was admired for his keen business qualities; by others he was feared and hated. He was considered a hard man, and merciless in any transaction where money was the object of his pursuit.

Star Trek The Collectibles

Star Trek The Collectibles
Author: Steve Kelley
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-09-26
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1440219079

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This book provides a wide-range of Star Trek treasures you can appreciate whether you're a devoted Trekkie or a novice collector of this epic American science-fiction franchise. Then the pages of this spectacular guide, you'll discover more than 1,500 color photos including memorabilia direct from Paramount Studios warehouses. In addition, you'll enjoy chapters covering more than 40 years of Star Trek action figures, lunch boxes, games, pins, posters, uniforms, original scripts and countless other items, all with identifying details and current market values.

Fighting to Breathe

Fighting to Breathe
Author: Aurora Rose Reynolds
Publisher: EverAfter Romance
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781682308998

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Lea Lamb and Austin Wolf were young when they fell in love. They never imagined the future could hold anything other than together-forever. When Lea’s father dies in a tragic fishing accident, she's crushed under the weight of her grief and catches a glimpse of another type of future, one she knows she's not strong enough to face. Austin is angry. For the past fifteen years, he's believed the woman he loved with every ounce of his soul left him without so much as a backwards glance. When Lea unexpectedly returns to their hometown, all of Austin's heartache bubbles to the surface and presents itself as blinding rage. Faced with the truth about the past and a newly discovered secret, the former lovers will learn that if they want to have any chance at the future they’d given up on all those years ago, they will have to rescue one another from drowning in pain so debilitating it will leave them both fighting to breathe.

STAR FIGHTERS 8: Secret Weapon

STAR FIGHTERS 8: Secret Weapon
Author: Max Chase
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408827166

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It is the year 5012 and the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War, a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe, the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force - an elite fighting team sworn to protect and defend the galaxy. Only the brightest and most promising students are accepted into the Intergalactic Force Academy, and only the very best cadets reach the highest of their ranks and become . . . STAR FIGHTERS! Having located the notorious space pirate Jaxx in Book 7, the crew of the Phoenix discover the amazing truth - Jaxx is actually Selene's father, and he was set up! Now they must find the real space pirate and, when they do, recover the precious Heart of Mars gemstone that was stolen. Jaxx thinks he knows where the Heart of Mars has been hidden. If they attempt to retrieve it, the true pirate will have no choice but to come to them . . .

Aerial Age Weekly

Aerial Age Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 716
Release: 1918
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

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