John Wayne Books

The Reader's Guide is one of the most impressive books about Tolkien and Tolkien's creation ever made. Actually, it is a vast encyclopedia, but instead of Frodo, Feanor or the Valar you can find in this book all of Tolkien and more important: Tolkien's sources. in this hefty volume (more than 1100 pages!) you can find extensive entries about interesting people in Tolkien's life like George Mcdonald, C.S Lewis and Barfield and interesting entries about themes and ideas in Tolkien creation like woman, light, time and more. Also you can find entries on the various sources that influenced Tolkien.
The main attraction is that you can find there entry about each chapter from the Silmarillion (the one that was published in 1977) with summary and complete analysis and references to the texts that Christopher used in order to build the chapters.

Scull and Hammond surely invested tremendous work in this volumes, the Bibliographical list is very impressive. Every entry is very detailed and although (As H&S wrote themselves in the foreword) you can't find there the whole information about some subjects, you can find in each entry enough to make you understand the basics. This book will not replace Shippey or even Carpenter, the Reader's Guide is something on a very different level: more like encyclopedia and less interpretation book.

This book is useful to everyone that wants to know more about Tolkien and Tolkien's creation. I think that this is tremendous achievement and great contribution to Tolkien study. If you read part or all of H.O.M.E and If you are making you own research - You should use this book, it will upgrade your research in a ways that you never dream that was possible.

My wife bought me this book over 20 years ago and it is falling apart from overuse. I always read Eyles' review and background notes before watching a John Wayne movie. He list all the movies in chronolgical order giving us story lines, scenes to look for and general insights into the film and its cast. At the back of the book he lists all of the credits for each movie. If you are not a big John Wayne fan, this book will make you one.

For all the John Wayne fans and cowboy fans in general this is a terrific book...I liked it so much I bought a second copy. I highly recommend it.

To be short and sweet, this book is a must-have for any fan of John Wayne and/or the American Western on the silver screen. It features an excellent text accompanied with some great photos of The Duke, and is one of the best volumes ever published about this screen legend.

Unfortunately, this book is now out of print, but copies are probably still available from the publisher (aka The Old West Shop). My fervent recommendation: Beg, Borrow or Buy (but do not Steal!) a copy. And pronto, Pardner!

Marion Morris is better known to his millions of enthusiastic fans around the world by his theatrical name, John Wayne -- and to his friends and colleagues as "Duke". In John Wayne: A Giant Shadow, Hollywood historian C. McGivern presents those fans with a 465-page biography that provides an informed and informative biographical history of one of the most popular actors to ever sit a horse, or hold a pistol, or ride off into the sunset. Now now in a substantially updated and expanded third edition, John Wayne: A Giant Shadow is a strongly commended biography that does full and complete justice to an American icon. Also highly recommended as "must reading" for John Wayne buffs is McGivern's earlier title: The Lost Films Of John Wayne 0954003136, $29.95) which although published overseas by Sammon Publishing is now readily available in the United States through Seven Locks Press

<< Feo, Fuerte y Formal>> fue el epitafio que John Wayne (1907-1979), la maxima leyenda del cine universal, eligio paraser recordado. De cualquier forma lo sera gracias a un punado de obras maestros del Septimo Arte queya han pasado a formar parte del acervo cultural de nuestro tiempo: La Diligencia, Piratas del mar Caribe, Rio Rojo, Arenas sangrientas, La legion invencible, El hombre tranquilo, Hondo, Centauros del desierto, Rio Bravo, El Alamo, Hatari, El hombre que mato a Liberty Valance, El Dorado, El gran McLintock, Boinas verdes, Valor de ley, Los Cow Boys, El ultimo pistolero ...

Este libro recorre la biografia del hombre y la trayectoria artistica del actor, nos cuentas su vida personal, sus tres matrimonies y sus siete hijos, las convicciones politicas de un hombre valeroso, honesto, independiente y politicamente incorrecto que supo sobrevivir a todas las dificultades e imponer su imagen y su mito a millones de hombres y mujeres de todas las edades, paises y condiciones. Y junto a ellas, las peliculas, su lucha dificil para obtener el estrellato, la relacion con genios como John Ford, Howard Hawks o Cecil B. DeMille y su legado que se recoge en sus magnificas interpretaciones, en su charisma personal y en ese monumento cinematografico que es <>, la pelicula de su vida, su proyecto mas personal y el resumen artistico e ideologico de toda su obra.

Estas paginas nos dibujan la figura de un hombre complete, de un autentico heroe americano, de un gigantesco actor de cine que se llamo John Wayne, su recuerdo pervivira mientras exista un lugar donde se puedan proyectar peliculas. ?Y que seria del hombre del siglo XXI sin peliculas?

For anyone that has read Tearoom Trade, this biography helps to answer a lot of questions about Laud Humphreys life and work. Extremely well written, deeply insightful and thoroughly researched.

Brouwer has staked out new territory in Johannine studies by exploring the Farewell Discourse as a chiastically-shaped literary unit. While you might not be familiar with chiasm as literary design (I wasn't!), this well-crafted study is accessible and extremely interesting. While supporting his own thesis, Brouwer also packs in a grand collection of interpretive insights that make Bible study fun! I was amazed! This is a good book to buy for your pastor or college student or seminary friend.

Hollywood icon John Wayne's career spanned from 1926-76 and produced numerous movies, so you'd think most of them would have received much attention by now - but The Lost Films of John Wayne demonstrates there's a number which remain unavailable with only two kept from the public. These were released in the mid-1950s and based on novels by Ernest K. Gann, and are finally celebrated here, in a coverage which provides close inspection of the two movies and the reason why they were suppressed until the summer of 2005. A 'must' for any definitive film holding strong in John Wayne's history, biography and productions.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

This exceptional and timely second edition provides a much-needed update. The volume focuses around how the chemical senses work, with coverage ranging from microorganisms to humans and from genetics to behavior. Research in these areas has grown rapidly in the past decade; more than anything, this work illustrates how far we have come in understanding the cellular mechanisms that underlie taste and olfaction. With coverage that is both comprehensive and succinct, features its readers will value, this volume is a "must-have" for everyone doing research on or teaching about the chemical senses. (And almost like a hidden treasure, at the end of each chapter there is a superb bibliography.) --Vincent E. Dionne, Boston University