Emil N Gallina has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime.
The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime
Summary
Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and, most of all, the gambling. As the sport became a national industry, the New York metropolitan area, along with the resort towns of Saratoga Springs (New York) and Long Branch (New Jersey), remained at the center of horse racing with the most outstanding race courses, the largest purses, and the finest thoroughbreds. The sport's survival depended upon the racetrack being the nexus between politicians and organized crime. The powerful alliance between urban machine politics and track owners enabled racing in New York to flourish. Racetracks became a key connection between the underworld and Tammany Hall, enabling illegal poolrooms and off-course bookies to operate. Organized crime worked in close cooperation with machine politicians and local police officers to protect these illegal operations. In The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime, Riess fills a long-neglected gap in sports history, offering a richly detailed and fascinating chronicle of thoroughbred racing's heyday. "This impressive work deserves the attention of scholars even if they care little about sports per se." (The Journal of American History) "This work will stand as a source-of-record for historians for years to come." (Saratoga Living) "Riess has broken new ground with his richly-textured study of the dynamic relationship between horse racing, politics, and gambling as they built New York's thoroughbred industry a century ago." (Field Horne, author of The Saratoga Reader)
©2011 Syracuse University Press (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks
Script Culture and the American Screenplay
Summary
Script Culture and the American Screenplay treats the screenplay as a literary work in its own right, presenting analyses of screenplays from a variety of frameworks, including feminism, Marxism, structuralism, philosophy, and psychology.
Script Culture and the American Screenplay is divided into two parts. Part 1 provides a general background for screenplay studies, tracing the evolution of the screenplay from the early shot lists and continuities of George Méliès and Thomas Harper Ince, to the more detailed narratives of contemporary works. Part 2 offers specific, primarily thematic, critical examinations of screenplays, along with discussions of the original screenplay and the screenplay adaptation. In all, Boon explains that screenplay criticism distinguishes itself from traditional film studies in three major ways. The primary focus of screenplay criticism is on the screenplay rather than the film, the focus of screenplay studies is on the screenwriter rather than the director, and screenplay criticism, like literary criticism, is written to illuminate a reader's understanding of the text.
Boon demonstrates that whether we are concerned with aesthetics and identifying rules for distinguishing the literary from the non-literary, or whether we align ourselves with more contemporary theories, which recognize texts as distinguishable in their inter-relationships and marked difference, screenplays constitute a rich cache of works worthy of critical examination.
The audiobook is published by Wayne State University Press.
"Kevin Alexander Boon's stated purpose is to stimulate interest in screenplay criticism - a worthy goal, in my opinion, admirably achieved by Script Culture and the American Screenplay." (James M. Welsh, Salisbury University)
©2008 Wayne State University Press (P)2017 Redwood Audiobooks
Manage Personality Disorder
Summary
Are you looking for a solution to fix Borderline Personality Disorder? There are many things you can do on your own when it comes to practicing Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies. Many people who are not struggling with any mental health issue disorder decide to embrace those DBT strategies and techniques to boost their mental health, to bring more joy and happiness into their lives, and to simply feel better. This is where Dialectical Behavior Therapy steps in with its highly valuable skills and strategies that everyone can benefit from. Today, DBT is used for treating patients struggling with many different mental health disorders while its valuable strategies can be of great importance to all people. DBT teaches valuable behavioral skills including interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness which can be beneficial to everyone. No matter if you have a mental health disorder or not, you can take these valuable lessons, incorporate them into your life, and enjoy benefits which they bring. As you embrace these valuable lessons, you get to enjoy a much healthier and happier lifestyle with almost no negative emotions to distract you. You get to take control over your life fully, you get to build more meaningful relationships, be more present in all social environments and simply enjoy the life as you should. As patients learn at their DBT sessions, the first thing you need to embrace is mindfulness. This means you must live your life more in the current moment instead of thinking about those past things and instead of anticipating what may happen in the future. You should not let yourself to be hijacked by the future or by the past. As you practice mindfulness, you will be more aware of your surroundings, of people around you. You will also be more aware of your reactions, actions, feelings, and thought. If you want to know more about this...then simply buy this audiobook now to get started!
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