Product Description: One of the nation's top divorce lawyers opens his case files to share true stories that rival the most outrageous fiction Gerald Nissenbaum knows everything about his clients-how much is in their bank accounts, what kind of sex their spouses like, if they married for money or power, and who cheated with whom...read more

A handsome, well-bred, and extremely alienated young man feeds his desire for intimacy through bouts of voyeurism, spying on people to gather details about their lives, in a chilling novel of literary suspense. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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The top-selling author of The Dark House and The Education of Mrs. Bemis recounts how he suffered from life-threatening levels of depression during the writing of his second book, a circumstance that prompted his investigation into his own family history. Reprint.

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The economics of the movie industry has been curiously neglected by scholars, especially given the material circumstances in which film has been produced, distributed and exhibited in capitalist economies and its central importance in the lives of the huge numbers attracted to it as a commodity. This book provides an economic framework for understanding developments in film history. Film is a peculiar commodity with a unique set of characteristics. The topic hence is interesting and covered with aplomb by the contributors to the volume. The book includes sections on: long-term trends in the film industry the transformation of film from a primitive commodity to a heavily branded product the operation of the studio system the end of the studio system in post-war America the role and payment of stars Hollywood’s approach to risk during the 1990s. Experts from the UK and North America have come together in these pages and the result is a readable, insightful and enlightening book that will gain many fans amongst those with an interest in the economics of film, economic historians, film historians and aficionados of the movie industry generally.

When Madeline Bemis, the wealthy dowager of one of Boston's most prestigious families, suffers a breakdown in Filene's furniture department, Alice Matthews, a young psychologist, takes her case and slowly unravels the secrets of the old woman's troubled life.

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Presents a look at life, the cares, and the little triumphs and tragedies of the Philadelphia Zoo, America's oldest zoological park, where animals and humans develop a close relationship

Based on scores of interviews, these profiles of the children of the rich provide a fresh perspective on famous families, including the Rockefellers, Mellons, Pulitzers, and Pillsburys, and illuminate the privileged yet troubled lives of these young people