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Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones is a British film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the science fiction film Moon, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. He also directed Source Code, Warcraft and Mute.
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Slaine
The Horned God - Collector's Edition
Pat Mills - 2020-09-01
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Brutal sword and sorcery meets Celtic myth in the number one best-selling graphic novel - back in print, bigger and better than ever in a deluxe collector’s edition.For too long the people of Tír na nÓg have suffered under the dominion of the drunes; strange druids who have poisoned the land with their magic. Sláine has had enough of their tyranny ...
Duncan Jones
2021-01-04T23:17:33.000Z
@RobBradshaw73 @alexdecampi 16... hmmm... im going to recommend a VERY different kind of book      source
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Indiana Jones
The Ultimate Guide
Jim Luceno - 2008-05-05
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Packed with a wealth of information from all four Indiana Jones films--from 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, due in theaters on May 22--this ultimate guide provides fans with everything they need to know about the unconventional archaeologist and his world. Full color....
Duncan Jones
2020-02-13T02:44:21.000Z
Possibly my favorite book on a movie for sheer fun in its presentation.      source
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Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
David Kushner - 2004-05-11 (first published in 2003)
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Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce ...
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2019-10-08T16:40:31.000Z
@dannyodwyer I cant wait to see this. The book is fascinating, and I remember watching with bulging fan-boy eyes during those halcyon days!      source
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Practical Ethics
Peter Singer - 2011-02-20 (first published in 1979)
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For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters, and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern ou...
Duncan Jones
2018-09-23T13:57:10.000Z
Fair point! My personal views are mirrored in my understanding of the book Practical Ethics by Peter Singer. That while the use of animals as a resource for food is acceptable, we are beholden to make their lives as pleasant & cruelty free as practically possible.      source
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The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies
Susan Jacoby - 2018-01-16
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe prescient and now-classic analysis of the forces of anti-intellectualism in contemporary American life--updated for the era of Trump, Twitter, Breitbart and fake news controversies.The searing cultural history of the last half-century, The Age of American Unreason In A Culture of Lies focuses on the convergence of social forc...
Duncan Jones
2018-05-02T22:53:49.000Z
OK, gang. I'm late on the book of the month, and I know that means you won't have as much time to order but May is a long month, so suck it up! The book of the month is... Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason Seems like a good time for it.      source