James King

A biography of Canada's greatest living artist. Michael Snow is rightly recognized as the greatest living Canadian artist, and he is also acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in Canadian art history. In a productive, lengthy career, he has, in a wide variety of genres, asked (and often answered) some of the most vexing and important issues in the history of art. During his career, the notion of what constitutes a work of art has...

A humorous look at the influence of celebrity style, charting the hairdos (and hair don'ts) James King has fashioned over the years. From the classic 'Rachel from Friends' to the questionable David Beckham mohawk, most of us, probably unwisely, have tried to emulate our favorite star's hairstyles at some point. In HOLLYWOOD SHAPED MY HAIR, James King takes us on a hair-history of cinema.

Thomas Wainewright - Regency fop, literary hanger-on, collector of art and artifacts, forger and deported felon - is considered one of the most notorious of English murderers. He is believed to have been one of the first recorded serial killers. James King takes on this spectral character in his first novel, Faking, and examines a number of serious questions. Was Wainewright a faker? It's historical "fact" that he forged sketches, paintings, letters...

For fans of The Movies That Made Us, a behind-the-scenes look at what went into making the favorite blockbuster films of the 1980s. A trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks; of Reagan, rap, and Ridgemont High; of MTV, VHS, and "Axel F"; of outsiders, lost boys, and dead poets; of Bill and Ted, Brooke Shields, and the Brat Pack; of three Porky's flicks, two Coreys, and one summer when "Baby" refused to be put in a corner. The...

This book is about the perception of Japan in the sixty films set there by gaijin (foreigners) outsiders, who almost, always do not speak or read Japanese. My area of attention is directed to films depicting post World War II Japan and the Japanese, and, in many cases, films showing how foreigners in the same time-frame respond to Japan. Why have a substantial number of films been set there by strangers? As a body of work, what do they tell us about...

A trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks, of Reagan, rap, and Ridgemont High, of MTV, VHS, and "Axel F", of outsiders, lost boys, and dead poets, of Bill and Ted, Brooke Shields, and the Brat Pack, of three Porky's flicks, two Coreys, and one summer when "Baby" refused to be put in a corner. The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where...

Hive fleets search the galaxy for planets to eat, indulging their Hive Cycle: feed, reproduce, and increase. Interstellar distance was not a concern. Time was not important. The Hive had always been and would always be. When they enter the sphere of the Earth Empire, Emperor Maximel dispatches a crusty old space navy admiral to take care of the problem. Using what he has and what he can scrape up, he takes on the alien bugs in a battle, unknowingly...

A philosophical work on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic. This included a study on demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled men. It also touches on topics such as werewolves and vampires. It was a political yet theological statement to educate a misinformed populace on the history, practices and implications of sorcery and the reasons for...

In this wonderfully accessible new recording, Masterpiece Theater star James Warwick reads the Gospel of Mark so beautifully you feel you are hearing it for the first time..

In this timely and important new recording, The Gospel according to Matthew sparkles with new light in the hands of award-winning narrator Alison Larkin. Matthew is the first of the four gospels in the New Testament. Held in high esteem by the church; no other text was so frequently quoted in the noncanonical literature of earliest Christianity.