The 1980s were unique in both American history and the history of American cinema. It was a time when a United States president―a former B-movie actor and Cold War industry activist―served as a catalyst for the coalescence of trends in Hollywood's political structure, mode of production, and film content. Ronald Reagan championed a success ethos that recognized economic and moral self-governance as the basis of a democratic society. His agenda of tax reform and industry deregulation simultaneously promoted the absorption of Hollywood's major studios into tightly diversified media conglomerates, and concentrations of ownership promoted the production and release of movies with maximum revenue potential. Indeed, the most commercially successful movies of the decade put forth the ideologies of WASP America, nuclear family self-sufficiency, and conspicuous consumption.
Three genres in particular―the biracial buddy movie, the MTV music-video movie, and the yuppie movie―provide case studies of how Reagan-era cinema addressed issues of race, gender, and class in ways very much in tune with Reaganomics and the President's cultural policies. Author Chris Jordan provides a complete overview of both the influence of Reagan's presidency on the film industry and on the films themselves. Exploring 80s genres and movies with both a sociocultural and aesthetic eye, this book will be invaluable to historians, cinema scholars, and film buffs.

Movies and the Reagan Presidency: Success and Ethics

Humor & Entertainment

Jordan, Chris

Movies

Praeger

There's a worldwide energy crisis that has nothing to do with fossil fuels or nuclear and solar power. It's a crisis of personal energy. You're working longer hours, sleeping less, and spending less time being active. But this is one trend you don't have to accept. In fact, the solution is in your hands. 
Energy Every Day is the result of Human Performance Institute's decades of research into the lifestyles of the world's busiest people. Whether you're a student or CEO, athlete or small-business owner, you'll learn how to incorporate physical activity into your daily routine for better health and increased energy. 
In Energy Every Day, you'll create a personal energy plan specific to you—your goals, your needs, your schedule. Evaluate your lifestyle, identify opportunities, and add energy-boosting activities to your day. With this step-by-step program, you'll learn the following skills:
-Increase personal energy and engagement with family and friends by incorporating physical activity into your daily schedule.
-Adjust eating habits to sustain high energy throughout the day.
-Establish a personal sleep schedule that addresses your brain and body's needs for rest and recovery.
-Recognize and eliminate the daily pitfalls that drain energy and create mental and physical fatigue. With Energy Every Day, you can solve your own personal energy crisis. Be more alert, focused, and attentive and reap the rewards of an active and fit lifestyle. Energy Every Day is the energy plan for everybody.

Energy Every Day

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Woods, Ron

Exercise & Fitness

Human Kinetics

Taken

Literature & Fiction

Literary

MIRA

Here are the facts For the parents whose children have been taken, for the broken lives we piece back together one relentless investigation at a time, our town house is a sanctuary. My name is Alice Crane. I'm just one of a talented team working for Naomi Nantz, the brilliant and very private detective. Today that sanctuary was violated. The famous kid-finder Randall Shane was taken away by unknown assailants, possibly government agents. Shane's client is dead, and a boy known as "the keyboard kid" is missing. What is the boy's connection to a top secret physics lab? Unknown—for now. But under Naomi's lead, we will infiltrate every illicit boardroom and bedroom and war room. We'll find that little boy or die trying. The only thing guaranteed in this life is that Naomi Nantz won't give up. Not now, not ever.

Measure of Darkness

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

No parent believes it can happen to them — their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing, maddening Tommy is begging for ice cream. Then in a terrible instant, he's gone. Opening the door to her Connecticut home, hoping to find her son, Kate comes face-to-face with her son's abductor. He wants money. All she has. And if she doesn't follow something he calls The Method, the consequences will be gruesome. Her comfortable life collapses as precious seconds tick by, and Kate is horrified to uncover the terrible, world-shattering secret she and her son share with a killer who will stop at nothing.

Taken (Blockbusters)

United States

No parent believes it can happen to them—their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing, maddening Tommy is begging for ice cream. Then in a terrible instant, he's gone. Opening the door to her Connecticut home, hoping to find her son, Kate comes face-to-face with her son's abductor. He wants money. All she has. And if she doesn't follow something he calls The Method, the consequences will be gruesome. Her comfortable life collapses as precious seconds tick by, and Kate is horrified to uncover the terrible, world-shattering secret she and her son share with a killer who will stop at nothing.…

"Mom, I need your help. Please call―" That's it. The call cuts off in midsentence. No static. Nothing. Just an overwhelming silence. Long Island single mom Jane Hartley is frantic when her sixteen-year-old daughter, Kelly, a survivor of childhood leukemia, disappears from her bedroom one night. To Jane's frustration, the police believe that Kelly ran off willingly with her boyfriend, Seth. Unaware that her daughter even had a boyfriend, Jane soon discovers that Seth is no boy. He is an adult―a man who, after meeting Kelly on the Internet, took the teenager on one thrill-seeking ride after another. From motorcycles to skydiving, Jane's little girl has been hiding some dangerous secrets. Like mother, like daughter. Adamant that Kelly is not a runaway but, rather, is being held against her will, Jane hires ex-FBI agent Randall Shane to follow the trail of her missing child. But every step brings them closer to a cold-blooded predator lurking in the shadows… coiled around Jane's shameful secret…waiting to strike.

Trapped

In a small New York town, a deranged man holds over one hundred schoolchildren hostage…
With the SWAT team about to go in, the gymnasium suddenly explodes in flames. Fortunately, all the students escape—except ten-year-old Noah Corbin. Noah's mother, Haley, is frantic. Was her son killed in the explosion? Did he somehow wander away from the scene, hurt and confused?
Or did someone take him?
Haley hires ex-FBI agent Randall Shane because she needs the truth. Their investigation leads them to a desolate area of the Rocky Mountains, and into the resort compound of a notoriously secretive cult ruled by the rich and powerful.
Haley knows they have something to do with Noah's disappearance. But they will protect their secrets. No matter what.

Torn

Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait

Washington State University Museum of Art

The Professional Tennis Archive contains over 420 pages of professional tennis results in addition to a narrative section of over 100 pages. This book chronicles professional tennis from the early years until the arrival of the open era in 1968. Many of the greatest male players in tennis history played in the pro ranks. Names like Bill Tilden, Ellsworth Vines, Fred Perry, Donald Budge, Bobby Riggs, Jack Kramer, Pancho Gonzales, Pancho Segura, Tony Trabert, Frank Sedgman, Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall and Rod Laver won many titles on the pro circuit. There is also a section of results for women's professional tennis. The author has conducted detailed research over many months consulting all the best sources available. Read about Bill Tilden's theatrical confrontations with authority, Pancho Gonzales' feuds, Donald Budge's dominance, Bobby Riggs' matches against Pauline Betz Addie (more than 20 years before Riggs played Margaret Court and Billie-Jean King) and Ken Rosewall and Rod Laver's great rivalry. This book also sheds light on the early years of the pro game, featuring players such as George Kerr and Tom Burke, who played professional tennis in the late 19th century. A must have purchase for all those interested in tennis history.

The Professional Tennis Archive

Sports & Outdoors

Racket Sports

Independently published

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Movies and the Reagan Presidency: Success and Ethics

Energy Every Day

Taken

Measure of Darkness

Taken (Blockbusters)

Taken (Blockbusters)

Trapped

Torn

Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait

The Professional Tennis Archive