Paul Mason

Introduces readers to mummies from many different cultures and periods in history. Mummies have been pulled out of bogs, dug up in the desert, created by monks and priests, and pried frozen out of the ice.

Explores the world of medieval knights, including information on their equipment and armor, battle tactics, methods of training, and social customs.

"Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system within which entire societies function, will mutate into something wholly...

Budding filmmakers, television producers, directors, writers, and students get a crash course on the independent production scene in this riveting account of the business and its key players. Now revised to reflect the latest production trends in the entertainment industry, this book is packed with never-before-revealed secrets about the challenging and exciting role producers play in bringing a film or television pilot to the screen, told by two...