Mark R Gallagher

Rent-Seeking and Economic Growth in Africa

Mickey Mantle

50 Years of Yankee All-Stars

Explosion!: Mickey Mantle's legendary home runs

mantle, a muscular, blond Oklahoman. promising much, becoming one of the yankee greats. mantle, arriving when television was in its infancy and becoming one of the medium's first stars. leading the Yankees. playing in the world series almost every fall. becoming the greatest American league draw car...

The Pillars of Wellness: & Eight Steps to Better Health

It's ALL about Graceful Aging ! The Pillars of Wellness is a guidebook to the fundamentals of health and wellness in the human body. It is a 'pattern based' holistic approach to understanding the 'way in' and the 'way out' of many health and disease related issues. This book outlines the key compone...

East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue (Tauris World Cinema)

Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir's downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and greater China (including Hong Kong) and Taiwan that have both participated in and been excluded from circuits of global-noir ...

The Business of Winning: Strategic Success from the Formula One Track to the Boardroom

In this riveting insider's account of over thirty years in the Formula One industry, Mark Gallagher explains what it takes to succeed in a competitive business with high technology, high finance and immensely high stakes. Like any global business, Formula One demands the best from its people. To thr...

New York Yankees

Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

In virtually every aspect of culture-health, marriage, family, morals, politics, sex, race, economics-American men of the past two decades have faced changing social conditions and confronted radical questions about themselves. In Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, editor T...

Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives

What accounts for the massive global popularity of action films and adventure literature? How do men and women respond to iconic screen stars such as Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve McQueen, and Charlton Heston? Action genres have been Hollywood's most profitable global exports for most of...

Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood

How do we determine authorship in film, and what happens when we look in-depth at the creative activity of living filmmakers rather than approach their work through the abstract prism of auteur theory? Mark Gallagher uses Steven Soderbergh’s career as a lens through which to re-view screen authorshi...