Download or read book Dora Lives written by Craig Stecyk and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the legendary Miki Dora, who learned to surf from his step father, Gard Chapin, at San Onofre Beach in Orange County, California.
Download or read book Finding Dora Maar written by Brigitte Benkemoun and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907–1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist’s address book. In search of a replacement for his lost Hermès agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun’s husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1951—twenty pages of phone numbers and addresses for Balthus, Brassaï, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, and other artistic luminaries of the European avant-garde. After realizing that the address book belonged to Dora Maar—Picasso’s famous “Weeping Woman” and a brilliant artist in her own right—Benkemoun embarks on a two-year voyage of discovery to learn more about this provocative, passionate, and enigmatic woman, and the role that each of these figures played in her life. Longlisted for the prestigious literary award Prix Renaudot, Finding Dora Maar is a fascinating and breathtaking portrait of the artist. “Beautifully written and fascinating.”—Paris Match “One of the happy surprises of the end of the literary season.”—Livres Hebdo “A highly moving portrait of the artist.”—Elle (France) This book received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.
Download or read book All for a Few Perfect Waves written by David Rensin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years, Miki "Da Cat" Dora was the king of Malibu surfers—a dashing, enigmatic rebel who dominated the waves, ruled his peers' imaginations, and who still inspires the fantasies of wannabes to this day. And yet, Dora railed against surfing's sudden post-Gidget popularity and the overcrowding of his once empty waves, even after this avid sportsman, iconoclast, and scammer of wide repute ran afoul of the law and led the FBI on a remarkable seven-year chase around the globe in 1974. The New York Times named him "the most renegade spirit the sport has yet to produce" and Vanity Fair called him "a dark prince of the beach." To fully capture Dora's never-before-told story, David Rensin spent four years interviewing hundreds of Dora's friends, enemies, family members, lovers, and fellow surfers to uncover the untold truth about surfing's most outrageous practitioner, charismatic antihero, committed loner, and enduring mystery.
Download or read book Dora A Headcase written by Lidia Yuknavitch and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dora: A Headcase is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud’s famous case study—retold and revamped through Dora's point of view, with shotgun blasts of dark humor and sexual play. Ida needs a shrink . . . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, whom she nicknames Siggy, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. At the beginning of her therapy, Ida, whose alter ego is Dora, and her small posse of pals engage in "art attacks." Ida’s in love with her friend Obsidian, but when she gets close to intimacy, she faints or loses her voice. Ida and her friends hatch a plan to secretly film Siggy and make an experimental art film. But something goes wrong at a crucial moment—at a nearby hospital Ida finds her father suffering a heart attack. While Ida loses her voice, a rough cut of her experimental film has gone viral, and unethical media agents are hunting her down. A chase ensues in which everyone wants what Ida has.
Download or read book Carrington written by Gretchen Gerzina and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyndham Lewis portrayed her as a tiny sex therapist, D. H. Lawrence as a frivolous artist's model and, elsewhere, as a gang-raped aesthete, and Aldous Huxley as jargon-speaking ultra-modern girl. Because of her Bohemian lifestyle, connection with the Bloomsbury group, her bobbed hair and outspoken views, painter Dora Carrington seems to symbolize the 'new' woman of the early 20th century. But the reality is more complex than that. While sexuality, infidelity and modernity were undeniably aspects of her personality, they were equally balanced by a loathing of her own femaleness, a devotion for 17 years with one man - albeit the homosexual Lytton Strachey, and respect for many aspects of traditional English life. Here is a vivid and compelling portrait of a remarkable woman -described by Lady Ottoline Morrell as 'a strange wild beast'.
Download or read book A Most Unusual Life written by Kirsten Van Gelder and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look inside the life of an influential pioneer of alternative healing. Born on a sugar plantation in Java at the turn of the twentieth century, psychic, alternative healer and writer Dora van Gelder Kunz was to become one of the most unique and unforgettable women of her age. This biography traces her life from her signs of clairvoyant ability in early childhood through her pioneering development, with Delores Krieger, of Therapeutic Touch; her presidency of the Theosophical Society in America; and, finally, her death at ninety-five. Among her several seminal books in the genre of modern esoteric literature are The Real World of Fairies, The Personal Aura, and Spiritual Healing. Those who knew Dora were captivated by her blunt honesty, tremendous perception, deep compassion, and infinite capacity for hilarity. As this book lovingly chronicles, hers was indeed a most unusual life.
Download or read book I was Dora Suarez written by Derek Raymond and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the reader is immediately plunged into the horrific mind of one of the most brutally damaged and murderous killers the unnamed Detective Sergeant has ever faced: a deranged axe-murderer. But why the victim--the gentle Dora Suarez--was murdered at all becomes the Sergeant's obsession, especially as he digs deeper into a diary she left behind and learns she was already dying of AIDS. So why kill her?
Download or read book Kafka s Last Love written by Kathi Diamant and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captures Kafka's heart and kept his literary flame alive for decades. It was Dora Diamant, an independant spirit who fled her Polish Hasidic family to persue her Zionist dreams, who persuaded Kafka to leave his parents and live with her in Berlin the year before he died. Although many credit (or blame) her for burning many of his papers, as he had requested, she also held on to many others - papers that the Gestapo confiscated and that have yet to be recovered. Dora's life after Kafka- from her days as a struggling agitprop actress in Berlin to her sojourn in Moscow in the 1930s, from her wartime escape to Great Britain, to her first emotional visit to the new nation of Isreal - offers a prism through which we can view the cultural and political history of twentieth-century Europe.
Download or read book Church of the Open Sky written by Nat Young and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a swag of titles claimed from all over the world to his name, Australian world champion surfer Nat Young might know. His seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on exactly that, and on the waves and characters that have marked his remarkable life – Miki Dora and Midget Farrelly to name a few. But surfing for Nat Young – and so many like-minded surfers – has never been about winning, never been about the sport. It’s a calling, an endless quest, a philosophy, a religion. Most of all, surfing is a way of life that has underpinned his other identities as board shaper, film producer, writer, raconteur, conservationist, activist, pilot, husband, father. Candid and wryly observed, Church of the Open Sky explores what it means to be a surfer, with a collection of true stories of Nat’s surfing life – and the friends, foes and heroes he’s met along the way.
Download or read book Picasso s Weeping Woman written by Mary Ann Caws and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of memorabilia brings together the art of the Surrealist photographer and artist while documenting her seven-year affair with Pablo Picasso and considering her role as a friend and sexually unconventional woman.
Download or read book Pan and Dora s Box Life is a Story story one written by Aditya Deshmukh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything has a cost Pan and Dora belong together, but destiny doesn't let them. Not in this world. Their forbidden love exists only in a safely guarded box outside of space and time. When Pandora's box opens, their dreams threaten our world as a brutal dance of distorting dimensions manifests, consuming all in its wake. Pan and Dora might be able to restore the balance. But at what cost? Pan and Dora's Box is a cosmic horror story, but at its core, it's romance, deep, painful, raw, all too real. The kind that demands sacrifices. The kind that deserves those sacrifices. It's horror, the kind most of us know in some shape or form.
Download or read book Dora Goes for a Ride written by Phoebe Beinstein and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains, planes ... and hot-air balloons? Dora is going for a ride "explorer" style and she wants you to come along!
Download or read book Dora and the Lost City of Gold The Junior Novel written by Steve Behling and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dora and the Lost City of Gold is coming to theaters August 9, 2019 from Paramount Pictures, starring Isabela Moner, Benicio Del Toro, Eva Longoria, Michael Peña, and more. Dora and the Lost City of Gold: The Junior Novel retells the entire action-packed adventure of the movie! Adventure is . . . grown up. Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora for the most dangerous adventure of all—high school. After one potentially fatal accident too many, Dora’s parents force her to move to the city. When she arrives, Dora is reunited with her cousin Diego, who seems more concerned with his image than anything else. Despite Dora’s sunny outlook, she finds that she doesn’t really fit in at her new school and longs to return to her jungle home. But all of that changes when Dora and her friends are captured by a group of mercenaries. The teens manage to escape, only to find out Dora’s parents have gone missing! Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a non-talking monkey), Diego and a ragtag group of teens on an adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind the lost city of gold.
Download or read book Planet Dora written by Yves Beon and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1997-03-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocking linkages between Nazi concentration camp Dora, Nazi rocket scientists, and the American space program? Did the grandest technological achievement of the 20th century have origins in the Holocaust? Half a century ago, did a group of brilliant scientists make a Faustian bargain that still stains the foundation of our reach for the stars? Once you read PLANET DORA, you will never watch the launching of the Space Shuttle in quite the same way again. Index. Maps. Photos.
Download or read book Dora Dolphin written by Matt Mitter and published by Studio Fun International. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the best-selling line of Snappy Fun Books, Dora Dolphin introduces kids to an adorable baby dolphin and lets them play along with the story. Using the ratchet-action jaws attached to the top of the book, kids make clicking sounds that mimic the actual sound of a dolphin. Fun-to-read rhyming text and Jo Brown’s delightful illustrations add to the charm of this playful book. Dora the dolphin has somehow gotten separated from the rest of her dolphin friends and she has to find her way home. As she swims she meets all kinds of sea creatures and asks them—with a “CLICK-CLICK”—if they’ve seen her friends. Kids can help Dora find her way home by pressing the lever on top and making clicking noises as they read this entertaining tale.
Download or read book Freud Dora and Vienna 1900 written by Hannah S. Decker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-09-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychoanalytic encounter of Sigmund Freud, at mid-life, and Dora, an emotionally troubled adolescent suffering from hysteria, provides a glimpse into the private lives of upper-middle-class Jews in fin-de-siecle Vienna - their professional concerns, familial relations, sexual undercurrents, and responses to the social forces of anti-semitism and the derogation of women. Decker places the treatment of Dora in a larger social and historical context and pursues the lives of the two protagonists before and after their meeting.
Download or read book The Birth House written by Ami McKay and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing. Dora becomes Miss B.’s apprentice, and together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labours, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives. Filled with details as compelling as they are surprising, The Birth House is an unforgettable tale of the struggles women have faced to have control of their own bodies and to keep the best parts of tradition alive in the world of modern medicine.
