Download or read book How to Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life written by Kirstie Alley and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a humorous memoir, the actress explores the American obsession with food, fat, sex, love, beauty, and weight as she recounts her own battle with the bulge and reflects on what it means to be overweight in a skinny-obsessed world.
Download or read book Art of Men I Prefer Mine Al Dente written by Kirstie Alley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for her irreverent, no-holds-barred, hilarious opinions and observations, beloved actress and spokesperson Kirstie Alley now channels her media-savvy wit into a mashup of Chelsea Handler and Nora Ephron that delivers a down-and-dirty account of all the men she’s slept with, danced with, drank with, and the ones she’s loved and hated during her sixty years on the planet. From her award-winning turn as the neurotic Rebecca Howe on Cheers to her well-publicized splash on Dancing with the Stars, through all her weight losses and gains, her unabashed Oprah appearances, and whether she’s playing a fat actress or a sexy Vulcan, Kirstie Alley is a true original. And yet she claims that so much of her inspiration (and self-deprecating wit) has come from the good, the bad, and the ugly men she’s loved and lost throughout her tumultuous life. In this full-disclosure account, Kirstie frames her life story with all the men she’s been shaped, molded, and motivated by, from Woody Harrelson to L. Ron Hubbard to her partner Maks on Dancing with the Stars. In the end, readers will find a part of themselves in this hilarious excursion into love, sex, and self-discovery from one of Hollywood’s most enduring stars.
Download or read book The Inscribed List or Why Librarians Are Crazy written by Eric v.d. Luft and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Ludwig von Baldass, Theodore Rolly Ball, John Cawte Beaglehole, Guido van Deth, Fulvia de Cunto Fadigas, Dingle Foot, Rev. Daniel Parish Kidder, Thomas Strangeways Pigg-Strangeways, Franciscus Petrus Hubertus Prick van Wely, Walter Lytle Pyle, Hendrik Peter Godfried Quack, Lazar Shitnitzky, Elephant Smith, Preserved Smith, Increase Niles Tarbox, and over 2000 others have in common? They are all real names of real people. They are all verified entries in library catalogs. They are all on The Inscribed List.
Download or read book Lopsided Schools written by Gerard Giordano and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lopsided Schools introduces readers to the case method and helps the reader to use the case method to examine the scholastic challenges that critics posed from World War I to the present. Some critics have stirred up educators with threats to reduce their budgets or fire them. Others upset them with disconcerting questions. Should parents demand that their children learn speed reading? Should teachers emphasize vocational activities? Should principals train their own successors? Should superintendents award bonuses to teachers? Should employers hire the graduates with the highest scores on standardized tests? Should politicians assume greater responsibility for schooling? Should journalists publicize information about lopsided schools? This book examines these and the numerous other questions that critics posed.
Download or read book Stories of Oprah written by Trystan T. Cotton and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of Oprah is a collection of essays that explores Oprah Winfrey's broad reach as an industry and media brand. Contributors analyze a number of topics touching on the ways in which her cultural output shapes contemporary America. The volume examines how Oprah has fashioned a persona—which emphasizes her rural, poverty-stricken roots over other factors—that helps her popularize her unique blend of New Age spirituality, neoliberal politics, and African American preaching. She packages New Age spirituality through the rhetoric of race, gender, and the black preacher tradition. Oprah's Book Club has reshaped literary publishing, bringing Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and Cormac McCarthy to a broad number of readers. Her brand extends worldwide through the internet. In this volume writers analyze her positions on teen sexuality, gender, race, and politics, and the impact of Winfrey's confessional mode on mainstream television news. The book also addresses twenty-first-century issues, showing Winfrey's influence on how Americans and Europeans responded to 9/11, and how Harpo Productions created a deracialized film adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God in 2005. Throughout, Stories of Oprah challenges readers to reflect on how Oprah the Industry has reshaped America's culture, history, and politics.
Download or read book Fabricating the Absolute Fake written by Jaap Kooijman and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of how global cultures struggle to create their own "America" within a post-9/11 media culture, Fabricating the Absolute Fake reflects on what it might mean to truly take part in American pop culture.
Download or read book Reality TV written by Susan Murray and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survivor. The Bachelor. Extreme Makeover. Big Brother. Joe Millionaire. American Idol. The Osbournes. It is virtually impossible to turn on a television without coming across some sort of reality programming. Yet, while this genre has rapidly moved from the fringes of television culture to its lucrative core, critical attention has not kept pace. Beginning by unearthing its historical roots in early reality shows like Candid Camera and wending its way through An American Family, Cops, and The Real World to the most recent crop of reality programs, Reality TV is the first book to address the economic, visual, cultural, and audience dimensions of reality television. The essays provide a complex and comprehensive picture of how and why this genre emerged, what it means, how it differs from earlier television programming, and how it engages societies, industries, and individuals. Topics range from the construction of televisual "reality" to the changing face of criminal violence on TV, to issues of surveillance, taste, and social control. By spanning reality television's origins in the late 1940s to its current overwhelming popularity, Reality TV demonstrates both the tenacity of the format and its enduring ability to speak to our changing political and social desires and anxieties. Contributors include: Nick Couldry, Mary Beth Haralovich, John Hartley, Chuck Kleinhans, Derek Kompare, Jon Kraszewski, Kathleen LeBesco, Justin Lewis, Ted Magder, Jennifer Maher, Anna McCarthy, Rick Morris, Chad Raphael, Elayne Rapping, Jeffrey Sconce, Michael W. Trosset, Pamela Wilson.
Download or read book The Art of Men written by Kirstie Alley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmy Award-winning actress Kirstie Alley’s candid and audacious memoir about her life and the men she has shared it with—for better and for worse. John Travolta. Parker Stevenson. Ted Danson. Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Kelsey Grammer. Patrick Swayze. Woody Allen. Woody Harrelson. And many others. . . . In three decades in Hollywood, Kirstie Alley has lived with, worked with, loved, or lost all of these men, and in this revealing memoir, she peels back the layers (and sometimes the sheets) on her relationships with all of them. From the early days of her childhood in Wichita, Kansas, surrounded by her loving father, her inquisitive and doting grandfather, and a younger brother she fiercely protected when she wasn’t selling tickets to see him naked, Kirstie Alley’s life has been shaped and molded by men. “Men, men, glorious men!” gave her her first big break in Hollywood and her awardwinning role on Cheers, and through two marriages, a debilitating cocaine addiction, the death of her mother, roles in some of the biggest comedies of the last twenty years, and a surprising stint on Dancing with the Stars, men proved to be the inspiration for multitudes of the decisions and dramas in Kirstie Alley’s life. In this collection of linked essays that’s both hilarious and poignant in turns, Kirstie chronicles all the good, the bad, and the ugly men who have influenced and guided her. She demonstrates how men can be the air that women breathe or the source of all of their frustrations. But for better or worse, Kirstie shows that a life well lived is a life lived in the company of men, especially if they remember to put the lid down. The Art of Men (I Prefer Mine al Dente) is a hilarious excursion into love, joy, motherhood, loss, sex, and self-discovery from one of Hollywood’s most enduring stars.
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Download or read book Landing on the Right Side of Your Ass written by Michael B. Laskoff and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Job hunting is a different ballgame when you're holding a pink slip instead of a brand-new college diploma. In Landing on the Right Side of Your Ass, Michael B. Laskoff--a Harvard M.B.A. who has flown high and flamed out more than once--offers essential advice for those of us who have recently been laid off, restructured, or plain ol' fired. A tell-it-like-it-is bible of "reemployment," it tackles both the practical and the emotional issues of job loss.Because he's not an academic, a recruiter, or a human resources professional, Laskoff has no ax to grind, no philosophy to peddle, and no corporate ideology to support. He's been through the job-loss/job-search drill more than once, and since he consistently has gone on to do better in terms of compensation, responsibility, and job satisfaction, he's the perfect ex-employee to share with you some hard-won wisdom, such as: -How long to wait before launching yourself into the job arena-How to channel anger, fear, and revenge fantasies into useful job-search tactics-How to snag recommendations (and compensation) from ex-bosses-How to determine your interviewers' hiring problems and then present yourself as the solutionWhether you're concerned about the emotional issues of unemployment (from denial and depression to anger and acceptance) or are looking for invaluable nuts-and-bolts advice (what to say about your ex-employer in an interview, how to handle financial issues, and what on earth you should do with all that free time between jobs), Landing on the Right Side of Your Ass is a straight-up, no-chaser survival guide for picking yourself up, getting back out there again, and winding up with a job that's better than the one you lost.
Download or read book Walk Your Butt Off written by Sarah Lorge Butler and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practical walking program that takes readers from flabby to fit in 12 weeks with a variety of walks and easy-to-incorporate lifestyle changes This simple plan teaches readers how to incrementally build their walking speed so that they lose weight faster. Developed by former Prevention fitness director and walking expert Michele Stanten, Walk Your Butt Off! will not only get complete beginners started with a walking program but will also help the more than 100 million Americans who already walk for exercise to break through plateaus and boost their results. Readers will also come to view walking as an athletic endeavor and see their workouts as an inviolable part of their day. And, at no more than 30 minutes each, these daily walks can fit into even the busiest schedule. Paired with simple nutrition secrets from renowned sports nutritionist Leslie Bonci, this easy step-by-step guide to permanent weight loss is suitable for everyone.
Download or read book Back your ass up from that table written by Larry Hall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Back your ass up from the table!...” shows how to gradually lose weight using common sense, how to save money, and continue the foods you enjoy!
Download or read book How To Regain The Girl In Your Life From A Z Step by Step written by Kubik Grzegorz and published by e-bookowo. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is divided into several stages, of which: - You will learn what are the 6 most common mistakes, that men notoriously make while being in a relationship and what are the reasons that women go away from them, also you will be able to easily analyze the mistakes that you made while being in the relationship or take a closer look at your current relationship to check if you have already committed such mistakes. Everything is discussed and described in great detail, so that you know where your problem lies and how to eliminate it in order not to make it again in the future. - You will learn how to read 20 signs in woman’s behavior, which announce your loss of attractiveness in the her eyes and the forthcoming end of the relationship. Thanks to these specific signs that women themselves have no clue of, you'll know at what stage your relationship is, so as to react in time, and thus, to get the break – up out of her head. -You will learn how to read the signs in woman’s behavior telling you that she can have someone and cheat on you, and you will get detailed guidance and psychological tricks on how to save your relationship when your woman is already meeting with someone , so as to knock out of the game this person who tries to take her away from you. - You will learn how most women part with men, and how to behave during the parting, so as to keep your honor, dignity and not give her any satisfaction, and how to saw the seed of uncertainty that will make her think of whether “she is doing right by breaking up with you”. - You will learn the way that will help you to look at your relationship and your ex from some distance, so that you make a decision whether you still want to go back her. - You will read about the 17 biggest mistakes, you need to avoid, that some men make immediately after the split, which move away and perhaps, blight forever any chance that she will go back to you. If you do not make such mistakes, there is a real chance that your ex will come back to you.
Download or read book Say It Ain t So written by La Jill Hunt and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-09-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. The Sensual Seductress, video vixen Paisley Lawrence, and The Prince of Praise, gospel singer Warren Cobb—what an unlikely pair! The media is in a frenzy, and so is Warren's wife, when the two are involved in a near fatal car accident. While the gossipmongers are speculating on what Paisley and Warren were doing together, Paisley is busy wondering who is stalking her and why. All hell breaks loose and the rumors start to fly; lives are threatened, and the truths are untold in a drama-filled tale that could only come from the imagination of La Jill Hunt.
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Download or read book This Book Will Change Your Life written by Ben Carey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the year ahead looking much the same as the last? Another 365-day grind of meetings, dinner dates, and deadlines? If so, try this book--the perfect gift for the adventurous reader. Part instruction manual, part therapy, part religious cult, part sheer anarchy, This Book Will Change Your Life will help you poke a stick in the spokes of your routine. It's not the soft-hearted kind of book that's interested in what you have to say; rather it contains 365 daily orders, each one of which could turn your humdrum existence into a daily free-fall. Whether learning to tell one joke properly, spending an hour talking to a tree, or choosing a motto to live by, This Book Will Change Your Life will lead you to make every day of the next year the first day of your new life.
