Download or read book Impromptu Musings written by Helen Slade and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems condense thoughts and experiences. Art does the same with visual media. Impromptu Musings contains brief excursions into the cosmos, nature, life, people, places, seasons, plants and spirituality. Each section is illustrated by a painting done by the author.
Download or read book Observations on Chaos written by Helen Slade and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos became a branch of mathematics in the 20th century. In this 21st century, it has interesting and exciting possibilities. In Observations on Chaos, Helen Slade looks at the chaotic features of Life, Nature, People, Places and Science. Turbulence can be found in all these areas; from a state of mind (A Discourse on Depression) to what we have done to our planet (Ruination) and the violence of war (Boudicca s Curse). The 25 color illustrations in this poetry book are her own paintings. In the portraits she has hoped to extract the visual essence of the subject, not a mere likeness."
Download or read book Dear John written by Susan L. Carruthers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of emotional life that explores how 'Dear John' letters became a rite of passage for American servicemen.
Download or read book The View from Inside written by Jane Jenson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Download or read book Just Going With the Flow And Other Spiritual Musings written by Orest Stocco and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Going With The Flow is a book of spiritually inspired musings, or thought pieces that explore the experiences of daily life. Thought provoking, entertaining and enlightening, these personal essays shed light on the human condition.
Download or read book True Believer The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee written by Abraham Riesman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture—at a steep personal cost HUGO AWARD FINALIST • EISNER AWARD NOMINEE • “A biography that reads like a thriller or a whodunit . . . scrupulously honest, deeply damning, and sometimes even heartbreaking.”—Neil Gaiman Stan Lee was one of the most famous and beloved entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, became known as the creator of more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than nearly anyone: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk . . . the list goes on. His carnival-barker marketing prowess helped save the comic-book industry and superhero fiction. His cameos in Marvel movies have charmed billions. When he died in 2018, grief poured in from around the world, further cementing his legacy. But what if Stan Lee wasn’t who he said he was? To craft the definitive biography of Lee, Abraham Riesman conducted more than 150 interviews and investigated thousands of pages of private documents, turning up never-before-published revelations about Lee’s life and work. True Believer tackles tough questions: Did Lee actually create the characters he gained fame for creating? Was he complicit in millions of dollars’ worth of fraud in his post-Marvel life? Which members of the cavalcade of grifters who surrounded him were most responsible for the misery of his final days? And, above all, what drove this man to achieve so much yet always boast of more?
Download or read book Margaret Mahy written by Tessa Duder and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary portrait of New Zealand's best-loved children's author Margaret Mahy's death on 23 July 2012 brought forth an unprecedented outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes from around New Zealand and the world. Her passing at 76 was breaking news in the media, unstoppable through the social networks, noted by political leaders in Parliament and by children in classrooms throughout the country.Margaret was one of the world's leading authors for younger readers for four decades. In her own country she was popularly known as the writer in the multicoloured wig who wrote marvellously funny picture books and enchanted generations of school children. Her story had its fairy-tale elements. In 1968, a hard-pressed solo mother of two daughters, working as a librarian by day and writing long into the night, she was 'discovered' by a leading American publisher who flew 'to the end of the earth' to offer her a multi-book publishing contract.From those first picture books, through the great novels of the 1980s and new books and awards right up to the year of her death, she came to be regarded as the third in New Zealand's literary pantheon, alongside Katherine Mansfield and Janet Frame. In 2006 her achievements were recognised by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People), awarding her the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the world's 'Little Nobel', for her distinguished contribution to children's literature.
Download or read book Russell Square Park written by Susan Davis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having recently relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles with a new husband and her first love's daughter, Susan is thousands of miles away from home. Suddenly distraught over the death of her first love, Susan can't get Rick out of her thoughts. It doesn't help that his presence is felt strongly by both she and her new husband. In an intensely personal coming of age exploration, Susan discovers and relives, through flashbacks, her tormented relationship with Rick from beginning to end. Upon investigating his murder, Susan learns more about herself than she'd realized possible, and thus is finally able to let go of some of the pain that has haunted her for over twenty years. Through this confrontation, the past ceases to be a ball-and-chain; the future-still full of uncertainty-is no longer to be feared.
Download or read book Heritage written by Sean Brock and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best seller Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book in American Cooking Winner, IACP Julia Child First Book Award Named a Best Cookbook of the Season by Amazon, Food & Wine, Harper’s Bazaar, Houston Chronicle, Huffington Post, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, and more Sean Brock is the chef behind the game-changing restaurants Husk and McCrady’s, and his first book offers all of his inspired recipes. With a drive to preserve the heritage foods of the South, Brock cooks dishes that are ingredient-driven and reinterpret the flavors of his youth in Appalachia and his adopted hometown of Charleston. The recipes include all the comfort food (think food to eat at home) and high-end restaurant food (fancier dishes when there’s more time to cook) for which he has become so well-known. Brock’s interpretation of Southern favorites like Pickled Shrimp, Hoppin’ John, and Chocolate Alabama Stack Cake sit alongside recipes for Crispy Pig Ear Lettuce Wraps, Slow-Cooked Pork Shoulder with Tomato Gravy, and Baked Sea Island Red Peas. This is a very personal book, with headnotes that explain Brock’s background and give context to his food and essays in which he shares his admiration for the purveyors and ingredients he cherishes.
Download or read book Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum written by Penny Simpson and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively novel which is a retro epic in the genre of magic realism. Among the contents are the interwar cabaret scene in Munich and Berlin, seen through the eyes of a seven-foot Jewish giantess. The tapestry of Jewish culture, evoked through food, theatre, clothes and custom, at the point at which it is about to unravel.
Download or read book Talk Talk Talk written by S.I. Salamensky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before media, before the Internet...there was talk itself. Talk Talk Talk is an incisive, exhilarating collection of essays by some of the best thinkers -- and talkers -- of our time. These stellar contributors locate everyday chatter as the basis of a stunning range of artistic and cultural forms: from Antigone's speech-acts to Freud's "talking cure"; from seventeenth-century demon possession to the Marx Brothers' "immigrant talk"; literature, theatre, standup comedy, "ethnic" talk, technologized talk and much, much more. Contributors include: Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Marjorie Garber, Sherry Turkle.
Download or read book A Book Club to Die For written by Dorothy St. James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a member of an exclusive book club is checked out, spunky librarian Trudell Becket must sort fact from fiction to solve the murder. The Cypress Arete Society is one of the town’s oldest and most exclusive clubs. When assistant librarian Trudell Becket is invited to speak to the group about the library, its modernization, and her efforts to bring printed books to the reading public, her friend Flossie tags along. Flossie has been on the book club’s waiting list for five years, and she’s determined to find out why she’s never received an invitation to join. But not long after Tru and Flossie arrive for the meeting, they’re shocked to find the club’s president, Rebecca White, dead in the kitchen. Rebecca was a former TV actress and local celebrity but was not known for being patient or pleasant. She’d been particularly unkind to the book club’s host for the evening, who also happens to be the mother of Detective Jace Bailey, Tru’s boyfriend. And Rebecca had made it clear that she didn’t think Flossie was book club material. With her boyfriend and one of her best friends wrapped up in a murder, Tru has to work fast to figure out who cut Rebecca’s story short before the killer takes another victim out of circulation....
Download or read book Joss Whedon written by Amy Pascale and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 4 million US viewers who watched Buffy, the Vampire Slayer to a worldwide box office of $1.5 billion for The Avengers is quite a leap. Yet the creator of them both, Josh Whedon, told as personal a tale with six superheroes and over-the-top explosions as he did with a girl trying to make her way through high school. Whedon has always been determined to follow his own path. This definitive biography shows how his years at an elite English public school led to his early successes, which often turned into frustration in both television (Roseanne) and film (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Alien: Resurrection). But when Whedon resurrected his girl hero on a young network, the results enabled him to produce three more television series, several movies, and Marvel comic books, culminating in the blockbuster The Avengers. Then Much Ado About Nothing, a personal project shot in his home and cast with friends, allowed him to step out of Marvel's shadow. Amy Pascale has based this revealing biography on extensive original interviews with Whedon's family, friends, collaborators, and stars—as well as with the man himself. They've shared candid, behind-the-scenes accounts of his work with Pixar, his filmmaking adventures, and the making of his groundbreaking series Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Amy Pascale is a director at MTV. She co-founded and edits the offbeat Web magazine PopGurls.com. She lives in New York. Nathan Fillion starred in the Josh Whedon vehicles Firefly, Serenity, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and Much Ado About Nothing. He plays Richard Castle on the ABC series Castle.
Download or read book Beckett in Performance written by Jonathan Kalb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-09-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights emerges from the viewpoint of numerous Beckett actors and directors and includes the author's personal experiences as well.
Download or read book Musings from the Bench written by Karen Bailey and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If somebody had said to me 12 months ago that I would be sitting on a bench in the middle of a field communicating with my horses, or enjoying deep meditation on a regular basis, or learning to rebalance myself, my animals, and even other people, I would have told them they were living in la-la land. Well, here we are, well and truly residing in la-la land... . ” Karen shares the first year of an extraordinary journey into the spiritual and energetic world of meditation and horse human relationship development. As she delves deeper into herself, Karen begins to understand what is an authentic energetic connection, and what is just the ego getting in the way. She lets us know how she feels when she makes her first foray into the healing effects of rebalancing her own energy, and the energy of her horses. And, she shows us how she learned to become vulnerable with the herd, release expectations and be present, and in return, gain absolute trust from the horses. Meg also shares an element of her journey into this exciting world. She explains why she felt the need to change how she works with her horses, and how that change manifested itself. Their guide, Camille, provides an intellectual perspective as the paths unwind, and shares some of her own journey in deepening her understanding of the energetic approach. Karen also channels the horses’ voices providing an intriguing insight into their world.
Download or read book Patton s GI Photographers written by Ralph Butterfield and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
