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Book Intimate Nights

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Gavin
  • Publisher : Backstage Books
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780823088256
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Intimate Nights written by James Gavin and published by Backstage Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Fully revised updated and expanded edition of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winner that sold more than 10,000 copies • Cultural history plus celebrity anecdotes • Up-to-the-minute look at the current New York cabaret scene Intimate Nightsis the definitive history of cabaret as it evolved in New York City in the years after World War II. But that doesn’t mean it's dry and academic. Good heavens, no! Settle in for racy tales of nightlife, revealed in interviews with dozens of the people who lived it: Bobby Short, Eartha Kitt, Mabel Mercer, Bette Midler, and many more. Author James Gavin has tracked down rare, early stories about the legends who came out of New York nightclubs—and that means Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Nichols and May, Johnny Mathis, Carol Burnett, Lenny Bruce, among others. Part cultural history, part celebrity gossip,Intimate Nightsoffers an intimate look at the creatures of the nightclubs.

Book The Ukrainian Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marci Shore
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-09
  • ISBN : 0300231539
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book The Ukrainian Night written by Marci Shore and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore’s book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian’s reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it—and the future as they hope to make it. In so doing, she provides a lesson about human solidarity in a world, our world, where the boundary between reality and fiction is ever more effaced.

Book Night Shield

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nora Roberts
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-04-10
  • ISBN : 1101569360
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Night Shield written by Nora Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the fifth Night Tales novel—a story of forbidden love under the cover of night. Undercover cop Ally Fletcher knows that Jonah Blackhawk is bad news, which is why she’s determined not to fall for his charms while working at his nightclub. But the more Ally interacts with the seductive Jonah, the more she’s tempted to break her own rules. A NORA ROBERTS CLASSIC AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME

Book An Intimate Look at the Night Sky

Download or read book An Intimate Look at the Night Sky written by Chet Raymo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On one level, An Intimate Look at the Night Sky is a unique star guide: twenty-four beautiful star maps, created specifically for this book, cycle through the seasons and across the heavens, revealing what you can see with the naked eye throughout the year on a clear night in the northern hemisphere. Raymo's commentaries amplify the maps, offering intriguing details and tips on identifying stars, planets, and constellations. On another level, Chet Raymo challenges our imagination-to see what is unseeable in the universe, to perceive distance and size and shape that is inconceivable, to appreciate ever more fully our extraordinary place in the cosmos. His elegant essays on the heavens blend science and history, mythology and religion, making clear why he is one of the most insightful and passionate science writers of our time.

Book Small Bites  Big Nights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Govind Armstrong
  • Publisher : Three Rivers Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780307337931
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Small Bites Big Nights written by Govind Armstrong and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The executive chef for Table 8 restaurants in Los Angeles and Miami introduces a selection of innovative recipes for sophisticated small plates and cocktails that are perfect for occasions of all sizes.

Book Sleepless Nights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Hardwick
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2011-07-13
  • ISBN : 1590174380
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Sleepless Nights written by Elizabeth Hardwick and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick’s finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.

Book A Night Out with Yahweh  The Intimate Inspiration of God

Download or read book A Night Out with Yahweh The Intimate Inspiration of God written by Dr. Wanda Ann Rogers and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Night Out with Yahweh: The Intimate Inspiration of God by Dr. Wanda Ann Rogers __________________________________

Book Intimate Nights

Download or read book Intimate Nights written by James Gavin and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creating an Intimate Marriage

Download or read book Creating an Intimate Marriage written by Jim Burns and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Not Too Late to Find Intimacy and Fulfillment Don't settle for mediocre when it comes to satisfaction in marriage--pull out all the stops and discover the joy of true intimacy! This book will help you take back the life you dreamed of when you said your vows and experience the joys of an awe-filled marriage. Jim Burns' honest and vulnerable writing coupled with practical advice will inspire you to reconnect with the most important person in your life: your spouse.

Book Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures

Download or read book Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures written by Kerryn Drysdale and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the globally recognised phenomenon of drag king performances as an opportunity for critical inquiry into the rise and fall of an urban scene for lesbian and queer women in Sydney, Australia (circa 1999-2012). Exploring how a series of weekly events provided the site for intimate encounters, Drysdale reveals the investments made by participants that worked to sustain the sense of a small world and anchor the expansive imaginary of lesbian cultural life. But what happens when scenes fade, as they invariably do? Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures is unique in capturing the perspective of a scene at the moment of its decline, revealing the process by which a contemporary movement becomes layered with historical significance. Bringing together the theoretical tradition of scene studies with recent work on the affective potentialities of the everyday and the mobile urban spaces they inhabit, this book has appeal to scholars working across gender, sexuality and culture.

Book Laura Corn s 101 Nights of Grrreat Romance

Download or read book Laura Corn s 101 Nights of Grrreat Romance written by Laura Corn and published by Park Avenue Publishing California. This book was released on 1996 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! Find out why, Read this! LAURA CORN’S 101 NIGHTS OF GRRREAT ROMANCE BETTER THAN A ROMANCE NOVEL. IT’S REAL ROMANCE. HERE’S WHAT’S WAITING INSIDE -- 101 ROMANTIC SEDUCTIONS! Once each week, you tear one from the book. So does your mate. Once each week you follow the recipe to seduce your lover... and so does your mate! But because they’re all secret -- sealed up inside these pages! -- each one is an incredible, delicious surprise when it happens. You’ll learn to be romantic by practicing romance. 101 KISSES! How many ways can you kiss your lover? Wait until you try The Suck-The-Mango Kiss -- The Secret Suspense Kiss -- The Sliiide Kiss -- The Something Wild Kiss and my personal favorite -- The Emergency Kiss -- 101 different ways to kiss your sweetheart! 101 PASSION COUPONS! Redeemable on the spot for instant hanky-panky! Hey, what good is a romance book if it doesn’t generate a little heat? 101 PEARLS OF WISDOM! Each page contains advice and insight from more than forty best-selling books, like Real Moments For Lovers -- Care Of The Soul -- The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success -- How To Romance The Woman You Love The Way She Wants You To! -- Light His Fire -- 1001 Ways To Be Romantic -- Hot Monogamy -- Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus -- It’s an entire library of relationship books condensed into 101 chapters. EVERY WEEK you’ll pick a page and tear it from the book. EVERY WEEK you’ll read your secret recipe for romance. EVERY WEEK you’ll startle, amaze, and delight your lover with some highly romantic surprises. AND EVERY WEEK your lover will do the same for you! SO GO AHEAD, TEAR UP THIS BOOK...PLEASE!

Book Cinderella For A Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : SUSAN MALLERY
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
  • Release : 2014-08-01
  • ISBN : 1488788464
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Cinderella For A Night written by SUSAN MALLERY and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masquerade ball is plunged into darkness... A woman is poisoned... A millionaire bachelor becomes a father... As a blackout gripped Grand Springs, Colorado, CEO Jonathan Steele was having quite a night. First, Cynthia Morgan--aka "Cinderella"--drank poison meant for him. Then his blackmailing half brother and sister-in-law were murdered, leaving Jonathan with his newborn baby nephew. In thirty-six hours, Jonathan's life had changed forever. Then grateful-to-be-alive Cynthia offered to move into his home as a temporary nanny, a serious challenge to Jonathan's bachelorhood...

Book Intimate Relationships in Cinema  Literature and Visual Culture

Download or read book Intimate Relationships in Cinema Literature and Visual Culture written by Gilad Padva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is an inquiry into the representation of intimate relationships in a diverse array of media including cinema, arts, literature, picture books, advertising and popular music. It examines artistic portrayal of intimate relationships as a subversion of the boundaries between the representable and the non-representable, the real and the surreal, the visceral and the ideal, the embodied and the abstracted, the configured and transfigured. The essays focus on artistic mediation of intimacy in diverse relationships, including heterosexual, same-sex, familial, sibling' , political, and sadomasochistic. The collection offers new interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives on current trends in the study of popular representations of intimacy; representations that affect and formulate people's most personal inspirations, desires, angsts, dreams and nightmares in an increasingly alienated, industrialized world.

Book Nancy Silverton s Sandwich Book

Download or read book Nancy Silverton s Sandwich Book written by Nancy Silverton and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silverton instituted many of these lighter menu recipes at her Los Angeles eatery, Campanile, the 2001 winner of the James Beard Award for Best Restaurant. Separate sections on spreads, condiments, and breads are accompanied by a list of suppliers. 41 full-color photos.

Book Intimate Communications

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gilbert Herdt
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780231069014
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Intimate Communications written by Gilbert Herdt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate Communications is the first systematic effort to explore and interpret erotic experience and gender identity in a cross-cultural perspective. This is a diologic work that emphasizes the need for exact descriptions of people's statements, feelings, and fantasies, presenting data from individual interviews with the Sambia of Papua New Guinea. Using the ethnographic methods of anthropology informed by the clinical techniques of psychoanalysis, Gildbert Herdt and Robert J. Stoller explore the culture and erotics of the Sambia and the role of subjectivity in ethnographic research.

Book Secrets of a Summer Night

Download or read book Secrets of a Summer Night written by Lisa Kleypas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Devil in Disguise, the first book in her beloved Wallflowers series. The Wallflowers: four young ladies at the side of the ballroom make a pact to help each other find husbands . . . no matter what it takes. Proud and beautiful Annabelle Peyton could have her pick of suitors—if only she had a dowry. Her family is on the brink of disaster, and the only way Annabelle can save them is to marry a wealthy man. Unfortunately her most persistent admirer is the brash Simon Hunt, a handsome and ambitious entrepreneur who wants her as his mistress. Annabelle is determined to resist Simon's wicked propositions, but she can't deny her attraction to the boldly seductive rogue, any more than he can resist the challenge she presents. As they try to outmaneuver each other, they find themselves surrendering to a love more powerful than they could have ever imagined. But fate may have other plans—and it will take all of Annabelle's courage to face a peril that could destroy everything she holds dear.

Book Podcasting as an Intimate Medium

Download or read book Podcasting as an Intimate Medium written by Alyn Euritt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the notion of intimacy as a defining feature of podcasting, examining the concept of intimacy itself and how the public sphere explores the relationships created and maintained through podcasts. The book situates textual analysis of specific American podcasts within podcast criticism, monetization, and production advice. Through analysis of these sources' self-descriptions, the text builds a podcasting-specific framework for intimacy and uses that framework to interpret how podcasting imagines the connections it forms within communities. Instead of intimacy being inherent, the book argues that podcasting constructs intimacy and uses it to define the quality of its own mediation. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of New and Digital Media, Media Studies, Communication Studies, Journalism, Literature, Cultural Studies, and American Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a CreativeCommons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.