Download or read book Kabuki in A G String written by Mark Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a privately published book, Kabbuki in a G-String is available at https: //www.createspace.com/4928547 for the best price. When Roberta Martin from Lubbock, Texas finds herself on a mission to Paris, in order to bring back her wayward gay cousin, she did not imagine she was embarking on a modern Cinderella Story. Like so many before her, Roberta is enchanted by summer Paris ... almost as enchanted as she is with the hirsute, handsome Australian who sweeps her off her feet. Equally, she finds her cousin's husband, a Frenchman of Moroccan background, to be adorable and kind. Needless to say, there are villains waiting in the wings; however, Roberta Martin's story of the transformative power of love is not to be missed.
Download or read book Kabuki in a G String written by M. S. Simpson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is life what we make it or are we what life makes us? This is the challenge for Roberta Martin, a dyed-in-the-wool Southern Baptist who unexpectedly finds herself facing profound existential challenges; challenges that shake up everything she has ever believed. What does someone do, when she discovers that the only significant male figure in her life is gay? She has always believed that homosexuality was a sin, and while Roberta is among the kindest people on would ever meet, she has strong moral and religious beliefs. How can one shun a beloved family member? Is there a middle path? Is there a legitimate and different religious view? As Roberta struggles with a detonation beneath her previously rock-solid moral foundation, she must at the same time cope with the summer beauty of Paris and falling in love for the first time. Roberta could be anyone, except she isn't ... she is herself. In her mind, she might become no one in the face of God should she accept being gay, at least as she has always understood her beliefs. Roberta's resolution of these challenges forms the backbone of a novel that the Toronto Sun called, "Profoundly moving, laugh-out-loud funny, and perhaps the best look at the complexities of diversity written this year."
Download or read book Kabuki in a G String written by M. S. Simpson and published by Bascom Hill Publishing Group Limited. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like her Great Grandmother before her, Roberta Martin, a thirty-something librarian from Lubbock, Texas, is swept away by a tornado. In Robertas case, however, the tornado is the summer splendor of Paris and the arms of an expatriate Australian teacher. As ambassador for the Aunt who raised her, Roberta must cajole her handsome cousin to return to Texas. But her cousin Chad is busily fighting the storm of his fortieth birthday, and Roberta is quickly drawn into a Parisian summer of unimaginable adventure, causing her to question the very foundations of her life. Can Roberta stay true to her mission? Or will Paris tear Robertas world apart as an earlier tornado did her Great Grandmothers? Will Roberta choose the blue-sky plains of West Texas over the emotional maelstrom of Paris and a cosmopolitan stage set of characters, each of whom teaches her something new about herself? With her sidekick Loreen K. Albrighton, Robertas long-time nemesis, Aunt Helen a tornado in her own right has a few tricks up her sleeve; she is not to be underestimated. For Aunt Helen, failure is not an option. "Kabuki in a G-String" is at the same time a comedy of manners and a sharp commentary on contemporary Americas culture wars. With characters of differing nationality, background, and religious orientation, the novel offers a humorously serious look at urban modernitys inevitable clash with conservatism and tradition.
Download or read book Kabuki in a G String written by Mark Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like her Great Grandmother before her, Roberta Martin, a thirty-something librarian from Lubbock, Texas, is swept away by a tornado. In Roberta s case, however, the tornado is the summer splendor of Paris and the arms of an expatriate Australian teacher. As ambassador for the Aunt who raised her, Roberta must cajole her handsome cousin to return to Texas. But her cousin Chad is busily fighting the storm of his fortieth birthday, and Roberta is quickly drawn into a Parisian summer of unimaginable adventure, causing her to question the very foundations of her life. Can Roberta stay true to her mission? Or will Paris tear Roberta s world apart as an earlier tornado did her Great Grandmother s? Will Roberta choose the blue-sky plains of West Texas over the emotional maelstrom of Paris and a cosmopolitan stage set of characters, each of whom teaches her something new about herself? With her sidekick Loreen K. Albrighton, Roberta s long-time nemesis, Aunt Helen a tornado in her own right has a few tricks up her sleeve; she is not to be underestimated. For Aunt Helen, failure is not an option. Kabuki in a G-String is at the same time a comedy of manners and a sharp commentary on contemporary America s culture wars. With characters of differing nationality, background, and religious orientation, the novel offers a humorously serious look at urban modernity's inevitable clash with conservatism and tradition.
Download or read book Kabuki in A G String written by Mark S. Simpson and published by Eastwood Templeton. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is life what we make it or are we what life makes us? This is the challenge for Roberta Martin, a dyed-in-the-wool Southern Baptist who unexpectedly finds herself facing profound existential challenges; challenges that shake up everything she has ever believed. What does someone do, when she discovers that the only significant male figure in her life is gay? She has always believed that homosexuality was a sin, and while Roberta is among the kindest people on would ever meet, she has strong moral and religious beliefs. How can one shun a beloved family member? Is there a middle path? Is there a legitimate and different religious view? As Roberta struggles with a detonation beneath her previously rock-solid moral foundation, she must at the same time cope with the summer beauty of Paris and falling in love for the first time. Roberta could be anyone, except she isn't ... she is herself. In her mind, she might become no one in the face of God should she accept being gay, at least as she has always understood her beliefs. Roberta's resolution of these challenges forms the backbone of a novel that the Toronto Sun called, "Profoundly moving, laugh-out-loud funny, and perhaps the best look at the complexities of diversity written this year."
Download or read book Kabuki in a G String written by Sebastian McHenry and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kabuki a Pocket Guide written by Ronald Cavaye and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabuki A Pocket Guide introduces readers to the foundations of Kabuki--its history and its actors, its acting styles and its performance, its color and music--to the sheer beauty and joy of Kabuki. Kabuki, the popular theatre of Japan, began in about 1603 and is still flourishing today. It was the entertainment of the common people as opposed to Noh, the refined theatre of the aristocracy, and is a close relative of the Bunraku puppet theater. All the actors in Kabuki, even those who play female roles, are men and plays and dances deal with the love of the heroes and villains form Japans real or legendary past. Concise enough to take to performance, this pocket guide to Kabuki provides a wealth of fascinating information about plays, the actors, and their history. As only an insider can do, the author takes us behind the scene to meet the actors, attend rehearsal, and get a first-hand look at the makeup, costumes, sets and props that go into a Kabuki performance.
Download or read book Kabuki written by 正勝·郡司 and published by Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International : Distributed in the United States by Kodansha International/USA, through Harper & Row. This book was released on 1985 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kabuki written by . Grand Kabuki/Metropolitan Opera and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Death Poems written by and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
Download or read book Confessions written by Jodie Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I started my literary agency in 1998, my chances of becoming successful were equal to my chances of starring in Sex and The City. I didn't know a single editor, didn't have a single writer, lived 3000 miles away from the heart of the publishing business in New York and was in such dire financial straits that becoming homeless was a real possibility. During sleepless nights I envisioned the headlines: PUBLISHING WORLD STUNNED - WRITERS DEVASTATED. It has been discovered that the Jodie Rhodes Literary Agency, believed to be a legitimate business, actually operates out of a shopping cart and its founder is a bag lady. Of course I never had the slightest intention of becoming an agent, since I hadn't lost my mind, only all my money. To keep from starving, I cleaned people's houses, scrubbing floors and toilets, baked muffins and cookies that I sold at my bridge club, took care of a 93 year old woman with Alzheimer's, became a guinea pig for pharmaceutical research studies and started a writers' workshop. Since I had the unfortunate habit of telling writers just how terrible their writing was, I had a lot of turnover. Then the inspiration struck me. I would claim to be a literary agent and my workshops would be flooded with eager writers! You need to know there is nothing illegal in claiming to be a literary agent because there are no rules or requirements for becoming one except claiming to be one. However, I'm cursed with a fairly strong streak of ethical behavior so I wrote the publishers of Guide To Literary Agents and Literary Market Place that I was a new agent based in La Jolla and gave them basic information about me. I never heard back from them, which was no surprise. But then one day, to my horror, a manuscript arrived in my mail. Guide To Literary Agents had actually listed me. Soon more came. But the writing in those submissions was so unbelievably terrible that it transcended revulsion and left me in a state of awe. I recall, in particular, the following: "Dear Jodie: Enclosed find a query, synopsis and the first three chapters of my completed novel which is at once a gay love story, a plea for handicapped liberation and a sanguine tale of greed, murder and revenge. It is necessary for me to use a pen name because the narrative's explicit depictions of incontinence management and gay sex could arouse the interest of the culture police." Keep in mind that was just the query letter. I am sparing you the chapters. One thing I learned quickly was the more modest the writer, the better the writing and vice versa. Example: "Dear Ms. Rhodes: I have just finished my first novel titled Kabuki in a G-String which, to be both honest and bold, is exceptional." I cannot begin to tell you how excruciatingly awful that novel was. After six months of these submissions, I stared into the mirror and had a long talk with myself. "This is hopeless, isn't it?" "Well, it's only been six months." "But we still haven't found one single writer we could represent." "Look on the bright side. We wouldn't know what to do with one, if we did offer representation. Think of all the embarrassment we've saved ourselves." "I am not amused." "So what do you want to do? Quit?" "I hate to be a quitter." "I know. You've made our life miserable because of that." In 2008, one of my authors forced me into creating a website and Google reported 430,000,000 hits. Btw, this memoir is the story of two very different lives and you've just read about my second life. My first life takes up much of the memoir and its opening chapter below will give you an idea of what to expect. I was a late bloomer, resigned at 15 to being an old maid. If anyone had told me I'd end up with more men in my life than Elizabeth Taylor, I would have assumed they were either so high on drugs that they couldn't see straight or wanted to borrow money from me.
Download or read book Man and His Symbols written by Carl G. Jung and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred images that break down Carl Jung’s revolutionary ideas “What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and to our general understanding of man in society.”—The Guardian “Our psyche is part of nature, and its enigma is limitless.” Since our inception, humanity has looked to dreams for guidance. But what are they? How can we understand them? And how can we use them to shape our lives? There is perhaps no one more equipped to answer these questions than the legendary psychologist Carl G. Jung. It is in his life’s work that the unconscious mind comes to be understood as an expansive, rich world just as vital and true a part of the mind as the conscious, and it is in our dreams—those personal, integral expressions of our deepest selves—that it communicates itself to us. A seminal text written explicitly for the general reader, Man and His Symbolsis a guide to understanding the symbols in our dreams and using that knowledge to build fuller, more receptive lives. Full of fascinating case studies and examples pulled from philosophy, history, myth, fairy tales, and more, this groundbreaking work—profusely illustrated with hundreds of visual examples—offers invaluable insight into the symbols we dream that demand understanding, why we seek meaning at all, and how these very symbols affect our lives. By illuminating the means to examine our prejudices, interpret psychological meanings, break free of our influences, and recenter our individuality, Man and His Symbols proves to be—decades after its conception—a revelatory, absorbing, and relevant experience.
Download or read book Neurogenetics Part I written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetic methodologies are having a significant impact on the study of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Using genetic science, researchers have identified over 200 genes that cause or contribute to neurological disorders. Still an evolving field of study, defining the relationship between genes and neurological and psychiatric disorders is evolving rapidly and expected to grow in scope as more disorders are linked to specific genetic markers. Part I covers basic genetic concepts and recurring biological themes, and begins the discussion of movement disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders, leading the way for Part II to cover a combination of neurological, neuromuscular, cerebrovascular, and psychiatric disorders. This volume in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology will provide a comprehensive introduction and reference on neurogenetics for the clinical practitioner and the research neurologist. Presents a comprehensive coverage of neurogenetics Details the latest science and impact on our understanding of neurological psychiatric disorders Provides a focused reference for clinical practitioners and the neuroscience/neurogenetics research community
Download or read book Guide to the Performing Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arts Humanities Citation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
Download or read book Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture written by P. W. Galbraith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most complete and compelling account of idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture to date. Engaging with the study of media, gender and celebrity, and sensitive to history and the contemporary scene, these interdisciplinary essays cover male and female idols, production and consumption, industrial structures and fan movements.
