Download or read book Ladies and Gentlemen Boys and Girls written by Murray Pomerance and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.
Download or read book Paul McPharlin and the Puppet Theater written by Ryan Howard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul McPharlin is one of the 20th century's most important contributors to the art of puppetry. Over a period of nine years he created some 20 productions with marionettes, rod puppets, hand puppets and shadow figures. He was also a prolific writer whose technical, theoretical and historical works contributed significantly to a puppetry revival. His book The Puppet Theatre in America is considered the definitive history of American puppetry. Though shy and aloof, McPharlin was also energetic. He had an ability to bring people together and used this knack to found a national puppetry organization, Puppeteers of America. Besides the author's extensive research on McPharlin and puppetry, the book draws on significant contributions from McPharlin's wife, puppeteer and author Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin, who allowed the use of her 18-year correspondence with Paul in the creation of the book. Chapters take the reader through McPharlin's childhood as a loner in Detroit, his maturation and education in New York, and his early, erratic and often unsuccessful attempts at making a living. His puppeteering years, 1929 to 1937, are detailed, as are the later years that saw him first working for the WPA and then being drafted into the army to serve in World War II at age 38. He continued making important contributions to the art of puppetry until a brain tumor took his life at age 45 in 1948. Appendices present two of McPharlin's plays, The Barn at Bethlehem: A Christmas Play and Punch's Circus. Another appendix details puppetry imprints, including yearbooks, plays, handbooks, worksheets and books. A fourth lists Paul McPharlin's Puppeteers, members of the Marionette Fellowship of Detroit.
Download or read book True Ladies and Proper Gentlemen written by Sarah A. Chrisman and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regardless of time period, some things hold true: kindness is timeless. Invasion of privacy; divorce; relationship issues; encounters between people from different places and cultures; new technologies developed at dizzying speeds . . . the hectic pace of life in the late nineteenth century could make the mind reel. Wait a minute—the nineteenth century? Many of the issues people faced in the 1880s and ’90s surprisingly remain problems in today’s modern world, so why not take a peek at some Victorian advice about negotiating life’s dizzying twists and turns? Gathered from period magazines and Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms, a book on social conduct originally published in 1891, this volume provides timeless guidance for a myriad of situations, including: The husband’s duty: Give your wife every advantage that it is possible to bestow. Suggestions about shopping: Purchasers should, as far as possible, patronize the merchants of their own town. (Buy local!) Suggestions for travel: Having paid for one ticket, you are entitled to only one seat. It shows selfishness to deposit a large amount of baggage in the surrounding seats and occupy three or four. Unclassified laws of etiquette: Never leave home with unkind words. This advice is accompanied by watercolors and illustrations throughout. Though these are tips originate from nineteenth-century ideas, you’ll find that they certainly do still apply.
Download or read book The Day in the Life of a Guardian Angel written by Cheryl Gulliver and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Day in the Life of a Guardian Angel will help give us assurance and peace of mind on how to solve and find real solutions to everyday life problems. Life can be full of problems that can strike at any momentespecially when were not expecting them. This book will teach us how to become stronger, always ready to challenge whatever problems come our way. Life can be very unfair, and problems can come suddenly, on a daily, weekly, monthly, or even yearly basis. We all need guidance from God, and this book will help show the right way out of some very terrible situations. This book is written under the anointing of the Holy Spirit for those living in darkness. This book will explain secrets of how to gain inner strength and can provide encouragement to those going through rough and difficult times. This book is unique and introduces inspirational subjects handpicked by the Holy Spirit based upon everyday life experiences and challenges. This book will move your faith and make it come alive for those who are weak or spiritually dead. This book will teach exactly how to use and exercise faith in a biblical way. We need rescuingand not by natural faith, but through supernatural faith. In Jesuss name, amen!
Download or read book Be the Best Best Man Make a Stunning Speech written by Phillip Khan-Panni and published by How To Books. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is on that brief but terrifying prospect: the Best Man's speech. The book includes techniques for using stories, jokes and quotations that will lift your speech well above the bare necessities, helping you not only to make the speech, but also to enjoy it. More than just a guide to the Best Man's speech, this book is a one-stop guide to being a really effective, all round, Best Man. Above all its purpose is to help you enjoy your role as Best Man and to make it an occasion that honours the groom and his chosen bride. Contents: 1. Your complete guide to being best man 2. Myths and legends 3. Duties of the best man 4. Planning your speech 5. Preparation 6. Writing the speech in eight steps 7. Things to avoid 8. The big day 9. Delivery 10. Anecdotes 11. Jokes and quotes 12. Traditional and celebrity sayings 13. Sample toasts - beginnings, middles and endings 14. Mixed marriages Sample speeches
Download or read book The Awesome Lives of Tommy Twicer Part Two written by Steve Juke and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomas and Anastasia have settled in the model village of Oakdale in the Sirhowy Valley in Monmouthshire, South Wales, and have assumed the names of Thomas and Ann Thomas who are the owners of Tommy Twicer's Amazing Animal Dance Circus. It is the continuation of Tomas's desire to become a great showman and he is set to create the best circus in the world with his troupe of amazing animals. He will promote Kanga Bruce, the boxing kangaroo, who will certainly get a shot at the world title. All is going to plan, especially as he now has the help of Merlin, the magician. Read and enjoy and please help save Abercwmzoo.
Download or read book The Funfair written by Simon Stephens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I kept telling myself I wanted something more out of my life, something brighter. I had all these ideas in my head. Thing is, I had to go down so low just to try to lift my life up a little bit higher. Simon Stephens's exciting new adaptation of the twentieth-century classic Kasimir and Karoline is a dark, political and hilarious play that sets two young lovers in the throes of a break-up against the hypnotic whirl and bright lights of a funfair. The Funfair takes us on a ride through the loops, dips and highs of one night at a fairground, exploring a crisis of capitalism set to the soundtrack of a rock and roll love song. The play received its world premiere at Manchester's Home Theatre on 14 May 2015 and was the theatre's first-ever production.
Download or read book Twin Killing written by Marshall Cook and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third book in the Monona Quinn mystery series taking place in Iowa
Download or read book How To Make a Brilliant Best Man s Speech written by Phillip Khan-Panni and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to make a great, best man's speech - and a guide to being a great best man. In this book Phillip Khan-Panni uses his expertise as a champion professional speaker to help the best man with the terrifying prospect of writing and delivering The Speech. He guides you on the vital preparation of your speech and tells you how to use stories, jokes and quotations that will lift it well above the bare necessities. With the author`s help and his professional tips and techniques, you will be able to make a really entertaining and moving speech that will be remembered for a long time to come. You might even enjoy making it as much as the guests do hearing it! There are also checklists and further advice to help you organise the whole occasion so that the big day honours the groom and his bride and thoroughly impresses their friends and relations
Download or read book Woman with a Curve written by Shahzad Rizvi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two small-town girls, lifelong friends, make it to the the top in Washington, DC in very different ways. Gentle, conscientious Minnie finds love, while scheming, ambitious Maxie's relentless pursuit of wealth and influence attracts two powerful men: a grasping Senator, no stranger to dirty tricks, and the handsome, vapid President. A satirical look at politics, power, and sex in the nation's capital.
Download or read book Canadian Magazine of Politics Science Art Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Gender Matters Second Edition written by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D. and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and updated edition (with more than 70% new material) of the evergreen classic about the innate differences between boys and girls and how best to parent and teach girls and boys successfully, with completely new chapters on sexual orientation and on transgender and intersex kids. Eleven years ago, Why Gender Matters broke ground in illuminating the differences between boys and girls--how they perceive the world differently, how they learn differently, how they process emotions and take risks differently. Dr. Sax argued that in failing to recognize these hardwired differences between boys and girls, we ended up reinforcing damaging stereotypes, medicalizing normal behavior (see: the rising rates of ADHD diagnosis), and failing to support kids to reach their full potential. In the intervening decade, the world has changed drastically, with an avalanche of new research which supports, deepens, and expands Dr. Sax's work. This revised and updated edition includes new findings about how boys and girls interact differently with social media and video games; a completely new discussion of research on gender non-conforming, LGB, and transgender kids, new findings about how girls and boys see differently, hear differently, and even smell differently; and new material about the medicalization of bad behavior.
Download or read book 365 BEDTIME STORIES written by MARY GRAHAM BONNER and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life s a Drag written by Janie Millman and published by Canelo + ORM. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s more to life than being fabulous... but it’s a start Roz and Jamie have moved to leafy Suffolk from London in search of a quiet life, so it’s a shock to find the village embarking on its riotous annual drag competition. Fuelled by large quantities of alcohol and boisterous community spirit, they are soon caught up in a battle for the identity of the village itself against those who’d prefer to stay stuck in the past. Meanwhile in San Francisco, Drew is facing his own challenge to save his drag club and the livelihoods of his closest friends. When he finds out about a small English village putting on a drag competition, inspiration strikes – and worlds collide. Appearances are not everything and sometimes human connections can surprise us, but will these realisations be too late to save the village and Drew’s club? A gorgeously fun, heartwarming and tender story of unexpected friendships and acceptance. 'This is like an edgy Jilly Cooper – lots of eccentric characters and a lot of fun!' Katie Fforde 'Truly terrific...I love this book' Judy Astley 'High jinks and high heels... Imagine The Archers in drag, with a huge heart and lots of laughs' Veronica Henry
Download or read book Murder at the Goon Snow written by and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Expression of Gender written by Greville G. Corbett and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions provides an independent account of a key part of the topic, ranging from gender and sex, gender and culture, to typology, dialect variation and psycholinguistics. The authors pay attention to a broad range of languages, including English, Chukchi, Konso and Mohawk.
Download or read book Innate written by Kevin J. Mitchell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What makes you the way you are—and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level: in the wiring of our brains. Deftly guiding us through important new research, including his own groundbreaking work, he explains how variations in the way our brains develop before birth strongly influence our psychology and behavior throughout our lives, shaping our personality, intelligence, sexuality, and even the way we perceive the world. We all share a genetic program for making a human brain, and the program for making a brain like yours is specifically encoded in your DNA. But, as Mitchell explains, the way that program plays out is affected by random processes of development that manifest uniquely in each person, even identical twins. The key insight of Innate is that the combination of these developmental and genetic variations creates innate differences in how our brains are wired—differences that impact all aspects of our psychology—and this insight promises to transform the way we see the interplay of nature and nurture. Innate also explores the genetic and neural underpinnings of disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, and epilepsy, and how our understanding of these conditions is being revolutionized. In addition, the book examines the social and ethical implications of these ideas and of new technologies that may soon offer the means to predict or manipulate human traits. Compelling and original, Innate will change the way you think about why and how we are who we are.
