Download or read book Lelia written by George Sand and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clopinet, jeune paysan légèrement boiteux et surtout très rêveur s'éloigne du monde des hommes pour se rapprocher des oiseaux... En peu de temps, il devient l'ami et le plus grand connaisseur des oiseaux de la région. Il vaincra un à un tous les obstacles, grâce à ses « ailes de courage », symbole de toute ascension et de liberté...
Download or read book Lelia written by Harold George Scott and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold George Scott captures the most memorable moments of Lelia Haller�s career with lavish illustrations and photographs. A pictorial biography of one of the twentieth century�s most notable ballerinas, Lelia documents the career of the only American honored as premi�re danseuse of the Paris Op�ra. Lelia�s experience in the world of dance takes her from beginnings in New Orleans to Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, England, and back to New Orleans, where she opened Studio de Danse. On these travels, she danced alongside other great dancers--such as Italian ballerina, Carlotta Zambelli--and trained under Russian ballet master, Nicolas Legat.
Download or read book On Her Own Ground written by A'Lelia Bundles and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker—the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist—by her great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Sarah Breedlove—who would become known as Madam C. J. Walker—was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then—with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women—everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women, and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. Along the way, she formed friendships with great early-twentieth-century political figures such as Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington.
Download or read book Lelia s Kiss written by Laura Giannetti and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lelia's Kiss, Laura Giannetti offers a new perspective on the way gender and marriage were portrayed, imagined, and critiqued on stage during the Italian Renaissance. Going beyond the traditional canon, Giannetti focuses her study on the social and cultural scripts found in a wide array of comedies of the period to reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles and their cultural construction in Renaissance society. Giannetti argues that the comedic dialogue and cross-dressing characters so prevalent in Italian Renaissance comedies played with the presuppositions of the day and engaged with contemporary social norms, expectations, and desires. Cross-dressing female characters reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles, and also present a vision of female empowerment. At the same time, cross-dressing male characters suggest a unique perception of the male life cycle that was more uncertain and contested than often assumed, and show more broadly how masculinity was also socially and culturally constructed. In discussing marriage, sexuality, and gender roles, the comedies deploy a social scripting that not only reflects and comments on the everyday life of the time, but also interacts with it with playful humor and revealing insight.
Download or read book Rough Amusements written by Ben Neihart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack of lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of one of the most striking social careers in New York's history. The daughter of rags-to-riches multi-millionaire Madame C.J. Walker (the washerwoman who marketed the most successful straightening technique for African American hair), A'Lelia was America's first black poor little rich girl, using her inheritance to throw elaborate, celebrity-packed parties in her Westchester Mansion and her 136th Street would-be salon, 'Dark Tower'. In Rough Amusements, third in Bloomsbury's Urban Historicals series, Neihart takes us into the heart of A'Lelia's world-gay Harlem in the 1920s. In tracing its cultural antecedents, he delves into the sexual subculture of nineteenth-century New York, exploring mixed-race prostitution; the bachelorization of New York society; French Balls ("the most sophisticated forum for testing the boundaries of urban sexual behavior"); and The Slide (New York's most depraved nineteenth-century bar). Using A'Lelia's lavish parties as a jumping-off point, Neihart traces the line connecting Davy Crockett's world without women to Walt Whitman's boundless love of beautiful men to A'Lelia's cultivation of the racial, social, and sexual risk that defined the Harlem Renaissance.
Download or read book You Got This written by Lelia Gowland and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advice women get surrounding negotiation is often contradictory, prescriptive, and occasionally downright insulting. You Got This provides a refreshing new take: women are actually highly effective negotiators and fully capable of navigating negotiations on their terms. While it's conversational and playful in tone, this book is deeply grounded in the latest research and the author's ample experience as a professional negotiation coach for women. For example - from Strategy 3: Do A Little Detective Work To Get To Know Your Counterpart - if a friend told you they wanted to set you up on a blind date with their cousin, what's the first thing you would do? Google the cousin, right? The same should apply to someone with whom you're negotiating. Getting to know your counterpart can help you decide how to approach the conversation based on their interests, what they value, and how they like to receive information. You Got This operates from the premise that career advice is most effective when it's relatable, applicable to your life, and enjoyable to read. With anecdotes from the author's life and work with professional women to make scientific research accessible, readers will walk away with a sense of confidence and optimism along with 13 unique strategies for negotiation success.
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Comptroller of the State of New York written by New York (State). Comptroller's Office and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Comptroller State of New York written by New York (State). Comptroller's Office and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Comptroller written by New York (State). Comptroller's Office and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The No l Coward Reader written by Noël Coward and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Noël Coward Reader offers a wonderfully wide-ranging selection—the first of its kind—of the best of the Master’s oeuvre, entertainingly annotated and abundantly illustrated, and including material that has never before been published. Here are scenes from Coward’s famous plays, from Private Lives to Blithe Spirit, and his screenplays, from Brief Encounter to In Which We Serve. Here are four of his best short stories, scenes from his only novel, and a generous selection of his verse, alongside the lyrics of many of his most sublime songs, including “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” “The Stately Homes of England,” and “Mad About the Boy.” The Noël Coward Reader is a must-have book both for those who adore his work and for those who are just discovering the many-faceted delights of his comic genius.
Download or read book English Writers written by Henry Morley and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
