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Book Phoebe Clappsaddle and the Tumbleweed Gang

Download or read book Phoebe Clappsaddle and the Tumbleweed Gang written by Chrismer, Melanie and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In northwestern Texas, Phoebe's upbringing as a southwestern belle who can also rope and ride equips her to square off against the meanest, dirtiest, and most ill-mannered cowpokes in the territory.

Book The Poetry of Disturbance

Download or read book The Poetry of Disturbance written by David Bergman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Poetry of Disturbance, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant if subtle shift in emphasis, moving from the modernist concern with the poem as a visual text to one that was chiefly oral in nature. The resulting change was disturbing, especially for those brought up on the principles of high modernism. This new stress on orality implied a shift in the economy of the poem, away from the austerity of language advocated by Pound and Eliot to a style that conveyed freedom, expansiveness, and an innovative directness.

Book Who Was Who on TV

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norman Chance
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2010-12-23
  • ISBN : 1456821296
  • Pages : 579 pages

Download or read book Who Was Who on TV written by Norman Chance and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information herein was accumulated of fifty some odd years. The collection process started when TV first came out and continued until today. The books are in alphabetical order and cover shows from the 1940s to 2010. The author has added a brief explanation of each show and then listed all the characters, who played the roles and for the most part, the year or years the actor or actress played that role. Also included are most of the people who created the shows, the producers, directors, and the writers of the shows. These books are a great source of trivia information and for most of the older folk will bring back some very fond memories. I know a lot of times we think back and say, "Who was the guy that played such and such a role?" Enjoy!

Book The BIG Book of Reading  Rhyming  and Resources

Download or read book The BIG Book of Reading Rhyming and Resources written by Beth Christina Maddigan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-10-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promote reading and literacy with this wonderful assortment of lively, fast-paced, fun-filled children's programs specifically designed for children aged 4 through 8. You and the children will delight in such program themes as Creepy Crawlies, Forest Friends, Frosty Frolics, and After School Adventures. The book presents an entertaining mix of multisensory activities that appeal to a variety of literacy levels and learning styles—rhymes and songs, awesome activities, crafty crafts, and great games. Unlike other programming guides, this one uses a developmental approach with literature-based activities fitted to specific learning needs. More than an idea book, it includes all the nuts and bolts for initiating children's programs—from foundations and guidelines for understanding various stages of learning to everything you need to get started: book lists, step-by-step instructions, reproducible patterns and illustrations, even tips on publicity and public relations. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned children's programmer, this book gives you fresh programming ideas that foster lifelong literacy and love of reading. Grades PreK-3.

Book The Brothers Mankiewicz

Download or read book The Brothers Mankiewicz written by Sydney Ladensohn Stern and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book Award Longlisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Named a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library Association Herman J. (1897–1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture’s only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing All About Eve, which also won Best Picture. Despite triumphs as diverse as Monkey Business and Cleopatra, and Pride of the Yankees and Guys and Dolls, the witty, intellectual brothers spent their Hollywood years deeply discontented and yearning for what they did not have—a career in New York theater. Herman, formerly an Algonquin Round Table habitué, New York Times and New Yorker theater critic, and playwright-collaborator with George S. Kaufman, never reconciled himself to screenwriting. He gambled away his prodigious earnings, was fired from all the major studios, and drank himself to death at fifty-five. While Herman drifted downward, Joe rose to become a critical and financial success as a writer, producer, and director, though his constant philandering with prominent stars like Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, and Gene Tierney distressed his emotionally fragile wife who eventually committed suicide. He wrecked his own health using uppers and downers in order to direct Cleopatra by day and finish writing it at night, only to be very publicly fired by Darryl F. Zanuck, an experience from which Joe never fully recovered. For this award-winning dual portrait of the Mankiewicz brothers, Sydney Ladensohn Stern draws on interviews, letters, diaries, and other documents still in private hands to provide a uniquely intimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the lives, loves, work, and relationship between these complex men.

Book The Book of Three

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diana G. Gallagher
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2004-04-06
  • ISBN : 0689867093
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Book of Three written by Diana G. Gallagher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authorized guide to the popular television show features a series overview, character profiles, episode guides, interviews, quotes, and fun facts.

Book Out

    Out

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Out written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out is a fashion, style, celebrity and opinion magazine for the modern gay man.

Book Outside the Lines

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Matthew Hennessy
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2010-02-22
  • ISBN : 0472026321
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Outside the Lines written by Christopher Matthew Hennessy and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outside the Lines explores the personal and historical forces that have shaped the work of a dozen gifted poets. The answers given to Hennessy's astute, perfectly tailored questions remind a reader how exciting poetry can be, and how writers create, through language, the world as we have never known it. These adventuresome interviews will stir anyone who cares about the making of art." ---Bernard Cooper, author of Maps to Anywhere Editor Christopher Hennessy gathers interviews with some of the most significant figures in contemporary American poetry. While each poet is gay, these encompassing, craft-centered interviews reflect the diversity of their respective arts and serve as a testament to the impact gay poets have had and will continue to have on contemporary poetics. The book includes twelve frank, intense interviews with some of America's best-known and loved poets, who have not only enjoyed wide critical acclaim but who have had lasting impact on both the gay tradition and the contemporary canon writ large, for example, Frank Bidart, the late Thom Gunn, and J. D. McClatchy. Some of the most honored and respected poets, still in the middle of their careers, are also included, for example, Mark Doty, Carl Phillips, and Reginald Shepherd. Each interview explores the poet's complete work to date, often illuminating the poet's technical evolution and emotional growth, probing shifts in theme, and even investigating links between verse and sexuality. In addition to a selected bibliography of works by established poets, the book also includes a list of works by newer and emerging poets who are well on their way to becoming important voices of the new millennium.

Book Together  2nd Edition  An Inspiring Response to the  Separate But Equal  Supreme Court Decision that Divided America

Download or read book Together 2nd Edition An Inspiring Response to the Separate But Equal Supreme Court Decision that Divided America written by Amy Nathan and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of how Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of key figures in the infamous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, have come together to fight for racial equality. Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957. Sixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a Louisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found that Homer Plessy could be charged with breaking the law by sitting in a train car for white passengers. The case of Plessy v. Ferguson went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that “separate-but-equal” was constitutional, sparking decades of unjust laws and discriminatory attitudes. In Together, Amy Nathan threads the personal stories of Keith and Phoebe into the larger history of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, race relations, and civil rights movements in New Orleans and throughout the U.S. This second edition includes a new epilogue describing a triumph that occurred a year after the first edition was published. In 2022, the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation, which was created by Keith and Phoebe in 2009 to change the legacy of the case that links their families, worked with a legal team and won a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy. Includes black and white photos throughout.

Book Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States  2 volumes

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States 2 volumes written by Emmanuel S. Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this two-volume work, hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries survey contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer American literature and its social contexts. Comprehensive in scope and accessible to students and general readers, Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States explores contemporary American LGBTQ literature and its social, political, cultural, and historical contexts. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries written by expert contributors. Students of literature and popular culture will appreciate the encyclopedia's insightful survey and discussion of LGBTQ authors and their works, while students of history and social issues will value the encyclopedia's use of literature to explore LGBTQ American society. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and lists additional sources of information. To further enhance study and understanding, the encyclopedia closes with a selected general bibliography of print and electronic resources for student research.

Book Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory

Download or read book Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory written by United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book This Business of Words

Download or read book This Business of Words written by Amanda Golden and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's most influential women writers, Anne Sexton has long been overshadowed by fellow confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell and is seldom featured in literary criticism. This volume reassesses Sexton and her poetry for the first time in two decades and offers directions for future Sexton scholarship. Mapping Sexton’s influence on twenty-first-century cultural contexts, these essays emphasize her continuing vitality. Contributors: Jeanne Marie Beaumont | Jeffery Conway | Jo Gill | Amanda Golden | Christopher Grobe | Anita Helle | Kamran Javadizadeh | Dorothea Lasky | Kathleen Ossip | David Trinidad | Victoria Van Hyning

Book A Beginner s Guide to Immortality

Download or read book A Beginner s Guide to Immortality written by Clifford A Pickover and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches. In his latest and greatest work, world-renowned science writer Cliff Pickover studies such colorful characters as Truman Capote, John Cage, Stephen Wolfram, Ray Kurzweil, and Wilhelm Rontgen, and their curious ideas. Through these individuals, we can better explore life's astonishing richness and glimpse the diversity of human imagination. Part memoir and part surrealistic perspective on culture, A Beginner's Guide to Immortality gives readers a glimpse of new ways of thinking and of other worlds as he reaches across cultures and peers beyond our ordinary reality. He illuminates some of the most mysterious phenomena affecting our species. What is creativity? What are the religious implications of mosquito evolution, simulated Matrix realities, the brain's own marijuana, and the mathematics of the apocalypse? Could we be a mere software simulation living in a matrix? Who is Elisabeth Kobler-Ross and Emanuel Swedenborg? Did church forefathers eat psychedelic snails? How can we safely expand our minds to become more successful and reason beyond the limits of our own intuition? How can we become immortal?

Book Biographical Case Study  Assessing the Life of Bill Gates as a Creative  Gifted and Talented Person

Download or read book Biographical Case Study Assessing the Life of Bill Gates as a Creative Gifted and Talented Person written by William Van Zyl and published by Five House Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESSAY: The focus of this essay is on Bill Gates as a creative, gifted and talented person (business & entrepreneurship). An easy and very interesting read. SEATTLE - If you spend time with the Gates family it is most probable that someone will mention the "water incident". The future software guru was a headstrong 12-year-old and was having a particularly nasty argument with his mother at the dinner table. His father lost his cool and threw a glass of cold water in the boy's face. The young boy snapped back with something like this: "Hey thanks for the shower!" (Guth, 2009) Behind the Bill Gates, a success story, is the other William Gates (Sr.), his father. It is the story of his father about the young Gates junior's early years and the raising of Bill (Jr.) that generates interest by almost everyone. Questions like: 'How did he grow up?'; 'What was his life like as a child in the Gates household?', and 'What was he like in senior high school?' In this case study, I will look primarily at "Raising the young Gates" and I will endeavor to identify patterns and traits of giftedness, talent, and creativity which could be linked to the work of Renzulli (1986), Simonton (2000), Sternberg (2006), and Csikszentmihalyi (1999a). In the second section, I will look at some influences, time frames, historical, political, economic and social events that shaped the wealthy and very successful Bill Gates (Jr.) to become one of the wealthiest men and most influential men in the world Executive Summary This case study assesses, analyses, and discusses the prosperous life of the entrepreneur Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft software) as an intelligent, gifted and talented person. The work of Simonton (2000), Sternberg (2006), Renzulli (1986) Csikszentmihalyi (1999a), on talented and gifted persons, shows that Bill Gates fits into three of the four categories outlined by Riley et al. (2004) Ministry of Education (New Zealand), namely: 1. Intellectual/Academic refers to students with exceptional abilities in one or more of the learning areas (i.e., English, the arts, health and physical education, learning languages, mathematics and statistics, science, social sciences, and technology). 2. Creativity refers to students with general creative abilities as evidenced in their abilities to problem-find and problem-solve, and their innovative thinking and productivity. 3. Social/Leadership refers to students with interpersonal and intra-personal abilities and qualities, which enable them to act in leadership roles.

Book Portland City Walks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura O. Foster
  • Publisher : Timber Press
  • Release : 2008-01-01
  • ISBN : 0881928852
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Portland City Walks written by Laura O. Foster and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Portland Hill Walks presents an array of twenty self-guided walking tours of the backstreets and neighborhoods of Portland and five nearby towns, all easily accessible by public transportation, offering fun facts, historical and cultural details, shopping and eating suggestions, and other things to see and do along each route. Original.

Book Missing Children

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn Crosbie
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 2014-04-29
  • ISBN : 1551995158
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Missing Children written by Lynn Crosbie and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring and innovative collection of new poems by the controversial author of Paul’s Case and VillainElle. Missing Children is a daring and innovative collection of new poems by the controversial author of Paul’s Case and VillainElle. Here, Lynn Crosbie creates a bold fusion of genres by taking traditional elements of the novel – dialogue, plot, and description – and weaving them through a series of narratively linked poems. Centering on a man and a woman obsessively drawn to each other, Missing Children unfolds around a forbidden relationship and a series of letters, written by the protagonist, to the parents of missing children. Infused with psychological insight, rich in cultural iconography, and written in spare, clear language, Missing Children takes us to the moral fringes of society and challenges us to judge what we find. Crosbie breaks new stylistic and dramatic ground in this compelling, original collection.

Book The Sarah Siddons Audio Files

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Pascoe
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2013-03-01
  • ISBN : 0472027956
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book The Sarah Siddons Audio Files written by Judith Pascoe and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The theatre scholar’s daunting but irresistible quest to recover some echoes of performance of the past has never been more engagingly presented than in Pascoe’s account of tracing the long-silenced voice of Sarah Siddons. Her report is a warm, witty, and highly informative exploration of the methodology and the pleasures of historical research.” —Marvin Carlson, author of The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine During her lifetime (1755–1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like—an endless number of artists asked her to sit for portraits and sculptures—but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor’s voice actually sounded. In lively and engaging prose, Pascoe retraces her quixotic search, which leads her to enroll in a “Voice for Actors” class, to collect Lady Macbeth voice prints, and to listen more carefully to the soundscape of her life. Bringing together archival discoveries, sound recording history, and media theory, Pascoe shows how romantic poets’ preoccupation with voices is linked to a larger cultural anxiety about the voice’s ephemerality. The Sarah Siddons Audio Files contributes to a growing body of work on the fascinating history of sound and will engage a broad audience interested in how recording technology has altered human experience.