Download or read book Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon written by Craig Fass and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Volume 4 written by Jeff Milne and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a movie trivia game where one person who has been in at least one film is named. Usually (but not always) this is an actor or actress, but anyone appearing in a film can be named. This person is then linked to Kevin Bacon using as few films as possible. The first chapter lists the films of Kevin Bacon and who is in them. The next 74 chapters go film by film through Bacon's entire film career, listing one or more (often many more) films of each useful Bacon Person (meaning a person in a film with Bacon) and who is in them. The 4 volumes of this book contain film listings for over 1300 Bacon People Since not everyone has a link as short as person/film/Bacon Person/Bacon film/Bacon, the last three chapters are devoted to people requiring longer links. These people are put into various categories such as Old Timers, "Musicians", Directors, Comics, Miscellaneous, etc. Since films are always being made, some of these people may at some time in the future achieve a shorter link to Bacon, a person's link can sometimes even be shortened posthumously.
Download or read book Now You Know Volume 4 written by Doug Lennox and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-09-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the success of his previous bestsellers, Now You Know, Now You Know More, and Now You Know Almost Everything, this fourth volume is headed straight for the bestseller list! It is Doug Lennox at his best as he masterfully dispenses the answers to quirky questions, never losing sight of the joy of discovering the "why" of ordinary things. Discover the fascinating histories behind people, places, and words: WHY DO WE SAY THAT SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN TREATED BADLY HAS BEEN "HUNG OUT TO DRY"? Discipline on early British sailing ships was necessary but often extreme. The cat-o’-nine-tails left sailors scarred for life, but keelhauling (tying a victim with a rope and pulling him under a ship) was feared most. If the prisoner survived, he was suspended from a yardarm where he was left hanging for a predetermined period of time. WHY IS A MILITARY DINING HALL CALLED A "MESS"? The term goes back to the Middle Ages, when British sailors began calling their meagre and often grub-infested meals a "mess." It evolved into meaning the general area where the sailors gathered to eat. Later it referred to a specific area where men gathered to eat, drink, and socialize.
Download or read book Degrees written by Alan Bates and published by Dewi Lewis Publishing - Dewi Lewis Media. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With text by Pierce Brosnan, Sir Alan Bates and Kevin Bacon. Degrees is loosely based on the 'six degrees of separation' theory and the world-famous cinema game, The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Andy Gotts has had extraordinary access to the world's most famous faces. Over 100 A-list actors feature in this fascinating collection of images and anecdotes. Each actor suggests a friend or colleague as the next person and, therefore, starts a wonderful chain of 'who knows who' and provides a glimpse into the human side of film.
Download or read book Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Volume 3 written by Jeff Milne and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a movie trivia game where one person who has been in at least one film is named. Usually (but not always) this is an actor or actress, but anyone appearing in a film can be named. This person is then linked to Kevin Bacon using as few films as possible. The first chapter lists the films of Kevin Bacon and who is in them. The next 74 chapters go film by film through Bacon's entire film career, listing one or more (often many more) films of each useful Bacon Person (meaning a person in a film with Bacon) and who is in them. The 4 volumes of this book contain film listings for over 1300 Bacon People Since not everyone has a link as short as person/film/Bacon Person/Bacon film/Bacon, the last three chapters are devoted to people requiring longer links. These people are put into various categories such as Old Timers, "Musicians", Directors, Comics, Miscellaneous, etc. Since films are always being made, some of these people may at some time in the future achieve a shorter link to Bacon, a person's link can sometimes even be shortened posthumously.
Download or read book Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Volume 1 written by Jeff Milne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a movie trivia game where one person who has been in at least one film is named. Usually (but not always) this is an actor or actress, but anyone appearing in a film can be named. This person is then linked to Kevin Bacon using as few films as possible. The first chapter lists the films of Kevin Bacon and who is in them. The next 74 chapters go film by film through Bacon's entire film career, listing one or more (often many more) films of each useful Bacon Person (meaning a person in a film with Bacon) and who is in them. The 4 volumes of this book contain film listings for over 1300 Bacon People Since not everyone has a link as short as person/film/Bacon Person/Bacon film/Bacon, the last three chapters are devoted to people requiring longer links. These people are put into various categories such as Old Timers, "Musicians", Directors, Comics, Miscellaneous, etc. Since films are always being made, some of these people may at some time in the future achieve a shorter link to Bacon, a person's link can sometimes even be shortened posthumously.
Download or read book Who s the Blonde That Married What s His Name written by Carol Boswell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon meets The Book of Useless Information via Mad Libs in this fun new twist on classic trivia games. "WHO'S THE BLONDE THAT MARRIED WHAT'S-HIS-NAME whose last name sounds like a BIRD, but then they split, and she was in that SUPER-HIP MOVIE that totally revived the career of the DANCING SCIENTOLOGIST before he played a woman in that MUSICAL by the FUNNY BALTIMORE ECCENTRIC?" The answer's on the tip of my tongue! Everyone's been there-groping for a name or a title and then, in desperation, using roundabout phrases and weird associations in a frantic effort to remember the ENGLISH LADY who wrote all those mysteries, like the ONE ON THE TRAIN with that BELGIAN DETECTIVE and whenever you play that BOARD GAME with the knife in the conservatory and the gun in the billiard room and that COLONEL, it feels like you're in one of her books? These "tongue-tipper" moments affect everyone. Now they can be put to good use with this innovative pop culture game that will help trivia buffs and useless-information fans remember all the things they didn't even realize they'd forgotten.
Download or read book Six Degrees of Separation written by John Guare and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-11-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this soaring and deeply provacative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the msot important American play in years. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart. Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie.
Download or read book The Mammoth Quiz Book written by Nick Holt and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive category killer, with over 6,000 varied questions on every topic imaginable - as well as some you might not imagine. The 400 quizzes are a mixture of general knowledge and specialist rounds all aimed at the popular pub or society quiz market on science and technology; nature and the universe; human geography; history; life as we know it; arts and culture; sports and games; popular culture; celebrities and trivia. The questions are up-to-date, interesting and, unlike much of the competition, accurate.
Download or read book The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book for Digital Photographers written by Scott Kelby and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 1107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Lightroom first launched, Scott Kelby’s The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers has been the world’s #1 best-selling Lightroom book (it has been translated into a dozen different languages), and in this latest version for Lightroom 4, Scott uses his same award-winning, step-by-step, plain-English style and layout to make learning Lightroom easy and fun. Scott doesn’t just show you which sliders do what (every Lightroom book will do that). Instead, by using the following three simple, yet brilliant, techniques that make it just an incredible learning tool, this book shows you how to create your own photography workflow using Lightroom: Throughout the book, Scott shares his own personal settings and studio-tested techniques. Each year he trains thousands of Lightroom users at his "Lightroom Live!" tour and through that he’s learned what really works, what doesn’t, and he tells you flat out which techniques work best, which to avoid, and why. The entire book is laid out in a real workflow order with everything step by step, so you can begin using Lightroom like a pro from the start. What really sets this book apart is the last chapter. This is where Scott dramatically answers his #1 most-asked Lightroom question, which is: "Exactly what order am I supposed to do things in, and where does Photoshop fit in?" You’ll see Scott’s entire start-to-finish Lightroom 4 workflow and learn how to incorporate it into your own workflow. Scott knows first-hand the challenges today’s digital photographers are facing, and what they want to learn next to make their workflow faster, easier, and more fun. He has incorporated all of that into this major update for Lightroom 4. It’s the first and only book to bring the whole process together in such a clear, concise, and visual way. Plus, the book includes a special chapter on integrating Adobe Photoshop seamlessly into your workflow, and you’ll also learn some of Scott’s latest Photoshop portrait retouching techniques and special effects, which take this book to a whole new level. There is no faster, more straight-to-the-point, or more fun way to learn Lightroom than with this groundbreaking book.
Download or read book Six Degrees The Science of a Connected Age written by Duncan J. Watts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-02-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an avalanche of interest in networks. In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or terrorist organizations, networks are everywhere in the real world, yet only recently have scientists attempted to explain their mysterious workings. From epidemics of disease to outbreaks of market madness, from people searching for information to firms surviving crisis and change, from the structure of personal relationships to the technological and social choices of entire societies, Watts weaves together a network of discoveries across an array of disciplines to tell the story of an explosive new field of knowledge, the people who are building it, and his own peculiar path in forging this new science.
Download or read book Shape written by Jordan Ellenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times Bestseller! “Unreasonably entertaining . . . reveals how geometric thinking can allow for everything from fairer American elections to better pandemic planning.” —The New York Times From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything. How should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play Go, and why is learning Go so much easier for them than learning to read a sentence? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market? (Sorry, no.) What should your kids learn in school if they really want to learn to think? All these are questions about geometry. For real. If you're like most people, geometry is a sterile and dimly remembered exercise you gladly left behind in the dust of ninth grade, along with your braces and active romantic interest in pop singers. If you recall any of it, it's plodding through a series of miniscule steps only to prove some fact about triangles that was obvious to you in the first place. That's not geometry. Okay, it is geometry, but only a tiny part, which has as much to do with geometry in all its flush modern richness as conjugating a verb has to do with a great novel. Shape reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face. Geometry asks: Where are things? Which things are near each other? How can you get from one thing to another thing? Those are important questions. The word "geometry"comes from the Greek for "measuring the world." If anything, that's an undersell. Geometry doesn't just measure the world—it explains it. Shape shows us how.
Download or read book Substitute Teacher Survival Activities Vol 1 written by Thomas J. Rundquist and published by Nova Media Inc. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everyone Loves Bacon written by Kelly DiPucchio and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everyone loves Bacon, but letting his fame go to his head may prove more dangerous than he thought"--
Download or read book Flashing Before My Eyes written by Dick Schaap and published by . This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Connected written by Nicholas A. Christakis and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain the amazing power of social networks and our profound influence on one another's lives. Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much we truly influence one another are revealed in the studies of Dr. Christakis and Fowler, which have repeatedly made front-page news nationwide. In Connected, the authors explain why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Intriguing and entertaining, Connected overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm-that social networks influence our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics, and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspect of our lives.
Download or read book Twin Tracks written by James Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin Tracks is a landmark book of real-world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. In each of the work's twenty-five narratives, we discover how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future. Each chapter starts with an event -- such as the U.S. attack on Tripoli in 1804 -- that generates two divergent series of consequences. After tracking each pathway as it ranges far and wide through time and space, Burke shows how the paths finally and unexpectedly converge in the modern world. Twin Tracks pinpoints the myriad ways the future is shaped, whether by love, war, accident, genius, or discovery. For instance, in "The Marriage of Figaro to Stealth Fighter," Burke's twin tracks start with the composer of the opera and the French spy from whose play he stole the plot. The tracks then encompass, among other things, freemasonry, the War of Independence, Captain Cook, jellyfish, Jane Austen, and audio tape. Ultimately, the convergence of the two Figaro tracks sets the stage for the development of Gulf War Stealth aircraft. Wonderfully accessible and lucidly written, Twin Tracks offers an amusing and instructive new view of the past and the future.
