Download or read book Tough Crowd written by Shawna Sparrow and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVChastity is indeed possible in our modern world./div
Download or read book Tough Crowd written by Graham Linehan and published by Eye & Lightning Books. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A must-read. Funny and utterly compelling' Jonathan Ross Having cut his teeth in music journalism, Graham Linehan became the finest sitcom writer of his generation. He captured the comedy zeitgeist not just as the co-creator of Father Ted but also with The IT Crowd and Black Books, winning five Baftas and a lifetime achievement award. Then his life took an unexpected turn. When he championed an unfashionable cause, TV commissioners no longer returned his emails, showbiz pals lost his number and his marriage collapsed. In an emotionally charged memoir that is by turns hilarious and harrowing, he lets us into the secrets of the writing room and colourfully describes the high-octane atmosphere of a sitcom set. But he also berates an industry where there was no one to stand by his side when he needed help. Bruised but not beaten, he explains why he chose the hill of women and girls' rights to die on – and why, despite the hardship of cancellation, he's not coming down from it any time soon.
Download or read book The Hard Crowd written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now includes a new essay, “Naked Childhood,” about Kushner’s family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco! “The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout.” —Taylor Antrim, Vogue From a writer celebrated for her “chops, ambition, and killer instinct” (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. Rachel Kushner has established herself as “the most vital and interesting American novelist working today” (The Millions) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times—and illuminates the themes and real-life experiences that inform her fiction. In twenty razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. These pieces, new and old, are electric, vivid, and wry, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. “Kushner writes with startling detail, imagination, and gallows humor,” said Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly, and, from Paula McLain in the Wall Street Journal: “The authority and precision of Kushner’s writing is impressive, but it’s the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.”
Download or read book The Disabled Contract written by Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beaudry shows how the social contract fails to take account of the moral status of people with severe intellectual disabilities.
Download or read book The Hard Crowd written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
Download or read book Tough Crowd written by Andi Osho and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss the new laugh-out-loud novel from Andi Osho, the bestselling author of Asking for a Friend!
Download or read book Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect written by Claudia H. Johnson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crafting Short Screenplays that Connect introduces the essential element of 'human connection' - the ability to 'touch' the reader or observer - to the screenwriting and story creation process for short films. Claudia Hunter Johnson teaches the craft of short screenplay writing by guiding you through carefully focused writing exercises of increasing length and complexity. You will learn how to think more deeply about the screenwriter's purposes, craft an effective pattern of human change, and hone your vision and process for your short screenplays.
Download or read book Unleashing the Crowd written by Ann Majchrzak and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book disrupts the way practitioners and academic scholars think about crowds, crowdsourcing, innovation, and new organizational forms in this emerging period of ubiquitous access to the internet. The authors argue that the current approach to crowdsourcing unnecessarily limits the crowd to offering ideas, locking out those of us with knowledge about a problem. They use data from 25 case studies of flash crowds — anonymous strangers answering online announcements to participate in a 7-10 day innovation challenge — half of whom were unleashed from the limitations of focusing on ideas. Yet, these crowds were able to develop new business models, new product lines, and offer useful solutions to global problems in fields as diverse as health care insurance, software development, and societal change. This book, which offers a theory of collective production of innovative solutions explaining the practices that the crowds organically followed, will revolutionize current assumptions about how innovation and crowdsourcing should be managed for commercial as well as societal purposes.
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Download or read book Stand Up Comedy written by Sergio Rijo and published by SERGIO RIJO. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you an aspiring comedian looking to make your mark in the world of stand-up? Or maybe you're a seasoned pro looking to take your material to the next level? Either way, Stand-Up Comedy: A Guide to Writing and Performing with Confidence is the perfect resource for you. In this comprehensive guide, you'll learn everything you need to know to write and perform stand-up comedy with confidence. From developing your comedic voice and generating material to crafting a killer set and dealing with hecklers, this book covers it all. This guide is packed with practical tips and techniques that will help you hone your skills and succeed in the competitive world of stand-up. You'll learn how to find your unique voice, how to generate material that resonates with your audience, and how to deliver your jokes with confidence and style. But Stand-Up Comedy: A Guide to Writing and Performing with Confidence is more than just a how-to guide. It's also a celebration of the art of stand-up comedy and the incredible performers who bring joy and laughter to audiences around the world. With interviews and insights from some of the biggest names in comedy, this book is both informative and entertaining, giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the world of stand-up. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro, Stand-Up Comedy: A Guide to Writing and Performing with Confidence is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to make people laugh and succeed in the world of stand-up comedy.
Download or read book Pet Shop Boys versus America written by Chris Heath and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other pop group in recent history has faced fame with such intelligence, humour and shrewdness as the Pet Shop Boys. In 1991, the band toured North America for the first time shadowed by journalist Chris Heath and legendary rock photographer Pennie Smith. They visited fourteen cities in one month, confronting the American music industry and colliding with the likes of Liza Minnelli, Steven Spielberg and Axl Rose. This is more than a documentary of a tour; it is an unusually intimate portrait of two maverick British musicians always reluctant to compromise. ‘There was a time when the Pet Shop Boys seemed to exist entirely on radio, television and in magazines. This is the other world of the Pet Shop Boys in concert, travel and backstage, as they bring their art and glamour to America. It’s funny too.’ Johnny Marr ‘A brilliant book, to be read over and over again. How could anyone not love these men?’ NME
Download or read book Giving a Presentation In a Day For Dummies written by Marty Brounstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the know-how to give a knockout presentation—in a day! Giving a Presentation In a Day For Dummies gives you a quick and easy rundown of the key points of presenting to an audience, including defining a purpose, organizing a message, using humor and body language, and overcoming anxiety. Fast and proven tips for delivering an effective presentation Shows you how to communicate your vision to an audience A more focused and readable resource than a bulky book The e-book also links to an online component at dummies.com that extends the topic into step-by-step tutorials and other "beyond the book" content.
Download or read book Sixty Trends In Sixty Minutes written by Sam Hill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-11-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A showcase of the sixty trends that will have the biggest impact on business in the next decade In Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes (A Brandweek Book), top marketer Sam Hill, author of the bestselling Radical Marketing, highlights the trends that will have the biggest impact on marketing, brand management, and product development within the next decade. He separates the momentary fads from the lasting movements and reveals why trends matter, where they come from, and how to exploit them. He also describes the ten factors that will influence current trends and trends to come, such as exponential population growth, urbanization, interconnectedness, and the decreasing role of work in our lives. With these valuable insights in hand, business leaders will learn how to differentiate their product on the shelf, tap into specific markets, meet consumers' desires for "authentic" products, and much more. Hill also guides managers in conducting trend workshops identical to those offered by his consulting group at top-dollar prices. Timely, relevant, and global in its scope, this book offers entrepreneurs and managers new ideas and techniques for finding success today and in the future.
Download or read book South Park Conservatives written by Brian C. Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the better part of 30 years, liberal bias has dominated mainstream media. But author and political journalist Brian Anderson reveals in his new book that the era of liberal dominance is going the way of the dodo bird.
Download or read book Hard Pressed written by Aurora Rey and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Mira Lavigne, cider is about tradition, elegance, and class. She has little respect and even less patience for self-anointed mavericks who think their ticket to fame and fortune is throwing the rulebook out the window. Dylan Miller is one of those people. The only thing she loves more than pushing the envelope is finding ways to make cider, perry, and a few things she hasn’t even named yet more delicious and more accessible to everyone. When Mira and Dylan are tapped to co-chair Finger Lakes Cider Week, neither can pass up the publicity and prestige of the role. But professional compromises raise personal stakes, and Dylan and Mira are hard-pressed to keep their businesses—and their hearts—out of harm’s way.
Download or read book Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect written by Claudia Hunter Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, Fifth Edition, stands alone among screenwriting books by emphasizing that human connection, though often overlooked, is as essential to writing effective screenplays as conflict. This ground-breaking book will show you how to advance and deepen your screenwriting skills, increasing your ability to write richer, more resonant short screenplays that will connect with your audience. Award-winning writer and director Claudia Hunter Johnson teaches you the all-important basics of dramatic technique and guides you through the challenging craft of writing short screenplays with carefully focused exercises of increasing length and complexity. In completing these exercises and applying Johnson’s techniques and insights to your own work, you will learn how to think more deeply about the screenwriter’s purpose, craft effective patterns of human change, and strengthen your storytelling skills. This 20th Anniversary Edition features 11 short screenplays, including Academy Award winning Barry Jenkins' (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) luminous short film, My Josephine, and an accompanying companion website that features the completed films and additional screenplay examples. The book has also been expanded and updated to include two new award-winning screenplays Killer Kart and The Great Wall of Vicky Lynn. and a brand-new chapter exploring the use of genre in the short film. An absolute must-have resource for students of screenwriting.
Download or read book Boots of Leather Slippers of Gold written by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian community. These poignant and complex stories show how black and white working-class lesbians, although living under oppressive circumstances, nevertheless became powerful agents of historical change. Kennedy and Davis provide a unique insider's perspective on butch-fem culture and argue that the roots of gay and lesbian liberation are found specifically in the determined resistance of working-class lesbians. This 20th anniversary edition republishes the book for a new generation of readers. It includes a new preface in which the authors reflect on where the last 20 years have taken them. For anyone interested in lesbian life during the 1940s and 1950s, or in the dynamics of butch-fem culture, this study remains the one that set the highest standard for all oral histories and ethnographies of lesbian communities anywhere.
