Download or read book Barbie Talks written by Gwen Florea and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10-20 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BARBIEr TALKS! is a free-wheeling account of life at Mattel during the “Golden Age” of the sixties and early seventies. This is the first book written by two toy designers who actually worked in the wonderful, top secret circus of Mattel’s Research and Design. BARBIEr TALKS! relates the genius, the hilarity and the craziness that, Gwen Florea and Glenda Phinney encountered in the workplace and their roles in making Talking Barbie a reality. In their well-written intersecting personal memoirs, the authors reveal the inside story of how Barbie got her voice, and why Barbie’s figure took the unrealistic shape that it did. There are both humorous and poignant stories about the antics of the toy designers and executives of Mattel. These historical events are interwoven with an honest and very readable account of the loves, marriages, and the blindly sexist business world, which triggered development of a feminine consciousness in each woman. What do Barbie Dolls do when they grow up? They have amazing lives and achieve their goals! BARBIE TALKS! is a revealing account of two women who came of age in the shadow of Barbie, and reveals a lie to the notion that Barbie was a poor influence for young women. Visit us on the web, www.barbietalks.com and see some of the fun pictures that didn’t make it into the book. We’d also love to hear from you.
Download or read book Talk Back Barbie written by Lauren Fernandez and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Service met their match when they hired a blonde, spunky, Southern debutante from Atlanta, Georgia to join the Uniformed Division. With a mouth on fire and a will that never breaks, the one and only "Talk Back Barbie" brings chaos and laughter everywhere she goes. When rules are made to be broken and trouble is her middle name, that begs the question: what in the world will "Talk Back Barbie" do next?
Download or read book Best of Barbie written by Sharon Korbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring striking photographs and lively, insightful commentary and histories, The Best of Barbie is a full-color visual feast that novice and experienced collectors alike will treasure. Scattered throughout the book are trivia facts that test the reader's knowledge of America's favorite doll. Plus, accompanying each photo is a handy identification and value info bar - facts readers need at a glance. With complete descriptions, 300 magnificent color photos and more than 1,200 price listings, collectors, appraisers, buyers and fans will have the tools to identify the most influential Barbie Dolls including Barbie #1 Ponytail Style, Bubblecut Barbie, Barbie Fashion Queen, American Girl and many more.
Download or read book Naked Barbies Warrior Joes and Other Forms of Visible Gender written by Jeannie B. Thomas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this folkloric examination of mass-produced material culture in the United States, Jeannie Banks Thomas examines the gendered sculptural forms that are among the most visible, including Barbie, Ken, and G.I. Joe dolls; yard figures (gnomes, geese, and flamingos); and cemetery statuary (angels, sports-related images, figures of the Virgin Mary, soldiers, and politicians). Images of females are often emphasized or sexualized, frequently through nudity or partial nudity, whereas those of the male body are not only clothed but also armored in the trappings of action and aggression. Thomas locates these various objects of folk art within a discussion of the post-women's movement discourse on gender. In addition to the items themselves, Thomas explores the stories and behaviors they generate, including legends of the supernatural about cemetery statues, oral narratives of yard artists and accounts of pranks involving yard art, narratives about children's play with Barbie, Ken, and G.I. Joe, and the electronic folklore (or "e-lore") about Barbie that circulates on the Internet.
Download or read book Mondo Barbie written by Lucinda Ebersole and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-03-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparks fly when the adult fantasy of Barbie collides with the child's fantasy in this collection of fiction and a few poems.
Download or read book Talk to Me written by James Vlahos and published by Harper. This book was released on 2019 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Next Big Thing in tech--the impending revolution in voice recognition--and how it will upend Silicon Valley and change how we all live our lives
Download or read book Success Through Diversity written by Carol Fulp and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how investing in a racially and ethnically diverse workforce will help make contemporary businesses more dynamic, powerful, and profitable In our fast-changing demographic landscape, companies that proactively embrace diversity in all areas of their operations will be best poised to thrive. Renowned business leader and visionary Carol Fulp explores staffing trends in the US and provides a blueprint for what businesses must do to maintain their competitiveness and customer base, including hiring in new ways, aligning managers around diversity, providing new kinds of leadership development, and engaging employees to embrace differences. Using detailed case histories of corporate cultures such as the NFL, Eastern Bank, John Hancock, Hallmark Health, and PepsiCo, as well as her own experiences in the workplace and in advising companies on diversity practice, Fulp demonstrates how people of different races and ethnicities represent an essential asset to contemporary companies and organizations.
Download or read book Barbie Culture written by Mary F Rogers and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses one of the most popular accessories of childhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning. Some readings would see Barbie as reproducing ethnicity and gender in a particularly coarse and damaging way - a cultural icon of racism and sexism. Rogers develops a broader, more challenging picture. She shows how the cultural meaning of Barbie is more ambiguous than the narrow, appearance-dominated model that is attributed to the doll. For a start, Barbie′s sexual identity is not clear-cut. Similarly her class situation is ambiguous. But all interpretations agree that, with her enormous range of lifestyle `accessories′, Barbie exists to consume. Her body is the perfect metaphor of modern times: plastic, standardized and oozing fake sincerity.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-11-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book Fat Talk written by Denise Martz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have unintentionally become their own worst enemies through their engagement in "fat talk"--critical dialogue about one's own physical appearance, and "body snarking" or criticism towards other women's bodies. Not only does this harsh judgment pervade our psyches and societies, it also contributes to the glass ceiling in a variety of professions, including politics representing feminist activism. This book reviews and analyzes the origins and effects of fat talk and body snarking, and provides potential solutions that include evidence-based personal therapies and community interventions.
Download or read book Cinderella s Sweet Talking Marine written by Cathie Linz and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Marine captain Ben Kozlowski wasn't quite sure, but he knew it had something to do with Ellie Jensen's soulful brown eyes and beautiful soft skin. Being near her had his pulse racing like a fresh recruit's. From the moment he had laid eyes on her and started inventing fairy tales for her adorable five-year-old daughter, Ben had felt his insides melt for this vulnerable little family. They were his family now. And after accepting this dangerous domestic mission—the riskiest he'd ever had—did Ben dare let his guard down and surrender? Or would Ellie and her daughter take his heart hostage for keeps?
Download or read book Exploring the History of Childhood and Play through 50 Historic Treasures written by Susan A. Fletcher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-color trip through the treasures of American Childhood from 1650 to today. Remember the toys you played with when you were growing up? Each of those objects has a story to tell about the history of American childhood and play. Construction toys like Lincoln Logs and Erector Set offer insight into America’s booming urban infrastructure in the early 1910s and 20s, and the important role toys played in preparing children for future careers in engineering and architecture. A stuffed toy monkey from Germany tells the story of young Jewish refugees to the United States during World War II. The board game Candyland has its origins in the dreaded polio epidemic of 1950s. Exploring Childhood and Play Through 50 Historic Treasures brings together a collection of beloved toys and games from the last two centuries to guide readers on a journey through the history of American childhood and play, 1840-2000. Through color photographs and short essays on each object, this book examines childhood against the backdrop of culture, politics, religion, technology, gender, parenting philosophies, and more. The book features ten categories of objects including board and electronic games, dolls, action figures, art toys, optical toys, animal toys, construction sets, and sports. Each essay tells the story of the individual object its historic context, and each passage builds upon one another to create a fascinating survey of how childhood and play changed over the course of two centuries.
Download or read book Draw Your Weapons written by Sarah Sentilles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference. “How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?” Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. It is a literary collage with an urgent hope at its core: that art might offer tools for remaking the world. In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, and in the process she challenges conventional thinking about how war is waged, witnessed, and resisted. The pacifist and the soldier both create art in response to war: Howard builds a violin; Miles paints portraits of detainees. With echoes of Susan Sontag and Maggie Nelson, Sentilles investigates images of violence from the era of slavery to the drone age. In doing so, she wrestles with some of our most profound questions: What does it take to inspire compassion? What impact can one person have? How should we respond to violence when it feels like it can’t be stopped? Praise for Draw Your Weapons “A collage of death, savagery, torture, and trauma across generations and continents, Sarah Sentilles’s Draw Your Weapons is painful to read, hard to put down, and impossible to forget.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “In her dynamic, impressionistic (and cleverly titled) book, Sentilles focuses on language and images–particularly photography–and considers what role they play in peace and war. Eschewing a traditional narrative, Sentilles focuses on two men–one a World War II conscience objector who makes violins, and the other an Abu Ghraib prison guard who paints detainee portraits. In brief, delicately layered pieces rather than a narrative, Sentilles has created a collage that explores art, violence, and what it means to live a principled life.”—The National Book Review “It’s the kind of book that, after reading just half, you have to stop and catch your breath, because reading it changes you, not just in terms of what you know–it changes the way you think and how you feel–so much so that, halfway in, I wanted to go back and start again because I felt I was already a different person to the person I was when I began.”—Turnaround
Download or read book Computing in Smart Toys written by Jeff K.T. Tang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to crystallize the emerging mobile computing technologies and trends into positive efforts to focus on the most promising solutions in services computing. Many toys built today are increasingly using these technologies together and it is important to understand the various research and practical issues. The book will provide clear proof that mobile technologies are playing an ever increasing important and critical role in supporting toy computing, which is a new research discipline in computer science. It is also expected that the book will further research new best practices and directions in toy computing. The goal of this book is to bring together academics and practitioners to describe the use and synergy between the above-mentioned technologies. This book is mainly intended for researchers and students working in computer science and engineering, and for toy industry technology providers, having particular interests in mobile services. The wide range of authors of this book will help the various communities understand both specific and common problems. This book facilities software developers and researchers to become more aware of this challenging research opportunity. As well, the book is soliciting shall provide valuable strategic outlook on the emerging toy industry.
Download or read book Fun Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning written by Gretchen Bernabei and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes a student’s best teacher is another student If ever there were a book to respond to the pressure to increase students’ test scores, this is it. You see, Gretchen Bernabei and Judi Reimer have had amazing success using mentor texts by students to teach writing well in any genre. Now, they “hand over their file drawers” and pair 101 student essays with one-page lessons on topics such as how to: Choose a structure across genres Extract thesis statement and main points Support points with details Use rhetorical devices and grammatical constructions Write from the point of view of a fictional character
Download or read book Toys and American Culture written by Sharon M. Scott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing developments in toy making and marketing across the evolving landscape of the 20th century, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference guide to America's most popular playthings and the culture to which they belong. From the origins of favorite playthings to their associations with events and activities, the study of a nation's toys reveals the hopes, goals, values, and priorities of its people. Toys have influenced the science, art, and religion of the United States, and have contributed to the development of business, politics, and medicine. Toys and American Culture: An Encyclopedia documents America's shifting cultural values as they are embedded within and transmitted by the nation's favorite playthings. Alphabetically arranged entries trace developments in toy making and toy marketing across the evolving landscape of 20th-century America. In addition to discussing the history of America's most influential toys, the book contains specific entries on the individuals, organizations, companies, and publications that gave shape to America's culture of play from 1900 to 2000. Toys from the two decades that frame the 20th century are also included, as bridges to the fascinating past—and the inspiring future—of American toys.
Download or read book Barbie s Magical Adventure in Dreamland written by AQEEL AHMED and published by AQEEL AHMED. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading "Barbie's Magical Adventure in Dreamland" takes people to magical worlds of thought and wonder. The story is about Barbie, a young girl with beautiful golden hair and bright blue eyes who stands out because she can go to Dreamland, a magical place that only lives in her dreams. Barbie goes on exciting adventures, meets strange creatures, and discovers beautiful landscapes in Dreamland every night under the stars. These dreams turn into her favorite secret, a beautiful world she loves. Dreamland's magic starts to fade away one day, leaving the once-bright colors dull and the magical creatures dull. Dreamland's guardian, Cygnus, calls on Barbie to protect this magical paradise. The magic of Dreamland comes from the three Dream Crystals that are lost. It is her job to find them. Barbie starts her trip with a purse full of stardust and an unknown map. She goes on a journey through the Whispering Woods, where the trees tell her secrets. To find the Dream Crystals that are hidden there, she has to answer puzzles. Barbie will have to show how brave and dedicated she is when she jumps into the Enchanted Lake to find the last crystal. She faces her biggest fears and gives the stones back to Cygnus, protecting Dreamland's magic and making sure it will live on. When Barbie goes back to her quiet small town, she grows into a kind and inspiring person. Kids and adults alike are inspired by her adventures in Dreamland and how she lives out these ideals to enjoy the beauty of dreams and grow the traits of bravery, kindness, and curiosity. At the end of the story, Barbie is still Dreamland's keeper. She watches over its wonders and makes sure that people will love them for many more years. She closes her eyes and dreams of Dreamland all the time because she knows that the fun things, she did there will always be a part of her. "Barbie's Magical Adventure in Dreamland" shows how powerful dreams, kindness, and bravery can be. It reminds us that the world is full of amazing things just waiting to be found by people who believe, and that the keys to amazing experiences and lasting memories are inside our hearts. Story Begins: Barbie was a little girl who lived in a cute little town. People knew her for having beautiful golden hair, bright blue eyes, and a kind heart. Barbie stood out among the simple homes and friendly neighbors in the town as a symbol of modesty and purity. Barbie had golden hair that fell down her back in waves that sparkled like a river of light. As the light caught on her and turned into a beautiful halo, she looked like a living, breathing sign of hope. Her bright blue eyes sparkled with interest, like two sapphires watching over the secrets of the world. But what made Barbie different from the other kids in town was her heart. She had a giving heart that touched everyone she met. She could make anyone feel special and better, even on the worst days, with her kind words and warm smile. It was Barbie's job to show that even in a world that seemed rude and rushed, good manners could still win. The one thing that made Barbie different, though, was something that not many people knew about her: she could go to Dreamland, a magical world that appeared only in her dreams. The hamlet would go to sleep every night, and Barbie's travels would begin. Dreamland was a place where dream rules did not apply. It stretched out in front of her like a beautiful tapestry in her thoughts. It was a world where the trees whispered secrets and the animals spoke in riddles and wisecracks. The sky was purple and turquoise. In Dreamland, Barbie can be anyone and go anywhere. It's a place where anything is possible and where the soul can find comfort. Her adventures at night were amazing. She would soar through the sky on a shiny dragon, feeling the rush of freedom in her blood as the wind pulled her hair back. She would have tea parties with rabbits that could talk. The rabbits' laughter would sound like a happy symphony in a field of brightly colored flowers. She liked to wander around in beautiful forests where streams sang lullabies to long-lost hopes and trees whispered stories of past adventures. Barbie, on the other hand, found the animals in Dreamland to be very interesting. There was Lumina, a pretty fairy whose wings sparkled like stars at dusk. She would teach Barbie about the night sky by telling her stories about constellations and the music that the stars played. Nimbus, a sneaky cloud fairy who can change shape at will, came next. Nimbus could change into a dolphin to explore the depths of the dream seas or a kite to take Barbie high above the clouds. Barbie and Nimbus would go on exciting adventures together. She made new friends every night, and each one was more creative than the last. She laughed with kind giants whose hearts were as big as the sky, danced with fire sprites whose bright flames lit up the night sky, and talked with wise old owls who taught her ancient secrets.
