Download or read book Idol Time written by Larry Colton and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1978 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Idol written by Richard Rushfield and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The currency is fame, and it's bigger than money, more desired than power. Each season American Idol delivers on a promise whose epic scope is unparalleled in the annals of competition: to take an unknown dreamer from the middle of America and turn him or her into a genuine star. It has become not only the biggest show on television, but the biggest force in all of entertainment; its alumni dominate the recording charts and Broadway, win Academy Awards, and sweep up Grammys. In fact, American Idol has reshaped the very idea of celebrity. But it didn't start out that way. When the little singing contest debuted as a summer replacement on the U.S. airwaves, it was packed between reruns and low-cost filler. The promise that it would find America's next pop star produced a hearty round of guffaws from the country's media critics. Now, some ten years and millions of records later, no one is laughing. American Idol: The Untold Story chronicles the triumphs and travails, the harrowing backstage drama and the nail-biting onstage battles that built this revolutionary show. In this revealing book, veteran journalist Richard Rushfield goes deeper inside the circus than any reporter ever has. Candid interviews with Idol alumni, including Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell, shed new light on the show that changed the entertainment industry. And because Rushfield had full access to the people who created the show, starred in it, and kept it atop the pop culture pyramid, this book is the first to take Americans behind the curtain and tell what has really been happening on the world's most watched and speculated-about stage.

Download or read book Idol written by Kristen Callihan and published by Plain Jane Books. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libby I found Killian drunk and sprawled out on my lawn like some lost prince. With the face of a god and the arrogance to match, the pest won’t leave. Sexy, charming, and just a little bit dirty, he’s slowly wearing me down, making me crave more. He could be mine if I dare to claim him. Problem is, the world thinks he’s theirs. How do you keep an idol when everyone is intent on taking him away? Killian As lead singer for the biggest rock band in the world, I lived a life of dreams. It all fell apart with one fateful decision. Now everything is in shambles. Until Liberty. She’s grouchy, a recluse —and kind of cute. Scratch that. When I get my hands on her, she is scorching hot and more addictive than all the fans who’ve screamed my name. The world is clamoring for me to get back on stage, but I’m not willing to leave her. I’ve got to find a way to coax the hermit from her shell and keep her with me. Because, with Libby, everything has changed. Everything.

Download or read book Idol Gossip written by Alexandra Leigh Young and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offered a spot at the Star Academy, one of the biggest K-pop companies, seventeen-year-old singer Alice Choy must navigate culture clashes, egos and extreme training practices to come out on top, despite the efforts of an influential blogger trying to tear her down.

Download or read book Dancing with Myself written by Billy Idol and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rolling Stone Top 10 Best Music Books of the Year “That’s what I’m talking about…Of all these memoirs, Dancing With Myself was the only one that stimulated my envy—made me want to be Billy Idol for five minutes….He’s a genuine romantic, writing in a kind of overheated journalese about his London punk rock roots…and then falling head over heels for America.” —James Parker, The New York Times Book Review In this highly original memoir—following Billy Idol from his childhood in England to his rise to fame at the height of the punk-pop revolution—the iconic superstar tells the real story behind the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that he is so fabulously famous for, in his own utterly indelible voice. An early architect of punk rock’s sound, style, and fury, whose lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into pop’s mainstream as one of MTV’s first megastars, Billy Idol remains, to this day, a true rock ‘n’ roll icon. Now, in his New York Times bestselling autobiography, Dancing with Myself, Idol delivers an electric, “refreshingly honest” (Daily News, New York) account of his journey to fame—from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to the decadent life atop the dance-rock kingdom he ruled—delivered with the same in-your-face attitude and fire his fans have embraced for decades. Beyond adding his uniquely qualified perspective to the story of the evolution of rock, Idol is a brash, lively chronicler of his own career. A survivor’s tale at its heart, this sometimes chilling and always riveting account of one man’s creative drive joining forces with unbridled human desire is unmistakably literary in its character and brave in its sheer willingness to tell. With it, Billy Idol is destined to emerge as one of the great writers among his musical peers. “I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I’ve put it all down, every bit from the heart. I’m going on out a limb here, so watch my back.” —Billy Idol

Download or read book I Want to Change My Life written by Barrie Gunter and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competition talent shows have been among the most popular on television in the 21st century. The producers of these shows claim to give ordinary people extraordinary opportunities to change their lives by showcasing a specific skill leading to a new career trajectory. Most participants will claim that they entered to get a big break and to develop a career they have always dreamed of. To what extent do these shows deliver on such promises? Following through what happens to leading contestants in singing, entertainment, modelling, cooking and business entrepreneur competitions, this book shows that few go on to achieve lasting success in their chosen career. Many return to obscurity or to their previous lives. Some enjoy a low level career in the new direction delivered by the competition they entered. Just a few become truly successful. The pop and entertainment themed contests have discovered just a handful of major pop stars and entertainers out of many hundreds who have taken part after the initial auditions. Turning to the cookery or business franchises, there are few who go on to achieve lasting success in their chosen career. In these it is equally likely that the winners go on to enjoy success with media careers rather than as chefs or entrepreneurs. The most successful franchise of all is the fashion model competition (Next Top Model), which has yielded a high hit rate in terms of career success. What the analysis here also reveals is that it isn’t only the winners who ultimately benefit the most from their appearances in these shows. Moreover, television picks its own stars by recruiting contestants because they are telegenic or have a good backstory as much as for their relevant talents. In this way, a talent hungry medium has co-opted these franchises to replenish its own needs.

Download or read book SPIRITUAL TIMES AND SEASONS written by J. C. PHILPOT and published by Felipe chavarro. This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance." Ecclesiastes 3:3,4.

Download or read book The Book of Times written by Lesley Alderman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Clever and entertaining . . . contains everything you’d want to know about the ticking away of seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, decades and centuries.” —Time.com Our relationship to time is complex and paradoxical: Time stands still. Time also flies. Tomorrow is another day. Yet there’s no time like the present. We want to do more in less time, but wish we could slow the clock. And despite all our time-saving devices—smart phones, AI, high-speed trains—Americans feel that they have less leisure time than ever. In an era when our time feels fractured and imperiled, The Book of Times encourages readers to ponder time used and time spent. How long does it take to find a new mate, digest a hamburger, or compose a symphony? How much time do we spend daydreaming, texting, and getting ready for work? The book challenges our beliefs and urges us to consider how, and why, some things get faster, some things slow down, and some things never change (the need for seven to eight hours of sleep). Packed with compelling charts, lists, and quizzes, as well as new and intriguing research, The Book of Times is an addictive, browsable, and provocative look at the idea of time from every direction. “Alderman’s greatest achievement is the continual delivery of quirky knowledge that our collective curiosities crave.” —Forbes “Fascinated by how we spend—and waste—our most precious commodity, journalist Lesley Alderman gathered the sometimes-surprising stats for her debut, The Book of Times.” —People “A fascinating foray into familiar terrain and a revealing look at how we really spend our lives.” —Mental Floss

Download or read book The Time s Discipline written by Philip Berrigan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Time's Discipline. Philip Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister offer us a chronicle of their community in Baltimore. They show us that for their nonviolent community, resistance to the nuclear arms race is not merely a political endeavor, but most profoundly a spiritual endeavor, rooted in fidelity to the Gospel. Thus the reporting of Jonah House's first fifteen years is formed around the Beatitudes, eight points of blessing at the outset of Matthew's presentation of the Sermon on the Mount. Invariably for Phil & Liz and those who have been part of their work at Jonah house and related endeavors, that spirituality is not abstract, but rooted in community and resistance and thus very much of this world and in service to its highest good. Understanding that we live in a nuclear empire, they present us in these pages, their "experiment in truth" in its midst.

Download or read book Out of This World written by Randall House Publications and published by Randall House Publications. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Destination Reality youth ministry series, "Out of This World" shakes teens from their comfort zones with a challenging and thought-provoking activity in each lesson.

Download or read book Counterfeit Gods written by Timothy Keller and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of idolatry has been with the human race for thousands of years; the subtle temptation is always to take what is good and turn it into the ultimate good, elevating it above all other things in the search for security and meaning. In this timely and challenging book, New York pastor Timothy Keller looks at the issue of idolatry throughout the Bible -- from the worship of actual idols in the Old Testament, to the idolatry of money by the rich young ruler when he was challenged by Jesus to give up all his wealth. Using classic stories from the Bible Keller cuts through our dependence on the glittering false idols of money, sex and power to uncover the path towards trust in the real ultimate -- God. Today's idols may look different from those of the Old Testament, but Keller argues that they are no less damaging. Culturally transforming as well as biblically based, COUNTERFEIT GODS is a powerful look at the temptation to worship what can only disappoint, and is a vital message in today's current climate of financial and social difficulty.

Download or read book The Idol of Our Age written by Daniel J. Mahoney and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a learned essay at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. It is first and foremost a diagnosis and critique of the secular religion of our time, humanitarianism, or the “religion of humanity.” It argues that the humanitarian impulse to regard modern man as the measure of all things has begun to corrupt Christianity itself, reducing it to an inordinate concern for “social justice,” radical political change, and an increasingly fanatical egalitarianism. Christianity thus loses its transcendental reference points at the same time that it undermines balanced political judgment. Humanitarians, secular or religious, confuse peace with pacifism, equitable social arrangements with socialism, and moral judgment with utopianism and sentimentality. With a foreword by the distinguished political philosopher Pierre Manent, Mahoney’s book follows Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in affirming that Christianity is in no way reducible to a “humanitarian moral message.” In a pungent if respectful analysis, it demonstrates that Pope Francis has increasingly confused the Gospel with left-wing humanitarianism and egalitarianism that owes little to classical or Christian wisdom. It takes its bearings from a series of thinkers (Orestes Brownson, Aurel Kolnai, Vladimir Soloviev, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) who have been instructive critics of the “religion of humanity.” These thinkers were men of peace who rejected ideological pacifism and never confused Christianity with unthinking sentimentality. The book ends by affirming the power of reason, informed by revealed faith, to provide a humanizing alternative to utopian illusions and nihilistic despair.

Download or read book No More Locusts It s Restoration Time written by Donna Ide and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen, now, to the cry of the church! "Send revival, Lord, pour out Your Spirit in this dry land!" We are crying out for THE Last Revival, THE LAST ONE! What will be the catalyst that makes this grand awakening so different from the past moves of God? RESTORATION! What is to be restored? We have a record in the building and the completion of a perfect place where God's Shekinah presence resided perpetually here on planet earth. King Solomon's Temple. It was ideal, gorgeous! Now, let's take a closer look, through the eyes of the Holy Spirit, at this temple of stone, this Most Holy Place, and use it as a blueprint to what God is bringing back to His Living Temple, the one made without walls. No More Locusts! It's Restoration Time brings a prophetic message that will encourage you to go on to accomplish those plans God has for you and yours. His Living Temple, the Temple of the Holy Spirit where His Beloved resides, is being reinstated. Expect joy, greatness, glory, wealth, wisdom, covenant, government, unity, and worship to come alive as never before as Father, God is restoring the years the locusts have stolen from you and yours. It's restoration time, Beloved!!! Donna R. Ide is an author, teacher, illustrator, and businesswoman living in New England. Through her personal relationship with Jesus Christ, she has encountered restoration as the result of God's Word working in her life and the lives of believers everywhere. Serving the Body of Christ for over thirty-five years, Donna has led Bible studies in women's prison facilities in New England, has worked as a children's church teacher, and has been involved in missions work. Her heart is to see the Body of Christ unified and restored socially, economically, and governmentally, both here and across the globe.

Download or read book Called to Serve written by Carmen L. Lewis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called to Serve is a biography about Gerald Austin Beasley and Clara Pauline Smith, my dad and mom. Both grew up in different rural areas of Oklahoma during the Great Depression on farms where they worked hard with their families. They met at Oklahoma A&M in Stillwater and then married after Dad was conscripted into the army. While Dad served in the European front during World War II, Mom taught school in rural southwest Oklahoma. After the war, Dad prepared for ministry; then served in churches of Christ in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, and Montana.

Download or read book Let s Create Miracles written by Indrajeet Nayak and published by Indrajeet Nayak. This book was released on 2023-06-03 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the transformative power of faith and spirituality with "Let's Create Miracles" by Indrajeet Nayak. If you're searching for a book that will empower you to embrace your divine potential and unlock the miracles in your life, this is the spiritual self-help masterpiece you've been waiting for. Within the pages of this extraordinary book, Nayak guides you on a profound journey of mental and spiritual healing. Drawing from the rich teachings of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and other religions, Nayak presents profound insights, practical exercises, and uplifting stories that will awaken your spiritual consciousness and help you create miracles in your life. "Let's Create Miracles" is more than just a book; it's a roadmap to a life of abundance, peace, and divine connection. Nayak seamlessly weaves together the timeless wisdom of various religious traditions, providing a universal approach to spiritual self-help that will resonate with men and women from all walks of life. As one of the best spiritual self-help books available, "Let's Create Miracles" takes inspiration from the renowned spiritual text, "A Course in Miracles." Nayak's unique interpretation and application of its teachings make this book a valuable companion on your journey towards self-realization and spiritual growth. Whether you're seeking mental and spiritual healing, guidance in your faith, or simply a deeper understanding of the miracles that surround us, "Let's Create Miracles" is the book that will ignite your inner spark and inspire you to manifest miracles in your everyday life. Indrajeet Nayak, a respected author in the realm of spiritual self-help, brings his expertise and deep understanding of religious principles to this remarkable book. His words will touch your soul, uplift your spirit, and empower you to step into the fullness of your divine potential. Don't miss out on this life-changing opportunity. Order your copy of "Let's Create Miracles" today and embark on a transformative journey of spiritual awakening and personal growth. This is one of the best spiritual books available, and it has the power to unlock the miracles that lie within you. Let Indrajeet Nayak be your guide as you create a life filled with love, abundance, and miracles.

Download or read book Wild Skies of Wyoming written by Mick Kaser and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As you walk through these pages, you will meet the legendary characters who made the west what it was. The story of Ole Steamboat is here on these pages pitchin on the Wyoming license plate. The American Cowboy comes alive on the pages of this book.

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