Download or read book I m No Angel written by Kylie Bisutti and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 2011, 21-year-old Victoria’s Secret Runway Angel Kylie Bisutti stunned the fashion industry when she chose faith over fame and fortune and made the switch from supermodel to role model. In I’m No Angel, Kylie shares her story—from her early years as she struggled to make it big in the cutthroat world of modeling, to her “big break” winning the Victoria’s Secret Runway Angel competition, to the disillusionment and spiritual warfare that followed. After finally realizing that she could no longer reconcile her career with her Christian beliefs, she surrendered her life to God and dedicated her life to preaching a message of modesty and inner beauty. Along the way, Kylie talks about her personal struggles with inadequacy, low self-esteem, and her near-constant quest for approval in a world where you can never be thin enough, pretty enough, or sexy enough. She helps readers understand that true beauty lies within and that real fulfillment comes from knowing, loving, and serving Christ.

Download or read book White Like Her written by Gail Lukasik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage. With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers.

Download or read book Essentials Fashion Sketchbook written by Inc Peter Pauper Press and published by Peter Pauper Press. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A5 size (148mm x 210mm, or 5-1/2" x 8"). 192 pages. Elastic band place holder. Ribbon bookmark. Acid-free/archival paper. Binding lies flat for ease of use. Inside back cover pocket. Create your own original designs with this sleek Fashion Sketchbook! Packed with fashion-proportional figures in varied poses, this journal will help bring your inspirations to life. The figures (called croquis from the French meaning to sketch, rough out, to crunch) will not show up when photocopied or scanned. From understated effects to outrageous accents, let this Fashion Sketchbook help you render your vision. There are also templates for shoes and hats in the back of the journal, plus helpful industry terms and descriptions, size equivalent information, measuring tips, descriptions of basic garments, and more.

Download or read book Win the Runway written by Amanda Van Annan and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Win the Runway is a go-to guide for models who want to storm the modeling world and take their career to the next level. Author, Amanda Van Annan, shares her wisdom from twenty years as a successful model. She reveals tips, tricks, and hacks that will help potential models navigate agencies, open-calls, castings, and photoshoots. The book offers advice on how to behave and conduct yourself throughout your career while also making you aware of the perils of the industry. The book ends with a useful workbook that arms you with everything you need to succeed as a model. This book is for everyone and anyone that is thinking of embarking on modeling as a career or just wants to know more about the workings of the modeling industry. Amanda Van Annan the author delves into all aspects of the profession and emphasizes both the good and the pitfalls of the profession. She provides practical advice while constantly boosting moral and looking at things from a positive outlook. Amanda does not mince her words and is very blunt about the pitfalls of the career and where they could eventually lead. The book is a must read for any young aspiring model.

Download or read book Runway Runaway written by Lorelei Shellist and published by Siren Star Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellious, headstrong, independent - and on her own at age 15 - Lorelei dreamed of being a model, and made that happen through serendipity; a chance meeting with a '70s SoCal Rock Star opened the A-list Hollywood doors to a wondrous world, as well as a full-blown romance. Pounding the pavement in L.A. and New York taught her the hard knocks of being a working class model. Sheer will and determination jetted her off to Europe, where she became a top runway and magazine model, and where she met the doomed love of her life, fiancé Steve Clark of Def Leppard. With humor, pathos, and a world map of insight, Runway RunAway takes readers on a breathless journey around the globe with a backstage pass to high fashion, true romance, and Rock 'n Roll from some of the biggest names in the business.

Download or read book The Great Mental Models Volume 1 written by Shane Parrish and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.

Download or read book A Fine Line written by Hartmut Esslinger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Hartmut Esslinger, internationally acclaimed designer and founder of frog design, inc., reveals the secrets to better business through better design. Having spent forty years helping build the world’s most recognizable brands, Esslinger shows how business leaders and designers can join forces to build creative strategies that will ensure a more profitable and sustainable future. A Fine Line shares the amazing story of Esslinger’s transformation from industrial design wunderkind to a global innovation powerhouse, while detailing the very real challenges facing businesses in the new global economy. Offering companies far more than a temporary innovation booster, Esslinger shows how he and frog build creative design into the framework of an organization’s competitive strategy, the same approach that has worked so well for leading edge companies such as Sony, Louis Vuitton, Lufthansa, Disney, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, Microsoft, and Apple. Offering a step-by-step overview of the innovation process—from targeting goals to shepherding new products and services to the marketplace—Esslinger reveals how to arrive at a design that reflects an intensely human experience and will connect strongly with consumers. With Esslinger’s unique perspective, rich stories, and global mindset, A Fine Line explores business solutions that are environmentally sustainable and contribute to the future of a thriving and lasting global economy. The blending of design and business intelligence holds the key for shaping a sustainable competitive advantage in the rapidly evolving creative economy. A Fine Line equips business leaders with the necessary tools to thrive in tomorrow’s world.

Download or read book When We Met written by A. L. Jackson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When four college girls decide to live off campus together, they experience a year of romance that will change the rest of their lives. From Misha, who is unable to live down her ex-boyfriends deception, to party girl Indy who is forever being rescued from herself by besotted Kier, When We Met brings together four incredible authors who combine their talents to tell four original stories from inside one house.

Download or read book FieldWorking written by Bonnie Stone Sunstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FieldWorking is a fun and practical guide to research and writing. This acclaimed text incorporates examples by professional writers such as Peter Elbow, Joan Didion, Oliver Sacks, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as student research projects on communities as diverse a truck stop, sports bar, homeless shelter, and horse sales barn, to help students identify and define their own subcultures and communities. In unique activities and comprehensive instruction, FieldWorking presents an ethnographic approach that empowers students to observe, listen, interpret, analyze, and write about the people and artifacts around them, while learning the essentials of college writing and research. FieldWorking is suitable for courses in English, anthropology, cultural studies, journalism — or in any discipline where research is required.

Download or read book Abstractionist Aesthetics written by Phillip Brian Harper and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. Arguing against the need for “positive” representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic production, including the visual work of Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial blackness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended, rendering abstractionism as the most powerful modality for Black representation.

Download or read book Modern Fashion Illustration written by Holly Nichols and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Fashion Illustration is a how-to book that offers step-by-step the art of fashion illustration, and how to promote it in today's world of social media. It also includes a collection of whimsical fashion illustrations by the author, featuring illustrations waiting to be colored in by novices and practiced illustrators alike. After graduating from college with a BFA in Studio Art, Holly Nichols sought a way to merge her love of fashion with art. Her sketchbook and napkin doodles of designer duds became refined drawings that she now creates with her beloved artist markers. She uses her fashion-inspired illustrations to engage her audience of more than 1 MILLION Instagram followers in both the fashion and art communities. Holly has created fashionable illustrations and artful campaigns for TRESemmé, Saks Fifth Avenue, Barney's New York, Neiman Marcus, Disney, Living Proof, and many more. She creates her work both in her studio, and straight from the seats of fashion week and more. Her work is sold internationally and she works with corporate clients to create fashion and beauty illustrations for campaigns, live-sketch events, and more. Today, she uses artist-quality illustration markers to hand-sketch garments with love from her studio just south of Boston, MA. (www.hnicholsillustration.com)

Download or read book Eighty Readings written by David Munger and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging collection of professional and student essays is arranged thematically and contains alternate tables of contents for rhetorical modes, argument, and writing about the disciplines. No matter what approach instructors take in their composition courses, this flexible and substantial reader will answer their teaching needs.

Download or read book On the Contrary written by Martha Rainbolt and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1984-06-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On The Contrary contains a balance of writings by men and women. The essays are presented in pairs, a man and a woman writing on each topic. This balanced juxtaposition allows students to discuss, think, and write about changing roles and relationships without being forced into either a feminist or traditionalist party line. The essays in each section reverberate suggestively with each other and this effect is reinforced by the discussion questions, writing topics, and introductory material. An additional table of contents arranges the essays according to rhetorical rubrics.

Download or read book The Other Side of Normal written by Isabel Reyes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noelle and Cameron have been fighting their personal demons for years. When they meet in a writing class during their last year of college, there is a strong attraction that neither can explain. As they get to know each other, they learn to work through their crises, forgive themselves and love each other.

Download or read book The World Is a Book Indeed written by Peter LaSalle and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Is a Book, Indeed chronicles in eleven rich personal essays the ongoing quest of award-winning writer Peter LaSalle to embark on offbeat, often startlingly revelatory literary travel. LaSalle spends a summer roaming the lesser-known quarters of Paris, haunted by the writing of the French surrealists. In Hanoi, he meets for beers with the editors—two military men—of the Army Literature and Arts Magazine while investigating Vietnam’s acknowledged great modern novel, Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War. Other pieces find LaSalle on a strange nighttime drive through the streets of sprawling São Paulo in search of landmarks associated with Brazilian modernist poetry, bouncing around Africa to interview writers there when very young, exploring Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges's memorable stay in Texas, and traveling to Istanbul, Lisbon, Tunis, and elsewhere, as he considers major writers amid the settings that produced their works. Deeply felt and replete with insight into literature and life itself, even capable of evoking valid mind leaps in its innovative approaches, this is a collection for readers who love books and want to learn more about the places they originated, presented by a well-traveled guide with an intimate voice and a gift for the essay form.

Download or read book Katani s Jamaican Holiday written by Annie Bryant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Beacon Street Girls... They're real, they're fun - they're just like you! Jamaican breezes are calling, and one hardworking BSG definitely deserves a getaway! But Katani's Caribbean dream trip may not be all soft sand and warm surf. When Grandma Ruby learns that the family's famous banana bread bakery is in serious danger, Katani's business savvy is put to the ultimate test. Spooky stories, dolphins, horseback rides on the beach, a mysterious old lady, and a lost heirloom add up to plenty of colorful island adventure for Katani and her family.

Download or read book Harlequin Special Edition June 2014 Bundle 2 of 2 written by Christyne Butler and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Harlequin Special Edition bundle includes Destiny’s Last Bachelor? by USA TODAY bestselling author Christyne Butler, To Catch a Camden by USA TODAY bestselling author Victoria Pade and A Brevia Beginning by Michelle Major. Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin Special Edition!