Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Jennifer S. Prough and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manga is the backbone of Japanese popular culture, influencing everything from television, movies, and video games to novels, art, and theater. Shojo manga (girls’ comics) has been seminal to the genre as a whole and especially formative for Japanese girls’ culture throughout the postwar era. In Straight from the Heart, Jennifer Prough examines the shojo manga industry as a site of cultural storytelling, illuminating the ways that issues of mass media, gender, production, and consumption are involved in the process of creating shojo manga. With their glittery pastel covers and focus on human relationships and romance, shojo manga are thoroughly marked by gender—as indeed are almost all manga titles, magazines, and publishing divisions. Drawing on two years of fieldwork on the production of shojo manga, Prough analyzes shojo manga texts and their magazine contexts to explain their distinctive appeal, probe the gendered dynamics inherent in their creation, and demonstrate the feedback system that links producers and consumers in a continuous cycle of "affective labor." Each chapter focuses on one facet of shojo manga production (stories, format, personnel, industry dynamics), providing engaging insights into this popular medium. Tacking between story development, interactive magazine features, and relationships between male editors and female artists, Prough examines the concrete ways in which shojo manga reflect, refract, and fabricate constructions of gender, consumption, and intimacy. Straight from the Heart thus weaves together issues of production and consumption, human relations, and gender to explain the unique world of shojo manga and to interpret its dramatic cultural and economic success on a national—and increasingly global—scale.
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Pamela Wallace and published by HarperPrism. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoey Donavan might have it made in New York City, but at 35, she wants more than what her successful photography career offers. Secretly she longs for a real family life, shared with someone who doesn't value work above everything else.
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Ann Richards and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straight from the Heart is Ann Richards’s story, told with her trademark candor and spicy humor. Born in a tiny town near Waco, Texas, she entered politics when her husband wouldn’t—and went on to become state treasurer, the first woman elected to statewide office in Texas in fifty years. She’s had her victories and her battles (the breakup of a thirty-year marriage and a bout with alcohol), but it’s her love of Texas and Texas politics that has made her who she is. This extraordinary memoir by one of the nation’s leading politicians proves the wisdom of her observation that women “can have a good and wonderful life, but that it only begins when they accept responsibility for it, not when they expect someone else to make it happen.” Richards talks openly about the course her life has taken and the choices she has made on the way. Her hard-won triumphs and savvy political career provide inspiring examples for all.
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Bob Jackson-Paris and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Mr. Universe Bob Paris and topflight model Rod Jackson tell how their marriage catapulted them from physique icons to international spokesmen for gay rights.
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Layne Cutright and published by . This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Jamgon Mipham and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straight from the Heart brings together an inspiring collection of Buddhist teachings, songs of realization, meditation instructions, and enlightened poetry—all chosen for their power to speak directly to the student. Drawn from Indian Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism as well as from all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, some will impress with their beautiful poetry and powerful imagery, others with their profound power of instruction. Still others share personal advice for life that seems to come directly from the mouth of the author, and some serve as immediate and profound practice instructions. Several are just delightfully unconventional, even outrageous, letting in fresh air on petrified views or musty traditions. Most of them are simply unknown precious gems, which deserve a wider audience. Each of the works is preceded by a brief introduction and a short biography of its author. Many of these are legendary accounts of supernatural feats, edifying examples for students on the same spiritual path meant to expand their limited outlook with “mind-blowing” stories. Miraculous deeds, magnificent songs, and pithy instructions distinguish this collection assembled by the Buddhist scholar and translator Karl Brunnhölzl, whose years of work among dharma texts and his skill as a translator yield a rich mine of teachings all chosen for their ability to speak directly to the heart.
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Barbara Delinsky and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America's beloved storyteller, Barbara Delinsky, comes Straight from the Heart, a classic novel of one lovesick doctor and the woman who makes his heart ache with desire... As the head of cardiology at New Haven Medical Center, Dr. Robert McCrae knows a lot about the human heart. But it's not until he spots Heather Cole's beautiful face at one of his lectures that he realizes how much more he needs to learn. From the moment he sees her, his heart skips a beat—metaphorically speaking—and his pulse rate soars. It turns out that Heather is a local hand-bag designer who's not just playing doctor; she's putting her heart on the line. Rob may be the only one who can help. But first she'll have to trust him—and take a risk on falling in love...
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Jean Chrétien and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Jewel Pookrum and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Jewel Pookrum's second book, "Straight From The Heart," describes in basic, clear, scientific humor, how we evolved to become the present divine force, responsible for creating the reality we call "our life." "To be a joyful and efficient individual in the 21st century will require each member of our society to become aware and enlightened about the relationship between the anatomy of our body and its effects in our environment." - Dr. Jewel Pookrum
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Tehilla Abramov and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of 'The Secret of Jewish Femininity,' a wealth of Torah insights on motherhood. Also contains nutritional and medical information, and practical advice for nursing mothers.
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Kapil Dev and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thereafter, he touched the pinnacle of glory with the bowling feat of breaking Sir Richard Hadlee s record in 1994. With his single-mindedness to scale unprecedented heights, he played 131 Tests, with just one break on non-cricketing grounds. He created a
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Hannah Rose and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps you have traveled the same road and experienced similar heartaches. Sometimes life can seem overwhelming and it tries to get the best of us. Remember, God has a plan for each one of us to transform us into His image, and He will be faithful to bring it to pass. The means He uses always results in a perfect end. Hannah Rose shares part of her faith journey in grace, using personal anecdotes along with God's voice as a very present help in times of struggle and doubt. The relevance of God's Word is continually portrayed through her selection of entries as encouragement and exhortation. Read as a whole or as daily individual entries, Hannah's hope is that you would be encouraged to learn that God has used the devastation and pain of her life to continually change her from glory to glory. He will do the same for you through your circumstances if you let Him!
Download or read book Straight from the Source written by Kim Osorio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Osorio had a front-row seat for the biggest beefs, battles, and blow-ups in hip-hop. As the first female editor-in-chief of The Source, she had come up. From her corner office, Kim got the goods on hip-hop's hottest names: Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, Lil' Kim. She developed close -- sometimes intimate -- relationships with the artists she exposed to the public. But The Source couldn't hide its own dirty laundry for long. Behind the scenes, the magazine's volatile owners puppeteered every issue -- even coveted honors like the 5-mic album rating and the Power 30 list of industry heavy-hitters. Then The Source declared war on Eminem and began the notorious assault that would send the magazine into swift decline. In a culture dominated by men, Kim rose to the top, and after years in the magazine's pressure cooker, she hit "send" on a two-sentence e-mail that would thrust her from the sidelines of the scandalous world she reported on to the center of one of the most explosive scandals in hip-hop history. Straight From the Source is the Book of Kim, the tell-all memoir only she could write about her influential years at the Bible of Hip-Hop.
Download or read book Straight from the Horse s Heart written by R. T. Fitch and published by Ronald Fitch. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loosely autobiographical, thirty vignettes make up this collection that features a wide range of equine stories, each sharing a sense of love, loss, and survival.
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Ajaan Mahā Boowa Ñāṇasampanno and published by Forest Dhamma Publications. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of talks was originally given for the benefit of a lay disciple who had come to Ajaan Mahā Boowa’s monastery to receive his guidance as she faced her approaching death from bone marrow cancer. These talks offer important lessons about how to learn from pain, illness and death, by seeing through to their ultimate nature and detaching the mind from the suffering associated with them.
Download or read book Joel Whitburn s Top Adult Contemporary 1961 1993 written by Joel Whitburn and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a complete reference of the top adult contemporary singles from 1961 - 1993 (Compiled by Joel Whitburn). Each entry includes a biography, debut date, peak position, weeks on chart, peak position on Billboard's hot 100, and record label/catalog number information.
