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Book Synopsis Cock-Eyed Optimist by : Nigel Quiney
Download or read book Cock-Eyed Optimist written by Nigel Quiney and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusually frank and honest memoir deals with the life of Nigel Quiney from his earliest memories of living through the blitz of London in WWII, to when he was twenty-one and boarded the Queen Elizabeth believing he was emigrating to the USA. His experiences there and travelling coast-to-coast are a fascinating read as he details how a young Englishman saw this country in 1960. In this book he details how he realised that he was gay at a very early age in London and how he came to terms with it, at the same time discovering what was then the underworld of London's gay life.A fascinating read for anyone interested in this period of war and the difficult after-years for a young man knowing that he was different and ultimately discovering his gayness when the very mention of the subject was taboo, but acting upon it. This is the first of four memoirs.
Book Synopsis Cockeyed Optimist by : Jeffrey Dean Fogel
Download or read book Cockeyed Optimist written by Jeffrey Dean Fogel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Bryn, the self-proclaimed unluckiest girl in the world. She lives for sailboat racing, but doesnt own a boat. She has friends, but none who arent crazy. Her Dad hates his job. Her Mom hates anything fun. But when an eccentric old salt turns up at their yard sale, Bryns life is about to set an entirely new course.
Book Synopsis Confessions of a Cock-Eyed Optimist by : Nigel Quiney
Download or read book Confessions of a Cock-Eyed Optimist written by Nigel Quiney and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues to explore the life of Nigel Quiney during the decade of the nineteen-seventies. Both his companies - Nigel Quiney Designs, and Ridley Quiney & Co Ltd - are successful and expanding. By then the decade of the 'sixties and Swinging London was maturing and London had become an extremely popular tourist destination drawn to the creativity of the theatre, music, fashion, designs and the arts generally. It was in this decade that Nigel began to explore the Far East as a source for new products and suppliers for the family business of RQ and Hong Kong was the first of many destinations that he explored. Later in 1976, having accepted one of the official invitations to visit China he flew the tortuous journey to Peking and then by train to Dairen and then Tientsin. In Dairen he was privileged to be shown the underground tunnels and excavations which took many years to create and were part of a defence system should the Russians invade. Back in Peking he was wandering around filming in Tiananmen Square which was packed with people and giant wreaths out to commemorate the death of Chou En-Lai. He was ushered away by his Chinese interpreter just before the authorities swooped and confiscated all film and arrested the few foreigners who were later jailed. He had escaped by just minutes. The same year Nigel was introduced to the amazing aspects of Bombay and touring Rajasthan by car. There he stayed at several palaces that had only just been turned into hotels where he and his two friends were the only guests. In the latter part of this decade Nigel explored Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, The Philippines, Indonesia and South Korea looking for new suppliers which culminated in Ridley Quiney being the first importer of throw-away thin carrier bags into the UK. This memoir also records the love affair between Nigel and an American pop singer which sadly failed even after trips to Moscow and Ibiza. Later another affair, was also doomed. This was also the decade when industrial unrest in coal mining, steel production and manufacturing was producing strikes as the demand and competition from abroad threatened their survival. Also the decade when our various governments seemed unable to deal with these problems to the point that the UK was likened to a Banana Republic.Nigelaas love affair with America blossomed and in this period he took on the share of a flat in New York previously used by his friend, the musician and composer, Richard Rodney Bennett. In this exciting city Nigel promoted his Nigel Quiney Design products by taking space annually at trade shows and when not working took full advantage of the cityaas varied gay life. In Los Angeles, Nigel continued his close relationship with Edward and Gillian Thorpe and introduced his widowed mother to these trips where she became very much part of the entourage.
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Book Synopsis Conclusions of a Cock-eyed Optimist by : Nigel Quiney
Download or read book Conclusions of a Cock-eyed Optimist written by Nigel Quiney and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the continuing story of the life and times of Nigel Quiney. The previous three volumes dealt with his life living in London from 1939, the war years, discovering he was gay in his teens and the start of traveling. They dealt with his business life and his searching for love and adventure in London and the cities of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles where he travelled regularly. Running two businesses and travelling to distant parts of the Far East including China in the 'seventies this volume deals with the last three decades during which he met up with David Evans who became his lover and later they became civil partners when the law was changed to allow it. In this last volume, the early work of growing his businesses culminated in 1996 by their being sold allowing early retirement at the age of fifty-seven. This volume incorporates stories about the serious side of business as well as recounting some humorous tales of business abroad and dealing with the different cultures that he discovered. Finally this is a story of success after working for over forty years and the enduring quality of his loving partnership with David Evans. This volume will produce tears of sadness as well as smiles and joy as middle-age slides into the next chapter of his life and will prove, if such a thing is necessary, that being gay does not preclude a hugely satisfactory way of living.
Book Synopsis A Cockeyed Optimist by : J. J. Smith
Download or read book A Cockeyed Optimist written by J. J. Smith and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis More Cock-Eyed Optimism by : Nigel Quiney
Download or read book More Cock-Eyed Optimism written by Nigel Quiney and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This frank and honest memoir follows the life of Nigel Quiney aged twenty-one returning to London from the USA. He re-joins the family business of paper importers Ridley Quiney & Co. and leaves home. The new decade of the 'sixties is an exciting time and gay life is beginning to be more interesting, with more clubs and bars and even places where dancing is possible, subject to police raids. With his own studio he now has the freedom to entertain friends and it is in this period that he falls in love with Gordon Heath, the American actor/singer and begins a torrid affair with him. When this relationship finally finishes he resumes again his interest in design which culminates in his producing a range of unique gift-wrapping papers which immediately become best sellers. Thanks to the politics of the family business his gift-wraps were not taken up and thus he created his own business, Nigel Quiney Designs. This launches him into the excitement of Swinging London with increasing sales both at home and across the USA. With an expanding business he travels back to the USA where he indulges in the expanding gay life in New York and Los Angeles as well as promoting his gift-wrapping papers. In holiday times he discovered the joys of being gay in Ibiza and Morocco at a time when little tourism existed there. In the mid-sixties he meets Ted and Gillian Thorpe. She, under the name of Eliot George wrote one of the first gay novels to be published - The Leather Boys, subsequently made into a successful film. Later when she was furthering her career by writing screen plays in Hollywood she and Nigel met. The following year Ted was looking for someone to share expenses when he planned to cross the USA in his Lotus Elan and Nigel put himself forward as his traveling companion. This started a life-long friendship and the two cross country drives produced many memorable and hilarious situations at a time when the English were a very rare event for Americans to come across. This is the second of four memoirs.
Book Synopsis I'm a Big Cockeyed Optimist. I Try to Accentuate the Positive As Opposed to the Negative. -Betty White by : Quotes DESIGN
Download or read book I'm a Big Cockeyed Optimist. I Try to Accentuate the Positive As Opposed to the Negative. -Betty White written by Quotes DESIGN and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JUST FOR YOU CLEAN SPIRIT! A Premium 120 pages Lined Notebook With Unique Cover ! A Beautiful gift for Christmas, Mother's Day, Birthdays or anytime! Or why not ? a special notebook just for you, because ... You Deserve it, take our experience a solution for your daily notes and knock knock knock, open your Door its Us :)
Book Synopsis Salute to a Cockeyed Optimist, Oscar Hammerstein II by : Friends of the USC Libraries
Download or read book Salute to a Cockeyed Optimist, Oscar Hammerstein II written by Friends of the USC Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Cycles of Constitutional Time by : Jack M. Balkin
Download or read book The Cycles of Constitutional Time written by Jack M. Balkin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America's constitutional system evolves through the interplay between three cycles: the rise and fall of dominant political parties, the waxing and waning of political polarization, and alternating episodes of constitutional rot and constitutional renewal. America's politics seems especially fraught today because we are nearing the end of the Republican Party's long political dominance, at the height of a long cycle of political polarization, and suffering from an advanced case of "constitutional rot." Constitutional rot is the historical process through which republics become increasingly less representative and less devoted to the common good. Caused by increasing economic inequality and loss of trust, constitutional rot seriously threatens the constitutional system. But America has been through these cycles before, and will get through them again. America is in a Second Gilded Age slowly moving toward a second Progressive Era, during which polarization will eventually recede. The same cycles shape the work of the federal courts and theories about constitutional interpretation. They explain why political parties have switched sides on judicial review not once but twice in the twentieth century. Polarization and constitutional rot alter the political supports for judicial review, make fights over judicial appointments especially bitter, and encourage constitutional hardball. The Constitution ordinarily relies on the judiciary to protect democracy and to prevent political corruption and self-entrenching behavior. But when constitutional rot is advanced, the Supreme Court is likely to be ineffective and may even make matters worse. Courts cannot save the country from constitutional rot; only political mobilization can"--
Book Synopsis Confessions of a Cross Eyed Optimist by : Nigel Quiney
Download or read book Confessions of a Cross Eyed Optimist written by Nigel Quiney and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Optimist written by Sophie Kipner and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Tabitha Gray, a delusional girl from Topanga, California, who redefines what it means to be a truly hopeless romantic. Tabby suffers from an aggressive strain of cock-eyed optimism – no amount of failure, embarrassment or humiliation can dent her fierce belief that real, true, lasting love is just around the corner. Where most people think, fantasise and dream, Tabby says, feels and does. Whether waiting in her lingerie for Harrison Ford to open the door of his hotel room; following Al Pacino around a Russian bathhouse; seeking passion with a blind man on the advice of a wise old woman with dementia; or sending intimate photos to a random sexter, Tabby refuses to be crushed by her many misadventures. In this warmly witty novel, Sophie Kipner takes a satirical look at the extremity of romantic desperation, and pays tribute to the deep human need to keep on heroically searching for love despite our many absurdities.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1958-03-24 with total page 142 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.
Book Synopsis Health Communication in Practice by : Eileen Berlin Ray
Download or read book Health Communication in Practice written by Eileen Berlin Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Communication in Practice: A Case Study Approach offers a comprehensive examination of the complex nature of health-related communication. This text contains detailed case studies that demonstrate in-depth applications of communication theory in real-life situations. With chapters written by medical practitioners as well as communication scholars, the cases included herein cover a variety of topics, populations, contexts and issues in health communication, including: *provider-recipient communication and its importance to subsequent diagnosis and treatment; *decision-making; *social identity, particularly how people redefine and renegotiate their social identity; *communication dynamics within families and with health care providers through unexpected health situations; *delivery of health care; and *health campaigns designed to disseminate health-related information and change behaviors. Reflecting the changes in health communication scholarship and education over the past decade, chapters also explore current topics such as delivering bad news, genetic testing, intercultural communication, grieving families, and international health campaigns. A list of relevant concepts and definitions is included at the end of each case to help students make connections between the scenario and the communication theories it reflects. With its breadth of coverage and applied, practical approach, this timely and insightful text will serve as required reading in courses addressing the application of communication theory in a health-related context.
Book Synopsis 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself Volume 2 of 2 (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) by : Steve Chandler
Download or read book 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself Volume 2 of 2 (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) written by Steve Chandler and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chandler offers proven, powerful techniques for eliminating negative barriers and pessimistic thoughts that prevent you from fulfilling your goals.
Book Synopsis It's Your Choice! by : Margie McKinnon
Download or read book It's Your Choice! written by Margie McKinnon and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to have balance and harmony in your life? "It's Your Choice! Decisions That Will Change Your Life" is a work of personal discovery. Marjorie Mckinnon shows you how to create a perfect world through positive growth in what she calls the six dimensions: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, social, and financial. She illustrates how all six-dimensions work together like an orchestra. Told in simple, practical language, McKinnon encourages the readers to have faith in themselves, the kind of faith needed to make healthy changes. In this book, you will: Discover courage and harness it to your advantage Recover the joy present in every moments Learn decision-making tools that affirm your values Find new outlets for your ambitions and talents Rededicate yourself to your true purpose in life Explore what success in life really means Acclaim for "It's Your Choice!" ""It's Your Choice!" is bursting with the wisdom of the tried and true, akin to a good friend's advice. The author's style is intimate but never imposing. She shares rather than lectures. She asks: how does one find a meaning in one's life and thus enhance it? And she answers with ladles of tips and anecdotes, real life stories and popular philosophy." --Sam Vaknin, PhD, author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited. Learn more at www.TheLampLighters.org From the Spiritual Dimensions series at Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com
