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Book Synopsis Perpetually Cool by : Anthony B. Chan
Download or read book Perpetually Cool written by Anthony B. Chan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna May Wong was an extraordinary Asian American woman who became the country's most famous film actress of Chinese descent. From small parts in silent films to starring roles in Hollywood and across the Atlantic, Wong made an impression on audiences of all persuasions. In Perpetually Cool, Anthony Chan takes the reader on a compelling journey through Wong's early years in Los Angeles and her first Hollywood pictures. Chan also examines the scope and nature of race, gender, and power and their impact on Wong's personal growth as a Chinese American. Perpetually Cool is not only the captivating story of a cinematic career, but also of roots and identity, as it recounts Wong's desire to connect with her heritage in the United States and in China. Chan provides extensive textual analyses of Wong's signature films, especially The Toll of the Sea (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) with Douglas Fairbanks, and her most famous role as Hui Fei in Shanghai Express (1932), opposite Marlene Dietrich. Perpetually Cool is a fitting tribute to the influence of this Chinese American icon.
Book Synopsis The Tanning of America by : Steve Stoute
Download or read book The Tanning of America written by Steve Stoute and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces how the "tanning" phenomenon raised a generation of black, Hispanic, white, and Asian consumers who have the same "mental complexion" based on shared experiences and values. This consumer is a mindset-not a race or age-that responds to shared values and experiences, rather than the increasingly irrelevant demographic boxes that have been used to a fault by corporate America."--
Book Synopsis An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile by : James Bruce
Download or read book An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile written by James Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Uncle John's Perpetually Pleasing Bathroom Reader by : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Download or read book Uncle John's Perpetually Pleasing Bathroom Reader written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved bathroom reader series returns with this twenty-sixth edition that’s flush with weird facts on a wide array of topics. The twenty-sixth annual edition of Uncle John’s wildly successful series is all-new and jam-packed with the BRI’s patented mix of fun and information. Open to any page and you may find an interesting origin (like the origin of the snow globe) or a piece of obscure history (like the true story of the man who tried to repeal the law of gravity). You’ll also find weird news, urban legends, brain teasers, classic riddles, bizarre headlines, and of course, the incredible factoids at the bottom of each page. Here are a few of the perpetually pleasing articles awaiting you: · The Lamest Excuses of All Time · How to Survive on . . . Roadkill · Astronauts Who Got Kicked Out of Space · The Woman Who Was Her Own Twin · Foiled by Technology: Dumb Crooks Edition · The History of the Teleprompter, the Police Car, and the Fly Swatter · “Jogging Makes You Dumber,” and Other Real Study Results · The Lost Fortune of Abraham Lincoln · Boxing Lingo · And much, much more 2014 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner in Humor!
Download or read book Cool for America written by Andrew Martin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the world of his classic-in-the-making debut novel Early Work, Andrew Martin’s Cool for America is a hilarious collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic ambition and its achievement The collection is bookended by the misadventures of Leslie, a young woman (first introduced in Early Work) who moves from New York to Missoula, Montana to try to draw herself out of a lingering depression, and, over the course of the book, gains painful insight into herself through a series of intense friendships and relationships. Other stories follow young men and women, alone and in couples, pushing hard against, and often crashing into, the limits of their abilities as writers and partners. In one story, two New Jersey siblings with substance-abuse problems relapse together on Christmas Eve; in another, a young couple tries to make sense of an increasingly unhinged veterinarian who seems to be tapping, deliberately or otherwise, into the unspoken troubles between them. In tales about characters as they age from punk shows and benders to book clubs and art museums, the promise of community acts—at least temporarily—as a stay against despair. Running throughout Cool for America is the characters’ yearning for transcendence through art: the hope that, maybe, the perfect, or even just the good-enough sentence, can finally make things right.
Book Synopsis A Voyage round the World, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson ... Compiled ... by Richard Walter and Benjamin Robins ... Illustrated with forty-two copper-plates. The fifth edition by : George ANSON (Baron Anson.)
Download or read book A Voyage round the World, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson ... Compiled ... by Richard Walter and Benjamin Robins ... Illustrated with forty-two copper-plates. The fifth edition written by George ANSON (Baron Anson.) and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panama in 1855 written by Robert Tomes and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Intelligent Church by : Steve Chalke
Download or read book Intelligent Church written by Steve Chalke and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘As St. John of the Cross said: “Mission is putting love where love is not.” This book is full of ideas. It should prompt us all to examine the effectiveness of the way local churches are organized.’—The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York ‘Everything that Steve Chalke writes is insightful and cutting-edge. Here he argues in favor of a church that thinks and acts in ways that make the Kingdom of God visible and reasonable in a secular society.’--Tony Campolo, PhD Eastern University, Pennsylvania, USA The task of the Church is “to be the irrefutable demonstration and proof of the fact that God is love,” claims Steve Chalke. An intelligent church intentionally connects the Bible and its twenty-first-century culture, is authentic and, most importantly, has thought through its practice. In other words, the way it does church is a reflection of its understanding of who God is. This foundational issue must be addressed by pastors, church and ministry leaders, small group leaders and others as we continue to grapple with the shape of effective church in the postmodern, post-Christian West. As Chalke unpacks central theological concepts, such as the incarnation, human sinfulness and the Trinity, he points us to the corresponding characteristics of an intelligent church, such as inclusiveness, messiness and diversity. Each thought-provoking chapter concludes with a ‘Yes but How?’ section, which gives practical suggestions for moving your church along this path.
Book Synopsis The United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia by :
Download or read book The United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV ... Compiled ... by Richard Walter ... The fifteenth edition by : George ANSON (Baron Anson.)
Download or read book A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV ... Compiled ... by Richard Walter ... The fifteenth edition written by George ANSON (Baron Anson.) and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hope and Heartbreak in Toronto by : Peter Robinson
Download or read book Hope and Heartbreak in Toronto written by Peter Robinson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-09-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a Toronto Maple Leafs fan requires a leap of faith every year, girding against inevitable disappointment. Hope and Heartbreak in Toronto tells what that's like, how it got to be that way, and what the future holds for all who worship the Blue and White.
Book Synopsis Sunbonnets and Sweet Gum by : Pearl Lowe Boyd
Download or read book Sunbonnets and Sweet Gum written by Pearl Lowe Boyd and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note: Although this book is listed as biography/autobiography, it is actually FOLKLORE from the Midland Region of the United States and can be considered as Americana and nostalgia. Elizabeth Pearl Lowe Boyd (1904 - 1965) grew up on farms in Warren County, Kentucky, near Bowling Green. Unlike many girls of that era, she went on from the rural, one-room school to graduate from what is now Western Kentucky University (a degree in English and Latin). After a year of teaching in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, she moved to Cross City, Florida, where she taught another year and married Robert U. Boyd, a railroad agent. By 1935 they had settled in Dunedin, Florida, where they raised their eight children. From 1936 until her death, she wrote a popular column in the local weekly paper, The Dunedin Times, titled From My Kitchen Window. The topics she wrote about were many and varied, and her focus was on the ordinary and commonplace. Over two hundred of these articles were about her recollections of growing up in rural Kentucky, and they were selected for this book. Although Florida had become her home, her heart remained in Kentucky. It was there, for that sweet land and for the hills and seasons, that she felt deeply attached. She never lost her yearnings for the hills, for the agrarian life of Kentucky. And it was of rural people, life, times, and history that she wrote most eloquently. Pearl Lowe Boyd (the name she went by) was energetic, jolly, determined and focused, civic minded, and above all, a mother. She spread her children out over twenty-two years, and she was fascinated by her little ones, their beauty, their trust, their development and their emergence into big people. Writing was the forum through which she best expressed herself - the same as music is for a musician. In her earliest writings and diaries she stated her desires to be a writer. Her opinions were carefully thoughtful, erudite, and tactfully voiced. The only time I remember that she got her dander up and went on an all-out crusade was when she got wind that the town leaders were planning to have an enormous, beautiful oak tree behind the Chamber of Commerce cut down. They lost, she won, and the tree is standing today. She loved to read and kept lists of books she devoured - sometimes over a hundred in a years span. Yet her own mother was opposed to education beyond the eighth grade for a farm girl and was very much disapproving of her reading novels - even the writings by Dickens. It was her father who encouraged her education and her love of books and writing. She was the kind of person who looked for the good in things, in people, in nature, and in life. Although she had periods of worry and depression, she never let them slow her down. The reasoning behind her positive outlook, which she described to me during one of my down times, was pragmatic and positive: why choose to dwell on the hurtful and the bad when one can live much more effectively by dwelling on the beautiful, the exciting, and the good of life? She grew up during Womens Suffrage. As an early feminist, she insisted on fairness in all things for women as for men, yet in her own life she was comfortable with first being a had-working housewife and mother and being a civic leader and writer second. Among her homespun articles she also wrote blistering articles against the treatment of Jews and others during World War II and against bigotry during the early days of desegregation. The n word was certainly not permitted in her home. I remember her as a wise person. On one occasion when two of her children were arguing over splitting up a remaining chunk of cake, she utilized the King Solomon ploy by allowing one to make the slice and the other to take the first piece. Of course, the two pieces were precisely identical. Music was a part of our lives with
Book Synopsis Love, Hate and Other Filters by : Samira Ahmed
Download or read book Love, Hate and Other Filters written by Samira Ahmed and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. Seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home and being paired off with an older Muslim boy her mom deems “suitable.” And then there is the world of her dreams: going to film school and living in New York City—and pursuing a boy she’s known from afar since grade school. But in the aftermath of a horrific crime perpetrated hundreds of miles away, her life is turned upside down. The community she’s known since birth becomes unrecognizable; neighbors and classmates are consumed with fear, bigotry, and hatred. Ultimately, Maya must find the strength within to determine where she truly belongs.
Book Synopsis Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, by : James Bruce
Download or read book Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, written by James Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Thomas SECKER (successively Bishop of Bristol and of Oxford, and Archbishop of Canterbury.) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :460 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (24 download)
Book Synopsis Sermons on several subjects ... Published from the original manuscripts, by Beilby Porteus D.D. and George Stinton ... A new edition by : Thomas SECKER (successively Bishop of Bristol and of Oxford, and Archbishop of Canterbury.)
Download or read book Sermons on several subjects ... Published from the original manuscripts, by Beilby Porteus D.D. and George Stinton ... A new edition written by Thomas SECKER (successively Bishop of Bristol and of Oxford, and Archbishop of Canterbury.) and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sermons on Several Subjects by : Thomas Secker
Download or read book Sermons on Several Subjects written by Thomas Secker and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anna May Wong by : Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Download or read book Anna May Wong written by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna May Wong remains one of Hollywood's best-known Chinese American actors. Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, and Warner Oland. Her life, though, is the prototypical story of an immigrant's difficult path through the prejudices of American culture. Born in Los Angeles in 1905, she was the second daughter of seven children born to a laundryman and his wife. Childhood experience fueled her fascination with Hollywood. By 1919 she secured a small part in her first film, The Red Lantern, and she continued to act up until her death. Her most famous film roles were in The Toll of the Sea, Peter Pan, The Thief of Baghdad, Old San Francisco, and Shanghai Express. But discrimination against Asians, in both in the film industry and society, was commonplace, and when it came time to make a film version of Pearl Buck's The Good Earth, she was passed over for the Chinese female lead role, which was ultimately given to the white actor Luise Rainer. In a narrative that recalls the pathos of life in Los Angeles's Chinese neighborhoods and the glamour of Hollywood's pleasure palaces, Graham Russell Gao Hodges recovers the life of a Hollywood legend.
