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The Spectacular

Author : Zoe Whittall
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1524799424
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Spectacular written by Zoe Whittall and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, gender, and maternal ambivalence, from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People. “In the best books, characters feel like my friends, but with the mothers of The Spectacular, they came to feel like my family.”—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby It’s 1997 and Missy is a cellist in an indie rock band on tour across America. At twenty-two years old, she gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous. As the only girl in the band, she’s determined to party just as hard as everyone else, loving and leaving a guy in every town. But then she meets a tomboy drummer who is hard to forget, and a forgotten flap of cocaine strands her at the border. Fortysomething Carola is just surfacing from a sex scandal at the yoga center where she has been living when she sees her daughter, Missy, for the first time in ten years—on the cover of a music magazine. Ruth is eighty-three and planning her return to the Turkish seaside village where she spent her childhood. But when her granddaughter, Missy, winds up crashing at her house, she decides it’s time that the strong and stubborn women in her family find a way to understand one another again. In this sharply observed novel, Zoe Whittall captures three very different women who each struggle to build an authentic life. Definitions of family, romance, gender, and love will radically change as they seek out lives that are nothing less than spectacular.

Spectacular America

Author : Letitia Burns O'Connor
Publisher : Hugh Lauter Levin Associates
ISBN 13 : 9780883633946
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular America written by Letitia Burns O'Connor and published by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 200 color photographs capture America' regional variety--from the virgin timber lands of Alaska to the mangrove swamps of the Florida Everglades, from the bucolic hills of New England to the spectacular mountain bluffs of the Big Sur. Features six foldouts and a large horizontal format.

The Spectacular Now

Author : Tim Tharp
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 1407146467
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Spectacular Now written by Tim Tharp and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sutter's the guy you want at your party. Aimee's not. She needs help and it's up to Sutter to show Aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go forth and prosper. But Aimee's not like other girls and before long he's over his head. For the first time in his life he has the power to make a difference in someone else's life - or ruin it forever.

Spectacular Homes of the Pacific Northwest

Author : Brian Carabet
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9780974574745
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Homes of the Pacific Northwest written by Brian Carabet and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 250 photographs of nearly 40 leading designers in Washington and Oregon.

Spectacular Blackness

Author : Amy Abugo Ongiri
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813928591
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Blackness written by Amy Abugo Ongiri and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.

Spectacular Modernity

Author : Lisa Blackmore
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822982366
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Modernity written by Lisa Blackmore and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Fernando Coronil Prize for best book about Venezuela, awarded by the Venezuelan Studies Section of LASA. In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies—from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumer culture—reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.

Spectacular Nature

Author : Susan G. Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091953X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Nature written by Susan G. Davis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Sea World, a theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold. With its trademark star, Shamu the killer whale—as well as performing dolphins, pettable sting rays, and reproductions of pristine natural worlds—the park represents a careful coordination of shows, dioramas, rides, and concessions built around the theme of ocean life. Susan Davis analyzes the Sea World experience and the forces that produce it: the theme park industry; Southern California tourism; the privatization of urban space; and the increasing integration of advertising, entertainment, and education. The result is an engaging exploration of the role played by images of nature and animals in contemporary commercial culture, and a precise account of how Sea World and its parent corporation, Anheuser-Busch, succeed. Davis argues that Sea World builds its vision of nature around customers' worries and concerns about the environment, family relations, and education. While Davis shows the many ways that Sea World monitors its audience and manipulates animals and landscapes to manufacture pleasure, she also explains the contradictions facing the enterprise in its campaign for a positive public identity. Shifting popular attitudes, animal rights activists, and environmental laws all pose practical and public relations challenges to the theme park. Davis confronts the park's vast operations with impressive insight and originality, revealing Sea World as both an industrial product and a phenomenon typical of contemporary American culture. Spectacular Nature opens an intriguing field of inquiry: the role of commercial entertainment in shaping public understandings of the environment and environmental problems.

Spectacular Rhetorics

Author : Wendy Hesford
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822349515
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Rhetorics written by Wendy Hesford and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners.

I Spy Spectacular

Author : Jean Marzollo
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545222788
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book I Spy Spectacular written by Jean Marzollo and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of picture riddles for your enjoyment.

Spectacular Bid

Author : Peter Lee
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813177839
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Bid written by Peter Lee and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lee does a masterful job of telling the entire and real story of a racing star who overcame numerous obstacles . . . a book that you cannot put down!” —Brian Zipse, managing partner of Derby Day Racing On the morning of the 1979 Belmont Stakes, Spectacular Bid stepped on a safety pin in his stall, injuring his foot. He had impressively won the first two races—the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness—but finished third in the Belmont, most likely due to his injury, making him one win shy of becoming the sport’s third straight Triple Crown champion. But that loss did not prevent him from becoming one of horse racing’s greatest competitors. After taking two months to recover, the battleship gray colt would go on to win twenty-six of thirty races during his career, with two second-place finishes and one third. He was voted the tenth greatest Thoroughbred of the twentieth century according to Blood-Horse magazine, and A Century of Champions places him ninth in the world and third among North American horses—even ahead of the renowned Man o’ War. This horse biography tells the story of the honest and not-so-glamorous colorful characters surrounding the champion—including Bud Delp, the brash and cocky trainer who was distrustful of the Kentucky establishment, and Ron Franklin, the nineteen-year-old jockey who buckled under the stress and pressure associated with fame—and how they witnessed firsthand the splendor and triumphs of Spectacular Bid. Including contemporary newspaper accounts of Bid’s exploits and interviews with key players in his story, this is an encompassing look into the legacy of one of horse racing’s true champions.

Spectacular Bodies

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113487300X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Bodies written by Yvonne Tasker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form.

Spectacular Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 1

Author : Gerry Conway
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302498916
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 1 written by Gerry Conway and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #1-15. In 1976, Spidey notched his second solo series under the direction of Gerry Conway and Sal Buscema. With his first live-action series on the horizon, the world wanted to know just who this Peter Parker guy was. Spectacular not only expanded opportunities for web-slinging wonder, but it also provided a platform to expand upon and explore the world of Spidey's incomparable cast - J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane Watson, Flash Thompson and more! Of course, there was no shortage of villains - including the Vulture and Morbius - or iconic guest stars, ranging from the White Tiger to the Inhumans!

Spectacular Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 2

Author : Bill Mantlo
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302514261
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 2 written by Bill Mantlo and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #16-31. Peter Parkers second Spectacular serving is even greater than the first! Things kick off with a battle against the Beetle, then Peter heads west to cover the breakup of the Champions but how does this lead to a clash with Angel and Iceman? The White Tiger enters for an extended guest role as the Lightmaster, the Enforcers and the Scorpion turn up the tension! Then, Moon Knight helps Spidey fight the Maggia who retaliate in the form of the Masked Marauder! Its a multipart epic pairing Spider-Man and Daredevil, and featuring Frank Millers very first DD artwork! It all culminates in the seven-part saga of Carrion, the mysterious rotting horror with hidden ties to Peter Parkers past and a violent desire to punish him for the death of Gwen Stacy!

Spectacular Listening

Author : Byrd McDaniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197620469
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Listening written by Byrd McDaniel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ways both mundane and sensational, listening can be an expressive act, enabling people to stage consumption as a public practice -- what author Byrd McDaniel calls "spectacular listening." With a range of compelling ethnographic case studies, McDaniel investigates a broad shift in contemporary listening norms and the stakes for listeners with disabilities. He reveals how listening-as-performance can be an opportunity for play, as well as a critical practice that exposes ableism in music institutions, technologies, and discourse.

Spectacular Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 4

Author : Roger Stern
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 130293905X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 4 written by Roger Stern and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #43-55, Annual (1979) #2. Before he would set AMAZING SPIDER-MAN on the path to comics glory, master storyteller Roger Stern did a spectacular job on Spidey's sister title! Producing a run of the wall-crawler's most memorable tales, Stern introduced a host of new and compelling characters - including the gangster Belladonna and a new love interest for Aunt May, Nathan Lubensky - and reinvigorated the Prowler and White Tiger. But don't worry, Stern left room to spare for iconic enemies! The Vulture returns - and he's brought his evil nephew Malachi with him! And another veteran of the Sinister Six, Mysterio, is up to no good, in league with a gang of Spider-Man's oldest villains! This Masterworks volume also includes a double-sized showdown with the man called Rapier!

The Age of Spectacular Death

Author : Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000171973
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Spectacular Death written by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores death in contemporary society – or more precisely, in the ‘spectacular age’ – by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasised the importance of the death taboo and death denial to examine how we now ‘do’ death. Unfolding the notion of ‘spectacular death’ as characteristic of our modern approach to death and dying, it considers the new mediation or mediatisation of death and dying; the commercialisation of death as a ‘marketable commodity’ used to sell products, advance artistic expression or provoke curiosity; the re-ritualisation of death and the growth of new ways of finding meaning through commemorating the dead; the revolution of palliative care; and the specialisation surrounding death, particularly in relation to scholarship. Presenting a range of case studies that shed light on this new understanding of death in contemporary culture, The Age of Spectacular Death will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, psychology and anthropology with interests in death and dying.

Spectacular Happiness

Author : Peter D. Kramer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743223241
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Happiness written by Peter D. Kramer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding himself the idealized center of a media circus, a terrorist who is also an English professor recounts his exploits in a letter to his estranged son. In this fictional debut, the author of "Listening to Prozac" brilliantly illuminates contemporary sensibilities and their often astonishing effects on the way lives unfold.