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The Great Lester: Ventriloquism's Renaissance Man

Author : David Erskine
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781478325970
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book The Great Lester: Ventriloquism's Renaissance Man written by David Erskine and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engrossing "fictional memoir" based on original sources, Harry Eugene Lester paints a rich picture of his life and times as the world's premiere ventriloquist in the heyday of vaudeville and beyond. Not only will "vents" and historians appreciate this book, but also, as it's a delight to read, anyone who likes to read personal reflections of a life well lived can enjoy The Great Lester: Ventriloquism's Renaissance Man. The Great Lester was a Renaissance man-a free spirit-a creative person who originated a ventriloquist act that both changed and enlightened American ventriloquism, even as he wrestled with the changing times and his own inner world. What makes that character different from the rest of us? What are the secrets of his talent? What is creative vision, and where does it come from? Based on original research, including access to newspaper and magazine accounts and previously unpublished correspondence, and primary source tape recordings made by Lester, The Great Lester: Ventriloquism's Renaissance Man presents the first fully integrated portrait of this American icon of ventriloquism. Few performers lived such a large and eventful life while transportation and electricity changed the world. Lester's early life was one of restless adventure going to new places following traveling entertainment-first with the circus, then Dime Museums, and then American vaudeville and music halls in Europe. He traveled the world, becoming famous and wealthy, and then becoming penniless as the fashions in show business changed. Lester possessed an evangelical zeal to share his approaches regarding acquiring the art and craft of ventriloquism. His most famous student was Edgar Bergen, fresh from high school in 1922. Lester spent his last years teaching ventriloquism students one on one at his studio in Hollywood. Erskine brings Lester to life as never before. He also details parts of Lester's personality that cannot be easily understood-his defiance of rules regarding his career and his inability to change with the fashions in show business.

Helping Children Learn Mathematics

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309131987
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Helping Children Learn Mathematics written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Results from national and international assessments indicate that school children in the United States are not learning mathematics well enough. Many students cannot correctly apply computational algorithms to solve problems. Their understanding and use of decimals and fractions are especially weak. Indeed, helping all children succeed in mathematics is an imperative national goal. However, for our youth to succeed, we need to change how we're teaching this discipline. Helping Children Learn Mathematics provides comprehensive and reliable information that will guide efforts to improve school mathematics from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The authors explain the five strands of mathematical proficiency and discuss the major changes that need to be made in mathematics instruction, instructional materials, assessments, teacher education, and the broader educational system and answers some of the frequently asked questions when it comes to mathematics instruction. The book concludes by providing recommended actions for parents and caregivers, teachers, administrators, and policy makers, stressing the importance that everyone work together to ensure a mathematically literate society.

Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1474 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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The Bookseller

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2004

Author : Leslie Halliwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007167128
Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2004 written by Leslie Halliwell and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the film industry from the 1900s to the present day has now been updated with John Walker's critiques of the films that have been turning heads in 2002/3. It delivers all the cast and crew credits, fun trivia and behind-the-scenes information you need on thousands of movies (over 23,000) including hundreds of new ones. This perennial guide also includes plot synopses and critical evaluations, as well as video cassette, laser disc and DVD availability. Reader friendly icons denote films suitable for family viewing, Academy Award Winners and nominees, soundtrack availability and video format compatibility. The guide also contains lists of four-star and three-star films by title and year.

Halliwell's Film, Video and DVD Guide

Author : Leslie Halliwell
Publisher : HarperCollins (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780007190812
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Halliwell's Film, Video and DVD Guide written by Leslie Halliwell and published by HarperCollins (UK). This book was released on 2004 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two decades, film enthusiasts, trivia buffs, and ordinary movie watchers alike have consulted the pages of Halliwell’s for the most comprehensive information available on their favorite films. Often imitated, but never bettered, Halliwell’s Film, Video & DVD Guide is packed with essential information, from the classics of the Silver Screen to the very latest blockbusters. Contents include plot synopses of every film, casts and credits, critical evaluations and reviews, fascinating insider gossip and facts, pithy quotes and dialogue, Academy Award-winners listed by year, and more. There are also easy-to-spot icons for family viewing suitability, video, DVD, and soundtrack availability, and Oscar awards and nominations.

Interpretation and Allegory

Author : Whitman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004453598
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Interpretation and Allegory written by Whitman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western literary, philosophical, and religious traditions from Plato and Paul to Augustine and Avicenna have utilized, exploited, or been subjected to allegorical interpretation. Naturally developing a composite picture of interpretive allegory from such a large landscape faces numerous difficulties. As the editor puts it, “to imagine a ‘definitive’ account of the theory and practice of allegorical interpretation in the West would require something of an allegorical vision in its own right.” With that caveat in mind, however, the international team of contributors—from a variety of disciplines—offers a “historical and conceptual framework” for understanding interpretive allegory in the West, from antiquity through the early and late medieval and renaissance periods, and from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Halliwell's Film, Video & DVD Guide

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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The Athenaeum

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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The Dark Prophecy

Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536448054
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Prophecy written by Rick Riordan and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving the safety of the demigod training ground, a disgraced Apollo embarks on a quest across North America to find a dangerous ancient-world Oracle while navigating the challenges of the evil Triumvirate.

Billboard

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Wisconsin Library Bulletin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Los Angeles Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.

The Illustrated sporting & dramatic news

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Surprise, Kill, Vanish

Author : Annie Jacobsen
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316441406
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Surprise, Kill, Vanish written by Annie Jacobsen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations force in the world. Originally known as the president's guerrilla warfare corps, SAD conducts risky and ruthless operations that have evolved over time to defend America from its enemies. Almost every American president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage, subversion and, yes, assassination. With unprecedented access to forty-two men and women who proudly and secretly worked on CIA covert operations from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day, along with declassified documents and deep historical research, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen unveils -- like never before -- a complex world of individuals working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers, and saboteurs. Despite Hollywood notions of off-book operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually one piece in a colossal foreign policy machine. Written with the pacing of a thriller, Surprise, Kill, Vanish brings to vivid life the sheer pandemonium and chaos, as well as the unforgettable human will to survive and the intellectual challenge of not giving up hope that define paramilitary and intelligence work. Jacobsen's exclusive interviews -- with members of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service (equivalent to the Pentagon's generals), its counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and Special Activities Division's Ground Branch operators who conduct today's close-quarters killing operations around the world -- reveal, for the first time, the enormity of this shocking, controversial, and morally complex terrain. Is the CIA's paramilitary army America's weaponized strength, or a liability to its principled standing in the world? Every operation reported in this book, however unsettling, is legal.

Ebony

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Ridiculous!

Author : David Kaufman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557836373
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Ridiculous! written by David Kaufman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). From his first unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960s to the frontpage news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied and helped to engender the upheavals of his time. The astonishing life and legacy of this force to be reckoned with are at last revealed in RIDICULOUS! , a literary biography of an American comic genius. After founding the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967, Ludlam sustained an ever-shifting troupe of bohemian players through two decades of perennially daunting circumstances by writing 29 plays plays that he starred in and directed as well. While Ludlam's work has become increasingly popular at regional theatres, on college campuses, and on stages throughout the world, his gender-bending theories and wide-ranging cultural impact have reached far beyond Bette Midler, the original cast members of Saturday Night Live and the countless other artists he influenced during his abbreviated lifetime. Like his early plays, Ludlam's life was rife with the sex, drugs and creative experimentation that characterized the freewheeling '60s and '70s. Based on a decade of research and interviews with more than 150 people who knew or worked with Ludlam including all of the major players in his troupe and seven of his lovers RIDICULOUS! recreates the dramatic life of an inimitable and subversive theatrical master with you-are-there intensity. Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography and the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Theatre Book of the Year "David Kaufman makes a persuasive case for Ludlam's being a genius ... As a record of Ludlam's life and the theatrical world in which he was both guru and grandmaster, this book is informed and passionate." Mel Gussow, The New York Times "A fascinating portrait of an authentic stage genius and the New York avant-garde scene in which he toiled with such demented and dedicated diligence." Playbill "The phenom who inspired everyone from Bette Midler and Madeline Kahn to Tony Kushner and Paul Rudnick was no box of chocolates which, as reading experiences go, makes his story all the sweeter." Vanity Fair "This is one helluva piece of work." Marilyn Stasio, Variety.com