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The Manicurist's Daughter

Author : Susan Lieu
Publisher : Celadon Books
ISBN 13 : 1250835062
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Manicurist's Daughter written by Susan Lieu and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family’s past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan’s family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan’s mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting up two successful nail salons and orchestrating every success—until Susan was eleven. That year, her mother died from a botched tummy tuck. After the funeral, no one was ever allowed to talk about her or what had happened. For the next twenty years, Susan navigated a series of cascading questions alone—why did the most perfect person in her life want to change her body? Why would no one tell her about her mother’s life in Vietnam? And how did this surgeon, who preyed on Vietnamese immigrants, go on operating after her mother’s death? Sifting through depositions, tracking down the surgeon’s family, and enlisting the help of spirit channelers, Susan uncovers the painful truth of her mother, herself, and the impossible ideal of beauty. The Manicurist’s Daughter is much more than a memoir about grief, trauma, and body image. It is a story of fierce determination, strength in shared culture, and finding your place in the world.

The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt

Author : Ruth Andrew Ellenson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101099453
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt written by Ruth Andrew Ellenson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-eight of today’s top Jewish women writers tell the truth about all the things their rabbis warned them never to discuss in public in this hilarious and provocative collection. Includes original essays on: • Finding (and Divorcing) the Perfect Jewish Man • Not Calling Your Mother • Marrying a German • Failing to Supply Enough Grandchildren • Learning to RSVP No • And many other guilty pleasures... Includes pieces by: Elisa Albert, Aimee Bender, Jennifer Bleyer, Kera Bolonik, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Baz Dreisinger, Pearl Gluck, Rebecca Goldstein, Lori Gottlieb, Lauren Grodstein, Dara Horn, Molly Jong-Fast, Rachel Kadish, Jenna Kalinsky, Cynthia Kaplan, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Amy Klein, Daphne Merkin, Tova Mirvis, Gina Nahai, Katie Rophie, Francesca Segré, Wendy Shanker, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Susan Shapiro, Ayelet Waldman, Rebecca Walker, Sheryl Zohn

Within Our Gates

Author : Alan Gevinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520209640
Total Pages : 1588 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Within Our Gates written by Alan Gevinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Mack Sennett's Fun Factory

Author : Brent E. Walker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457074
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Mack Sennett's Fun Factory written by Brent E. Walker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive career study and filmography of Mack Sennett, cofounder of Keystone Studios, home of the Keystone Kops and other vehicles that showcased his innovative slapstick comedy. The filmography covers the more than 1,000 films Sennett produced, directed, wrote or appeared in between 1908 and 1955, including casts, credits, synopses, production and release dates, locations, cross-references of remade stories and gags, footage excerpted in compilations, identification of prints existing in archives, and other information. The book, featuring 280 photographs, also contains biographies of several hundred performers and technical personnel connected with Sennett.

The Managed Hand

Author : Miliann Kang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520262603
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Managed Hand written by Miliann Kang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a must read for women's studies and sociology classes on labor, migration and gender as it provides its readers a rich and theoretically engaging discussion on feminine culture, the intersections of race, class, gender and migrant women's labor."—Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Brown University "In The Managed Hand, Miliann Kang makes a significant contribution to the existing literature on Asian-American women, gender relations, service workers, beauty and the body. Based on fieldwork in nail salons, Kang reveals the social and emotional negotiations between and amongst women in that setting. We will never look at fingernails and what they tell us about ourselves in the same way again!"—Rebecca King-O'Riain, author of Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants "I enjoyed reading Kang's work so much that I felt disappointed when I finished. The book is a wonderful example of what sociology does best—i.e., skillfully examining a relatively small site of interest, such that the analysis speaks not only to matters of individual experience and identity, but also to those of broader social and cultural processes and structures."—Debra L. Gimlin, author of Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture "How did manicured nails become such ubiquitous symbols of feminine status? In this innovative and compelling ethnography, Kang unravels the many social consequences of the polished nail, bringing together insights from care work, ethnic enclave entrepreneurship, and gender and migration scholarship to illuminate the growing sector of body labor. All those who would dismiss manicured nails as socially irrelevant should read this book!"—Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence

The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States

Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520209695
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States written by American Film Institute and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than fifteen years, this initial volume of the American Film Institute Catalog series is again in print. The 1920s set covers the important filmmaking period when "movies" became "talkies," and the careers of many influential directors and actors were launched. Films such as Wings, The Phantom of the Opera, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Jazz Singer are included in this volume.

The Manicurist

Author : Phyllis Scheiber
Publisher : BelleBooks
ISBN 13 : 1611940354
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Manicurist written by Phyllis Scheiber and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tessa and Walter have, by all appearances, the perfect marriage. And they seem to be ideal parents for their somewhat rebellious teenage daughter, Regina. Without warning, however, their comfortable lives are thrown into turmoil when a disturbing customer comes into the salon where Tessa works as a manicurist. Suddenly, Tessa's world is turned upside down as revelations come to light about the mother she thought had abandoned her in childhood and the second sight that she so guardedly seeks to keep from others. Phyllis Schieber's first novel, Strictly Personal, for young adults, was published by Fawcett-Juniper. Willing Spirits was published by William Morrow. The Sinner's Guide to Confession was published by Berkley Putnam in 2008. Her short story, The Stocking Store, appears in Bell Bridge Books' 2011 anthology, The Firefly Dance. Married and a mother, Phyllis Schieber lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. www.phyllisschieber.com

Saving the Schindler's Daughter

Author : Douglas Boyd
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399060813
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Saving the Schindler's Daughter written by Douglas Boyd and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lore Schindler was ten years old when her dentist father Harry was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. His wife Grete bought his release by giving all their possessions to the Nazi state. Leaving Germany with just 10 Marks each, parents and daughter suffered humiliating strip searches at the border. This was the start of Lore’s ordeal. In her first French concentration camp, her mother died. Her father also died in another camp. Orphaned and ill in the huge camp at Gurs, she was saved by prisoner-nurse Schwester Käte, but would later have starved to death, had not two sisters – Elsie and Marthe Liefmann – ‘adopted’ her, found food and made her eat it. Elsbeth Kasser was a Swiss-German social worker in the camp who gave her treats of milk and Swiss cheese to build up ‘the thinnest girl in the camp’. Another social worker, Elisabeth Hirsch used a forged identity card to get Lore out of the camp and took her to La Maison de Moissac, a children’s home in SW France run by her sister Shatta Simon. There, several hundred refugee children were hidden from the Nazi occupiers and French fascists who wanted to send the children to the death camps in Poland. When it became unsafe to stay in Moissac, Lore was adopted by pianist Hélène Gribenski, living in a remote village. When that too became unsafe, she moved her little family into a primitive hovel in the forest to await the Allied victory. That Lore survived was due to these courageous women, who risked their own lives to save hers. After the war, she found love in an Israeli kibbutz and moved with her American husband to New York, becoming a librarian with Brooklyn Public Library. No borrowers ever guessed what her adolescence and burgeoning womanhood had been like in a terrifying land whose language she could not even speak.

The Medical Critic and Guide

Author : William Josephus Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Medical Critic and Guide written by William Josephus Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transitions to School: Perspectives and Experiences from Latin America

Author : Angel Urbina-García
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030989356
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Transitions to School: Perspectives and Experiences from Latin America written by Angel Urbina-García and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases the quality work that Latin American researchers have done on transition to school in Latin American countries by offering the English-speaking world, first-hand access to some Latin American transitions research, practices, and policies. This book shows the work carried out in countries such as Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico with regards to the way in which the transition to primary school is experienced from different stakeholders' perspectives, and how Latin American educational policies and cultural practices shape such an important process for stakeholders. This book was importantly framed by the COVID-19 pandemic which placed the world in a global health emergency, and it is our hope that this book will trigger future international collaborations between researchers, policy makers, and practitioners interested in transitions which could help produce a wealth of empirical evidence to inform educational policies and transitions practices across the world. Building networks where diverse experiences are valued and respected, as well as analysed, can help provide a platform that supports educators and researchers as they continue their work and branch out in new and challenging directions.

Any Minute

Author : Joyce Meyer
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 0446552119
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Any Minute written by Joyce Meyer and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Harper is driven to achieve success no matter what the cost. She wants to do good and not hurt the people she loves -- especially children and her husband, Joe -- but her desire to succeed in her career too often leaves little time for family. One cold, autumn afternoon, all of that changes when Sarah's car plunges off a bridge and into a river. She is presumed dead by those on the "outside," but Sarah's spirit is still very much alive. What she discovers on the other side transforms everything about Sarah's view of life -- past, present, and future. When Sarah is revived, she is a changed woman. And the unsuspecting world around her will never be the same again.

Gender Through the Prism of Difference

Author : Maxine Baca Zinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190200049
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Gender Through the Prism of Difference written by Maxine Baca Zinn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of Gender through the prism of difference, 2011.

Dan Mason

Author : Joseph P. Eckhardt
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476683417
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Dan Mason written by Joseph P. Eckhardt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a career that spanned 57 years, Dan Mason (1853-1929) went from performing German dialect routines in variety halls to appearing in Broadway musicals to playing character roles in silent films. Along the way he also wrote, produced, directed and starred in his own plays. Best remembered for his role as the irascible "Skipper" in the Toonerville Trolley silent comedies, Mason created dozens of unique and colorful characters on stage and screen. This first-ever biography of the American comedian explores the roots of his craft and the challenges he faced navigating the rapidly changing world of popular entertainment in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Tatler & Bystander

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Tatler & Bystander written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

LIFE

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1951-03-12 with total page 184 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.

Nails

Author : Suzanne E. Shapiro
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791348353
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Nails written by Suzanne E. Shapiro and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively, colorful, and wide-ranging exploration of the evolution of the painted nail places a fascinating aspect of cultural history at your fingertips. Author Suzanne E. Shapiro traces the origins of the modern manicure as a radical gesture in style and follows it through today's culture of ubiquitous nail salons and edgy experiments in nail art, showing how at every turn the manicure has reflected larger style trends as well as changing ideals of femininity. Unique, accessible, and authoritative, Nails brilliantly connects the painted nail to the history of women's fashion and the evolution of beauty.

Divine Nudges

Author : Catherine Lanigan
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 075730298X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Divine Nudges written by Catherine Lanigan and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-01-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring collection of illuminating tales reveals the incredible ways in which angels have brought the best-selling author's family and friends to a greater awareness of the unseen world, teaching people that divine intervention nudges them along in their lives to where they are meant to be. Original.