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Unlikely Fame

Author : David Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317249771
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Unlikely Fame written by David Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book depicts the stories of Americans born in poverty, who achieved national or international fame. Accessible to students and lay readers, this scholarly study describes poverty as a disability that typically stunts important areas of growth in childhood. Wagner shows how poverty hampers individuals and groups for their entire lives, even many of those who emerge from poverty. Examples of individuals with difficult childhoods who faced residual lifelong challenges are presented in the stories of 27 Americans, including athlete Babe Ruth, birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, singer Billie Holliday, author Jack London, actress Marilyn Monroe, black leader Malcolm X, singer Johnny Cash, comedian Richard Pryor, author Stephen King, and entertainer Oprah Winfrey. In over 200 engaging and accessible pages, Unlikely Fame yields insight into successful individuals and how they coped, adapted and ultimately achieved success.

Persecuted In Search of Change

Author : Joseph Kalimbwe
Publisher : Perfomance Development Centre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persecuted In Search of Change written by Joseph Kalimbwe and published by Perfomance Development Centre . This book was released on 2016-10-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zambian born Joseph Kalimbwe writes about Africa downward spiral political leadership. He tells how the Reagan years in the 1980s must be used by African leaders to solve economic problems. Zambia President Rupiah Banda is condermed for his slow path economic policies and how the continent struggles to live up to the expectations of the 21st century. He also explains emotionally the impact of the loss of his mother on him and his long lost father who died when he was 2. He concludes with the factors affecting the education system including his time at the University of Namibia where he served as President.

Rock Star/Movie Star

Author : Landon Palmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190888431
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Rock Star/Movie Star written by Landon Palmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that showcased performances by rock 'n' roll stars. Rock stars eventually found cinema to be a useful space to extend their creative practices, and the motion picture and recording industries increasingly saw cinematic rock stardom as a profitable means to connect multiple media properties. Indeed, casting rock stars for film provided a tool for bridging new relationships across media industries and practices. From Elvis Presley to Madonna, this book examines the casting rock stars in films. In so doing, Rock Star/Movie Star offers a new perspective on the role of stardom within the convergence of media industries. While hardly the first popular music culture to see its stars making the transition to screen, the timing of rock's emergence and its staying power within popular culture proved fortuitous for a motion picture business searching for its place in the face of continuous technological and cultural change. At the same time, a post-star-system film industry provided a welcoming context for rock stars who have valued authenticity, creative autonomy, and personal expression. This book uses illuminating archival resources to demonstrate how rock stars have often proven themselves to be prominent film workers exploring this terrain of platforms old and new - ideal media laborers whose power lies in the fact that they are rarely recognized as such. Combining star studies with media industry studies, this book proposes an integrated methodology for writing media history that combines the actions of individuals and the practices of industries. It demonstrates how stars have operated as both the gravitational center of media production as well as social actors who have taken on a decisive role in the purposes to which their images are used.

The Role of Origin of Fame in Influencer Branding

Author : Julia Sinnig
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 365827543X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Origin of Fame in Influencer Branding written by Julia Sinnig and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a comprehensive quantitative study, Julia Sinnig shows that the impact social media influencers have on brand-related outcomes depends on the identification of consumers with social media influencers. Additionally, the cultural characteristics of countries in which consumers live play a significant role as to how consumers’ identification with social media influencers impacts their purchase intentions for brands that are advertised by these influencers. Through these conceptually and empirically profound analyses, the author detects interesting implications for the management of brands in the context of social media and brand management. Especially when it comes to choosing the most suitable social media influencer for brand cooperations it is not the origin of fame that counts, but whether customers identify with the influencer in the right way.

New York City SHSAT Prep 2017-2018

Author : Kaplan Test Prep
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1506221432
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book New York City SHSAT Prep 2017-2018 written by Kaplan Test Prep and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Look for New York City SHSAT Prep 2018-2019, ISBN 9781506242354, on sale April 3, 2018.

Reign of Richard the Third

Author : Sir George Buck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Reign of Richard the Third written by Sir George Buck and published by . This book was released on 1647 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020

Author : Jeffrey Demsky
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030792218
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020 by : Jeffrey Demsky

Download or read book Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020 written by Jeffrey Demsky and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes sensationalized Nazi and Holocaust representations in Anglo-American cultural and political discourses. Recognizing that this history is increasingly removed from contemporary life, it explains how irreverent representations can help rejuvenate the story for successive generations of new learners. Surveying seventy-five-years of transatlantic activities, the work erects counterposing categorizes of “constructive and destructive memorializing,” providing scholars with a new framework for elucidating both this history and its historicization.

The City-State of Boston

Author : Mark Peterson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691179999
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The City-State of Boston written by Mark Peterson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clichés, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston’s overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a pathbreaking and brilliant new history of early America. Following Boston’s development over three centuries, Mark Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with the slave trade and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States. Drawing from vast archives, and featuring unfamiliar figures alongside well-known ones, such as John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, and John Adams, Peterson explores Boston’s origins in sixteenth-century utopian ideals, its founding and expansion into the hinterland of New England, and the growth of its distinctive political economy, with ties to the West Indies and southern Europe. By the 1700s, Boston was at full strength, with wide Atlantic trading circuits and cultural ties, both within and beyond Britain’s empire. After the cataclysmic Revolutionary War, “Bostoners” aimed to negotiate a relationship with the American confederation, but through the next century, the new United States unraveled Boston’s regional reign. The fateful decision to ratify the Constitution undercut its power, as Southern planters and slave owners dominated national politics and corroded the city-state’s vision of a common good for all. Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding a revered city, The City-State of Boston offers a startlingly fresh understanding of America’s history.

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006

Author : Mary Gaitskill
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780306814990
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006 written by Mary Gaitskill and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Essential reading for anyone who loves great music and impassioned writing about it"--Page 4 of cover.

Dark Territory

Author : Fred Kaplan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476763275
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Dark Territory written by Fred Kaplan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An important, disturbing, and gripping history” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber wars—where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer. In June 1983, President Reagan watched the movie War Games, in which a teenager unwittingly hacks the Pentagon, and asked his top general if the scenario was plausible. The general said it was. This set in motion the first presidential directive on computer security. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future. Fred Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the “information warfare” squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House to reveal the details of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning—and (more often than people know) fighting—these wars for decades. “An eye-opening history of our government’s efforts to effectively manage our national security in the face of the largely open global communications network established by the World Wide Web….Dark Territory is a page-turner [and] consistently surprising” (The New York Times).

The Alistair Moffat History Collection

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788856317
Total Pages : 1291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book The Alistair Moffat History Collection written by Alistair Moffat and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 1291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover the story of Scotland with Alistair Moffat's history collection. From the Ice Age to the modern day, this bundle leaves no stone unturned. Journey through the long-lost kingdoms of Roman times and the Dark Ages, uncover the bloodshed wrought by the Border Reivers for two centuries, track down the true King Arthur, and learn the true story of how Scotland became the nation it is today. 'Moffat plunders the facts and fables to create a richly-detailed and comprehensive analysis of a nation's past' – Scots Magazine Titles included in this bundle are: The Faded Map Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms The Reivers Scotland: A History From Earliest Times

From Homer to Tragedy

Author : Richard Garner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317694716
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book From Homer to Tragedy written by Richard Garner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of poetic allusion in classical Greek poetry, to Homer especially, has often largely been neglected or even almost totally ignored. This book, first published in 1990, clarifies the place of Homer in Greek education, as well as adding to the interpretation of many important tragedies. Focussing on the dramatic masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and how these writers imitated and alluded to other poetry, the author reveals the immense dependence on Homer which can be seen throughout the corpus of Attic tragedy. It is argued that the practice of the art of allusion indicates certain conventions in fifth-century Athenian education, and perhaps also suggests something in the way of public, political, and historical self-awareness. Invaluable to anyone interested in the reception of Homer in the classical age, and to students of comparative literature and linguistic theory.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Ethics of Ageing

Author : C. S. Wareham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110885656X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of the Ethics of Ageing written by C. S. Wareham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're all getting older from the moment we're born. Ageing is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life. Yet in ethics, not much work is done on the questions surrounding ageing: how do diachronic features of ageing and the lifespan contribute to the overall value of life? How do time, change, and mortality impact on questions of morality and the good life? And how ought societies to respond to issues of social justice and the good, balancing the interests of generations and age cohorts? In this Cambridge Handbook, the first book-length attempt to stake this terrain, leading moral philosophers from a range of sub-fields and regions set out their approaches to the conceptual and ethical understanding of ageing. The volume makes an important contribution to significant debates about the implications of ageing for individual well-being, social policy and social justice.

New York City SHSAT Prep 2020 & 2021

Author : Kaplan Test Prep
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1506250955
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book New York City SHSAT Prep 2020 & 2021 written by Kaplan Test Prep and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaplan's New York City SHSAT Prep 2020 & 2021 provides the most up-to-date content to help you succeed on the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). Our realistic practice tests, updated content review, and expert test-taking strategies will help you face the SHSAT with confidence. The Best Review All content is up-to-date for the most recent test changes Now 3 full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations for every question New infographics content, plus expanded poetry and fiction sections Updated math and reading comprehension sections Updated math content aligned with the SHSAT’s shift to include only 7th-grade Proven score-raising strategies with emphasis on improving math and verbal skills Expert Guidance Kaplan's experts make sure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test. We invented test prep—Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for 80 years, and 9 out of 10 Kaplan students get into one or more of their top-choice colleges. Our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams. Our guide to the SHSAT can help eighth- and ninth-grade NYC students gain admission to a specialized high school such as Stuyvesant High School; Bronx High School of Science; Brooklyn Technical High School; Brooklyn Latin School; High School for Math, Science, and Engineering at City College; High School of American Studies at Lehman College; Queens High School for the Sciences at York College; or Staten Island Technical High School.

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740747427
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005 written by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing reviews written from January 2002 to mid-June 2004, including the films "Seabiscuit, The Passion of the Christ," and "Finding Nemo," the best (and the worst) films of this period undergo Ebert's trademark scrutiny. It also contains the year's interviews and essays, as well as highlights from Ebert's film festival coverage from Cannes.

An Historical Geography of the Old and New Testament

Author : Edward Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book An Historical Geography of the Old and New Testament written by Edward Wells and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Missouri Legends: Famous People from the Show-Me State, 2nd Edition

Author : John W. Brown
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1681062380
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Missouri Legends: Famous People from the Show-Me State, 2nd Edition written by John W. Brown and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Disney, Brad Pitt, Jack Dorsey, Payne Stewart. Josephine Baker. Samuel Clemens. George Washington Carver. What do these icons have in common? They were all raised in the Show-Me State. This second edition of Missouri Legends brings renowned politicians, authors, artists, athletes, performers, and historical figures to life. The book profiles more than 200 famous Missourians with dozens of new entries. Each profile includes a brief account of their formative years in Missouri and how they became legendary. With the second edition, readers will learn even more about the historically significant (Jesse James, Gen. John J. Pershing, Laura Ingalls Wilder), major politicians (Harry S Truman, Jack Danforth, Bill Bradley), groundbreaking artists (Scott Joplin, Thomas Hart Benton, T.S. Eliot), business innovators (Dale Carnegie, Sam Walton, J.C. Penney), sports legends (Yogi Berra, Albert Pujols, Grant Wistrom), iconic entertainers (Redd Foxx, Steve McQueen, Sheryl Crow) and world-famous leaders in science, technology, broadcasting, and other fields. From the smallest towns to the big cities, there are legends all around us. This book is a celebration of our Show-Me State heroes who have made an impact on the world... and it all started in Missouri.