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Fame and Obscurity
Author | : Gay Talese |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780345467232 |
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"Fascinating . . . Poignant." The Wall Street Journal In this extraordinary work of insight and interviews, bestselling author Gay Talese shares with us the lives of those we don't know and those we might wish we did: Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Manhattan mobsters, Bowery bums, and many others -- fascinating men and women who define our country's spirit and lead us to an understanding of ourselves as a nation.
Fame and Obscurity
Author | : Gay Talese |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : UVA:X000428873 |
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Women Theatre and Performance
Author | : Maggie Barbara Gale,Viv Gardner |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0719057132 |
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This collection addresses key questions in women's theatre history and retrieves a number of previously "hidden" histories of women performers. The essays range across the past 300 years--topics covered include Susanna Centlivre and the notion of intertheatricality; gender and theatrical space; the repositioning of women performers such as Wagner's Muse, Willhelmina Schröder-Devrient, the Comédie Français' "Mademoiselle Mars," Mme. Arnould-Plessey, and the actresses of the Russian serf theatre.
Social Ontology of Whoness
Author | : Michael Eldred |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 2018-10-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783110617504 |
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How are core social phenomena to be understood as modes of being? This book offers an alternative approach to social ontology. Recent interest in social ontology on the part of mainstream philosophy and the social sciences presupposes from the outset that the human being can be cast as a conscious subject whose intentionality can be collective. By contrast, the present study insistently poses the crucial question of who the human being is and how they sociate as whos. Such whoness is a clean-cut departure from the venerable tradition of questioning whatness (quidditas, essence) in philosophical thinking. Casting human being hermeneutically as whoness opens up new insights into how human beings sociate in interplays of mutual estimation that are simultaneously social power plays. Hitherto, the ontology of social power in all its various guises, has only ever been implicit. This book makes it explicit. The kind of social power prevalent in capitalist societies is that of the reified value embodied in commodities, money, capital, & co. Reified value itself is constituted through an interplay of mutual estimation among things that reflects back on the power interplay among whos. In this way a new critique of capitalism becomes possible.
Loving Life as It Is
Author | : Chakung Jigme Wangdrak |
Publsiher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2024-06-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781645473169 |
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Practical Buddhist wisdom and mindful methods for finding the silver lining in all circumstances—from a remarkable new voice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Chakung Jigme Wangdrak gives concrete advice on how to reorient your thinking when faced with the challenges, mess, and chaos that inevitably occur in life. By embracing pain and suffering, you can learn to see their roots, begin to work with them, and eventually let them go. This will create joy and ease, allowing you to fully savor happiness. In clear language, Jigme Wangdrak conveys the steps, stages, and categories of mental exercises and methods that everyone—from beginner to experienced practitioner and non-Buddhists—can use to train their mind toward happiness: Take happiness and suffering as the path Cultivate courage, gratitude, and compassion Practice contentment (not complacency) Recognize outer and inner obstacles when faced with challenging situations Dispel self-grasping to reduce suffering Develop patience and tolerance A true Buddhist master and unique lineage holder, Jigme Wangdrak offers a roadmap to freedom with teachings that will benefit your spiritual practice and daily life—he shows you how to love your life as it already is!
The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan
Author | : Pat Jordan |
Publsiher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781504033664 |
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The acclaimed author of A False Spring profiles athletes famous and obscure in this captivating and incisive anthology Once a young pitching prospect with the Milwaukee Braves, Pat Jordan went on to become one of America’s most revered sports journalists, writing for Sports Illustrated, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, and a host of other major league publications. The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan showcases his finest journalism, with twenty-six extraordinary articles covering virtually the entire range of professional sports in America—from baseball, football, and basketball to boxing, tennis, and Formula One racing. Jordan offers indelible portraits of some of the most legendary sports figures of our time, exposing the imperfections often obscured by the bright lights of fame. He explores the miracle of the Williams sisters and their brash, charismatic father, Richard, and turns his unflinching gaze on such controversial sports personalities as Roger Clemens and O. J. Simpson. Other highlights include a poignant account of Duke basketball legend Bobby Hurley’s rehabilitation after a devastating car accident, a profile of transsexual tennis star Renée Richards, and fascinating side-trips to the Professional Poker Tour, the child beauty pageant circuit, and a depressed, blue collar town in Pennsylvania where high school football offers the only solace.
Antibiotics
Author | : Jonathan Adams |
Publsiher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2017-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781502628732 |
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Disease has altered the course of history since the first humans walked the earth. Pandemics have felled empires, decimated populations, and caused untold human suffering. It wasn't until Sir Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in 1928 that scientists began to understand how to combat disease with antibiotics. This book looks at the scientists who paved the way for Fleming, the mechanics of antibiotics, and the looming challenges of antibiotic resistance today.
Murmured Conversations
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804779395 |
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