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Quickstyle
Christine Kunzelman
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
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ASIN: 0517267748
Release Date: 1998-07-28 |
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Finally, the makeover/accessories expert of Live With Regis and Kathy Lee offers her know-how in a book. Illustrated with 75 how-to drawings, Quickstyle is a complete guide for the time-and-cost-conscious woman who wants to create and perfect her personal style with accessories. National broadcast media.
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Informative.......2000-11-06
This book really helped me create my own sense of style. I recommend it for anyone who loves fashion magazines and books as a great resource book for their collection.
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- AN UNEVEN COLLECTION OF STRIPS
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Minisulk
Jeffrey Brown
Manufacturer: Top Shelf Productions
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ASIN: 189183066X |
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The author of the autobiographical classics Clumsy and Unlikely takes a break from books about girls for this humorous short story collection featuring fiction, gags, and autobiography. Included are such gems as "My Brother Knows Kung Fu" and "Action Television Show."
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AN UNEVEN COLLECTION OF STRIPS.......2005-04-29
Miniature Sulk is a small collection of cartoons from the mind of Jeffrey Brown. His art, while somewhat crude and unpolished is very reminiscent of the kind of small and self-published comics that were prevalent in the late 1980's and early 1990's. Kudos to Top Shelf for giving people like Brown a forum for their work. It's this kind of eclectic variety that makes Top Shelf so interesting. This little (smaller than a regular paperback) is a collection of panel strips which I assume draw on real-life experiences. Some are funny, some are, serious, and some are even pointless, but then again, that really is life, isn't it?
There is a wide diversity of themes in the book. The first is just called "My Brother knows kung-fu" as we see the brother in question demonstrating his martial arts skills in various situations including on a locked door and escaping a spanking. And this is really what goes on throughout the book. Random strips about life, relationships and things as mundane as biting one's nails to short, watching TV, shoveling snow, fidgeting around at church, etc...Jeffrey Brown's observations really call to mind the commonplace routines in all our lives and noting with some skepticism just how ordinary life can be. Not everything works in the book. Not everything intended to be funny hits the mark. I'm sure the somewhat crude art style will put some people off but all in all it was an enjoyable little read.
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Gaydar is a must-have for those thousands (maybe millions) of hapless gay men and unwary straight women who’ve encountered such embarrassing revelatory moments as, “Oh, I thought you were . . .” or “Oh, I didn’t know you were . . .” or the ever-popular “But isn’t he married?!” and so on.
According to author Donald F. Reuter, gaydar is the telepathic sixth sense that only gay men—and the occasional ultra-savvy straight person—seem to possess. But ultimately, its main function is to help gay men recognize one another in situations involving the general straight population.
Beautifully illustrated throughout by the author,
Gaydar is divided into ten gay sections, including everything from gayspeak to gaywork to gayhouse to gaysport, and much more.
Gaydar takes a playful look at the ins and outs of gay life while serving as an indispensable guide to shopping, traveling, nightclubbing, dining, working, and what it means to be “part of the team.”
If you’re the average straight reader, don’t expect miracles, but if you’re willing, this book will help you discover innate perceptive skills long buried in the gay parts of your mind and body. Now, if you’re gay, you’ll be certain to find
Gaydar the perfect companion for honing your gaydar sensors, rediscovering old tricks—and even finding some new ones.
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a few years to late!.......2007-06-01
Well, let me start off by saying that this book is very informative, however i found myself a lilttle to "cultured" for this book. This would have been a great read had i gotten it a few years back, but living life as an openly gay man for the last 3 year, I found this book thought me nothing I already knew! I do however recoment this book to any newby's out there, but do keep in mind that this book is mostly, if not wholly based on steroe types, but unfortuanetely these are stereo type that live up to what most of us are. So read up, enjoy, yet keep an open mind!
Meant to be cute..but...........2006-05-16
too much...way over the top in its attempt to be clever. Rather than clever, it is just inane. If you are going to buy it, buy it used.
Reuter to the Rescue.......2005-08-23
With tongue firmly in cheek, Don Reuter reminds gay people of who they are, even as he introduces them to his straight readers. He succeeds in both goals admirably, and readers of any gender persuasion will laugh their way to an understanding of a gay culture in which, consciously or not, they already participate.
So good I had to do it again..........2005-04-05
what a fun little book... i had a copy of my own and enjoyed it so much that i bought an additional copy for one of my staff. she enjoyed every bit as much as i did... sometimes it feels good not to be so very serious about ourselves, just lighten up and have a good time... that's what this title did for me...
Matt Moskus, Roseville Michigan Loves Gay Play.......2005-03-28
I have it! Gaydar that is.......and I can spot a hottie ready for gay play a mile away
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Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for the need to understand digital culture—and its social, political, and ethical ramifications—in historical and philosophical context. Looking at a broad range of technologies, including photography, print and digital media, heat engines, stereographs, and medical imaging, the contributors present a number of different perspectives from which to reflect on the nature of media change. While foregrounding the challenges of drawing comparisons across varied media and eras, Memory Bytes explores how technologies have been integrated into society at different moments in time.
These essays from scholars in the social sciences and humanities cover topics related to science and medicine, politics and war, mass communication, philosophy, film, photography, and art. Whether describing how the cultural and legal conflicts over player piano rolls prefigured controversies over the intellectual property status of digital technologies such as mp3 files; comparing the experiences of watching QuickTime movies to Joseph Cornell’s “boxed relic” sculptures of the 1930s and 1940s; or calling for a critical history of electricity from the Enlightenment to the present, Memory Bytes investigates the interplay of technology and culture. It relates the Information Age to larger and older political and cultural phenomena, analyzes how sensory effects have been technologically produced over time, considers how human subjectivity has been shaped by machines, and emphasizes the dependence of particular technologies on the material circumstances within which they were developed and used.
Contributors. Judith Babbitts, Scott Curtis, Ronald E. Day, David Depew, Abraham Geil, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Lisa Gitelman, N. Katherine Hayles, John Durham Peters, Lauren Rabinovitz, Laura Rigal, Vivian Sobchack, Thomas Swiss
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The curate's egg.......2006-06-25
Memory Bytes is like the curate's egg - good in parts. Though the essays did not reach concertedly enough into the main contention that digital culture is: '..transformative of the individual and of the group. Most importantly, as a means of framing cultural experience it serves as a conduit for the confluence of power that technology, the government, and the corporation intertwine in the modern state.' (p5) they reveal, albeit in very specific contexts, 'the multiple relationships between culture and techne that have always been grounded in purpose and specific social interests.' (p2).
This is invaluable if there is to be better understanding of the social impact of digital technology and thus the emergence of 'digital culture'. The variety provided by interdisciplinary contribution adds a piquancy that makes collections like this stimulating reading. There should be a place on research library shelves for this book alongside Lev Manovich's The Language of New Media, Neil Spillers' Cyber Reader, Paul Lunenfeld's The Digital Dialectic, Katherine Haye's How We Become PostHuman, and Cameron and Kenderdine's Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage.
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In the English-speaking world, Helene Cixous is known more for her criticism and theoretical texts than for her playwriting. Yet Cixous' work as a playwright establishes her as a participant in some of the most adventurous theatre-making in Europe within the last forty years. This unique collection brings together four of her plays - three of which appear here in English for the first time - a new interview with the author on her theatre-making, a translation of her essay, 'Enter the Theatre' and a complete list of her productions. The Selected Plays of Helene Cixous is an extraordinary resource for scholars, students and theatre-makers alike, bringing together some of the most resonant play-texts of the twentieth-century.
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Helene Cixous (Transitions)
Abigail Bray
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Paperback
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- historical events projected in a scripted piece; unique
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The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia (European Women Writers Series)
Helene Cixous
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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ASIN: 0803214553 |
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No contemporary French feminist has made a bigger impact in America than Hélène Cixous. Brilliant, bold, and combative, author of numerous novels and a gargantuan study of James Joyce, and sponsor of a series of notorious seminars at the University of Paris about women's writing, she has exploited the roles of femme fatale and maitresse d'education in a career that has been spectacularly defiant and productive.
Sihanouk is one of Cixous's most ambitious projects: the dramatic portrayal of the conflicts between old and new, East and West, North and South, religion and politics. At its center is the figure of Norodom Sihanouk. Vain when a prince, as king Sihanouk discovered his responsibility to his country and came to embody Cambodia. He used every means to keep his country growing, healthy, and out of the wars of Southeast Asia that consumed Laos and Vietnam.
Cixous recognized in Sihanouk a historical figure as fascinating as a tragic king in Shakespeare: a man of uncommon intelligence on whom his country's history pivoted, a man placed by fate into a world of bad choices and surrounded by powerful and relentless antagonists. But Sihanouk gave Cixous something more: a king who is indisputably modern, who has read and loved Shakespeare, and whose story continues.
First published in 1985, the play begins with Sihanouk's abdication in 1955 and ends with his arrest by the Khmer Rouge two decades later. The destiny of an entire country unfolds through the fifty characters who appear on stage.
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historical events projected in a scripted piece; unique.......1997-08-30
Though not especially dense in historical detail (and likely was not intended to be given the format of the piece) this work yields nuances of personality which are easily appreciated by readers familiar with recent Combodian political history
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Ride the Winds of the Tempest.......2000-07-25
The essential guide for those who dare to face the terrible tides of The Sea of Shadows. The Sea of Shadow : A Storyteller's Guide to the Tempest presents detailed and vital information on the tempest and the perils that dwell amid its hazardous winds. Apart from giving a useful geographical description of the Tempest, Sea of Shadow features new arcanoi arts and valuable information about the inhabitants of the Tempest, including plasmics, and the mythic angelics and demonics. A must for storytellers and players alike, which chronicles develop in this part of the Underworld.
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More Than 85 Broads introduces us to a remarkable group of strong, passionate, and talented women who all define success on their own terms. Along with author Janet Hanson's riveting account of how she built 85 Broads into a groundbreaking global network community, each of these women candidly tells her own powerful story.
Meet Trailblazers who need no roadmap or formula for success-just their own optimism, confidence, and gut instincts. Meet Adventurers who push past boundaries and find new ways to define success for themselves. Meet Parents who are building true partnerships rather than just “balancing” their lives and careers. And meet Visionaries who are answering the questions: “What's my passion?” “What's my destiny?” “What's my gift?”
Whether you're striving to align your passion with your career, standing at a crossroads deciding which path to choose, or well on the road to fulfilling your lifelong dreams, you can tap into the enormous power and potential of “some of the most incredible women on the planet” and . . .
- Discover how building a strong network gives you your own unique platform for creating new opportunities, connections, and personal definitions of success.
- Learn how women are blazing their own trails as business leaders, entrepreneurs, survivors, philanthropists, and parents.
- Find out how smart, successful and courageous women really think about their careers, their lives, their families, and their futures-all in their own voices.
“The most powerful and courageous voice any of us can listen to is our own, but it is often the one that we spend the least time cultivating and tuning into...” writes Hanson.
More Than 85 Broads is an essential read for women and men at every stage of their careers and lives. It will surprise you, motivate you, and inspire you to connect with others. Most importantly, it will help you find your own passion, build your own network, and define success on your own terms.
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for any age and any career choice.......2007-04-09
Janet Hanson introduces us to a multitude of strong and successful women in More than 85 Broads. Through reading this book you will learn that there is no magical formula to success. The vignettes take us on a journey through the lives of very different women all striving for success.
More than 85 Broads is apropos for any age and any career choice -you do not need to be on Wall Street to enjoy this book!
No matter what passion you have- More Than 85 Broads will help you discover what careers are meant for you!!.......2006-07-14
More Than 85 Broads was a book I strongly suggest for any college student looking for a career, like myself. You not only meet leading experts in various industries, but women who are the trailblazers that opened the doors for our generation! Every women in the book had such strong passions and motivations, which made you inspired to set higher goals for yourself in the future!!!
PHENOMENAL.......2006-07-14
"More than 85 Broads" is more than just a mere collection of stories-- it documents how women overcome seemingly insurmountable difficulties, how they balance work and family life, and how they work towards and accomplish sky-high goals. To say that this book is inspirational is an understatement. I came away from the reading not just inspired, but empowered.
This book is a must-read for anyone who has ever had doubts about achieving success. I highly, highly recommend it!
Incredible stories about incredible women.......2006-07-14
This book was extraordinarily inspirational. The stories are all about real women accomplishing amazing things and made me believe in myself and my ability to achieve any goal. I was touched by the honesty, bravery and talent that all the women chronicled displayed, and think that 85Broads is truly a strength network for women.
Pay it Forward!.......2006-07-13
After reading "More than 85 Broads" I was truly overwhelmed with feelings of awe and inspiration. Not only does each woman have such courage and fire but the progression of the book is magnificent. The best thing I did was to "pay it forward" and buy the book for my mother and aunt - both of whom have been equally touched.
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