Author: Sarah Tieck
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1614784809
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Colorful graphics, oversized photos, and short, engaging sentences draw reluctant readers in to the fascinating life of triple-threat entertainer Jennifer Lopez! This book describes Lopez's childhood, family, Latin heritage, education, rise to fame, and future plans. Readers will follow Lopez's career, as she moved from dancing on In Living Color to starring in Selena to recording her first album, On the 6. Lopez's other movie roles and music albums are discussed, as well as her more recent role as a judge on American Idol. From performing live concerts to filming movies, readers will discover what it's like to be a professional entertainer! Features include a table of contents, maps, "Did You Know" fun facts, a "Snapshot" page with vital information, a glossary with phonetic spellings, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Jennifer Lopez:Famous Entertainer
Author: Sarah Tieck
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1614784809
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Colorful graphics, oversized photos, and short, engaging sentences draw reluctant readers in to the fascinating life of triple-threat entertainer Jennifer Lopez! This book describes Lopez's childhood, family, Latin heritage, education, rise to fame, and future plans. Readers will follow Lopez's career, as she moved from dancing on In Living Color to starring in Selena to recording her first album, On the 6. Lopez's other movie roles and music albums are discussed, as well as her more recent role as a judge on American Idol. From performing live concerts to filming movies, readers will discover what it's like to be a professional entertainer! Features include a table of contents, maps, "Did You Know" fun facts, a "Snapshot" page with vital information, a glossary with phonetic spellings, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1614784809
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Colorful graphics, oversized photos, and short, engaging sentences draw reluctant readers in to the fascinating life of triple-threat entertainer Jennifer Lopez! This book describes Lopez's childhood, family, Latin heritage, education, rise to fame, and future plans. Readers will follow Lopez's career, as she moved from dancing on In Living Color to starring in Selena to recording her first album, On the 6. Lopez's other movie roles and music albums are discussed, as well as her more recent role as a judge on American Idol. From performing live concerts to filming movies, readers will discover what it's like to be a professional entertainer! Features include a table of contents, maps, "Did You Know" fun facts, a "Snapshot" page with vital information, a glossary with phonetic spellings, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
True Love
Author: Jennifer Lopez
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698148363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In Jennifer Lopez’s first ever book, True Love, she explores one of her life’s most defining periods—the transformative two-year journey of how, as an artist and a mother, she confronted her greatest challenges, identified her biggest fears, and ultimately emerged a stronger person than she’s ever been. Guided by both intimate and electrifying photographs, True Love an honest and revealing personal diary with hard-won lessons and heartfelt recollections and an empowering story of self-reflection, rediscovery, and resilience. Completely full-color, with photos throughout and lavishly designed, True Love is a stunning and timeless book that features more than 200 never-before-seen images from Lopez’s personal archives, showing candid moments with her family and friends and providing a rare behind-the-scenes look at the life of a pop music icon travelling, rehearsing, and performing around the world.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698148363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In Jennifer Lopez’s first ever book, True Love, she explores one of her life’s most defining periods—the transformative two-year journey of how, as an artist and a mother, she confronted her greatest challenges, identified her biggest fears, and ultimately emerged a stronger person than she’s ever been. Guided by both intimate and electrifying photographs, True Love an honest and revealing personal diary with hard-won lessons and heartfelt recollections and an empowering story of self-reflection, rediscovery, and resilience. Completely full-color, with photos throughout and lavishly designed, True Love is a stunning and timeless book that features more than 200 never-before-seen images from Lopez’s personal archives, showing candid moments with her family and friends and providing a rare behind-the-scenes look at the life of a pop music icon travelling, rehearsing, and performing around the world.
Jennifer Lopez
Author: Kathleen Tracy
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1550224190
Category : Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The life and career of Latin actress and singer Jennifer Lopez is profiled, from her big break on the Fox show "In Living Color" to her films as "Selena" to the release of her bestselling CD. Color and bandw photos.
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1550224190
Category : Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The life and career of Latin actress and singer Jennifer Lopez is profiled, from her big break on the Fox show "In Living Color" to her films as "Selena" to the release of her bestselling CD. Color and bandw photos.
Lord Help Me
Author: Emme Muñiz
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593120108
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The everyday power of prayer comes to life in this inspirational picture book written by twelve-year-old budding singer Emme Muñiz. We all have moments every day where we can use a little help. Some are small, like waking up for school or getting along with a sibling. Others are big, like helping to save the planet and all its creatures—especially sloths! But asking God for help always brings us the strength to get through anything. Emme Muñiz shares her own daily prayers to offer families a way to embrace the peace and power of everyday faith.
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593120108
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The everyday power of prayer comes to life in this inspirational picture book written by twelve-year-old budding singer Emme Muñiz. We all have moments every day where we can use a little help. Some are small, like waking up for school or getting along with a sibling. Others are big, like helping to save the planet and all its creatures—especially sloths! But asking God for help always brings us the strength to get through anything. Emme Muñiz shares her own daily prayers to offer families a way to embrace the peace and power of everyday faith.
J. LO
Author: Sarah Gallick
Publisher: AMI Books
ISBN: 9781932270075
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book reveals the secrets behind Jennifer Lopez's rise to the top. It chronicles how she moved out of the family home at 18 and how she struggled to support herself until she got her big break as a 'Fly Girl' on the hit TV show 'In Living Color'. She reveals the inside details on her controversial relationship with rapper Sean 'Puffy' Combs. There are new details about the worst night of her life, when she and Puffy were arrested and she was handcuffed and held in a police station for 14 hours. The book takes you inside the world of the superstar diva, with never-before-revealed details of her rags-to-riches journey.
Publisher: AMI Books
ISBN: 9781932270075
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book reveals the secrets behind Jennifer Lopez's rise to the top. It chronicles how she moved out of the family home at 18 and how she struggled to support herself until she got her big break as a 'Fly Girl' on the hit TV show 'In Living Color'. She reveals the inside details on her controversial relationship with rapper Sean 'Puffy' Combs. There are new details about the worst night of her life, when she and Puffy were arrested and she was handcuffed and held in a police station for 14 hours. The book takes you inside the world of the superstar diva, with never-before-revealed details of her rags-to-riches journey.
Dangerous Curves
Author: Isabel Molina-Guzmán
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814757367
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
With images of Jennifer Lopez’s butt and America Ferrera’s smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become an ubiquitous presence. Dangerous Curves traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions. Isabel Molina-Guzmán maps the ways in which the Latina body is gendered, sexualized, and racialized within the United States media using a series of fascinating case studies. The book examines tabloid headlines about Jennifer Lopez’s indomitable sexuality, the contested authenticity of Salma Hayek’s portrayal of Frida Kahlo in the movie Frida, and America Ferrera’s universally appealing yet racially sublimated Ugly Betty character. Dangerous Curves carves out a mediated terrain where these racially ambiguous but ethnically marked feminine bodies sell everything from haute couture to tabloids. Through a careful examination of the cultural tensions embedded in the visibility of Latina bodies in United States media culture, Molina-Guzmán paints a nuanced portrait of the media’s role in shaping public knowledge about Latina identity and Latinidad, and the ways political and social forces shape media representations.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814757367
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
With images of Jennifer Lopez’s butt and America Ferrera’s smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become an ubiquitous presence. Dangerous Curves traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions. Isabel Molina-Guzmán maps the ways in which the Latina body is gendered, sexualized, and racialized within the United States media using a series of fascinating case studies. The book examines tabloid headlines about Jennifer Lopez’s indomitable sexuality, the contested authenticity of Salma Hayek’s portrayal of Frida Kahlo in the movie Frida, and America Ferrera’s universally appealing yet racially sublimated Ugly Betty character. Dangerous Curves carves out a mediated terrain where these racially ambiguous but ethnically marked feminine bodies sell everything from haute couture to tabloids. Through a careful examination of the cultural tensions embedded in the visibility of Latina bodies in United States media culture, Molina-Guzmán paints a nuanced portrait of the media’s role in shaping public knowledge about Latina identity and Latinidad, and the ways political and social forces shape media representations.
Notable Caribbeans and Caribbean Americans
Author: Serafín Méndez-Méndez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313093202
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This is the first major biographical dictionary devoted exclusively to celebrating Caribbeans and Caribbean Americans who have made significant contributions to their society and beyond. More than 160 profiles feature historical and contemporary figures from every Caribbean island, the United States, and even England and Canada, and from a diverse range of fields such as acting, sports, political activism, and more. Selection criteria included the notable demonstration of a Caribbean ethos or style, combined with a lasting and novel impact. Individual narrative entries discuss family background, education, challenges, and achievements. The breadth of coverage in Notable Caribbeans and Caribbean Americans will enlighten and inspire students and general readers alike. Many lesser known role models, such as labor activist and educator Antonia Pantoja and political philosopher Frantz Fanon, are presented along with engaging portraits of better known personalities like reggae superstar Bob Marley and baseball great Sammy Sosa. Bibliographical sources for further research complement each entry. A wide selection of photographs accompanies the text.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313093202
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This is the first major biographical dictionary devoted exclusively to celebrating Caribbeans and Caribbean Americans who have made significant contributions to their society and beyond. More than 160 profiles feature historical and contemporary figures from every Caribbean island, the United States, and even England and Canada, and from a diverse range of fields such as acting, sports, political activism, and more. Selection criteria included the notable demonstration of a Caribbean ethos or style, combined with a lasting and novel impact. Individual narrative entries discuss family background, education, challenges, and achievements. The breadth of coverage in Notable Caribbeans and Caribbean Americans will enlighten and inspire students and general readers alike. Many lesser known role models, such as labor activist and educator Antonia Pantoja and political philosopher Frantz Fanon, are presented along with engaging portraits of better known personalities like reggae superstar Bob Marley and baseball great Sammy Sosa. Bibliographical sources for further research complement each entry. A wide selection of photographs accompanies the text.
Star Struck
Author: Sam Riley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313358133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This balanced examination looks at America's pervasive celebrity culture, concentrating on the period from 1950 to the present day. Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture is neither a stern critic nor an apologist for celebrity infatuation, a phenomenon that sometimes supplants more weighty matters yet constitutes one of our nation's biggest exports. This encyclopedia covers American celebrity culture from 1950 to 2008, examining its various aspects—and its impact—through 86 entries by 30 expert contributors. Demonstrating that all celebrities are famous, but not all famous people are celebrities, the book cuts across the various entertainment medias and their legions of individual "stars." It looks at sports celebrities and examines the role of celebrity in more serious pursuits and institutions such as the news media, corporations, politics, the arts, medicine, and the law. Also included are entries devoted to such topics as paranoia and celebrity, one-name celebrities, celebrity nicknames, family unit celebrity, sidekick celebrities, and even criminal celebrities.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313358133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This balanced examination looks at America's pervasive celebrity culture, concentrating on the period from 1950 to the present day. Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture is neither a stern critic nor an apologist for celebrity infatuation, a phenomenon that sometimes supplants more weighty matters yet constitutes one of our nation's biggest exports. This encyclopedia covers American celebrity culture from 1950 to 2008, examining its various aspects—and its impact—through 86 entries by 30 expert contributors. Demonstrating that all celebrities are famous, but not all famous people are celebrities, the book cuts across the various entertainment medias and their legions of individual "stars." It looks at sports celebrities and examines the role of celebrity in more serious pursuits and institutions such as the news media, corporations, politics, the arts, medicine, and the law. Also included are entries devoted to such topics as paranoia and celebrity, one-name celebrities, celebrity nicknames, family unit celebrity, sidekick celebrities, and even criminal celebrities.
The Happy Vegan
Author: Russell Simmons
Publisher: Avery
ISBN: 1592409326
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In The Happy Vegan Hip Hop Mogul Russell Simmons shares his story of converting to veganism and delves into research about mindful eating, the links between stress and poor eating habits, the importance of listening to your body and the well-documented problems associated with eating meat, dairy and processed foods. Russell shows how a whole foods, plant-based diet helps us maintain better physical and mental health, consciousness and clarity, and how it positively affects our communal health and contributes to a cleaner and more compassionate world.
Publisher: Avery
ISBN: 1592409326
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In The Happy Vegan Hip Hop Mogul Russell Simmons shares his story of converting to veganism and delves into research about mindful eating, the links between stress and poor eating habits, the importance of listening to your body and the well-documented problems associated with eating meat, dairy and processed foods. Russell shows how a whole foods, plant-based diet helps us maintain better physical and mental health, consciousness and clarity, and how it positively affects our communal health and contributes to a cleaner and more compassionate world.
From Bananas to Buttocks
Author: Myra Mendible
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029277849X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From the exuberant excesses of Carmen Miranda in the "tutti frutti hat" to the curvaceous posterior of Jennifer Lopez, the Latina body has long been a signifier of Latina/o identity in U.S. popular culture. But how does this stereotype of the exotic, erotic Latina "bombshell" relate, if at all, to real Latina women who represent a wide spectrum of ethnicities, national origins, cultures, and physical appearances? How are ideas about "Latinidad" imagined, challenged, and inscribed on Latina bodies? What racial, class, and other markers of identity do representations of the Latina body signal or reject? In this broadly interdisciplinary book, experts from the fields of Latina/o studies, media studies, communication, comparative literature, women's studies, and sociology come together to offer the first wide-ranging look at the construction and representation of Latina identity in U.S. popular culture. The authors consider such popular figures as actresses Lupe Vélez, Salma Hayek, and Jennifer Lopez; singers Shakira and Celia Cruz; and even the Hispanic Barbie doll in her many guises. They investigate the media discourses surrounding controversial Latinas such as Lorena Bobbitt and Marisleysis González. And they discuss Latina representations in Lupe Solano's series of mystery books and in the popular TV shows El Show de Cristina and Laura en América. This extensive treatment of Latina representation in popular culture not only sheds new light on how meaning is produced through images of the Latina body, but also on how these representations of Latinas are received, revised, and challenged.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029277849X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From the exuberant excesses of Carmen Miranda in the "tutti frutti hat" to the curvaceous posterior of Jennifer Lopez, the Latina body has long been a signifier of Latina/o identity in U.S. popular culture. But how does this stereotype of the exotic, erotic Latina "bombshell" relate, if at all, to real Latina women who represent a wide spectrum of ethnicities, national origins, cultures, and physical appearances? How are ideas about "Latinidad" imagined, challenged, and inscribed on Latina bodies? What racial, class, and other markers of identity do representations of the Latina body signal or reject? In this broadly interdisciplinary book, experts from the fields of Latina/o studies, media studies, communication, comparative literature, women's studies, and sociology come together to offer the first wide-ranging look at the construction and representation of Latina identity in U.S. popular culture. The authors consider such popular figures as actresses Lupe Vélez, Salma Hayek, and Jennifer Lopez; singers Shakira and Celia Cruz; and even the Hispanic Barbie doll in her many guises. They investigate the media discourses surrounding controversial Latinas such as Lorena Bobbitt and Marisleysis González. And they discuss Latina representations in Lupe Solano's series of mystery books and in the popular TV shows El Show de Cristina and Laura en América. This extensive treatment of Latina representation in popular culture not only sheds new light on how meaning is produced through images of the Latina body, but also on how these representations of Latinas are received, revised, and challenged.