Author: David Van Etten
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375846808
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Mallory, daughter of a soap opera star, is faced with new challenges when the soap opera that she created and wrote is nominated for an Emmy award and she has to deal with sneaky saboteurs while trying to decide between her boyfriend and her show's leading man.
Red Carpet Riot
Author: David Van Etten
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375846808
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Mallory, daughter of a soap opera star, is faced with new challenges when the soap opera that she created and wrote is nominated for an Emmy award and she has to deal with sneaky saboteurs while trying to decide between her boyfriend and her show's leading man.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375846808
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Mallory, daughter of a soap opera star, is faced with new challenges when the soap opera that she created and wrote is nominated for an Emmy award and she has to deal with sneaky saboteurs while trying to decide between her boyfriend and her show's leading man.
Likely Story!
Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375896856
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Meet Mallory Hayden, sixteen-year-old producer and creator of her own soap opera. Can she survive life with her backstabbing soap-star mother, keep her friends close and her enemies closer (and tell the difference between them), find true love (supersweet boyfriend-or the show's supercute male lead?), and make her show a hit in this world of high-stakes drama and sudsy sabotage? Originally published as separate hardcover novels, here are all three Likely Story novels in one sizzling volume! "A fresh, hip glimpse into the life of daytime soaps and everyday teens. . . . Soapdish meets Sweet Valley High. . . . If you are a soap fan, YA novel fan or simply looking for a good, dishy, well-written read, Likely Story is a must-have." -Daytime Confidential "More twists, turns, and intrigue than a daytime soap. . . . Sure to be a hit." -School Library Journal
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375896856
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Meet Mallory Hayden, sixteen-year-old producer and creator of her own soap opera. Can she survive life with her backstabbing soap-star mother, keep her friends close and her enemies closer (and tell the difference between them), find true love (supersweet boyfriend-or the show's supercute male lead?), and make her show a hit in this world of high-stakes drama and sudsy sabotage? Originally published as separate hardcover novels, here are all three Likely Story novels in one sizzling volume! "A fresh, hip glimpse into the life of daytime soaps and everyday teens. . . . Soapdish meets Sweet Valley High. . . . If you are a soap fan, YA novel fan or simply looking for a good, dishy, well-written read, Likely Story is a must-have." -Daytime Confidential "More twists, turns, and intrigue than a daytime soap. . . . Sure to be a hit." -School Library Journal
The Big Dog
Author: Patrick M. Sheridan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463410719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Like most of his predecessors, President Preston Armstrong had a serious domestic agenda for his second term in offi ce. A challenge to his plan is presented which threatens the historic interpretation of the U.S. Constitution and the future confi guration of the United States. A series of events including assassinations of high profi le Americans, both in and out of the government, further interfere with his domestic agenda. Debate within the White House is divided between whether or not these murders are random acts of violence or harbingers of worse things to come from organized terrorists. President Armstrong asks his new Vice President Mike Henning to work with his personal covert operative, Tim Shannon, to learn from his sources in the Middle East whether a major terrorist attack against the United States is planned. Despite Osama bin Laden having been killed by the CIA in 2011, al-Qaeda continued to grow and spread their terrorist attacks throughout the world. Now that al-Qaeda had a martyr, recruiting became even easier. Tim Shannon and his team of his twin brother Jim, plus John Murphy, and a couple of new players undertake their new assignment with their usual expertise and foreign contacts. But the clock is running down to identify, fi nd, and arrest the men behind the greatest terrorist threat in history against the United States, and destroy the plan and its operatives before they can carry it out.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463410719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Like most of his predecessors, President Preston Armstrong had a serious domestic agenda for his second term in offi ce. A challenge to his plan is presented which threatens the historic interpretation of the U.S. Constitution and the future confi guration of the United States. A series of events including assassinations of high profi le Americans, both in and out of the government, further interfere with his domestic agenda. Debate within the White House is divided between whether or not these murders are random acts of violence or harbingers of worse things to come from organized terrorists. President Armstrong asks his new Vice President Mike Henning to work with his personal covert operative, Tim Shannon, to learn from his sources in the Middle East whether a major terrorist attack against the United States is planned. Despite Osama bin Laden having been killed by the CIA in 2011, al-Qaeda continued to grow and spread their terrorist attacks throughout the world. Now that al-Qaeda had a martyr, recruiting became even easier. Tim Shannon and his team of his twin brother Jim, plus John Murphy, and a couple of new players undertake their new assignment with their usual expertise and foreign contacts. But the clock is running down to identify, fi nd, and arrest the men behind the greatest terrorist threat in history against the United States, and destroy the plan and its operatives before they can carry it out.
Art and Protest in Putin's Russia
Author: Lena Jonson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317542991
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being noticeably critical of the regime. As this book, based on extensive original research, shows, there has been gradually emerging over recent decades a significant counter-culture in the art world which satirises and ridicules the regime and the values it represents, at the same time putting forward, through art, alternative values. The book traces the development of art and protest in recent decades, discusses how art of this kind engages in political and social protest, and provides many illustrations as examples of art as protest. The book concludes by discussing how important art has been in facilitating new social values and in prompting political protests.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317542991
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being noticeably critical of the regime. As this book, based on extensive original research, shows, there has been gradually emerging over recent decades a significant counter-culture in the art world which satirises and ridicules the regime and the values it represents, at the same time putting forward, through art, alternative values. The book traces the development of art and protest in recent decades, discusses how art of this kind engages in political and social protest, and provides many illustrations as examples of art as protest. The book concludes by discussing how important art has been in facilitating new social values and in prompting political protests.
A History of California Literature
Author: Blake Allmendinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316299074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This history encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the state's development, from the colonial era to the twenty-first century. Written by a host of leading historians and literary critics, this book offers readers insight into the tensions and contradictions that have shaped the literary landscape of California and also American literature generally.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316299074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This history encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the state's development, from the colonial era to the twenty-first century. Written by a host of leading historians and literary critics, this book offers readers insight into the tensions and contradictions that have shaped the literary landscape of California and also American literature generally.
Tactical Performance
Author: Larry Bogad
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317422201
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Tactical Performance tells fun, mischievous stories of underdogs speaking mirth to power - through creative, targeted activist performance in the streets of cities around the world. This compelling, inspiring book also provides the first ever full-length practical and theoretical guide to this work. L.M.Bogad, one of the most prolific practitioners and scholars of this genre, shares the most effective non-violent tactics and theatrics employed by groups which have captured the public imagination in recent years. Tactical Performance explores carnivalesque protest in unique depth, looking at the possibilities for direct action and sometimes shocking confrontation with some of the most powerful institutions in the world. It is essential reading for anyone interested in creative pranksterism and the global justice movement.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317422201
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Tactical Performance tells fun, mischievous stories of underdogs speaking mirth to power - through creative, targeted activist performance in the streets of cities around the world. This compelling, inspiring book also provides the first ever full-length practical and theoretical guide to this work. L.M.Bogad, one of the most prolific practitioners and scholars of this genre, shares the most effective non-violent tactics and theatrics employed by groups which have captured the public imagination in recent years. Tactical Performance explores carnivalesque protest in unique depth, looking at the possibilities for direct action and sometimes shocking confrontation with some of the most powerful institutions in the world. It is essential reading for anyone interested in creative pranksterism and the global justice movement.
The Harvest of American Racism
Author: Robert Shellow
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472124021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
In the summer of 1967, in response to violent demonstrations that rocked 164 U.S. cities, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, a.k.a. the Kerner Commission, was formed. The Commission sought reasons for the disturbances, including the role that law enforcement played. Chief among its research projects was a study of 23 American cities, headed by social psychologist Robert Shellow. An early draft of the scientists’ analysis, titled “The Harvest of American Racism: The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967,” provoked the Commission’s staff in November 1967 by uncovering political causes for the unrest; the team of researchers was fired, and the controversial report remained buried at the LBJ Presidential Library until now. The first publication of the Harvest report half a century later reveals that many of the issues it describes are still with us, including how cities might more effectively and humanely react to groups and communities in protest. In addition to the complete text of the suppressed Harvest report, the book includes an introduction by Robert Shellow that provides useful historical context; personal recollections from four of the report’s surviving social scientists, Robert Shellow, David Boesel, Gary T. Marx, and David O. Sears; and an appendix outlining the differences between the unpublished Harvest analysis and the well-known Kerner Commission Report that followed it. “The [Harvest of American Racism] report was rejected by Johnson administration functionaries as being far too radical—politically ‘unviable’... Social science can play an extremely positive role in fighting racial and other injustice and inequality, but only if it is matched with a powerful political will to implement the findings. That will has never come from within an American presidential administration—that will has only been forged in black and other radical communities’ movements for justice. The political power for change, as incremental as it has been, has come from within those communities. Washington responds, it does not lead." —from the Foreword by Michael C. Dawson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472124021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
In the summer of 1967, in response to violent demonstrations that rocked 164 U.S. cities, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, a.k.a. the Kerner Commission, was formed. The Commission sought reasons for the disturbances, including the role that law enforcement played. Chief among its research projects was a study of 23 American cities, headed by social psychologist Robert Shellow. An early draft of the scientists’ analysis, titled “The Harvest of American Racism: The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967,” provoked the Commission’s staff in November 1967 by uncovering political causes for the unrest; the team of researchers was fired, and the controversial report remained buried at the LBJ Presidential Library until now. The first publication of the Harvest report half a century later reveals that many of the issues it describes are still with us, including how cities might more effectively and humanely react to groups and communities in protest. In addition to the complete text of the suppressed Harvest report, the book includes an introduction by Robert Shellow that provides useful historical context; personal recollections from four of the report’s surviving social scientists, Robert Shellow, David Boesel, Gary T. Marx, and David O. Sears; and an appendix outlining the differences between the unpublished Harvest analysis and the well-known Kerner Commission Report that followed it. “The [Harvest of American Racism] report was rejected by Johnson administration functionaries as being far too radical—politically ‘unviable’... Social science can play an extremely positive role in fighting racial and other injustice and inequality, but only if it is matched with a powerful political will to implement the findings. That will has never come from within an American presidential administration—that will has only been forged in black and other radical communities’ movements for justice. The political power for change, as incremental as it has been, has come from within those communities. Washington responds, it does not lead." —from the Foreword by Michael C. Dawson
An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions
Author: Ian Stuart-Hamilton
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1843105187
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This revised and expanded edition has over 5000 explanations that help unlock the meaning of everyday idiomatic expressions and dispel the confusion that arises from the misinterpretation of language. Both informative and entertaining, the book addresses an important aspect of social communication for people with Asperger Syndrome, who use direct, precise language and 'take things literally'. Each entry is clearly explained, with a guide to its politeness level and suggestions for when and how it might be used. The book covers British and American English and includes some Australian expressions. Although the dictionary is primarily for people with Asperger Syndrome, it is useful and fun for anyone who struggles to understand idiomatic and colloquial English. This is an essential, accessible resource for everyday use.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1843105187
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This revised and expanded edition has over 5000 explanations that help unlock the meaning of everyday idiomatic expressions and dispel the confusion that arises from the misinterpretation of language. Both informative and entertaining, the book addresses an important aspect of social communication for people with Asperger Syndrome, who use direct, precise language and 'take things literally'. Each entry is clearly explained, with a guide to its politeness level and suggestions for when and how it might be used. The book covers British and American English and includes some Australian expressions. Although the dictionary is primarily for people with Asperger Syndrome, it is useful and fun for anyone who struggles to understand idiomatic and colloquial English. This is an essential, accessible resource for everyday use.
Media & Entertainment Law
Author: Ursula Smartt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317334604
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Media & Entertainment Law presents a contemporary analysis of the law relating to the media and entertainment industries both in terms of its practical application and its theoretical framework, providing a broad and comprehensive coverage of these fast changing branches of the law. Fully restructured to complement how media law is taught today in the digital age, this third edition explores recent updates in the law including the outcomes of the Google Spain case and the ‘right to be forgotten’, the use of drones in breach of privacy laws, internet libel and the boundaries of media freedom and press regulation following the Leveson inquiry. Media & Entertainment Law uses the most up-to-date authorities to explore privacy and confidentiality subjects, such as the Prince Charles 'black spider' letters, the Maximilian Schrems and the celebrity superinjunction PJS v Newsgroup Newspapers cases. The book also covers defamation, contempt of court and freedom of information, plus Scots law. New to this edition: A brand new chapter is dedicated to exploring technology and the media, including contemporary issues such as the dark web, the surveillance state, internet censorship and the law and social media, including bloggers, vloggers and tweeters. The chapters on regulatory authorities have been expanded to provide greater clarification and explanation of broadcasting, press and advertising regulation, including the protection of journalistic sources and comparisons with EU Law. The chapter on intellectual property and entertainment law has been streamlined to match media law courses more effectively. This text provides students with detailed coverage of the key principles, cases and legislation as well as a critical analysis of this vibrant subject.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317334604
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Media & Entertainment Law presents a contemporary analysis of the law relating to the media and entertainment industries both in terms of its practical application and its theoretical framework, providing a broad and comprehensive coverage of these fast changing branches of the law. Fully restructured to complement how media law is taught today in the digital age, this third edition explores recent updates in the law including the outcomes of the Google Spain case and the ‘right to be forgotten’, the use of drones in breach of privacy laws, internet libel and the boundaries of media freedom and press regulation following the Leveson inquiry. Media & Entertainment Law uses the most up-to-date authorities to explore privacy and confidentiality subjects, such as the Prince Charles 'black spider' letters, the Maximilian Schrems and the celebrity superinjunction PJS v Newsgroup Newspapers cases. The book also covers defamation, contempt of court and freedom of information, plus Scots law. New to this edition: A brand new chapter is dedicated to exploring technology and the media, including contemporary issues such as the dark web, the surveillance state, internet censorship and the law and social media, including bloggers, vloggers and tweeters. The chapters on regulatory authorities have been expanded to provide greater clarification and explanation of broadcasting, press and advertising regulation, including the protection of journalistic sources and comparisons with EU Law. The chapter on intellectual property and entertainment law has been streamlined to match media law courses more effectively. This text provides students with detailed coverage of the key principles, cases and legislation as well as a critical analysis of this vibrant subject.
Japan Quarterly
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description