Author: Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819566934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Science fiction-roman.

Author: Laurence Yep
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780060253165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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With the help of his Uncle Chester, Artie, a Chinese-American boy who feels like the outsider of the family, tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954. 12,000 first printing.

Author: Jay Bernstein
Publisher: ECW/ORIM
ISBN: 1770900438
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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This memoir by the legendary publicist offers “an intimate glimpse into the best and the worst of the golden age of Hollywood” (Stacy Keach, Golden Globe Award–nominated actor). Jay Bernstein, an entertainment industry fixture who helped launch the careers of celebrities including Farrah Fawcett and Suzanne Somers, was famed for his sense of showmanship, his outrageous style, and the publicity stunts he engineered to get attention for his clients. Starmaker tells his story, from his childhood in Oklahoma City and his first job in a Hollywood mailroom to the ownership of his own public relations firm and his work as a television producer. In addition to a behind-the-scenes look at several generations of show business and hard-hitting insights about how the industry changed over the decades, Bernstein also describes the relationships he had with stars and his notorious techniques, such as paying women to throw hotel keys at Tom Jones, having Entertainment Tonight host Mary Hart’s legs insured for one million dollars, and getting married underwater for an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. With the wisdom of experience and a sense of humor, this autobiography shares the intimate details of a fascinating Hollywood life.

Author: Sam J. Miller
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250780632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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From the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving comes Sam J. Miller's sci-fi time traveling tale, "Let All the Chlidren Boogie," a Tor.com Original As the Cold War stalls and the threat of nuclear warfare dominates the news, small-town misfits Laurie and Fell bond over a shared love of music and the mystery of the erratic radio messages that hint at the existence of a future worth reaching out for. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486269809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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In this companion to Last and First Men, a being from the remote future investigates 20th-century life by entering a subject's mind and observing his childhood, participation in World War I, and afterward.

Author: Jim Halsey
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1607995417
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Jim Halsey, veteran music manager who built the number one country-music agency in the world, shares the secrets he learned while shepherding the careers of The Oak Ridge Boys, Roy Clark and many other entertainment giants. Halsey digs deep into the fundamentals: how to develop an act, how to get an agent, how to use the press to build your audience, how to play the biggest and best forums. His incisive advice will help you find your place on the teama "the position that will give you the most successful and most fulfilling career. Whether you dream of seeing your name in lights or prefer a powerful position behind the scenes, Jim Halsey can tell you how to achieve your dream."

Author: Olaf Stapledon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Robert Crossley
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815604303
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950), philosopher, novelist, educator, and social activist had an imagination unlike that of any other figure in modernist literature. Along with H.G. Wells he is remembered as one of the most original and influential pioneers of twentieth-century science fiction. This first broadly inclusive anthology of Stapledon’s work offers a generous sampling of his fictional gems, including sections of his best known novels, Last and First Men, Odd Men, and Star Maker, and the complete text of two novellas, now back in print for the first time in fifty years, The Flames and Old Man in New World, as well as a selection of other writings, some previously unpublished, including essays, poems, and letters. These writings reveal the prophetic vision and utopian convictions that run through Stapledon’s work, and provide the broad context readers need to grasp the scope of his vision and to appreciate his great epic works, which are classics of science fiction.

Author: Henry Denker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671816445
Category : Fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547769164
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Here in lyrical prose is the story of the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the words that became the national anthem of the United States. This flag, which came to be known as the Star-Spangled Banner, also inspired author Susan Campbell Bartoletti, who, upon seeing it at the Smithsonian Institution, became curious about the hands that had sewn it. Here is her story of the early days of this flag as seen through the eyes of young Caroline Pickersgill, the daughter of an important flag maker, Mary Pickersgill, and the granddaughter of a flag maker for General George Washington’s Continental Army. It is also a story about how a symbol motivates action and emotion, brings people together, and inspires courage and hope.