Galaxy Girls

Author : Libby Jackson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780062850225

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Galaxy Girls by Libby Jackson Pdf

Filled with beautiful full-color illustrations, a groundbreaking compendium honoring the amazing true stories of fifty inspirational women who helped fuel some of the greatest achievements in space exploration from the nineteenth century to today—including Hidden Figure’s Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson as well as former NASA Chief Astronaut Peggy Whitson, the record-holding American biochemistry researcher who has spent the most cumulative time in space. When Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the lunar module, Eagle, he famously spoke of “one small step for man.” But Armstrong would not have reached the moon without the help of women. Today, females across the earth and above it—astronauts and mathematicians, engineers and physicists, test pilots and aerospace psychophysiologists—are pushing the boundaries of human knowledge, helping us to understand the universe and our place in it. Galaxy Girls celebrates more than four dozen extraordinary women from around the globe whose contributions have been fundamental to the story of humankind’s quest to reach the stars. From Ada Lovelace in the nineteenth century to the “colored computers” behind the Apollo missions, from the astronauts breaking records on the International Space Station to the scientific pioneers blazing the way to Mars, Galaxy Girls goes boldly where few books have gone before, celebrating this band of heroic sisters and their remarkable and often little known scientific achievements. Written by Libby Jackson, a leading British expert in human space flight, and illustrated with striking artwork from the students of London College of Communication, Galaxy Girls will fire the imaginations of trailblazers of all ages.

Author : Anne Whitney Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015034018757

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Galaxy Girls by Anne Whitney Pierce Pdf

Ten stories on women. In Sans Homme, a girl falls in love with her mother's boyfriend, in Abeyance, a woman whose marriage is falling apart reflects on the loneliness ahead of her, while in Empty Beauty Salon, a woman moves her business from New York to Maine for a change of scenery.

Author : Amy Myers
Publisher : Headline
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472213846

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Murder in the Limelight (Auguste Didier Mystery 2) by Amy Myers Pdf

The second Auguste Didier mystery. Auguste Didier, master chef, has been enticed by Robert Archibald to desert Kent and the Duke and Duchess of Stockbery to bring his talents to the Galaxy Theatre in London's West End. In the two years that have passed, Auguste has all but forgotten he was once suspected of that most foul of crimes - murder. Then, amid the glamour of the chorus line, the excitement of a first-night opening, and the electric atmosphere of the stage, a killer strikes. And Auguste is drawn once more into a murder investigation. Watching the petty jealousies and fears that abound in the theatre, he follows each clue with the same fastidious dedication that he applies to his culinary art, and soon uncovers a multitude of motives. But will he catch the killer before there is another death...?

Author : Sherilyn Connelly
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476662091

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Ponyville Confidential by Sherilyn Connelly Pdf

Beloved by young girls around the world, Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise has been mired in controversy since its debut in the early 1980s. Critics dismissed the cartoons as toy advertisements, and derided their embrace of femininity. The 2010 debut of the openly feminist My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic renewed the backlash, as its broad appeal challenged entrenched notions about gendered entertainment. This first comprehensive study of My Little Pony explores the history and cultural significance of the franchise through Season 5 of Friendship Is Magic and the first three Equestria Girls films. The brand has continued to be on the receiving end of a sexist double standard regarding commercialism in children's entertainment, while masculine cartoons such as the Transformers have been spared similar criticism.

Author : Lauren Faust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 097965050X

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Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls by Lauren Faust Pdf

Author : Jonathan Gray,Derek Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118495254

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A Companion to Media Authorship by Jonathan Gray,Derek Johnson Pdf

A Companion to Media Authorship “Gray and Johnson have brought together a stellar group of authors whose works deftly explicate the complexities of negotiating ‘authorship’ across a range of cultural production sites. This definitive collection is an important and long-overdue contribution to contemporary media studies.” Serra Tinic, author of On Location: Canada’s Television Industry in a Global Market “Wide-ranging and global, historical and contemporary, brimming with insights enlarging our understanding of media production and reception, this book is an important contribution to the study of authorship.” Michael Z. Newman, author of Indie: An American Film Culture While the idea of authorship has transcended the literary to play a meaningful role in the cultures of film, television, games, comics, and other emerging digital forms, our understanding of it is still too often limited to assumptions about solitary geniuses and individual creative expression. A Companion to Media Authorship is a ground-breaking collection that reframes media authorship as a question of culture in which authorship is as much a construction tied to authority and power as it is a constructive and creative force of its own. Gathering together the insights of leading media scholars and practitioners, 28 original chapters map the field of authorship in a cutting-edge, multi-perspective, and truly authoritative manner. The contributors develop new and innovative ways of thinking about the practices, attributions, and meanings of authorship. They situate and examine authorship within collaborative models of industrial production, socially networked media platforms, globally diverse traditions of creativity, complex consumption practices, and a host of institutional and social contexts. Together, the essays provide the definitive study on the subject by demonstrating that authorship is a field in which media culture can be transformed, revitalized, and reimagined.

Author : Randy Palmer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476604640

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Herschell Gordon Lewis, Godfather of Gore by Randy Palmer Pdf

Without a big budget, special effects team, or professional actors and crew members, Herschell Gordon Lewis created films that he himself admits were trash. Yet, while Gordon's softcore porn (The Adventures of Lucky Pierre) and heavy-duty gore (The Gruesome Twosome) were never blockbuster films, they were popular drive-in fare in the sixties and seventies. They have had a strong influence over more recent productions, and they have created for Lewis his own special niche in the world of exploitation and horror film. The history of Lewis the man and the filmmaker is a surprising one. Behind titles like Blood Feast and The Gore-Gore Girls is a warm and friendly gentleman whose road to his own brand of film glory was paved with disappointments, surprising successes, and lots and lots of fake blood. His career is examined in detail, with personal anecdotes and insights into making really gross movies on really small budgets. A filmography is included, and photographs, many of them rare, complement the text.

Author : Hugh Burkitt
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749473792

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Marketing Excellence 3 by Hugh Burkitt Pdf

Marketing Excellence 3 showcases the strongest case studies - all winners - from The Marketing Society's Excellence Awards to celebrate and promote the contribution that great marketing makes to the commercial success of a business. The compilation includes a selection of 30 award winners from 2012 to 2014 who have employed different strategies, tactics, tools and techniques all worthy of recognition. The book features world-leading consumer products, retail, fast food, consultancy, charity and telecoms brands such as easyJet, Hailo, McDonald's, Mercedes-Benz, Unilever, Macmillan, O2, PwC, Jack Daniel's and John Lewis. Each chapter of Marketing Excellence 3 is organised by theme and introduced by a judge who then presents the case studies in detail, providing thought-provoking answers to questions such as 'How do you find great customer insights?', 'What are the key principles that lie behind effective communications?', 'How do you create a marketing ethos that will mobilise your organisation?', 'What makes a new brand stand out and succeed?' and 'How do you keep customers loyal?' As such, it is an ideal book for marketers and students looking to be inspired by the very best in marketing campaigns.

Author : Tom Lisanti
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786493425

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Drive-in Dream Girls by Tom Lisanti Pdf

During the 1960s, a bushel of B–movies were produced and aimed at the predominantly teenage drive-in movie audience. At first teens couldn’t get enough of the bikini-clad beauties dancing on the beach or being wooed by Elvis Presley, but by 1966 young audiences became more interested in the mini-skirted, go-go boot wearing, independent-minded gals of spy spoofs, hot rod movies and biker flicks. Profiled herein are fifty sexy, young actresses that teenage girls envied and teenage boys desired including Quinn O’Hara, Melody Patterson, Hilarie Thompson, Donna Loren, Pat Priest, Meredith MacRae, Arlene Martel, Cynthia Pepper, and Beverly Washburn. Some like Sue Ane Langdon, Juliet Prowse, Marlyn Mason, and Carole Wells, appeared in major studio productions while others, such as Regina Carrol, Susan Hart, Angelique Pettyjohn and Suzie Kaye were relegated to drive-in movies only. Each biography contains a complete filmography. Some also include the actresses’ candid comments and anecdotes about their films, the people they worked with, and their feelings about acting. A list of web sites that provide further information is also included.

Author : Edie Ramer
Publisher : Blue Walrus Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939328007

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Miracle Lane by Edie Ramer Pdf

She forgot how to hate, and now she’s learning how to love... Brain-damaged Nia Beaudine can’t remember her life before The Accident. Someone intentionally ran over her and left her for dead. Now she’s living in the ‘witch’s house’ she inherited in the village of Miracle, relearning how to live on her own. Well, almost on her own – the talking cat helping her cope is a bonus. But when a hate-filled family member shows up with a gun, Nia knows she needs real help. Former Army Sergeant and PTSD sufferer Rob Ackerman regularly covers for his identical twin, the village constable, and answers Nia’s emergency call. This strange young woman immediately sees he’s not his brother. In return, he sees that the only way she can fully live in her new life is to find out why someone in her old life tried to kill her...and might try again. As they dig up Nia’s past, the attraction between them grows. Their brains may be damaged, but their bodies and hearts are working just fine.

Author : Karin De Havin
Publisher : Supernatural Fantasy Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Nine Lives Part-Two by Karin De Havin Pdf

Everyone knows Heaven is perfect. That’s a lie. When eighteen-year-old Taylor dares to ask her afterlife coach why Heaven is a falling down wreck, her coach tells Taylor to keep her mouth shut. What is her coach they trying to hide? Taylor desperately wants to flee this strange version of Heaven. Instead she’s stuck taking an endless series of quizzes in the Afterlife for Idiots Handbook and trying to get picked for the Cloud Nine Contest. If she wins the grand prize is to return to her old life. But Taylor soon learns that her past held a secret. Will the secret destroy her chances of winning the contest? Find out if in Nine Lives-Two in the Katran Legacy Series by author Karin De Havin. If you enjoy dystopian fantasy stories that are filled with adventure and make you laugh and bite your nails at the same time, then get your copy of Nine Lives-Two today! Keywords: Young Adult science fiction & fantasy books, visionary & metaphysical books, young adult dystopian series, Aliens Contact books, Sci-fi Fantasy Mashup books, Afterlife stories, genie books, young adult free books, young adult historical fantasy complete series, young adult coming of age fantasy, books, Los Angeles based books, young adult fantasy complete series, teen heaven based books, young adult action adventure books, free first in series, Free fantasy books, angel fantasy books.

Author : Susie Shellenberger,Kristin Weber
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781630580377

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The Smart Girl's Guide to God, Guys, and the Galaxy by Susie Shellenberger,Kristin Weber Pdf

The Smart Girl’s Guide melds spiritual and practical advice with humor, equipping you to stand up for your faith and really live the Christian walk every day.

Author : Sam Maggs
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781594747908

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The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy by Sam Maggs Pdf

This ultimate handbook for ladies living the nerdy life is a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated world of geekdom. Fandom, feminism, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more—it’s never been a better time to be a girl geek. With delightful illustrations and an unabashed love for all the in(ternet)s and outs of geek culture, this book is packed with tips, playthroughs, and cheat codes, including: • How to make nerdy friends • How to rock awesome cosplay • How to write fanfic with feels • How to defeat internet trolls • How to attend your first con And more! Plus insightful interviews with fangirl faves, like Jane Espenson, Erin Morgenstern, Kate Beaton, Ashley Eckstein, Laura Vandervoort, Beth Revis, Kate Leth, and many others.

Author : Edie Ramer
Publisher : Edie Ramer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939328304

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Raining Love & Murder by Edie Ramer Pdf

Author : Edie Ramer
Publisher : Blue Walrus Books
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939328076

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Hearts in Motion by Edie Ramer Pdf

Take two cats, a dog, and a determined woman... Animal lover Abby Pimm isn’t looking for love. With two rescue cats, one rescue dog, a struggling business, and her fourteen-year-old sister to raise, she’s got her hands full. What she needs is an angel – though she’ll settle for the devil if he’ll invest in her fledgling company and keep it afloat. Add a six-year-old girl... Wealthy businessman Holden Ramsay is no devil. He’s doing all the right things, and when he’s forced to care for his ex’s six-year-old daughter, he ends up hiring Abby as a temporary sitter – a woman who lights up his damaged heart, and perks up other organs as well. A woman who might be his redemption...or his downfall. Who’s rescuing who? The animals that Abby rescued think maybe it’s time they do a little rescue work of their own—because sometimes humans in love can be so dense...