Odd Couples

Author : Daphne J. Fairbairn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691169781

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Odd Couples by Daphne J. Fairbairn Pdf

The remarkable and unique ways that male and female animals play out gender roles in nature While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of many other animals. For instance, the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. And male blanket octopuses employ a copulatory arm longer than their own bodies to mate with females that outweigh them by four orders of magnitude. Why do these gender gulfs exist? Introducing readers to important discoveries in animal behavior and evolution, Odd Couples explores some of the most extraordinary sexual differences in the animal world. Daphne Fairbairn uncovers the unique and bizarre characteristics of these remarkable species and the special strategies they use to maximize reproductive success. Fairbairn also considers humans and explains that although we are keenly aware of our own sexual differences, they are unexceptional within the vast animal world. Looking at some of the most amazing creatures on the planet, Odd Couples sheds astonishing light on what it means to be male or female in the animal kingdom.

Author : Judith Mayne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253208963

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Directed by Dorothy Arzner by Judith Mayne Pdf

Dorothy Arzner was the exception in Hollywood film history—the one woman who succeeded as a director, in a career that spanned three decades. In Part One, Dorothy Arzner's film career—her work as a film editor to her directorial debut, to her departure from Hollywood in 1943—is documented, with particular attention to Arzner's roles as "star-maker" and "woman's director." In Part Two, Mayne analyzes a number of Arzner's films and discusses how feminist preoccupations shape them, from the women's communities central to Dance, Girl, Dance and The Wild Party to critiques of the heterosexual couple in Christopher Strong and Craig's Wife. Part Three treats Arzner's lesbianism and the role that desire between women played in her career, her life, and her films.

Author : Gabe Polt,Dodo (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : 1646975200

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50 Odd Couples by Gabe Polt,Dodo (Firm) Pdf

These animal pairs don't look like they'd be the best of friends, but sometimes a new friend is closer than you think. This book features more than 100 pages of unexpected, heartwarming, and unlikely animal friendships. Based on The Dodo's viral videos.

Author : Anna Muraco
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780822351924

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Odd Couples by Anna Muraco Pdf

Muraco studies friendships between straight women and gay men and straight men and lesbians to consider how their relationships both challenge and reinforce conventional notions of sexuality and gender. Based on in-depth interviews, the book considers how people experience gender and sex roles differently within these intersectional relationships.

Author : Gabe Polt
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781338608571

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50 Odd Couples (The Dodo) by Gabe Polt Pdf

These pairs of unlikely animal friends -- as seen in The Dodo's viral videos -- are sure to warm your heart! These animal pairs don't look like they'd be the best of friends -- but sometimes a new friend is closer than you think! This book features more than 100 pages of unexpected, heartwarming, and unlikely animal friendships!These 50 odd couples -- from dogs and ducks and cats and lambs, to rhinos and hippos to even buffalos and pigs! -- have all been featured on The Dodo. This incredibly popular animal brand has over 33 million followers across social media! Their inspiring stories are the perfect example of the compassion, resilience, and love that animals have for their humans -- and for each other.Each true story is accompanied by adorable full-color photos of these mismatched animal friends and simple nonfiction facts.

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Male friendship
ISBN : 9780684859255

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Odd Couple One and Two by Neil Simon Pdf

"The Odd Couple I" and "The Odd Couple II," by America's premier playwright, Neil Simon, are two of the author's most famous and beloved works. Oscar and Felix are two of the stage and screen's most memorable and endearing characters. For the first time, the screenplays are collected in this volume.

Author : Bob Leszczak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476615394

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The Odd Couple on Stage and Screen by Bob Leszczak Pdf

Inspired by the real life post-divorce experiences of television comedy writer Danny Simon, The Odd Couple has touched multiple generations of fans. Playwright Neil Simon embellished his brother Danny’s pseudo-sitcom situation and created an oil-and-water twosome with memorable characters showcasing the foibles of mankind. The original Broadway production enjoyed a run of 964 performances. The story of the cohabitation of Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison translated extremely well to the silver screen, and then in 1970 to television, where it brought weekly laughs and mirth to an even larger audience for five seasons in prime time. This thorough history details The Odd Couple in all its forms over the decades. It provides capsule biographies of the stage, film and television casts and crew, as well as an episode guide and a wealth of little-known information.

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573613311

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The Odd Couple by Neil Simon Pdf

Two poker buddies, one a hyper-neurotic, the other an incurable slob, suddenly find themselves bachelors again and decide to share a New York City apartment.

Author : Jens Rydström
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789048514854

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Odd Couples by Jens Rydström Pdf

The concept of marriage as a union of a man and a woman was fundamentally challenged by the introduction of registered partnership in Denmark in 1989. Odd Couples is the first comprehensive history of registered partnership and gay marriage in Scandinavia. It traces the origins of laws which initially were extremely controversial-inside and outside the gay community-but have now gained broad popular and political support, as well as the positive effects and risks involved in state recognition of lesbian and gay couples. Through a comparison of how these laws have been received and practiced in all of the Scandinavian countries, including Greenland and the Faroe Islands, the author presents a nuanced study of a fascinating political process that began in the 1960s and continues to change the way we understand family, sexuality and nation.

Author : Mirja Winkelmann
Publisher : Prestel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : English language
ISBN : 3791372912

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Odd Couples by Mirja Winkelmann Pdf

"Can you find the matching word for each pair of pictures? Solutions on the last page"--Title page.

Author : Rip Stock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0345306422

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Odd Couple Mania by Rip Stock Pdf

Author : Chris Sykes
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444136609

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The Writer's Source Book by Chris Sykes Pdf

Is your creative writing in need of inspiration? Do you need confidence to create watertight plots and believable characters? The Writer's Source Book provides dozens of practical exercises to help you create storylines, craft people and generate ideas, with support and creative insight for every stage. It will give you support in identifying your genre and crafting your work around it, and help you to understand the complexities of plot and character before beginning to create your own. Inspired and inspiring exercises will help you master the structure of your book, story or play, while focused and innovative advise will help those who have run into trouble. This is a technical manual ideal for any writer who needs to build, fix, polish or perfect their storyline.

Author : William Ickes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190451790

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Strangers in a Strange Lab by William Ickes Pdf

Winner of the 2012 International Association for Relationship Research Book Award Can we predict how well -- or how poorly -- two strangers will get along? According to social psychologist William Ickes, the answer is yes. Drawing upon relevant research findings from his 30-year career, Ickes explains how initial interactions are shaped by gender, race, birth order, physical attractiveness, androgyny, the Big Five dimensions, shyness, and self-monitoring. Ickes's work offers unprecedented insights on the links between personality and social behavior that have not previously been compiled in a single source: how sibling relationships during childhood affect our interactions with opposite-sex strangers years later; why Latinos have a social advantage in initial interactions; how men react to the physical attractiveness of a female stranger in a relatively direct and obvious way while women react to the attractiveness of a male stranger in a more indirect and subtle way; and how personality similarity is related to satisfaction in married couples.

Author : Aaron Beighle,Robert P. Pangrazi
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Physical education and training
ISBN : 9781718214200

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Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children by Aaron Beighle,Robert P. Pangrazi Pdf

"Undergraduate textbook for elementary education and elementary physical education teaching majors that prepares them for careers teaching physical education to elementary school children. Includes pedagogy, curriculum and lesson planning, rationale for physical education teaching and best practices, and activities and games related to fitness, sports, gymnastics, rhythms, and health-related skills"--

Author : Ron Kimmel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540255475

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Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision by Ron Kimmel Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Scale-Space 2005, held in Hofgeismar, Germany in April 2005. The 53 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on novel linear spaces, image features, deep structure, image processing, medical applications, contours, tensors, non-linear filters, and motion.