Quintessential Jack

Author : Scott Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476630861

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Quintessential Jack by Scott Edwards Pdf

After several years of small roles and experimental screenwriting during his early career, Jack Nicholson got his big break in 1969 with Easy Rider. The next year Five Easy Pieces made him a star. Since then the 12-time Academy Award nominee has won Best Actor twice (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and As Good as It Gets). This critical study examines each of Nicholson’s film roles, as well as his screenwriting and directorial efforts. Fascinating personal insights are provided through interviews with stars such as Mews Small, James Hong, Millie Perkins, Michael Margotta, Shirley Knight, Joe Turkel, Ed Nelson, Hazel Court, the Monkees, several Apollo astronauts, Hell’s Angel Sonny Barger, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, and many more.

Author : Neil Volz
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781467868143

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Into the Sun by Neil Volz Pdf

Into the Sun puts a human face on the business of American politics. It also makes you rethink what you believe about Washington. When Neil Volz moved from small-town Ohio to Capitol Hill he was a young idealistic college student. Twelve years later, he was a high-profile symbol of Washington corruption. A former lobbyist and public official, Volz paints a vivid and disturbing picture of his rise and fall. He ushers the reader in to the clandestine world of congressional deal making and special interest lobbying, all the while telling of his journey down the slippery slope of personal corruption. The book describes first-hand what it was like to be a target of a Justice Department investigation, as well as a government witness during the worst political corruption scandal since Watergate. The author outlines important life lessons he learned from the experience. And raises fundamental questions about the role of money of politics. How do people become corrupt? Is it an individual failure? Or the result of a failed political system? While Into the Sun is a personal story about hope, failure and faith, it also a larger story about how Washington works - and how it doesnt.

Author : Sarah Ellis
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780888996183

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The Several Lives of Orphan Jack by Sarah Ellis Pdf

When, at the age of twelve, he is sent out from the Opportunities School for Orphans and Foundlings to be a bookkeeper's apprentice, Jack finds his heretofore predictable life full of unusual adventures.

Author : Flora Miller Biddle
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781628728095

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The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made by Flora Miller Biddle Pdf

“Crucial in understanding the evolution of the American art scene.”—Library Journal Until Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opened her studio—which evolved into the Whitney Museum almost two decades later—on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan in 1914, there were few art museums in the United States, let alone galleries for contemporary artists to exhibit their work. When the mansions of the wealthy cried out for art, they sought it from Europe, then the art capital of the world. It was in her tiny sculptor’s studio in Greenwich Village that Whitney began holding exhibitions of contemporary American artists. This remarkable effort by a scion of America’s wealthiest family helped to change the way art was cultivated in America. The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made is a tale of high ideals, extraordinary altruism, and great dedication that stood steadfast against inflated egos, big businesses, intrigue, and greed. Flora Biddle’s sensitive and insightful memoir is a success story of three generations of forceful, indomitable women.

Author : Shirley Jones,Wendy Leigh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476725970

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Shirley Jones by Shirley Jones,Wendy Leigh Pdf

From golden-voiced ingénue to bus-driving mother of a pop band, Shirley Jones sets aside her wholesome, squeaky clean image in a memoir as shockingly candid, deliciously juicy, and delightfully frank as the star herself. “You are going to meet the real flesh-and-blood Shirley Jones, not just the movie star or Mrs. Partridge,” says the beloved film, television, and stage actress and singer of her long-awaited memoir, an account as shockingly direct, deliciously juicy, and delightfully frank as the performer herself. Sharing the “candid” (Los Angeles Times) and “revealing” (Associated Press) details of her life in Hollywood’s inner circle and beyond, Shirley Jones blows past the wholesome, squeaky-clean image that first brought fame, and gives us a woman who only gets hotter with time. If the story of a rebellious, gifted small-town girl being discovered by Rodgers and Hammerstein isn’t thrilling enough, go deeper behind the scenes, where Shirley Jones portrays her tumultuous marriage to Jack Cassidy, the dashing and charismatic but deeply troubled actor who unlocked her highly charged sexuality and captured her heart forever. She talks openly about their passion-fueled relationship; the infidelities, the costar crushes, and sexual experimentation. She reflects on her relationship with stepson David Cassidy; her cult status as coolest-ever TV mom Shirley Partridge; her second marriage to wacky TV comedian and producer Marty Ingels; and much more in this “saucy” (Entertainment Weekly) self-portrait.

Author : James Forrester
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781466862555

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The Heart Healers by James Forrester Pdf

At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On Sept. 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time. Once it was deemed possible to perform surgery on the heart, others followed. In 1929, Dr. Werner Forssman inserted a cardiac catheter in his own arm and forced the x-ray technician on duty to take a photo as he successfully threaded it down the vein into his own heart...and lived. On June 6, 1944 - D-Day - another momentous event occurred far from the Normandy beaches: Dr. Dwight Harken sutured the shrapnel-injured heart of a young soldier, saved his life and the term "cardiac surgeon" born. Dr. Forrester tells the story of these rebels and the risks they took with their own lives and the lives of others to heal the most elemental of human organs - the heart. The result is a compelling chronicle of a disease and its cure, a disease that is still with us, but one that is slowly being worn away by "The Heart Healers".

Author : Anthony M D'Agostino MD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781532037818

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The Curious Case of the Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital by Anthony M D'Agostino MD Pdf

This book is a history of psychiatry and medicine in the context of the evolution of managed care over the last forty years. The Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital’s rise to the seventh largest psychiatric corporation (as of 2016) in the USA is reviewed in relation to those changes in funding and clinical practice.

Author : Imran Garda
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781415205846

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The Thunder that Roars by Imran Garda Pdf

Yusuf Carrim has made it in New York. His tech-savvy coverage of the Arab Spring saw his journalism career skyrocket. But when his wealthy father asks him to help look for Sam, a missing family friend, he must return to South Africa. Yusuf’s search takes him to places he could never have imagined. Enlisting the help of an eccentric professor and Sam’s exotic uncle, Yusuf discovers facts that undermine a lifetime’s assumptions about his own identity – and prompt him to step up the search for Sam before it is too late. From the suburbs of Johannesburg to the streets of Bulawayo, from Dubai airport to an immigrant facility on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, Yusuf’s quest to find Sam turns into an inward journey of his own. The Thunder That Roars is international journalist Imran Garda’s cosmopolitan, fast-paced debut.

Author : Angela Phillips
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412919177

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Good Writing for Journalists by Angela Phillips Pdf

Reflective practice is at the heart of effective teaching, and this title helps you develop into a reflective teacher of science.

Author : Francine Mathews
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101588857

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Jack 1939 by Francine Mathews Pdf

Charming. Reckless. Brilliant. Deadly. A young Jack Kennedy travels to Europe on a secret mission for Franklin Roosevelt as the world braces for war. It’s the spring of 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe looms large. The United States has no intelligence service. In Washington, D.C., President Franklin Roosevelt may run for an unprecedented third term and needs someone he can trust to find out what the Nazis are up to. His choice: John F. Kennedy. It’s a surprising selection. At twenty-two, Jack Kennedy is the attractive but unpromising second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Roosevelt’s ambassador to Britain (and occasional political adversary). But when Jack decides to travel through Europe to gather research for his Harvard senior thesis, Roosevelt takes the opportunity to use him as his personal spy. The president’s goal: to stop the flow of German money that has been flooding the United States to buy the 1940 election—an election that Adolf Hitler intends Roosevelt lose. In a deft mosaic of fact and fiction, Francine Mathews has written a gripping espionage tale that explores what might have happened when a young Jack Kennedy is let loose in Europe as the world careens toward war. A potent combination of history and storytelling, Jack 1939 is a sexy, entertaining read.

Author : Mikita Brottman
Publisher : Creation Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110219917

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Jack Nicholson by Mikita Brottman Pdf

Jack Nicholson: Probably the most famous film actor in the world, renowned for roles ranging from convict McMurphy in Milos Forman's seminal One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, to the psychotic axe-killer Jack Torrance in Kubrick's The Shining and sleazy private eye Jake Gittes in Roman Polanski's Chinatown. Editor Mikita Brottman (author of top film studies Meat Is Murder! and Hollywood Hex) has selected her own chronological Top Ten of Jack Nicholson's movies, which are analysed in illustrated, in-depth essays by various modern film writers. The result is both an incisive overview of Jack Nicholson as an actor, and a critical anthology of films by some of the leading directories of recent decades, including Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Roman Polanski, Mike Nichols, Antonio Antonini, and Milos Forman, as well as mavericks such as Monte Hellman, Sean Penn and Roger Corman.

Author : Dr. Radha Vasan
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781482821208

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Paws & Jaws by Dr. Radha Vasan Pdf

This is a true love story between my dog, a boxer, a total minx, and our family! I have followed her life through the vigor and zest with which she lives her life, and the richer our life has become because of that. She is very loved and cared for, but its nothing compared to the extraordinary love and affection she has for her humans. Lizzy is my symbol of optimism, hope, and faith in life when there is not much of this left in humanity. Seeing her lovely face each day brings a smile to my face and immense glee in my heart. I want nothing more to do in my life than to just hold her in my arms and keep kissing her! She is that lovable! She has the most adorable face in the whole wide world, which she uses to her maximum advantage! Her expressions are so vivid and so many that its like she speaks out and voices her feelings. I have brought out her innate sweetness and simplicity. Her friskiness and mischievous antics endear her to all. Every nuance in her life is meaningful, and she rejoices in it and makes us all a part of it. Life is never dull around her. She puts life into the most mundane tasks.

Author : Joan H. Young
Publisher : Shark Enterprises
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0976543214

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North Country Cache by Joan H. Young Pdf

Author : John V. Doyle
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781450255363

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Tales from the Tail End by John V. Doyle Pdf

What is it like to grow old? Only the elderly can tell you. John Doyle is 88. What is it like to live in an elderly retirement community. Only one who lives there can tell you. John Doyle does. These are questions of great interest to some 37 million people in the U.S. over 75 and many times that number of children and grandchildren. The latter may be stunned to learn what kind of life their beloved parents and grandparents are experiencing. These questions are answered in "Tales from the Tail End," which factually and often humorously describes the aging process in a retirement community and considers how to deal with it gracefully. The author's former pastor, Father Jim Hawker, says this about the book, "I just couldn't put it down. John Doyle shares a memorable story replete with fascinating experiences and personal insights. His humor and pathos are truly infectious. The message of "'Tales from the Tail End'" is both intriguing and inspiring as the author invites the reader to come along and catch the spirit of the ups and downs of the aging process."

Author : John Kaag,Jonathan van Belle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780691244716

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Henry at Work by John Kaag,Jonathan van Belle Pdf

What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningful Henry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse who was scornful of work and other mundanities. In fact, Thoreau worked hard—surveying land, running his family’s pencil-making business, writing, lecturing, and building his cabin at Walden Pond—and thought intensely about work in its many dimensions. And his ideas about work have much to teach us in an age of remote work and automation, when many people are reconsidering what kind of working lives they want to have. Through Thoreau, readers will discover a philosophy of work in the office, factory, lumber mill, and grocery store, and reflect on the rhythms of the workday, the joys and risks of resigning oneself to work, the dubious promises of labor-saving technology, and that most vital and eternal of philosophical questions, “How much do I get paid?” In ten chapters, including “Manual Work,” “Machine Work,” and “Meaningless Work,” this personal, urgent, practical, and compassionate book introduces readers to their new favorite coworker: Henry David Thoreau.