Star Maker

Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066387174

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Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon Pdf

A human narrator from England is transported out of his body via unexplained means. He realizes he is able to explore space and other planets. After exploring a civilization on another planet in our galaxy at a level of development similar to our own that existed millions of years ago thousands of light years from Earth (the "Other Earth") in some detail, his mind merges with that of one of its inhabitants, and as they travel together, they are joined by still more minds or group-minds. This snowballing process is paralleled by the expansion of the book's scale, describing more and more planets in less and less detail. The disembodied travelers encounter many ideas that are interesting from both science-fictional and philosophical points of view. Star Maker tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator. A pervading theme is that of progressive unity within and between different civilizations.

Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780819566935

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Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon Pdf

Science fiction-roman.

Author : Francis Louis Szot
Publisher : F. Louis Szot
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 9780979902307

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Star Maker's Apprentice by Francis Louis Szot Pdf

Author : Jay Bernstein
Publisher : ECW/ORIM
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781770900431

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Starmaker by Jay Bernstein Pdf

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 : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1968-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486219622

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Last and First Men, & Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon Pdf

Two science fiction novels, written during the nineteen thirties, chronicle the future of civilization, foretelling such events as the worldwide fuel shortage and man's exploration of space

Author : Jim Halsey
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781607995418

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Starmaker by Jim Halsey Pdf

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 : Roger Padilha,Mauricio Padilha
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780847863389

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Richard Bernstein Starmaker by Roger Padilha,Mauricio Padilha Pdf

An exploration of the work by American artist Richard Bernstein that celebrates his larger-than-life portraits for the covers of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, as well as his visually arresting fine art, movie posters, and album covers created from the mid-1960s to the 1990s. Richard Bernstein, a fixture at Studio 54 and with fashion and art insiders, captured the allure of the disco era through his iconic hyper-colored graphic portraits of superstars for the covers of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. Warhol’s influence on Bernstein’s bold, playful, and graphic artwork is evident, and it was often thought that Warhol created the covers himself. Yet it was Bernstein, an American artist and art director, whose distinctive craft of retouching photographs with pastels, stencils, and airbrushing monumentalized his subjects into dazzling pop-art incarnations—sexy, captivating, and forever young. The book features his legendary Interview covers of Madonna, Grace Jones, Mick Jagger, Cher, Calvin Klein, Michael Jackson, and Aretha Franklin, and Bernstein’s rarely seen fine artwork, album covers, and editorial work for Time, Vogue Italia, New York Magazine, and Playboy, complete with intimate anecdotes and interviews with his closest friends and collaborators. This volume is an essential addition to any fashion, pop culture, style, or art lover’s library.

Author : Sam J. Miller
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250780638

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Let All the Children Boogie by Sam J. Miller Pdf

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 : Laurence Yep
Publisher : Harper
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060253169

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The Star Maker by Laurence Yep Pdf

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 : Robert Crossley
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815627246

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An Olaf Stapledon Reader by Robert Crossley Pdf

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 : Milan Hain
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496846068

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Starmaker by Milan Hain Pdf

David O. Selznick (1902–1965) was one of the most prominent film producers of the Hollywood studio era, responsible for such artistic and commercial triumphs as King Kong, David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, A Star Is Born, Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Spellbound, and The Third Man. However, film production was not his only domain. Starting in the late 1930s, he built an impressive stable of stars within his own independent company, including Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh, Joan Fontaine, Jennifer Jones, and Gregory Peck. In Starmaker: David O. Selznick and the Production of Stars in the Hollywood Studio System, author Milan Hain reveals the mechanisms by which Selznick and his collaborators discovered and promoted new stars and describes how these personalities were marketed, whether for financial gain or symbolic recognition and prestige. Using a wide range of archival materials, the book significantly complements and reshapes our understanding of Selznick’s celebrated career by focusing on heretofore neglected aspects of his creative and business activities. It also sheds light on the US film industry during the Golden Age of Hollywood studios and in the postwar period when the established order began to break down. By structuring the book around Selznick and his role as a starmaker, Hain demonstrates that star production and development in the Hollywood studio system was a highly organized and systematic activity, though the respective strategies and procedures were often hidden from the public eye.

Author : William Stapledon
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781537807010

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Star Maker by William Stapledon Pdf

Widely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxies and parallel universes, until he eventually becomes part of the "cosmic mind." First published in 1937, Olaf Stapledon's descriptions of alien life are a political commentary on human life in the turbulent inter-war years. The book challenges preconceived notions of intelligence and awareness, and ultimately argues for a broadened perspective that would free us from culturally ingrained thought and our inevitable anthropomorphism. This is the first scholarly edition of a book that influenced such writers as C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke and which Jorge Luis Borges called "a prodigious novel."

Author : Liz Lee Heinecke,Cole Horton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781465482747

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Star Wars Maker Lab by Liz Lee Heinecke,Cole Horton Pdf

A combination of fun activities and intergalactic experiments will teach your budding Padawan how to become a Master of science, in both the real world and the Star Wars galaxy! Have you ever wanted to move things without touching them like a Jedi can? Or maybe explode a balloon with a beam of energy? Now you can! Learn the basics of science by travelling through the Star Wars galaxy. This book is perfect for budding scientists and Star Wars aficionados alike. The 20 projects are full of fun facts for kids, colorful diagrams, and easy-to-follow instructions that cover a range of topics that will enthrall and entertain. Star Wars Maker Lab is filled with science and science fiction for readers between ages 9-12. Unleash Your Inner Scientist, Engineer And Artist! With a blockbuster 128 pages packed with 20 fabulous projects, Star Wars Maker Lab is out of this world! Using the clear step-by-step instructions, it guides home scientists and makers through each exciting experiment – from making Jabba’s gooey slime or a hovering land speeder, to an Ewok catapult and a glowing Gungan Globe of Peace. Each experiment has fact-filled panels to explain real-world science as well as the Star Wars science fiction from the movies. This Star Wars book, covering a range of STEM topics keeps children entertained for hours, making use of many household items such as cardboard tubes, baking soda, cornstarch, straws, balloons, and food coloring. There is also plenty to keep more adventurous scientists enthralled, with instructions to make a bristlebot mouse droid, lightsaber duel, and Mustafar volcano Learn about the galaxy we live in, inspired by one far, far away: - Explore STEM topics from science to science-fiction - Stir up some sticky Jabba the Hutt Slime - Duel with Lightsabers - Create an erupting Mustafar Volcano - Delve into the mechanics of the Star Wars universe from Speed Gliders to Anakin’s Mechno-Arm and more! Star Wars Maker Lab is part of the educational series Maker Lab. Maker Lab includes kid-safe projects and crafts that will get young inventors’ wheels turning and make science pure fun. Photographs and facts carefully detail the “why” and “how” of each experiment using real-world examples to provide context so kids can gain a deeper understanding of the scientific principles applied. Maker Lab will help kids find their inner inventor and create winning projects for school projects, science fairs, and beyond. © & TM 2017 LUCASFILM LTD. Used Under Authorization.

Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Prophecies
ISBN : OCLC:1256246414

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Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon Pdf

Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575128705

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Nebula Maker by Olaf Stapledon Pdf

The narrator of Nebula Maker stands on a hill and sees a vision that leads him to the birth of the universe. He witnesses the creation of the nebulae and the formation of galactic communities as well as the flowering of the personalities of the nebulae. The establishment of pacific and militaristic camps and their relationship leads to events of cosmic strife, not unlike the history of our world in the twentieth century.