Thirtysomething At 30

Author : Jon Rance
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444777505

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This Thirtysomething Life by Jon Rance Pdf

A romantic comedy for anyone who is, has been or is ever likely to be a grown up. Being a thirtysomething man isn't easy (especially when you still yearn to be a twentysomething man). Meet Harry Spencer. History teacher, lover of snack food and terrified of growing up. However, when his wife Emily drops the P-Bomb, Harry is suddenly thrust into the role of expectant father. When he's tempted by the greener grass of an ex-girlfriend past, Harry has to make the most important decision of his life. Does he have what it takes to become a man, or will he succumb to the lure of adolescent fantasy? This is a love story about what happens after we've fallen in love, when we've swapped frolicking in the bed for cigarettes in the shed and Match of the Day for Mothercare. Brutally honest, laugh-out-loud funny and heart-warming, this is a diary about one man's bumbling journey on the road to adulthood. Visit Jon's website at www.jonrance.com or follow him on Twitter @JRance75. You can also email him at [email protected].

Author : Kasey Edwards
Publisher : Random House
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781907195044

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30-Something and Over It by Kasey Edwards Pdf

Kasey Edwards has everything she's always wanted: a successful career and the lifestyle and assets to match. But she's empty and uninspired and doesn't want to go to work . . . Ever again. Terrified that she'll spend the rest of her life wearing pinstripes and pretending to care about 'adding value', Kasey embarks on a quest to rediscover passion and purpose in her life and work. We follow her on a journey of self-discovery as she looks for meaning in a puppy's eyes, begs her gynaecologist to cure her existential crisis, dabbles with the Law of Attraction and braves ten days of silent meditation. Meanwhile, her best friend Emma, who is experiencing a similar crisis, concentrates her search in the fields of casual sex and vodka shots. This irreverent yet poignant memoir will make you question our definition of the 'perfect life', laugh at the absurdity of the modern workplace and be warmed by the story of a friendship. Rise above your office cubicle for a moment and join Kasey in asking life's big questions - and find the courage to listen to your answers.

Author : Margaret J. Heide
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0812215346

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Television Culture and Women's Lives by Margaret J. Heide Pdf

Contemporary cultural theory, feminist criticism, and ethnography converge in this provocative study of the construction of meaning in mass culture. Television Culture and Women's Lives explores the complex relationship between the gender conflicts played out in the scripts of the popular television show thirtysomething and the real-life conflicts experienced by "baby-boomer" women viewers. Women viewers often reinterpreted the program's conservative view on gender roles, seeing it instead as a protest against real dilemmas women face as they try to integrate career and family priorities. Heide's study confirms women viewers' close identifications with thirtysomething characters and positions audience responses against the backdrop of changes in the lives of women in the 1980s and 1990s. Television Culture and Women's Lives accessibly treats fascinating issues related to cultural criticism, the relationship between mass media, and audiences, and the struggles faced by women in late twentieth-century America.

Author : Writers of Thirtysomething,Writers of Thirtysomething Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000029477332

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Thirtysomething Stories by Writers of Thirtysomething,Writers of Thirtysomething Staff Pdf

"Thirtysomething has stretched the boundaries of television, winning loyal viewers who see it as a mirror of their own lives. Now, in [book title], the complete scripts from nine of the most memorable episodes are presented, enabling us to savor on the page what we've enjoyed on the screen. We see Michael suffer a crisis of faith when Hope is in a near-fatal accident at Christmas; Gary and Susannah experience labor and birth; Melissa and Russell guide each other through their respective love affairs; and Elliot and Nancy try to save their marriage. Just as the show moves us, angers us, and makes us laugh, [book title] provides the perfect way to relive these moments with our favorite family of characters."--Back cover.

Author : Douglas Heil
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0815628781

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Prime-Time Authorship by Douglas Heil Pdf

Designed to inspire the fledgling scriptwriter, this book combines analytical essays on the work of three successful television writers with interviews and complete scripts printed in correct professional format. The writers Marion Hargrove (Maverick, The Waltons), Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething), and Michael Kozoll (Hill Street Blues) are used as examples of professionals who developed a personal voice and a distinctive style while serving as staff writers for existing prime-time television programs. Douglas Heil theorizes that students of television scriptwriting need to engage in "close study of exemplary," and the three full scripts he offers a.re useful models of humane and entertaining drama. The book is of value not only to aspiring scriptwriters but also to those readers with a general interest in media history.

Author : Frederick Vettese
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781773058337

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The Rule of 30 by Frederick Vettese Pdf

Consider the age-old question of how much you should save to enjoy a comfortable retirement: Are your knees knocking? Are you nervously biting your nails? In The Rule of 30 personal finance expert Frederick Vettese provides a surprising — and hopeful — answer. Through conversations between a young couple and their neighbor, a retired actuary, the couple and the reader discover: • How they would have fared had they been saving over various periods in the past, and how the future investment climate will differ • The problem with saving a constant percentage of pay • The Rule of 30 and why it is a more rational way to save • Whether investing in real estate is a viable alternative to investing in stocks The Rule of 30 changes the mindset from saving the same flat percentage of pay to saving when it is most convenient to your situation. In most cases, it means less saving early on while mortgage payments are high and children are costly, and more saving later. Saving for retirement is a high priority, but it is not the only priority in life. It is time to dispense with old myths like “just save 10% of your take-home pay.” The truth is we should save differently throughout our pre-retirement years — and The Rule of 30 is a road map for doing so.

Author : Catel,Veronique Grisseaux
Publisher : Humanoids Inc
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781594653612

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Bluesy Lucy - The Existential Chronicles of a Thirtysomething by Catel,Veronique Grisseaux Pdf

An intimate and moving tale about the contemporary choices of a thirtysomething woman.

Author : Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525510895

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Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • “A masterpiece” (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition Coming soon as an FX limited series on Hulu, starring Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Brody ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Entertainment Weekly, The New York Public Library ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Washington Post, USA Today Vanity Fair, Vogue, NPR, Chicago Tribune, GQ, Vox, Refinery29, Elle, The Guardian, Real Simple, Financial Times, Parade, Good Housekeeping, New Statesman, Marie Claire, Town & Country, Evening Standard, Thrillist, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, BookRiot, Shelf Awareness Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations. He could not have predicted that one day, in the middle of his summer of sexual emancipation, Rachel would just drop their two children off at his place and simply not return. He had been working so hard to find equilibrium in his single life. The winds of his optimism, long dormant, had finally begun to pick up. Now this. As Toby tries to figure out where Rachel went, all while juggling his patients at the hospital, his never-ending parental duties, and his new app-assisted sexual popularity, his tidy narrative of the spurned husband with the too-ambitious wife is his sole consolation. But if Toby ever wants to truly understand what happened to Rachel and what happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen things all that clearly in the first place. A searing, utterly unvarnished debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble is an insightful, unsettling, often hilarious exploration of a culture trying to navigate the fault lines of an institution that has proven to be worthy of our great wariness and our great hope. Alma’s Best Jewish Novel of the Year • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book

Author : Lisa Jewell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140279283

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Thirtynothing by Lisa Jewell Pdf

Ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into them twelve years later and realizing you still fancy them rotten. That’s exactly what happens to Dig Ryan when he sees Delilah again. Now imagine you’re Nadine. You and Dig have been best friends for fifteen years. And you’ve finally realized that you’re in love with him. So when Delilah – who always was your nemesis – returns, you’re mad with jealousy and can’t help behaving childishly. Like phoning your first love Phil – just to get your own back ... Thirty-Nothing is a story of ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends and friends dabbling with yesterday when they really should be thinking about today.

Author : Robert J. Thompson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0815605048

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Television's Second Golden Age by Robert J. Thompson Pdf

This is an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.

Author : Karen Tongson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479843992

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Normporn by Karen Tongson Pdf

An irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of “cry-along” sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are? Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood,Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Karen Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observers work through repeated declarations of a “new normal” and flash lifestyle trends like “normcore,” even as the absurdity, aberrance, and violence of our culture intensifies. Normporn allows us to process how the intimate traumas of everyday life depicted on certain TV shows—of love, life, death, and loss—are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments, from financial recessions and political crises to the pandemic. Normporn asks, what are queers to do—what is anyone to do, really—when we are forced to confront the fact of our own normalcy, and our own privilege, inherited or attained? The fantasies, the utopian impulses, and (paradoxically) the unreality of sentimental realist TV drama creates a productive tension that queer spectators in particular take pleasure in, even as—or precisely because—it lulls us into a sense of boredom and stability that we never thought we could want or have. .

Author : Paul Haggis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000016057128

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Thirtysomething by Paul Haggis Pdf

Author : Ren E Szmajlo
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618979315

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Diary of a Single Thirty-Something by Ren E Szmajlo Pdf

Take Carrie Bradshaw and combine her with Samantha Jones, and you've got Rachel. In Diary of a Single Thirty-Something: "31," Rachel begins a close relationship with her only reliable friend - her diary - and chronicles the ups and downs of being single and in your 30's in today's ever-changing society. While negotiating the single's landscape, Rachel's trials and tribulations with her indecisive brother, Caden, along with her husband-hunting best friend, Kacey, are also highlighted. Rachel's adventures in love are brought to life in this entertaining and insightful book, as she wonders if she might never settle for "settling down." Does Rachel want to consider falling into that potential trap? Will she ever change? Will marital bliss ever find her? Or is she destined to be single forever?

Author : Editors of Chase's
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781636710693

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Chase's Calendar of Events 2023 by Editors of Chase's Pdf

Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! The world’s date book since 1957, Chase's is the definitive, authoritative, day-by-day resource of what the world is celebrating. From national days to celebrity birthdays, from historical milestones to astronomical phenomena, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the must-have reference used by experts and professionals—a one-stop shop with 12,500 entries for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. Completely updated for 2023, Chase's also features extensive appendices as well as a companion website that puts the power of Chase's at the user's fingertips. 2023 is packed with special events and observances, including National days and public holidays of every nation on Earth Scores of new special days, weeks and months Famous birthdays of new world leaders, lauded authors and breakout celebrities Info on milestone anniversaries, such as the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the 125th anniversary of the Curies' discovery of radium, the 100th birth anniversary of Hank Williams, the 75th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, the 50th anniversary of Skylab Information on such special sporting events as the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin, Germany And much more! All from the reference book that Publishers Weekly calls "one of the most impressive reference volumes in the world."

Author : Editors of Chase's
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781641435048

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Chase's Calendar of Events 2022 by Editors of Chase's Pdf

Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! The world’s date book since 1957, Chase's is the definitive, authoritative, day-by-day resource of what the world is celebrating. From national days to celebrity birthdays, from historical milestones to astronomical phenomena, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the must-have reference used by experts and professionals—a one-stop shop with 12,500 entries for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. Completely updated for 2022, Chase's also features extensive appendices as well as a companion website that puts the power of Chase's at the user's fingertips. 2022 is packed with special events and observances, including National days and public holidays of every nation on Earth Scores of new special days, weeks and months Birthdays of new world leaders, lauded authors, and breakout celebrities Info on key anniversaries, such as the 200th birth anniversaryof Harriet Tubman, the 100th anniversary of the first insulin treatment, the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tut's tomb, the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color line, and the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone. And much more! All from the reference book that Publishers Weekly calls "one of the most impressive reference volumes in the world."