Nice Work If You Can Get It

Author : Celia Imrie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 163286665X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Nice Work (If You Can Get It) written by Celia Imrie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty and enchanting, the second novel from the well-loved actress and author of Not Quite Nice follows the hilarious exploits of expats in the South of France. Somewhere on the French Riviera, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and Cannes' red carpets, lies the pretty town of Bellevue-Sur-Mer. Sheltered from the glittering melee, it is home to many an expat--including an enterprising team who plan to open a new restaurant. Snapping up a local property and throwing themselves into preparations, Theresa, Carol, William and Benjamin's plans are proceeding unnervingly well. But when Theresa encounters a mysterious intruder, she begins to wonder what secrets the building is concealing. Meanwhile Sally, an actress who gave up the stage to live in quiet anonymity, has decided not to be involved. The famous Cannes Film Festival is on and she is far too busy entertaining unexpected visitors from her past, and an intriguingly handsome Russian. As the razzmatazz of the festival begins to spill over into Bellevue-Sur-Mer, its inhabitants become entangled in complex love triangles and conflicting business interests. With the race on to get the restaurant open in time, the gang find themselves knee-deep in skulduggery, and realize they can no longer tell who's nasty . . . and who's nice.

Author : Andrew Ross
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814776914
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Nice Work If You Can Get It written by Andrew Ross and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-10-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A survey into an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven global development Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that—a dream? In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys the new topography of the global workplace and finds an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven development on a massive scale. Combining detailed case studies with lucid analysis and graphic prose, he looks at what the new landscape of contingent employment means for workers across national, class, and racial lines—from the emerging “creative class” of high-wage professionals to the multitudes of temporary, migrant, or low-wage workers. Developing the idea of “precarious livelihoods” to describe this new world of work and life, Ross explores what it means in developed nations—comparing the creative industry policies of the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union, as well as developing countries—by examining the quickfire transformation of China’s labor market. He also responds to the challenge of sustainability, assessing the promise of “green jobs” through restorative alliances between labor advocates and environmentalists. Ross argues that regardless of one’s views on labor rights, globalization, and quality of life, this new precarious and “indefinite life,&” and the pitfalls and opportunities that accompany it is likely here to stay and must be addressed in a systematic way. A more equitable kind of knowledge society emerges in these pages—less skewed toward flexploitation and the speculative beneficiaries of intellectual property, and more in tune with ideals and practices that are fair, just, and renewable.

Author : Jason Brennan
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142143797X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Good Work If You Can Get It written by Jason Brennan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it really take to get a job in academia? Do you want to go to graduate school? Then you're in good company: nearly 80,000 students will begin pursuing a PhD this year alone. But while almost all new PhD students say they want to work in academia, most are destined for something else. The hard truth is that half will quit or fail to get their degree, and most graduates will never find a full-time academic job. In Good Work If You Can Get It, Jason Brennan combines personal experience with the latest higher education research to help you understand what graduate school and the academy are really like. This candid, pull-no-punches book answers questions big and small, including • Should I go to graduate school—and what will I do once I get there? • How much does a PhD cost—and should I pay for one? • What does it take to succeed in graduate school? • What kinds of jobs are there after grad school—and who gets them? • What happens to the people who never get full-time professorships? • What does it take to be productive, to publish continually at a high level? • What does it take to teach many classes at once? • How does "publish or perish" work? • How much do professors get paid? • What do search committees look for, and what turns them off? • How do I know which journals and book publishers matter? • How do I balance work and life? This realistic, data-driven look at university teaching and research will help make your graduate and postgraduate experience a success. Good Work If You Can Get It is the guidebook that anyone considering graduate school, already in grad school, starting as a new professor, or advising graduate students needs. Read it, and you will come away ready to hit the ground running.

Author : Celia Imrie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632860333
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Not Quite Nice written by Celia Imrie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice. With its beautiful villas, its bustling cafes and shimmering cerulean sea, the village sparkles like a diamond on the French Mediterranean coast. Once the hideaway of artists and writers, it is now home to the odd rock icon and Hollywood movie star, and, as Theresa soon discovers, a close-knit set of expats. There's Carol, the infinitely glamorous American and her doting husband David; the erstwhile British TV star Sally; the ferocious Sian and her wayward Australian poet husband; the sharply witty Zoe with her strangely youthful face and penchant for white wine – and the suave Brian who catches Theresa's eye. As Theresa settles to the gentle rhythm of seaside life she embraces her new-found friendships and freedom. However, life is never quite as simple as it seems and as skeletons start to fall out of several closets, Theresa begins to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as nice as it first appeared.

Author : Ira Gershwin
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879100940
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Lyrics on Several Occasions written by Ira Gershwin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most distinguished lyric-writers of his time, Ira Gershwin wrote for his brother George as well as Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen and others. Limelight presents a selection of stage and screen lyrics written for sundry situations and now arranged in arbitrary categories, to which have been added many informative annotations and disquistions on their why and wherefore, their whom-for, their how, and matters associative. "Gershwin's comments, witty and irreverent, and his anecdotes about the making of many favorites, are invariably interesting and frequently surprising." Chicago Tribune

Author : Susan Jedren
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307557367
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Let 'em Eat Cake written by Susan Jedren and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the heat in Brooklyn climbs to a hundred, there's only one thing worse than being a delivery man for HomeMade Cakes. It's being a delivery woman for Homemade. Because Anna, the feisty heroine of this earthy and irreverent novel, has to put up with things that her male co-workers can't imagine, from a boss who despises women to storekeepers who feel her up when they aren't trying to rip her off for the price of a carton of Chocos. As realized by Susan Jerden, Anna is a true representative of blue-collar, no-glitz New York, a valiant single mother, whose attempts to keep her head above water—and her dignity intact—are both hilarious and uplifting. Let 'Em Eat Cake is a novel for anyone who has ever worked at a demeaning job and dreamed of dancing on the merchandise, a book as real as a corner bodega and as refreshing as an open hydrant in the middle of a scolding summer.

Author : Various Authors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912332014
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Elvis Presley written by Various Authors and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Illustrated Limited Edition hardback book provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century Elvis Presley Follow the authoritative text charting the career of the man they call the King of Rock and Roll . We follow Presley from his carefree beginnings at Sun records to global ......

Author : Michael Feinstein
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786882205
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Nice Work If You Can Get It written by Michael Feinstein and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1996-11-14 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tribute to the great musical loves of his life, the popular musician and performer tells the story of his legendary career as America's favorite interpreter of classical popular music and his love affair with Tin Pan Alley and friendship with Ira Gershwin. Reprint.

Author : Joe DiPietro
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1480383260
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Nice Work If You Can Get It Vocal Songbook written by Joe DiPietro and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Selections). This musical featuring the music of George and Ira Gershwin opened on Broadway in 2012 starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara. Our vocal selections to "Broadway's funniest love story" include 21 songs: Blah, Blah, Blah * But Not for Me * Delishious * Fascinating Rhythm * I've Got a Crush on You * Let's Call the Whole Thing Off * Nice Work If You Can Get It * 'S Wonderful * Someone to Watch over Me * Sweet and Low-Down * They All Laughed * Treat Me Rough * Will You Remember Me? * and more.

Author :
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573680199
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Good News written by and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1974 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kennedy Center presents the Harry Rigby Production, Alice Faye, John Payne in the 30s musical comedy "Good News," book by Laurence Schwab, B.G. DeSylva, and Frank Mandel, words and music by DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson, also starring Stubby Kaye, with Marty Rolph, Scott Stevenson, Jana Robbins, Barbara Lail, Wayne Bryan, Joseph Burke, Tommy Breslin, settings designed by Donald Oenslager, costumes designed by Donald Brooks, lighting designed by Tharon Musser, sound designed by Tony Alloy, musical direction by Liza Redfield, orchestrations by Phillip J. Lang, musical supervision & vocal arrangements by Hugh Martin & Timothy Gray, dance music arranged & incidental music composed by Luther Henderson, associate producers Robert Anglund, Stan Hurwitz & Frank Mantalvo, assistant choreographer Arthur Faria, general managers Joseph Harris & Ira Bernstein, hair styles & make-up by Masarone, musical numbers staged by Donald Saddler, adaptation and direction by Abe Burrows.