Perpetually Cool

Author : Anthony B. Chan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461670411
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perpetually Cool written by Anthony B. Chan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna May Wong was an extraordinary Asian American woman who became the country's most famous film actress of Chinese descent. From small parts in silent films to starring roles in Hollywood and across the Atlantic, Wong made an impression on audiences of all persuasions. In Perpetually Cool, Anthony Chan takes the reader on a compelling journey through Wong's early years in Los Angeles and her first Hollywood pictures. Chan also examines the scope and nature of race, gender, and power and their impact on Wong's personal growth as a Chinese American. Perpetually Cool is not only the captivating story of a cinematic career, but also of roots and identity, as it recounts Wong's desire to connect with her heritage in the United States and in China. Chan provides extensive textual analyses of Wong's signature films, especially The Toll of the Sea (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) with Douglas Fairbanks, and her most famous role as Hui Fei in Shanghai Express (1932), opposite Marlene Dietrich. Perpetually Cool is a fitting tribute to the influence of this Chinese American icon.

Author : Salvatore Basile
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823261786
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cool written by Salvatore Basile and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a contraption that makes the lists of “Greatest Inventions Ever”; at the same time, it’s accused of causing global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people’s food habits to their voting patterns, to even the way big business washes its windows. It has saved countless lives . . . while causing countless deaths. Most of us are glad it’s there. But we don’t know how, or when, it got there. It’s air conditioning. For thousands of years, humankind attempted to do something about the slow torture of hot weather. Everything was tried: water power, slave power, electric power, ice made from steam engines and cold air made from deadly chemicals, “zephyrifers,” refrigerated beds, ventilation amateurs and professional air-sniffers. It wasn’t until 1902 when an engineer barely out of college developed the “Apparatus for Treating Air”—a machine that could actually cool the indoors—and everyone assumed it would instantly change the world. That wasn’t the case. There was a time when people “ignored” hot weather while reading each day’s list of heat-related deaths, women wore furs in the summertime, heatstroke victims were treated with bloodletting . . . and the notion of a machine to cool the air was considered preposterous, even sinful. The story of air conditioning is actually two stories: the struggle to perfect a cooling device, and the effort to convince people that they actually needed such a thing. With a cast of characters ranging from Leonardo da Vinci and Richard Nixon to Felix the Cat, Cool showcases the myriad reactions to air conditioning— some of them dramatic, many others comical and wonderfully inconsistent—as it was developed and presented to the world. Here is a unique perspective on air conditioning’s fascinating history: how we rely so completely on it today, and how it might change radically tomorrow.

Author : Steve Stoute
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 1592407382
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tanning of America written by Steve Stoute and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces how the "tanning" phenomenon raised a generation of black, Hispanic, white, and Asian consumers who have the same "mental complexion" based on shared experiences and values. This consumer is a mindset-not a race or age-that responds to shared values and experiences, rather than the increasingly irrelevant demographic boxes that have been used to a fault by corporate America."--

Author : James Bruce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile written by James Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George ANSON (Baron Anson.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Voyage round the World, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson ... Compiled ... by Richard Walter and Benjamin Robins ... Illustrated with forty-two copper-plates. The fifth edition written by George ANSON (Baron Anson.) and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Tomes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panama in 1855 written by Robert Tomes and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve Chalke
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310862639
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Church written by Steve Chalke and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘As St. John of the Cross said: “Mission is putting love where love is not.” This book is full of ideas. It should prompt us all to examine the effectiveness of the way local churches are organized.’—The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York ‘Everything that Steve Chalke writes is insightful and cutting-edge. Here he argues in favor of a church that thinks and acts in ways that make the Kingdom of God visible and reasonable in a secular society.’--Tony Campolo, PhD Eastern University, Pennsylvania, USA The task of the Church is “to be the irrefutable demonstration and proof of the fact that God is love,” claims Steve Chalke. An intelligent church intentionally connects the Bible and its twenty-first-century culture, is authentic and, most importantly, has thought through its practice. In other words, the way it does church is a reflection of its understanding of who God is. This foundational issue must be addressed by pastors, church and ministry leaders, small group leaders and others as we continue to grapple with the shape of effective church in the postmodern, post-Christian West. As Chalke unpacks central theological concepts, such as the incarnation, human sinfulness and the Trinity, he points us to the corresponding characteristics of an intelligent church, such as inclusiveness, messiness and diversity. Each thought-provoking chapter concludes with a ‘Yes but How?’ section, which gives practical suggestions for moving your church along this path.

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374718237
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cool for America written by Andrew Martin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the world of his classic-in-the-making debut novel Early Work, Andrew Martin’s Cool for America is a hilarious collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic ambition and its achievement The collection is bookended by the misadventures of Leslie, a young woman (first introduced in Early Work) who moves from New York to Missoula, Montana to try to draw herself out of a lingering depression, and, over the course of the book, gains painful insight into herself through a series of intense friendships and relationships. Other stories follow young men and women, alone and in couples, pushing hard against, and often crashing into, the limits of their abilities as writers and partners. In one story, two New Jersey siblings with substance-abuse problems relapse together on Christmas Eve; in another, a young couple tries to make sense of an increasingly unhinged veterinarian who seems to be tapping, deliberately or otherwise, into the unspoken troubles between them. In tales about characters as they age from punk shows and benders to book clubs and art museums, the promise of community acts—at least temporarily—as a stay against despair. Running throughout Cool for America is the characters’ yearning for transcendence through art: the hope that, maybe, the perfect, or even just the good-enough sentence, can finally make things right.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George ANSON (Baron Anson.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV ... Compiled ... by Richard Walter ... The fifteenth edition written by George ANSON (Baron Anson.) and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: