Author: Basetsana Kumalo
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1776094824
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Basetsana Kumalo shot to fame as Miss South Africa in 1994 and soon became the face of South Africa’s new democracy. As the first black presenter of the glamorous lifestyle TV show Top Billing, she travelled the world and interviewed legends like Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson and Luther Vandross. After a successful career in front of the camera, Bassie’s drive and ambition took her into the world of business and entrepreneurship. The street savvy that her entrepreneurial mother bestowed on her as a child stood her in good stead as she built a media empire. In Bassie – My Journey of Hope, Bassie recounts her life journey, including her relationships with mentors like Nelson Mandela. She also shares the secrets of her success and all the lessons she’s learnt along the way. She opens up about the pressures of her high-profile marriage to Romeo Kumalo and their heartbreaking struggle to have a family. She talks honestly about motherhood and maintaining a healthy work/life balance, and unpacks how she pays it forward through mentoring young people she has met along the way.Bassie also describes the legal battles she has had to wage in order to protect her name and her brand over the years. She gives a chilling account of the stalker who has harassed her for decades, and the spurious ‘sex-tape’ allegation that rocked her family and almost destroyed her career. Bassie’s enthusiasm, humour and hope infuses every page of her memoir, making it an intimate, inspiring and entertaining account of a remarkable life.
Bassie
Author: Basetsana Kumalo
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1776094824
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Basetsana Kumalo shot to fame as Miss South Africa in 1994 and soon became the face of South Africa’s new democracy. As the first black presenter of the glamorous lifestyle TV show Top Billing, she travelled the world and interviewed legends like Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson and Luther Vandross. After a successful career in front of the camera, Bassie’s drive and ambition took her into the world of business and entrepreneurship. The street savvy that her entrepreneurial mother bestowed on her as a child stood her in good stead as she built a media empire. In Bassie – My Journey of Hope, Bassie recounts her life journey, including her relationships with mentors like Nelson Mandela. She also shares the secrets of her success and all the lessons she’s learnt along the way. She opens up about the pressures of her high-profile marriage to Romeo Kumalo and their heartbreaking struggle to have a family. She talks honestly about motherhood and maintaining a healthy work/life balance, and unpacks how she pays it forward through mentoring young people she has met along the way.Bassie also describes the legal battles she has had to wage in order to protect her name and her brand over the years. She gives a chilling account of the stalker who has harassed her for decades, and the spurious ‘sex-tape’ allegation that rocked her family and almost destroyed her career. Bassie’s enthusiasm, humour and hope infuses every page of her memoir, making it an intimate, inspiring and entertaining account of a remarkable life.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1776094824
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Basetsana Kumalo shot to fame as Miss South Africa in 1994 and soon became the face of South Africa’s new democracy. As the first black presenter of the glamorous lifestyle TV show Top Billing, she travelled the world and interviewed legends like Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson and Luther Vandross. After a successful career in front of the camera, Bassie’s drive and ambition took her into the world of business and entrepreneurship. The street savvy that her entrepreneurial mother bestowed on her as a child stood her in good stead as she built a media empire. In Bassie – My Journey of Hope, Bassie recounts her life journey, including her relationships with mentors like Nelson Mandela. She also shares the secrets of her success and all the lessons she’s learnt along the way. She opens up about the pressures of her high-profile marriage to Romeo Kumalo and their heartbreaking struggle to have a family. She talks honestly about motherhood and maintaining a healthy work/life balance, and unpacks how she pays it forward through mentoring young people she has met along the way.Bassie also describes the legal battles she has had to wage in order to protect her name and her brand over the years. She gives a chilling account of the stalker who has harassed her for decades, and the spurious ‘sex-tape’ allegation that rocked her family and almost destroyed her career. Bassie’s enthusiasm, humour and hope infuses every page of her memoir, making it an intimate, inspiring and entertaining account of a remarkable life.
Expressionism
Author: Ashley Bassie
Publisher: Parkstone International
ISBN: 1783103264
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in early twentieth-century Germany and Austria: Expressionism. This publication introduces these artists and their work. The author, art historian Ashley Bassie, explains how Expressionist art led the way to a new, intense, evocative treatment of psychological, emotional and social themes in the early twentieth century. The book examines the developments of Expressionism and its key works, highlighting the often intensely subjective imagery and the aspirations and conflicts from which it emerged while focusing precisely on the artists of the movement.
Publisher: Parkstone International
ISBN: 1783103264
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in early twentieth-century Germany and Austria: Expressionism. This publication introduces these artists and their work. The author, art historian Ashley Bassie, explains how Expressionist art led the way to a new, intense, evocative treatment of psychological, emotional and social themes in the early twentieth century. The book examines the developments of Expressionism and its key works, highlighting the often intensely subjective imagery and the aspirations and conflicts from which it emerged while focusing precisely on the artists of the movement.
The Night Journal
Author: Elizabeth Crook
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101042109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy With its family secrets and hallowed texts containing explosive truths, The Night Journal suggests A. S. Byatt’s Possession transplanted to the raw and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest. Meg Mabry has spent her life oppressed by her family’s legacy—a heritage beginning with the journals written by her great-grandmother in the 1890s and solidified by her grandmother Bassie, a famous historian who published them to great acclaim. Until now, Meg has stubbornly refused to read the journals. But when she concedes to accompany the elderly and vipertongued Bassie on a return trip to the fabled land of her childhood in New Mexico, Meg finally succumbs to the allure of her great-grandmother’s story—and soon everything she believed about her family is turned upside down.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101042109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy With its family secrets and hallowed texts containing explosive truths, The Night Journal suggests A. S. Byatt’s Possession transplanted to the raw and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest. Meg Mabry has spent her life oppressed by her family’s legacy—a heritage beginning with the journals written by her great-grandmother in the 1890s and solidified by her grandmother Bassie, a famous historian who published them to great acclaim. Until now, Meg has stubbornly refused to read the journals. But when she concedes to accompany the elderly and vipertongued Bassie on a return trip to the fabled land of her childhood in New Mexico, Meg finally succumbs to the allure of her great-grandmother’s story—and soon everything she believed about her family is turned upside down.
January 1950 Economic Report of the President
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steel industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steel industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Ragamo Today
Author: Paul Massiet
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490752722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 919
Book Description
The book is all about the challenges in life, the story starts with Lee Goodmans 1st day as a CEO of the Goodman Metropolitan advertising agency. Sitting at his desk reminiscing the past.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490752722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 919
Book Description
The book is all about the challenges in life, the story starts with Lee Goodmans 1st day as a CEO of the Goodman Metropolitan advertising agency. Sitting at his desk reminiscing the past.
Economic Report of the President
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Economic Report
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Time Marches on
Author: James Terry Hall
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595011225
Category : Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Time Marches On is the story of the coming together of two families. The Hall Family, from a rural south central Kentucky community, and the Cochran Family, from the mountains of western North Carolina. This is the author’s attempt to gain a larger perspective of life by recording events from the past passed down through folklore. Further, it is the author’s desire that accounts of the past will not only give the personal strength necessary to sustain the present and to provide hope for the future, but in some small way, will help all who read this book. James Terry Hall received his doctorate in educational administration from the University of North Carolina. He has been a teacher, principal, director/supervisor, minister, emergency medical technician, firefighter, drag racer, and pilot. He said that of all things he has experienced, being a part of a family is by far the most important. He lives with his wife, Patricia, in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595011225
Category : Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Time Marches On is the story of the coming together of two families. The Hall Family, from a rural south central Kentucky community, and the Cochran Family, from the mountains of western North Carolina. This is the author’s attempt to gain a larger perspective of life by recording events from the past passed down through folklore. Further, it is the author’s desire that accounts of the past will not only give the personal strength necessary to sustain the present and to provide hope for the future, but in some small way, will help all who read this book. James Terry Hall received his doctorate in educational administration from the University of North Carolina. He has been a teacher, principal, director/supervisor, minister, emergency medical technician, firefighter, drag racer, and pilot. He said that of all things he has experienced, being a part of a family is by far the most important. He lives with his wife, Patricia, in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2056
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2056
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
The Economic Report of the President
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description