Author: John Waters
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429944579
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify readers everywhere. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the playwright Tennessee Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to the insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena; from the English novelist Denton Welch to the timelessly appealing singer Johnny Mathis—these are the extreme figures who helped the author form his own brand of neurotic happiness. Role Models is a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse, and hilarious artistic minds of our time.
Role Models
Author: John Waters
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429944579
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify readers everywhere. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the playwright Tennessee Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to the insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena; from the English novelist Denton Welch to the timelessly appealing singer Johnny Mathis—these are the extreme figures who helped the author form his own brand of neurotic happiness. Role Models is a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse, and hilarious artistic minds of our time.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429944579
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify readers everywhere. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the playwright Tennessee Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to the insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena; from the English novelist Denton Welch to the timelessly appealing singer Johnny Mathis—these are the extreme figures who helped the author form his own brand of neurotic happiness. Role Models is a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse, and hilarious artistic minds of our time.
Role Models Who Look Like Me
Author: Jasmine M Cho
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692157978
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Stories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders missing from your history textbooks.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692157978
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Stories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders missing from your history textbooks.
Role Model
Author: Rachel Reid
Publisher: Carina Press
ISBN: 1488076987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid's next Game Changers hockey romance sees a grumpy professional hockey player meet his match in an out-and-proud social media manager… The hits just keep coming for Troy Barrett. Traded to the worst team in the league would be bad enough, but coming on the heels of a messy breakup and a recent scandal… Troy just wants to play hockey and be left alone. He definitely doesn’t want to “work on his online presence” with the team’s peppy social media manager. Harris Drover can tell standoffish Troy isn’t happy about the trade, but Harris doesn’t give up on people easily. Even when he’s developing a crush he’s sure is one-sided. And when he sees Troy’s smile finally crack through his grumpy exterior… That’s a man Harris couldn’t turn his back on if he wanted to. Suddenly, Troy’s move to the new team feels like an opportunity—for Troy to embrace his true self, and for both men to explore their growing attraction. But being together behind closed doors is one thing, and for Troy, being in a public relationship with Harris will mean facing off with his fears, once and for all. Game Changers Book 1: Game Changer Book 2: Heated Rivalry Book 3: Tough Guy Book 4: Common Goal Book 5: Role Model Book 6: The Long Game
Publisher: Carina Press
ISBN: 1488076987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid's next Game Changers hockey romance sees a grumpy professional hockey player meet his match in an out-and-proud social media manager… The hits just keep coming for Troy Barrett. Traded to the worst team in the league would be bad enough, but coming on the heels of a messy breakup and a recent scandal… Troy just wants to play hockey and be left alone. He definitely doesn’t want to “work on his online presence” with the team’s peppy social media manager. Harris Drover can tell standoffish Troy isn’t happy about the trade, but Harris doesn’t give up on people easily. Even when he’s developing a crush he’s sure is one-sided. And when he sees Troy’s smile finally crack through his grumpy exterior… That’s a man Harris couldn’t turn his back on if he wanted to. Suddenly, Troy’s move to the new team feels like an opportunity—for Troy to embrace his true self, and for both men to explore their growing attraction. But being together behind closed doors is one thing, and for Troy, being in a public relationship with Harris will mean facing off with his fears, once and for all. Game Changers Book 1: Game Changer Book 2: Heated Rivalry Book 3: Tough Guy Book 4: Common Goal Book 5: Role Model Book 6: The Long Game
Real Role Models
Author: Joah Spearman
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292718322
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Provides brief profiles of successful African Americans, from a variety of professions, including Rufus Cormier, Leonard Pitts, Jr., Beverly Kearney, and Steve Jones.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292718322
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Provides brief profiles of successful African Americans, from a variety of professions, including Rufus Cormier, Leonard Pitts, Jr., Beverly Kearney, and Steve Jones.
Girls Can Do Anything!
Author: Caryl Hart
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407191217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Do you want to climb a mountain? Drive a fire engine? Become prime minister? Join the girls in the pages of this book to see the incredible things they do every day and find out what you might like to do, too! A picture book for every girl with a dream.
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407191217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Do you want to climb a mountain? Drive a fire engine? Become prime minister? Join the girls in the pages of this book to see the incredible things they do every day and find out what you might like to do, too! A picture book for every girl with a dream.
Mirror Thinking
Author: Fiona Murden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472975812
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Parents, friends, teachers, relatives, and even work colleagues - from the people close to us to those we never even meet - other people are constantly shaping who we are.The mirror neuron is a part of the brain that has shaped each and every one of us throughout our lifetimes. It is the very essence of what makes us human, but most of us have never even heard of it. Mirror Thinking explores how the mirror neuron has defined us through the role models we observe and interact with. All of the learning we take from our world is down to our brain's mirror system, but it doesn't stop there. This incredible system is also responsible for our emotional connections with others, how we pass on learning between the generations through stories, and how we imagine and innovate within our own minds. In Mirror Thinking, psychologist and award-winning author Fiona Murden looks at the mirrors that have shaped our lives: parents, friends, teachers, relatives, and even work colleagues. From the people close to us to those we never even meet - other people are constantly shaping who we are. By having a better understanding of this system we are able to take conscious control of it, encouraging us to have a more positive impact on the world around us and on society as a whole.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472975812
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Parents, friends, teachers, relatives, and even work colleagues - from the people close to us to those we never even meet - other people are constantly shaping who we are.The mirror neuron is a part of the brain that has shaped each and every one of us throughout our lifetimes. It is the very essence of what makes us human, but most of us have never even heard of it. Mirror Thinking explores how the mirror neuron has defined us through the role models we observe and interact with. All of the learning we take from our world is down to our brain's mirror system, but it doesn't stop there. This incredible system is also responsible for our emotional connections with others, how we pass on learning between the generations through stories, and how we imagine and innovate within our own minds. In Mirror Thinking, psychologist and award-winning author Fiona Murden looks at the mirrors that have shaped our lives: parents, friends, teachers, relatives, and even work colleagues. From the people close to us to those we never even meet - other people are constantly shaping who we are. By having a better understanding of this system we are able to take conscious control of it, encouraging us to have a more positive impact on the world around us and on society as a whole.
Cicero's Role Models
Author: Henriette van der Blom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199582939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A study of the rhetorical and political strategy adopted by the Roman orator and statesman Cicero as a newcomer in Roman republican politics. Henriette van der Blom argues that Cicero advertised himself as a follower of chosen models of behaviour from the past - his role models - and in turn presented himself as a role model to others.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199582939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A study of the rhetorical and political strategy adopted by the Roman orator and statesman Cicero as a newcomer in Roman republican politics. Henriette van der Blom argues that Cicero advertised himself as a follower of chosen models of behaviour from the past - his role models - and in turn presented himself as a role model to others.
Michael Jordan
Author: Judy L. Hasday
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422204832
Category : Basketball players
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Biography profiles the life and career of former professional basketball player Michael Jordan, discussing his childhood, strong family ties, experiences playing college basketball, and legendary years with the Chicago Bulls.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422204832
Category : Basketball players
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Biography profiles the life and career of former professional basketball player Michael Jordan, discussing his childhood, strong family ties, experiences playing college basketball, and legendary years with the Chicago Bulls.
Role Models in the Roman World
Author: Sinclair Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780472115891
Category : Art, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The tendency of ancient Romans to look to mythical and historical figures for role models is everywhere evident in their surviving literary and material culture. This book broadens the horizon of the long-standing scholarly interest in role models in several ways, looking beyond the more familiar famous heroes---such as Achilles and Alexander the Great---and the paternal figures, both mythological and historical, that gave inspiration to later leaders and authors. From the adoption of specific aspects of a favored role model, to the creation of new visual languages for different social groups, to the deliberate counter of common models, this collection demonstrates the importance of exemplary figures in inspiring imitation and assimilation in the creation of new identities. Featuring world-renowned scholars and essays from a broad range of fields, including literature, art, and historiography, Role Models in the Roman World is a groundbreaking collection at the cusp of the newest scholarship of the classical world. "Role Models in the Roman World is an exciting collection, striking for the interdisciplinary range of its contributors and for their vigorous debates---indeed, strong disagreements---about ideas that are currently of fundamental importance in Roman studies: identity construction, exemplarity, memory, monumentality. In framing these crucial issues, and in displaying the range and diversity of current approaches to them, this collection will be useful to every student of the Roman world." ---Matthew Roller, Professor of Classics, Johns Hopkins University "This collection covers a full range of topics, from how the Romans interpreted their origins from the ashes of Troy on through themes in Roman literature, historiography, declamation, and art, ending with how Christians may have defined their self-presentation in part through reference to earlier, non-Christian models. The editors have shown themselves wonderfully adept at their task, and the result is a uniformly fine volume that will be widely consulted." ---Anthony Corbeill, Professor and Graduate Advisor, Department of Classics, University of Kansas "Significant essays by leading archaeologists, philologists, and art historians on a theme of central importance in the Roman world." ---Barbara Kellum, Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Smith College Jacket illustration: Side view of statue of Togato Barberini © Araldo de Luca/CORBIS
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780472115891
Category : Art, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The tendency of ancient Romans to look to mythical and historical figures for role models is everywhere evident in their surviving literary and material culture. This book broadens the horizon of the long-standing scholarly interest in role models in several ways, looking beyond the more familiar famous heroes---such as Achilles and Alexander the Great---and the paternal figures, both mythological and historical, that gave inspiration to later leaders and authors. From the adoption of specific aspects of a favored role model, to the creation of new visual languages for different social groups, to the deliberate counter of common models, this collection demonstrates the importance of exemplary figures in inspiring imitation and assimilation in the creation of new identities. Featuring world-renowned scholars and essays from a broad range of fields, including literature, art, and historiography, Role Models in the Roman World is a groundbreaking collection at the cusp of the newest scholarship of the classical world. "Role Models in the Roman World is an exciting collection, striking for the interdisciplinary range of its contributors and for their vigorous debates---indeed, strong disagreements---about ideas that are currently of fundamental importance in Roman studies: identity construction, exemplarity, memory, monumentality. In framing these crucial issues, and in displaying the range and diversity of current approaches to them, this collection will be useful to every student of the Roman world." ---Matthew Roller, Professor of Classics, Johns Hopkins University "This collection covers a full range of topics, from how the Romans interpreted their origins from the ashes of Troy on through themes in Roman literature, historiography, declamation, and art, ending with how Christians may have defined their self-presentation in part through reference to earlier, non-Christian models. The editors have shown themselves wonderfully adept at their task, and the result is a uniformly fine volume that will be widely consulted." ---Anthony Corbeill, Professor and Graduate Advisor, Department of Classics, University of Kansas "Significant essays by leading archaeologists, philologists, and art historians on a theme of central importance in the Roman world." ---Barbara Kellum, Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Smith College Jacket illustration: Side view of statue of Togato Barberini © Araldo de Luca/CORBIS
Transgender Role Models and Pioneers
Author: Barbra Penne
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1508171866
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
This title profiles a host of accomplished transgender people who have made their names in a wide range of fields, including sports, politics, activism, entertainment, and the arts. It includes historical pioneers--such as Christine Jorgensen, Marsha P. Johnson, and Sylvia Rivera--as well as present-day figures--such as Lana and Lilly Wachowski, Kye Allums, and Laverne Cox.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1508171866
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
This title profiles a host of accomplished transgender people who have made their names in a wide range of fields, including sports, politics, activism, entertainment, and the arts. It includes historical pioneers--such as Christine Jorgensen, Marsha P. Johnson, and Sylvia Rivera--as well as present-day figures--such as Lana and Lilly Wachowski, Kye Allums, and Laverne Cox.