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A behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most extraordinary
martial artist of all time--Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee: The Celebrated
Life of the Golden Dragon is a photographic catalog of all facets
of this fascinating man, from the start of his career to his
untimely and tragic death in 1973. This book reveals a quiet family
man behind the charismatic public persona. It shows the real Bruce
Lee--the man who was so much more than an international film and
martial arts celebrity. This brilliant photo essay--compiled and
edited by Bruce Lee expert John Little with the assistance of Lee's
widow, Linda Lee Cadwell--reveals never-before-published family
photos, including rare photos of Bruce's childhood in Hong Kong.
Tender moments with his children are caught on camera, and action
shots from his martial arts films are shown. With a preface by his
daughter Shannon Lee and a foreword by wife Linda, the text is
drawn directly from Bruce Lee's own diaries and journals. Based on
the award-winning Warner Bros. documentary, Bruce Lee: In His Own
Words, sections include: Chronology of the Life of Bruce Lee Early
Years--why he began studying gung fu (kung fu) and took up wing
chun, his first starring role, and his return to the US
Hollywood--why he got the part in The Green Hornet, teaching Steve
McQueen, James Coburn and Stirling Silliphant, filming Enter the
Dragon, The Way of the Dragon, Fist of Fury and more, training and
acting with Chuck Norris, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dean Martin and
Sharon Tate, and the creation of Jeet Kune Do (JKD) Family--meeting
Linda, having children, daily life This Bruce Lee Book is part of
Tuttle Publishing's Bruce Lee Library which also features: Bruce
Lee's Striking Thoughts Bruce Lee's The Tao of Gung Fu Bruce Lee
Artist of Life Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon Bruce Lee: The Art
of Expressing the Human Body Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do
A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face
of death in contemporary life Death in the United States is
undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen,
dissected, composted, dissolved, or tanned. Your family can
incorporate your remains into jewelry, shotgun shells,
paperweights, and artwork. Cremations have more than doubled, and
DIY home funerals and green burials are on the rise. American
Afterlives is Shannon Lee Dawdy's lyrical and compassionate account
of changing death practices in America as people face their own
mortality and search for a different kind of afterlife. As an
anthropologist and archaeologist, Dawdy knows that how a society
treats its dead yields powerful clues about its beliefs and values.
As someone who has experienced loss herself, she knows there is no
way to tell this story without also reexamining her own views about
death and dying. In this meditative and gently humorous book, Dawdy
embarks on a transformative journey across the United States,
talking to funeral directors, death-care entrepreneurs, designers,
cemetery owners, death doulas, and ordinary people from all walks
of life. What she discovers is that, by reinventing death,
Americans are reworking their ideas about personhood, ritual, and
connection across generations. She also confronts the seeming
contradiction that American death is becoming at the same time more
materialistic and more spiritual. Written in conjunction with a
documentary film project, American Afterlives features images by
cinematographer Daniel Zox that provide their own testament to our
rapidly changing attitudes toward death and the afterlife.
Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life
philosophies, and how we can apply his teachings to our daily lives
'Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water' Bruce Lee is a
cultural icon, world renowned for his martial arts and film legacy.
But Lee was also a deeply philosophical thinker, believing that
martial arts are more than just an exercise in physical discipline
- they are a perfect metaphor for personal growth. In Be Water, My
Friend, Shannon Lee shares previously untold stories from her
father's life along with the concepts at the core of his teachings.
Each chapter reveals a lesson from Bruce Lee, expanding on the
foundation of his iconic 'be water' philosophy to reveal a path to
an enlightened way of being. This is an inspirational call to
action to consider our lives with new eyes and a testament to Lee's
unique power to ignite our imaginations and transform our lives.
The luck runs rough around Theo Waitley. Not only are people trying
to kill her and capture the self-aware intelligent ship Bechimo to
whom Theo is bonded, they're also trying to arrest her crew
members, and throw the dignity of an importa
A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face
of death in contemporary life Death in the United States is
undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen,
dissected, composted, dissolved, or tanned. Your family can
incorporate your remains into jewelry, shotgun shells,
paperweights, and artwork. Cremations have more than doubled, and
DIY home funerals and green burials are on the rise. American
Afterlives is Shannon Lee Dawdy’s lyrical and compassionate
account of changing death practices in America as people face their
own mortality and search for a different kind of afterlife. As an
anthropologist and archaeologist, Dawdy knows that how a society
treats its dead yields powerful clues about its beliefs and values.
As someone who has experienced loss herself, she knows there is no
way to tell this story without also reexamining her own views about
death and dying. In this meditative and gently humorous book, Dawdy
embarks on a transformative journey across the United States,
talking to funeral directors, death-care entrepreneurs, designers,
cemetery owners, death doulas, and ordinary people from all walks
of life. What she discovers is that, by reinventing death,
Americans are reworking their ideas about personhood, ritual, and
connection across generations. She also confronts the seeming
contradiction that American death is becoming at the same time more
materialistic and more spiritual. Written in conjunction with a
documentary film project, American Afterlives features images by
cinematographer Daniel Zox that provide their own testament to our
rapidly changing attitudes toward death and the afterlife.
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Patina (Paperback)
Shannon Lee Dawdy
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R855
Discovery Miles 8 550
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the world reacted with
shock on seeing residents of this distinctive city left abandoned
to the floodwaters. After the last rescue was completed, a new
worry arose--that New Orleans's unique historic fabric sat in
ruins, and we had lost one of the most charming old cities of the
New World. In Patina, anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy examines
what was lost and found through the destruction of Hurricane
Katrina. Tracking the rich history and unique physicality of New
Orleans, she explains how it came to adopt the nickname "the
antique city." With innovative applications of thing theory, Patina
studies the influence of specific items--such as souvenirs,
heirlooms, and Hurricane Katrina ruins--to explore how the city's
residents use material objects to comprehend time, history, and
their connection to one another. A leading figure in archaeology of
the contemporary, Dawdy draws on material evidence, archival and
literary texts, and dozens of post-Katrina interviews to explore
how the patina aesthetic informs a trenchant political critique. An
intriguing study of the power of everyday objects, Patina
demonstrates how sharing in the care of a historic landscape can
unite a city's population--despite extreme divisions of class and
race--and inspire civil camaraderie based on a nostalgia that
offers not a return to the past but an alternative future.
The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued by today's
rapidly changing death practices and attitudes. New and different
ways of treating the body and memorializing the dead are
proliferating across global cities. Using ethnographic, historical,
and media-based approaches, the contributors to this volume focus
on new attitudes and practices around mortality and mourning--from
the possibilities of digitally enhanced afterlives to
industrialized "necro-waste," the ethics of care, the meaning of
secular rituals, and the political economy of death. Together, the
chapters coalesce around the argument that there are two major
currents running through the new death--reconfigurations of
temporality and of intimacy. Pushing back against the
folklorization endemic to anthropological studies of death
practices and the whiteness of death studies as a field, the
chapters strive to override divisions between the Global South and
the Anglophone world, focusing instead on syncretization,
globalization, and magic within the mundane.
"Building the Devil's Empire" is the first comprehensive history
of New Orleans's early years, tracing the town's development from
its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768.
Shannon Lee Dawdy's picaresque account of New Orleans's wild youth
features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles,
sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. But she also widens
her lens to reveal the port city's global significance, examining
its role in the French Empire and the Caribbean, and she concludes
that by exemplifying a kind of rogue colonialism--where
governments, outlaws, and capitalism become entwined--New Orleans
should prompt us to reconsider our notions of how colonialism
works.
" A] penetrating study of the colony's founding."--"Nation"
""
"A brilliant and spirited reinterpretation of the emergence of
French New Orleans. Dawdy leads us deep into the daily life of the
city, and along the many paths that connected it to France, the
North American interior, and the Greater Caribbean. A major
contribution to our understanding of the history of the Americas
and of the French Atlantic, the work is also a model of
interdisciplinary research and analysis, skillfully bringing
together archival research, archaeology, and literary
analysis."--Laurent Dubois, Duke University
A behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most extraordinary
martial artist of all time--Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee: The Celebrated
Life of the Golden Dragon is an illustrated biography of this
fascinating martial artist and movie star, from the start of his
career to his untimely and tragic death in 1973. This book reveals
a quiet family man behind the charismatic public persona. It shows
the real Bruce Lee--the man who was so much more than an
international film and martial arts celebrity. This brilliant photo
essay--compiled and edited by Bruce Lee expert John Little with the
assistance of Lee's widow, Linda Lee Cadwell--reveals
never-before-published family photos, including rare photos of
Bruce's childhood in Hong Kong. Tender moments with his children
are caught on camera, and action shots from his martial arts films
are shown. With a preface by his daughter Shannon Lee and a
foreword by wife Linda, the text is drawn directly from Bruce Lee's
own diaries and journals. Based on the award-winning Warner Bros.
documentary, Bruce Lee: In His Own Words, sections include:
Chronology of the Life of Bruce Lee Early Years--why he began
studying gung fu (kung fu) and took up wing chun, his first
starring role, and his return to the US Hollywood--why he got the
part in The Green Hornet, teaching Steve McQueen, James Coburn and
Stirling Silliphant, filming Enter the Dragon, The Way of the
Dragon, Fist of Fury and more, training and acting with Chuck
Norris, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dean Martin and Sharon Tate, and the
creation of Jeet Kune Do (JKD) Family--meeting Linda, having
children and daily life This Bruce Lee Book is part of the Bruce
Lee Library which also features: Bruce Lee: Striking Thoughts Bruce
Lee: The Tao of Gung Fu Bruce Lee: Artist of Life Bruce Lee:
Letters of the Dragon Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human
Body Bruce Lee: Jeet Kune Do
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