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Beautiful Wave (DVD)
Aimee Teegarden, Patricia Richardson, Lance Henriksen, Helen Slater, Bart Johnson, …
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Coming of age adventure feature following the experiences of a
young woman who embarks on a journey of self-discovery when she
goes to stay with her grandmother for the summer holidays. Nicole
(Aimee Teegarden) is a quiet, slightly bookish teenager from New
York. Her grandmother, Sue (Patricia Richardson), lives a very
different life. As the owner of a California surf shop, she
presents a fresh environment for her granddaughter and encourages
her to try surfing herself. Nicole gradually begins to emerge from
her shell and even plans a road trip to Mexico, where the discovery
of a long-buried family secret shakes her world even more...
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock Edward White explores the
Hitchcock phenomenon-what defines it, how it was invented, what it
reveals about the man at its core and how its legacy continues to
shape our cultural world. The book's twelve chapters illuminate
different aspects of Hitchcock's life and work: "The Boy Who
Couldn't Grow Up"; "The Murderer"; "The Auteur"; "The Womanizer";
"The Fat Man"; "The Dandy"; "The Family Man"; "The Voyeur"; "The
Entertainer"; "The Pioneer"; "The Londoner"; "The Man of God". Each
of these angles reveals something fundamental about the man he was
and the mythological creature he has become, presenting not just
the life Hitchcock lived, but also the various versions of himself
that he projected and those projected on his behalf. White's
portrayal illuminates a vital truth: Hitchcock was more than a
Hollywood titan; he was the definitive modern artist and his
significance reaches far beyond the confines of cinema.
Post-occupancy evaluation, focusing on building's occupants and
their needs, provides insight into the consequences of past design
decisions and forms a sound basis for creating better buildings in
the future. This book, first published in 1988, includes a review
of the evolution of the field, a conceptual frame-work for POE, and
pragmatic information on planning, conducting, and reporting POEs.
Post-Occupancy Evaluation categorizes the approaches to building
evaluation by describing the three levels of POE effort -
indicative, investigative, and diagnostic, each differing in terms
of time, resources, and personnel needed. In its scope
Post-Occupancy Evaluation is both comprehensive and specific;
professionals in the design and planning disciplines will find it
an invaluable resource for understanding the theory behind POE's
and the procedures needed to put the theory into practice.
Design Intervention: Toward a More Humane Architecture, first
published in 1991, intends to demonstrate that interest in social
issues is alive and well in architecture, that there is a small but
effective cadre of dedicated professionals who continue to commit
themselves to solving social problems, and that architecture is
being applied to the alleviation of the social ills of our time.
The editors and contributors in this book have all grappled with
their own definitions of design innovation, and express in
practical and useful ways their ideas for contributing to a better
and less needy world through the architecture they describe. This
book will be of interest to students of architecture.
Post-occupancy evaluation, focusing on building's occupants and
their needs, provides insight into the consequences of past design
decisions and forms a sound basis for creating better buildings in
the future. This book, first published in 1988, includes a review
of the evolution of the field, a conceptual frame-work for POE, and
pragmatic information on planning, conducting, and reporting POEs.
Post-Occupancy Evaluation categorizes the approaches to building
evaluation by describing the three levels of POE effort -
indicative, investigative, and diagnostic, each differing in terms
of time, resources, and personnel needed. In its scope
Post-Occupancy Evaluation is both comprehensive and specific;
professionals in the design and planning disciplines will find it
an invaluable resource for understanding the theory behind POE's
and the procedures needed to put the theory into practice.
Design Intervention: Toward a More Humane Architecture, first
published in 1991, intends to demonstrate that interest in social
issues is alive and well in architecture, that there is a small but
effective cadre of dedicated professionals who continue to commit
themselves to solving social problems, and that architecture is
being applied to the alleviation of the social ills of our time.
The editors and contributors in this book have all grappled with
their own definitions of design innovation, and express in
practical and useful ways their ideas for contributing to a better
and less needy world through the architecture they describe. This
book will be of interest to students of architecture.
In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock Edward White explores the
Hitchcock phenomenon-what defines it, how it was invented, what it
reveals about the man at its core and how its legacy continues to
shape our cultural world. The book's twelve chapters illuminate
different aspects of Hitchcock's life and work: "The Boy Who
Couldn't Grow Up"; "The Murderer"; "The Auteur"; "The Womanizer";
"The Fat Man"; "The Dandy"; "The Family Man"; "The Voyeur"; "The
Entertainer"; "The Pioneer"; "The Londoner"; "The Man of God". Each
of these angles reveals something fundamental about the man he was
and the mythological creature he has become, presenting not just
the life Hitchcock lived, but also the various versions of himself
that he projected and those projected on his behalf. White's
portrayal illuminates a vital truth: Hitchcock was more than a
Hollywood titan; he was the definitive modern artist and his
significance reaches far beyond the confines of cinema.
2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Soccer in American
Culture: The Beautiful Game’s Struggle for Status, G. Edward
White seeks to answer two questions. The first is why the sport of
soccer failed to take root in the United States when it spread from
England around much of the rest of the world in the late nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. The second is why the sport has had a
significant renaissance in America since the last decade of the
twentieth century, to the point where it is now the 4th largest
participatory sport in the United States and is thriving, in both
men’s and women’s versions, at the high school, college, and
professional levels. White considers the early history of
“Association football” (soccer) in England, the persistent
struggles by the sport to establish itself in America for much of
the twentieth century, the role of public high schools and colleges
in marginalizing the sport, the part played by FIFA, the
international organization charged with developing soccer around
the globe, in encumbering the development of the sport in the
United States, and the unusual history of women’s soccer in
America, which evolved in the twentieth century from a virtually
nonexistent sport to a major factor in the emergence of men’s--as
well as women's--soccer in the U.S. in the twentieth century.
Incorporating insights from sociology and economics, White explores
the multiple factors that have resulted in the sport of soccer
struggling to achieve major status in America and why it currently
has nothing like the cultural impact of other popular American
sports--baseball and American football--which can be seen by the
comparative lack of attention paid to it in sports media, its low
television ratings, and virtually nonexistent radio broadcast
coverage.
A revealing biography of the influential and controversial
cultural titan who embodied an era
"The Tastemaker" explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the
most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth
century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a
photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who
created some of the Jazz Age's most salacious stories. A close
confidant of Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, George Gershwin, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, and the Knopfs, Van Vechten frolicked in the
1920s Manhattan demimonde, finding himself in Harlem's jazz clubs,
Hell's Kitchen's speakeasies, and Greenwich Village's underground
gay scene. New York City was a hotbed of vice as well as
creativity, and Van Vechten was at the center of it all.Edward
White's biography--the first comprehensive biography of Carl Van
Vechten in nearly half a century, and the first to fully explore
Van Vechten's tangled relationship to race and sexuality--depicts a
controversial figure who defined an age. Embodying many of the
contradictions of modern America, Van Vechten was a devoted husband
with a coterie of boys by his side, a supporter of difficult art
who also loved lowbrow entertainment, and a promoter of the Harlem
Renaissance whose bestselling novel--and especially its
title--infuriated many of the same African-American artists he
championed. Van Vechten's defense of what many Americans considered
bad taste--modernist literature, African-American culture, and
sexual self-expression--created a popular appetite for these
quintessential elements of American art. "The Tastemaker"
encompasses its subject's private fears and longings, as well as
Manhattan's raucous, taboo-busting social scene of which he was
such a central part. It is a remarkable portrait of a man whose
brave journeys across boundaries of race, sexuality, and taste
helped make America fully modern.
At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to
a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational
business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the
owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed
baseball into the national pastime. Not simply a professional
sport, baseball has been treated as a focus of childhood rituals
and an emblem of American individuality and fair play throughout
much of the twentieth century. It started out, however, as a
marginal urban sport associated with drinking and gambling. White
describes its progression to an almost mythic status as an idyllic
game, popular among people of all ages and classes. He then
recounts the owner's efforts, often supported by the legal system,
to preserve this image.
Baseball grew up in the midst of urban industrialization during
the Progressive Era, and the emerging steel and concrete baseball
parks encapsulated feelings of neighborliness and associations with
the rural leisure of bygone times. According to White, these
nostalgic themes, together with personal financial concerns, guided
owners toward practices that in retrospect appear unfair to players
and detrimental to the progress of the game. Reserve clauses,
blacklisting, and limiting franchise territories, for example, were
meant to keep a consistent roster of players on a team, build fan
loyalty, and maintain the game's local flavor. These practices also
violated anti-trust laws and significantly restricted the economic
power of the players. Owners vigorously fought against innovations,
ranging from the night games and radio broadcasts to the inclusion
of African-American players. Nonetheless, the image of baseball as
a spirited civic endeavor persisted, even in the face of outright
corruption, as witnessed in the courts' leniency toward the
participants in the Black Sox scandal of 1919.
White's story of baseball is intertwined with changes in
technology and business in America and with changing attitudes
toward race and ethnicity. The time is fast approaching, he
concludes, when we must consider whether baseball is still regarded
as the national pastime and whether protecting its image is worth
the effort.
Volume 2 of this series contains an anthology of research studies into various aspects of community psychiatric nursing. This book to address the balance of service provision for people with long-term mental illness and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and includes: the organization of services in different settings; the educational preparation of individual practitioners; and the range of work practices and their efficacy.;This volume provides a further bench-mark against which fast changing developments for future practice can be set. Further volumes are in preparation for this rapidly expanding field.;This series of contemporary research should be valuable to lecturers and researchers in university departments of nursing, and on courses which lead to the CPN diploma and the mental health branch of Project 2000 courses. This collection will also be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, health visitors, district nurses, mental handicap nurses and general practitioners.;This book should be of interest to community psychiatric nurses and nurse researchers.
There’s a new crime fighter in town. She’s smart. She’s
fearless. She’s thirteen-years-old and determined to be the
world’s greatest detective. Enter the brave world of Celia J., as
she uses the skills learned at a CSI summer camp program to
investigate an attempt to defraud her father. Following the tragic
loss of her mother, Celia’s father enrolls her in the classes to
ease her grief and to keep her in a safe environment. Celia excels
at the investigative lessons earning her the respect of both her
classmates and Detective Lieutenant Beth. Celia sees Beth as her
new heroine and, hopefully, a suitable companion for her
father. But, a devious woman with long blonde hair already
has her sights on Celia’s dad —especially his money. Aided by
her accomplice, a scary tattooed man, the woman proposes a phony
investment scheme. When Celia suspects something is wrong and
launches her investigation and surveillance, she is trapped in a
dangerous predicament far from home and help. Miss Demeanor is an
exciting character-driven middle-grade mystery, filled with a
compelling cast of heroes and villains, a clever plot, crime scene
investigative tools, suspense, humor, and a heart-warming
backstory. A page-turner for both young and adult. It draws the
reader deep into the narrative as though it took place in their
hometown; much like Alan Bradley’s juvenile sleuth, Flavia de
Luce involves her English village. Created by Ed N. White, Miss
Demeanor offers young readers a character they can identify with
and enjoy. Celia J. is not without a few minor flaws, which
enhances her appeal as a real person. The crime scene investigative
techniques are detailed at a level of understanding for the
middle-grade reader. Life lessons are learned. The emotions
of the grieving father and daughter are shared, and the backstory
of Celia’s dad and Detective Beth offers hope.
Someone is nabbing the community cats and holding them for ransom.
Only a week after her harrowing escape from the woman with the long
blonde hair and her accomplice, the scary tattooed man, Celia is
investigating another crime along with Detective Lieutenant Beth.
She gains her first clue from the lovable old Sally McNally, a
former NASA scientist with well-meaning but often confused moments.
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