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Author | : Ken Howard |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Acting |
ISBN | : 9780375507366 |
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Offers advice on how to act natural and appear more relaxed, confident, and spontaneous when communicating by applying techniques used by actors to the task of public speaking.
Author | : Lynn M. Voskuil |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813922690 |
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Voskuil argues that Victorian Britons saw themselves as "authentically performative," a paradoxical belief that focused their sense of vocation as individuals, as a public, and as a nation.
Author | : Jennifer Traig |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 623 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0062469827 |
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From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange and often contradictory history of Western parenting Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be perfectly socially acceptable to abandon your children? Why do we encourage our babies to crawl if crawling won’t help them learn to walk? These are just some of the questions that came to Jennifer Traig when—exhausted, frazzled, and at sea after the birth of her two children—she began to interrogate the traditional parenting advice she’d been conditioned to accept at face value. The result is Act Natural, hilarious and deft dissection of the history of Western parenting, written with the signature biting wit and deep insights Traig has become known for. Moving from ancient Rome to Puritan New England to the Dr. Spock craze of mid-century America, Traig cheerfully explores historic and present-day parenting techniques ranging from the misguided, to the nonsensical, to the truly horrifying. Be it childbirth, breastfeeding, or the ways in which we teach children how to sleep, walk, eat, and talk, she leaves no stone unturned in her quest for answers: Have our techniques actually evolved into something better? Or are we still just scrambling in the dark?
Author | : Pierre Manent |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2020-02-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0268107238 |
Download Natural Law and Human Rights Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This first English translation of Pierre Manent’s profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displacement of the natural law by the modern conception of human rights. He aims to restore the grammar of moral and political action, and thus the possibility of an authentically political order that is fully compatible with liberty. Manent boldly confronts the prejudices and dogmas of those who have repudiated the classical and Christian notion of “liberty under law” and in the process shows how groundless many contemporary appeals to human rights turn out to be. Manent denies that we can generate obligations from a condition of what Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau call the “state of nature,” where human beings are absolutely free, with no obligations to others. In his view, our ever-more-imperial affirmation of human rights needs to be reintegrated into what he calls an “archic” understanding of human and political existence, where law and obligation are inherent in liberty and meaningful human action. Otherwise we are bound to act thoughtlessly and in an increasingly arbitrary or willful manner. Natural Law and Human Rights will engage students and scholars of politics, philosophy, and religion, and will captivate sophisticated readers who are interested in the question of how we might reconfigure our knowledge of, and talk with one another about, politics.
Author | : Leonore Tiefer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018-03-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429974280 |
Download Sex Is Not A Natural Act & Other Essays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Revisits and updates the centrality of the social construction of sexuality, especially in the age of Viagra, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the media saturation of sex. Leonore Tiefer is one of the foremost sexologists working in the United States today; she is a well-known and respected scholar who writes engagingly and humorously about a wide array of topics in sexuality to appeal to both students and general readers. Revised and updated with new pieces on the medicalization of sex, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the politics of sex, as well as classic pieces found in the original edition, such as "Am I Normal?: The Question of Sex."
Author | : Dan Fox |
Publisher | : Coffee House Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2016-04-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 156689428X |
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Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.
Author | : Pamela Fox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Hillbilly, honky-tonk, Nashville glitz, or alt.country: what makes music authentically country?
Author | : Jim McMullan |
Publisher | : BearManor Media |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2021-10-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Jim McMullan never set out to be an actor. But a chance suggestion he meet Pulitizer Prize winning playright William Inge, while fresh out of college, led to a screen test, a contract with Universal Studios, and an acting career in both movies and television spanning forty years that included roles in more than twenty feature films and several high-powered television dramas. “I never took an acting lesson,” he said, relying instead on what he felt were his natural instincts for dramatic portrayal and character depiction. Among those he worked with were Jimmy Stewart, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Lindsey Wagner, Connie Selleca, Larry Hagman, Billy Dee Williams, James Caan and Slim Pickens. In this memoir Jim tells us stories about some of the people he worked with and some of the roles he portrayed while pursuing a “natural” actor’s career. He also describes the story behind publication of ACTORS AS ARTISTS, his and Dick Gautier’s best selling book on the surprising painting talents of many of Hollywood’s elite. In addition, Jim wrote eight other books (including HAPPILY EVER AFTER with wife, Helene) and created numerous three-dimensional pieces of sculpture. Sadly, Jim did not live to see this book published. He passed away shortly after he completed taping his remembrances and writing an initial draft. But what’s here establishes for all to see that “natural” can highlight an actor’s life.
Author | : Ilaria Mazzoleni |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013-03-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1466506075 |
Download Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Applying Properties of Animals Skins to Inspire Architectural Envelopes Biology influences design projects in many ways; the related discipline is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Using the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, Ilaria Mazzoleni seeks to instill a shift in thinking about the application of biological principles to design and architecture. She focuses on the analysis of how organisms have adapted to different environments and translates the learned principles into the built environment. To illustrate the methodology, Mazzoleni draws inspiration from the diversity of animal coverings, referred to broadly as skin, and applies them to the design of building envelopes through a series of twelve case studies. Skin is a complex organ that performs a multitude of functions; namely, it serves as a link between the body and the environment. Similarly, building envelopes act as interfaces between their inhabitants and external elements. The resulting architectural designs illustrate an integrative methodology that allows architecture to follow nature. "Ilaria Mazzoleni, in collaboration with biologist Shauna Price, has developed a profound methodology for architectural and design incentives that anticipates and proposes novel ways to explore undiscovered biological inspirations for various audiences." —Yoseph Bar-Cohen
Author | : Alan Levinovitz |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 080701088X |
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Illuminates the far-reaching harms of believing that natural means “good,” from misinformation about health choices to justifications for sexism, racism, and flawed economic policies. People love what’s natural: it’s the best way to eat, the best way to parent, even the best way to act—naturally, just as nature intended. Appeals to the wisdom of nature are among the most powerful arguments in the history of human thought. Yet Nature (with a capital N) and natural goodness are not objective or scientific. In this groundbreaking book, scholar of religion Alan Levinovitz demonstrates that these beliefs are actually religious and highlights the many dangers of substituting simple myths for complicated realities. It may not seem like a problem when it comes to paying a premium for organic food. But what about condemnations of “unnatural” sexual activity? The guilt that attends not having a “natural” birth? Economic deregulation justified by the inherent goodness of “natural” markets? In Natural, readers embark on an epic journey, from Peruvian rainforests to the backcountry in Yellowstone Park, from a “natural” bodybuilding competition to a “natural” cancer-curing clinic. The result is an essential new perspective that shatters faith in Nature’s goodness and points to a better alternative. We can love nature without worshipping it, and we can work toward a better world with humility and dialogue rather than taboos and zealotry.