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1) Role models
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English
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Examines the life, personality, and humor of American filmmaker John Waters, covering his work, often described as subversive, with various infamous figures from the world of popular culture and entertainment.
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English
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Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent her childhood school years in Connecticut and her summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship to Yale and become an acclaimed artist, using provocative performances to explore...
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HarperCollins
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[2009]
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English
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A New York Times Bestseller, Got Fight? is an hysterical, entertaining, and in-your-face guide to fighting from the most enigmatic and unpredictable fighter in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Forrest Griffin is the light-heavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and was the winner of the first season of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter ; in Got Fight?, he shows you how he did it. With Erich Krauss, Muay Thai fighter and co-author of...
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Discover the man behind the magic and see how Houdini pulled off his most daring escapes.
Before Harry Houdini (1874-1926) became the greatest magician in the world, he was just little Ehrich Weisz, a Hungarian-born immigrant who moved to America with his family and performed stage tricks for a little extra cash. He started off with card tricks and then eventually began performing the escape acts that would make him famous. Known for his daring...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Claiming that "the belt is just an accessory," Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Champion B.J. Penn explains Why I Fight in this honest, intimate, and fascinating memoir . Written with David Weintraub, Why I Fight is an unforgettable portrait of one of the top and most recognizable mixed martial artists in the UFC and an up-close look at one of the most exciting and fastest growing sports in the world. UFC and Jiu-Jitsu aficionados...
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Birlinn Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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This oral biography of the legendary martial artist and action film star offers "an impressive collection of insights into the life of a cultural icon" ( The Guardian , UK). Bruce Lee only made a handful of films, yet generations after his untimely death at the age of thirty-two, the Little Dragon's influence on culture is as strong as ever. Lee wasn't just an actor and martial artist, but a director, inventor, husband, father and philosopher. His...
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The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A WWII combat artist shares his recollections--and his arresting artwork--from the frontlines of the Italian campaign in this military memoir. Many artists have fought in wars and later recorded heroic scenes of great battles. Yet few artists have created their work on the frontlines as they fought alongside their comrades. Edward Reep, as an official combat artist in World War II, painted and sketched while the battles of the Italian campaign raged...
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Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"This fascinating biography "brings to life the excitement and thrills" of the master escape artist's legendary turn-of-century tour in Great Britain ( Lancashire Post ). Between 1900 and 1920, a century before endurance artist and street magician David Blaine, Hungarian-born Harry Houdini traveled Great Britain, performing in its major villages and cities. He befriended Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, immersed himself in spiritualism and most notably,...
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI. Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up. Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching the...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book: This national bestseller is a vivid biography of the meteoric rise and tragic death of art star Jean-Michel Basquiat Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world. In less than a decade, he went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star; he was dead of a drug overdose at age twenty-seven. Basquiat's brief career spanned the giddy 1980s art boom and epitomized its outrageous...
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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Frederic Remington and the West sheds new light on the remarkably complicated and much misunderstood career of Frederic Remington. This study of the complex relationship between Remington and the American West focuses on the artist's imagination and how it expressed itself. Ben Merchant Vorpahl takes into account all the dimensions of Remington's extensive work -- from journalism to fiction, sculpture, and painting. He traces the events of Remington's...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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A UFC champion and a boy with leukemia, in the fight of their lives. Cody Garbrandt dreamed of being a UFC champion. In his darkest moments, when those dreams were dashed, he dug deep with the help of an unlikely friend -- five-year-old Maddux Maple, a local hometown fan with leukemia. They made a pact: Cody would be in the UFC and win the championship, and Maddux would beat cancer. Read their moving story in Cody's new book, The Pact, and go behind...
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