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From Dave the Dude to Al Capone: a defining collection from the world of Damon Runyon Damon Runyon grew up in the West, moved to New York City, and became one of the leading voices of American popular culture. From sports writing to short fiction, this unique collection offers an eclectic sampling of his extraordinary talent. Here are newspaper pieces, stories- including the last one he ever composed-poetry, and, of course, the Broadway tales for which he is chiefly remembered: Guys and Dolls, Blood Pressure, The Bloodhounds of Broadway, and others. Featuring works that are impossible to find elsewhere, and Runyons signature eye for detail-particularly the sounds, smells, and tastes of New York-this book brings an American icon to a new generation of readers.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Every family deserves to have a Modern Memory Keeper!Long gone are the days of accenting precious heritage photos with bland papers and embellishments. Its time to shake things up by honoring your familys life and times with a colorful new energy. In Modern Memory Keeper youll learn to create modern heritage keepsakes that celebrate the generations who have shaped your life as well as family memories in the making.Inside youll discover: Unique ideas for showcasing and preserving vintage family photos, memorabilia and ephemera Innovative ways to gather stories from your familys history and convey them in your pages Helpful tips and tricks for making the most of your digital tools to scan and restore damaged photos Sixteen creative step-by-step techniques for taking your scrapbook projects to the next levelLet Modern Memory Keeper be your inspiration for creating a visual memoir that will breathe new life and color into your familys richly unique history.

Dr. Phil, Gay Unicorns, and Jesus Christ... Theyre all tattooed on someones ass. Or face, or whatever. Remember that time you were wasted and thought it would be a good idea to get a tattoo on your leg of Maury Povich shaking hands with Sasquatch, but your friends talked you out of it at the last second? Well, some people dont have any friends... Aviva Yael and P. M. Chen spent a year going to tattoo conventions and tattoo studios all over the country, chasing, stalking, e-mailing, calling, interviewing, ambushing, and hunting down whomever they could in order to find the most insane tattoos out there. What started out as a joke in a bar became a year-long tattoo safari thats presented here in all its full color, balls-to-the-wall, train-wreck/beauty-pageant glory.

Earrings that shine - from the simple to the sublimeFrom the classic Timeless Crystals to the elegant Rose Garden Hoops to the stunning Dynamic Hammered Teardrops, Perfect Match delivers more than 40 stylish yet simple earrings to perfectly complement every moment of your life. Earrings are arranged by occasion, from daily excursions like work and shopping to memorable events such as weddings and nights on the town. So before heading off on your next picnic in the park, flip to that section and choose a design perfectly suited to both your outfit and the carefree spirit of a sunny afternoon.Discover: More than 40 pairs of earrings complete with step-by-step instructions and photos - and a comprehensive techniques section filled with everything you need to know to get started. Projects ranging from super-simple to more complex, suitable for beginners as well as more advanced jewelry crafters. Tips throughout giving you the confidence to substitute your favorite colors or materials for any or all of the earrings.Create jewelry that fits your lifestyle, budget and schedule - and make your own perfect match!

Great variety of techniques gathered by an impressive panel of beading experts Provides detailed instructions to put to use, and then post on beading blogs for others to learn from Beading basics never go out of style, because like many beaders, you are always looking for ways to efficiently and creatively design projects. This must-have guide covers essential skills including chain maille, cutting wire, making P loops, bending wire, making eye loops, jump rings, and using a wrapped bead link technique. Among the 20+ projects featured in the book, you will discover instructions for earrings, chokers, necklaces, pendants and more, all designed by the author and other respected jewelry artists.

Master the art of drawing the figure.Drawing from life has been an important source of expression and satisfaction for artists through the ages. Robert Barrett, master fine artist, instructor and university professor, re-creates his studio class on the pages of this book. Inside, youll find a complete introduction to life drawing. Youll learn not only how to accurately portray the figure, but also how to bring life and personality to your drawing subjects.Detailed lessons, including step-by-step demonstrations, cover the fundamentals of drawing and design. Youll learn: How to capture your subjects character. The basics of figure anatomy, proportion and design. How to use light and shadow to create form. How to draw drapery and backgrounds.Barrett shows you how to achieve superb figure drawings--clothed and unclothed, male and female--filled with beauty and depth of expression. Find out what artists have always known--magnificent art comes from the life all around you!

Après une année de CP où les élèves ont acquis les premières compétences nécessaires au savoir lire, comment poursuivre cet apprentissage en CE1? Comment approfondir létude du code pour les aider à a

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the YearThe Pixar Touchis a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios history and evolution, and the fraternity of geeks who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot made at Lucasfilm in 1982 all the way up through the landmark films Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, and others. David A. Price goes behind the scenes of the corporate feuds between Lasseter and his former champion, Jeffrey Katzenberg, as well as between Jobs and Michael Eisner. And finally he explores Pixars complex relationship with the Walt Disney Company as it transformed itself into the $7.4 billion jewel in the Disney crown.With an Updated Epilogue

From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from Alexanders Ragtime Band to Big Spender, from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen ran their fingers over piano keys, enticing unforgettable melodies out of thin air. Critically acclaimed writer Wilfrid Sheed uncovered the legends, mingled with the greats, and gossiped with the insiders. Now hes crafted a dazzling, authoritative history of the era that tripled the worlds total supply of singable tunes.It began when immigrants in New Yorks Lower East Side heard black jazz and bluesand it surged into an artistic torrent nothing short of miraculous. Broke but eager, Izzy Baline transformed himself into Irving Berlin, married an heiress, and embarked on a string of hits from Always to Cheek to Cheek. Berlins spiritual godson George Gershwin, in his brief but incandescent career, straddled Tin Pan Alley and Carnegie Hall, charming everyone in his orbit. Possessed of a world-class ego, Gershwin was also generous, exciting, and utterly original. Half a century later, Gershwin love songs like Someone to Watch Over Me, The Man I Love, and Love Is Here to Stay are as tender and moving as ever.Sheed also illuminates the unique gifts of the great jazz songsters Hoagy Carmichael and Duke Ellington, conjuring up the circumstances of their creativity and bringing back the thrill of what it was like to hear Georgia on My Mind or Mood Indigo for the first time. The Golden Age of song sparked creative breakthroughs in both Broadway musicals and splashy Hollywood extravaganzas. Sheed vividly recounts how Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer spread the melodic wealth to stage and screen.Popular music was, writes Sheed, far and away our greatest contribution to the worlds art supply in the so-called American Century. Sheed hung out with some of the great artists while they were still writingand better than anyone, he knows great music, its shimmer, bite, and exuberance. Sparkling with wit, insight, and the grace notes of wonderful songs, The House That George Built is a heartfelt, intensely personal portrait of an unforgettable era.A delightfully charming, funny, and most illuminating portrait of songwriters and the Golden Age of American Popular Song. Mr. Sheeds carefully chosen depictions and anecdotes recapture that amazingly creative period, a moment in time in which I was so fortunate to be surrounded by all that magic.Margaret Whiting

Featured artist Jerry Stitt contemplates that A painting is good not because it looks like something, but because it feels like something. The difference is passion the kind of energy, excitement and pure joy that pulses through every page of this book.A brilliant collection of the best watercolors being created today, Splash 10 explores "passion" through the work and words of 100 top contemporary painters. With each modern-day masterpiece, insightful firsthand commentary taps into the psyche of the artists to explore where their passion comes from, and where it leads them.These artists find the passion to paint in any number of places - a handful of peppermints, a rescued dog named Tugboat, visits to places where "even the walls have personality," and spectacular moments created by the warm late-afternoon sun partnering with rich, cool cast shadows. Some of them find passion in their materials (like rice paper) or in the very act of putting paint to paper, whether it be broad, wet strokes of pure color applied with big brushes and arm-swinging applications, or meditative, economical strokes.This edition of Splash is dedicated to discovering not only how todays artists create great watercolors, but what motivates them to be creative, work in this amazing medium, and portray the subjects they love.

From the author of the acclaimed Everybody Was So Young, the definitive and major biography of the great choreographer and Broadway legend Jerome RobbinsTo some, Jerome Robbins was a demanding perfectionist, a driven taskmaster, a theatrical visionary; to others, he was a loyal friend, a supportive mentor, a generous and entertaining companion and colleague. Born Jerome Rabinowitz in New York City in 1918, Jerome Robbins repudiated his Jewish roots along with his name only to reclaim them with his triumphant staging of Fiddler on the Roof. A self-proclaimed homosexual, he had romances or relationships with both men and women, some famouslike Montgomery Clift and Natalie Woodsome less so. A resolutely unpolitical man, he was forced to testify before Congress at the height of anti-Communist hysteria. A consummate entertainer, he could be paralyzed by shyness; nearly infallible professionally, he was conflicted, vulnerable, and torn by self-doubt. Guarded and adamantly private, he was an inveterate and painfully honest journal writer who confided his innermost thoughts and aspirations to a remarkable series of diaries and memoirs. With ballets like Dances at a Gathering, Afternoon of a Faun, and The Concert, he humanized neoclassical dance; with musicals like On the Town, Gypsy, and West Side Story, he changed the face of theater in America. In the pages of this definitive biography, Amanda Vaill takes full measure of the complicated, contradictory genius who was Jerome Robbins. She re-creates his childhood as the only son of Russian Jewish immigrants; his apprenticeship as a dancer and Broadway chorus gypsy; his explosion into prominence at the age of twenty-five with the ballet Fancy Free and its Broadway incarnation, On the Town; and his years of creative dominance in both theater and dance. She brings to life his colleagues and friendsfrom Leonard Bernstein and George Balanchine to Robert Wilson and Robert Gravesand his loves and lovers. And she tells the full story behind some of Robbinss most difficult episodes, such as his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee and his firing from the film version of West Side Story.Drawing on thousands of pages of documents from Robbinss personal and professional papers, to which she was granted unfettered access, as well as on other archives and hundreds of interviews, Somewhere is a riveting narrative of a life lived onstage, offstage, and backstage. It is also an accomplished work of criticism and social history that chronicles one mans phenomenal career and places it squarely in the cultural ferment of a time when New York City was truly a helluva town.

Eleanor Coppola shares her extraordinary life as an artist, filmmaker, wife, and mother in a book that captures the glamour and grit of Hollywood and reveals the private tragedies and joys that tested and strengthened her over the past twenty years. Her first book, Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now,was hailed as one of the most revealing of all first hand looks at the movies (Los Angeles Herald Examiner). And now the author brings the same honesty, insight, and wit to this absorbing account of the next chapters in her life. In this new work we travel back and forth with her from the swirling center of the film world to the intimate heart of her family. She offers a fascinating look at the vision that drives her husband, Francis Ford Coppola, and describes her daughter Sofias rise to fame with the film Lost in Translation. Even as she visits faraway movie sets and attends parties, she is pulled back to pursue her own art, but is always focused on keeping her family safe. The death of their son Gio in a boating accident in 1986 and her struggle to cope with her grief and anger leads to a moving exploration of her deepest feelings as a woman and a mother. Written with a quiet strength, Eleanor Coppolas powerful portrait of the conflicting demands of family, love and art is at once very personal and universally resonant.

Folk art proves that producing utilitarian objects can provide an opportunity for self-expression. From decoys to sea chests, folk art is not only rooted in the useful but in the realities of living. Some folk art makes daily chores more fun, while others, such as mourning art, help people face lifes saddest occasions. This volume is an introduction for the novice and a treasure for the collector.

Cet ouvrage est la réimpression intégrale des actes d’un colloque tenu à Béziers en 1991. En son temps, cet ouvrage n’avait connu qu’une diffusion réduite et n’avait pas été vendu en librairie. Les c

Qui saime bien se chamaille bien : une enquete ne montre-t-elle pas que les conjoints qui savent se disputer vivent plus vieux, et que leurs unions sont plus durables ? On dit bien : qui savent se disputer. Car tout couple vit sous la menace de ces flambees de colere qui consument des annees dattachement. Et aussi sous la menace de la haine qui nait, parfois, des reproches informules. Patrick Lemoine nous aide avec profondeur et humour a eviter ces deux obstacles. Et a affronter tout leventail des situations ingerables : la enieme fois ou il aura laisse un poil colle au savon, la enieme fois ou elle aura critique sa maman, et bien des choses pires encore Vivre lemotion necessaire de la scene sans etre depasse par son stress : un art delicieux et utile, qui sapprend !

A powerhouse of architectural biography by Pulitzer Prize winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable of Americas greatest architectRenowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtables biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wrights masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder-not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever.

Saddle shoes. Camp shorts. Girdles. Bell-bottoms. Each plays a significant role as we follow B., the wardrobes owner, through her buttoned-up Midwestern childhood to the freedom of miniskirts, sundresses, and New York City. We watch as B. copes with the untimely death of her mother, makes a go of glamorous magazine work, and, after the inevitable false starts and fashion missteps, finally comes into her own.Part memoir, part fashion and cultural history of the last five decades, Autobiography of a Wardrobeis an exploration of the clothes each generation has embraced and the smallest details in which we are able to seek comfort and meaning.

Nelson George and Alan Leeds have assembled the first comprehensive collection of writings about the late, great Godfather of Soul, creating a fascinating mosaic of the man and the musician. Known as the hardest-working man in show business, James Brown embodied rhythm and blues, funk and soul, and sensuality. His musical innovations in such indelible grooves as Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, I Got You (I Feel Good), and Papas Got a Brand New Bag, transformed American music.To appreciate Browns immeasurable influence, to chronicle his professional and personal triumphs and struggles, and to capture his essence, writers from four decades weigh in on the legendary Soul Brother Number One. What emerges is a tribute to a trailblazerone that no dedicated fan or music history buff will want to be without.

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Emilia Ferreiro consacre depuis de nombreuses années la plus grande part de ses recherches à létude des processus cognitifs dappropriation de lécrit socialement constitué. Elle a publié sur ce thème