Act Natural

2019-01-08 Family & Relationships

Author : Jennifer Traig
Release : 2019-01-08
Genre : Family & Relationships
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 827/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Act Natural by : Jennifer Traig

Download or read book Act Natural written by Jennifer Traig. This book was released on 2019-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Act Natural

2003 Acting

Author : Ken Howard
Release : 2003
Genre : Acting
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 366/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Act Natural written by Ken Howard. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Acting Naturally

2004 History

Author : Lynn M. Voskuil
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 690/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Acting Naturally written by Lynn M. Voskuil. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sound Media

2009-06-02 Music

Author : Lars Nyre
Release : 2009-06-02
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 765/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sound Media written by Lars Nyre. This book was released on 2009-06-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound Media considers how music recording, radio broadcasting and muzak influence people's daily lives and introduces the many and varied creative techniques that have developed in music and journalism throughout the twentieth century. Lars Nyre starts with the contemporary cultures of sound media, and works back to the archaic soundscapes of the 1870s. The first part of the book devotes five chapters to contemporary digital media, and presents the internet, the personal computer, digital radio (news and talk) and various types of loudspeaker media (muzak, DJ-ing, clubbing and PA systems). The second part examines the historical accumulation of techniques and sounds in sound media, and presents multitrack music in the 1960s, the golden age of radio in the 1950s and back to the 1930s, microphone recording of music in the 1930s, the experimental phase of wireless radio in the 1910s and 1900s, and the invention of the gramophone and phonograph in the late nineteenth century. Sound Media includes a soundtrack on downloadable resources with thirty-six examples from broadcasting and music recording in Europe and the USA, from Edith Piaf to Sarah Cox, and is richly illustrated with figures, timelines and technical drawings.

Buck Owens

2010-06-24 Music

Author : Eileen Sisk
Release : 2010-06-24
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 459/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Buck Owens written by Eileen Sisk. This book was released on 2010-06-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buck Owens was the top-selling country act of the 1960s, with 21 number-one hits and 35 consecutive top-ten hits, a total surpassed only by the Beatles. Inventor of the Bakersfield sound, he was hugely popular not only with country fans, but rock fans too. The Beatles covered his songs, Gram Parsons idolized him, the Grateful Dead loved him. At least five marriages, several TV shows, and a publishing and media empire followed. And a number of current country stars, ranging from Dwight Yoakam to Marty Stuart, owe their sound to him. Yet never before has there been a book about Buck Owens. And the man that emerges from its pages is the polar opposite of the aw-shucks image he cultivated on Hee-Haw. A tight-fisted control freak with an outsized appetite for sex, Owens could be ruthlessly cruel at one moment and as slippery as a snake the next. Buck Owens chronicles his rise from poverty as son of a sharecropper to one of the nation's best-loved entertainers, worth at least $100 million when he died. It is authoritative: it counts among its myriad sources five Buckaroos, the producer of Hee Haw, the former president of Capitol Nashville, numerous country singers, relatives, wives, lovers, and employees. This biography fully reveals, for the first time, not only one of country's biggest stars, but perhaps its biggest son of a bitch.

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