books: private lives

books: private lives

books:

Private lives

The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book

Frank Warren

William Morrow, 2007

From J. Kaye's Book Blog
Is there anyone left on earth who doesn't know about these books, the blog, or the website? If so, where have you been? Out of all the coffee table books I've read in the past, the PostSecret series is the very best of the best. I haven't viewed all of them, but will. ...

Portraits of NASCAR: An Intimate Look Inside the Private Lives of the Most Famous Drivers in NASCAR

Anita Rich, Robin Dallenbach

Triumph Books, 2008

Nascar at its best
I loved this book! It shows you a different side to some of Nascar's top drivers. I think every Nascar fan would enjoy this book.

Issues In Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studies

Sheila Ruth

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2000

Thorough overview
When I came to read this book, it was from a perspective of learning very little about feminism. This book was required for a class that I took, and it was perhaps the only book I took away from college with a continued interest to read again and more thoroughly. I am ...

PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

Frank Warren

William Morrow, 2005

PostSecret:Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
PostSecret allows everyone the ability to put their innermost thoughts and feelings that they may not be able to share with others into written form to share them with the world. The secrets are a mixture of happy, sad, silly, hopeful-every possible emotion much like ...

Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America

Ann Twinam

Stanford University Press, 1999

A Necessity for students of Latin America
By taking sources from colonial archives, and explaining them in a clear, concise manner, Twinam's Public Lives, Private Secrets is an excellent book for students trying to understand the day to day lives of Colonial Latin Americans. Twinam is a great historiographer

The Private Lives of the Impressionists

Sue Roe

Harper Perennial, 2007

Lives of artists come alive
I found this to be an excellently researched book covering the lives of the artists known as Impressionists. It went chronologically, with stories of their work, their families, and what was going on in the world around them that affected their ability to make a ...

Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives: Three Plays

Noel Coward

Vintage, 1999

The only serious challenge to Feydeau in English
Noel Coward's _Hay Fever_, Evelyn Waugh's _Handful of Dust_, and Kingsley Amis's _Lucky Jim_ are, for my money, the three funniest things written in English in the 20th century. I was a drama critic for nearly 12 years, saw hundreds of productions of all kinds from ...

At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries

Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm

Clarkson Potter, 1995

A corner for bibliophiles
I am not alone! Many share my enthusiasm and love for books! This book will take you into the homes of many bibliophiles, and you'll most likely find many pieces of yourself in each of their homes. If you are a bibliophile, no one home or person in this book will ...

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee: A Novel
Rebecca Miller

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

At fifty, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of successful twins, and a lovely and adored friend and neighbor, she seems to glow with feminine serenity. But when her husband spontaneously decides they should cast off Gramercy Park for Marigold Village retirement home as a ...

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

Michael Heller

Basic Books, 2008

Heller's Gridlock
Michael Heller's Gridlock Economy is this year's must-read popular economics book. As reviewers at Slate, Time, and elsewhere have noted, Heller's book compares well to 2005's mega-hit Freakonomics, as well as Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, James Surowiecki's (of The New ...

Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Women

Elsa Walsh

Anchor, 1996

Awesome book
The struggles in this book touched my soul. Perhaps because I'm a journalist, I could totally relate to Meredith Vieira. And even though it has been four years since I've read it, I can still recall vividly the image of her crying at her kitchen table. Balancing work ...

Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France (Studies on the History of ...
Sarah Maza

University of California Press, 1995

From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution.

Whoredom In Kimmage: The Private Lives of Irish Women

Rosemary Mahoney

Anchor, 1994

Some of the reviews seem to be missing the point
How can anyone spend a couple of years abroad, anywhere, and expect to portray an accurate historical account of the status of women in that country, let alone the entire people? She can't. So why are the reviewers expecting this book to be that impossible thing and to ...

Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond

Doug Ramsey

Parkside Publications, Inc., 2005

Things you never knew about the greatest alto sax player ever
As a jazz fan all of my (long) adult life, I thought I was quite conversant with the lives of the jazz greats. Not so with Paul Desmond. This bio, the size of a coffee table book, superbly traces his life as a student of all musical genres, of his intense desire to ...

Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family

Patricia Fortini Brown

Yale University Press, 2004

Must-have for lovers of Renaisance Venice
Another great book about Renaissance Venice by Patricia Fortini Brown. Filled with many large colored pictures and black + white drawings, this book is a must for recreationists + others obsessed with 16th century Venice. Lots of information on the small details of ...