Bright Lights, Big City

Author: Jay McInerney
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408854511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again, it might not... So begins our nameless hero's trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow's hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. Bright Lights, Big City is an acclaimed classic which marked Jay McInerney as one of the major writers of our time.

Point of View

Author: Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0525652787
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Recognized from her roles on Survivor, The View, and Fox & Friends, best-selling author Elisabeth Hasselbeck presents a deeply intimate journey of faith, told through the important moments in her life. From designing shoes to surviving Survivor to not surviving The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck has learned more about standing up for her convictions in the public eye than she ever though she would when she applied for a reality TV show on a whim almost two decades ago. Through most of those years, Elisabeth strived as if she had to earn the approval of others and of God. But God was gently at work in her to show His point of view--His invitation for her to rest in the calling, rest in His Word, and rest fully in the truth of the gospel. Point of View is an intimate walk of faith, as she writes mom to mom, friend to friend, mother to daughter. From the divisive table at The View to national political platforms to the breakfast table, Elisabeth bares her heart about her failures, her triumphs, and her path of learning lessons the hard way.

Point of View

Author: Chris Stein
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847862186
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
A new collection of unseen photographs of New York City's 1970s punk heyday, by one of the icons of the city's golden age of new wave, Blondie's Chris Stein. A new collection of unseen photographs of New York City's 1970s punk heyday, by one of the icons of the city's golden age of music, Blondie's Chris Stein. For the duration of the 1970s - from his days as a student at the School of Visual Arts through the foundation of the era-defining band Blondie and his subsequent reign as epicenter of punk's golden age - Chris Stein kept an unrivaled photographic record of the downtown New York City scene. Following in the footsteps of the successful book Negative, this spectacular new book presents a more personal and more visceral collection of Stein's photographs of the era. The images presented here take readers from self-portraits in his run-down East-Village apartment to candid photographs of pop-cultural icons of the time and evocative shots of New York City streetscapes in all their most longed-for romance and dereliction. An eclectic cast of cultural characters - from William Burroughs to Debbie Harry, Andy Warhol to Iggy Pop - appear here exactly as they were in the day, juxtaposed with children playing hopscotch on torn-down blocks, riding the graffiti-ridden subway, or cruising the burgeoning clubs of the Bowery. At once a chronicle of one music icon's life among his punk and New-Wave heroes and peers, and a love letter to the city that was the backdrop and inspiration for those scenes, Point of View transports us to another place and time.

Madonna Inn

Author: Phyllis Madonna
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971103504
Category : Hotels
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
"This is the first book to tell the history of the Madonna family and the unique and unusual Madonna Inn."--Jacket.

The Point of View of the Universe

Author: Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199603693
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
Tests the views and metaphor of 19th-century utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick against a variety of contemporary views on ethics, determining that they are defensible and thus providing a defense of objectivism in ethics and of hedonistic utilitarianism.

All We Left Behind

Author: Ingrid Sundberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481437429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
"Marion is hiding a secret from her past and Kurt is trying to figure out how to recover from his mother's death as they both find solace in each other."--

Bunny Williams' Point of View

Author: Bunny Williams
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781584796244
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Part memoir and part how-to manual, this book showcases many of the chic but always cozily comfortable residences Williams has designed.

The Word on College Reading and Writing

Author: Carol Burnell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781636350288
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.

The Love Machine

Author: Jacqueline Susann
Publisher: Tiger LLC
ISBN: 0996317813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686

Book Description
The spectacular bestseller from the author of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. In a time when steak, vodka, and Benzedrine were the three main staples of a healthy diet, when high-powered executives called each other “baby” and movie stars wore wigs to bed, network tycoons had a name for the TV set: they called it “the love machine.” But to supermodel Amanda, socialite Judith and journalist Maggie, “the love machine” meant something else: Robin Stone, “a TV-network titan around whom women flutter like so many moths…The novel deals with his rise and fall as he makes the international sex scene (orgying in London, transvestiting in Hamburg), drinks unlimited quantities and checks out the latest Nielsens.”—Newsweek “I READ IT IN ONE GREEDY GULP, ENJOYING EVERY MINUTE.”—Liz Smith “[Susann’s] pulp poetry resonates to this day. WITH HER FORMULA OF SEX, DRUGS, AND SHOW BUSINESS, Susann didn’t so much capture the tenor of her times as she did predict the Zeitgeist of ours.”—Detour

From a Logical Point of View

Author: Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674323513
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
This volume of essays has a unity and bears throughout the imprint of Quine's powerful and original mind. It is written with the felicity in the choice of words which makes everything that Quine writes a pleasure to read, and which ranks him among the best contemporary writers on abstract subjects.