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Author: Stuart Reardon
Publisher: Stuart Rerdon Publishing
Published: 2018-07-10
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781999918644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNick needs to learn to navigate the treacherous path to becoming a top model or risk losing it all-including the woman who has become his reason for living.
Author: Amanda Heartley
Publisher: Cheeky Books
Published:
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDirty, flirty fun on the catwalk! Kellan So, I got my ass fired after a minor scandal on my last shoot. No big deal. Plenty more offers waiting... or so I thought. Wrong, and with every door slammed in my face, I'm desperate for work. My lavish model lifestyle is down the tubes. I need to restart my career, fast. I'm praying this last knock on the door will bring me some relief. One way or another. Carla I'm working my butt off, trying to stay ahead of the modeling game in this town. Not helped by one of my employees screwing me over...and she didn't even use lube. I need help, and when Kellan shows up at my door, the timing seems perfect. But news travels fast, and as gorgeously as he is, I know he's a real hot potato. He's one hot model, but I can't risk putting him back on the runway for my most valuable client. He's ten years younger than me, for Christ's sake. So why can't I stop myself lusting over him? Model is a steamy romp into the lives of Miami’s rich and beautiful. A standalone novel with no cliffhanger, no cheating and a guaranteed HEA.
Author: Elizabeth Wissinger
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2015-09-18
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1479864455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last four decades, the fashion modeling industry has become a lightning rod for debates about Western beauty ideals, the sexual objectification of women, and consumer desire. Yet, fashion models still captivate, embodying all that is cool, glam, hip, and desirable. They are a fixture in tabloids, magazines, fashion blogs, and television. Why exactly are models so appealing? And how do these women succeed in so soundly holding our attention? In This Year’s Model, Elizabeth Wissinger weaves together in-depth interviews and research at model castings, photo shoots, and runway shows to offer a glimpse into the life of the model throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Once an ad hoc occupation, the “model life” now involves a great deal of physical and virtual management of the body, or what Wissinger terms “glamour labor.” Wissinger argues that glamour labor—the specialized modeling work of self-styling, crafting a ‘look,’ and building an image—has been amplified by the rise of digital media, as new technologies make tinkering with the body’s form and image easy. Models can now present self-fashioning, self-surveillance, and self-branding as essential behaviors for anyone who is truly in the know and ‘in fashion.’ Countless regular people make it their mission to achieve this ideal, not realizing that technology is key to creating the unattainable standard of beauty the model upholds—and as Wissinger argues, this has been the case for decades, before Photoshop even existed. Both a vividly illustrated historical survey and an incisive critique of fashion media, This Year’s Model demonstrates the lasting cultural influence of this unique form of embodied labor.
Author: Lissa Kasey
Publisher: Lissa Kasey
Published: 2019-09-28
Total Pages: 349
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a rock star is marked for murder, he demands a bodyguard. After a decade in the Marine Corps, Kade thought he’d be ready for anything. Assigned to guard Ollie’s ex-boyfriend and rock star, Jacob, is a test of his willpower. Minor threats and blackmail turn quickly to murder and extortion when money is on the line. Jacob wants to hang up his career, or at least the family controlling his life, but the death of his assistant unearths a long list of secrets, lies, and long-term abuse. Kade is determined to not let Jacob back into their lives, but realizes the safest place to hide him from a would-be killer is in their own house. An opportunity Jacob sees as a chance to get back into Ollie’s good graces. Can Kade find and stop the killer before he is forced to put Jacob out of all of their misery? Note This MM romance features a tattooed ex-Marine, a former model with a passion for manties and sticking his nose into mysteries, a snarky, emotionally damaged rock star, a cat known for defying gravity, and too many murders to count. Second Edition. This series is best read in order.
Author: Paulina Porizkova
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1401387527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn incisive, beautifully written first novel by a former supermodel that explores the glamorous and gritty world she inhabited Only a handful of women in the world have experienced what Paulina Porizkova has--being whisked away to model in Paris while still a teenager, reaching the pinnacle of the profession before her schoolmates had even graduated--and fewer still have the insight to capture it on paper. In her first novel, Paulina tells the story of Jirina. A tall, scrawny fifteen-year-old girl from Sweden, she's much more accustomed to taunts and disdain than admiration and affection, whether from her classmates or her own family. That all changes when her only friend, Hatty, asks to practice her makeup and photography skills on Jirina. Almost before she knows it Jirina is on a plane to Paris, where she will spend the summer in a milieu entirely alien to her. Living at the home of her modeling agency's owner and constantly subjected to blunt physical assessments, catty and often cruel fellow models, and womanizing photographers--and, miraculously enough, while sometimes feeling truly beautiful--Jirina embarks on a journey beyond her wildest imaginings. Between photo shoots in Italy and Morocco and parties with models and musicians, Jirina manages to make a few friends, fall in love, and, eventually, feel the very adult pain of betrayal and heartbreak. Told with the grace, simplicity, and accuracy that can only come from real-life experience, A Model Summer is both the debut of a notably talented novelist and an unusually well-informed look behind the scenes at a world many people fantasize about, but few really know.
Author: Emily Ratajkowski
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1250817870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. In its more transcendent passages . . . the author steps beyond the reach of any 'Pygmalion' and becomes a more dangerous kind of beautiful. She becomes a kind of god in her own right: an artist." —Melissa Febos, The New York Times Book Review A "MOST ANTICIPATED" AND "BEST OF FALL 2021" BOOK FOR * VOGUE * TIME * ESQUIRE * PEOPLE * USA TODAY * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * LOS ANGELES TIMES * SHONDALAND * ALMA * THRILLEST * NYLON * FORTUNE A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture’s commodification of women is the subject of this book. My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski’s life while investigating the culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women’s sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and the gray area between consent and abuse. Nuanced, fierce, and incisive, My Body marks the debut of a writer brimming with courage and intelligence.
Author: Sarah R. Phillips
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 079148100X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book about life modeling. Unlike the painter whose name appears beside his finished portrait, the life model, posing nude, perhaps for months, goes unacknowledged. Standing at a unique juncture—between nude and naked, between high and low culture, between art and pornography—the life model is admired in a finished sculpture, but scorned for her or his posing. Making use of extensive interviews with both male and female models and quoting them frequently, Sarah R. Phillips gives a voice to life models. She explores the meaning that life models give to themselves and to their work and seeks to understand the lived experience of life models as they practice their profession. Throughout history, people have romanticized life models in an aura of bohemian eroticism, or condemned them as strippers or sex workers. Modeling Life reveals how life models get into the business, managing sexuality in the studio, what it means to be a "muse," and why their work is important.
Author: JOEY MEAD KING
Publisher: Summit Publishing Company Inc.
Published: 2022-01-19
Total Pages: 125
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ‘90s: grunge, glitz, glamor. In a decade when the parties never seemed to end, Joey Mead emerged as one of the country’s legendary fashion icons—a host, supermodel, and VJ who was living the jet-setting life that many could only dream of having. But when the lights came on and the makeup came off, she struggled with the turmoil lurking just underneath the surface. Runaway Model is the story of Joey Mead King, from her uncertain childhood in Australia to her own peaceful, triumphant reclamation of life, even as the pandemic raged around the globe. It is a memoir of the shimmering decades of Philippine fashion—starring the places and the personalities that defined that era—as well as the dark shadows that sometimes accompanied each brightly-lit scene. But most of all, it is a story about love in all its many forms—the kind that only blossoms when you begin to love yourself.
Author: Matteo Baldoni
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-01-20
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 3540689613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2006, held in Japan in May 2006. This was an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 12 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk and three invited papers were carefully selected for inclusion in the book.
Author: Zoe Lea
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2018-04-30
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 178863098X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou can always trust your best friend... can’t you? When Rachel discovers a Twitter message arranging a romantic liaison she assumes her husband is having an affair, and follows him. What she witnesses is so much worse: a hit and run using his car. Meanwhile, Rachel’s friend and business partner Suzie is increasingly worried about her fiancé, who’s not been in touch for days. When Suzie learns of huge debts racked up in her name she fears he has run out on her, but then the threatening calls start and she thinks something terrible has happened. Rachel and Suzie are both about to learn shocking things about the men they love, worse than they could ever imagine... Can their friendship survive? Praise for If He Wakes: 'A tense, pulse-quickening tale. If you read the first chapter, you can’t help but read the second. I flew through this perfect summer read of best friends in turmoil in one feverish session.' Paula Daly 'I loved this book. So well written. I found this book unputdownable!!' Reader review ‘Fan Flipping tastic thriller! I was completely hooked from page 1 and could not put this book down!’ 4* Reader review ‘What can I say about this book?!!!!... it was so good. I read it in one day... I couldn't put it down.’ Reader review ‘Amazing book!!!!’ Reader review ‘I raced through this book in a desperate attempt to discover the answers which became darker and more horrific than I could imagine’ Reader review 'I really enjoyed this book from the off!... A real page turner with a twist that will keep you hooked.' Reader review ‘12 stars is possible... This was a brilliant debut novel that had be shocked, surprised, and dumbfounded page after page’ Reader review ‘It was a great storyline and I loved the way that it developed, it was fast flowing and I soon discovered that I was at the end. Well worth a read’ My Love of Reading ‘What a great debut novel and totally great main characters’ 4* Reader review ‘This book needs to be read’ BRMaycock Blog
