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Author: Bill Dorfman
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe celebrity dentist featured on "Extreme Makeover" discusses the latest developments in cosmetic dentistry and describes the techniques used to achieve a healthier, more attractive smile.
Author: Reeves Wiedeman
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0316461342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This "vivid" inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history (Ken Auletta). Christened a potential savior of Silicon Valley's startup culture, Adam Neumann was set to take WeWork, his office share company disrupting the commercial real estate market, public, cash out on the company's forty-seven billion dollar valuation, and break the string of major startups unable to deliver to shareholders. But as employees knew, and investors soon found out, WeWork's capital was built on promises that the company was more than a real estate purveyor, that in fact it was a transformational technology company. Veteran journalist Reeves Weideman dives deep into WeWork and it CEO's astronomical rise, from the marijuana and tequila-filled board rooms to cult-like company summer camps and consciousness-raising with Anthony Kiedis. Billion Dollar Loser is a character-driven business narrative that captures, through the fascinating psyche of a billionaire founder and his wife and co-founder, the slippery state of global capitalism. A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller “Vivid, carefully reported drama that readers will gulp down as if it were a fast-paced novel” (Ken Auletta)
Author: LeRoy Ashby
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2006-05-12
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 0813171326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith Amusement for All is a sweeping interpretative history of American popular culture. Providing deep insights into various individuals, events, and movements, LeRoy Ashby explores the development and influence of popular culture -- from minstrel shows to hip-hop, from the penny press to pulp magazines, from the NBA to NASCAR, and much in between. By placing the evolution of popular amusement in historical context, Ashby illuminates the complex ways in which popular culture both reflects and transforms American society. He demonstrates a recurring pattern in democratic culture by showing how groups and individuals on the cultural and social periphery have profoundly altered the nature of mainstream entertainment. The mainstream has repeatedly co-opted and sanitized marginal trends in a process that continues to shift the limits of acceptability. Ashby describes how social control and notions of public morality often vie with the bold, erotic, and sensational as entrepreneurs finesse the vagaries of the market and shape public appetites. Ashby argues that popular culture is indeed a democratic art, as it entertains the masses, provides opportunities for powerless and disadvantaged individuals to succeed, and responds to changing public hopes, fears, and desires. However, it has also served to reinforce prejudices, leading to discrimination and violence. Accordingly, the study of popular culture reveals the often dubious contours of the American dream. With Amusement for All never loses sight of pop culture's primary goal: the buying and selling of fun. Ironically, although popular culture has drawn an enormous variety of amusements from grassroots origins, the biggest winners are most often sprawling corporations with little connection to a movement's original innovators.
Author: Mary Otto
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1620972816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn NPR Best Book of 2017 "[Teeth is] . . . more than an exploration of a two-tiered system—it is a call for sweeping, radical change." —New York Times Book Review "Show me your teeth," the great naturalist Georges Cuvier is credited with saying, "and I will tell you who you are." In this shattering new work, veteran health journalist Mary Otto looks inside America's mouth, revealing unsettling truths about our unequal society. Teeth takes readers on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects, low educational achievement, social mobility, and the troubling state of our public health. Otto's subjects include the pioneering dentist who made Shirley Temple and Judy Garland's teeth sparkle on the silver screen and helped create the all-American image of "pearly whites"; Deamonte Driver, the young Maryland boy whose tragic death from an abscessed tooth sparked congressional hearings; and a marketing guru who offers advice to dentists on how to push new and expensive treatments and how to keep Medicaid patients at bay. In one of its most disturbing findings, Teeth reveals that toothaches are not an occasional inconvenience, but rather a chronic reality for millions of people, including disproportionate numbers of the elderly and people of color. Many people, Otto reveals, resort to prayer to counteract the uniquely devastating effects of dental pain. Otto also goes back in time to understand the roots of our predicament in the history of dentistry, showing how it became separated from mainstream medicine, despite a century of growing evidence that oral health and general bodily health are closely related. Muckraking and paradigm-shifting, Teeth exposes for the first time the extent and meaning of our oral health crisis. It joins the small shelf of books that change the way we view society and ourselves—and will spark an urgent conversation about why our teeth matter.
Author: Elspeth H. Brown
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2019-04-11
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 147800214X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the haute couture runways of Paris and New York and editorial photo shoots for glossy fashion magazines to reality television, models have been a ubiquitous staple of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American consumer culture. In Work! Elspeth H. Brown traces the history of modeling from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s. Brown outlines how the modeling industry sanitized and commercialized models' sex appeal in order to elicit and channel desire into buying goods. She shows how this new form of sexuality—whether exhibited in the Ziegfeld Follies girls' performance of Anglo-Saxon femininity or in African American models' portrayal of black glamour in the 1960s—became a central element in consumer capitalism and a practice that has always been shaped by queer sensibilities. By outlining the paradox that queerness lies at the center of capitalist heteronormativity and telling the largely unknown story of queer models and photographers, Brown offers an out of the ordinary history of twentieth-century American culture and capitalism.
Author: Tony McHugh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1317136934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on studies of surface topography, image editing, and diagnostic and surgical experience, Faces Inside and Outside the Clinic addresses the notion of ’truth’ in what are considered to be ’right’ and ’wrong’ faces, whether in clinical cosmetic procedures or in specific sociocultural contexts outside the clinic. With attention to the manner in which the human face - and often the individual herself or himself as a consequence - is physically defined, conceptually judged, numerically measured and clinically analysed, this book reveals that on closer inspection, supposedly objective and evidential ’truths’ are in fact subjective and prescriptive. Adopting a Foucauldian analysis of the ways in which ’normalising technologies’ and ’techniques’ ultimately preserve and expand upon an increasing array of ’abnormal’ facial configurations, Faces Inside and Outside the Clinic shows that when determining ’right’ and ’wrong’ faces, what happens inside the clinic is inextricably linked to what happens outside the clinic - and vice versa. As such, it will be of interest to scholars and students of social, cultural and political theory, contemporary philosophy and the social scientific study of science, health and technology.
Author: harlenaislife
Publisher: Mybard Inc.
Published: 2023-11-26
Total Pages: 508
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet Marie Rodrigo. 22-year-old girl born and raised in Texas who moved to New York after High School. Works as the CEO's assistant at Alan Establishment. Has been working at Alan Establishment for a year now and loves her job. Meet Karter Allan. 33-year-old man, youngest self-made billionaire in America. Owner and Founder of Allan Establishment. Known for being a somewhat of a playboy and a cruel boss. What happens when Marie has an encounter with her big bad boss Karter? Will Karter start to feel attracted to Marie, can Marie break down his walls and find out why he has such trouble committing? Read the Billionaire to find out.
Author: Catrise Austin
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Published: 2020-04-26
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I've whitened thousands of smiles and have made millions by offering teeth whiteningsolutions to make my clients look more confident, sexier, and younger with a pearly white smile. You can too! If you want to expand your skills, get a competitive advantage, and make easy money with little investment....let me show you how in my new Teeth Whitening Training Course Book: How To Start Your Own Teeth Whitening Business-IN NO TIME!" Dr. Catrise Austin, Dentist to the StarsThis book IS FOR YOU if: You are looking to start a new business or learn a side hustle providing a highly sought beauty service without working hard and investing a lot a money to start up.You want to learn how to choose the right teeth whitening procedure for each client and recognize who is not a candidate for teeth whitening at all.You want to learn how to properly perform the various teeth whitening procedures step by step from one of the top dentists in the world.You want to learn how to manage or even prevent some of the common side effects that can occur during the teeth whitening procedure.You want to learn the best practices for protecting yourself from the legal risks of offering teeth whitening, especially if you are not a licensed dental professional.You want to make residual income by recommending and even selling your clients the appropriate teeth whitening maintenance products that will help keep their smiles white.You want to learn how to market your teeth whitening business and make thousands of dollars by attracting more teeth whitening clients than your competitors.
Author: Alyssa Picard
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009-04-21
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0813547113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy are Americans so uniquely obsessed with teeth? Brilliantly white, straight teeth? Making the American Mouth is at once a history of United States dentistry and a study of a billion-dollar industry. Alyssa Picard chronicles the forces that limited Americans' access to dental care in the early twentieth century and the ways dentists worked to expand that access--and improve the public image of their profession. Comprehensive in scope, this work describes how dentists' early public health commitments withered under the strain of fights over fluoride, mid-century social movements for racial and gender equity, and pressure to insure dental costs. It explains how dentists came to promote cosmetic services, and why Americans were so eager to purchase them. As we move into the twentyfirst century, dentists' success in shaping their industry means that for many, the perfect American smile will remain a distant--though tantalizing--dream.
Author: Walt Branam
Publisher: Abbott Press
Published: 2018-09-15
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1458221970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Wolfe has spent his entire life in the shadow world of electronic espionage but now the master spy wants nothing more than to retire quietly. However, on the morning of his retirement party, he finds himself under surveillance, learns his best friend has been murdered, and is offered several lucrative new jobs. The day gets crazier when John is forced to kill his former supervisor and his long-standing arch nemesis; only to discover a swarm of new enemies hell bent on killing him and everyone he knows. Just as he thinks he has control, he learns behind his troubles is a secret order of billionaires who intend to detonate an atomic bomb in Washington DC and then take over the United States. John, his brother, sister-in-law, and closet friends must stop the Order, taking on the most difficult and deadliest mission of any Wolfe Adventure yet. This master spy only wanted to disappear into retirement’s obscurity. Instead, the whole Wolfe family pays a horrible price as they face an enemy with unlimited power and ambition.
