Wish I Was There
Wish I Was There

Author: Emily Lloyd

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant

Published: 2014-06-20

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781459682269

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When Emily Lloyd burst onto the movie scene as a teenager she was hailed as the next Marilyn Monroe. Her stunning performance as precocious Lynda Mansell in David Leland's bitter - sweet comedy - drama ''Wish You Were Here'' thrust her into the spotlight, won her a BAFTA nomination, an Evening Standard Best Actress Award and a National Society of Critics Award and cemented the film's reputation as a British classic. Hollywood beckoned and Emily landed high profile roles alongside A - listers including Bruce Willis and starred with Brad Pitt in Robert Redford's Oscar - winning epic ''A River Runs Through It.'' Yet behind the corkscrew curls and cheeky grin that seduced Tinseltown, Emily was confronting a debilitating mental disorder that threatened to destroy her. Now, in her searingly honest autobiography, Emily describes the incredible highs and agonising lows she experienced through a tumultuous acting career. Packed with fascinating, star - laden anecdotes, starting insights into movie making and moving personal revelations, With I Was There is part celebrity memoir, part examination into the difficulties of combating mental illness while being in the public eye.

I Wish I Worked There!
I Wish I Worked There!

Author: Kursty Groves

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 2010-04-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780470713839

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Revealing some of the world's most inspiring workplaces, I Wish I Worked There! investigates the way 20 famous brands have put innovation at the heart of their culture. Photographs and illustrations detail the way in which companies accommodate creative activity through spaces that: stimulate, enable reflection, promote collaboration and encourage play. Easy-to-adopt principles assist the design, creation or selection of spaces that support creative endeavour. Never before has a title looked specifically at how the working environment fosters the flow of ideas from both practical and emotional perspectives – with business results. Each case study is extensively illustrated with new photography by Edward Denison and diagrams by Will Knight that detail activity. Behind-the-scenes interviews reveal insights that show what makes a space really work, while business metrics evidence the birth of ideas, breakthroughs and successes. Includes foreword by Ivy Ross, Executive Vice President of marketing for The Gap Brand at Gap, Inc. Featured companies: Aardman Animations, Ltd * Bloomberg LLC * DreamWorks Animation * Dyson * Electronic Arts * Google Inc * Hasbro * Innocent Drinks * Johnson & Johnson * The LEGO Group * Nike Inc * Oakley * Philips Design * Procter & Gamble * Sony Design * Sony Music * T-Mobile * Urban Outfitters * Virgin * Walt Disney Imagineering

Wish I Could Be There
Wish I Could Be There

Author: Allen Shawn

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-01-29

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780143113072

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In addition to being the son of famous New Yorker editor William Shawn and brother of the distinguished playwright and actor Wallace Shawn, Allen Shawn is agoraphobic-he is afraid of both public spaces and isolation. Wish I Could Be There gracefully captures both of these extraordinary realities, blending memoir and scientific inquiry in an utterly engrossing quest to understand the mysteries of the human mind. Droll, probing, and honest, Shawn explores the many ways we all become who we are, whether through upbringing, genes, or our own choices, creating "an eloquent meditation upon the mysteries of personality and family"* and the struggle to face one's demons.

I Wish You All the Best
I Wish You All the Best

Author: Mason Deaver

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1338306138

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Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli, Mason Deaver's stunning debut will rip your heart out before showing you how to heal from tragedy and celebrate life in the process. "Heartfelt, romantic, and quietly groundbreaking. This book will save lives." -- Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaIt's just three words: I am nonbinary. But that's all it takes to change everything.When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school.But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan's friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.At turns heartbreaking and joyous, I Wish You All the Best is both a celebration of life, friendship, and love, and a shining example of hope in the face of adversity.

I Wish There was Something I Could Quit
I Wish There was Something I Could Quit

Author: Aaron Cometbus

Publisher: Last Gasp

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9780867196504

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"In this novel, Laura is in the middle of a torrid affair with the trains that pass on the tracks at the end of her block. The trains are carrying weapons destined for the front lines of America's latest war, and Laura can't rest until she's consummated the affair by blowing one up! She plots and plans but meanwhile, the trains keep right on coming, haunting her."--Publisher's website.

I Wish I'd Been There
I Wish I'd Been There

Author: Byron Hollinshead

Publisher: Doubleday Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0385516193

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In a study that looks at key moments in American history, a collection of essays by leading historians brings to life such important events as the Salem witch trials, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

I Wish I'd Been There (R)
I Wish I'd Been There (R)

Author: Byron Hollinshead

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2009-06-09

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780307456557

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“What is the scene or incident in European history that you would like to have witnessed-and why?” With lively and detailed accounts of some of the most dramatic events in history, some of our finest historical writers now turn their attention to Europe in this companion volume to I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events that Changed America. Guided by peerless scholars such as Paul Kennedy, John Keegan, Ross King, Freeman Dyson, and Katherine Duncan-Jones, readers will be transported to the signing of Magna Carta, the Versailles Conference, the German surrender in WWII on Luneburg Heath, and other key turning points in the drama of European history. These essays encompass two millenia and an entire continent, addressing issues of politics, law, religion, peace and war, science and the arts, and social change, all telescoped into finely observed narratives. The result is an historical pageant of characters and episodes that will attract and delight all readers of history.

What If There Were No Teachers?
What If There Were No Teachers?

Author: Caron Chandler Loveless

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-06-03

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1416551972

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Reflects on the idea that if there were no teachers, no one would educate and engage children and all knowledge would be lost.

A Shepherd to Fools
A Shepherd to Fools

Author: Drew Mendelson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2021-08-12

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1664187812

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A Shepherd to Fools is the second of Drew Mendelson’s trilogy of Vietnam War novels that began with Song Ba To and will conclude with Poke the Dragon. Shepherd: It is the ragged end of the Vietnam war. With the debacle of a failing South Vietnamese invasion of Northern Laos as background, A Shepherd to Fools tells the harrowing tale of a covert Hatchet Team of US soldiers and Montagnard mercenaries. They are ordered to find and capture or kill a band of American deserters, called Longshadows, before the world learns of their paralyzing rebellion. An earlier attempt to capture them failed disastrously, the facts of it buried. Captain Hugh Englander commands the Hatchet Team. He is a humorless bastard, sneering and discourteous to every regular army soldier. He cares little for the welfare of his own men and nothing for the lives of the deserters. The conflict between him and Captain David Weisman, the artillery officer assigned to the mission for artillery support, threatens to tear the team apart. Deep in the Laotian jungle, the team is caught in a final, horrific battle facing an enemy armed with Sarin nerve gas, the “worst of the worst” of the war’s clandestine weapons.

I Wish I'd Been There
I Wish I'd Been There

Author: Byron Hollinshead

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780330451581

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"What is the moment in history that you would like to have witnessed; and why?" This is the thought-provoking question that Theodore Rabb and Byron Hollinshead posed to 20 of our finest historians. Their answers can be found in this fascinating and thoroughly readable book, which trains a lens on crucial moments of our past and brings them to vivid life.Contributors include Tom Holland, John Elliott, John Julius Norwich, Margaret MacMillan and John Keegan and with these - and other - peerless scholars as their guides, readers will be transported to the death of Alexander the Great, Christmas 800CE when Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Hannibal's legendary crossing of the Alps, Runnymede where King John was forced to sign Magna Carta, the Spanish Armada, the Battle of the Nile, Paris 1919, the German surrender in 1945 and the end of the First Gulf War. Imaginatively executed and vividly written, the result is a pageant of character and event that will attract and delight readers of history.