Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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English
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Comedians Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld never thought anyone would watch their silly little sitcom about a New York comedian sitting around talking to his friends. NBC executives didn't think anyone would watch either, but they bought it anyway, hiding it away in the TV dead zone of summer. But against all odds, viewers began to watch, first a few and then many, until nine years later nearly forty million Americans were tuning in weekly. In Seinfeldia,...
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2013.
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English
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Jennifer Armstrong introduces readers to The Mary Tyler Moore Show's creators; its principled producer, Grant Tinker; and the writers and actors who attracted millions of viewers - to the surprise of network executives. As the first sitcom to employ numerous women as writers and producers, the show became a guiding light for women in the 1970s - and the centerpiece of one of the greatest evenings of comedy in television history.
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2018.
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English
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Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the iconic television series, Sex and the city and us tells the story of how a columnist, two gay men -- Darren Star and fellow executive producer Michael Patrick King -- and a writers' room full of women used their own poignant, hilarious, and humiliating stories to launch a cultural phenomenon. Featuring interviews with the cast and writers, including star Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the city and us...
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English
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Not your mother's feminism! A humor-filled action plan for an accessible, cool, and, yes, even sexy brand of 21st-century feminism
Feminism can still seem like an abstract idea that is hard to incorporate into our hectic, modern lives, but Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Heather Wood Rudúlph show how the everyday things really matter. In an age when concern-trolling, slut-shaming, and body-snarking are blogosphere bywords, when reproductive rights...
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A compendium of thirty-five incredible female pop stars whose energies, virtues, and vices make them the ideal role models for our age-powerful women who can teach us all how to discover our own inner goddess.
We are living in the age of the music goddess: Beyoncé. Lady Gaga. Taylor Swift. Katy Perry. Britney. Nicki Minaj. Cardi B. Pink. Madonna. Rihanna. Gwen Stefani. Alicia Keys. Kelly Clarkson.
Never before have so many women dominated their...
7) Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
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Blackstone Publishing
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2011
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English
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In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven men sailed from England in an attempt to cross Antarctica from one side to the other. Their ship, Endurance, became icebound and sank, still one hundred miles from land. What follows is one of the most amazing stories of survival ever recorded.
Over the next nineteen months, Shackleton led his men through brutal perils of every kind on ice, land, and sea with one goal—that
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Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
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[2024]
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English
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"From the New York times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of the most iconic teen comedies of all time, Mean Girls, revealing how it happened, how it defined a generation, "like, invented" meme culture, and why it just won't go away, filled with exclusive interviews from the director, cast, and crew"--