Author: Jefferson Graham Publisher: ISBN: 9780896597945 Category : Game shows Languages : en Pages : 208
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A history of TV's most popular form of entertainment moves from radio game precursors through the changing face of game shows and the great game-rigging scandals, to today's popular shows, with highlights on the hosts and other showmen and women who keepthe games going
Author: Dominic Strinati Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1134923694 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 401
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Come on Down represents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important forms and processes. The contributors analyse some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions such as TV soaps, quizzes and game shows, TV for children, media treatment of the monarchy, Pop Music, Comedy, Advertising, Consumerism and Americanization. The diversity of both subject matter and argument is the most distinctive feature of the collection, making it a much-needed and extremely accessible, interdisciplinary introduction to the study of popular media culture. The contributors, many of them leading figures in their respective areas of study, represent a number of different approaches which themselves reflect the diversity and promise of contemporary theoretical debates. Their studies encompass issues such as the economics of popular culture, its textual complexity and its interpretations by audiences, as well as concepts such as ideology, material culture and postmodernism.
Author: Seanan McGuire Publisher: Tordotcom ISBN: 076539930X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 148
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Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist! A 2021 Locus Award Finalist! Amazon's Best of 2020 So Far The fifth installment in New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire's award-winning Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister—whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice—back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome. Eleanor West's "No Quests" rule is about to be broken. Again. The Wayward Children Series Book 1: Every Heart a Doorway Book 2: Down Among the Sticks and Bones Book 3: Beneath the Sugar Sky Book 4: In an Absent Dream Book 5: Come Tumbling Down At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Stan Blits Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061350117 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 22
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The Official Behind-the-Scenes Guide to America's Most Popular and Longest-Running Game Show! For thirty-five years, The Price Is Right has been television's #1 game show, inviting 4.5 million home viewers daily to "Come On Down!" and join the studio contestants as they compete for fabulous prizes. A true pop culture phenomenon—with its flashy set, Big Wheel, Plinko board, "Barker Beauties," quirky contestants, Showcase Showdowns, and most importantly, its legendary host, Bob Barker—Price has set the standard for daytime reality TV. And no one knows it better than Stan Blits, the show's music director, contestant coordinator, and Emmy Award-nominated staff writer, who has been on the set and behind the scenes for almost three decades. In Come On Down! he shares the never-before-told stories and secrets about the most memorable moments, outrageous contestants, highlights and lowlights, and painstaking process of carefully handpicking just the right elements that have made The Price Is Right a long-running hit. Jam-packed with photographs, trivia, and fascinating memories, Come On Down! is the perfect gift for every Price fan!
Author: Timothy Roland Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 62
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Curious to see outside her field, Beth the cow sneaks onto a hot air balloon and goes for a wild ride, upsetting a number of people and collecting many objects and additional riders along the way.
Author: Kia Corthron Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822213925 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 54
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THE STORY: Skoolie lives in a clean, tiny shack at the top of the big hill, across from the small grocer. She doesn't have the use of her legs and uses a cart built close to the ground to get to the store, and around the house where her appliances
Author: Jennifer L. Wright Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers ISBN: 1496449363 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 359
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For fans of WWII fiction comes a powerful novel by Jennifer L. Wright about two young women coming of age during the Trinity nuclear bomb test in 1945. Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family’s land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post. While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced to live in nearby Alamogordo with her grandmother and find a place in a new school. When Jo Hawthorne crosses her path, Olive sees a chance for friendship—until she learns that Jo’s father is the Army sergeant who now occupies her beloved ranch. Already angry about her new reality, Olive pushes Jo away. But as she struggles to make sense of her grandmother’s lapses into the past and increasingly unsettling hints about what’s happening at the ranch, she slowly warms to Jo’s winsome faith and steady attempts at friendship . . . until one devastating day when the sky explodes around them and their lives are torn apart. Seven years later, Jo returns to Alamogordo, still angry and wounded by the betrayals of that fateful day. Determined to put the past behind her once and for all, Jo hunts for answers and begins to realize the truth may be far more complicated than she believed, leading her on a desperate search to find her friend before it’s too late.
Author: Michelle Black Publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory ISBN: 075990443X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 271
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Historical Suspense: "There are no rules above 10,000 feet" This cryptic slogan puzzles Darcy Close when she arrives in Colorado's Tenmile Canyon. She has come to the high country to investigate the strange legacy left to her by her great aunt: A remote mountain ghost town called Leap Year and a terrible family secret.
Author: David Ajeigbe Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1639611940 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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The Jewish people were under Roman rule after being conquered in several wars. The Jewish people were burdened by several forms of taxation. Although the Jewish people did not like several taxes levied on them by their conqueror, they did not have any choice but to pay them reluctantly. There were some Jewish citizens who were working for the Romans to collect taxes from their brethren and submit them to the Romans. Those Jewish citizens (tax collectors) were collecting more taxes than they were turning over to the Roman government. As a result, they got very rich financially and held important political status with the Roman government. Therefore, the Jewish people hated the tax collectors. Zacchaeus was one of the richest tax collectors, and for that reason, the Jewish people hated him so much to the point that he did not feel free to mix together with the people of his society. None of the Jews wanted to associate or do anything with him; he was isolated with no friends. Zacchaeus heard about Jesus, and he was curious of what might happen if he could have a meeting with Jesus. He felt that Jesus might understand his plight, forgive him, and turn him to the right course. However, he realized that he was a man of small stature and it would be impossible for him to see Jesus amid the crowd. Zacchaeus was resourceful, and he went ahead of the crowd to climb a sycamore tree which was divinely placed by the side of the road where Jesus was to pass. Zacchaeus climbed the sycamore tree without being sure how Jesus would respond to him. He had the faith that Jesus would accept him. When Jesus came to the sycamore tree, He called Zacchaeus to come down. The call to come down was an indication to Zacchaeus that Jesus knew his plight, that He knew his sins and his loneliness. Jesus wanted Zacchaeus to come down from the sycamore tree and leave all his worries and sins behind because He had forgiven him. Jesus was accused by the Pharisees and the scribes for being a friend to Zacchaeus. However, Jesus declared that He came to the world to save sinners like Zacchaeus.
Author: Clare McNally Publisher: Diversion Books ISBN: 1940941091 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 148
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Come home...if you dare! Doreen Addison wants nothing more than to provide a good life for her six foster children. When they are forced to move out of their home, Doreen is thrilled to find the perfect house for a bargain price. But is the new Addison House too good to be true? Their reclusive neighbor hints at the house’s grisly history and warns they’ll regret the move, but it's just what Doreen was looking for: a big, inexpensive, and secluded refuge for the children. Almost from the start, unexplained accidents and strange occurrences plague Doreen and her charges. And some of the children are showing disturbing personality changes. Why is 13-year-old Karen, who loves make up and the latest fashions, suddenly insisting such things are “evil”? What made 10-year-old Randy turn from a happy, rambunctious little boy into a child obsessed with only the darkest passages of the Bible? And who is the mysterious, beautiful woman in black that only 5-year-old Cindy seems to see? To complicate matters, Doreen can’t help falling for her handsome neighbor, Brendan Delacorte, who offers protection and always seems to be there when Doreen needs him. Can he help her solve the mystery of Addison House, before unseen evil destroys all that Doreen has loved and worked for? The only thing that can save them from destruction is to discover the secret of the woman in black who commands them all to COME DOWN INTO DARKNESS. PRAISE FOR CLARE MCNALLY: “A macabre imagination and a tight rein on your nerves are required for McNally's latest release.” —Publishers Weekly on Good Night Sweet Angel “You won’t sleep after you read this one!” —The West Orange Times on Somebody Come and Play
Author: Jefferson Graham
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