The Paradise Suite

The Paradise Suite
Author: David Brooks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1451649177

Originally published as: Bobos in Paradise: the new upper class and how they got there, 2000; and: On Paradise Drive: how we live now (and always have) in the future tense, 2004.

Closer

Closer
Author: Patrick Marber
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1999
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780802136459

In Patrick Marber's new tragi-comic play, four strangers meet, fall in love and fall out of love. Set in contemporary London, Marber recreates an atmosphere of brutality in relation to modern romance.

Bahamas 2008 Plus Turks & Caicos

Bahamas 2008 Plus Turks & Caicos
Author: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc
Publisher: Fodors Travel Publications
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1400018005

Describes special events, activities, and attractions on each island, and offers tips on traveling essentials such as hotels and restaurants.

Bobos in Paradise

Bobos in Paradise
Author: David Brooks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2010-05-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1416561730

In his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class—those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture. Their hybrid lifestyle is the atmosphere we breathe, and in this witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age, Brooks has defined a new generation. Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot? If so, you might be a Bobo.

Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation

Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation
Author: J.W. Whitehead
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2014-06-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 078647145X

Mike Nichols burst onto the American cultural scene in the late 1950s as one half of the comic cabaret team of Nichols and May. He became a Broadway directing sensation, then moved on to Hollywood, where his first two films--Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and The Graduate (1967)--earned a total of 20 Academy Award nominations. Nichols won the 1968 Oscar for Best Director and later joined the rarefied EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) club. He made many other American cinematic classics, including Catch-22 (1970), Carnal Knowledge (1971), Silkwood (1983), Working Girl (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), and his late masterpieces for HBO, Wit (2001) and Angels in America (2003). Filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh regard him with reverence. This first full-career retrospective study of this protean force in the American arts begins with the roots of his filmmaking in satirical comedy and Broadway theatre and devotes separate chapters to each of his 20 feature films. Nichols' permanent achievements are his critique of the ways in which culture constructs conformity and his tempered optimism about individuals' liberation by transformative awakening.

On Paradise Drive

On Paradise Drive
Author: David Brooks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2004-06-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0743262859

The author of the acclaimed bestseller Bobos in Paradise, which hilariously described the upscale American culture, takes a witty look at how being American shapes us, and how America's suburban civilization will shape the world's future. Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat. You see suburban guys at Home Depot doing that special manly, waddling walk that American men do in the presence of large amounts of lumber; super-efficient ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize the PTA, and weigh less than their children; workaholic corporate types boarding airplanes while talking on their cell phones in a sort of panic because they know that when the door closes they have to turn their precious phone off and it will be like somebody stepped on their trachea. Looking at all this, you might come to the conclusion that we Americans are not the most profound people on earth. Indeed, there are millions around the world who regard us as the great bimbos of the globe: hardworking and fun, but also materialistic and spiritually shallow. They've got a point. As you drive through the sprawling suburbs or eat in the suburban chain restaurants (which if they merged would be called Chili's Olive Garden Hard Rock Outback Cantina), questions do occur. Are we really as shallow as we look? Is there anything that unites us across the divides of politics, race, class, and geography? What does it mean to be American? Well, mentality matters, and sometimes mentality is all that matters. As diverse as we are, as complacent as we sometimes seem, Americans are united by a common mentality, which we have inherited from our ancestors and pass on, sometimes unreflectingly, to our kids. We are united by future-mindedness. We see the present from the vantage point of the future. We are tantalized, at every second of every day, by the awareness of grand possibilities ahead of us, by the bounty we can realize just over the next ridge. This mentality leads us to work feverishly hard, move more than any other people on earth, switch jobs, switch religions. It makes us anxious and optimistic, manic and discombobulating. Even in the superficiality of modern suburban life, there is some deeper impulse still throbbing in the heart of average Americans. That impulse is the subject of this book.

How To Lose A Bachelor

How To Lose A Bachelor
Author: Anna Banks
Publisher: Entangled: Bliss
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2015-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1633754545

Lawyer Rochelle Ransom isn't looking for love. That ship had sailed—and sunk. Now all of her time is spent working and supporting her charity. But when an opportunity to win a large amount of prize money opens up, she's willing to sacrifice a little pride to raise some funds for a good cause. Grant Duke has never forgotten Rochelle. And now he finally has a chance to get even with her for how she destroyed his heart. But when his plan for revenge takes a series of wrong turns, things head down a hilarious path of rediscovering love

The Liar's Diary

The Liar's Diary
Author: Patry Francis
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780452289154

Drawn almost against her will to a vibrant newcomer who has been breaking hearts in their community, Jeanne Cross discovers that she and the woman share deep-seated emotional needs, a commonality that turns deadly when her house is repeatedly burglarized and her son is framed for murder. Reprint.

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre
Author: Leonard White
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2003
Genre: Armchair theatre. (Television programme)
ISBN: 9781903053188

Pleasure in Hawaii

Pleasure in Hawaii
Author: Devon Vaughn Archer
Publisher: Kimani Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0373862156

Widower Russell Malloy is finally ready to get on with his life. He may have found the perfect woman to share it with after he meets Sloane Hepburn. The two are taking each other through a whirlwind romance, but is it enough to make this career woman relocate? Original.