“…At St Paul's Gilbert formed life-long friendships with, among others, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who achieved fame of a sort with his 'clerihew' poetry. Others of Gilbert's friends were Lucian Oldershaw, E W Fordham, Digby and Waldo d'Avigdor who bonded further in the Junior Debating Club and later in the amusingly named IDK club.Known universally as G K Chesterton, Gilbert wrote 80 books, hundreds of poems and essays and several plays. …”

“…Based on extensive research and more than 140 interviews, Replay includes insights from video game legends such as Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Will Wright-the creator of The Sims-Doom designer John Romero, and Hironobu Sakaguchi of Final Fantasy fame. Replay also includes a foreword by Richard Garriott (AKA Lord British)…”

“…Eventually, Tom was named a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, and elected to the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame. Thinking back on all his achievements, Tom was overcome by a wave of emotion. …”

“…Shakespeare gained lasting fame and fortune during his lifetime not only by successfully moving his audience, but also because from the beginning his work inspired critical and artistic dialogue. …”

“…This book's aim is to understand how the festivities, orchestrated with court artists, became a means of celebratory propaganda and how the diffusion of their descriptions, in incunabula or manuscripts, heightened the fame of the events. The wedding feasts have been studied comparatively: comparing the variety of their theatrical performances, jousts and dances, as well as the ways of the production of the chronicles that handed down their memory, used here as sources for the history of the Renaissance spectacle…”

“…Why did the four Cazenove brothers of the banking family, or the three Twining brothers of tea fame, or Dr. Peter Roget, author of the famous Theasaurus that most of us still use today, choose Mexico for their investments? …”

“…His relationship with Hale, as well as with Mary Trevelyan, who wanted to marry him and who left a memoir of Eliot's years of fame, shed new light on this period of his life. …”

“…Presentación del editor: "By some dismissed as the last of the anti-Darwinians, his fame as a rigorous biologist even tainted by an alleged link to National Socialist ideology, it is undeniable that Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944) was eagerly read by many philosophers across the spectrum of philosophical schools, from Scheler to Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze, from Heidegger to Blumenberg and Agamben. …”

“…Although he had put himself in real danger in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering the Spanish-American War in Cuba, glory and fame had eluded him. Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899 to write about the brutal colonial war against the Boers. …”

“…We pity their fate: a life of picking up crumbs discarded by innovators striding a path paved with fame and profit. In Copycats, Oded Shenkar challenges this viewpoint. …”

“…The intention here was to offer a diverse selection of various generations and degrees of fame, so that the wide dissemination of the theme becomes evident --…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Social suicide (Bad Religion) -- Ride the wings of pestilence (From First to Last) -- Sick little suicide (The Matches) -- The keys to life vs. 15 minutes of fame (Atmosphere) -- Now I know (Pennywise) -- Throw down (Motion City Soundtrack) -- Tropical London (Rancid) -- The dirty glass (Dropkick Murphys) -- Plea from a cat named Virtute (The Weakerthans) -- Promise (Matchbook Romance) -- City in the sea (Scatter the Ashes) -- Liberation frequency (Refused) -- Struck by a wrecking ball (Nekromantix) -- Bad reputation (Pulley) -- Fall apart (1208) -- Sing along forever (The Bouncing Souls) -- Seein' diamonds (Hot Water Music) -- Life goes by (The Special Goodness) -- Miss take (radio edit) (HorrorPops) -- Temptation (Tiger Army) -- Dirty love (Division of Laura Lee) -- Burn in Hell (Error) -- Now (Eyedea & Abilities) -- The plague (live) (Death by Stereo)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…part Introduction -- chapter Art History Empowering Medieval and Early Modern Things / part PART 1 Material Agency -- chapter 1 The Power of Nature and the Agency of Art: The Unicorn Cup of Jan Vermeyen / chapter 2 Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries: Mixed Media, Remnant Art, Recyclage and Gender in the Low Countries (Sixteenth Century Onwards) / part PART 2 The Power of Things -- chapter 3 Knighted by the Apostle Himself: Political Fabrication and Chivalric Artefact in Compostela,1332 / chapter 4 Agency and Miraculous Images / chapter 5 Agency, Beauty and the Late Medieval Sculptural Encounter / part PART 3 Objects as Social Agents -- chapter 6 Dispersal, Exchange and the Culture of Things in Fifteenth-century Italy / chapter 7 Michelangelo, Tommaso de’ Cavalieri and the Agency of the Gift-Drawing / chapter 8 Distributing Durer in the Netherlands: Gifts, Prints, and the Mediation of Fame in the Early Sixteenth Century / part PART 4 Agency of Physical Manipulations -- chapter 9 The Early Modern Bible between Material Book and Immaterial Word / chapter 10 Diagnostic Performance and Diagrammatic Manipulation in the Physician’s Folding Almanacs / chapter 11 Surgical Saws and Cutting-Edge Agency / part PART 5 The Agency of Things and Human Agency -- chapter 12 The Boots of Saint Hedwig: Thoughts on the Limits of the Agency of Things…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Great pretenders: the phenomenon of impersonating (pseudo-)historical personae in medieval blogs, or, blogging for someone else's fame / Monika Kirner-Ludwig -- Constructing personal identities online: self-disclosure in popular blogs / Elise Salonen -- The development of identity in Batman comics / Claudia Enzweiler -- Group identities. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…10 The death of socialism and the afterlife of its monuments: making and marketing the past in Budapest's Statue Park Museum11 From contested to consensual memory: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum; 12 'Dead Man': film, colonialism and memory; Part IV And then silence...; INTRODUCTION; 13 Memories between silence and oblivion; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: Introduction by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark - 1-"Hitler Can't Keep 'Em That Long": The road, the people by Bennet Schaber- 2-Western Meets Eastwood: Genre and gender on the road by Shari Roberts- 3-Mad Love, Mobile Homes, and Dysfunctional Dicks: On the road with Bonnie and Clyde by Ian Leong and Mike Sell and Kelly Thomas- 4-On the Run and on the Road: Fame and the outlaw couple in American cinema by Corey K. …”

“…A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty‐first century, reaches into almost every facet of public life. …”

“…Bestselling business author and Professional Speaking Hall of Fame member Alan Weiss offers the inside advice you need to turn your talent into a high-paying career-from honing your delivery skills to building a business. …”

“…Bestselling business author and Professional Speaking Hall of Fame member Alan Weiss offers the inside advice you need to turn your talent into a high-paying career—from honing your delivery skills to building a business. …”

“…The ETF money managers presented here have been featured in leading media including CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal , and Research Magazine’s ETF Advisor Hall of Fame. In this book, Max Isaacman clearly explain how ETFs can help you: gain access to precious metals and other non-market asset classes; profit in unsettled markets and prepare for the next bull market; shift portfolio exposure to the sectors, regions, and asset classes most likely to earn profits; allocate your assets more flexibly and precisely; uncover value opportunities in areas that have underperformed; provide tactical opportunities to generate absolute return; strengthen risk management, and much more. …”