“…Despite his international fame, Hergé was an extremely private man, who found inspiration in modern art, Zen Buddhism, and the latest world affairs and scientific developments…”

“…Where is she in 2015? With all the fame and recognition. With thirteen original albums released, her poetry regularly reprinted, her paintings and photographs on show in galleries around the world, an induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a National Book Award for her first prose work, Just Kids. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Authority and interpretation in the House of fame -- Chaucer's friar's (unpaid) rent -- Conversion in the English saints' plays -- Parody and piety in Bosch's Haywain -- Sir Orfeo's harp : music for the end of time -- pt. 3. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…. : A room of one's own and Scientiae sacra fames -- Reading transpersonally II: Women building peace : three Guineas and Epilogue on war : peace with patriotism -- To Russia with love : literature, language, and a shared ideology of the political left -- Afterword. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Cartography of Virtual Empires -- Unboxing AGE OF EMPIRES -- Making Mario -- Performances -- Player Agency in Audience Gaming -- Material Culture on Twitch -- Benefits of Including Let's Play Recordings in Close Readings of Digital Game Texts -- Fame or Infamy: The Influence of Let's Plays on Independent Game Developers -- "Here Comes a New Challenger" -- Peripheries -- The Impending Demise of Video Game Packaging: An Eulogy -- The Ludic Nature of Paratexts -- [Para]Textually Here: Paratexts and Presence in Games -- Isekai: Tracing Interactive Control in Non-interactive Media -- The Paratext, the Palimpsest, and the Pandemic -- Contributors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : the Tennessee waltz -- How the "z-list" makes the a-list : Harvard's payback for big donors -- Recruiting the rich : development admits at Duke -- The fame factor : celebrity children at Brown -- Enduring legacies : Notre Dame's other tradition -- Title IX and the rise of the upper-class recruited athlete : fencing, crew, and polo scholarships -- A break for faculty brats : free and easy entry for the children of professors -- The new Jews : Asian Americans need not apply -- The legacy establishment : taking on Congress and the higher education lobby -- The challenge of wealth-blind admissions : how Caltech raises standards--and donations -- Ending the preferences of privilege : suggestions for reform…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…About the author Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Putting your reading speed into context Chapter 2: A definition of reading Chapter 3: Understanding your eyes Chapter 4: Managing your motivation and state of mind Chapter 5: Developing your peripheral vision Chapter 6: Skimming, scanning and selective reading Chapter 7: Use of a guide Chapter 8: Comprehension and retention Chapter 9: Reading for study Chapter 10: Reading from computer screens Chapter 11: Improving your vocabulary Chapter 12: Conclusion Appendix 1: Answers to comprehension questions Appendix 2: Speed reading hall of fame Further reading Index…”

“…The novella "Dictation" imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their fame. Timid Miss Hallowes, who types for Conrad, comes under the influence of James's Miss Bosanquet, high-spirited, flirtatious, and scheming. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reflexive staging, fashionability, and travel practice -- Mary Robinson, acting the self -- Byronic travel and the theater of the self -- Consumable subjects : Manfred, Sappho, and fame…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"To mark where England's empire stands" : the economy and social structure of the British Isles in 1715 -- "Fareweel e'en to the Scottish name" : the politics and geopolitics of the British Isles in 1715 -- "What force or guile could not subdue" : the Jacobites in 1715 -- "That treason thus could sell us" : the Jacobite conspiracy of 1715 -- "The English steel we could disdain" : the outbreak of the rebellion -- "Sae famed in martial story" : military operations, September 1715-April 1716, the central theatre -- "Secure in valour's station" : military operations, September 1715-April 1716, the northern, southern, and western theatres -- "Bought and sold for English gold" : the prisoners and exiles of the '15 -- "Such a parcel of rogues in a nation" : resistance and social reintegration after the '15…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 8: All Those "Lettered" Government AgenciesChapter 9: Pulling It All Together: Public Policy and Other Items of Note; Chapter 10: Drug Quality and Security Hall of Fame; Back Cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / James Grande and Carmel Raz -- William Hogarth : Looking and Listening for a Painting / Lydia Goehr -- Collecting Ballads, Historicizing Sounds : Appropriating Scottish National Music in the Eighteenth Century / Maria Semi -- Realising The Enraged Musician / Oskar Cox Jensen -- 'A Strange Jingle of Sounds' : Scenes of Aural Recognition in Early Nineteenth-Century English Literature / Josephine McDonagh -- The Sound of News : Affective Rhythm, Rupture, and Nostalgia / William Tullett -- The Resounding Fame of Fingal's Cave / Jonathan Hicks -- Echoing Sounds : What Was Poetry for Gilbert White? …”

“…Shares his hilarious Hollywood stories, but also what he has learned along the way about acting, fame, and being --not just a star--but a great a father"--…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dante's Divine Comedy -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Chaucer's House of Fame -- APPENDIX. Labyrinths in Manuscripts -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley, ex-representative of the colonies: in Rembrance of 'Things sublime' / Helen Weston ; 4. Bribing the vote of fame: eighteenth century monuments and the futility of commemoration / David Bindman ; 5. …”

“…The first typewriter artist to find fame was Flora F. F. Stacey, with her butterfly drawing of 1898; but since the very beginning of the typewriter’s existence, artists, designers, poets, and writers have used this rigorous medium to produce an astounding range of creative work. …”

“…L'erosione del suolo e gli incendi soo in aumento. La siccitá e la fame affligono alcune parti dell'africa. Sebbene sia spesso sttovalutata, la spiritualità africana presenta elementi che possono portare un contributo positivo, anche dal punto di vista etico, di fronte alla crisi ambientale…”

“…They did not expect recognition or fame for their work - economist Emily Greene Balch (1946) was surprised to learn that anybody knew about her. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Imagined Communities of the Living and the Dead: The Spread of the Ancestor-Venerating Stem Family in Tokugawa Japan -- 4. Name and Fame: Material Objects as Authority, Security, and Legacy -- 5. …”