Sherlock Lives!: 100+ Facts on Sherlock and the Smash Hit BBC TV Series

Sherlock Lives!: 100+ Facts on Sherlock and the Smash Hit BBC TV Series
Language: English | EPUB | ISBN-10: 1495325814 | 2014 | 28 pages | 0.1 MB

Like James Bond, the main character of British TV series, Sherlock, played by the hugely popular Benedict Cumberbatch, has become synonymous in the eyes of the public with British humor, intelligence and wit.

Sherlock Lives! 100+ Facts on Sherlock and the Smash Hit BBC TV Series is a light, fast-paced look at the making of the TV series that has captured the hearts and minds of people around the world.

Based on author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original detective stories featuring the imperious Sherlock Holmes, the TV series twists and turns the original mysteries into modern day thrillers.

Other shows, like the US TV series, Elementary, the American version of Sherlock, have tried to emulate its critical and popular success, but none have reached the heights of the British show.

Join us as we delve into the world of all things “Sherlock”:

The characters

The locations

The writers

The connections between Sherlock and that other iconic British TV show, Doctor Who

And much more besides

Find out if you are a true “Sherlockian” or simply be amazed at all the facts and trivia that you never knew.

If you love Sherlock, read British authors or mysteries on Kindle or in paperback, love anything British or Cumberbatch, don’t delay.

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American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales
English | Feb 23, 2016 | ISBN: 0385353928 | 416 Pages | AZW3/MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 5.8 MB

Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s riveting and explosive American Girls.

With extraordinary intimacy and precision, Sales captures what it feels like to be a girl in America today. From Montclair to Manhattan and Los Angeles, from Florida and Arizona to Texas and Kentucky, Sales crisscrossed the country, speaking to more than two hundred girls, ages thirteen to nineteen, and documenting a massive change in the way girls are growing up, a phenomenon that transcends race, geography, and household income. American Girls provides a disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and of the inexorable and ubiquitous experience of a new kind of adolescence—one dominated by new social and sexual norms, where a girl’s first crushes and experiences of longing and romance occur in an accelerated electronic environment; where issues of identity and self-esteem are magnified and transformed by social platforms that provide instantaneous judgment. What does it mean to be a girl in America in 2016? It means coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism and a sometimes self-undermining notion of feminist empowerment; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills. From beauty gurus to slut-shaming to a disconcerting trend of exhibitionism, Nancy Jo Sales provides a shocking window into the troubling world of today’s teenage girls.

Provocative and urgent, American Girls is destined to ignite a much-needed conversation about how we can help our daughters and sons negotiate unprecedented new challenges.

Salvador Dalí (Critical Lives)

Mary Ann Caws, “Salvador Dalí (Critical Lives)”

ISBN: 1861893833 | 2009 | EPUB | 192 pages | 2 MB

“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure—that of being Salvador Dalí.”

He was a force unto himself, an icon of outrageousness, artistic brilliance, eccentricity, and unmistakable style. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol, was one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, and in this concise narrative acclaimed art historian Mary Ann Caws provides a sharply written survey of his life and work.

Salvador Dalí examines every twist and turn in Dalí’s long and multifaceted career and the pivotal artistic movements at whose center he stood. From his early life in the Catalan region and his expulsions from the School of Fine Arts in Madrid and other schools to the surrealist movement and his work with Buñuel on the films Un chein andalou and L’Âge d’or, Caws charts Dalí’s influences and creative process. Dalí’s turbulent personal life brought him in contact with a rich assortment of intellectual figures, and Caws considers his relationships with his family; his lovers, including the married Elena Diakonova; and with friends such as poet Federico Garcia Lorca. His writings, drawings, photography, and painted works offer up new clues about the artist under Caws’s incisive eye, as she analyzes his lesser-known writings and creative works, as well as his Surrealist paintings and “hand-painted dream photographs” such as The Persistence of Memory.

A masterfully written biographical study, Salvador Dalí paints an arresting portrait of one of the most elusive artists of our time.