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Beautiful Farming Wife: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Bi Mingzhouxiaojie"Aiyo, this time someone's going to die. This is going to be a big deal."She had transmigrated, and her architectural style had transcended into that of a village girl. How could she be so ungrounded?!When she opened her eyes, she saw a group of people beating her up.Mama, who can tell her what's going on?That patched up but handsome shy man actually liked her?
Beautiful Farming Wife: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Bi Mingzhouxiaojie"Aiyo, this time someone's going to die. This is going to be a big deal."She had transmigrated, and her architectural style had transcended into that of a village girl. How could she be so ungrounded?!When she opened her eyes, she saw a group of people beating her up.Mama, who can tell her what's going on?That patched up but handsome shy man actually liked her?
Beautiful Feet: Unleashing Women to Everyday Witness
by Jessica Leep FickCan women be effective witnesses for Jesus? Sometimes women feel like they're not cut out for evangelism, but Jessica Fick shows how women can share their faith in normal, everyday ways. With specific aptitudes like empathy and vulnerability, God has created women with beautiful feet to bring the good news of Jesus to those around them.
Beautiful Female CEO Loved Me (Volume 1 #1)
by Mei SanNongThe small employee, Yang Zuoran, was suddenly struck by fate. From then on, all kinds of beauties, beauties, sexy financial directors, cold and elegant client directors, charming front desk foremen, mischievous little assistants, and various other beauties were all in a frenzy …
Beautiful Female CEO Loved Me (Volume #2)
by Mei SanNongThe small employee, Yang Zuoran, was suddenly struck by fate. From then on, all kinds of beauties, beauties, sexy financial directors, cold and elegant client directors, charming front desk foremen, mischievous little assistants, and various other beauties were all in a frenzy …
Beautiful Female CEO Loved Me: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Mei SanNongThe small employee, Yang Zuoran, was suddenly struck by fate. From then on, all kinds of beauties, beauties, sexy financial directors, cold and elegant client directors, charming front desk foremen, mischievous little assistants, and various other beauties were all in a frenzy …
Beautiful Female CEO Loved Me: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Mei SanNongThe small employee, Yang Zuoran, was suddenly struck by fate. From then on, all kinds of beauties, beauties, sexy financial directors, cold and elegant client directors, charming front desk foremen, mischievous little assistants, and various other beauties were all in a frenzy …
The Beautiful Fight: Surrendering to the Transforming Presence of God Every Day of Your Life
by Gary ThomasIn a groundbreaking book that rethinks spiritual formation, Gary Thomas argues that the contemporary church is in danger of accepting Christianity as a historical reality but not as a present power. Is the grace that pardons powerful enough to transform? Answering with a resounding yes, Thomas presents a compelling picture of what it means to be a “God oasis” in a God-forgetting world.“The first chapter alone is worth reading many times. This is beauty and struggle. This is the death that leads to life.”John Ortberg, Pastor and Author, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church“Set this book down … slowly … turn around … and run away … unless you hunger for a deeper vision of faith and thirst for genuine life transformation … if you do, read on.”Kevin Harney, Pastor and Author“Once again, Gary Thomas challenges me to live passionately for God and to apply his transforming power to my daily decisions.”Kay Warren, Executive Director, HIV/AIDS Initiative, Saddleback ChurchThe Beautiful Fight will energize your life and your church. It will inspire you, equip you, and challenge you to delve ever deeper into what it means to be a truly holy believer, transformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Discover just how radical Christian transformation can be, as you learn to see with new eyes, think with a new mind, and feel with a new heart. Thomas rallies you to the Beautiful Fight—the struggle to fully express the wonder and life-changing power of Christ in this world through every aspect of who you are.
Beautiful Fighting Girl
by Saito TamakiFrom Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saitō Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. For Saitō, the beautiful fighting girl is a complex sexual fantasy that paradoxically lends reality to the fictional spaces she inhabits. As an object of desire for male otaku (obsessive fans of anime and manga), she saturates these worlds with meaning even as her fictional status demands her ceaseless proliferation and reproduction. Rejecting simplistic moralizing, Saitō understands the otaku&’s ability to eroticize and even fall in love with the beautiful fighting girl not as a sign of immaturity or maladaptation but as a result of a heightened sensitivity to the multiple layers of mediation and fictional context that constitute life in our hypermediated world—a logical outcome of the media they consume. Featuring extensive interviews with Japanese and American otaku, a comprehensive genealogy of the beautiful fighting girl, and an analysis of the American outsider artist Henry Darger, whose baroque imagination Saitō sees as an important antecedent of otaku culture, Beautiful Fighting Girl was hugely influential when first published in Japan, and it remains a key text in the study of manga, anime, and otaku culture. Now available in English for the first time, this book will spark new debates about the role played by desire in the production and consumption of popular culture.
Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays
by Stephanie G’SchwindSelected from the country’s leading literary journals and publications—Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Normal School, and others—Beautiful Flesh gathers eighteen essays on the body, essentially building a multi-gender, multi-ethnic body out of essays, each concerning a different part of the body: belly, brain, bones, blood, ears, eyes, hair, hands, heart, lungs, nose, ovaries, pancreas, sinuses, skin, spine, teeth, and vas deferens. The title is drawn from Wendy Call’s essay “Beautiful Flesh,” a meditation on the pancreas: “gorgeously ugly, hideously beautiful: crimson globes embedded in a pinkish-tan oval, all nestled on a bed of cabbage-olive green, spun through with gossamer gold.” Other essays include Dinty W. Moore’s “The Aquatic Ape,” in which the author explores the curious design and necessity of sinuses; Katherine E. Standefer’s “Shock to the Heart, Or: A Primer on the Practical Applications of Electricity,” a modular essay about the author’s internal cardiac defibrillator and the nature of electricity; Matt Roberts’s “Vasectomy Instruction 7,” in which the author considers the various reasons for and implications of surgically severing and sealing the vas deferens; and Peggy Shinner’s “Elective,” which examines the author’s own experience with rhinoplasty and cultural considerations of the “Jewish nose.” Echoing the myriad shapes, sizes, abilities, and types of the human body, these essays showcase the many forms of the genre: personal, memoir, lyric, braided, and so on. Contributors: Amy Butcher, Wendy Call, Steven Church, Sarah Rose Etter, Matthew Ferrence, Hester Kaplan, Sarah K. Lenz, Lupe Linares, Jody Mace, Dinty W. Moore, Angela Pelster, Matt Roberts, Peggy Shinner, Samantha Simpson, Floyd Skloot, Danielle R. Spencer, Katherine E. Standefer, Kaitlyn Teer, Sarah Viren, Vicki Weiqi Yang
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana
by Iglesias Prieto NormaPublished originally as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this beautifully written book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work in the assembly plants along the U. S. –Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted in the late 1970s, the book uses compelling testimonials to detail the struggles these women face. The experiences of women in maquiladoras are attracting increasing attention from scholars, especially in the context of ongoing Mexican migration to the country’s northern frontier and in light of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This book is among the earliest accounts of the physical and psychological toll exacted from the women who labor in these plants. Iglesias Prieto captures the idioms of these working women so that they emerge as dynamic individuals, young and articulate personalities, inexorably engaged in the daily struggle to change the fundamental conditions of their exploitation.
Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald
by R. Clifton SpargoThis Fitzgeralds&’ novel &“is historical fiction at its best, imaginatively filling the gaps and bringing us intimately into a portrait of a marriage.&”(Times Literary Supplement) In 1939 F. Scott Fitzgerald is living in Hollywood, a virulent alcoholic and deeply in debt. Despite his relationship with gossip columnist Sheila Graham, he remains fiercely loyal to his wife, Zelda, his soul mate and muse. In an attempt to fuse together their fractured marriage, Scott arranges a trip to Cuba, where, after a disastrous first night in Havana, the couple runs off to a beach resort outside the city. But even in paradise, Scott and Zelda cannot escape the dangerous intensity of their relationship. In Beautiful Fools, R. Clifton Spargo gives us a vivid, resplendent, and truly human portrait of the Fitzgeralds, and reveals the heartbreaking patterns and unexpected moments of tenderness that characterize a great romance in decline. &“This approach to the Fitzgeralds&’ story is the most successful of the bunch . . . With its contained arc and energetic plotting, Beautiful Fools takes the focus off more familiar episodes in the couple&’s history.&” —The New Yorker &“In Spargo&’s hands, the Fitzgeralds emerge as fully human, if crazed and ruined characters.&” —The Washington Post &“Beautiful Fools is the work of a genuine literary talent. . . . Spargo&’s Fitzgeralds come alive.&” —The Spectator &“Spargo's book is richly imagined, and paints a delightfully detailed portrait of Cuba of 1939. It's a positively delicious travelogue.&” —Chicago Tribune &“Alternating between Scott&’s and Zelda&’s perspectives, Spargo describes the imperfect communion of two troubled souls who can&’t quite let go of their past or each other.&” —Boston Globe
A Beautiful Funeral (Maddox Brothers #5)
by Jamie McGuireLosing has never been easy for a Maddox, but death always wins. Eleven years to the day after eloping in Vegas with Abby, Special Agent Travis Maddox delivers his own brand of vigilante justice to mob boss Benny Carlisi. Vegas's oldest and most violent crime family is now preparing for vengeance, and the entire Maddox family is a target. The secret Thomas and Travis have kept for a decade will be revealed to the rest of the family, and for the first time the Maddoxes will be at odds. While none of them are strangers to loss, the family has grown, and the risk is higher than ever. With brothers against brothers and wives taking sides, each member will make a choice-let the fear tear them apart, or make them stronger.
The Beautiful Game: A WAG's Tale
by Claire Challis And FabulousMeet the WAGS: Louise, Tara, Jodie and Pattii and get ready to find out what really happens in extra time when; you gatecrash the players' Christmas party, only to find that the 'no women allowed' rule doesn't extend to every modelling and call girl agency in town; your best friend's nanny does a kiss 'n' tell, exposing a string of lies and affairs that you have suspected all along anyway; your close friend wakes the kids up at 2am to go looking for Daddy - only to find him in the middle of a nightclub getting down and dirty with a prostitute; you confide your biggest secret to your new best friend - only to find it front page news the following day. Welcome to the world of wives and girlfriends, as 'Fabulous' ('Fabulous' is the pseudonym of an ex-WAG. We're just not telling you which one...) takes you behind the scenes and details the rucks, romances and rules of the mega-glamorous minefield that is the world of football. As we quickly discover, there's a lot more to being a WAG than holidays, heels, hair extensions and handbags. In the cut-throat world of Premiership football, it's not just a game of two halves - it's survival of the fittest. And some will go to any lengths to stay at the top...
A Beautiful Game: The remarkable final autobiography from the late football manager and sports legend
by Sven-Göran Eriksson Bengt BergREAD THE REMARKABLE STORY OF A LIFE LIVED IN THE SERVICE OF FOOTBALLLife is a beautiful game – but how should you play it?‘To be a manager, you have to perform always. You cannot live in history. It's now and tomorrow that counts’----'A joyous and defiant portrait' Daily Telegraph, Books of the YearFor Sven-Göran Eriksson, one of the world’s most revered and respected football managers, the game has come to an end.He leaves us with his parting reflections, looking back on what he has achieved, experienced and learned over a lifetime in service to the beautiful game. It is a journey that has taken him from a small club in his native Sweden, across every continent, to competing on the world’s stage.Before his death, he was able to impart the lessons he’s learned along the way – about life, leadership and love – and to speak candidly about his extraordinary successes, as well as overcoming his failures.On the field, he led some of the finest sportsmen on earth to great victories and heartbreaking defeats, and in the process left his indelible mark on the game. This is a story of lives touched and connections made in the dogged pursuit of excellence. But for Sven the true journey he wanted to share is the one he made on the inside – the man that he became.Because A Beautiful Game is far more than the tale of a successful football manager. It is the story of the biggest game of all – what makes a good life. A story that endures, long after the final whistle.----'No book could match the emotional heft of A Beautiful Game' Daily TelegraphREMEMBERING SVEN-ÖRAN ERIKSSON 'Great manager and superb man-manager' John Terry'One of the very best and a man who will be sadly missed by everyone in the world of football' Michael Owen'I could play my best football under him' Micah Richards
The Beautiful Game: Sixteen Girls and the Soccer Season That Changed Everything
by Jonathan LittmanOnce nobody noticed Santa Rosa's Thunder. They were a ragtag team of girls who wanted to play soccer, and no one took them seriously. Their male coach expected little from his "ladies, " and their mediocre performance convinced them he was right. Then a kind of miracle happened. Emiria Salzmann, Thunder's new coach, a top player herself, knew what it took to win--discipline, relentless drills, thigh-burning sprints, and an inspired passing game. The girls hated it, but their coach never let up. Tough and determined, she showed them what it felt like to be winners--and they loved it. As the momentum grew with a string of victories, the girls thrived on the competition, believing they had the right stuff to become champions. They were right! With spirits soaring, Thunder won its league on the last day of the season and headed for the state cup, emerging not just as powerful athletes but as strong, confident, emotionally healthy human beings--champions in the game of soccer, and in the game of life.
The Beautiful Game
by Yamile Saied MéndezA powerful story about family, fútbol, and playing like a girl, perfect for fans of Front Desk, The Academy, and, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret from the award-winning author of Furia. At thirteen years old, Valeria "Magic" Salomón is already the best soccer player her town has ever seen. She has talent in spades and an abuelo whose tough-love coaching and lessons about &“strength and honor&” have made her the star of the Overlords, the top boys&’ team in the state. But everything changes at the State Cup semi-final when Valeria gets her first period while Wearing. White. Shorts. After her team is unexpectedly eliminated, she goes from their secret weapon to their scapegoat. Soon, she doesn&’t have a team at all anymore. She&’s not sure she has a relationship with her grandfather either. Valeria&’s a fighter, however. And with the help of her grandmother and support of her cheerleader BFF, she finds herself on a girls&’ team for the first time. But the Amazons aren&’t exactly excited to have her there. After all, Valeria&’s spent years ignoring their existence. With the next tournament looming on the horizon, Valeria has a month to figure out her place on her new team and learn how to play like a girl. The award-winning author of Furia returns to the world of &“the beautiful game&” in this uplifting, heartfelt novel about family, self-confidence, and the power of second chances.
The Beautiful Game (Cody Trilogy #2)
by David SkuyCody and the Lions are playing great soccer, but the arrival of an international company to build a factory on a nearby lake splits the team in two: Cody and his teammates who worry the factory will pollute the lake vs. the players whose families will benefit from the opportunities the company will bring. Cody and his friends organize a marathon soccer game to bring attention to the environmental impact of the factory. The game tests Cody to the limits of his strength. But it also tests his friendship, teamwork, courage, and faith that he can deal with the emotional as well as the physical effects of surviving cancer. Distributed in the U.S by Lerner Publishing Group
A Beautiful Game: The World's Greatest Players and How Soccer Changed Their Lives
by Tom WattForeword by Arsene Wenger, Introduction by David BeckhamSoccer writer and bestselling author of My Side, Tom Watt, talked to the world's top soccer players about growing up and falling in love with the game: Argentina's Lionel Messi and Brazil's Gilberto Silva; England's David James and Scotland's Craig Gordon; Italy's Fabio Cannavaro, Spain's Iker Casillas, and France's Franck Ribéry; South Africa's Benni McCarthy and Nigeria's Nwankwo Kanu; USA's Landon Donovan and Japan's Shunsuke Nakamura; and the world's most famous player, David Beckham.A Beautiful Game tells their stories, in the players' own words—stories of boys who would grow up to be heroes for a new generation of young players and fans. They look back to their childhoods: to their family homes, to their schoolrooms, to the friends they grew up with, and to the places where they first played the game that has made them stars. Combining stunning photographs with the world's greatest players sharing their personal stories of how soccer transformed their lives, this inspiring book is an intoxicating celebration of the "beautiful game."
The Beautiful Game
by Matthew XuerebIt certainly is everyone's dream to be a professional footballer; to be successful, rich and famous beyond one's wildest dreams, at the peak of one's youth. Alessandro was certainly living that dream, but how many would believe that his seemingly perfect life may not be as easy as it seems, that it has its trials and tribulations just like anyone else's, that he is as prone to the same emotional distress that afflicts any common mortal?
Beautiful Game Theory: How Soccer Can Help Economics
by Ignacio Palacios-HuertaThe first book to use the world's most popular sport to test economic theories and document novel human behaviorA wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports, including soccer. Beautiful Game Theory is the first book that uses soccer to test economic theories and document novel human behavior.In this brilliant and entertaining book, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta illuminates economics through the world's most popular sport. He offers unique and often startling insights into game theory and microeconomics, covering topics such as mixed strategies, discrimination, incentives, and human preferences. He also looks at finance, experimental economics, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. Soccer provides rich data sets and environments that shed light on universal economic principles in interesting and useful ways.Essential reading for students, researchers, and sports enthusiasts, Beautiful Game Theory is the first book to show what soccer can do for economics.
Beautiful Garbage: A Novel
by Jill Di DonatoIf Holly Golightly lived in the &’80s, how far would she go to make a name for herself as Manhattan&’s artist du jour? We know all about Warhol, Basquiat, Keith Haring, and their fictional counterparts, but what about the edgy women artists of this time? Jodi Plum: smart, talented, ambitious, troubled. Fresh out of her teens, she leaves suburbia for Manhattan&’s glam and gritty art scene, and almost immediately falls into the clutches of Monika, a beautiful photographer. With the help of her new mentor, Jodi quickly becomes a rising star—but when a skeleton from her past surfaces, her dream life crashes to a halt, and she slips into a world of parties, drugs, and high-class prostitution. Set in the crime-plagued New York City of the 1980s, Beautiful Garbage parallels an artist&’s journey with her sexual epiphanies, exploring the notorious milieu of the decade&’s downtown art scene from the point of view of a young female artist—and offering a satirical and irreverent look at post-&’70s sexual politics and the world of elite call girls.
The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion
by Thuy Linh Nguyen TuSince the 1990s, young Asian Americans including Doo-Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu have emerged as leading fashion designers. They have won prestigious awards, been chosen to head major clothing labels, and had their designs featured in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and other fashion magazines. At the same time that these designers were rising to prominence, the fashion world was embracing Asian chic. During the 1990s, "Asian" shapes, fabrics, iconography, and colors filled couture runways and mass-market clothing racks. In The Beautiful Generation, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu explores the role of Asian American designers in New York's fashion industry, paying particular attention to how they relate to the garment workers who produce their goods and to Asianness as a fashionable commodity. She draws on conversations with design students, fashion curators, and fashion publicists; interviews with nearly thirty Asian American designers who have their own labels; and time spent with those designers in their shops and studios, on their factory visits, and at their fashion shows. The Beautiful Generation links the rise of Asian American designers to historical patterns of immigration, racial formation, and globalized labor, and to familial and family-like connections between designers and garment workers.
Beautiful Geometry
by Eli Maor Eugen JostAn exquisite visual celebration of the 2,500-year history of geometryIf you've ever thought that mathematics and art don't mix, this stunning visual history of geometry will change your mind. As much a work of art as a book about mathematics, Beautiful Geometry presents more than sixty exquisite color plates illustrating a wide range of geometric patterns and theorems, accompanied by brief accounts of the fascinating history and people behind each. With artwork by Swiss artist Eugen Jost and text by math historian Eli Maor, this unique celebration of geometry covers numerous subjects, from straightedge-and-compass constructions to intriguing configurations involving infinity. The result is a delightful and informative illustrated tour through the 2,500-year-old history of one of the most important branches of mathematics.
Beautiful Ghost Su Daji: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Xu GuaDanThe chief of the village had a bad family, so I ate the offerings on the grave. At night, a woman came to me and said …