Author: Jennifer Harris
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813172136
Size: 65.31 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Oprah Phenomenon

by Jennifer Harris, release date 2007-03-16, The Oprah Phenomenon Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Oprah Phenomenon books, Her image is iconic: Oprah Winfrey has built an empire on her ability to connect with and inspire her audience. No longer just a name, “Oprah” has become a brand representing the talk show host’s unique style of self-actualizing individualism. The cultural and economic power wielded by Winfrey merits critical evaluation. The contributors to The Oprah Phenomenon examine the origins of her public image and its substantial influence on politics, entertainment, and popular opinion. Contributors address praise from her many supporters and weigh criticisms from her detractors. Winfrey’s ability to create a feeling of intimacy with her audience has long been cited as one of the foundations of her popularity. She has repeatedly made national headlines by engaging and informing her audience with respect to her personal relationships to race, gender, feminism, and New Age culture. The Oprah Phenomenon explores these relationships in detail. At the root of Winfrey’s message to her vast audience is her assertion that anyone can be a success regardless of background or upbringing. The contributors scrutinize this message: What does this success entail? Is the motivation behind self-actualization, in fact, merely the hope of replicating Winfrey’s purchasing power? Is it just a prescription to buy the products she recommends and heed the advice of people she admires, or is it a lifestyle change of meaningful spiritual benefit? The Oprah Phenomenon asks these and many other difficult questions to promote a greater understanding of Winfrey’s influence on the American consciousness. Elwood Watson, associate professor of history at East Tennessee State University, is the editor of several books, including “There She Is, Miss America”: The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America’s Most Famous Pageant and Searching The Soul of Ally McBeal: Critical Essays.

Author: Jennifer Harris
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813183235
Size: 33.24 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The Oprah Phenomenon

by Jennifer Harris, release date 2021-05-11, The Oprah Phenomenon Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Oprah Phenomenon books, Her image is iconic: Oprah Winfrey has built an empire on her ability to connect with and inspire her audience. No longer just a name, "Oprah" has become a brand representing the talk show host's unique style of self-actualizing individualism. The cultural and economic power wielded by Winfrey merits critical evaluation. The contributors to The Oprah Phenomenon examine the origins of her public image and its substantial influence on politics, entertainment, and popular opinion. Contributors address praise from her many supporters and weigh criticisms from her detractors. Winfrey's ability to create a feeling of intimacy with her audience has long been cited as one of the foundations of her popularity. She has repeatedly made national headlines by engaging and informing her audience with respect to her personal relationships to race, gender, feminism, and New Age culture. The Oprah Phenomenon explores these relationships in detail. At the root of Winfrey's message to her vast audience is her assertion that anyone can be a success regardless of background or upbringing. The contributors scrutinize this message: What does this success entail? Is the motivation behind self-actualization, in fact, merely the hope of replicating Winfrey's purchasing power? Is it just a prescription to buy the products she recommends and heed the advice of people she admires, or is it a lifestyle change of meaningful spiritual benefit? The Oprah Phenomenon asks these and many other difficult questions to promote a greater understanding of Winfrey's influence on the American consciousness.

Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: Arkana
ISBN: 3641011078
Size: 45.83 MB
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Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : de
Pages : 320
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Eine Neue Erde

by Eckhart Tolle, release date 2009-03-23, Eine Neue Erde Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Eine Neue Erde books, Nach seinen Bestsellern „Jetzt!“ und „Leben im Jetzt“ geht Eckhart Tolle mit seinem lange erwarteten neuen Buch einen Schritt weiter. „Eine neue Erde“ beschäftigt sich mit dem geistig-seelischen Zustand der Menschheit. Tolle geht davon aus, dass der krankhafte Zustand des menschlichen Geistes zu einer kollektiven Fehlentwicklung geführt hat und wir vor einer gefährlichen Weggabelung stehen. Unsere bisherige Sicht der Welt funktioniert nicht mehr. Wenn wir sie nicht ändern, bewegen wir uns auf zunehmend gefährlichem Terrain mit dem Potenzial zur Selbstzerstörung. Für Tolle existiert jedoch eine Alternative zu diesem düsteren Zukunftsszenario: ein innerer Quantensprung, verbunden mit einem fundamentalen Wandel von unserem alten zu einem gänzlich neuen Bewusstsein. Eckhart Tolle ist davon überzeugt, dass wir am Anfang dieser Bewusstseins-Transformation stehen.

Author: Kathryn Lofton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520259270
Size: 33.85 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Oprah

by Kathryn Lofton, release date 2011-03-02, Oprah Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Oprah books, Oprah Winfrey is a media messiah for a secular age. This book is an examination of the religious dimensions of Oprah Winfrey's empire, deploying the idiom of US religious history and metrics of religious studies to assess Winfrey's success on the national and international scene.

Author: Jeanine Cummins
Publisher: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH
ISBN: 3644406758
Size: 75.16 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 448
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American Dirt

by Jeanine Cummins, release date 2020, American Dirt Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download American Dirt books, Der Nummer-1-Bestseller der New York Times-Bestsellerliste: Eine Mutter und ihr Kind auf einer atemlosen Flucht durch ein Land, das von Gewalt und Korruption regiert wird Gestern besaß sie noch einen wunderbaren Buchladen. Gestern war sie glücklich mit ihrem Mann, einem Journalisten. Gestern waren alle, die sie am meisten liebte, noch da. Heute ist ihr achtjähriger Sohn Luca alles, was ihr noch geblieben ist. Für ihn bewaffnet sie sich mit einer Machete. Für ihn springt sie auf den Wagen eines Hochgeschwindigkeitszugs. Aber findet sie für ihn die Kraft, immer weiter zu rennen? Furchtlos und verzweifelt, erschöpft und jede Sekunde wachsam. Lydias gesamte Verwandtschaft wird von einem Drogenkartell ermordet. Nur Lydia und ihr kleiner Sohn Luca überleben das Blutbad und fliehen in Richtung Norden. Sie kämpfen um ihr Leben.

Author: Tonia Renae
Publisher:
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Size: 57.67 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Chasing Oprah

by Tonia Renae, release date 2020-05-05, Chasing Oprah Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Chasing Oprah books, Everybody's heard of The Oprah Effect. Millions of people have sent letters and emails and now hashtag her name on social media to get her attention and shoot their shot. But what happens when you're not chasing the phenomenon that is Oprah Winfrey? What if you're just chasing opportunities and perfection? What if you're a Chef chasing other people's recipes and accolades? And what if at the end of the chase you realize the history that you make through the actions of your life is all that matters.Our roots share an amalgam of stories which are written in ways that can only be told by someone with a myriad of talents and years of experience cultivating them could tell. In this book the author refuses to be bound to any one title given to her. All of which she passionately responds to yet denies just long enough for you to see her in all of her complexities written throughout these pages. Tonia shares memories of writing as well as her artistic abilities and how it has shaped her career as a Chef. From the love of the food which she writes about in great detail to the words of affirmation well documented through her own personal journey toward self. Chef Tonia has written something that will remain on shelves for years to come. A book with food ideas that are meant to be passed on through generations and adapted without a loss of respect for the history left in these dishes by our ancestors.

Author: Kathleen Rooney
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557288738
Size: 10.96 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Reading With Oprah

by Kathleen Rooney, release date 2008-01-01, Reading With Oprah Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Reading With Oprah books, Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprah's Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since it began in 1996. Reading with Oprah explores the club's revolutionary fusion of books, television, and commerce and tells the engaging and in-depth story of the OBC phenomenon. Kathleen Rooney combines extensive research with a dynamic voice to reveal the club's far-reaching cultural impact and its role as crucible for the clash between "high" and "low" literary taste. Comprehensive and up-to-date, the book covers the club from its inception in 1996, through the Jonathan Franzen contretemps, the surprising suspension in 2002, and, after the club's return in 2003, the progression from "great books" to memoir. New material includes an extensive look at the James Frey scandal and Oprah's turn to contemporary fiction, including The Road and Middlesex. Through close examination of Winfrey's picks and personal interviews with book club authors and readers, Rooney demonstrates how the club that Barbara Kingsolver calls "one of the best possible uses of a television set" has, according to Wally Lamb, "gotten people of all ages to read, to read more, and to read widely."

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Size: 26.13 MB
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages :
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Computers In Libraries

by , release date 2000, Computers In Libraries Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Computers In Libraries books,

Author: John P. Dessauer
Publisher: Book Industry Study Group
ISBN:
Size: 75.80 MB
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Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Book Industry Trends

by John P. Dessauer, release date 1996, Book Industry Trends Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Book Industry Trends books,

Author: Norman King
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
ISBN:
Size: 31.83 MB
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Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Everybody Loves Oprah

by Norman King, release date 1988, Everybody Loves Oprah Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Everybody Loves Oprah books, Discusses Oprah Winfrey's talk show, her dramatic roles in "The Color Purple" and "Native Sun," and her turbulent childhood