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  You Know What You Did - The Hills

  Lisa Whittington-Hill

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  A funny and generous look at reality television’s most influential docusoap and how it changed the conversation on fame and young women
  		 
  When The Hills debuted on May 31, 2006, the world was unprepared for its shiny, cocktail-fueled, and unprecedented success. Seemingly overnight, fans were either Team Lauren or Team Heidi, although everyone could agree that Justin Bobby was the worst. In You Know What You Did, culture writer Lisa Whittington-Hill charts the explosive rise of one of television’s first polished (and possibly scripted) docusoaps, one that set the trajectory for how women who were “famous for being famous” — from the Real Housewives to the Kardashians — would be seen by the world for the decades to come.
  		 
  The Hills followed Lauren Conrad as she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of working in fashion. At the show’s peak, 4.8 million viewers tuned in to watch Lauren and her friends Heidi, Audrina, and Whitney intern at Teen Vogue, spill tea over sushi, and lounge by the pool at the Roosevelt Hotel. As their popularity grew, they became bona fide celebrities, experiencing the same vicious tabloid culture as other young female stars, navigating familiar rumors about sex tapes, plastic surgery, and addictions. Soon, slick docusoaps focused on the lifestyles of the wannabe rich and almost famous were everywhere and encouraged their female leads to stay skinny, behave badly, and, above all else, keep their names in the headlines.
  		 
  With a healthy dose of cynicism and empathy for the chaos of the Hollywood maelstrom, You Know What You Did shows us that, no matter your team, you loved The Hills for its skinny jeans, black eyeliner, and dating angst. But now you can also love — and question — it for changing everything we know about celebrity, reality, and young womanhood.

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  Admired Painter Frida Kahlo The...

  Bert Alexander Petzold

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  Why does the art world so readily celebrate male genius while sidelining the women who transformed how we see pain, identity and the female experience? "The Admired Painter Frida Kahlo" shows how one Mexican artist defied convention, suffering and erasure to become a defining feminist voice of the twentieth century.
  Frida Kahlo did not simply paint self-portraits; she invented a visual language for the body, wounded and resilient, and for the self as a site of politics and truth. Childhood polio, a catastrophic bus accident at eighteen, chronic pain and repeated operations shaped her daily life, as did her turbulent marriage to the muralist Diego Rivera. Rather than letting illness and patriarchy reduce her to a legend, she made her bedroom a studio and turned lived experience into images that demand attention. The book places her most important works at the centre: "The Two Fridas", "The Broken Column", "Henry Ford Hospital", "My Birth", "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird", "What the Water Gave Me", "The Wounded Deer", and "Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States". Read closely, these paintings do more than confess; they argue, combining tenderness with brutality, symbolism with precise observation.
  Bert Alexander Petzold offers more than pop mythology. Drawing on comprehensive research, he explains how Kahlo fused Mexican folk traditions, pre-Columbian imagery, Catholic iconography and uncompromising honesty about disability, desire, miscarriage and identity into works of exceptional intellectual and emotional power. He also shows why her intimate scale was revolutionary in a culture that prized grand public statements, and how her reputation, long overshadowed by Rivera, came to reshape the canon.
  If Kahlo's image has fascinated you but you want to understand the practice behind it, this study provides the depth and clarity her work deserves. Buy the book and see why Kahlo's vision continues to transform how we read art, selfhood and the female body.
  Perfect for GCSE and A-level revision as well as university study, the book uses Frida Kahlo's biography and masterpieces as a key to looking, so you can not only recognise her but truly understand her.

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  Vasily Surikov - Surikov and the...

  Vladimir Kemenov

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  Born in Krasnoiarsk in 1848, Surikov died in Moscow in 1916. He is one of the great masters of history painting, and he occupies a special place in Russian culture. Like Delacroix, he believed that history was not a pretext for nice painting but an inexorable drama with neither culprits nor innocents but rather people driven by invisible forces. He was very knowledgeable about Russian history, and his paintings deal with crucial moments. He sought in historical events the answers to pressing problems of his time. Here is a book about a painter little-known in the West, analysed with understanding by one of the greatest Russian art critics.

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  Unleash Your Creativity in Just...

  Rich Armstrong

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  Are you feeling creatively stuck? 
  Or maybe seriously uncreative? 
  Unleash your creativity in just 10 days with the Random Word Doodle method. 
  This audiobook will transform your grey squishy thing into a creativity powerhouse through a fun and simple method called The Random Word Doodle. 
  A few years back I felt super uncreative. I was doing UI and UX work. I was bored. So I began doodling random words every day—just for 10 minutes before breakfast. 
  It changed the trajectory of my life. 
  All you need is 10 minutes a day to spark your imagination and boost your creative confidence. You don’t need drawing skills. You don’t need to be a creative professional (although, it’s also great for writers, artists, and other creative pros). All you need is a pen and a piece of paper or a notebook. 
  If you want to increase the quality and quantity of your creations, boost the number of ideas you come up with, and sharpen your mind so you can confidently take on life’s challenges, you’re in the right place. 
  There are ten short chapters in the audiobook. 
  Each chapter includes:An explanation of a different creative benefit of doodling random words.A different doodling challenge—a slightly modified version of the core Random Word Doodle exercise.10 random words to choose from. 
  The book also includes additional random words and links to generate your own random words.

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  Zero-Waste Parenting - A...

  Claire Donnelly

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  Modern family life is often built on a foundation of convenience that hides a mounting environmental debt. Every plastic-wrapped snack and disposable wipe represents a choice made for immediate ease, yet paid for with long-term ecological impact. ZeroWaste Parenting is your practical guide to resolving the tension between the demands of parenthood and the reality of a planet under pressure. 
   
  Author Willow Greenleaf provides a comprehensive framework to transition your household from a cycle of disposability to a sanctuary of intentional design. This isn't about achieving social media perfection; it's about reclaiming agency over the materials entering your home and the legacy you leave for your children.  
   
  Through ten actionable chapters, you will learn to: 
  - Embrace a sustainable mindset that reduces stress and clutter. 
  - Revolutionize your kitchen with plastic-free food storage and mindful habits. 
  - Implement green cleaning routines and eco-friendly home essentials. 
  - Simplify personal care and self-care rituals for the whole family. 
  - Curate a sustainable wardrobe and choose mindful toys and learning gear. 
  - Navigate travel, school, and celebrations without the waste. 
  - Overcome common hurdles and sustain long-term momentum. 
   
  Your habits today are the blueprint for your children’s future. Start building a lifestyle that reflects your values and protects their world.

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  Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key...

  Zeth Lundy

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  Like all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious. If its titular concern - life - doesn't exactly allow for rigid focus, it's still a fiercely inspired collection of songs and one of the definitive soul records of the 1970s. Stevie Wonder was unable to control the springs of his creativity during that decade. Upon turning 21 in 1971, he freed himself from the Motown contract he'd been saddled with as a child performer, renegotiated the terms, and unleashed hundreds of songs to tape. Over the next five years, Wonder would amass countless recordings and release his five greatest albums - as prolific a golden period as there has ever been in contemporary music. But Songs in the Key of Life is different from the four albums that preceded it; it's an overstuffed, overjoyed, maddeningly ambitious encapsulation of all the progress Stevie Wonder had made in that short space of time.Zeth Lundy's book, in keeping with the album's themes, is structured as a life cycle. It's divided into the following sections: Birth; Innocence/Adolescence; Experience/Adulthood; Death; Rebirth. Within this framework, Zeth Lundy covers Stevie Wonder's excessive work habits and recording methodology, his reliance on synthesizers, the album's place in the gospel-inspired progression of 1970s R'n'B, and many other subjects.

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