Product Description: The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. Amanda Scheiner McClain explores the Kardashians’ brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of their hit reality television series, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press coverage...read more

Product Description: Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history...read more

Product Description: Bill Fine became publisher of Harpers Bazaar at age 29. At age 37, he was already Publishing Director of Harpers Bazaar, Town & Country, and House Beautiful.

Product Description: From celebrities' bodies and pregnancies to their spiritualities and deaths, Daniel Harris skillfully pulls back the curtain on celebrity culture and all its gossip guzzling, limelight lusting, and publicity pandering. We despise celebrities as much as we adore them...read more

Business celebrities such as Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Rupert Murdoch are among the most widely recognised, admired and sometimes even vilified individuals in the world. Like their celebrity peers from the entertainment, sports, arts and political worlds, business celebrities exert an influence that is pervasive, but difficult to assess, evaluate and explain. Business celebrities have been around for as long as big business itself, but this is the first book to provide a systematic exploration of how they are constructed and why they exist. Business celebrities include entrepreneurs, CEOs, and management gurus. The book argues that these individuals are not self-made, but rather are created by a process of widespread media exposure to the point that their actions, personalities and even private lives function symbolically to represent significant dynamics and tensions prevalent in the contemporary business environment. Demystifying Business Celebrity raises questions about the impact and significance of the production of celebrity upon our understanding of, and our ability to promote the practice of leadership in an enlightened manner. The book will prove a useful addition to the enlightened business student’s bookshelf and will be informative reading for all those with an interest in business and management.

A second collection of more than one hundred inspiring stories features essays by Americans from all walks of life, and includes the story of a Gulf War veteran whose perspective was changed by a chance encounter at a fast-food restaurant.

The host of 'The Real Deal' Webcast and columnist for Grrr! bemoans the influence of celebrities on political policies and voter decisions today, in an upbeat critique of the contributions of such figures as Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise, and Michael Moore. 25,000 first printing.

Danny Aiello, James Gandolfini, Chazz Palminteri, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Aida Turturro, and other notable Italian-American celebrities contribute their favorite family recipes in an entertaining cookbook that is complemented by dozens of photographs and personal anecdotes. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Featuring reflections on how different people found wisdom and hope in the inspirational words of loved ones, a collection of thoughtful advice includes contributions by Tom Brokaw, Jimmy Carter, Steven Spielberg, Amy Tan, and many others.

Product Description: Michael Jackson. McMartin Preschool. Heidi Fleiss. Richard “The Night Stalker” Ramirez. The Menendez Brothers. Robert Blake. Courtney Love. Winona Ryder. Rodney King. O.J. Name a high-profile trial over the past 25 years and Mona Shafer Edwards was most likely seated in the courtroom with her markers, pens, and large pad of vellum paper, illustrating the proceedings...read more

A second collection of inspiring stories by the actress-author of Thanks and Giving . . . All Year Long features ninety essays by Americans from all walks of life and includes the stories of a Gulf War veteran whose perspective was changed by a chance encounter at a fast-food restaurant and a prison inmate who remembers advice he did not take. Reprint.

Provides a colorful study of the stars of hip-hop music and their extraordinary jewelry, profiling the flamboyant style of such rap legends as Puff Daddy, Run DMC, Slick Rick, Ludacris, and many others.

Product Description: In this book people over the age of 70 talk about how they remain vital. The result is a treasury of humor and profundity by some of the most fascinating and gifted men and women of our time.

A portrait of American basketball and its top players is presented from the viewpoints of celebrity fans Woody Allen, Tom Brokaw, Saul Bellow, Walter Matthau, Nikki Giovanni, Donald Trump, Sharon Stone, and other notable figures.

A special correspondent for Vanity Fair and the author of Vulgar Favors takes a close-up look at the world of celebrity and fame, examining the lives of those who create it, manipulate it, and sustain it in politics, the news, entertainment, or other fields and their impact on modern-day culture. 75,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book by Pearlstein, Leo

Looks at tattoos, brands, and body art that adorn such celebrities as Angelina Jolie, Mark Wahlberg, Shaquille O'Neal, Eminem, Tommy Lee, and Drew Barrymore.

The innovative advertising man recounts his career in terms of the advertisements using celebrities he created, and details the circumstances surrounding each ad and the response it evoked.

Product Description: Here are stories from celebrities who reveal transformational moments in their lives. Their stories are stories of change that came about as a result of the love of their families, the kindness of strangers, or sheer persistence and determination; still other change came about through the power of prayer and unshakable faith...read more