Parks and Recreation: You Perfect Sunflower
  • Language: en

Parks and Recreation: You Perfect Sunflower

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-05-05
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  • Publisher: RP Studio

Let your spouse, sister, mom, or best friend know she's a perfect sunflower with this charming DIY gift book, inspired by everyone's favorite friendships from Parks and Recreation. Whether your recipient is an Ann or a Leslie, this book is the best way to let your friend know how you feel about her. Once you fill in the prompts, it becomes a personalized gift full of funny, memorable, and sweet expressions of appreciation that your loved one will cherish for years to come. This book features full-color photography from Parks and Recreation throughout.

Thinking about Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Thinking about Stories

Thinking About Stories is a fun and thought-provoking introduction to philosophical questions about narrative fiction in its many forms, from highbrow literature to pulp fiction to the latest shows on Netflix. Written by philosophers Samuel Lebens and Tatjana von Solodkoff, it engages with fundamental questions about fiction, such as: What is it? What does it give us? Does a story need a narrator? And why do sad stories make us cry if we know they aren’t real? The format of the book emulates a lively, verbal exchange: each chapter has only one author while the other appears spontaneously in dialogues in the text along the way, raising questions and voicing criticisms, and inviting response...

Parks and Recreation: The Treat Yo' Self Guided Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Parks and Recreation: The Treat Yo' Self Guided Journal

Treat yo’ self to some much-needed self-care with this yearlong guided journal inspired by the wit and wisdom of Parks and Recreation! Once every year, Donna Meagle and Tom Haverford of Parks and Recreation embark on an indulgent and rejuvenating “Treat Yo’ Self” trip. Now you can experience the revitalizing spirit of that tradition every day, with this deluxe guided journal inspired by the hilarious and heartfelt series. • YEARLONG JOURNALING TO ENCOURAGE SELF-CARE: Through a combination of daily journaling, free-writing prompts, and other activities, this journal will help you practice essential self-care. • GREAT FOR EVERY PARKS AND REC FAN: A perfect gift for fans of all ages, this journal brings the optimistic spirit of the show to your daily routine. • COMPLETE YOUR PARKS AND REC COLLECTION: Parks and Recreation: Treat Yo’ Self Journal joins Insight Editions’ line of Parks and Recreation titles, including Parks and Recreation: The Official Coloring Book.

This Is Where You Belong
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

This Is Where You Belong

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-21
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  • Publisher: Penguin

In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you live The average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move #6, from Austin, Texas, to Blacksburg, Virginia, that threatened to unhinge her. In the lonely aftermath of unpacking, she wondered: Aren’t we supposed to put down roots at some point? How does the place we live become the place we want to stay? This time, she had an epiphany. Rather than hold her breath and hope this new town would be her family’s perfect fit, she would figure out how to fall in lo...

Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC's Parks and Recreation
  • Language: en

Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC's Parks and Recreation

Primetime feminist strategies: the case of Parks and recreation -- Pawnee: portrait in patriarchy -- Pawnee's "new man": manly men and male feminists -- Personal politics and everyday feminism -- "Knope we can!": making politics personal -- Parks and recreation in the continuum of feminist television

America's Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 602

America's Women

Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over the past 300 years. As she traces the role of females from their arrival on the Mayflower through the 19th century to the feminist movement of the 1970s and today, she demonstrates a boomerang pattern of participation and retreat. In some periods, women were expected to work in the fields and behind the barricades—to colonize the nation, pioneer the West, and run the defense industries of World War II. In the decades between, economic forces and cultural attitudes shunted them back into the home, confining them to the role of moral beacon and domestic goddess. Told chronologically through the compelling true stories of individuals whose lives, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman’s experience, Untitled is a landmark work and major contribution for us all.

Problematic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Problematic

From Beyoncé's Lemonade to The Force Awakens to the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, the entertainment industry seems to be embracing the power of women like never before. But with more feminist content comes more feminist criticism--and it feels as if there's always something to complain about. Dianna E. Anderson's incisive Problematic takes on the stereotype of the perpetually dissatisfied feminist. Too often feminist criticism has come to mean seeing only the bad elements of women-centric pop culture and never the good. Anderson suggests that our insistence on feminist ideological purity leads to shallow criticism and ultimately hurts the movement. Instead, she proposes new, more nuanced forms of feminist thought for today's culture, illustrated by examples from across the spectrum of popular music, movies, and TV, including Lena Dunham, Nicki Minaj, and even One Direction. While grounding her inquiry in pop culture media and topics, Anderson draws on concepts of feminist theory to show how we can push for continued cultural change while still acknowledging the important feminist work being done in the pop culture sphere today.

Confident Pluralism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 177

Confident Pluralism

"In Confident Pluralism, John D. Inazu analyzes the current state of the country, orients the contemporary United States within its broader history, and explores the ways that Americans can—and must—live together peaceably despite these deeply engrained differences. Pluralism is one of the founding creeds of the United States—yet America’s society and legal system continues to face deep, unsolved structural problems in dealing with differing cultural anxieties, and minority viewpoints. Inazu not only argues that it is possible to cohabitate peacefully in this country, but also lays out realistic guidelines for our society and legal system to achieve the new American dream through civic practices that value toleration over protest, humility over defensiveness, and persuasion over coercion"--cover page verso.

The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor

Vituperation, disparagement, and debasement seem to have become part of the mainstream discourse in contemporary US-American media culture. Zooming in on a distinct televisual comedy genre, Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and the cultural work of disparagement in contemporary female-led situation comedies. Subsequently, larger patterns of (gender-based) invective strategies and conventions that define the dynamism of this comedic genre come into view. Her study outlines case studies of popular sitcoms, like Parks and Recreation, Mike & Molly, and the revival of hit-sitcom Roseanne, thereby unearthing how the shows are able to stage humor as mass-mediated deprecation - a signifying practice with its own poetics and politics.

Same Kind of Different As Me
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Same Kind of Different As Me

A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies in print! Now a major motion picture. Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love. Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped the “Man” in the 1960’s by hopping a train. Untrusting, uneducated, and violent, he spends 18 years on the streets of Dallas and Fort Worth. Meet Ron Hall, a self-made millionaire in the world of high-priced deals—an international arts dealer who moves between upscale New York galleries and celebrities. It seems unlikely that these two men would meet under norma...