Our Doris

Author : Charles Heathcote
Publisher : Various Altitudes
ISBN 13 : 9780993234903
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Doris written by Charles Heathcote and published by Various Altitudes. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Partridge Mews Women's Institute have announced a Garden Safari and Doris Copeland, pillar of the community with a tenure as Maria in The Sound of Music that involved an awful gastrointestinal bug, plans on securing her position as fifth house. Join her as she battles ne'er do well slugs, searches for the perfect artisan sausage and comes against her mortal enemy Janice Dooley of Little Street, all whilst maintaining a perfectly Silvakrinned hairstyle. Told from the perspective of her long-suffering husband, 'arold, a man who would be content to sit at home watching re-runs of Groundforce. This is the first book of monologues featuring Our Doris.

Author : Sallie Bingham
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374711860
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silver Swan written by Sallie Bingham and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.” —Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her lifetime, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother and various ex-lovers. She established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson; flaunted interracial relationships; and adopted a thirty-two year-old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter. This is also the story of the great houses she inhabited, including the classically proportioned limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue, the sprawling Duke Farms in New Jersey, the Gilded Age mansion Rough Point in Newport, Shangri La in Honolulu, and Falcon’s Lair overlooking Beverly Hills. Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny, little beyond the tabloid accounts of her behavior has been publicly known. In 2012, when eight hundred linear feet of her personal papers were made available, Sallie Bingham set out to probe her identity. She found an alluring woman whose life was forged in the Jazz Age, who was not only an early war correspondent but also an environmentalist, a surfer, a collector of Islamic art, a savvy businesswoman who tripled her father’s fortune, and a major philanthropist with wide-ranging passions from dance to historic preservation to human rights. In The Silver Swan, Bingham is especially interested in dissecting the stereotypes that have defined Duke’s story while also confronting the disturbing questions that cleave to her legacy.

Author : Doris J. Rapp
Publisher : Practical Allergy Research Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9781880509081
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Toxic World, a Wake Up Call written by Doris J. Rapp and published by Practical Allergy Research Foundation. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shirley Roberts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118101642
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doris Inc. written by Shirley Roberts and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proven strategies for finding balance in your life and career while maximizing the quality of life for an elderly person When Shirley Roberts' father passed away, her life and career were put on hold as the demands of caring for her elderly mother, Doris, began consuming more and more of her time and energy. Using her business prowess, Shirley, with the help of her financial advisor brother, developed Doris Inc. Using their business skills, they found ways to maintain their own lives and careers while ensuring that their mother received top-notch care. Much of their success has come from sound management practices and an original financial forecasting tool tailored for elders. In this heartfelt, beautifully written book, Shirley offers sage advice on how to cope with the emotional roller coaster of eldercare, along with proven care and financial planning strategies and tools that have worked so well for her. Features concrete lessons and proven strategies for handling the challenges of eldercare; making tough decisions, finding help, reducing stressful crises and planning for the high costs of eldercare Offers practical guidance to avoid sacrificing your own life while providing the best care for your loved ones Tips on confronting and planning for your own golden years to ensure that you'll have a fulfilling life after retirement and that those who'll be caring for you won't be overly burdened

Author : John Michael Doris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199570396
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking to Our Selves written by John Michael Doris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we know what we're doing, and why? Psychological research seems to suggest not: reflection and self-awareness are surprisingly uncommon and inaccurate. John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our understanding of ourselves as moral agents with empirical work on the unconscious mind.

Author : Doris Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816163915
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doris Day written by Doris Day and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Doris Day tells the story behind the headlines of her private life -- three marriages, real and rumored affairs, and professional triumphs countered by personal tragedies.

Author : Doris Roberts
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312312275
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are You Hungry, Dear? written by Doris Roberts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Are You Hungry, Dear?, Doris takes her signature line from the show and makes it her own in a book that pairs hilarious episodes and dramatic turning points from her fascinating life with delicious recipes from her own card file. She shares the lessons learned in two marriages and numerous love affairs, her struggles with her own family, and her heroic efforts to build a career and raise a son on her own. Readers who love tough, feisty, judg-mental Marie Barone will see how Doris is all that and more: tough, sweet, brave, direct, and vibrant. Readers will embrace the un-for-get-table life of this very open star, and relate to the issues-like ageism in Hollywood, sex in the senior years, or her daughter-in-law's imperfect meat sauce-Doris cares about passionately.

Author : Doris McCarthy
Publisher : Second Story Press
ISBN 13 : 1926739175
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doris McCarthy written by Doris McCarthy and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully frank look at a life lived within beauty and without regret. McCarthy‰'s sense of artistry, transmitted over a sixty-year painting career, celebrates multiple beauties of everyday life.

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241987717
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership in Turbulent Times written by Doris Kearns Goodwin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A marvellous banquet with four leaders whose lives provide lessons for all. Pull up a chair' Warren Buffett 'It is a safe bet that Leadership will soon sit on the nightstand of every chief executive officer in the land and will be avidly read by the legion of ambitious young people who want their jobs' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times In this culmination of five decades of work, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the origin, growth and exercise of leadership through the lives of four US presidents Are leaders born or made? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership, acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin looks at four presidents - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson - to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking at their entry into public life and how they confronted the dilemmas of their times, we can follow their development into leaders of their time. These stories of leadership in fractured times take on a singular urgency in today's polarized world and provide a much-needed roadmap for aspiring and established leaders. 'Colourful, fun and illuminating . . . a master storyteller' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times

Author : Doris Grumbach
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497607507
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure of Their Company written by Doris Grumbach and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary master looks ahead to her eighties As her eightieth birthday approaches, Doris Grumbach does not feel melancholy or saddened by the upcoming event, despite the loss of friends such as Kay Boyle and Dorothy Day—instead she takes it as an opportunity both to look backward and to grow. In this, her summer of unexpected content, Grumbach weaves the elegiac and the practical into a delightful tapestry of experience. She looks deep into her own history, telling stories of her life in the hardscrabble New York of the 1940s, working as a copyeditor. She details her near encounter with a seventy-two-year-old Bertrand Russell, calling it the closest she has ever come to sleeping with a Nobel Laureate. Grumbach lets us into her life and introduces us to the characters that have peopled her nearly eight decades on Earth. As the fateful day of her celebration draws near, the main topic on Doris Grumbach’s mind is not herself; it’s her guests. The Pleasure of Their Company is a meticulously planned party that any reader would be honored to attend.