Word: booking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Joan Rivers is certainly right to assert, in the title of her new book, that Men Are Stupid ... And They Like Big Boobs. But the book's 288 pages are better described by the subtitle, which is uncharacteristically dry for Rivers: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery...
Rivers, 75, who wrote the book with the help of magazine writer and novelist Valerie Frankel, devotes most of the text to describing the medical details, costs and complications of various cosmetic procedures, nearly all of which she has undergone. Rivers says she has had her lips, breasts, nose, stomach, eyes and arms worked on and that she regularly gets Botox. (If you want to see what all this does to a person's appearance, check this...
Though the book was not selected for the NBCC’s Winter Good Reads List, it tops the organization’s Good Reads Long List for Nonfiction, published early last February on Critical Mass, the blog of the NBCC Board of Directors...
...NBCC, an organization of over 900 book reviewers and editors from a vast array of American publications, has been giving out awards since 1975. A 24-member Board of Directors is responsible for selecting both the nominees and winners...
...coined the term “soft power” to refer to the use of nonmilitary means such as cultural goods, diplomacy, and economic aid to attract allies to a cause. He later expounded on the policy in his 2004 book “Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics...