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Mitzi Gaynor (b. September 4, 1931) is an American actress, singer, dancer and writer. As a child dancer, she performed in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association before being discovered by 20th Century-Fox for the movies. She was in a number of Fox movies and won the coveted role of Nellie Forbush in the film version of South Pacific (1958). In the 1960s, she played in Las Vegas to great success. She followed with a string of television specials while simultaneously performing on stage. In the 2000s, she toured her one-woman show entitled Razzle Dazzle: My Life Behind the Sequins. This is the first biography of Gaynor and features an appendix of her work.

A spirited chronicle of New York's economic and cultural boom during the outstanding decade of the Roaring Twenties. This is the story of the zest for life that gripped New York in the postwar years of the 1920s. The decade ushered in an era of almost unprecedented prosperity and economic expansion that made New York the powerhouse of America and fueled a wave of creativity in music, fashion, literature, and architecture. Strike Up the Band explores how the city became a magnet for a host of outstanding personalities, from literary figures to sports stars, musicians, composers, and journalists, and pays a visit to the places they frequented, such as the Cotton Club and Broadway theaters. From the skyline to the sidewalk, the city itself also transformed as it was redeveloped in the 1920s building boom, with Art Deco becoming the style that dominated the new era.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • Sports Illustrated #1 Book of 2024 • A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game's beginnings to the end of World War II.'You're going to beg for extra innings. Without missing a scandal or a sensation, with an eye on how assimilation transforms the picture, Kevin Baker has written a buoyant, double coming-of-age story.'—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning authorBaseball is “the New York game” because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where the home run was hit. It's where the game's first stars were born, and where everyone came to play or watch the game. With nuance and depth, historian Kevin Baker brings this all vividly back to life: the still-controversial, indelible moments—Did the Babe call his shot? Was Merkle out? Did they fix the 1919 World Series? Here are all the legendary players, managers, and owners, in all their vivid, complicated humanity, on and off the field. In Baker's hands the city and the game emerge from the murk of nineteenth-century American life—driven by visionaries and fixers, heroes and gangsters. He details how New York and its favorite sport came to mirror one another, expanding, bumbling through catastrophe and corruption, and rising out of these trials stronger than ever. From the first innings played in vacant lots and tavern yards in the 1820s; to the canny innovations that created the very first sports league; to the superb Hispanic and Black players who invented their own version of the game when white baseball sought to exclude them. And all amidst New York's own, incredible evolution from a raw, riotous town to a new world city. The New York Game is a riveting, rollicking, brilliant ode to America's beloved pastime and to its indomitable city of origin.

Un romántico y divertido viaje en el que nuestros protagonistas descubrirán que el verdadero amor se encuentra donde menos lo esperas. A Peter Gallagher acaba de ocurrirle la que considera es la peor de las tragedias: su mejor amigo va a casarse. No solo eso: unirá su vida a la mujer de la que lleva años secretamente enamorado y, como si eso no fuese suficiente, le ha pedido que sea su padrino. Por suerte, al menos le queda su trabajo como chef de uno de los mejores restaurantes de la ciudad. O al menos, eso es lo que él cree. Nina Osbourne es la heredera de una de las grandes corporaciones del país, pero tiene una pasión oculta: adora cocinar. De modo que, cuando se presenta la oportunidad de adquirir un restaurante en crisis, no lo piensa dos veces y decide ir más allá: se pone al mando del mismo para sacarlo adelante. Después de todo, es brillante, decidida y está dispuesta a todo por triunfar para demostrar que es la mejor. Hasta que se da de bruces con cierto chef obstinado. La paradoja del padrino es una historia tan frenética como la mejor cocina; disparatada a rabiar y, sobre todo, tan deliciosa como el mejor de los platillos. Los lectores han dicho… «Es una novela escrita de una forma descriptiva en la que destacan los diálogos y las escenas de amor». @pinceladasdelibros (vía Instagram)

LA FÓRMULA DEL AMOR EXISTE. ESO NO SIGNIFICA QUE LEXI ESTÉ DISPUESTA A ACEPTAR LOS RESULTADOS. La comedia romántica perfecta para volver a enamorarte del amor. Toda la universidad conoce a @nosoycupido, la adictiva cuenta de Instagram que empareja a los estudiantes. Pero solo une a dos parejas por semestre, así que las probabilidades de ser seleccionado son bajas. O eso creía Lexi hasta que la emparejaron con Brice. Dedicada a sus estudios por completo, Lexi no tiene ninguna intención de meterse en una relación amorosa y el constante espionaje de la cuenta anónima no hace más que sacarla de sus casillas. Por eso, cuando Brice se ofrece a iniciar una relación falsa para desenmascarar a @nosoycupido, Lexi no lo duda ni un segundo. Pero con una legión de fans siguiendo todos sus movimientos, una beca en juego por la que compite con Brice y un novio falso demasiado perfecto para el bienestar de su ritmo cardíaco, la reacción en cadena es inminente... Y no hay enlace químico más inestable que el del amor. Reseñas: «Lexi y Brice te tendrán gritando y sonriendo hasta el final. Prepárate para caer rendida ante la pareja favorita de Cupido...». Maryam Assakat, booktoker, (@maryam.and.books) «Los elementos de un beso es un libro monísimo y de lo más original. Ciencia, redes, amor... ¡Lo tiene todo! ¡Estoy convencida de que no podrás parar de leer!». Gemma González, booktoker (@gemma.gonzalezu) «Una novela que demuestra que el mejor elemento para encontrar el amor es el de creer en uno mismo». Ona Spell, autora de Hasta que dejemos de ser idiotas

Genetic Steroid Disorders, Second Edition targets adult and pediatric endocrinologists, clinical geneticists, genetic counselors, reproductive endocrinologists, neonatologists, urologists, and psychoendocrinologists. It is designed to assist these specialists in the diagnosis and treatment of steroid disorders. This revision includes a new chapter on'Gonadotropins, Obesity and Bone'and new research on non-invasive prenatal diagnosis with cell-free DNA. Chapters are thoroughly updated covering steroid disorders, the genetic bases for the disorder and case presentations, This definitive reference belongs in every medical library! - Presents a comprehensive, translational look at all aspects of genetic steroid disorders in one reference work - Provides a common language for endocrinologists, geneticists, molecular pathologists, and genetic counselors to discuss and diagnose genetic steroid disorders Saves clinicians and researchers time in quickly accessing the very latest details on genetic tests and diagnoses as opposed to searching through thousands of journal articles - Highlights significant discoveries with clinical relevance, presenting insight into which medications to use based on the genetic makeup of a patient - Teaches the best strategies and most effective use of genetic information in the patient counseling setting

Nova York, anys 20. En sortir de la feina, un jove advocat sent, a través d'una porta, dos homes que es barallen. Després, un tret i un crit. Alarmat, irromp al lloc dels fets. No hi troba ningú, ni mort ni viu. Al cap de poc, però, confirma que s'ha comès un assassinat: el del propietari d'un banc important. Qui és l'assassí? I qui és l'home que apareix a l'East River i assegura haver caigut per un forat i haver travessat la Terra?

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage practices while they were traveling, while Syrian women accessed more economic autonomy though their participation in peddling networks. In Possible Histories, Charlotte Karem Albrecht explores this peddling economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a site for revealing how dominant ideas about sexuality are imbricated in Arab American racial histories. Karem Albrecht marshals a queer affective approach to community and family history to show how Syrian immigrant peddlers and their interdependent networks of labor and care appeared in interconnected discourses of modernity, sexuality, gender, class, and race. Possible Histories conceptualizes this profession, and its place in narratives of Arab American history, as a'queer ecology'of laboring practices, intimacies, and knowledge production. This book ultimately proposes a new understanding of the long arm of Arab American history that puts sexuality and gender at the heart of ways of navigating US racial systems.