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This is an account of how ordinary people in Britain looked during and after World War II. It was a world of clothes rationing, "make do and mend", the Utility Scheme, uniforms for both sexes, the WI, homemade cosmetics and women's magazines lending circles. It was a time of factory girls in boiler suits and headscarves, and of clothes made from patchwork, flags, blackout fabric, mosquito netting, parachute silk and anything that came to hand. But, it was also a time when great efforts were made to keep high fashion alive, in the face of attempts by the Germans to move the Paris couture houses to Berlin, because looking good was seen as important to morale. Towards the end of the war, New York, with a strong influence from Hollywood, became the temporary fashion capital of the world. This, in turn, led to the emergence of the post-war New Look. Illustrated with numerous photographs, advertisements and fashion drawings, this book provides comprehensive coverage of 40s fashion, from a dress sewn from a torn German parachute to Queen Elizabeth's, now the Queen Mother, ball gowns. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Steve Jobs, Candye Kane, Marilyn Horne, Colin Friels, Ronnie Hawkins, Debbie Ryan. Excerpt:Candye Kane (born November 13, 1961) is an American singer , songwriter and performer best known in the Blues and Jazz genre. She has been included in the Rolling Stone Guide to Jazz and Blues, Elwoods blues by Dan Aykroyd , The Blueshound Guide to Blues, Allmusic and several other blues books and periodicals. She was included on the 30 Essential Women of the Blues CD set released by the House of Blues record label and the Rock for Choice compilation. She also appears along with her L.A. country music contemporaries, Lucinda Williams and Dwight Yoakam on a Town South of Bakersfield on Enigma Records . Kane is also a frequent talk show guest. She is also famous as a retired adult model and pornstar . Candye Kane Early life Kane was born in Ventura, California and raised in Highland Park, a Los Angeles suburb. She had a difficult childhood marked by a missing father and a verbally abusive mother who taught her to shoplift at the age of nine. She dabbled in the gang culture, and she became an unwed mother at the age of 17. In late 1983, when she turned 18, she got into the adult entertainment industry and became an adult model and a stripper . From 1983 to 1985 she appeared on the cover of more than 100 adult magazines including Juggs , High Society , "Voluptuous ", and Gent . She came out of retirement for one photo session in 1997 for Voluptuous Magazine. Kane is currently featured in Bernard Taschen's coffee table book , The Big Book of Breasts. Kane was also a regular contributor to Gent as an advice columnist. During this time she also starred in sixteen hardcore X-rated videos. She converted to Judaism in 2001 with the help of Rabbi Ted Riter at Temple Solel, Encinitas, California. Mu... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Henry Eckford, Des Browne, Colin Friels, Colin Hay, James Macmillan, Julie Fleeting, Gordon Smith, James Service, Katy Clark, Hugh Mcdonald, Paul Walker, Quintin Craufurd, Alan Mahood, Crawford Boyd, Michael Garrett, Jim Galloway. Excerpt:Alan Mahood Alan Mahood (born 26 March 1973 in Kilwinning , Ayrshire ) is a former Scottish professional footballer Nottingham Forest , Greenock Morton and Kilmarnock and St. Johnstone . Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Colin Friels Colin Friels (born 25 September 1952) is a Scottish -born Australian actor. Background and training Friels was born in Kilwinning , North Ayrshire , Scotland. His mother was a mill worker and his father a carpenter. He lived in Kilbirnie until 1963, when his family moved to Australia, arriving in Darwin , Northern Territory before settling in the Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows . He worked as a bricklayer's labourer before studying at the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), alongside actors such as Mel Gibson , and his own future wife Judy Davis . Friels graduated from NIDA in 1976. Acting career Friels career began with work mostly in theatre and television. In 1980 Friels was a presenter on the long-running children's series Play School . His first film role was in the unreleased Prisoners (1981), starring with Tatum O'Neal . The film was allegedly so bad that Tatum's father Ryan O'Neal purchased the rights to the film to prevent it from ever screening. His first actual appearance in film was in Monkey Grip (1982), an adaptation of a novel by Helen Garner , where he starred alongside Noni Hazlehurst . In 1986, he played the title role in Malcolm , about a shy mechanical genius, for which he was awarded the 1986 AFI Award for Best Actor . Friels was also nomi... ... Read more

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The reception of Brian Friel's recent "Dancing at Lughnasa" confirms his status as Ireland's leading dramatist. The body of work that he has produced is outstanding in its breadth of sympathy and interest, its dramaturgical invention and its wide cultural and intellectual purview. This book addresses the variety and complexity of Friel's drama by bringing to bear a range of academic and other professional and creative approaches in order to highlight particular aspects of his work and thought. Hence, contributors include a playwright, poet, theater-producer, historian and various specialists in relevant literatures. In this way, the book suggests the intellectual richness, humanity, and protean skill and invention of the work. Contributors: Elmer Andrews, Terence Brown, Sean Connolly, Neil Corcoran, John Cronin, Seamus Deane, Joe Dowling, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kilroy, Desmond Maxwell, John McVeagh, Christopher Murray, Fintan O'Toole, Alan Peacock, Robert Welch, and Richard York. ... Read more