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Busy Being Born

Author : Laurence Seidler
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183574169X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Busy Being Born written by Laurence Seidler and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Busy Being Born charts the rise and fall of a young graduate working in the sex trade. Read wide-eyed as Lady Trocknell introduces our hero to the pleasures of service, recoil at the antics of a bevy of bankers, and share in the sorrow of his eventual fall from grace. Humanity is laid bare and dissected in this extraordinary, fictionalised autobiography where intellect, compassion, and outrageous flights of fantasy somehow work together to create literary magic. Set in 1980s London, each chapter recreates another episode in the author's journey through the dark underbelly of human desire. However, the portrayal of sex, while real and true, is also all analogy: a visceral means of recounting other societal excesses like the rise of money to Godlike status. Clever, provocative, and resilient, Busy Being Born is a living gauntlet where the reader is as likely to laugh as to cry.

The World of Bob Dylan

Author : Sean Latham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499511
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The World of Bob Dylan written by Sean Latham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features 27 integrated essays that offer access to the art, life, and legacy of one of the world's most influential artists.

Bob Dylan and Philosophy

Author : Carl J. Porter
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 081269760X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Bob Dylan and Philosophy written by Carl J. Porter and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan’s ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion. All phases of Dylan’s output are covered, from his early acoustic folk ballads and anthem-like protest songs to his controversial switch to electric guitar to his sometimes puzzling, often profound music of the 1970s and beyond. The book examines different aspects of Dylan’s creative thought through a philosophical lens, including personal identity, negative and positive freedom, enlightenment and postmodernism in his social criticism, and the morality of bootlegging. An engaging introduction to deep philosophical truths, the book provides Dylan fans with an opportunity to learn about philosophy while impressing fans of philosophy with the deeper implications of his intellectual achievements.

The Hard Crowd

Author : Rachel Kushner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982157690
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Hard Crowd written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.

Busy Being Born

Author : Todd Gitlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Busy Being Born written by Todd Gitlin and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lyrics

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781451648782
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book The Lyrics written by Bob Dylan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A beautiful, comprehensive volume of Dylan’s lyrics, from the beginning of his career through the present day—with the songwriter’s edits to dozens of songs, appearing here for the first time. Bob Dylan is one of the most important songwriters of our time, responsible for modern classics such as “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’.” The Lyrics is a comprehensive and definitive collection of Dylan’s most recent writing as well as the early works that are such an essential part of the canon. Well known for changing the lyrics to even his best-loved songs, Dylan has edited dozens of songs for this volume, making The Lyrics a must-read for everyone from fanatics to casual fans.

Sparks

Author : S. J. Adams
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0738730025
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Sparks written by S. J. Adams and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since sixth grade, Debbie Woodlawn has nursed a secret crush for her best friend, Lisa. All that time, Debbie pretended to love 80s sit-coms and abstinence rallies, just to be with her. So when Lisa hooks up with the most boring guy at school, Debbie decides it’s time to confess her love. But first, she embarks on an almost holy quest.

The Trouble with Being Born

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162872496X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Being Born written by E. M. Cioran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. Through sharp observation and patient contemplation, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience. “A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone’s hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison.”—The New Yorker “In the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."—Publishers Weekly "No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . . His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion."—Boston Phoenix

Superabundantly Alive

Author : Susan McCaslin
Publisher : Wood Lake Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1773431463
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Superabundantly Alive written by Susan McCaslin and published by Wood Lake Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance with the Feminine is a unique, unified, multi-genre work that includes dialogue, imaginary letters, poems, and reflective essays by two established Canadian poets. Taking cues from Merton himself, Susan and John establish a playful, jazzy, dialogic tone — superabundantly alive. This book invites participation for those who already know Merton’s work and for those who are meeting this whole and broken, prophetic, whimsical, paradoxical prophet and visionary for the first time. Robert Lax once described Merton’s poetry and the man himself as “superabundantly alive.” McCaslin and Porter prove the truth of this description in their enchanting account of the writer-mystic who now comes into his second century of stature and significance, in the words of Boris Pasternak, “[a]live and burning to the end.

No Eyes

Author : David Meltzer
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781574231298
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book No Eyes written by David Meltzer and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic meditation on the last year of tenor saxophonist Lester Young's life, of joyful playing and self-willed dying. In 1959, at the age of fifty, jazz greaet Lester Young--a lyrical player, his airy tone haunted by a breathy melancholy--died alone in the Arvin Hotel in Manhattan. As Meltzer explains, "No Eyes is a book about death, and Young sits in for a metaphor for the artist living and dying for and with his art." An "inside" biography, No Eyes is a brilliant jazz-world evocation, composed in free verse whose flow is arrested to capture significant moments, Meltzer creates a layered narrative of vivid colors and textures, the material facts of Young's story dissolving into internalized, projected truths of erotic understanding and spiritual sympathy with the "sweet and isolate lovely other."

The Guardian

Author : Jerold Greenfield
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491740779
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book The Guardian written by Jerold Greenfield and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jarreds ultimate and final mission begins after his death. Although his mission began in this world, it is fortified in the hereafter, on the other side. His next eternal life in an adventure in biblical obedience. He is now an agent of God. God gives him the name Kal-El, a Hebraic term meaning Vessel of God. He is truly a dark ops agent in the fullest meaning of the term Dark Ops. His adventures, his torments and his greatest gratifications comes from God himself as he carries out all his missions. Never in his wildest dreams could he have imagined what he would be required to do before he becomes The Guardian and who he would be guarding. It is the ultimate completion of his destiny in the new world in the new kingdom. No doubt you will be gratified and you will have happiness and even perhaps love Jarred more than you thought possible as he demonstrates his obedience to God. His final citizenship, although consecrated in heaven brings him to Jerusalem where he finally becomes The Guardian. The Guardian of who or what you may ask? Remember, Jarred is an angel, although a dark angel, as an angel he is only a messenger, and what a message he brings forth. Although you know what is comingjudge not, or you will be judged for you cannot kill this messenger. Amen brother! After reading this book, you will have received the message. Good luck to you www.darkangeltrilogy.com

The Pleasure Seekers

Author : Tishani Doshi
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408809834
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure Seekers written by Tishani Doshi and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August, 1968: Babo Patel arrives in London from Madras, with curly hair, jhill mill teeth and dreams of becoming a success. When he meets the beautiful, auburn-haired Siân Jones, he falls in love instantly. She, like him, is in search of something bigger than what the home she left behind can offer.But when Babo's parents learn of his intention to marry 'some girl from God knows where' he is given an ultimatum: he can only marry Siân if they agree to live in Madras for two years before returning to London. As the years pass by, the calamities, quirks and heartaches of first love, lost innocence, and old age unfold across cultures and generations of this mixed-up family in a topsy-turvy world.

The Hard Crowd

Author : Rachel Kushner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982157712
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Hard Crowd written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now includes a new essay, “Naked Childhood,” about Kushner’s family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco! “The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout.” —Taylor Antrim, Vogue From a writer celebrated for her “chops, ambition, and killer instinct” (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. Rachel Kushner has established herself as “the most vital and interesting American novelist working today” (The Millions) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times—and illuminates the themes and real-life experiences that inform her fiction. In twenty razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. These pieces, new and old, are electric, vivid, and wry, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. “Kushner writes with startling detail, imagination, and gallows humor,” said Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly, and, from Paula McLain in the Wall Street Journal: “The authority and precision of Kushner’s writing is impressive, but it’s the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.”

Doctor Who - Byzantium!

Author : Keith Topping
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446417859
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Doctor Who - Byzantium! written by Keith Topping and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Life is cheap in Byzantium. Life is cheap everywhere that the Romans are.' Byzantium. The imperial city - rising dramatically, as if by a trick of the light, from the peninsula of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. Its domes and towers and minarets overlook a place of intrigue, lust, power, oppression, resistance and murder. Romans, Greeks, Zealots, Pharisees...all meet in the market squares of the great city, but mutual loathing and suspicion are rife. In this cauldron, the Doctor and his companions arrive, expecting to view the splendour and civilisation of the Roman empire. But events cast them into a deadly maelstrom of social and political upheaval. In the eye of the hurricane they must each face the possibility of being stranded, alone and far away from their own times, in an alien culture bunker.

Better with Age

Author : Dr. Alan D. Castel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190279990
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Better with Age written by Dr. Alan D. Castel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age is an important number, but it can also be deceiving. After 40, most people say they feel younger than their years, some lie about their age, and many attempt to hide the signs of growing old. Better with Age addresses the many myths and paradoxes about the aging process. Although most people think of their later years in terms of decline, they can be one of the best times in life. This book presents the latest scientific research about the psychology of aging, coupled with insights from those who have succeeded in doing it well, such as Maya Angelou, Bob Newhart, Jared Diamond, John Glenn, and John Wooden. We are all aging, and many people are concerned about what to expect with advancing years. Retirement, happiness, and brain health are some of the many topics covered in this book. Better with Age shows what we can do now, at any stage in life, to make sure we enjoy old age.

Philosophical Perspectives on Teacher Education

Author : Ruth Heilbronn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118977769
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Perspectives on Teacher Education written by Ruth Heilbronn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical Perspectives on Teacher Education presentsa series of well-argued essays about the ethical considerationsthat should be addressed in teacher training and educationalpolicies and practices. Brings together philosophical essays on an underserved yeturgent aspect of teacher education Explores the kinds of ethical considerations that should enterinto discussions of a teacher’s professional education Illuminates the knowledge and understanding that teachers needto sustain their careers and long-term sense of well being Represents an important resource to stimulate contemporarydebates about what the future of teacher education should be

I Am Accountable

Author : Sam Silverstein
Publisher : Sound Wisdom
ISBN 13 : 1640951059
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book I Am Accountable written by Sam Silverstein and published by Sound Wisdom. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could transform your relationship with yourself, your family and friends, your colleagues and clients, and your larger community through the power of commitment? What if ten simple choices enabled you to enhance your leadership skills, improve your organizational culture, and make a local, national, or even global impact? In I Am Accountable, renowned speaker and consultant Sam Silverstein explains how accountability is the secret to filling your life with more meaning, more success, and more joy—and it all starts with your mindset. In order to create a truly meaningful life, we must first accept that the problem is never other people. “The real problem,” Sam Silverstein maintains, “is what we believe about other people.” Silverstein’s new book shows why everything we have been taught about accountability is wrong. Contrary to popular belief, accountability is not a way of doing. Accountability is a way of thinking. It is how we think about ourselves and others. And it is the highest form of leadership. The secret to creating accountable relationships, and elevating the personal benchmark that Silverstein calls The Accountability Index™, lies in making ten critical choices that support an accountable mindset. I Am Accountable offers a comprehensive plan to help you establish and leverage that mindset, deepen commitments, create lasting meaning in your life and relationships, transform the culture within your organization, and foster lasting positive change in the world.