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Author : Rosemary Sexton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780771573651
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Society Columnist written by Rosemary Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony T. Kronman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300224915
Total Pages : 1174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan written by Anthony T. Kronman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this passionate and searching book, Anthony Kronman offers a third way—beyond atheism and religion—to the God of the modern world We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed “atheists” continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the “eternal and divine.” For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their modern ideals, a new theology is required. This is what Anthony Kronman offers here, in a book that leads its readers away from the inscrutable Creator of the Abrahamic religions toward a God whose inexhaustible and everlasting presence is that of the world itself. Kronman defends an ancient conception of God, deepened and transformed by Christian belief—the born-again paganism on which modern science, art, and politics all vitally depend. Brilliantly surveying centuries of Western thought—from Plato to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant, from Spinoza to Nietzsche, Darwin, and Freud—Kronman recovers and reclaims the God we need today.
Author : Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979726
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.
Author : Dan Moldea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735098401
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Guerrilla Writer written by Dan Moldea and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Dan E. Moldea. I have worked as a fiercely independent investigative journalist and author since 1974, specializing on organized crime and political corruption investigations. Confessions of a Guerrilla Writer: Adventures in the Jungles of Crime, Politics, and Journalism is my memoir, currently in its third edition, detailing the history behind my ten nonfiction books, which include: The Hoffa Wars: The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Hoffa (1978, 1979, 1993, 2015); The Hunting of Cain: A True Story of Money, Greed, and Fratricide (1983, 1988); Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob (1986, 1987, 2016); Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football (1989, 2014); The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy (1995, 2002); Evidence Dismissed: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of O.J. Simpson (with Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter, 1997, 2016); and A Washington Tragedy: How the Suicide of Vincent Foster Ignited a Political Firestorm (1998, 2015); and Hollywood Confidential: A True Story of Wiretapping, Friendship, and Betrayal (2017, 2018); and Money, Politics, and Corruption in U.S. Higher Education: The Stories of Whistleblowers (2020).
Author : Julie Golia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197527787
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Newspaper Confessions written by Julie Golia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Newspaper Confessions chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans' relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises of the day with strangers in an anonymous yet public forum. The columns are important - and overlooked - precursors to today's digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day American communicate with each other. This book charts the rise of the advice column and its impact on the newspaper industry. It analyzes the advice given by a diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. It shows how advice columnists were forerunners to the modern celebrity journalist, while also serving as educators to audience of millions. This book includes in-depth case studies of specific columns, demonstrating how these forums transformed into active and participatory virtual communities of confession, advice, debate, and empathy"--
Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1576755126
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man written by John Perkins and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
Author : Bunmi Laditan
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1488022887
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Domestic Failure written by Bunmi Laditan and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of The Honest Toddler comes a fiction debut “perfect for readers looking for a funny, realistic look at motherhood” (Booklist, starred review). There are good moms and bad moms . . . and then there are hot-mess moms. Confessions of a Domestic Failure introduces readers to Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who’s trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect mommies. When Ashley gets the chance to enroll in a mommy-blog maven’s Motherhood Better boot camp, she jumps at the chance to become the perfect mom she’s always wanted to be. But the pursuit of perfection has a way of going perfectly wrong. With her razor-sharp wit, Bunmi Laditan creates an unforgettable and hilariously relatable character while lambasting the social pressures every new mother faces. “Freaking hilarious. This is the novel moms have been waiting for.” —Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
Author : Sue William Silverman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336068
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Fearless Confessions written by Sue William Silverman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper—or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide helps writers navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing and will be useful to both beginners and more accomplished writers. The rise of interest in memoir recognizes the power of the genre to move and affect not just individual readers but society at large. Sue William Silverman covers traditional writing topics such as metaphor, theme, plot, and voice and also includes chapters on trusting memory and cultivating the courage to tell one's truth in the face of forces—from family members to the media—who would prefer that people with inconvenient pasts and views remain silent. Silverman, an award-winning memoirist, draws upon her own personal and professional experience to provide an essential resource for transforming life into words that matter. Fearless Confessions is an atlas that contains maps to the remarkable places in each person's life that have yet to be explored.
Author : Jordy Rosenberg
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0399592288
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Confessions of the Fox written by Jordy Rosenberg and published by One World. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors’ Choice: “A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution.” NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • HuffPost • Kirkus Reviews • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award • Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance.”—Time Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found. Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript—a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess’s adventures. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth is drawn deeper into Jack and Bess’s tale of underworld resistance and gender transformation, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined—and only a miracle will save them all. Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent. Praise for Confessions of the Fox “A cunning metafiction of vulpine versatility . . . an action-adventure tale with postmodern flourishes; an academic comedy spliced with period erotica; an intimate meditation on belonging.”—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker “Confessions of the Fox is so goddamned good. Reading it was like an out-of-body experience. I want to run through the streets screaming about it. It should be in the personal canon of every queer and non-cis person. Read it.”—Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award finalist for Her Body and Other Parties “A hat tip to Moby-Dick . . . a running footnote hall of mirrors to rival Borges . . . one of the most trenchant calls for progressive action that I have read in a very long time.”—The New York Times Book Review “An ambitious work of metafiction, a sexy queer love story . . . a bold first novel.”—Entertainment Weekly
Author : Richard Baum
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800216
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book China Watcher written by Richard Baum and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People’s Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author’s UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s through globalization. Anecdotes from Baum’s professional life illustrate the alternately peculiar, frustrating, fascinating, and risky activity of China watching — the process by which outsiders gather and decipher official and unofficial information to figure out what’s really going on behind China’s veil of political secrecy and propaganda. Baum writes entertainingly, telling his narrative with witty stories about people, places, and eras. China Watcher will appeal to scholars and followers of international events who lived through the era of profound political and academic change described in the book, as well as to younger, post-Mao generations, who will enjoy its descriptions of the personalities and political forces that shaped the modern field of China studies.
Author : Benjamin Wade DeHaven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989912686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Self-help Writer written by Benjamin Wade DeHaven and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 Most Wished for on Indie Bound for over 10 weeks. A funny, audacious, and devastating work of fiction loosely based on factual events. As much a comedy as a tragedy, "Confessions stands out to as a piece of unique literature that should be remembered for its originality as much as for its actual relevance as a mantra for living life in today's harsh reality." Dive into the psyche of one of the world's most profound advisors: a liar and a Quixotic adventurer who admits freely to both lurid depravity and emotional complexity. He's experienced a complete range of emotion by living fast, loose and irresponsibly. His mistakes would ruin most and not many would match his pension for drugs, booze and prostitution. Despite these demons he has fooled the unknowing public into thinking he is someone to revere and ironically, could be responsible for saving more people than Mother Teresa and Gandhi combined. Who is Michael Enzo? You certainly haven't heard of him since his entire canon was published under the names of movie stars, politicians and business leaders. But he's associated with more works than Agatha Christie, Dean Koontz and Stephen King. Two of the world's ten wealthiest men are said to have used Enzo as a ghost-writer, but not a single person willingly admitted to knowing him. Conversely I found glowing remarks from many of whom attribute their status in life to his Enzo's words and none cared for a minute that the famous names appearing on their books were not the actual portents of such sage advice. You don't want to find out what's in this journal if you are one of these subscribers. In Enzo's version of the truth lies a character easily classified as a psychopath. Enzo wrote self-help books purely for profit. Hypocrite isn't a strong enough word to describe him. Michael recounts drug deals, catastrophic gambling losses, molestation of a Virginia Ham, defiling the bathroom habits of cats and dogs alike, abandoning friends in need, sympathizing with underage prostitutes, supernatural proclivities in dorm rooms and the deaths of the closest of "unknown" friends. The most disheartening confession of all is that he would only fall back on his tremendous talent, writing self-help, as a last act to pay his debtors and sustain his ridiculous lifestyle. Benjamin DeHaven is also a recurring character in Enzo's stories and it's easy to understand why these two scribes and business partners are no longer friends, especially with all enterprises ending badly for DeHaven. Their bond is so close they even shared love for the same woman named, Susan, who may or may not have been a porn star. DeHaven shares his own perspective of the Enzo years and admits responsibility for some of his counterpart's bad behavior. Frankly, DeHaven is often times shown in a very negative light, which adds a much-needed layer of credibility to such a fantastical story. In conclusion, the confessions of both, Michael Enzo and Benjamin DeHaven, leave me wondering just how close these two actually were. I can't tell if DeHaven truly wants to truly ruin any remaining positive connotations Enzo may have or if he's actually doing this out of love, reaching out to the one person who is still lost. Michael Enzo, wherever you are, pick up a self-help book and give it a read. Who knows, you may have written it. "Makes Bukowski read like a Disney story!" Scripps Media "Eye-opening (even eye-popping at points) and involving, reads like a thriller but is true life confession at its best." Midwest Book Review "A thinking man's Tucker Max or an idiot's Hunter S. Thompson?" Dr. Kenneth Wilbur "Here is one book you must read that also asks you-"What's the meaning of life?" and is there really a God upstairs guiding your decisions?" Ed Held, Studio News
Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626566755
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man written by John Perkins and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this new edition of the New York Times bestseller brings the story of Economic Hit Men up-to-date and, chillingly, home to the U.S.―but it also gives us hope and the tools to fight back. The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men. John Perkins wrote that they are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. In Perkins's case the tool was debt-convincing strategically important countries to borrow huge amounts of money for enormous, development projects that served the very rich while driving the country deeper into poverty and debt. And once indebted, these countries could be controlled. In this latest edition, Perkins provides revealing new details about how he and others did their work. But more importantly, in an explosive new section he describes how the EHM tools are being used around the world more widely than ever-even in the U. S. itself. The cancer has metastasized, yet most people still aren't aware of it. Fear and debt drive the EHM system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps. The EHM system-employing false economics, bribes, surveillance, deception, debt, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power-has become the dominant system of economics, government, and society today. It has created what Perkins calls a Death Economy. But Perkins offers hope: he concludes with dozens of specific, concrete suggestions for actions all of us can take to wrest control of our world away from the economic hit men, and help give birth to a Life Economy.
Author : Daniela V. Gitlin MD
Publisher : Corner Office Books
ISBN 13 : 9780960008551
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Practice, Practice, Practice written by Daniela V. Gitlin MD and published by Corner Office Books. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patient ambushes! Clinician pratfalls! Community curveballs! Practice, Practice, Practice: This Psychiatrist's Life gives you a fly-on-the-wall view of therapy sessions along with actual transcripts of what's going through this therapist's mind as she's working, living and saving the day (or trying to). What else does this immersive memoir spanning twenty-five years of rural psychiatric practice expose? Flawless performance is not required for a therapist to be genuinely helpful. Written with unsparing candor and a light touch, these interconnected clinical and personal tales reveal a way of thinking that is essential for learning actively, living fully, and doing good work, with a sense of wonder, year after year. Whether you're simply curious, already in the field, or a mental health educator, you're sure to get some ideas for what to do (or not do!) with the people in your life. "I loved this book. It's interesting, compelling, and very insightful. I found it a sort of DIY therapy- Ohhh, so that's how I should approach.... Also, the faux science articles are HILARIOUS." Lori B. Duff, If You Did What I Asked in the First Place. "If you have ever wondered what a shrink's life is really like - from education, to training, to the large and small details of treating other people's inner pain every day- this book is for you. Gitlin's stories about her career as a psychiatrist in an underserved rural community are warm, funny, human, and deeply humane." Kristin Kimball, The Dirty Life; Good Husbandry "You'll enjoy this witty, scintillating account of treatments rendered to patients living hardscrabble lives. You'll benefit from her clinical acumen too- I've already used some of her nuggets with my own caseload. Noteworthy is her struggle to save her practice when a key insurance company drastically slashes her reimbursement rates. Get ready for an exciting read!" Alvin Pam, Ph.D, Splitting Up: Enmeshment and Estrangement in the Process of Divorce.
Author : Piers Morgan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446491684
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The Insider written by Piers Morgan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Insider dominated the media on publication in March 2005 and instantly became a No.1 bestseller. Not only did it fill thousands of column inches with its revelations about prominent political and showbiz figures, it was critically acclaimed across the broadsheets for its unique and fascinating insight into the worlds of celebrity, royalty, politics and the media. Piers Morgan was made editor of the News of the World, the UK's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper at the record-breaking age of 28. The decade that followed was one of the most tumultuous in modern times. In a world of indiscreet dinners, private meetings and gossipy lunches, Piers Morgan found himself in the thick of it. His diaries from this remarkable period reveal astonishing and hilarious encounters with an endless list of celebrities and politicians alike: Diana, William, Charles and Camilla; Tony Blair, Cherie, Gordon Brown; Paul McCartney, George Michael and Elton John; Jeremy Clarkson, Paula Yates and Gazza to name just a few. Entertaining, engaging and compulsive, The Insider was the most talked-about book of 2005, blowing apart every notion we have of politics, media and celebrity.
Author : Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Theologian written by Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M.E. Thomas
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307956660
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Sociopath written by M.E. Thomas and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap—right from the source—for dealing with the sociopath in your life. “[A] gripping and important book . . . revelatory . . . quite the memorable roller coaster ride.”—The New York Times Book Review As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, “We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb the corporate ladder faster than the rest, and appear to have limitless self-confidence. Who are we? We are highly successful, noncriminal sociopaths and we comprise 4 percent of the American population.” Confessions of a Sociopath—part confessional memoir, part primer for the curious—takes readers on a journey into the mind of a sociopath, revealing what makes them tick while debunking myths about sociopathy and offering a road map for dealing with the sociopaths in your life. M. E. Thomas draws from her own experiences as a diagnosed sociopath; her popular blog, Sociopathworld; and scientific literature to unveil for the very first time these men and women who are “hiding in plain sight.”
Author : A.J. Benza
Publisher : Miramax Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786867530
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Fame: Ain't it a Bitch written by A.J. Benza and published by Miramax Books. This book was released on 2001-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether talking on the phone to LaToya Jackson about Michael, being upbraided by Cindy Crawford at a party, or sharing a joint with jack Nicholson, A.J.s unorthodox methods compelled celebs to call him with tips, and brought heat from his editors. Fame: Aint it a Bitch tells the stories behind the stories about the actors, rock stars, models, moguls, and society bad girls that comprimise Manhattans infamous night life. In nightclubs and in newsrooms, readers are shown the trading, deals, threats and cajoling that are involved in creating a hot gossip column. With the edge and energy that completely captures both the glitter and the gutter of show business, A.J. Benza has the real inside scoop yet again.
