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What If This Were Enough?

Author : Heather Havrilesky
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525434968
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book What If This Were Enough? written by Heather Havrilesky and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018* *A Bustle Best Nonfiction Book of 2018* *One of Chicago Tribune's Favorite Books by Women in 2018* *A Self Best Book of 2018 to Buy for the Bookworm in Your Life* By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular "Ask Polly," an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with self-improvement and urging readers to embrace the imperfections of the everyday Heather Havrilesky's writing has been called "whip-smart and profanely funny" (Entertainment Weekly) and "required reading for all humans" (Celeste Ng). In her work for New York, The Baffler, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic, as well as in "Ask Polly," her advice column for The Cut, she dispenses a singular, cutting wisdom--an ability to inspire, provoke, and put a name to our most insidious cultural delusions. What If This Were Enough? is a mantra and a clarion call. In its chapters--many of them original to the book, others expanded from their initial publication--Havrilesky takes on those cultural forces that shape us. We've convinced ourselves, she says, that salvation can be delivered only in the form of new products, new technologies, new lifestyles. From the allure of materialism to our misunderstandings of romance and success, Havrilesky deconstructs some of the most poisonous and misleading messages we ingest today, all the while suggesting new ways to navigate our increasingly bewildering world. Through her incisive and witty inquiries, Havrilesky urges us to reject the pursuit of a shiny, shallow future that will never come. These timely, provocative, and often hilarious essays suggest an embrace of the flawed, a connection with what already is, who we already are, what we already have. She asks us to consider: What if this were enough? Our salvation, Havrilesky says, can be found right here, right now, in this imperfect moment.

Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S

Author : William Kingdon Clifford
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015826175
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S written by William Kingdon Clifford and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Haiku in English

Author : Jim Kacian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393239470
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Haiku in English written by Jim Kacian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of more than 800 poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. This collection tells the story for the first time of Anglophone haiku, charting its evolution over the last one hundred years and placing it within its historical and literary context.

Taming the Rascal Multitude

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629638994
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Taming the Rascal Multitude written by Noam Chomsky and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Noam Chomsky writes about something—US foreign policy, corporate policies, an election, or a movement—he is not only quite specific in recounting the topic and its facts but also exercises blisteringly relentless logic to discern the interconnections between the evidence and broader themes involved. This may seem mundane, but virtually every time, even aside from the details of the case in question, the process, the steps, the ways of linking one thing to another illustrate what it means to be a thinking, critical subject of history and society, in any time and place. Taming the Rascal Multitude is a judicious selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014. In each, Chomsky takes up some question of the moment. As such, in sum, the essays provide an historical overview of the history that preceded Trump and the reaction to Trump. The essays situate what followed even without having known what would follow. They explicate what preceded the current era and provide a step-by-step revelation or how-to for successfully comprehending social events and relations. They are a pleasure to read, much like the pleasure of watching a great athlete or performer, but they also edify. They educate. Reading Chomsky is about understanding how society works, how people relate to society and social trends and patterns and why, and, beyond the specifics, how to approach events, relations, occurrences, trends, and patterns in a way that reveals their inner meanings and their outer connections and implications. It is like reading the best you can get about topic after topic, and, more, it is like watching a master-craftsmen in a discipline that ought to be all of ours understanding the world to change it.

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 158297103X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy written by Orson Scott Card and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-09-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to write science fiction and fantasy from a master You've always dreamed of writing science fiction and fantasy tales that pull readers into extraordinary new worlds and fantastic conflicts. Best-selling author Orson Scott Card shows you how it's done, distilling years of writing experience and publishing success into concise, no-nonsense advice. You'll learn how to: • utilize story elements that define the science fiction and fantasy genres • build, populate, and dramatize a credible, inviting world your readers will want to explore • develop the "rules" of time, space and magic that affect your world and its inhabitants • construct a compelling story by developing ideas, characters, and events that keep readers turning pages • find the markets for speculative fiction, reach them, and get published • submit queries, write cover letters, find an agent, and live the life of a writer The boundaries of your imagination are infinite. Explore them with Orson Scott Card and create fiction that casts a spell over agents, publishers, and readers from every world.

Stepping Forward

Author : Wolfgang Iser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861710352
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Stepping Forward written by Wolfgang Iser and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Think, Write, Speak

Author : Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101873701
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Think, Write, Speak written by Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child": so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. Think, Write, Speak follows up where that volume left off, with a rich compilation of his uncollected prose and interviews, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final interviews in 1977. The chronological order allows us to watch the Cambridge student and the fledgling Berlin reviewer and poet turn into the acclaimed Paris émigré novelist whose stature brought him to teach in America, where his international success exploded with Lolita and propelled him back to Europe. Whether his subject is Proust or Pushkin, the sport of boxing or the privileges of democracy, Nabokov’s supreme individuality, his keen wit, and his alertness to the details of life illuminate the page.

Language, Counter-memory, Practice

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801492044
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Language, Counter-memory, Practice written by Michel Foucault and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary currency throughout the Western intellectual community. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most important published essays, translated from the French, with an introductory essay and notes by Donald F. Bouchard. Also included are a summary of a course given by Foucault at College de France; the transcript of a conversation between Foucault and Gilles Deleuze; and an interview with Foucault that appeared in the journal Actuel. Professor Bouchard has divided the book into three closely related sections. The four essays in Part One examine language as a "perilous limit" of what we know and what we are. The essays in the second part suggest the methodological guidelines to which Foucault subscribes, and they record, in the editor's words, "the penetration of the language of literature into the domain of discursive thought." The material in the last section is more obviously political than the essays. It treats language in use, language attempting to impart knowledge and power. Translated by the editor and Sherry Simon into fluent and lucid English, these essays will appeal primarily to students of literature, especially those interested in contemporary continental structuralist criticism. But because of the breadth of Foucault's interests, they should also prove valuable to anthropologists, linguists, sociologists, and psychologists.

Stepping Forward

Author : Wolfgang Iser
Publisher : Crescent Moon Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Stepping Forward written by Wolfgang Iser and published by Crescent Moon Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pinpointing a flaw in prevailing economic practices that explains why so many families in the richest nation on earth are mired in poverty, homelessness, joblessness, and hunger, this study suggests that a reform is available to correct this flaw that is corroding the enterprise system. This flaw is widely accepted and enshrined in law; certain taxation and land policies enable a powerful few to skim off a large share of the wealth created by the mass of citizens. How this injustice plays a major role in generating destructive boom and bust cycles is important, but the overprivileged who benefit from “legalized theft” are not vilified. Rather, the book calls for correcting the public policies that make slum ownership, land speculation, and other forms of parasitic and exploitive behavior more profitable than honest labor and productive enterprise. Accounts of places in the United States and elsewhere that are applying the proposed reform are presented, proving that it is politically feasible, and offers an ethical cleansing of the economy so that all people can enjoy all the fruits of their efforts.

Music Sounded Out

Author : Alfred Brendel
Publisher : New York : Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374216511
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Music Sounded Out written by Alfred Brendel and published by New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 1991 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the creative process in classical music, examining such composers as Mozart, Busoni, Beethoven, and Liszt

Life Breaks In

Author : Mary Cappello
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022635606X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Life Breaks In written by Mary Cappello and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Exciting or Opiatic Effect of Certain Words -- Arrangement for Voice and Interiors -- Sonorous Envelopes -- Acknowledgments -- Notes and Sources -- Playlist of Music or Sound Works (With Links to YouTube Recordings) -- Photo Credits and Content Descriptions -- Index

Learning from a Legend

Author : Jared E. Alcántara
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498226108
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Learning from a Legend written by Jared E. Alcántara and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2015, America's last pulpit prince died. When Gardner C. Taylor (1918-2015), former senior pastor of Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, departed this life at the age of ninety-six, the United States lost one of the greatest preachers of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, not enough preachers today know his name or why his preaching can enrich and bless the church today. Learning from a Legend: What Gardner C. Taylor Can Teach Us about Preaching provides Christian preachers with much-needed lessons, wisdom, and insights from Dr. Taylor, the dean of American preaching. It highlights six lessons that Dr. Taylor can teach preachers in the twenty-first century about pain, redemption, eloquence, apprenticeship, context, and holiness. Not only did Dr. Taylor teach and preach these lessons, he lived them. Those wanting to learn more about Dr. Taylor's preaching while also sharpening their own preaching ought to read this book.

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674003026
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Exile and Other Essays written by Edward W. Said and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays offers evidence of how much the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of value, thought, and action essential to our lives and culture.

Taming The Rascal Multitude

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629638782
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Taming The Rascal Multitude written by Noam Chomsky and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming the Rascal Multitude is a judicious selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014. In each, Chomsky takes up some question of the moment. The essays provide an historical overview of the history that preceded Trump and the reaction to Trump. The essays situate what followed even without having known what would follow. They explicate what preceded the current era and provide a step-by-step revelation or how-to for successfully comprehending social events and relations. They are a pleasure to read and they educate.

Homo Poeticus

Author : Danilo Kis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374529442
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Homo Poeticus written by Danilo Kis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serbian writer Danilo Kis was preoccupied with man's dehumanization in a mechanized, totalitarian world. His dazzling fiction established him as one of the most artful and eloquent authors of postwar Europe. In this first collection of his non-fiction, Kis displays the dynamic, sensitive, and insistently questioning approach to the dilemmas of the modern world that distinguishes his novels and stories and confirms his reputation as one of the most important voices of our time.

Lecture

Author : Mary Cappello
Publisher : Undelivered Lectures
ISBN 13 : 9781945492426
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Lecture written by Mary Cappello and published by Undelivered Lectures. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An energetic and irreverent essay on the forgotten art of the lecture, part of Transit's new Undelivered Lectures series.

Consciousness & the Novel

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674009493
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness & the Novel written by David Lodge and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing with characteristic wit and brio, and employing the insight and acumen of a skilled novelist and critic, Lodge explores the representation of human consciousness in fiction (mainly English and American) in light of recent investigations in the sciences.