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No Alternative

Author : William Dickerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985188672
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book No Alternative written by William Dickerson and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simultaneously brutal and funny, caustic and caring, 'No Alternative' is a sacrament to be shared by all the survivors who grew up at the tail end of the fragmenting century." -Jack O'Connell, author of "The Resurrectionist" "No Alternative" is a coming-of-age drama that drills a hole into the world of suburban American teenagers in the early '90s. Thomas Harrison is determined to start his own alternative band, an obsession that blinds him to what's either the mental collapse, or the eruption of musical genius, of his little sister, Bridget. Bridget boldly rejects her brother's music, and the music of an entire generation of slackers, by taking on the persona of a gangsta' rapper named "Bri Da B." "No Alternative" probes the lives of rebellious kids who transition into adulthood via the distortion pedals of their lives in an era when the "Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll" ethos was amended to include "Suicide" in its phrase. "No Alternative" is now a major motion picture starring Michaela Cavazos, Conor Proft, Chloe Levine, Kathryn Erbe and Harry Hamlin. This updated edition of the novel includes a Foreword by Harry Hamlin and an Afterword by William Dickerson, which explores the making of the film.

There Is No Alternative

Author : Claire Berlinski
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465031226
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book There Is No Alternative written by Claire Berlinski and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline—ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the richest and most influential country in Europe, and Margaret Thatcher is the reason. The preternaturally determined Thatcher rose from nothing, seized control of Britain’s Conservative party, and took a sledgehammer to the nation’s postwar socialist consensus. She proved that socialism could be reversed, inspiring a global free-market revolution. Simultaneously exploiting every politically useful aspect of her femininity and defying every conventional expectation of women in power, Thatcher crushed her enemies with a calculated ruthlessness that stunned the British public and without doubt caused immense collateral damage. Ultimately, however, Claire Berlinski agrees with Thatcher: There was no alternative. Berlinski explains what Thatcher did, why it matters, and how she got away with it in this vivid and immensely readable portrait of one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.

An Alternative History of Pittsburgh

Author : Ed Simon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1953368131
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book An Alternative History of Pittsburgh written by Ed Simon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories--the LA Review of Books calls it an "epic, atomic history of the Steel City." The land surrounding the confluence of the

Capitalist Realism

Author : Mark Fisher
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803414316
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Capitalist Realism written by Mark Fisher and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.

No Alternative

Author : Shmuel Shimshoni
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434972720
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book No Alternative written by Shmuel Shimshoni and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Shmuel Shimshoni, born in Montreal Canada and now living in Israel, has created a number of imaginative essays, some bordering on fictionalized reality.We find David, a timid clerk looking for the host. His cell phone indicates an incoming call that happens to be from the elusive host. The voice notifies him, I won't be joining you for the Sabbath retreat. Therefore it's up to you to take things in hand and organize a program.With no alternative, our central figure somehow finds a way to become the leader of thirteen other men who were likewise invited to attend this event in total ignorance of what to expect.Throughout the story a fine strand connects all fourteen total strangers. They all have something to contribute; as between courses during their meals, each one tells of an event in his life that unwittingly relates to the other participants.But before they even get to eat their first meal they are introduced to a discourse based upon a little known religious ruling about how guests are supposed to conduct themselves, especially when the host is absent.All the seemingly disconnected guests share something in common. But it is not till the very end of the day that they learn what it is, as a most completely unexpected secret is revealed.

No Alternative?

Author : Nancy Abelmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289803
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book No Alternative? written by Nancy Abelmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Abelmann is Harry E. Preble Professor and associate vice chancellor for research (humanities, arts, and related fields) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jung-Ah Choi is an adjunct faculty member at Fairleigh Dickinson University. So Jin Park is a research fellow at the institute for Social Development Studies at Yonsei University. --Book Jacket.

No Alternative

Author : Rosalynn A. Vega
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477316760
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book No Alternative written by Rosalynn A. Vega and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent anthropological scholarship on “new midwifery” centers on how professional midwives in various countries are helping women reconnect with “nature,” teaching them to trust in their bodies, respecting women’s “choices,” and fighting for women’s right to birth as naturally as possible. In No Alternative, Rosalynn A. Vega uses ethnographic accounts of natural birth practices in Mexico to complicate these narratives about new midwifery and illuminate larger questions of female empowerment, citizenship, and the commodification of indigenous culture, by showing how alternative birth actually reinscribes traditional racial and gender hierarchies. Vega contrasts the vastly different birthing experiences of upper-class and indigenous Mexican women. Upper-class women often travel to birthing centers to be delivered by professional midwives whose methods are adopted from and represented as indigenous culture, while indigenous women from those same cultures are often forced by lack of resources to use government hospitals regardless of their preferred birthing method. Vega demonstrates that women’s empowerment, having a “choice,” is a privilege of those capable of paying for private medical services—albeit a dubious privilege, as it puts the burden of correctly producing future members of society on women’s shoulders. Vega’s research thus also reveals the limits of citizenship in a neoliberal world, as indigeneity becomes an object of consumption within a transnational racialized economy.

There Was No Alternative

Author : Jeff Gomez
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476649197
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book There Was No Alternative written by Jeff Gomez and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grunge. Flannel. Generation X. In 1993, Seattle was the capital of the world, Nirvana was king, and slackers were everywhere. When the Red Hot organization, a group of activists dedicated to raising money and awareness of AIDS, released their third compilation CD featuring the biggest bands of the era--Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, The Breeders, Nirvana and more it quickly became the touchstone of a generation. Rolling Stone called No Alternative a "jaw-dropping compilation of musical gems." This book takes a look back at what happened to the bands involved with No Alternative. It includes new interviews with the musicians and others behind the record, and chronicles the downfall of an industry, the taming of a devastating illness, and the arrival of another global pandemic. It's about growing up, saying goodbye, and proving once more that you can't go home again (even if that's where you left all of your CDs).

No Alternative

Author : Margaret Way
Publisher : Harlequin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780373026395
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book No Alternative written by Margaret Way and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Project Semicolon

Author : Amy Bleuel
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062466542
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Project Semicolon written by Amy Bleuel and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of PostSecret, Humans of New York, and If You Feel Too Much, this collection from suicide-awareness organization Project Semicolon features stories and photos from those struggling with mental illness. Project Semicolon began in 2013 to spread a message of hope: No one struggling with a mental illness is alone; you, too, can survive and live a life filled with joy and love. In support of the project and its message, thousands of people all over the world have gotten semicolon tattoos and shared photos of them, often alongside stories of hardship, growth, and rebirth. Project Semicolon: Your Story Isn't Over reveals dozens of new portraits and stories from people of all ages talking about what they have endured and what they want for their futures. This represents a new step in the movement and a new awareness around those who struggle with mental illness and those who support them. At once heartfelt, unflinchingly honest, and eternally hopeful, this collection tells a story of choice: every day you choose to live and let your story continue on. Learn more about the project at www.projectsemicolon.com.

No Good Alternative

Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525558500
Total Pages : 1361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book No Good Alternative written by William T. Vollmann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 1361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most honest book about climate change yet.” —The Atlantic “The Infinite Jest of climate books.” —The Baffler An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production—the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William T. Vollmann on the ideologies of energy production and the causes of climate change The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage." Over the course of four years Vollmann finds hollowed out towns with coal-polluted streams and acidified drinking water; makes covert visits to mountaintop removal mines; and offers documented accounts of unpaid fines for federal health and safety violations and of miners who died because their bosses cut corners to make more money. To write about natural gas, Vollmann journeys to Greeley, Colorado, where he interviews anti-fracking activists, a city planner, and a homeowner with serious health issues from fracking. Turning to oil production, he speaks with, among others, the former CEO of Conoco and a vice president of the Bank of Oklahoma in charge of energy loans, and conducts furtive roadside interviews of guest workers performing oil-related contract labor in the United Arab Emirates. As with its predecessor, No Immediate Danger, this volume seeks to understand and listen, not to lay blame--except in a few corporate and political cases where outrage is clearly due. Vollmann is a carbon burner just like the rest of us; he describes and quantifies his own power use, then looks around him, trying to explain to the future why it was that we went against scientific consensus, continually increasing the demand for electric power and insisting that we had no good alternative.

The Left Alternative

Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789605091
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Left Alternative written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting the major debates in the world today-about national alternatives and alternative globalizations-Unger shows that there is a set of initiatives that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand. Fully updated with a new preface, The Left Alternative equips the Left with the ideas that it needs to overthrow the dictatorship of no alternatives.

Hang the DJ

Author : Angus Cargill
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593762593
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Hang the DJ written by Angus Cargill and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary equivalent of a great dive bar jukebox--inspiring, provocative, irresistible, and the perfect gift for all music lovers. At the heart of all music fetishes, there are lists: ten essential female murder ballads, ten unsettling songs for a midwestern white guy to wake to from a coma, ten smutty Bob Dylan moments, and of course the ever-popular staple of all music lists (and listeners)--ten best breakup songs. Hang the DJ compiles what contributors might once have scribbled in the back of their textbooks or school folders, when they--like all of us at one point--were absolutely sure that they alone were the sole guardians of Musical Truth; that Sparks' number two hit, "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us," really should have made it to the number one spot, that Gary Numan was merely a misshapen progeny of Bowie's Thin White Duke persona, that female singer-songwriters are better than their male equivalents. Mixing anecdote, humor, reference, and sheer dorkiness--but with the bizarre insight of an anthropological study in pop-culture protocol--Hang the DJ is a collection of lists about musical loves, hates, dreams, and nightmares from music-lovers such as Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem, Simon Reynolds, Ali Smith, Amanda Petrusich, and many other bloggers, journalists, novelists, poets, and musicians.

The Wilt Alternative

Author : Tom Sharpe
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407099906
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Wilt Alternative written by Tom Sharpe and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality. It is only when Wilt becomes the unintentional participant in a terrorist siege that he is forced to find an answer to the problems of power, which have corrupted greater men than he. With a mental ingenuity born of his innate cowardice, Wilt fights for those liberal values which are threatened both by international terrorism and by the sophisticated methods of police anti-terrorist agents. In the confusion that follows, Wilt resumes his dialogue with the unflagging Inspector Flint and is himself subjected to the indignity of a psycho-political profile. Bitingly funny and brilliantly written, The Wilt Alternative exposes the farcical anomalies, which have become the social norms of our time.

9-11

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609801547
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book 9-11 written by Noam Chomsky and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post 9-11 book, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center attacks, cutting through the tangle of political opportunism, expedient patriotism, and general conformity that choked off American discourse in the months immediately following. Chomsky placed the attacks in context, marshaling his deep and nuanced knowledge of American foreign policy to trace the history of American political aggression--in the Middle East and throughout Latin America as well as in Indonesia, in Afghanistan, in India and Pakistan--at the same time warning against America’s increasing reliance on military rhetoric and violence in its response to the attacks, and making the critical point that the mainstream media and public intellectuals were failing to make: any escalation of violence as a response to violence will inevitably lead to further, and bloodier, attacks on innocents in America and around the world. This new edition of 9-11, published on the tenth anniversary of the attacks and featuring a new preface by Chomsky, reminds us that today, just as much as ten years ago, information and clarity remain our most valuable tools in the struggle to prevent future violence against the innocent, both at home and abroad.

There Is An Alternative

Author : Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There Is An Alternative written by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen and published by . This book was released on 2001-12-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thought-provoking collection of essays by radical thinkers. It moves beyond criticism of current globalisation trends, and offers theoretical and practical alternatives for our world.

Bifurcate

Author : Bernard Stiegler
Publisher : Open Humanities Press
ISBN 13 : 9781785421228
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Bifurcate written by Bernard Stiegler and published by Open Humanities Press. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collective work that produced this book is based on the claim that today's destructive development model is reaching its ultimate limits, and that its toxicity, which is increasingly massive, manifest and multidimensional (medical, environmental, mental, epistemological, economic - accumulating pockets of insolvency, which become veritable oceans), is generated above all by the fact that the current industrial economy is based in every sector on an obsolete physical model - a mechanism that ignores the constraints of locality in biology and the entropic tendency in reticulated computational information. In these gravely perilous times, we must bifurcate: there is no alternative.