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Wanting

Author : Luke Burgis
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250262496
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Wanting written by Luke Burgis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Financial Times Business Book of the Month * Next Big Idea Club Nominee * One of Bloomberg's "52 New Books That Top Business Leaders Are Recommending" * Aleo Review of Books 2022 Book of the Year * A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires. Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful—yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others, and fueling cycles of anxiety and conflict. In Wanting, Luke Burgis draws on the work of French polymath René Girard to bring this hidden force to light and reveals how it shapes our lives and societies. According to Girard, humans don’t desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic—we imitate what other people want. This affects the way we choose partners, friends, careers, clothes, and vacation destinations. Mimetic desire is responsible for the formation of our very identities. It explains the enduring relevancy of Shakespeare’s plays, why Peter Thiel decided to be the first investor in Facebook, and why our world is growing more divided as it becomes more connected. Wanting also shows that conflict does not arise because of our differences—it comes from our sameness. Because we learn to want what other people want, we often end up competing for the same things. Ignoring our large similarities, we cling to our perceived differences. Drawing on his experience as an entrepreneur, teacher, and student of classical philosophy and theology, Burgis shares tactics that help turn blind wanting into intentional wanting--not by trying to rid ourselves of desire, but by desiring differently. It’s possible to be more in control of the things we want, to achieve more independence from trends and bubbles, and to find more meaning in our work and lives. The future will be shaped by our desires. Wanting shows us how to desire a better one.

Naked Wanting

Author : Margo Tamez
Publisher : Camino del Sol
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Naked Wanting written by Margo Tamez and published by Camino del Sol. This book was released on 2003 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For Margo Tamez, earth, food, and family are the essentials of life, and we ignore threats to them at our own peril."--BOOK JACKET.

The Wanting

Author : Michael Lavigne
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805212574
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Wanting written by Michael Lavigne and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Not Me, this powerful novel about an Israeli father and his daughter brings to life a rich canvas of events and unexpected change in the aftermath of a suicide bombing. In the galvanizing opening of The Wanting, the celebrated Russian-born postmodern architect Roman Guttman is injured in a bus bombing, causing his life to swerve into instability and his perceptions to become heightened and disturbed as he embarks on an ill-advised journey into Palestinian territory. The account of Roman’s desert odyssey alternates with the vivacious, bittersweet diary of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Anyusha (who is on her own perilous path, of which Roman is ignorant), and the startlingly alive witnessings of Amir, the young Palestinian who pushed the button and is now damned to observe the havoc he has wrought from a shaky beyond. Enriched by flashbacks to the alluringly sad tale of Anyusha’s mother, a famous Russian refusenik who died for her beliefs, The Wanting is a poignant study of the costs of extremism, but it is most satisfying as a story of characters enmeshed in their imperfect love for one another and for the heartbreakingly complex world in which that love is wrought.

Imagine Wanting Only This

Author : Kristen Radtke
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1101870834
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Imagine Wanting Only This written by Kristen Radtke and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Forbes • Lit Hub • Electric Lit A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir, she leads us through deserted cities in the American Midwest, an Icelandic town buried in volcanic ash, islands in the Philippines, New York City, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. Along the way, we learn about her family and a rare genetic heart disease that has been passed down through generations, and revisit tragic events in America’s past. A narrative that is at once narrative and factual, historical and personal, Radtke’s stunning illustrations and piercing text never shy away from the big questions: Why are we here, and what will we leave behind? (With black-and-white illustrations throughout; part of the Pantheon Graphic Novel series)

The Wanting Seed

Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285723
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Wanting Seed written by Anthony Burgess and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-12-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.

Fly

Author : Brittany J. Thurman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534454888
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Fly written by Brittany J. Thurman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pure joy and the power of community radiate from this sweet picture book about a young Black girl’s perseverance and confidence in following her double Dutch dreams. Africa’s grandmother was a double Dutch legend, and Africa knows she can become the same. Her brother scoffs when she signs up for a double Dutch competition, though—how can she hope to compete when she’s never done it before? But Africa has all the tools she needs: memories of her grandmother, her bestie Bianca’s dance moves, her friend Omar’s rhythm, and her classmates’ Mary Mack timing and cartwheels. If Africa can pull everything together to jump some winning moves, she might just fly, but it’s the birthmark in the shape of her name that tells her she’s always been a winner.

Wanting Mor

Author : Rukhsana Khan
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554980526
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Wanting Mor written by Rukhsana Khan and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Middle East Book Award, Youth Fiction category Jameela lives with her mother and father in Afghanistan. Despite the fact that there is no school in their poor, war-torn village, and Jameela lives with a birth defect that has left her with a cleft lip, she feels relatively secure, sustained by her faith and the strength of her beloved mother, Mor. But when Mor suddenly dies, Jameela's father impulsively decides to seek a new life in Kabul. He remarries, a situation that turns Jameela into a virtual slave to her demanding stepmother. When the stepmother discovers that Jameela is trying to learn to read, she urges her father to simply abandon the child in Kabul's busy marketplace. Jameela ends up in an orphanage. Throughout it all, it is the memory of Mor that anchors her and in the end gives Jameela the strength to face her father and stepmother when fate brings them into her life again. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

Weighed and Found Wanting

Author : Bill A. Randes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781987708677
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Weighed and Found Wanting written by Bill A. Randes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1995 book analyzes the factors which led to a series of spurious religious revivals in the early 1990's, most notably the "Toronto Blessing", a mystical revival which began at the Toronto Airport Vineyard church, and involved thousands in trances, supernatural experiences, "Spiritual Drunkeness", and false prophecy. Though heralded as a "Rushing mighty wind from heaven", Pastor Randles shows that instead it is the outcome of a growing heretical trend ,tracking it back to the "Latter Rain" movement , the "Manifested Sons of God" heresy, the ministry of false prophet William Branham, as well as Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Rodney Howard Browne, John Wimber and Mike Bickle.

Found, Wanting

Author : Natasha Sholl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781761151453
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Found, Wanting written by Natasha Sholl and published by . This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Valentine's Day, after a night of red wine and pasta and planning for their future, Natasha Sholl and her partner Rob went to bed. A few hours later, at the age of 27, his heart stopped. Found, Wanting tells the story of Natasha's attempt to rebuild her life in the wake of Rob's sudden death, stumbling through the grief landscape and colliding with the cultural assumptions about the 'right way' to grieve. It is a memoir about falling in love in the aftermath of loss, and what it means to build a life in the space that death leaves. Furious and passionate, bracingly honest and beautiful, Found, Wanting is above all, a memoir about living and making sense of the multitude of lives within us. PRAISE FOR FOUND, WANTING 'what she shares with the reader is profound, necessary and also, at times, funny and quite beautiful.' - Jason Steger, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald 'Forthright, compelling and at times darkly funny, it's a thoughtful and beautifully written reflection on the ways Sholl came undone' - The West Australian 'Sholl has given us a beautifully written memoir that powerfully delivers the wisdom each of us will need at some point about how a human life is spacious enough to accommodate both grief and joy.' - Sarah Krasnostein, author of The Trauma Cleaner 'Sholl is a stunning writer and observer of the human condition. Gripping, candid and tender, Found, Wanting is for anyone who knows the loneliness of loss.' - Jessie Stephens, author of Heartsick 'that's what makes this book such an unexpected pleasure to read. Natasha's attitude, her unique turns of phrase, and her deep honesty shine through, making a story that could be heavy with sadness, actually hope-filled and oftentimes funny.' - The Australian 'Sholl writes with dignity and thoughtfulness.' - The Sydney Morning Herald 'Sholl's forthright nature and hard-won wisdom is at the heart of why I was riveted by Found, Wanting. Her honesty is fearless and relatable, and there is something so heartachingly vulnerable about the unspeakable thoughts and undignified moments that she relates here' - Jackie Tang, Readings Monthly 'Found, Wanting's relentless and heartbreaking depiction of loss could've been unbearable were it not for the moving beauty of the writing.' - Allee Richards, Kill Your Darlings

Wanting

Author : Margot Kahn
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646220110
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Wanting written by Margot Kahn and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and empowering anthology of essays that explore the changing face of female desire in whip-smart, sensuous prose, with pieces by Tara Conklin, Camille Dungy, Melissa Febos, Lisa Taddeo, and others What is desire? And what are its rules? In this daring collection, award-winning and emerging female writers share their innermost longings, in turn dismantling both personal and political constructs of what desire is or can be. In the opening essay, Larissa Pham unearths the ache beneath all her wants: time. Rena Priest’s desire for a pair of five-hundred-dollar cowboy boots spurs a reckoning with her childhood on the rez and the fraught history of her hometown. Other pieces in the collection turn cultural tropes around dating, sex, and romance on their heads—Angela Cardinale tries dating as a divorced mother of two in the California suburbs only to discover sweet solace in being alone; Keyanah B. Nurse finds power in polyamory; and when Joanna Rakoff spots a former lover at a bar, the heat between them unravels her family as she is pulled into his orbit—an undoing, she decides, that’s worth everything. Including pieces by Tara Conklin, Torrey Peters, Camille Dungy, Melissa Febos, Lisa Taddeo, and so many others, these candid and insightful essays tackle the complicated knot of women’s desire. Featuring essays by Elisa Albert, Kristen Arnett, Molly McCully Brown, Angela Cardinale, Tara Conklin, Sonia Maria David, Jennifer De Leon, Camille T. Dungy, Melissa Febos, Amber Flame, Amy Gall, Aracelis Girmay, Sonora Jha, Nicole Hardy, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, TaraShea Nesbit, Keyanah B. Nurse, Torrey Peters, Amanda Petrusich, Larissa Pham, Rena Priest, Joanna Rakoff, Karen Russell, Domenica Ruta, Susan Shapiro, Terese Svoboda, Lisa Taddeo, Ann Tashi Slater, Abigail Thomas, Merritt Tierce, Michelle Wildgen, Jane Wong, and Teresa Wong

The Wanting

Author : Michael Lavigne
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805212558
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Wanting You

Author : Nan Ryan
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1626817405
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Wanting You written by Nan Ryan and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-03-29 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nan Ryan knows how to heat up the pages” in this western romance novel about a long-lost woman and the man who could love her—or destroy her (RT Book Reviews). Anna Regent Wright, the heiress to the Regent ranch, has finally come home. With no memory of her life before Apaches abducted her as a child, she has suddenly been given a name and a past, and thrust into a new world that holds a future beyond her wildest dreams. But not everyone is happy for her return. Charming hell-raiser Brit Caruth is positive that Anna is an imposter, and he’s determined to prove it before Anna inherits the fortune that was supposed to be his. But his attraction to the beautiful stranger is undeniable, and as his love blooms, his resentment fades. But when the truth finally does come out, whose future will it put in jeopardy? And will the blooming love between Anna and Brit survive the revelation?

The Wanting Way

Author : Adam Wolfond
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317759
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Wanting Way written by Adam Wolfond and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Wanting Way, the second book in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—Adam Wolfond proves more than willing to “extend the choreography.” In fact, his entire thrust is out and toward. Each poem moves out along its own underutilized pathway, awakening unseen dimensions for the reader like a wooded night walk suddenly lit by fireflies. And as each path elaborates itself, Wolfond’s guiding hand seems always to stay held out to the reader, inviting them further into a shared and unprecedented unfolding. The Wanting Way is actually a confluence of diverse ways—rallies, paths, waves, jams, streams, desire lines—that converge wherever the dry verbiage of the talking world requires hydration. Each poem is an invitation to bathe in the play of languaging. And each poem is an invitation to a dance that’s already happening, called into motion by the objects and atmospheres of a more-than-human world. Wolfond makes space for new poetics, new choreographies, and new possibilities toward forging a consensual—felt and feeling—world where we might find free disassembly and assembly together. There is a neurodivergent universe within this one, and Wolfond’s poems continuously pull back the unnecessary veil between human and nature.

Wanting Radiance

Author : Karen Salyer McElmurray
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 1949669165
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Wanting Radiance written by Karen Salyer McElmurray and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An incantatory Appalachian gothic tale of love, murder, and restless souls, populated with unforgettable flesh-and-blood characters . . . [a] masterpiece.” —Amy Greene, national bestselling author Miracelle Loving’s world comes crashing down when her mother, Ruby, is murdered during a fortune-telling session gone wrong. Without the guidance of her mother, Miracelle grows up following the only path she knows, traveling from town to town, sometimes fortune-telling, picking up odd jobs to fill the time and escape the ever-present lostness she can’t seem to run far enough away from. Uncertain of what she wants and, indeed, whether she wants anything or anyone at all, the now thirty-something-year-old finds herself working as a card reader in a Knoxville dive bar, selling fictions as futures, when she is confronted with her mother’s ghost voice promising to reveal the truth about her shadowy past. Desperate for answers, Miracelle sets out on a magical road trip unlike any other, in search of her own story and a father she’s never known. Following snowy highways and backroads, Miracelle stumbles across a museum of oddities and a hole-in-the-road town called Radiant, ultimately wandering into the town of Smyte, where she begins waitressing at the Black Cat Diner. Here, she befriends card-playing has-been Russell Wallen, whom she joins for a series of nighttime adventures, long drives, and after-dark visits to a Holy Roller church. This mythical journey uncovers family secrets and forgotten truths, transforming a familiar story of love and betrayal to reveal the binding power of magic and memory. “A poetic tale of a daughter’s quiet exploration of her past and how it pushes her forward.” —The Rumpus

Found Wanting

Author : Robert Goddard
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553908189
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Found Wanting written by Robert Goddard and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Eusden is on his way to work in London one unremarkable winter morning when he is intercepted by his ex-wife, Gemma. She has sad news of his old friend, Marty Hewitson. Marty is dying, but needs a favour done for him at once. Eusden reluctantly agrees and sets off on what should be a simple errand. But soon it turns into a race for life, his and Marty’s, across Belgium, Germany and Denmark and on into the Nordic heart of a mystery that somehow connects Marty’s long dead grandfather, Clem Hewitson, an Isle of Wight police officer, with the tragic fate of the Russian Royal Family. Eusden discovers to his dismay that he can trust no-one, not even an old and dying friend, in a battle for survival with those who are determined to steal the secret they believe he and Marty hold — and will kill for it if they have to.

Wanting Eyes

Author : Ron Broussard
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578008378
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Wanting Eyes written by Ron Broussard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanting Eyes looks at love from a male's point of view - wanting that true love, but going through many trials and difficult experiences to find it. Wanting Eyes shows that there are hardworking, loyal black men out there and we shouldn't let our past experiences spoil our search for love that is fulfilling.

Wanting Sheila Dead

Author : Jane Haddam
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312547035
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Wanting Sheila Dead written by Jane Haddam and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an infamously offensive reality show personality is targeted by a thief who steals millions in jewelry from her home and leaves her unconscious beside the murdered body of a local girl, retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian struggles to identify a culprit among numerous suspects.