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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964853096
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Global Village Idiot written by Peter Carey and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John O'Farrell
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555847056
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Global Village Idiot written by John O'Farrell and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of acid-tongued essays, “the U.K.’s answer to Dave Barry” skewers his American cousins (Publishers Weekly). Winner of the Best Columnist of the Year at the British Liars’ Awards and Britain’s finest satirist, John O’Farrell takes dead aim at cell phones, awards ceremonies, genetic sheep splicers, America’s right-wing cabal of dunces, dunderheads, dimwits, and the Big D himself. “Just when we thought the lawlessness in Iraq was over,” O’Farrell observes, “even more blatant incidents of looting have begun. With handkerchiefs masking their faces, two rioters roughly the height of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld kicked in the gates of the largest oilfield and grabbed the keys of the gasoline trucks. ‘Yee-haw! It’s all ours! Millions of barrels of the stuff,’ they laughed. ‘Yup!’ added the leader, ‘and this mask guarantees my anonymousinity!’ So after all these years there really is such a person as the Thief of Baghdad. Except strangely his accent sounded vaguely Texan.” A writer for the groundbreaking television show Spitting Image and contributor to the screenplay for the hit movie Chicken Run, O’Farrell meticulously researched his conclusions by spending five minutes on the Internet and then giving up. And while O’Farrell’s sharpest barbs and stingers have often been written to come out of the mouths of grotesque puppets and Claymation chickens, this time around he keeps the best lines for himself: “With the election of the 43rd President of the United States, the global village is complete,” O’Farrell writes. “It has its own global village idiot.”
Author : John O'Farrell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409022633
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Global Village Idiot written by John O'Farrell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This week the first pet passports came into effect. Around the country dogs have been hopping into photo booths and trying to look as relaxed as possible, which is not easy when you know you're not allowed on the chair.' Gathered here are the best of John O'Farrell's newspaper columns for the Guardian and the Independent which saw him win the coveted Best Columnist of the Year Award at the prestigious British Liars Awards. Among many other things, he claims that the only conviction in the Tory Party will be when Jeffrey Archer gets sent to prison; that scientists have created a genetically superior monkey which will advertise lapsang souchong instead of PG Tips; and that with the election of George W. Bush, the global village has finally got its own global village idiot.
Author : John O'Farrell
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417723089
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Global Village Idiot: Dubya, Dumb Jokes, and One Last Word Before You Vote written by John O'Farrell and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Best Columnist of the Year at the British Liars' Awards, and Britain's finest satirist, O'Farrell takes dead aim in Global Village Idiot at cell phones, awards ceremonies, genetic sheep splicers, America's right-wing cabal of dunces, dunderheads, dimwits, and the Big D himself.
Author : Clifford Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780859520102
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Clifford Irving's The Global Village Idiot written by Clifford Irving and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Stern
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199828
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Village Idiot written by Steve Stern and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 "A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the “sweet celestial confusion” of Soutine’s painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book Review A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim Soutine Steve Stern’s astonishing new novel The Village Idiot begins on a glorious spring day in Paris 1917. Amid the carnage of World War I, some of the foremost artists of the age have chosen to stage a boat race. At the head of the regatta is Amedeo Modigliani, seated regally in a bathtub pulled by a flock of canvasback ducks. But unbeknownst to the competition, he has a secret advantage: his young friend, the immigrant painter Chaim Soutine, is hauling the tub from underwater. Soutine, an unwashed, misfit artist (who incidentally can’t swim) has been persuaded by the Italian to don a ponderous diving suit and trudge along the floor of the river Seine. Disoriented and confused by the artificial air in his helmet Chaim stumbles through the events of his past and future life. It’s quite an extraordinary life. From his impoverished beginnings in an East European shtetl to his equally destitute days in Paris during the Années Folles, the Crazy Years, from the Cinderella patronage of the American collector Albert Barnes, who raises him from poverty to international attention, to his perilous flight from the Nazi occupation of France, Chaim Soutine remains driven by his unrelenting passion to paint. To be sure, there are notable distractions, such as his unlikely friendship with Modigliani, who drags him from brothels to midnight felonies to a duel at dawn; there are the romances with remarkable women who compete with and sometimes salvage his obsession. But there is also, always on the horizon, the coming storm that threatens to sweep away Chaim and a generation of gifted Jewish refugees from a tradition that would outlaw their longing to make art. Wildly inventive, as funny as it is heart-breaking, The Village Idiot is a luminous fever-dream of a novel, steeped in the heady atmosphere of a Paris that was the cultural capital of the universe, a place where anything seemed possible.
Author : William Indick
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476650845
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Media Mindfulness written by William Indick and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The media that capture our attention, mold our thoughts, and shape our expressions are the invisible information environments that surround us. The "Digital Age" has forced humanity to engage in daily prolonged immersion within specific media of thought that, over time, become toxic media environments and can result in a state of mental imbalance. As a process for achieving stability, practicing media mindfulness is not about disengaging, but rather having a deeper awareness of the media environments that we are immersed in--how they engage our attention, how they affect our thoughts and behaviors and, most importantly, how we can manage them to avoid their harmful effects. Simply changing one's media environment results in a new way of attending to information and even a shift in one's behavior and thought patterns. This book explains why our media environments are often toxic, the effects they can have on our mental health, and steps we can take in order to practice mindful, balanced, and healthy engagement with media environments. The specific focus of this practice is on managing the psychological effects of all media. Readers will learn how to manage their media environments for optimal mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health with the aid of a simple mantra: Change your behaviors and your thoughts will follow.
Author : Alex Borstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061143324
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Family Guy: It takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One written by Alex Borstein and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to sharing detailed accounts of her highest highs and lowest lows, as well as her scathing views on the state of public affairs today, Mayor Lois Griffin also shares the pages of this book with the people who put her in office. By giving them such a strong voice in this record of history, she not only reveals how Quagmire pimped out the vote, Peter sold out to the media, Meg coped with sudden celebrity through sullen poetry, Stewie mounted yet another terrorist plot against her, disgraced former mayor West recovered from defeat, and she herself succumbed to the temptations of the job, she also reveals just how valuable she holds the ideals of democracy. Part biography, part town-ography, this no-holds-barred book comes with a strong message for all: It takes a village—and sometimes even a village idiot’s wife—to set things right in America again.
Author : Elif Batuman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014311106X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Idiot written by Elif Batuman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions
Author : Charles Pierce
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0767926153
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Idiot America written by Charles Pierce and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER The three Great Premises of Idiot America: · Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units · Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough · Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it With his trademark wit and insight, veteran journalist Charles Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. Pierce asks how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate. But his thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma, and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not celebrated. Erudite and razor-sharp, Idiot America is at once an invigorating history lesson, a cutting cultural critique, and a bullish appeal to our smarter selves.
Author : Zachary Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495322181
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Adventures of written by Zachary Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whenever The Village Idiot thinks that life couldn't get any better, BAM!, The Twilight Zone kicks him right in the belly. Find out how he and his banditry of heathen brothers snake their way through life's chaos. Set up in a series of non-fiction short stories, The Village Idiot, which ironically was the name of the commercial fishing boat he fished on in Alaska. The author adopted the name Village Idiots as a nickname for him and his heathen brothers. A book of "You-Can't-Make-This-Shit-up" stories, all based around the author and lead Village Idiot, Zachary S. Taylor. Each story is more bizarre than the next, making them a quick read, perfect for the man of the family, next-to-the-toilet-bowl reading material. Zeke has lived the gypsy lifestyle for more than 20 years. His travels have taken him from one end of the planet to the other, many, many times. A former United States Marine, Alaska Commercial Fisherman, Alaska Mountain Guide and Expedition Leader, Hard-Core Biker, Dog Trainer, Ladies Man, Adventurer and Storyteller, give him real life experiences to tell a good story. If you have ever run into him having a sociable at the local watering hole, you may have already heard some of these time tested master pieces. Now, before I blow too much smoke up my own ass, enjoy the day. Peace.
Author : Hal Foster
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784781460
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Bad New Days written by Hal Foster and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Rancière, Bruno Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its repair; at other times burlesquing it. Against the claim that art making has become so heterogeneous as to defy historical analysis, Foster argues that the critic must still articulate a clear account of the contemporary in all its complexity. To that end, he offers several paradigms for the art of recent years, which he terms “abject,” “archival,” “mimetic,” and “precarious.”
Author : John Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191017248
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book How to be Good written by John Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'How to be Good?' is the pre-eminent question for ethics, although one that philosophers and ethicists seldom address head on. Knowing how to be good, or perhaps (more modestly and more accurately) knowing how to go about trying to be good, and the ways in which it is pointless or self-defeating to try to be good, is of immense theoretical and practical importance. And what goes for trying to be good oneself, goes also for trying to provide others with ways of being good, and for trying to make them good whether they like it or not. This is what is meant by 'moral enhancement'. There are many proposed methodologies or technologies for moral enhancement. Some of them are ancient and/or familiar: we may attempt moral enhancement by setting a good example, by good parenting, by education or training, by peer pressure, by telling stories with a moral, in words or in pictures, and so on. We can imbibe substances with mood changing or motivational effects. We can also use medical, biological, or other scientific means; we can search for and deploy chemicals, or biological or molecular agents, which we believe will change people for the better; and we can modify the environment to make bad outcomes of all sorts less likely. We can experiment with political and social systems, institutions, and arrangements designed to make the world a better place or people better people. The question whether and to what extent moral enhancement is possible is the subject of this book.
Author : Thomas H. Murray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000151980
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Ethics of Sports Technologies and Human Enhancement written by Thomas H. Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents articles which focus on the ethical evaluation of performance-enhancing technologies in sport. The collection considers whether drug doping should be banned; the rationale of not banning ethically contested innovations such as hypoxic chambers; and the implications of the prospects of human genetic engineering for the notion of sport as a development of ’natural’ talent towards human excellence. The essays demonstrate the significance of the principles of preventing harm, ensuring fairness and preserving meaning to appraise whether a particular performance enhancer is acceptable in the context of sport. Selected essays on various forms of human enhancement outside of sport that highlight other principles and concepts are included for comparative purpose. Sport enhancement provides a useful starting point to work through the ethics of enhancement in other human practices and endeavors, and sport enhancement ethics should track broader bioethical debates on human enhancement. As a whole, the volume points to the need to consider the values and meanings that people seek in a given sphere of human activity and their associated principles to arrive at a morally grounded and reasonable approach to enhancement ethics.
Author : Mitchell Levy
Publisher : Happy About
ISBN 13 : 1600050883
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 ( download)
Download or read book Global Warming written by Mitchell Levy and published by Happy About. This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2007 was a turning point in the consciousness of the planet. It was a turning point where we no longer asked the question "Is global warming real?", but perceived global warming as reality. Ok, so if we now believe, what can we do about it? Some answers are contained in this book. The real answers, however, will unfold over the next couple of years. We need to act, we need to invest, we need to change, we need to invest in protecting the future.
Author : Nick Davies
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407018957
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Flat Earth News written by Nick Davies and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does ‘fake news’ really exist? Find out from the ultimate insider. After years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies, in this shocking exposé, reveals what really goes on behind the scenes of this contentious industry. From a prestigious newspaper that allowed intelligence agencies to plant fiction in its columns, to the newsroom that routinely rejected stories due to racial bias, to the number of papers that accepted cash bribes. Gripping, thought-provoking and revelatory, this is an insider’s look at one of the most tainted professions. ‘Meticulous, fair-minded and utterly gripping’ Telegraph ‘Powerful and timely...his analysis is fair, meticulously researched and fascinating’ Observer
Author : Richard Fox
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1928476414
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)
Download or read book otherwise you well? written by Richard Fox and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Fox was born in Cape Town in 1975. He lives in Johannesburg and runs the T-shirt company, Tshirt Terrorist. otherwise you well? is his second book of poems, following 876, published in 2007.
