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Author : Patrick Ness
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007395663
Scintillating, surprising, inventive fiction from one of the most talented writers in Britain – this is a superb collection of short stories from the acclaimed author of the Chaos Walking series and ‘More Than This’.
Author : Jenny Odell
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1612198554
** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.
Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Atlas and Company
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1935633163
Surveys the life and career of the social theorist best known for the quotation, "The medium is the message, " who helped shape the culture of the 1960s and predicted the future of television and the rise of the Internet.
Author : Tyler Anbinder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : 0195089227
Although the United States has always portrayed itself as a sanctuary for the world's victim's of poverty and oppression, anti-immigrant movements have enjoyed remarkable success throughout American history. None attained greater prominence than the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, a fraternal order referred to most commonly as the Know Nothing party. Vowing to reduce the political influence of immigrants and Catholics, the Know Nothings burst onto the American political scene in 1854, and by the end of the following year they had elected eight governors, more than one hundred congressmen, and thousands of other local officials including the mayors of Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago. After their initial successes, the Know Nothings attempted to increase their appeal by converting their network of lodges into a conventional political organization, which they christened the "American Party." Recently, historians have pointed to the Know Nothings' success as evidence that ethnic and religious issues mattered more to nineteenth-century voters than better-known national issues such as slavery. In this important book, however, Anbinder argues that the Know Nothings' phenomenal success was inextricably linked to the firm stance their northern members took against the extension of slavery. Most Know Nothings, he asserts, saw slavery and Catholicism as interconnected evils that should be fought in tandem. Although the Know Nothings certainly were bigots, their party provided an early outlet for the anti-slavery sentiment that eventually led to the Civil War. Anbinder's study presents the first comprehensive history of America's most successful anti-immigrant movement, as well as a major reinterpretation of the political crisis that led to the Civil War.
Author : Denise J. Wilson
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2012-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145256521X
When did spirituality get so serious? As if you’ve got to take a year off and spend it in the lotus position somewhere in the hills of India. What if discovering the meaning of your life could be done with a beer in one hand and a box of Cheez-Its in the other? I Know Nothing is the sequel to Nothing Matters, an offbeat memoir about a woman who, in the space of a few short months, lost her job, her relationship of 15 years and everything else she thought mattered. In a fit of screw-the-Universe retaliation, she moved to Maui where she came to realize all those seemingly disastrous events were actually well-placed stepping stones on a path toward a deeper understanding of the things that truly matter. I Know Nothing takes place on Maui, but the everyday situations that provoke new insights could take place anywhere. With her deft wording and singular sense of humor, Denise Wilson shares the experiences that have propelled her just a little further down the cosmic highway. Are you a spiritual hitchhiker looking for a ride? If you are, grab your backpack and hop in. This book is pulling over for you.
Author : Andrew Sachs
Publisher : Robson Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2015-05-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781849549004
A few weeks before Kristallnacht in November 1938, Andrew Sachs looked on as Nazi officers arrested his father while the family was eating in a restaurant. The son of a Jewish father and a lapsed Catholic mother, a few days later he watched as the Nazis burned and looted Jewish shops on the streets of Berlin. The boy who witnessed these events before he and his family escaped to London would later become famous for being the butt of comic cruelties in Fawlty Towers. However, the journey to Torquay, where the iconic series was set, was a long and unexpected one. Here Sachs tells his own story.
Author : Joan Konner
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1615929738
In this sound-bite history of the concept of nothing, distinguished journalist Konner, author of the bestselling "The Atheist's Bible," has created a unique anthology devoted to, well, nothing.
Author : Michele Sobel Spirn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 1997-01-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0064442268
Four friends called The Know-Nothings, because they don't know very much, decide to make lunch.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 1894
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Author : Tim Kreider
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439198713
A "New York Times" political cartoonist and writer presents a collection of his most popular essays and drawings about life and government hypocrisy.