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Author | : Jack Halberstam |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2011-09-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0822350459 |
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DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div
Author | : Andrew Shaffer |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2011-01-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062036610 |
Download Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Few people have failed at love as spectacularly as the great philosophers. Although we admire their wisdom, history is littered with the romantic failures of the most sensible men and women of every age, including: Friedrich Nietzsche: "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." (Rejected by everyone he proposed to, even when he kept asking and asking.) Jean-Paul Sartre: "There are of course ugly women, but I prefer those who are pretty." (Adopted his mistress as his daughter.) Louis Althusser: "The trouble is there are bodies and, worse still, sexual organs." (Accidentally strangled his wife to death.) And dozens of other great thinkers whose words we revere—but whose romantic decisions we should avoid at all costs. Includes an excerpt from Andrew Shaffer's new book Literary Rogues.
Author | : Jonathan Auerbach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Matthew Quick |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2015-06-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062285580 |
Download Love May Fail Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An aspiring feminist and underappreciated housewife embarks on an odyssey to find human decency and goodness—and her high school English teacher—in New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quick’s offbeat masterpiece, a quirky ode to love, fate, and hair metal. Portia Kane is having a meltdown. After escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, she finds herself back in South Jersey, a place that remains largely unchanged from the years of her unhappy youth. Lost and alone, looking to find the goodness in the world she believes still exists, Portia sets off to save herself by saving someone else—a beloved high school English teacher who has retired after a traumatic incident. Will a sassy nun, an ex-heroin addict, a metal-head little boy, and her hoarder mother help or hurt her chances on this madcap quest to restore a good man’s reputation and find renewed hope in the human race? Love May Fail is a story of the great highs and lows of existence: the heartache and daring choices it takes to become the person you know (deep down) you are meant to be.
Author | : Costica Bradatan |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2023-01-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674287363 |
Download In Praise of Failure Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Squarely challenging a culture obsessed with success, an acclaimed philosopher argues that failure is vital to a life well lived, curing us of arrogance and self-deception and engendering humility instead. Our obsession with success is hard to overlook. Everywhere we compete, rank, and measure. Yet this relentless drive to be the best blinds us to something vitally important: the need to be humble in the face of life’s challenges. Costica Bradatan mounts his case for failure through the stories of four historical figures who led lives of impact and meaning—and assiduously courted failure. Their struggles show that engaging with our limitations can be not just therapeutic but transformative. In Praise of Failure explores several arenas of failure, from the social and political to the spiritual and biological. It begins by examining the defiant choices of the French mystic Simone Weil, who, in sympathy with exploited workers, took up factory jobs that her frail body could not sustain. From there we turn to Mahatma Gandhi, whose punishing quest for purity drove him to ever more extreme acts of self-abnegation. Next we meet the self-styled loser E. M. Cioran, who deliberately turned his back on social acceptability, and Yukio Mishima, who reveled in a distinctly Japanese preoccupation with the noble failure, before looking to Seneca to tease out the ingredients of a good life. Gleefully breaching the boundaries between argument and storytelling, scholarship and spiritual quest, Bradatan concludes that while success can make us shallow, our failures can lead us to humbler, more attentive, and better lived lives. We can do without success, but we are much poorer without the gifts of failure.
Author | : Vivian Gornick |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 178873551X |
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“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project. Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, The Romance of American Communism is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin’s crimes became public. From the immigrant Jewish enclaves of the Bronx and Brooklyn and the docks of Puget Sound to the mining towns of Kentucky and the suburbs of Cleveland, over a million Americans found a sense of belonging and an expanded sense of self through collective struggle. They also found social isolation, blacklisting, imprisonment, and shattered hopes. This is their story--an indisputably American story.
Author | : Takashi Suzuki |
Publisher | : SAE International |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1997-05-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0768025788 |
Download The Romance of Engines Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the development of the engine from a historical perspective. Originally published in Japanese, The Romance of Engines' English translation offers readers insight into lessons learned throughout the engine's history. This book belongs on the bookshelves of all engine designers, engine enthusiasts, and automotive historians. Topics covered include: Newcomen's Steam Engine The Watt Steam Engine Internal Combustion Engine Nicolaus August Otto and His Engine Sadi Carnot and the Adiabatic Engine Radial Engines; Piston and Cylinder Problems Engine Life Problem of Cooling Engine Compartments Knocking; Energy Conservation Bugatti; Volkswagon Rolls Royce Packard Daimler-Benz DB601 Engine and more!
Author | : Elizabeth Day |
Publisher | : Fourth Estate |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-07-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780008434595 |
Download How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned from Things Going Wrong Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is a book for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it's a book for everyone. If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: failure has taught me lessons I would never otherwise have understood. I have evolved more as a result of things going wrong than when everything seemed to be going right. Out of crisis has come clarity, and sometimes even catharsis. Part memoir, part manifesto, and including chapters on dating, work, sport, babies, families, anger and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. It's a book about learning from our mistakes and about not being afraid. Uplifting, inspiring and rich in stories from Elizabeth's own life, How to Fail reveals that failure is not what defines us; rather it is how we respond to it that shapes us as individuals. Because learning how to fail is actually learning how to succeed better. And everyone needs a bit of that.
Author | : Gene Kranz |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2009-06-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439148813 |
Download Failure Is Not an Option Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author, flight director in NASA's Mission Control, tells of the challenges in space flight from the very early years to the current time and of "his own bold suggestions about what we ought to be doing in space now."--Jacket.
Author | : John Gossage |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781943146086 |
Download A Dozen Failures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle