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Book Beverly Hills Postmate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles St. Anthony
  • Publisher : Impossibly Glamorous Studios
  • Release : 2021-02-05
  • ISBN : 0998318582
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Beverly Hills Postmate written by Charles St. Anthony and published by Impossibly Glamorous Studios. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After purchasing a new electric car to avoid catching the coronavirus on mass transit, Charles St. Anthony needed to come up with some money fast. Hoping to rake in some big tips, Charles decided to do Postmates in the areas the rich and famous play. In this humorous short read, Charles explores Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and the neighboring areas of Los Angeles using food delivery apps. He takes you down the rabbit hole of Beverly History, and introduces affordable things to eat in America's most glamorous zip code: 90210! Charles gives you "Beverly Hills on a Budget" by introducing economical (but delicious) food he discovered in Beverly Hills—foods that taste expensive but come at prices everyone can enjoy. After completing more than 500 deliveries via Postmates, DoorDash, and Uber Eats you'll learn what people in LA—a city known for health and fitness—truly eat. The answer might be greasier than you're expecting! Also, Charles answers pressing questions such as what was the most popular type of Taco Bell sauce packet, what food truck has the most devoted fan base, and what was the total number of French fries ordered in his 500+ deliveries. It's a feel-good, laugh out loud short essay that shows how food delivery apps offered a path to dignity to people who needed to eat and people who struggled to make money in the pandemic era. Contains humor with adult language. "Quirky, insightful and witty." Jack Scott (Author), Perking the Pansies Disclaimer: Charles St. Anthony works as a private contractor for the delivery apps Postmates, DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Instacart. This book is otherwise neither affiliated nor endorsed by these corporations. The opinions and information contained within are uniquely the author's own.

Book Beverly Hills Postmate

Download or read book Beverly Hills Postmate written by Charles St. Anthony and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Meet Me in Miami

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles St. Anthony
  • Publisher : Impossibly Glamorous Studios
  • Release : 2023-10-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book Meet Me in Miami written by Charles St. Anthony and published by Impossibly Glamorous Studios. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food, romance, and magic: Charles St. Anthony discovered more than he bargained for in Miami. After a wobbly welcome to the South Florida metropolis, Charles does more than 1,000 food deliveries using food delivery apps. In doing so, he finds some of the most scrumptious food that Miami has to offer. Along the way, Charles picked up more than just pizza! He meets someone and gives his account of how the relationship unfolds. We've all seen the bizarre news stories that frequently emerge from the Sunshine State. Charles also gives the authoritative analysis as to why "Florida Man" exists. Part comedy and part investigative journalism, Meet Me in Miami follows studies Charles St. Anthony has written on Beverly Hills and Oklahoma City. Written with his characteristic panache, he takes you on a tropical adventure in a city where the cultures of the United States and Latin America collide. Meet Me in Miami is a work of creative non-fiction by author Charles St. Anthony. This work is unrelated to the 2005 romantic comedy and women's clothing store of the same name.

Book Saints and Sinners in Oklahoma City

Download or read book Saints and Sinners in Oklahoma City written by Charles St. Anthony and published by I.G. Studios LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this latest fast food exposé, the author lifts the lid on the traits, trends and tastes of Okies. Delicious, shrewd, funny, and surprising, Charles the Bold is not one to let the grass grow." -Jack Scott (author) Joining the California exodus, Charles leaves the Golden State for high adventures in the Great Plains. Landing in Oklahoma City, he decides to check out the food in The Big Friendly by using food delivery apps to see what the city's residents are eating. In this work of gonzo journalism, Charles finds some of the tastiest and most unique dishes he has ever tasted while doing food delivery. Also, Charles uncovers how Oklahomans like their steaks prepared and how many orders of ranch dressing there were in the 500 plus orders he did in Oklahoma. He compares the eating habits of Oklahoma City to the ones in Los Angeles with some shocking results. Which city has the better tippers? LA or OKC? The differences and similarities will astound you. It's a quirky, witty, feel-food short read that will leave your mouth watering! Start laughing now. Content warning: contains adult humor and language. "Saints & Sinners in Oklahoma City is filled with quirky and irreverent humor and even includes a tongue-in-cheek look at the history of the Oklahoma Land Rush." -The Gayly "A short, quick + fun read with an amiable narrator that provides an insight into food delivery apps, made me wanna try some OKC food, and I finally know what 'Sooner' means." -Chris Page (writer)

Book DTLA Hustler

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles St. Anthony
  • Publisher : Impossibly Glamorous Studios
  • Release : 2018-12-24
  • ISBN : 0998318574
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book DTLA Hustler written by Charles St. Anthony and published by Impossibly Glamorous Studios. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this short read set in the downtown LA (DTLA) Renaissance, Charles St. Anthony delivered hundreds of meals while finding out the most delicious delights in this fusion food hotbed. When moving to Los Angeles, Charles felt hopelessly overweight. After leading a sedentary life, he knew he needed to make changes. Also, needing to make some extra money while doing his day job, Charles decided to kill two birds with one stone by joining Postmates. By delivering by foot and bicycle Charles made his "latte money" (his term for extra cash) while incorporating work as a courier into his fitness journey. DTLA Hustler takes a close-up view of what it’s like to work for this tech leader and how it can benefit your overall health. The book includes educational chapters answering these burning questions: 1. How much do Postmates couriers really make? 2. What are the fabulous residents of DTLA actually eating? 3. What lifestyle changes did Charles St. Anthony make to lose forty pounds? 4. How does the Postmates system work? 5. What challenges do couriers deal with? If you are thinking of joining the gig economy or needing to lose a few pounds, DTLA Hustler has advice for everyone while keeping you laughing. Get your hustle on and read DTLA Hustler today.

Book One Fair Wage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Saru Jayaraman
  • Publisher : The New Press
  • Release : 2021-11-02
  • ISBN : 1620975343
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book One Fair Wage written by Saru Jayaraman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the acclaimed Behind the Kitchen Door, a powerful examination of how the subminimum wage and the tipping system exploit society’s most vulnerable “No one has done more to move forward the rights of food and restaurant workers than Saru Jayaraman.” —Mark Bittman, author of The Kitchen Matrix and A Bone to Pick Before the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the country, more than six million people earned their living as tipped workers in the service industry. They served us in cafes and restaurants, they delivered food to our homes, they drove us wherever we wanted to go, and they worked in nail salons for as little as $2.13 an hour—the federal tipped minimum wage since 1991—leaving them with next to nothing to get by. These workers, unsurprisingly, were among the most vulnerable workers during the pandemic. As businesses across the country closed down or drastically scaled back their services, hundreds of thousands lost their jobs. As in many other areas, the pandemic exposed the inadequacies of the nation’s social safety net and minimum-wage standards. One of New York magazine’s “Influentials” of New York City, one of CNN’s Visionary Women in 2014, and a White House Champion of Change in 2014, Saru Jayaraman is a nationally acclaimed restaurant activist and the author of the bestselling Behind the Kitchen Door. In her new book, One Fair Wage, Jayaraman shines a light on these workers, illustrating how the people left out of the fight for a fair minimum wage are society’s most marginalized: people of color, many of them immigrants; women, who form the majority of tipped workers; disabled workers; incarcerated workers; and youth workers. They epitomize the direction of our whole economy, reflecting the precariousness and instability that is increasingly the lot of American labor.

Book Random Ass Shoes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles St. Anthony
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-11-19
  • ISBN : 9780998318509
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Random Ass Shoes written by Charles St. Anthony and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book featuring photographs of lost shoes and other items lost in various landscapes crowdsourced from photographers around the world on the Random Ass Shoes Facebook group. Curated by author Charles St. Anthony, royalties from this book will be donated to a homeless advocacy group.

Book Impossibly Glamorous

Download or read book Impossibly Glamorous written by Charles Ayres and published by . This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After finding himself on some seedy dance floors in Kansas City, Ayres' quest for love and glamourNand his penchant for all things JapaneseNcarried him from Dorothy's homeland to New York to Tokyo. "Impossibly Glamorous" follows his exploits with Goth raver lesbians, hot men, and not-so-hot men, culminating in a long-term love affair with Japan.

Book The Sqirl Jam  Jelly  Fruit Butter  and Others  Book

Download or read book The Sqirl Jam Jelly Fruit Butter and Others Book written by Jessica Koslow and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A home cook–friendly recipe collection of over seventy-five famed jams, jellies, butters, marmalades, and other fruit preserves, from a James Beard–nominated chef. “This is food whose time has come,” declared Mark Bittman about Sqirl, the much-beloved Los Angeles restaurant that locals, tourists, and critics alike all flock to. Sqirl all began with jam—organic, local, made from unusual combinations of fruits, fragrant, and not overly sweet—the kind of jam you eat with a spoon. The Sqirl Jam Book collects Jessica Koslow’s signature recipes into a cookbook that looks and feels like no other preserving book out there, inspiring makers to try their own hands at canning and creating. With photography and a design bound to inspire imitators, The Sqirl Jam Book will make you fall in love with jam.

Book At Her Service

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amy Spalding
  • Publisher : Kensington Books
  • Release : 2024-02-20
  • ISBN : 149673954X
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book At Her Service written by Amy Spalding and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Casey McQuiston, Alexis Hall, and Meryl Wilsner will fall for this sweetly sexy, gloriously relatable sapphic rom-com about self-improvement, chasing your dreams, and writing your own Hollywood love story – from the acclaimed author of For Her Consideration. Max Van Doren has a wish list, and a great career and a girlfriend are at the top. But despite being pretty good at her job as an assistant to one of Hollywood’s fastest rising talent agents, she has no idea how to move up the ladder. And when it comes to her love life, she’s stuck in perpetual lust for an adorably perfect bartender named Sadie. Her goals are clear—and Max has everything but the self-confidence to go for them. Even her mother seems to assume she’ll be crawling home to her childhood bedroom at some point . . . When Max’s roommate, Chelsey—an irritatingly gorgeous and self-assured influencer in plus-size and queer spaces—offers to sponsor her for a new self-actualization app, Max gives in. If she can’t run her own life, maybe an algorithm guiding her choices will help? Suddenly Max is scoring big everywhere, and her dreams are achingly close to coming true. But when one of Chelsey’s posts reveals Sadie’s part in the app’s campaign, Max is poised for heartbreak on all fronts. Tired of the sponcon life with its fake friends and endless selfies, Max realizes that to have true influence, she’ll have to find the courage to make her own, totally authentic way in the world . . . Fresh, feel-good, and endlessly relatable, here is a glorious love story for the digital age and beyond.

Book The Deal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Josh Flagg
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Leadership
  • Release : 2022-10-04
  • ISBN : 1400230446
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Deal written by Josh Flagg and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEARN STRATAGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL DEAL MAKING Star of the hit show Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, Josh Flagg shares his secrets to mastering any negotiation in any industry and at any level. Throughout his career, Josh Flagg has faced off with challengers of all kinds in negotiations over the world’s most expensive and sought-after real estate. He has seen and put into practice what works and identified the “common tricks” that don’t. Josh has curated ten rules that, when applied to any deal, will significantly increase your chance of success, and make you the master negotiator your clients need you to be. Sample rules include: Rule #1: Don’t Sell Garbage- you are what you sell. Rule #2: You Only Have One Client- focus on the one you’re with. Rule #3: Up Your Attitude- be the person people want to represent them. Rule #8: Play the Psychologist- you are your client’s best friend. Rule #10: Know Your Worth- you are your best advocate. If you want to be the best, you have to look and act like the best. Josh learned this rule young and has applied it to every client relationship he has ever had. He began his real estate career as a student at Beverly Hills High School—swung big and hit—landing him in the perfect position to take on some of LA’s largest, most exclusive real estate listings and, eventually, a spot on Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles. Apply the lessons in the book to become the negotiator who closes million-dollar deals.

Book Monthly Bulletin of the Robert Morris Associates

Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of the Robert Morris Associates written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Critical Theories of the State

Download or read book Critical Theories of the State written by Clyde W. Barrow and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Theories of the State is a clear and accessible survey of radical perspectives on the modern state. By focusing on Marxist theory and its variations, particularly as applied to advanced industrial societies and contemporary welfare states, Clyde W. Barrow provides a more extensive and thorough treatment than is available in any other work. Barrow divides the methodological assumptions and key hypotheses of Marxist, Neo-Marxist, and Post-Marxist theories into five distinct approaches: instrumentalist, structuralist, derivationist, systems-analytic, and organizational realist. He categorizes the many theorists discussed in the book, including such thinkers as Elmer Altvater, G. William Domhoff, Fred Block, Claus Offe, and Theda Skocpol according to their concepts of the state’s relationship to capital and their methodological approach to the state. Based on this survey, Barrow elaborates a compelling typology of radical state theories that identifies with remarkable clarity crucial points of overlap and divergence among the various theories. Scholars conducting research within the rubric of state theory, political development, and policy history will find Critical Theories of the State an immensely valuable review of the literature. Moreover, Barrow’s work will make an excellent textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in political science and sociology, and can also be used by those teaching theory courses in international relations, history, and political economy.

Book Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science

Download or read book Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science written by Dick Houtman and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Houtman argues that neither authoritarianism nor libertarianism can be explained by class or economic background, but rather by position in the cultural domain-- what he calls cultural capital. Although he examines all of the statistics and arguments of the conventional approaches with care and concern, Houtman convincingly demonstrates that the conclusions drawn from earlier studies are untenable at a more general theoretical level. Despite differences among advocates of class explanations, their theories are based on largely identical research findings--in particular a strong negative relationship between education and authoritarianism. Unobstructed by the conclusions these authors felt called upon to draw from the findings themselves, Houtman configures them in a new way. The hypotheses derived from this new theory allow for a systematic, strict, and competitive testing of original theses without ignoring the value of and earlier research. After demonstrating that authoritarianism and libertarianism cannot be explained by class or economic background, Houtman examines the implications of this argument for today's death of class debate in political sociology. He holds it to be unfortunate that the relevance of class to politics is typically addressed by studying the relation between class and voting. This conceals a complex cross-pressure mechanism that causes this relationship to capture the net balance of class voting and its opposite, cultural voting, instead of class voting. He argues that references to a decline in class voting may be basically correct, but dogmatic reliance on the relation between class and voting to prove the point systematically underestimates levels of class voting and produces an exaggerated picture of the decline. "Dick Houtman has an eye for the critical gap in our grand theorizing, and like the classic Dutchman, has filled the gap. This book we must all read to find how better to fill the gaps in our own theorizing about culture, class, and politics."--Terry Nichols Clark, University of Chicago Dick Houtman is professor of sociology at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Book American Sfoglino

    Book Details:
  • Author : Evan Funke
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2019-09-24
  • ISBN : 1452173389
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book American Sfoglino written by Evan Funke and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *THE JAMES BEARD MEDIA AWARD WINNER FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPHY* "Evan Funke's respect for tradition and detail makes American Sfoglino the perfect introduction to the fresh egg pastas of Emilia Romagna. It's bold in its simplicity and focus." — Missy Robbins, chef/owner of Lilia and MISI Forget your pasta machine and indulge in the magic of being a sfoglino with the help of the rich imagery and detailed instructions provided by Evan Funke and American Sfoglino. A comprehensive guide to making the best pasta in the world: In this debut cookbook from Evan Funke, he shares classic techniques from his Emilia Romagna training and provides accessible instructions for making his award winning sfoglia (sheet pasta) at home. With little more than flour, eggs, and a rolling pin, you too can be a sfoglino (a pasta maker) and create traditional Italian noodles that are perfectly paired with the right sauces. Features recipes for home cooks to recreate 15 classic pasta shapes, spanning simple pappardelle to perfect tortelloni. Beginning with four foundational doughs, American Sfoglino takes readers step by step through recipes for a variety of generous dishes, from essential sauces and broths, like Passata di Pomodoro (Tomato Sauce) and Brodo di Carne (Meat Broth) to luscious Tagliatelle in Bianco con Prosciutto (Tagliatelle with Bacon and Butter) and Lasagna Verde alla Bolognese (Green Bolognese Lasagna) in this treasure trove of a recipe book. Includes stories from Italy and the kitchen at Funke's Felix Trattoria that add the finishing touches to this pasta masterclass, while sumptuous James Beard-award winning photographs and a bold package offer a feast for the eyes. Evan Funke is a master pasta maker and the chef owner of Felix Trattoria in Venice, California. Katie Parla is a food writer and IACP award winning author whose work has appeared in numerous outlets, including the New York Times, Food & Wine, and Saveur. Eric Wolfinger is a James Beard Award winning food photographer. Makes an excellent gift idea for any pasta aficionado or avid Italian cook.

Book Elections and Voting Behaviour

Download or read book Elections and Voting Behaviour written by Pippa Norris and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series brings together the most significant journal articles to appear in the field of comparative politics over the past 30 years. The aim is to render readily accessible to teachers, researchers and students an extensive range of essays which, together, provide an indispensable basis for understanding both the established conceptual terrain and the new ground being broken in the rapidly changing field of comparative political analysis.

Book Perking the Pansies   Jack and Liam Move to Turkey

Download or read book Perking the Pansies Jack and Liam Move to Turkey written by Jack Scott and published by Springtime Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack and Liam, fed up with kiss-my-arse bosses and nose-to-nipple commutes, quit their jobs and move to a small town in Turkey. Join the culture-curious gay couple on their bumpy rite of passage in a Muslim country. Meet the oddballs, VOMITs, vetpats, emigreys, semigreys, debauched waiters and middle England miseries. When bigotry and ignorance emerge from the crude underbelly of Turkey's expat life, Jack and Liam waver. Determined to stay the course, the happy hedonistas hitch up their skirts, move to the heart of liberal Bodrum and fall in love with their intoxicating foster land. Enter Jack's irreverent world for a right royal dose of misery and joy, bigotry and enlightenment, betrayal and loyalty, friendship, love, earthquakes, birth, adoption and a senseless murder. Perking the Pansies will make you laugh out loud one minute and sob into your crumpled tissue the next. "Scott pulls no punches. A good read and hopefully the first of many by new boy on the block." Jane Akatay, journalist "An insightful tale of life abroad - with a twist - from the pen of a serial people watcher. Expat Jack lays his characters bare along with his heart and soul, '' Kym Ciftci, On the Ege Magazine, Ontheege.com "Jack and Liam bring a certain je ne sais quoi to the souks and heap a plate of dry British wit to their Ottoman misadventures," Charles Ayres, author, Impossibly Glamorous Impossiblyglamorous.com ..". hilarious, saucy, witty, heartwarming and incredibly moving, Perking the Pansies is chock full of odd characters and odder situations. Jack Scott has a way with words and proves that it is the relationships we surround ourselves with that matter most," Linda A Janssens, Writer and Co-Author, Turning Points, Adventuresinexpatland.com