Download or read book Six Degrees of Separation written by John Guare and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-11-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this soaring and deeply provacative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the msot important American play in years. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart. Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie.
Download or read book Six Degrees The Science of a Connected Age written by Duncan J. Watts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of this connected planet.
Download or read book Degrees of Separation written by Schneur Zalman Newfield and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who exit a religion—particularly one they were born and raised in—often find themselves at sea in their efforts to transition to life beyond their community. In Degrees of Separation, Schneur Zalman Newfield, who went through this process himself, interviews seventy-four Lubavitch and Satmar ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews who left their communities.He presents their motivations for leaving as well as how they make sense of their experiences and their processes of exiting, detailing their attitudes and opinions regarding their religious upbringing. Newfield also examines how these exiters forge new ways of being that their upbringing had not prepared them for, while also considering what these particular individuals lose and retain in the exit process. Degrees of Separation presents a comprehensive portrait of the prolonged state of being “in-between” that characterizes transition out of a totalizing worldview. What Newfield discovers is that exiters experience both a sense of independence and a persistent connection; they are not completely dislocated from their roots once they “arrive” at their new destination. Moreover, Degrees of Separation shows that this process of transitioning identity has implications beyond religion.
Download or read book Three Degrees of Separation written by Timothy Lassiter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-11-02 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young, energetic, and determined undercover police officer Nicholas Grenier is the shining star of the Hartford Police Department. For two years Grenier infiltrated the top levels of the drug trade in New England and is preparing for the biggest bust of his career-a bust that will topple the narcotics underworld like dominoes. But the bust is almost botched and in the process Greniers cover is blown, ending his undercover narcotics career. Though he is quickly promoted to detective, he becomes increasingly depressed and angry. Fearing his career itself is coming to an end, Grenier takes a leave of absence, not planning to return. Unfortunately for Grenier, someone else has other plans for him. He calls himself The Nemesis. Having waited years for just the right detective to come forward to begin his murderous game, he draws Grenier into the investigation. With only his instincts to guide him, Grenier takes over the investigation of this uncanny killer who seems to know more about the Grenier than Grenier knows about himself. As the killer claims responsibility for three murders in the span of a week, Grenier desperately tries to find any clues that could lead him to this maniacal killer. It isnt until the detective accidentally comes across a misfiled case, that he suddenly learns that this is not the first case in which a member of his family has hunted a killer calling himself The Nemesis. The case will test the detectives mental and emotional strength as he finds himself investigating two cases, one in the present and one that occurred sixty years earlier. As the detective tries to uncover the truth, he is forced to confront family demons and will learn a horrible truth about his family and himself that will link him inexorably to the killer he is hunting.
Download or read book Law in Times of Crisis written by Oren Gross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a systematic and comprehensive attempt by legal scholars to conceptualize the theory of emergency powers, combining post-September 11 developments with more general theoretical, historical and comparative perspectives. The authors examine the interface between law and violent crises through history and across jurisdictions.
Download or read book The Intention Economy written by Doc Searls and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps out the implications of a customer-driven business revolution that's flipping the paradigm of supply and demand, and putting consumers in charge.
Download or read book Degrees of Separation written by Sue Henry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After several years spent recovering from a devastating knee injury, champion musher Jessie Arnold is working to get back into shape for the Iditarod, but when she stumbles upon a corpse during a practice run down a local trail, she is sidetracked by the hunt for a killer. Reprint.
Download or read book Off the Derech written by Ezra Cappell and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, many formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews have documented leaving their communities in published stories, films, and memoirs. This movement is often identified as "off the derech" (OTD), or off the path, with the idea that the "path" is paved by Jewish law, rituals, and practices found within their birth communities. This volume tells the powerful stories of people abandoning their religious communities and embarking on uncertain journeys toward new lives and identities within mainstream society. Off the Derech is divided into two parts: stories and analysis. The first includes original selections from contemporary American and global authors writing about their OTD experiences. The second features chapters by scholars representing such diverse fields as literature, history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, religion, and gender studies. The interdisciplinary lenses provide a range of methodologies by which readers can better understand this significant phenomenon within contemporary Jewish society.
Download or read book Two Degrees of Separation written by Sonia Fernández and published by Cyan Books. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientist Stanley Milgram realised that everyone in the world was separated from everyone else by no more than six degrees. In business and in the rest of our lives, creating a network of contacts has become a crucial way of getting ahead or realising our ambitions. However, with the introduction of the Internet, being more than two degrees from a person is the equivalent of being a stranger! In the world of networking and making key contacts, the stakes have just gone up. This book provides cutting-edge advice and information on how to create a genuinely effective network of contacts that you can rely on to achieve your objectives. The author demonstrates how networks are structured and function and how you can utilise the latest technology to ensure your most important contacts are only one or two degrees away.
Download or read book An Uncertain Age written by Ulrica Hume and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justine¿s life is uncertain when she meets Miles Peabody on the Eurostar. She has lost her job, her fiancé, everything except her dream of becoming an artist. Miles Peabody, a retired librarian and beekeeper, has always led a cautious, philosophical life. Now, faced with his mortality, he needs a miracle. Drawn inexplicably to each other, their relationship is tested when Miles invites Justine to join him on a Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage. But before she can answer, Miles goes missing. Desperate to find him, and nudged by the French police, Justine slips into a dark night of the soul. As Justine¿s radical search turns inward, she begins to explore her faith (or lack of). The love letters of Abélard and Héloïse play a part¿as do fractals, the physics of color, and Saint Teresa of Ávila¿s excruciating visions. Also a rare, gnostic book, Secrets of the Epinoia, which is as elusive as its owner. Helping Justine unravel the mystery of Miles are two women: Gwynneth, a lapsed Anglican, and Dara, a devout Hindu housekeeper (whose intentions Justine prays are good). Their cloistered world is turned upside-down when a charismatic visitor appears with the keys to Miles¿s past. Haunted by questions of truth, betrayal, and loss, it seems they are all connected in an unlikely, even mystical way¿whether in France or Spain, England, or far-off places around the globe. An Uncertain Age by Ulrica Hume is a quirky, interfaith novel about astonishing grace, and longing in all its forms.
Download or read book Sex Degrees of Separation written by Irad Eyal and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, a comprehensive guidebook that navigates the complicated world of celebrity hook-ups, break-ups, exploits, and embarrassments! Sex Degrees of Separation charts the tangled web of involvements that romantically link one celebrity to the next. Organized into easily navigable maps, this expansive volume includes over 1,000 celebrity bios, 500 full-color photos, plenty of juicy trivia, intriguing details about each affair, and 30 sidebars that delve into the love, sex, and drama that goes down in Hollywood. This is the ultimate guide to the hilarious and shocking world of celebrity romancea must-have for the celebrity fanatic!
Download or read book Living Networks written by Ross Dawson and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines how the rise of business connectivity and integration is transforming how companies work and achieve success. The author advocates clear leadership as he goes on to provide a framework for developing a strategy for a flow economy.
Download or read book The Art of the Affair written by Catherine Lacey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising. Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund Wilson, who had encouraged her writing, and had also brought critical attention to the fiction of Anaïs Nin . . . whom he later bedded. And so it goes, the long chain of love, affections, and artistic influences among writers, musicians, and artists that weaves its way through the The Art of the Affair--from Frida Kahlo to Colette to Hemingway to Dali; from Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Miles Davis to Orson Welles. Scrupulously researched but playfully prurient, cleverly designed and colorfully illustrated, it's the perfect gift for your literary lover--and the perfect read for any good-natured gossip-monger.
Download or read book Love and Other Thought Experiments written by Sophie Ward and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive debut novel, longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, takes its premise and inspiration from ten of the best-known thought experiments in philosophy—the what-ifs of philosophical investigation—and uses them to talk about love in a wholly unique way. Married couple Rachel and Eliza are considering having a child. Rachel wants one desperately, and Eliza thinks she does, too, but she can't quite seem to wrap her head around the idea. When Rachel wakes up screaming one night and tells Eliza that an ant has crawled into her eye and is stuck there, Eliza initially sees it as a cry for attention. But Rachel is adamant. She knows it sounds crazy—but she also knows it's true. As a scientist, Eliza is skeptical. Suddenly their entire relationship is called into question. What follows is a uniquely imaginative sequence of ten interconnecting episodes—each from a different character's perspective—inspired by some of the best-known thought experiments in philosophy. Together they form a sparkling philosophical tale of love lost and found across the universe.
Download or read book The House of Blue Leaves written by John Guare and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zoo-keeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York where he lives with his wife, Bananas. Who is. Much to the chagrin of Artie's downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus who'll sleep with him anytime but refuses to cook until they are married. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie's son Ronny goes AWOL from Fort Dix stowing a home made-bomb intended to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium. Also arriving are Artie's old school chum, now a successful Hollywood producer, Billy Einhorn with starlet girlfriend in tow, who holds the key to Artie's dreams of getting out of Queens and away from the life he so despises. But like many dreams, this promise of glory evaporates amid the chaos of ordinary lives.
Download or read book The Vienna Woods Killer written by John Leake and published by Granta Books (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Leake presents the astonishing real-life Jekyll and Hyde story of the Vienna Woods killer who deceived an entire nation.
Download or read book Degrees written by Alan Bates and published by Dewi Lewis Publishing - Dewi Lewis Media. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With text by Pierce Brosnan, Sir Alan Bates and Kevin Bacon. Degrees is loosely based on the 'six degrees of separation' theory and the world-famous cinema game, The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Andy Gotts has had extraordinary access to the world's most famous faces. Over 100 A-list actors feature in this fascinating collection of images and anecdotes. Each actor suggests a friend or colleague as the next person and, therefore, starts a wonderful chain of 'who knows who' and provides a glimpse into the human side of film.
