Download or read book The Disillusioned written by D. W. Scott and published by D.W.Scott. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DISILLUSIONED is a ruthlessly honest memoir of a young man who writes both searingly and disarmingly about the highs and lows, the perils and promise of our times. THE DISILLUSIONED documents the struggle all too common for recent generations: yearning to find a sense of worth and a purpose to their lives against the backdrop of abuses rife in modern society and the duplicity of political systems which favour the rich and powerful despite the hollow rhetoric that promises something else. THE DISILLUSIONED encompasses three decades, beginning with the impressionable child indoctrinated with the propaganda of Thatcher's Britain and suffering sexual abuse, a lack of role models and any sense of belonging. It is a gripping story of obsessive ambition, discrimination, sex, scams, suicidal impulses, alcoholism, the search for love, loss and the quest for redemption in New Zealand. It is the author's story, but also the story of a disillusioned silent majority; the story of young people bogged down with debt and disillusionment; the story, too, of the increasing dangers facing our children in a materialistic world where family bonds and values are sacrificed for high incomes and status. "THE DISILLUSIONED is a surprisingly compulsive read about what I call the Misfit Generation - the one beguiled at first by the challenge of rational economics and then bewildered by its effects. David Scott's odyssey is to find self-worth, to discover basic human values among the detritus of modern life. At the end you can't be sure he's made it. But his story matters and he tells it with the pace and directness of a pro." - Gordon McLauchlan, writer and book critic.
Download or read book Disillusioned written by Benjamin Herold and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can’t escape the changes sweeping the country. On Chicago’s North Shore, a multiracial mom joins an ultraprogressive challenge to the town’s liberal status quo. In Compton, California, whose suburban roots are now barely recognizable, undocumented Hispanic parents place their gifted son’s future in the hands of educators at a remarkable elementary school. And outside Pittsburgh, a Black mother moves to the same street where author Benjamin Herold grew up, then confronts the destructive legacy left behind by white families like his. Disillusioned braids these human stories together with penetrating local and national history to reveal a vicious cycle undermining the dreams upon which American suburbia was built. For generations, upwardly mobile white families have extracted opportunity from the nation’s heavily subsidized suburbs, then moved on before the bills for maintenance and repair came due, leaving the mostly Black and Brown families who followed to clean up the ensuing mess. But now, sweeping demographic shifts and the dawning realization that endless expansion is no longer feasible are disrupting this pattern, forcing everyday families to confront a truth their communities were designed to avoid: The suburban lifestyle dream is a Ponzi scheme whose unraveling threatens us all. How do we come to terms with this troubled history? How do we build a future in which all children can thrive? Drawing upon his decorated career as an education journalist, Herold explores these pressing debates with expertise and perspective. Then, alongside Bethany Smith—the mother from his old neighborhood, who contributes a powerful epilogue to the book—he offers a hopeful path toward renewal. The result is nothing short of a journalistic masterpiece.
Download or read book Disillusioned written by Jordan Bear and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photography’s early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philosophical games repeatedly put the visual credulity of the modern public to the test in ways that shaped, and were shaped by, the reality claims of photography. These venues invited viewers to judge the reliability of their own visual experiences. Photography resided at the center of a constellation of places and practices in which the task of visual discernment—of telling the real from the constructed—became an increasingly crucial element of one’s location in cultural, political, and social relations. In Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject, Jordan Bear tells the story of how photographic trickery in the 1850s and 1860s participated in the fashioning of the modern subject. By locating specific mechanisms of photographic deception employed by the leading mid-century photographers within this capacious culture of discernment, Disillusioned integrates some of the most striking—and puzzling—images of the Victorian period into a new and expansive interpretive framework.
Download or read book Disillusioned written by Alex Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disillusioned, my 5th poetry book, is a collection of words and thoughts from 2011-2018. The book contains playful rhymes, song lyrics, political rants, and other random musings from the past 8 years.
Download or read book Disillusioned Illusions written by Greg Stump and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a pair of washed-up silhouettes abandon the optical illusion business to make a graphic novel, they desperately hope the book will rocket them to fame and fortune. They’ll do just about anything to finish their project — anything, that is, except put forth any kind of effort whatsoever. Instead, they enlist a Juilliard-trained actor named Rodney to bear the burden of the work while they bicker, smoke, and relax in the break room. But their ingenious attempts at evading the hard labors of proper storytelling backfire when the three become entangled in a labyrinthine narrative of deception, adoption, and betrayal. Alliances and identities are forged and discarded with the turn of a page as the trio hurtles towards a thrilling courtroom conclusion that threatens to pull back the curtain on closely-guarded secrets and conspiracies. Both a touching tale of persistence and a scathing send-up of bibliolatry, Disillusioned Illusions is a powerful exploration of what happens when ambition collides with indolence in this debut graphic novel from cartoonist Greg Stump.
Download or read book The Disillusioned African written by B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This humorous tale of the na?ve and curious African student-cum-philosopher wandering between North and South, the rural and the urban, has been in gestation for a period of nearly two decades. With allusion to traditions of the philosophical novel and the picaresque, Nyamnjoh's protagonist travels from his African village to the sharply divided and socially cruel world of 1980s Britain. By casting aside his disillusion and the traps of servitude and victimhood, The Disillusioned African reveals his creative potential for curiosity and adventure. He brings a bird's eye view, always affectionate, gently mocking, to the cultural idiosyncrasies of the new world he encounters, which throws his own African culture, politics and socio-economic realities into light relief. Praise for The Disillusioned African 'Whatever the imagined future for Africa, this courageous book will certainly provide, for both its foreign readers and the young generation of Cameroonians, a provocative insight into the complex web of despair, frustration, paradox and hope . on the eve of the 21st century.' - Louise Cuming, Catholic University of Central Africa 'In his characteristically humorous style, Nyamnjoh portrays the various social ills in society and castigates the political elite he holds largely responsible.' - Piet Konings, African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands. 'Francis Nyamnjoh . has a particular way of saying very serious things in the most unserious manner. He entertains, and in the process he moralises, he teaches, he gives you lessons. learning experience and philosophy to give you a view of the dilemma of the African.' - Sammy Beban Chumbow, Professor of Linguistics, University of Yaounde I
Download or read book Disillusioned Millionaire written by S. John Gault and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in poverty in a staunch nationalistic apartheid era in South Africa and sourrounded by religious fanaticism, this autobiography traces his growth from humble beginnings to owning one of America's 500 Fastest Growing private companies.
Download or read book Disillusioned written by Bridget E. Baker and published by Purple Puppy Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chancery’s life on her eighteenth birthday is nothing like she imagined it would be. Her mother’s gone, she’s ruling the family, and her twin has returned as an uneasy ally. But the prophecy hanging over her head causes more problems than it solves, and her love life is a mess. Now that the man of her dreams finally wants her, Chancery’s not sure he’s right. And she’s about to learn a lot of new information about sweet, supportive Noah that’s going to transform the playing field in a shocking new way. Join Chancery, Judica, Edam, and Noah for a ride you won’t want to miss, and a whole host of twists and turns that will keep you guessing to the very end. Keywords: fantasy, urban fantasy, urban fantasy romance, royal fantasy, fantasy romance, royal romance, epic fantasy romance, clean ya fantasy, contemporary fantasy, ya contemporary fantasy, ya fantasy romance, teen fantasy romance, teen fantasy, teen urban fantasy, game of thrones, series starter, first in series, complete series, urban fantasy series, binge a fantasy series, books for teens, best books for teenagers, best book for my kid, clean fantasy, ya game of thrones, for fans of Victoria Aveyard, for fans of Tahereh Mafi, for fans of Sarah J. Maas, sara mass, sarah maas, sarah j moss, sarah maass, for fans of throne of glass, acotar, tahereh mafi, indie books, indie fantasy, six of crows, leigh bardugo, crooked kingdom, holly black, for fans of holly black, the cruel prince, fans of the cruel prince, fans of crave, for teens who loved crave, fans of tracy wolff, crave court crush, covet charm, covet, charm, cherish, crave, tracy wolf, ballad of never after, stephanie garner, stephanie garber, fans of stephanie garber, vampire academy, shatter me, serpent and dove, 99c books, under a dollar, the secret life of addie larue, best books for teens, clean romance fantasy, urban fantasy, stephanie garber, the ballad of never after, the cruel prince, a curse so dark and lonely, brigid kemmerer, kimmerer, holly black, daughter of smoke and bone, laini taylor, epic fantasy, lord of the rings, wheel of time, mist born, rj blain, tolkien, robert jordan, brandon sanderson, urusula k leguin, mercedes lackey, tamora pierce, kf breene, leia stone, linsey hall.series, evil twin.
Download or read book A Disillusioned Occultist written by Charles Edward Barns and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shocked and Disillusioned written by C. F. Mullins and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Disillusioned World written by Michael Pilarski and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Disillusioned World is about a salesman in a new and unknown territory, rediscovering nature, rejection and his imagination. Through the arid months of summer, this door-to-door salesman and his bike will have to embrace storms, angry Mainers and his own failure.
Download or read book Love and Sorcery Disillusioned written by Roxanne McNeil and published by Butterscotch Books. This book was released on 2022-11-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unwanted bodyguard, an underestimated sorceress, and their powerful, mutual dislike. Expecting to guard a powerful sorcerer, Dan Forell instead finds himself the unwanted bodyguard of a young sorceress, a pretty girl who could destroy his dreams of prestige in the army. If he wasn’t falling in love with her, he might hate her entirely. When Lillian Loraine is pushed into accepting an irritable defender, one who clearly doesn’t want the job, her social life and happiness are threatened with utter collapse. She shouldn’t fall for him or trust him with the truth of her abilities, but his quiet intensity and devotion make her question her resolve. As a foreign power works to annihilate the sorcerers protecting their homeland, Lillian and Dan must repel enemy attacks, overcome first impressions, and somehow convince each other that love is worth the risk of heartbreak. Disillusioned is a sweet romance with fantasy elements for fans of Pride and Prejudice and fairy tale endings.
Download or read book Rantings of a Disillusioned Mind written by J.D. Michaels and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the highs and lows of life, from love and hate, to sadness and joy. Within these pages you'll find happiness and loneliness... You might even laugh a little.
Download or read book Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned written by Gretchen Schultz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume contains thirty-five fairy tales by nineteen writers, presented chronologically by author"--Introduction.
Download or read book Apparently Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World Vol 6 manga written by and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiana and Nick’s visit to the casino was only intended as a way to blow off some steam, but when Tiana runs into a certain wealthy young lady getting taken for a ride by her loser boyfriend, she has a chance to show off and do some good at the same time! Meanwhile, Leon stews in his defeat and imprisonment. But the Survivors haven’t seen the last of him yet—he will grasp at any chance, any slight sliver of power, if it will secure his revenge...
Download or read book The World hoax and The Disillusioned Genius written by Charles August Paul Dachsel and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Apparently Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World Vol 2 manga written by and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unjustly expelled from his last party, adventurer Nick and his crew of similarly burned adventurers—a once-noble mage, excommunicated priest, and dragonian lady knight—have conquered the slimes of the first beginner labyrinth, and they now set out toward the Goblin Forest. Taking down some goblins? That you can do alone! But trust and teamwork are their only hope to defeat the hordes of hobgoblins and the mighty ogre deep in the woods...Can they really succeed when their strategy relies on Karan the dragonian, who will have to relive her traumatic memories and act as the vanguard with her back to her team once again?
