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Book Help  My Computer is Broken

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barry Collins
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-12-11
  • ISBN : 9781912047901
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Help My Computer is Broken written by Barry Collins and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cross Cultural Design Methods  Practice and Impact

Download or read book Cross Cultural Design Methods Practice and Impact written by P.L.Patrick Rau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two LNCS volume set 9180-9181 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, in Los Angeles, CA, USA in August 2015, jointly with 15 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4843 submissions. These papers of the two volume set address as follows: LNCS 9180, Cross-Cultural Design: Methods, Practice and Impact (Part I), addressing the following major topics: cross-cultural product design, cross-cultural design methods and case studies, design, innovation, social development and sustainability and LNCS 9181, Cross-Cultural Design: Applications in Mobile Interaction, Education, Health, Transport and Cultural Heritage (Part II), addressing the following major topics: cultural aspects of social media and mobile services, culture for transport and travel, culture for design and design for culture and culture for health, learning and games.

Book Your Brain s Not Broken

Download or read book Your Brain s Not Broken written by Tamara PhD Rosier and published by Revell. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have ADHD, your brain doesn't work in the same way as a "normal" or neurotypical brain does because it's wired differently. You and others may see this difference in circuitry as somehow wrong or incomplete. It isn't. It does present you with significant challenges like time management, organization skills, forgetfulness, trouble completing tasks, mood swings, and relationship problems. In Your Brain's Not Broken, Dr. Tamara Rosier explains how ADHD affects every aspect of your life. You'll finally understand why you think, feel, and act the way you do. Dr. Rosier applies her years of coaching others to offer you the critical practical tools that can dramatically improve your life and relationships. Anyone with ADHD--as well as anyone who lives with or loves someone with ADHD--will find here a compassionate, encouraging guide to living well and with hope.

Book Broken but Fixable in the Potter s Hands

Download or read book Broken but Fixable in the Potter s Hands written by Juanita Funkhouser and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Broken but Fixable in the Potters Hands, have a double purpose. It was written as a tool to help me heal over horrible things that I had to work though and be healed over. Plus this book was written as a testimony of how God help me through these horrible things that I had to deal with day by day. My psychiatric suggested that I would start a journal of my hard times and how I overcome them. My problems that I had to face started back when I was just a little baby on to adult problems.

Book The Literary Equivalent of Chewing Broken Glass  Volume One

Download or read book The Literary Equivalent of Chewing Broken Glass Volume One written by Michael Argentini and published by Idiotsyncrasy. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Literary Equivalent of Chewing Broken Glass, Volume One contains an exclusive collection of the very best of the news satire website idiotsyncrasy.com's front pages. By very best, what I mean is, all of the front pages are included, regardless of quality. And by exclusive, I mean that only a select few billion have the skill and money to purchase this book. Oh, and by front pages, I'm referring to the entire contents of the website, not a specific portion. Visit http: //www.nonsequiturs.com for more information

Book Broken

Download or read book Broken written by William Cope Moyers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candid, shocking, and unforgettable, Broken is a haunting and clear-eyed tale that offers hope for all those wrestling with addiction Unlike some popular memoirs that have fictionalized and romanticized the degradations of drug addiction, Broken is a true-life tale of recovery that stuns and inspires with virtually every page. The eldest son of journalist Bill Moyers, William Cope Moyers relates with unforgettable clarity the story of how a young man with every advantage found himself spiraling into a love affair with crack cocaine that led him to the brink of death-and how a deep spirituality allowed him to conquer his shame, transform his life, and dedicate himself to changing America's politics of addiction. "William Cope Moyers's lucid, measured tale of his own plunge into crack-addled hell [is] frightening in its very realism." -USA Today

Book She s Not Broken

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelsey Day
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2018-01-31
  • ISBN : 099987800X
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book She s Not Broken written by Kelsey Day and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: novel describing a woman's escape from domestic abuse

Book The Broken Glass Mystery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Don Monroe
  • Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
  • Release : 2021-05-12
  • ISBN : 1649135114
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book The Broken Glass Mystery written by Don Monroe and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broken Glass Mystery: A Duke Moran Novel By: Don Monroe Duke Moran is a retired detective with a lot of free time on his hands, time he spends refurbishing a big old house he purchased in the small, north Wisconsin community of Black Crow. It’s slow work, but as mentioned he doesn’t have anything better to do… that is until he hears glass breaking downstairs and goes to investigate. What follows is a series of break-ins and murders in Black Crow, and Duke can’t say no when the chief of police comes asking for some assistance from the former lawman. Unraveling this mystery and the motives behind these heinous crimes will take all of Duke’s professional experience, his puzzle-solving intellect, some bullets, backup, and several trips to the hospital in The Broken Glass Mystery.

Book Broken Cups

    Book Details:
  • Author : Heather MacQuarrie
  • Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2016-11-22
  • ISBN : 1785899708
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Broken Cups written by Heather MacQuarrie and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: lmogen Tomlinson has always been proud of her stable upbringing and longs for a family of her own. But just as she finds herself falling in love and begins to revel in the happiness she has craved for so long, her hopes are shattered by something in a diary written by her mother, Joanna, over twenty years ago; something that shocks her to the core. Jillian Taylor -Scott has been lmogen’s best friend since school. Now, sharing a flat, they both forge new relationships, whilst remaining close to each other and to their respective families. But what is lmogen hiding from Jillian? Why do the two families appear to shun each other? Some secrets are just too awful to reveal, even to a best friend... Maggie Redpath has never known family harmony. The product of a failed marriage, she is afraid to commit to her own boyfriend, worried that history might just repeat itself. When she and Jillian meet through a work project, they become good friends, unaware at first of a tenuous link to lmogen’s past love life. Gertrude Cartwright is the colourful mainstay of her family. Grandmother to Grant, Rebecca, Robyn and Alastair as well as surrogate grandmother to Bradley Harrington, she has kept everyone happy through thick and thin. She welcomes both Jillian and lmogen with open arms. But what will happen when Joanna’s secret is finally revealed..? Broken Cups weaves together the stories of several intriguing dramatis personae to bring us a pacy, character-driven novel, full of suspense and shot through with mystery. Written in a similar style to Heather's previous novels, it will be enjoyed by fans of romance and mystery fiction.

Book Broken Dreams  Beautiful Quilts

Download or read book Broken Dreams Beautiful Quilts written by Judy Rossbacher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a span of years, Judy Rossbacher experienced one broken dream after another leaving her in the pit of burnout. Broken Dreams, Beautiful Quilts is the story of how God enabled her to take the broken pieces and make something beautiful. Walk with Judy and her family through their journey as she and her son Nathan tell the account, each from their perspective. Read Judy’s personal journal entries and hear the cries of her heart. Experience the moments of joy, feel the anguish of loss, celebrate the dawning of new dreams, and discover their source of hope and healing.

Book The Broken Hoe

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Uru Iyam
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1995-06-15
  • ISBN : 0226388492
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book The Broken Hoe written by David Uru Iyam and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the Biase, a small ethnic group living in Nigeria's Cross River State, David Uru Iyam attempts to resolve a long-standing controversy among development theorists: must Third World peoples adopt Western attitudes, practices, and technologies to improve their standard of living or are indigenous beliefs, technologies, and strategies better suited to local conditions? The Biase today face social and economic pressures that seriously strain their ability to cope with the realities of modern Nigeria. Iyam, an anthropologist and a Biase, examines the relationship between culture and development as played out in projects in local communities. Western technologies and beliefs alone cannot ensure economic growth and modernization, Iyam shows, and should not necessarily be imposed on poor rural groups who may not be prepared to incorporate them; neither, however, is it possible to recover indigenous coping strategies given the complexities of the postcolonial world. A successful development strategy, Iyam argues, needs to strengthen local managerial capacity, and he offers suggestions as to how this can be done in a range of cultural and social settings.

Book 8000

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Paul
  • Publisher : 人類智庫
  • Release : 2016-03-01
  • ISBN : 9863732338
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book 8000 written by Kenneth Paul and published by 人類智庫. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 《8000 句英語會話日常生活每天說》分為5大章,21個部分,涉及到社會、生活、工作、娛樂等各個方面,囊括了近200個不同的場景,收錄8,000多句實用句 型。同時每個句子後都列出至少一個同義句,方便讀者運用。許多句中也列出重點單字和片語,讓讀者在學習會話的同時,也能夠輕鬆學習句中的單字和片語。本書 所收錄的句子都是最道地也最流行的,特別推薦給有口語基礎,想讓自己的英文會話能力更進步的人。 本書特色 ●主題最多元 不管是搭訕、點菜、問路還是匯款,這些生活場景,你天天都用得到! ●24小時貼心服務 從早上起床到晚上下班回家,你所需要的表達方式,隨時都找得到! ●例句最豐富 164個主題,每個主題下平均有25個句子,由於句子不會只有一種表達方式, 所以每個句子下至少提供一個同義句。 ●外國人天天都在用 和中式英文說掰掰!由外籍英語教師審定,學習最道地、最in的表達方式! 目錄 Chapter 1 日常交際 Part 1 見面問候 初識搭訕 自我介紹 保持聯絡 朋友見面 談工作 談故鄉 Part 2連絡感情 盛情邀約 登門拜訪 互相幫助 選購與贈送禮物 致謝 告別 Part 3 娛樂狂歡 生日派對 在酒吧 在舞會 在遊樂場 在動物園 在博物館 Part 4 歡度節日 新年 情人節 母親節 父親節 萬聖節 聖誕節 其他節日 Part 5 電話通訊 撥接電話 打錯電話 電話故障 轉接電話 留言 結束電話 Chapter 2 閒聊片刻 Part 1 談論天氣 陽光明媚 高溫酷暑 下雪下雨 陰冷潮濕 其他天氣 Part 2 談學習教育 新學期開始 學習情況 學習方法 遇到難題 同學關係 在圖書館 考試 獎學金 論文 畢業 升學 Part 3 興趣愛好 看電影 看電視 讀書看報 養寵物 下棋玩遊戲 聽音樂 繪畫 打球 唱歌 爬山 游泳 跑步 滑雪溜冰 野餐露營 Part 4 喜怒哀樂 高興 讚美 悲傷 懷疑 信任 告誡 安慰 擔心 羞愧 討厭 憤怒 道歉 Part 5 常見閒聊主題 夢想 吸煙 烹飪 家事 健康 減肥 時尚元素 明星 鄰居 愛情 友誼 成功 環境污染 壓力 科技 網路 Chapter 3 休閒生活 Part 1 逛街購物 在服裝店 在鞋帽店 在超級市場 在日常用品店 在花店 在數位產品店 在古董店 Part 2 享受美食 餐廳訂位 點菜 結帳 Part 3 快樂假期 健行 開車自助旅行 搭乘交通工具出遊 參觀名勝古蹟 欣賞自然風光 Part 4 美容美髮 剪頭髮 美髮 護膚 購買化妝品 美甲修眉 整形 Chapter 4 公共場所 Part 1 在郵局 郵寄包裹 郵政儲蓄業務 Part 2 在銀行 存錢 領錢 匯款 貸款 開通帳戶 貨幣兌換 支票業務 信用卡業務 繳納費用 掛失 Part 3 在醫院 預約掛號 就診 吃藥打針 諮詢 住院 動手術 探病 出院 注意事項 Part 4 在馬路上 迷路與問路 指引方向 塞車 停車 違反交通規則 車子拋錨 交通事故 Chapter 5 職場生涯 Part 1職場新鮮人 找工作 預約面試 參加面試 面試結果 工作協議 培訓 Part 2 熟悉工作環境 了解工作內容 諮詢與指導 報告工作狀況 上下班 加班 請假 出差 加薪與升遷 福利待遇 職位調動 解雇 辭職 Part 3 商務活動 預約會面 接待客戶 參觀公司 介紹產品或服務 談判協商 簽訂合約 慶祝合作 為客戶送行 序 推薦序 希望英文對話能力突飛猛進,看這本就對了 Kenneth Paul 《8000句英語會話 日常生活每天說》是會話工具書,書中提供在各種情境下皆可使用的實用對話,從個人關係、個人理財到職場對話。這本書主要是針對有英文口語基礎,想提升會話能力的學習者使用,擴充他們的對話內容,使對話更流暢。 我帶過很多交換學生的班級以及成人會話班,我的學生在對話中有時會停頓、不知如何表達,我認為這本書對我的學生來說,再適合不過了。 本書有五章,又分為164個相關主題,每個主題下大約有25個例句,每個例句都有至少一個同義的句子,困難的單字和片語也會提供定義。 這種不先提供句型,而是直接提供同義句的作法,讓學生不會只是背誦句型,而可以直接學習相關句子。由於書中提供大量外國人常用的表達方式,所以學生可 以學習在各種不同的場景中合適的英文表達方式。至於內容的正確性,由於我本人審定本書中所有的句子,我可以保證所有表達方式皆很常用。 我認為這本書有兩個最大的優勢,首先是主題很廣,不像其他書可能為了迎合讀者而把主題的範圍簡單化,本書的會話包羅萬象,從日常交際、閒聊片刻、休閒 生活與興趣、個人財務、健康到職場生涯。再者是提供同義句,讀者可挑選自己比較喜歡的句子在生活中使用,不會只有一個句子可以運用。 由於本書的廣度和實用程度極佳,所以我很推薦這本書給想在國外生活的人閱讀。書上的主題和日常生活息息相關,每位讀者都可從豐富的內容中獲益。對於目前在上英文會話課的學生來說,本書的內容對課本或是課堂都是很好的補充。看了這本書,你的會話能力必定會突飛猛進! 作者序 最完整的生活會話大全 人類智庫編輯群 很多人學了多年英語,但真正要跟老外交流時,卻是結結巴巴、語無倫次,絞盡腦汁說出來的句子,外國人還是聽不懂,這時不免讓人感慨:「英文口語真是讓 人傷透腦筋!」究其原因,不難發現,大多數的人都把時間花在記憶單字,他們單靠死記硬背,但從不開口,或者只會花時間閱讀,殊不知這些學習方法對英語學習 而言,其實效果不佳。 那麼怎樣才能學好英文會話呢?一本簡單實用的英語會話書是不可或缺的。《8000句英語會話 日常生活每天說》就是這樣的一本好書,它的特色在於場景豐富,所收錄的句子都是最道地也最流行的。 本書共分為5大章,21個部分,涉及到社會、生活、工作、娛樂等各個方面,囊括了近200個不同的場景,收錄8,000多句實用句型。同時,我們深知 每句話不會只有一種表達方式,所以在每個句子後都列出同義句,方便讀者運用。許多句中也列出重點單字和片語,讓讀者在學習會話的同時,也能夠輕鬆學習句中 的單字和片語。 本書編排合理,每一章節都是獨立的。讀者可以不按章節順序學習,而是從自己最有興趣的看起,或者根據自身需要來挑選對你而言最重要的章節,這樣學習起 來會更有效率。另外,學習時,可以挑選某個場景,先不看書,而是盡可能地去想與此場景相關的基本句子,然後再和書上列出的句子相比較,查漏補缺,加深記 憶,從而使學習事半功倍。 衷心希望本書能提供廣大英語學習者最完善的英語會話,讓您在和英文人士溝通時暢通無礙。

Book Upright on Broken Limbs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara J. Weekley
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2013-05-24
  • ISBN : 1483636054
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Upright on Broken Limbs written by Barbara J. Weekley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the other "casualties" of trauma and loss. It is a tool and guide designed to help the spouse and family members process the catastrophic event affecting their loved one. For Barbara, her husband's Traumatic Brain Injury left her emotionally paralyzed and physically drained until she devised a simple "sense-ability therapy" which she could implement at any time of the day or night. Barbara demonstrates how her "personal 911" experience evolved into a positive progression which piques the senses and strengthens the most forlorn spirit.

Book From Broken Attachments to Earned Security

Download or read book From Broken Attachments to Earned Security written by Andrew Odgers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2011 John Bowlby Memorial Conference, 'From Broken Attachments to Earned Security - The Role of Empathy in Therapeutic Change', focused on what needs to take place to facilitate empathy and attunement and ultimately the achievement of earned security. The confernce posed the challenge of how to re-establish a secure sense of self, mutuality, and the capacity for inter/intra-subjectivity when difficulties in empathy and attunement exist as a result of relational trauma. This can be between parent and child, within adult relationships, between client and therapist, or in organisational contexts. The outstanding collection of papers in this volume make a significant contribution to the field of attachment and our understanding of how child rearing affects each aspect of our lives, from the interpersonal to the organisational and societal. Each paper moves beyond the academic and theoretical to provide answers to the many difficult questions raised at the conference.

Book How to Become a C Programmer

Download or read book How to Become a C Programmer written by Harry H. Chaudhary and published by Createspace LLC USA. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential C Programming Skills-Made Easy–Without Fear! Write powerful C programs…without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to get comfortable with C, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. You’ll learn all the basics: how to organize programs, store and display data, work with variables, operators, I/O, pointers, arrays, functions, and much more. C programming has neverbeen this simple! This C Programming book gives a good start and complete introduction for C Programming for Beginner’s. Learn the all basics and advanced features of C programming in no time from Bestselling Programming Author Harry. H. Chaudhary. This Book, starts with the basics; I promise this book will make you 100% expert level champion of C Programming. This book contains 1000+ Live C Program’s code examples, and 500+ Lab Exercise & 200+ Brain Wash Topic-wise Code book and 20+ Live software Development Project’s. All what you need ! Isn’t it ? Write powerful C programs…without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to get comfortable with C, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. You’ll learn all the basics: how to organize programs, store and display data, work with variables, operators, I/O, pointers, arrays, functions, and much more. (See Below List)C programming has never been this simple! Who knew how simple C programming could be? This is today’s best beginner’s guide to writing C programs–and to learning skills you can use with practically any language. Its simple, practical instructions will help you start creating useful, reliable C code. This book covers common core syllabus for BCA, MCA, B.TECH, BS (CS), MS (CS), BSC-IT (CS), MSC-IT (CS), and Computer Science Professionals as well as for Hackers. This Book is very serious C Programming stuff: A complete introduction to C Language. You'll learn everything from the fundamentals to advanced topics. If you've read this book, you know what to expect a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. If you haven't, you're in for a treat. You'll see why people say it's unlike any other C book you've ever read. Learning a new language is no easy. You might think the problem is your brain. It seems to have a mind of its own, a mind that doesn't always want to take in the dry, technical stuff you're forced to study. The fact is your brain craves novelty. It's constantly searching, scanning, waiting for something unusual to happen. After all, that's the way it was built to help you stay alive. It takes all the routine, ordinary, dull stuff and filters it to the background so it won't interfere with your brain's real work--recording things that matter. How does your brain know what matters? (A) 1000+ Live C Program’s code examples, (B) 500+ Lab Exercises, (C) 200+ Brain Wash Topic-wise Code (D) 20+ Live software Development Project’s. (E) Learn Complete C- without fear, . || Inside Chapters. || 1. Preface – Page-6, || Introduction to C. 2. Elements of C Programming Language. 3. Control statements (conditions). 4. Control statements (Looping). 5. One dimensional Array. 6. Multi-Dimensional Array. 7. String (Character Array). 8. Your Brain on Functions. 9. Your Brain on Pointers. 10. Structure, Union, Enum, Bit Fields, Typedef. 11. Console Input and Output. 12. File Handling In C. 13. Miscellaneous Topics. 14. Storage Class. 15. Algorithms. 16. Unsolved Practical Problems. 17. PART-II-120+ Practical Code Chapter-Wise. 18. Creating & Inserting own functions in Liberary. 19. Graphics Programming In C. 20. Operating System Development –Intro. 21. C Programming Guidelines. 22. Common C Programming Errors. 23. Live Software Development Using C.

Book Scientific Understanding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henk W. de Regt
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2014-08-09
  • ISBN : 0822971240
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Scientific Understanding written by Henk W. de Regt and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2014-08-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most scientists, and to those interested in the sciences, understanding is the ultimate aim of scientific endeavor. In spite of this, understanding, and how it is achieved, has received little attention in recent philosophy of science. Scientific Understanding seeks to reverse this trend by providing original and in-depth accounts of the concept of understanding and its essential role in the scientific process. To this end, the chapters in this volume explore and develop three key topics: understanding and explanation, understanding and models, and understanding in scientific practice. Earlier philosophers, such as Carl Hempel, dismissed understanding as subjective and pragmatic. They believed that the essence of science was to be found in scientific theories and explanations. In Scientific Understanding, the contributors maintain that we must also consider the relation between explanations and the scientists who construct and use them. They focus on understanding as the cognitive state that is a goal of explanation and on the understanding of theories and models as a means to this end. The chapters in this book highlight the multifaceted nature of the process of scientific research. The contributors examine current uses of theory, models, simulations, and experiments to evaluate the degree to which these elements contribute to understanding. Their analyses pay due attention to the roles of intelligibility, tacit knowledge, and feelings of understanding. Furthermore, they investigate how understanding is obtained within diverse scientific disciplines and examine how the acquisition of understanding depends on specific contexts, the objects of study, and the stated aims of research.

Book Fat Bald Jeff

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  • Author : Leslie Stella
  • Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Release : 2007-12-01
  • ISBN : 0802198074
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Fat Bald Jeff written by Leslie Stella and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A slacker hell [with] a disgruntled, wisecracking protagonist . . . A hilarious send-up of hippies and hipsters” from the author of Permanent Record (Kirkus Reviews). Addie Prewitt is a copyeditor for the National Association of Libraries. When her boss, the repulsive Coddles, heaps another new project on her department—with no additional remuneration naturally—she decides she’s had enough. While spending her days battling with her roommate about whether Black Sabbath or Neil Diamond will occupy the turntable and her nights beating her overeager suitor away from the door of her boudoir, Addie discovers a piece of vile pornography in Coddles’s dry cleaning. Finally, she has the means to retaliate. Meanwhile, Fat Bald Jeff, the tech-support guy who has to cope with her mechanical self-sabotage, turns out to be even more disaffected than she, and they hatch the ultimate plan to give the pigs some of their own medicine. With a surreal wit and a keen eye that bring to mind Lily Tomlin set loose in Dilbert-world, Fat Bald Jeff is a sharp satire and a paean to the petty humiliations of workers everywhere. “Stella provides a lot of freshly imagined fun . . . There are so many funny lines and scenes that even librarians may like it. As for the lumpen—they’ll love it.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Warm the pockets of your heart watching this bereft waif find a little happiness in life.” —Mademoiselle “Amusing . . . caustic . . . entertaining . . . Read on company time!” —US Weekly “A fun, harmless, and quick read. Don’t look for inspiration, just amusement.” —Booklist