Download or read book Hyperbole and a Half written by Allie Brosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!

Download or read book Places People and Cycles in my Life written by Andrew Vecsey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born in Hungary. When I was 7 years old, my parents fled Hungary and went to Montreal, Canada where I was brought up and raised. I worked in Ontario and Calgary for 6 years as an electrical Engineer. I traveled overland to Central and South America and ended up in Chile where I started a family. My wife died and I was forced to go back to Canada with my new born son. In search of a family, I found one in Switzerland. The marriage lasted 9 years and after that I found myself with a job that involved traveling to exotic places for 9 more years. After a forced retirement, I am now hopefully settled down and I am writing. This book is a story of my life, its cycles of places and people and stories of adventures along the way that I want to share.

Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Download or read book My Misspent Youth written by Meghan Daum and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult classic essay collection from “one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny . . . writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review). First published in 2001, My Misspent Youthcaptured a generation’s uneasy coming of age as the world made its chaotic way into a new millennium. It also established Meghan Daum as a leading literary voice, widely celebrated for her fresh, provocative approach to the hidden fault lines of America’s cultural landscape. From her New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber-relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her.

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Download or read book Fight To Be Fit For God written by La Vita M. Weaver and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you desire to lose weight or live healthier, this life-changing message is for you. In Fight To Be Fit For God, La Vita Weaver candidly expresses the fight of faith and fitness. She shares the continued journey to be Fit For God despite opposition and setbacks. This book is truly unique in its approach for total health. It contains biblical principles from the story of Nehemiah, a courageous leader God chose to help His people rebuild their lives physically and spiritually. As a leader in the church and a fitness trainer, La Vita combines these powerful principles with solid nutritional and exercise tips and a step-by-step plan to motivate you to take action. You'll have the energy and vitality to fulfill your God-given purpose to be used by God in ways you never imagined. Life is a precious gift and God gave you one body to enjoy this one life. Pull out your Living Sword and fight for your life to be restored. This is a fight worth fighting. Be in it to win it! La Vita Weaver is an inspirational speaker, author, fitness trainer, and songwriter. She knows first-hand how being overweight affects every area of one's life. Once a petite size 5, her weight had skyrocketed to an unhealthy 200 pounds. Her inspirational story is shared in Fit for God. La Vita has appeared as a guest on the popular Trinity Broadcast Network program, "Praise the Lord" and the well-known "700 Club". She also served as the co-host on the popular TBN fitness show "TotaLee Fit". As a vibrant personality in the body of Christ her enthusiasm for the Lord is contagious. She founded Fit For God Ministries to ignite people's passion for an abundant life in Christ-spirit, soul, and body (www.FitForGodministries.org)!

Download or read book Fight to Be Fit written by La Vita Weaver and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you desire to lose weight or want to live healthier this life-changing message is for you. In Fight To Be Fit, La Vita Weaver candidly expresses the fight of fitness, faith and finances. She shares the story of Nehemiah, a courageous leader God chose to encourage His people to rebuild their lives physically and spiritually. This book for total health is like no other. It contains Nehemiah's specific steps to accomplish a seemingly impossible task. As a leader in the church and a fitness trainer, La Vita combines sound nutritional and exercise tips, biblical principles and a strategic plan to motivate you to take action, overcome obstacles and build a healthy spirit, soul and body. Stress management tips are included to help you better cope with challenges, especially during this economic crisis. It's time to be free to fulfill your God-given purpose to the best of your ability. Are you ready to launch into your destiny? Pull out your Living Sword and fight for your life to be restored! This is a fight worth fighting! La Vita Weaver is a fitness trainer, motivational speaker, author and songwriter. She knows first-hand how being overweight can affect every area of one's life. Once a petite size 5, her weight had skyrocketed to an unhealthy 200 pounds. Her inspirational story is shared in Fit for God. La Vita has appeared as a guest on the popular Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) program, Praise the Lord and the well-known 700 Club and she has been featured in Essence, Excellence, Heart & Soul and Shape magazines. She also appeared as the co-host of the popular TBN health and fitness show TotaLee Fit. As a woman who was once badly broken and bruised, La Vita shares empowering messages of hope, health and healing across the nation.

Download or read book Monsters Monstrosities and the Monstrous in Culture and Society written by Diego Compagna and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing research on monsters acknowledges the deep impact monsters have especially on Politics, Gender, Life Sciences, Aesthetics and Philosophy. From Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘The Uncanny’ to Scott Poole’s ‘Monsters in America’, previous studies offer detailed insights about uncanny and immoral monsters. However, our anthology wants to overcome these restrictions by bringing together multidisciplinary authors with very different approaches to monsters and setting up variety and increasing diversification of thought as ‘guiding patterns’. Existing research hints that monsters are embedded in social and scientific exclusionary relationships but very seldom copes with them in detail. Erving Goffman’s doesn’t explicitly talk about monsters in his book ‘Stigma’, but his study is an exceptional case which shows that monsters are stigmatized by society because of their deviations from norms, but they can form groups with fellow monsters and develop techniques for handling their stigma. Our book is to be understood as a complement and a ‘further development’ of previous studies: The essays of our anthology pay attention to mechanisms of inequality and exclusion concerning specific historical and present monsters, based on their research materials within their specific frameworks, in order to ‘create’ engaging, constructive, critical and diverse approaches to monsters, even utopian visions of a future of societies shared by monsters. Our book proposes the usual view, that humans look in a horrified way at monsters, but adds that monsters can look in a critical and even likewise frightened way at the very societies which stigmatize them.

Download or read book A Boy s Own Story written by Edmund White and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary novel” about growing up gay in the 1950s American Midwest (The New York Times Book Review). Critically lauded upon its initial publication in 1982 for its pioneering depiction of homosexuality, A Boy’s Own Story is a moving tale about coming-of-age in midcentury America. With searing clarity and unabashed wit, Edmund White’s unnamed protagonist yearns for what he knows to be shameful. He navigates an uneasy relationship with his father, confounds first loves, and faces disdain from his peers at school. In the embrace of another, he discovers the sincere and clumsy pleasures of adolescent sexuality. But for boys in the 1950s, these desires were unthinkable. Looking back on his experiences, the narrator notes, “I see now that what I wanted was to be loved by men and to love them back but not to be a homosexual.” From a winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, this trailblazing autobiographical story of one boy’s youth is a moving, tender, and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to grow up.

Download or read book A Stolen Life written by Jaycee Dugard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raw and powerful memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard's own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard, living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity, at the age of fourteen and seventeen, she gave birth to two daughters, both fathered by Garrido. Dugard's memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark, utterly honest and unflinching narrative, Jaycee opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now, a year after being found. Garrido and his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes.

Download or read book Chronic Pain written by Michael Margoles and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic pain affects every aspect of life-physical well-being, mood, stamina, and feelings of self worth and self respect. This book focuses on conquering pain and its related problems through proper management. It offers numerous tools and concepts with which to attack chronic pain and win the battle that more than 35 million people in the U.S. alone fight every day. Virtually all specialists in the health care field must be concerned with pain management-this complete reference offers them strategies for helping their patients, and for patients to help themselves. Chronic Pain: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Management presents a variety of therapies for combating chronic pain, including: Applying external therapy Changing the way patients perceive pain through psychotherapy or other cognitive means Physical therapy and exercises Over-the-counter or prescription medicines to relieve pain, stress, and insomnia caused by discomfort Surgical options The book also contains never before published information on how to prescribe and administer opioids and opioid-containing analgesics for chronic, intractable, and non-malignant pain patients. There is hope for those suffering from chronic pain. This book outlines commonly overlooked problems that, if properly addressed, can make the difference between a patient recovering or effectively managing their pain-or not. Chronic Pain: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Management is full of practical advice and options for anyone suffering from chronic pain and for the doctors who treat them.

Download or read book Prodigal written by Daniel Burkhart and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the story of my life. My life was filled with moments full of bad decisions, terrible situations, and living many years away from God’s will. I wanted to share my life with you so that you know you are not alone.” Prodigal tells the compelling story of a young man that decides to go away from the Church and the Lord in his early adult years. Follow Daniel on a journey into his own pit of despair. Many Christians today follow the same path of Daniel: we all know someone who has found themselves on the wrong path. Perhaps that person is ourselves. Prodigal serves as a message of warning, but also a message of hope and forgiveness. Redemption is for everyone: there is always rest to be found in the loving embrace of our Heavenly Father.

Download or read book Birds of Prey written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book One in a Hundred Million written by Marion Urichich and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Food Explorer written by Daniel Stone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true adventures of David Fairchild, a turn-of-the-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes—and thousands more—to the American plate. “Fascinating.”—The New York Times Book Review • “Fast-paced adventure writing.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Richly descriptive.”—Kirkus • “A must-read for foodies.”—HelloGiggles In the nineteenth century, American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment. But as a new century approached, appetites broadened, and David Fairchild, a young botanist with an insatiable lust to explore and experience the world, set out in search of foods that would enrich the American farmer and enchant the American eater. Kale from Croatia, mangoes from India, and hops from Bavaria. Peaches from China, avocados from Chile, and pomegranates from Malta. Fairchild’s finds weren’t just limited to food: From Egypt he sent back a variety of cotton that revolutionized an industry, and via Japan he introduced the cherry blossom tree, forever brightening America’s capital. Along the way, he was arrested, caught diseases, and bargained with island tribes. But his culinary ambition came during a formative era, and through him, America transformed into the most diverse food system ever created. “Daniel Stone draws the reader into an intriguing, seductive world, rich with stories and surprises. The Food Explorer shows you the history and drama hidden in your fruit bowl. It’s a delicious piece of writing.”—Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book

Download or read book The Practical Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Daily Doses of Deborah written by Deborah Mills and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-05 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily meditations to inspire, give us hope, and knowledge of miracles.