Download or read book I m Too Old for This Bullshit written by Standard Booklets and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We could all do with a laugh. This blank lined journal can be a hilarious gift for any family member, friend or coworker. You can tell them that you thought it would be funny to tell them how you really feel in a sarcastic way. They can write down memories, recipes, daily goals and more with this 6x9 blank lined journal. So, if you like what you see please buy this notebook now! You can also click on our brand name, Standard Booklets, to see more notebooks, paperback blank books, log books and more!
Download or read book Bullshit Jobs written by David Graeber and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).
Download or read book Social Media Is Bullshit written by B. J. Mendelson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative look at social media that dispels the hype and tells you all you need to know about using the Web to expand your business If you listen to the pundits, Internet gurus, marketing consultants, and even the mainstream media, you could think social media was the second coming. When it comes to business, they declare that it's revolutionizing advertising, PR, customer relations—everything. And they all agree: it is here to stay. In this lively, insightful guide, journalist and social critic B.J. Mendelson skillfully debunks the myths of social media. He illustrates how the notion of "social media" first came to prominence, why it has become such a powerful presence in the marketing field, and who stands to benefit each time it's touted in the press. He shows you why all the Facebook friends and Twitter followers in the world mean nothing to you and your business without old-fashioned, real-world connections. He examines popular tales of social media "success," and reveals some unsettling truths behind the surface. And he tells you how to best harness the potential of the Internet—without spending a fortune in the process. Social media is bullshit. This book gives the knowledge and tools you really need to connect with customers and grow your brand.
Download or read book Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit written by Malcolm Harris and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the writer hailed for giving voice to a generation in Kids These Days comes a bold rejection of a society in which inequality, police violence, and exploitation have come to define our lives In these new and selected pieces, Malcolm Harris, one of our sharpest and most versatile critics, examines everything from the lowering of wages to the rise of fascism—and the maddening cultural landscape in between. Along the way, he explores protest strategies past and present; questions the wrong (and often racist) lessons we’ve learned from American history; and, most comfortingly, assures us that Marx saw the necessity of a crisis moment just like the one we're in. Rarely does a writer come along who can turn our world so thoroughly upside down that we can finally understand it for what it really is, but Harris's wry and biting essays do just that, and help us laugh at what we see. Our economic situation, political discourse, and future prospects have gotten much worse since a guy brought a sign that said "Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit" to the Occupy Wall Street protests. We all knew what he meant then . . . but where are we now? And how has so much happened since the so-called end of history? The over thirty pieces collected here offer compelling answers to these questions and more.
Download or read book Julian written by Kym Grosso and published by MT Carvin Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2024-04-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating paranormal romance from NYT & USA Today best-selling author Kym Grosso. Experience the mysterious world of The Immortals of New Orleans. Born into royalty, Alpha Julian Fortes has been to hell and back. A lone wolf, he’s fought the ancient curse that’s plagued his family for centuries. When he saves a mysterious woman, his wolf will no longer be denied his mate or his pack. Cassia Luna has learned to cloak her presence from the hellhounds and stay one step ahead of the evil that pursues her. Psychic abilities keep her alive, allowing her to sense the predators before they strike. As Cassia is forced to trust charismatic Alpha, she resists her desire to submit and reveal her true nature. The Prince of Wolves must confront destructive evil forces that lurk in the shadows. But will the Alpha destroy his enemies before they kill him? And after living a lifetime alone, will he succumb to the visceral need to claim Cassia, acknowledging the soul binding connection between an Alpha and his mate? Julian is the 12th novel in The Immortals of New Orleans series. Although many of my readers prefer reading the series in order, each book is written to be read standalone.
Download or read book How to Be a Person in the World written by Heather Havrilesky and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • From the "best advice columnist of her generation” (Esquire) comes a hilarious, frank, and witty collection of all-new responses, plus a few greatest hits from the beloved "Ask Polly" column in New York magazine’s The Cut. Should you quit your day job to follow your dreams? How do you rein in an overbearing mother? Will you ever stop dating wishy-washy, noncommittal guys? Should you put off having a baby for your career? Heather Havrilesky is here to guide you through the “what if’s” and “I don’t knows” of modern life with the signature wisdom and tough love her readers have come to expect. Whether she’s responding to cheaters or loners, lovers or haters, the anxious or the down-and-out, Havrilesky writes with equal parts grace, humor, and compassion to remind you that even in your darkest moments you’re not alone.
Download or read book Hiking Your Feelings written by Sydney Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn your pain into power. Part inspirational memoir, part practical guide, Hiking Your Feelings offers a toolkit to unpack your “trauma pack” and step into the best version of yourself. Join wellness and wilderness enthusiast Sydney Williams as she shares her healing journey from eating and drinking her feelings to hiking her feelings. When Sydney unexpectedly found herself diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, while grappling with grief and unresolved trauma built up over a decade, she set out on a quest to turn her pain into power. Two hikes across Catalina Island and eighty miles later, she learned to disconnect from distractions and reconnect with herself, all through the power of nature. Now, she’s encouraging others to get outside and blaze their own trail to self-love, turning buried traumas into healthy coping mechanisms. With affirmations, prompts, and reflection exercises throughout—all presented from Sydney’s supportive and self-effacing perspective—Hiking Your Feelings offers a toolkit to unpack your “trauma pack” and step into the best version of yourself. INSPIRATIONAL & INSIGHTFUL: Follow Sydney as she reflects on her own journey from buried traumas and poor body image to acceptance, healthy coping mechanisms, and self-love. RELATABLE & UNIVERSAL: Touches on themes and problems that many struggle with, including grief and loss, sexual assault, poor body image, career stress, and the stigma of diabetes, all presented from Sydney’s supportive and self-effacing perspective. HEALING POWER OF NATURE: Discover how getting outside—even just for a walk around the block—can help you tune into your body better. HIKE YOUR OWN HIKE: Learn to love yourself as you are now. Go from eating, drinking, working, or spending your feelings to hiking your feelings. UNPACK YOUR TRAUMA PACK: Identify new activities and rituals that will allow you to choose love over fear and lift the invisible weight from your shoulders. PROMPTS, ACTIVITIES & EXERCISES: Apply the lessons Sydney has learned to your own life, through thoughtful tasks at the end of each chapter.
Download or read book Hollywood Gothic written by Thomas Gifford and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convicted of murder, a screenwriter gets a chance to clear his name The police find Toby Challis clutching his bloodstained Oscar statuette, his wife dead at his feet. He claims innocence, but the jury doesn’t buy it, believing that such a cinematic murder could spring only from the mind of one of Hollywood’s finest screenwriters. Nearly driven mad by the time spent waiting for the verdict, Challis has no idea how he will survive more than a decade in the big house. Lucky for him, he won’t have to find out—yet. To transport Challis to prison, the state provides only an old prop plane. A freak blizzard hits it hard, knocking it out of the sky and killing everyone on board but the convict. Challis escapes into the woods, to find the man who killed his wife and plan what every script needs: a Hollywood ending.
Download or read book Dear Summer written by K. Elliott and published by kevin douglas. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommy DuPree is fresh out of prison with a new hustle selling stolen luxury cars - a business that proves to be lucrative and allows him to fly under the radar and clear of his drug dealing past. Life couldn't be better for Tommy with cars, money and two girlfriends, until he sells a car to some cross town drug dealers and one of them gets busted in the car and claims that Tommy set him up. Enter Summer, tall and beautiful with the body of a Victoria Secret Model. She's the side chick but she wants to be number one and she's frustrated. Summer meets and hits it off with Q. Unknown to her, Q is the leader of the cross town drug dealing gang that wants Tommy dead. Tommy has to prove he isn't a rat, but at the same time defending his manhood because Q and his boys are sure to kill him
Download or read book Biker Daddy Bodyguards written by Sue Brown and published by One Hat Press. This book was released on with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biker Daddy Bodyguards…experienced bodyguards with a particular skillset. To protect high-status, high-maintenance men who need a Daddy. It’s a high-stakes role but the rewards are worth it, for the Daddy and his boy. Hold Firm - Is Quinn employed as Cade's bodyguard, his fake boyfriend, or his Daddy? The minute Quinn lays eyes on the bratty boy hunched in the chair, spitting fire and ice at him, he knows why he’s been chosen for this assignment. He doesn’t want to take the job but the boy’s life is in danger. Could Quinn turn him away? Hold Close - Louis knows only one bodyguard he can trust to take care of him after a vicious assault. He's prepared to go to his knees and beg his former Daddy to help him. But will Craig listen? Hold Safe - Mo is content with the quiet life. Once upon a time he had his happy ever after, but that ended with his heart broken. Now he’s being asked to guard an ego-driven businessman with no idea how much danger he’s in. He should say no. Hold Tight - Griff spends his evenings unofficially protecting the successful club owner, Jem Peacock, for the Biker Daddy Bodyguards. But Jem needs a Daddy and Griff is desperate to take that job. He will wait patiently for Jem to trust him with the secret of his heart.
Download or read book Into Your Arms written by Kirsten Krauth and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can't keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a vengeful Uber driver to a spinner of souls; and from a boy caught up in a robbery to a girl desperate to save a failing greyhound, the characters who populate this short story anthology could have dropped straight from a Nick Cave song book. These 21 stories, from some of Australia's favourite creators, respond to Cave's visionary genius with their own original and unsettling tales of death, faith, violence and love.
Download or read book Evil But Blessed written by Tiffani Hunt and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Evil but Blessed?" is a tale of innocence, both stolen and surrendered. It is a graphic tale of cause and effect, filled with colorful individuals, and demonstrating the consequences of bold action. "Evil but Blessed?" is a true story of a young entrepreneur's real life experiences. Tony gives a meticulous and explicit account of real women and their actions. In "Evil but Blessed?" Paradise, Tony's youngest daughter, provides readers with the events that led to Tony's former lifestyle and offers personal trails and heartaches that attributed to his choices. Some say his choices transformed him into a monster, but is that true? At the onset, Tony is a hopeful young man, attempting to live on the straight and narrow. After overcoming disappointment and failure, he decides to divert his energies in an emotionally defensive and industrious direction. Women such as Gwen, Louise and Vicky, provide both linkage and reasoning to the path taken by Tony. While experiencing Tony's journey, readers will learn about the power of persuasion, youthful naivety, and the value of personal reflection of a lifetime, now through mature eyes. Readers will depart from this narrative feeling the force of loves lost, options weighed and time irrecoverable. In the end, Tony must suffer the harsh reality of regrets materialized during the process of evolving into a fully developed man. The losses are countered by the gains of wisdom accrued from life and its painstaking lessons.
Download or read book Left for Dead and Other Morbid Tales written by Anthony G. Roof and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony G. Roof's Left for Dead and Other Morbid Tales is a collection of disturbing short stories that will haunt the dark recesses of your mind, weave your dreams into terrifying nightmares and leave you feeling sickened and uneasy as you helplessly crave for more. Find out what it's like to be Left for Dead as you follow George through a dismal struggle to be taken seriously enough to make a livable wage. Discover what it's like to commit The Cardinal Sin, to be in a constant state of Rigor Mortis, to encounter The Centipede, and to witness the Fall of the Feline King. These dark tales of doom take readers to the underworld where Hell Unfolds, and leaves them with confusion and fear only to wander aimlessly Into the Night. This book will frighten and repulse you and make you think twice about leaving the safety of your home unarmed. WARNING: THIS BOOK IS RATED MATURE AND IS NOT INTENDED FOR CHILDREN. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
Download or read book She Came From Beyond written by Nadine Darling and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Very funny . . . An involving story that brings together the important things in life?love, romance, family, parenthood, and obscure pop culture references.” —Frank Conniff, writer and actor, Mystery Science Theater 3000 Easy Hardwick has it made. At just about thirty, she’s got a tumbledown cottage in small-town Oregon and an uncomplicated acting gig as the space-babe eye candy on a sci-fi parody show. She spends her downtime online, bickering with fans and fellow culture vultures about film trivia and relishing her minor-but-satisfying celebrity. Enter Harrison. What begins as a jocular online flirtation spills into a messy IRL affair, and Easy finds herself pregnant with twins and sharing her home with the love of her life . . . plus the teenage daughter, baby son, and slightly unhinged soon-to-be ex-wife she kind of didn’t totally know he had . . . Easy may play a space ditz in hot pants on TV, but her voice is restlessly intelligent, negotiating the absurdities of a world lived onscreen and online and striving to make sense of heady problems: love affairs, ex-wives, teen girls, eating disorders, and whether cannibalistic flies count as zombies. Like the captive great white shark that sets Easy’s story in motion, Nadine Darling’s writing has got teeth. Her pointed, precise dialogue, empathetic insights, and live-wire observations elevate this novel from zany domestic drama to outlandish comic masterpiece. “Darling entertains with a dry, witty humor.” —Booklist “While the circumstances around Easy spin wildly out of control, it’s her grounded-yet-comical narration that makes the book stand out. Her snarky asides and darkly funny quips will make readers laugh out loud, even in the face of death, divorce, mental illness, and heartbreak . . . a debut novel that’s truly like nothing else . . . a weirdly delightful read.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book The Noir West written by Christopher G. Willhoite and published by ZenPistol Publishing. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Laugh at its darkness…or be consumed by it.” Enter Rex Rygaard, private detective, public dick. While his partner is on vacation, Rex accepts a case from the big bad Yaponcha Company. Paired with Yaponcha’s liaison, the two are tasked with retrieving a stolen mystery item. But Rex is less of a traditional detective and more like a mental detective. “Jus’ another way o’ sayin’ philosopher or psychologist,” Rex arrogantly sniffs. Yet his qualifications…don’t go beyond the armchair! Led by the Y-agent, he travels across a fantastical alternate West where “equality for all ethnicities, genders, and sexualities has long-been common sense. 19th-century tech is more widespread, and then-ancient technologies have resurfaced. ‘Tis a more progressive past, but even its pretty promises are imperfect. …[It is] here lunacy pushes and pulls the temporal tides. … The lines of history distort and diverge…" Quixotic, existential… Journey into a troubled psyche and drink deep its dark waters. Explore an alternate history and witness a world familiar, beautiful, and bizarre. “This here is the Noir West, a bittersweet blend of doubt, surrealism, discrepancy, and Fate, all stirred by six-guns and swords."
Download or read book Blast from the Past written by Toni L. P. Kelner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Download or read book Japan Took the J A P Out of Me written by Lisa Fineberg Cook and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six days after an InStyle-worthy wedding in Los Angeles, Lisa Fineberg Cook left behind her little red Jetta, her manicurist of ten years, and her very best friend for the land of the rising sun. When her husband accepted a job teaching English in Nagoya, Japan, she imagined exotic weekend getaways, fine sushi dinners, and sake sojourns with glamorous expatriate friends. Instead, she's the only Jewish girl on public transportation, and everyone is staring. Lisa longs for regular mani/pedis, valet parking, and gimlets with her girlfriends, but for the next year, she learns to cook, clean, commute, and shop like the Japanese, all the while adjusting to another foreign concept -- marriage. Loneliness and frustration give way to new and unexpected friendships, the evolution of old ones, and a fresh understanding of what it means to feel different -- until finally a world she never thought she'd fit into begins to feel home-like, if not exactly like home.
