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Book In the Belly of the Fail Whale

Download or read book In the Belly of the Fail Whale written by Rob Gokee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiographical account of my life as a film and television composer, and how drastically my life changed over a 12 month period, both personally and professionally, by my marketing style on the social media network Twitter.

Book So Social

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott Kleinberg
  • Publisher : Agate Digital
  • Release : 2015-04-07
  • ISBN : 1572844957
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book So Social written by Scott Kleinberg and published by Agate Digital. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So Social is a collection of Chicago Tribune articles written by social media experts Amy Guth and Scott Kleinberg. It explores the benefits and dangers of social media from both professional and personal standpoints. For anyone interested in growing their social media following, understanding web marketing, or keeping accounts secure, So Social is a must read. In So Social, Guth and Kleinberg give insider tips on how to use social media safely and easily for business and at home. Entrepreneurs and media mavens alike will appreciate their useful insights on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, and more. Each platform has a dedicated chapter, which is beneficial to both social novices and media experts. The Internet is awash with advice and lists of varying quality on improving social media habits. So Social has set itself apart by being a carefully curated collection from two tech gurus with experience across media platforms, from traditional "old-world" publishing to disruptive new media technologies. A quick yet highly informative read, So Social will be a crucial tool for any reader looking to improve their social media approach.

Book And Lead Us Not into Temptation

Download or read book And Lead Us Not into Temptation written by Denise Curtis and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And Lead Us Not into Temptation is a book of truth designed to lead and guide our souls in the balance of right as it inspires a sense of sight fashioned to impress upon us to live as souls in the flesh. And as we walk through, we will hear the sounds of the stoned scales drop off of our eyes and reveal our soul's sight while seeing Jehovah through Jesus in the truest light.

Book The Seven Sins of Wall Street

Download or read book The Seven Sins of Wall Street written by Bob Ivry and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know that the financial crisis of 2008 came dangerously close to pushing the United States and the world into a depression rivaling that of the 1930s. But what is astonishing—and should make us not just afraid but very afraid—are the shenanigans of the biggest banks since the crisis. Bob Ivry passionately, eloquently, and convincingly details the operatic ineptitude of America's best-compensated executives and the ways the government kowtows to what it mistakenly imagines is their competence and success. Ivry shows that the only thing that has changed since the meltdown is how too-big-to-fail banks and their fellow travelers in Washington have nudged us ever closer to an even bigger economic calamity. Informed by deep reporting from New York, Washington, and the heartland, The Seven Sins of Wall Street, like no other book, shows how we’re all affected by the financial industry’s inhumanity. The transgressions of “Wall Street titans” and “masters of the universe” are paid for by real people. In fierce, plain English, Ivry indicts a financial industry that continues to work for the few at the expense of the rest of us. Problems that financiers deemed too complicated to be understood by ordinary folks are shown by Ivry to be financial legerdemain—a smokescreen of complexity and jargon that hide the bankers’ nefarious activities. The Seven Sins of Wall Street is irreverent and timely, an infuriating black comedy. The Great Depression of the 1930s moved the American political system to real reform that kept the finance industry in check. With millions so deeply affected since the crisis of 2008, you’ll finish this book asking yourself how it is that so many of the nation’s leading financial institutions remain such exasperating problem children.

Book Godawful

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andre Papineau
  • Publisher : CSS Publishing
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0788023292
  • Pages : 155 pages

Download or read book Godawful written by Andre Papineau and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's leaving home, having children, losing a parent, or retiring, we spend much of our lives passing through transitions -- and it is often very stressful to cope with changing circumstances, as we feel lost, confused, and depressed, sometimes even wondering "Where is God in all of this?" But if we think of biblical journey stories (such as the Prodigal Son or Jonah's journey to Nineveh) as accounts of life transitions, we can begin to understand the profound spirituality of our own transitions -- no matter how "godawful" the experiences may seem. This enlightening book demonstrates how the hand of God, yes even "Godawful," is at work in our everyday lives. Each chapter includes helpful exercises and discussion questions, making it an ideal individual or group study resource. Andre Papineau writes about identity and authenticity with penetrating clarity. He grounds the religious search and the human equation in our passion to be truthful. The truth will make us free. This book shows us how that is accomplished. The sources used, the stories told, even the discussion questions are compelling. Anthony T. Padovano Distinguished Professor of American Literature & Religious Studies Ramapo College Andre Papineau brings to this book his deep familiarity with the scriptures, his knowledge of psychology, and his common sense honed in a lifetime of experience. With deep wisdom and perceptive insight, he helps us understand better both important biblical passages and the transitions that occur in all our lives. All pilgrim Christians can learn much from this book. Charles E. Curran Elizabeth Scurlock Professor of Human Values Southern Methodist University Andre Papineau is the maestro of the liminal, emcee in the cabaret called Transition, which is always open and whose customers are always edgy, confused, and desperate to get out. It isn't simplistic psychobabble pabulum he offers here, but hard, good advice, the kind grownups need in order to advance to the next grade. Each of these chapters is a meditation on the strange and intermittently glorious thing called being alive. Russell Shorto Author of Gospel Truth Once again, Father Papineau has gifted us with a unique blend of theology, psychology, and biblical savvy. He reminds the reader that life is a process and, as such, is a succession of transitions reflected in innumerable personal and collective stories. Using this as a central template, he takes the reader deep into the exegetical and imaginative core of several critical biblical events. This is a book of inclusive theology in understandable and relevant story form. Frederick R. Gustafson Editor of The Moonlit Path: Reflections on the Dark Feminine Andre Papineau is a Salvatorian priest and associate professor of pastoral studies at Sacred Heart School of Theology in Franklin, Wisconsin. A frequent lecturer on life stages and the co-founder of the C. G. Jung Center in Milwaukee, Father Papineau is the author of ten previous books, including Lightly Goes The Good News (CSS), and is a member of The Abraham Group (www.abrahamgroup.com). He holds degrees in theology and drama from Catholic University and the University of Notre Dame.

Book F ck Whales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maddox
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-10-17
  • ISBN : 1476794987
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book F ck Whales written by Maddox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of satirical, crass, comedic essays from famed Internet personality and New York Times bestselling author Maddox, of the infamous website The Best Page in the Universe. In this third book from Maddox, the reigning king of Internet satire delivers a collection of humorous, unapologetic essays in the same voice that propelled him into comedic stardom. With all-new material, F*ck Whales delivers on his personal brand of satire, complete with self-promotion, petty rants, and brilliant essays on anything and everything Maddox deems worthy of his ire.

Book Whalefriend

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Howell
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2009-08-12
  • ISBN : 0557029139
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Whalefriend written by Michael Howell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-08-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are whales more intelligent than man? During their long evolutionary path they lived on landand chose to return to the sea. This book explores a strange yet familiar world in which whales once ruled like humans and the choices they made - both good and bad - that have led to our current predicament. Barry Curtis is a scientist studying whales who discovers some of their secrets and finds himself trapped in a closing web of sinister characters... not all of which are human.

Book At the Water s Edge

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  • Author : Carl Zimmer
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1999-09-08
  • ISBN : 0684856239
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book At the Water s Edge written by Carl Zimmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody Out of the Pond At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we got here, what we left behind, and what we brought with us. We all know about evolution, but it still seems absurd that our ancestors were fish. Darwin's idea of natural selection was the key to solving generation-to-generation evolution -- microevolution -- but it could only point us toward a complete explanation, still to come, of the engines of macroevolution, the transformation of body shapes across millions of years. Now, drawing on the latest fossil discoveries and breakthrough scientific analysis, Carl Zimmer reveals how macroevolution works. Escorting us along the trail of discovery up to the current dramatic research in paleontology, ecology, genetics, and embryology, Zimmer shows how scientists today are unveiling the secrets of life that biologists struggled with two centuries ago. In this book, you will find a dazzling, brash literary talent and a rigorous scientific sensibility gracefully brought together. Carl Zimmer provides a comprehensive, lucid, and authoritative answer to the mystery of how nature actually made itself.

Book Portable Curiosities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julie Koh
  • Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
  • Release : 2016-05-25
  • ISBN : 0702257214
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Portable Curiosities written by Julie Koh and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biting collection of stories from a bold new voice. A young girl sees ghosts from her third eye, located where her belly button should be. A corporate lawyer feels increasingly disconnected from his job in a soulless 1200-storey skyscraper. And a one-dimensional yellow man steps out from a cinema screen in the hope of leading a three-dimensional life, but everyone around him is fixated only on the color of his skin. Welcome to Portable Curiosities. In these dark and often fantastical stories, Julie Koh combines absurd humour with searing critiques on modern society, proving herself to be one of Australia's most original and daring young writers.

Book The Book of Jonah

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shmuly Yanklowitz
  • Publisher : CCAR Press
  • Release : 2020-03-01
  • ISBN : 0881233617
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book The Book of Jonah written by Shmuly Yanklowitz and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Jonah is a unique text in the Jewish canon. Among the shortest books in the Bible, it is also one of the most mysterious and morally ambiguous. Who is this prophet running from God, hiding at the bottom of the ocean? Why does he struggle with God's mission to save and forgive Israel's enemies? In this volume, Rabbi Dr. Yanklowitz shows that the Book of Jonah delivers a message of human responsibility in a shared world. Illuminating such contemporary ethical issues as animal welfare, incarceration, climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and Jewish-Muslim relations, this social justice commentary urges us to join in repairing a broken world--a call that we, unlike Jonah, must hasten to answer.

Book Moby Dick  Or  The Whale

Download or read book Moby Dick Or The Whale written by Herman Melville and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moby Dick is a novel by Herman Melville. A giant white whale bites off Captain Ahab's leg. He wows to find the creature and seek revenge, is this adventurous and classic seafaring tale.

Book The Silver Chalice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas B. Costain
  • Publisher : Librorium Editions
  • Release : 2020-08-30
  • ISBN : 396944683X
  • Pages : 878 pages

Download or read book The Silver Chalice written by Thomas B. Costain and published by Librorium Editions. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silver Chalice is the fictional story set in the first century A.D. There are many early biblical & historical figures: Luke, Peter, Joseph of Arimathea, Simon Magus & his companion Helena.The story is mainly about a young silversmith, Basil, who, after being robbed of his inheritance, and sold into slavery is asked by the apostle Luke to create a holder for the cup Jesus used at the Last Supper.

Book The Cyclopaedia

Download or read book The Cyclopaedia written by Abraham Rees and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Touching This Leviathan

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  • Author : Peter Wayne Moe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04-20
  • ISBN : 9780870713071
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Touching This Leviathan written by Peter Wayne Moe and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touching This Leviathan asks how we might come to know the unknowable--in this case, whales. The book is necessarily interdisciplinary, drawing on biology, theology, local history, literary studies, environmental studies, and writing studies as it invites readers into the belly of the whale.

Book Whale of a Treasure  Melville  Stevenson  Dostoyevsky  Moby Dick  Or  The Whale by Herman Melville  Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Download or read book Whale of a Treasure Melville Stevenson Dostoyevsky Moby Dick Or The Whale by Herman Melville Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written by Herman Melville and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Set sail on an epic adventure with “Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville.” Melville's classic novel takes readers aboard the whaling ship Pequod, led by the obsessed Captain Ahab, as they pursue the elusive white whale, Moby Dick, in a gripping tale of revenge, obsession, and the power of nature. Book 2: Join young Jim Hawkins on a swashbuckling journey in “Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.” Stevenson's timeless adventure novel unfolds on the high seas as Jim and a crew of pirates search for buried treasure, encountering danger, deceit, and the infamous Long John Silver along the way. Book 3: Experience the poignant tales of love and loneliness in “White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.” Dostoyevsky's collection of short stories, including the titular "White Nights," explores the complexities of human emotions, existential yearning, and the fleeting nature of connection in the bustling streets of St. Petersburg.

Book Just Marriage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Kim
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2023-06-01
  • ISBN : 1666754366
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Just Marriage written by Andrew Kim and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not difficult nowadays to find books decrying divorce and defending the Christian doctrine that marriage is a permanent union. Such a teaching by its very nature raises the problem of how to respond when marriages become destructive. The response generally given by church officials is that if grave danger is present, spouses may separate. Some denominations even allow for divorce and remarriage. This response, however, is not particularly helpful for spouses not in grave danger but nonetheless in destructive marriages, nor does it tell us anything about how to avoid destructive marriages in the first place. This book argues that just conflict in marriage can both prevent marriages from becoming destructive and be a path toward reconciliation for those who find themselves already ensconced within a destructive marriage. The criteria for just conflict are adopted and translated from the just war tradition. Though conflict in war and in marriage is quite distinct, in both domains conflict is just if ordered to unity and reconciliation and unjust when it devolves into mere antagonism, whether cold or hot. Just conflict, then, is a path of reconciliation for Christian spouses whose faith rests in the Christ who makes all things new.