Download or read book Individutopia A novel set in a neoliberal dystopia written by Joss Sheldon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved friend, The year is 2084, and that famous Margaret Thatcher quote has become a reality: There really is no such thing as society. No one speaks to anyone else. No one looks at anyone else. People don't collaborate, they only compete. I hate to admit it, but this has had tragic consequences. Unable to satisfy their social urges, the population has fallen into a pit of depression and anxiety. Suicide has become the norm. It all sounds rather morbid, does it not? But please don't despair, there is hope, and it comes in the form of our hero: Renee Ann Blanca. Wishing to fill the society-shaped hole in her life, our Renee does the unthinkable: She goes in search of human company It's a radical act and an enormous challenge. But that, I suppose, is why her tale's worth recounting. It's as gripping as it is touching, and I think you're going to love it... Your trusty narrator, PP

Download or read book Individutopia written by Joss Sheldon and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EL AUTOR DE BEST SELLERS # 1 HA REGRESADO CON UN CLÁSICO ORWELLIANO ... Descarga tu copia de la radical novela de Joss Sheldon hoy mismo. Estimado amigo, Es el año de 2084, y aquella famosa cita de Margaret Thatcher se ha convertido en una realidad: realmente no existe tal cosa como la sociedad. Nadie le habla a nadie más. Nadie mira a nadie más. Las personas no colaboran, solo compiten. Odio admitirlo, pero esto ha tenido consecuencias trágicas. Incapaz de satisfacer sus necesidades sociales, la población ha caído en un pozo de depresión y ansiedad. El suicidio se ha convertido en la norma. Todo suena bastante morboso, ¿no es así? Pero, por favor, no te desesperes, hay esperanza, y se presenta en la forma de nuestra heroína: Renee Ann Blanca. Deseando llenar el hueco con forma de sociedad en su vida, nuestra Renee hace lo impensable: ¡sale en busca de compañía humana! Es un acto radical y un desafío enorme. Pero eso, supongo, es la razón por la que vale la pena contar su historia. Es tan emocionante como conmovedora, y creo que te va a encantar. ... Tu narrador de confianza, PP Perfecto para los fanáticos de "1984" y "Un mundo feliz". No tan bueno para los neoliberales ... Elogios a las novelas de Sheldon: "Radical ... una obra magistral ... de primera clase ..." – The Canary "Más oscuro que el 1984 de George Orwell" - AXS "Magnífica" - Global Education Network "Una hazaña realmente notable" - BuzzFeed "Sincera e inquietante" - Free Tibet "Impresionante" - The Huffington Post "Picaresca" - Scottish Left Review "Imposible de dejar de leer" – The Avenger "Brillante" - Middle East Monitor "Extrañamente confortante" - The Tribune ¡¡¡DESCARGA UNA COPIA HOY MISMO!!!

Download or read book The Postworld In Between Utopia and Dystopia written by Katarzyna Ostalska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film, and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a wider, global, epistemological, critical background. The international, diverse contributions, including a Foreword by Gregory Claeys, draw upon posthumanism, speculative realism, speculative feminism, object-oriented ontology, new materialisms, and post-Anthropocene studies to propose alternative perspectives on gender, environment, as well as alternate futures and pasts rendered in fiction. Instead of binary divisions into utopia vs dystopia, the collection explores genres transcending this dichotomy, scrutinising the oeuvre of both established and emerging writers, directors, and critics. This is a rich and unique collection suitable for scholars and students studying feminist literature, media cultural studies, and women’s and gender studies.

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Download or read book Individutopia written by Joss Sheldon and published by Joss Sheldon. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SOCIETY! The #1 best-selling author has returned with an Orwellian classic. Perfect for fans of "1984" and "A Brave New World." Not so great for neoliberals...

Download or read book More Musings written by Lynn M. Dixon and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has a host of articles written from observations of everyday life; book and movie reviews and poems.

Download or read book DEMOCRACY written by Joss Sheldon and published by Rebel Books. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THEY SAY WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY. WE ARE FREE AND WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL. But just how "Free" are we? How democratic are our so-called "Democracies"? Is it enough to simply elect our leaders and sit back, helpless, as they rule over us like dictators? What good is selecting our politicians, if we cannot control our media, police or soldiers? If we must blindly follow our teachers' and bosses' commands, whilst at school and in the workplace, is it not a little naïve to believe that we are the masters of our own destinies? And if our resources are controlled by a tiny cabal of plutocrats, bankers and corporations; can we honestly say that our economies are being run for us? Could things not be a little bit more, well, democratic? Indeed they can! “Democracy: A User's Guide” shows us how... Within the pages of this story-filled book, we shall visit Summerhill, a democratic school in the east of England, before stopping off in Brazil to check out Semco, where workplace democracy is the name of the game. We will travel to Rojava, to explore life in a democratic army, and head to Spain, to see why Podemos is giving liquid democracy a go. We shall travel back in time, to see democracy at work in hunter-gatherer societies, tribal confederacies, the guilds and on the commons. We will consider the case for participatory budgeting, deliberative democracy, collaborative hiring, community currencies, peer-to-peer lending, and much much more. The message is clear and concise: Democracy does not have to be a pipe dream. We have all the tools we need to rule ourselves. Get your copy of Joss Sheldon's masterpiece today...

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Download or read book Social Policy for Social Work Social Care and the Caring Professions written by Steve J Hothersall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised second edition analyses social policy in Scotland since devolution in 1999 and reflects the nascent and distinctively Scottish policy agenda. Along with updated chapters, there are two new inclusions: a chapter analysing post-devolution Scotland and a chapter on the likely impacts of Brexit on and within Scotland. Providing diagrams, tables and a range of activities, the book maintains an innovative and pedagogic emphasis to introduce students to a wealth of materials, ideas and practical responses to the increasingly complex and diverse situations faced by social workers and other professionals. Part 1 of the book looks at what social policy is, how and why it is made and highlights the importance of the relationship between social policy and the law. Part 2 refers to specific themes of social exclusion, poverty and (more visible for this revised edition) austerity, considering their complex and multidimensional forms and discussing the range of policies currently extant that aim to combat such disadvantage. Part 3 provides a comprehensive overview of policy for practice, considering concepts of health inequality, mental health, older people, disability, children and families, education, substance use, criminal justice, asylum and immigration and homelessness. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as post-qualified professionals seeking to understand the complexities of the social policy landscape in Scotland, and its influence on social work and related forms of professional practice.

Download or read book FREEDOM written by Joss Sheldon and published by Rebel Books. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WE ALL DESERVE TO BE FREE Once upon a time, we were free to go wherever we chose. It wasn’t so long ago. The history of humanity, is a tale of constant motion. People are supposed to move about. We have imaginations which encourage us to dream about life in other places, bodies which are built to roam, and hands which can make an array of vehicles. A few of us even possess the “Wanderlust Gene”, which encourages us to take risks – to sail across unchartered oceans, and launch ourselves towards faraway planets. Some of us are forced to relocate. Lots of us choose to migrate. A few of us belong to nomadic communities. But if one thing is clear, it’s that mobility improves our societies. Emigrants send back billions in remittances – helping to reduce poverty, and inspiring their peers to upskill. Immigrants do the work that their hosts are unwilling or unable to perform. They sustain economies which have ageing populations. They establish industries, invent products, create jobs, increase wages, fuel growth, pay taxes, and enrich our cultures – enhancing our music, arts, sports, languages and cuisine. It's time to celebrate movement! It’s time to demand our freedom! It’s time for open borders! This book explains why – making the historical, scientific, economic, cultural, political and philosophical cases for free movement.

Download or read book Naming Neoliberalism written by Rodney Clapp and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberalism is the reigning, overarching spirit of our age. It consists of a panoply of cultural, political, and economic practices that set marketized competition at the center of social life. The model human is the entrepreneur of the self. Though regnant, neoliberalism likes to hide. It likes people to assume that it is a natural, deep structure--just the way things are. But in neoliberalism's train have come extreme inequality, economic precariousness, and a harmful distortion of both the individual and society. Many people are waking up to the destructive effects of this order. Anthropologists, economic historians, philosophers, theologians, and political scientists have compiled considerable literature exposing neoliberalism's pretensions and shortcomings. Drawing on this work, Naming Neoliberalism aims to expose the order to a wider range of readers--pastors, thoughtful laypersons, and students. Its theological base for this "intervention" is apocalyptic--not in the sense of impending doom and gloom, but in the sense of centering on Christ's life, death, and resurrection as itself the creation of a new and truer, more hopeful, and more humane order that sees the principalities and powers (like neoliberalism) unmasked and disarmed at the cross. The book carefully lays out what neoliberalism is, where it has come from, its religious or theological pretensions, and how it can be confronted through and in the church.

Download or read book Twenty First Century Anxieties written by Merle Tönnies and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how 21st-century British theatre increasingly intercuts dystopian and utopian elements to create innovative strategies for addressing current social and political concerns. In the case studies, a key role is given to the ways in which the selected plays use real and fictional spaces on stage and thereby manage to construct interactional spaces which the spectators are invited to share.

Download or read book Other Worlds Were Possible written by Joss Sheldon and published by Rebel Books. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STATUS QUO IS JUST A PASSING PHASE! Sunny and his kinfolk were content with their way of life. During the dry season, their clan lived alone. They hunted whenever they chose, gathered an array of plants, told stories, and took part in debates. In the rainy season, they united with the rest of their tribe. They formed a temporary city, feasted, held dances and played games. They could have lived like this forever. But a strange and foreign people had ideas of their own... Appearing out of nowhere, these aliens looked completely different. They smelled different. They even dressed differently. And they had the most peculiar habits. These people did not live with the earth. They exploited the earth, imposing monocultures and intensive farming. They were not content with their lot. They were possessed by an insatiable desire to consume. And they had no sense of freedom. They were beholden to a never-ending list of outlandish concepts; things such as “Hierarchy”, “Patriarchy”, “Monarchy”, “Monogamy”, “God”, “Punishments”, “Ownership”, “Inequality”, “Money”, “Work” and “Tax”. Sunny and his kinfolk faced the toughest decision in their history… They could wage war on these imposters. But their enemies were strong. They had killed hundreds-of-thousands of indigenous people. They could flee. But these imperialists would surely follow. They would push them into the sea, the mountains or the desert. Their clan needed another solution. But what could it be? Could they negotiate with this violent foe? Could they form a pact? Could they create a kind of alliance? Sunny had no idea. But he was compelled by a duty to find out. This was his time. And he was willing to risk his life, to save the people he loved… THIS IS NOT THE END OF HISTORY. OTHER WORLDS WERE POSSIBLE...

Download or read book Money Power Love written by Sheldon Joss and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born on three adjacent beds, a mere three seconds apart, our three heroes are united by nature but divided by nurture. As a result of their different upbringings, they spend their lives chasing three very different things: Money, power and love.

Download or read book Part time Princess written by Pamela DuMond and published by Pamela DuMond Media. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the book. Then play the Part-time Princess #InteractiveGame for FREE on STORYLOOM! (www.storyloom.com) __ Two princes are in love with Lucy. Too bad she's an imposter... Fired from her waitress gig and desperate for cash, Lucy takes a menial job with Lady Lizzie, who could be her posh, polished twin. Lady Lizzie has agreed to a hasty marriage of convenience with Prince Cristoph of Fredonia, but needs a pinch of time to tie up loose ends. In the mother of all makeovers, Lucy is abracadabra-ed into Lizzie’s doppelgänger and flies to Fredonia to hold down the fort. Maybe someone should have warned her that Lady Lizzie has been hooking up with Cristoph’s younger brother — Prince Nicholas — for years. Let the royal games begin! PRAISE "It's My Fair Lady meets Ms. Congeniality..." ~ Sara Steven at Chick Lit Central Blog “AHHHHH I LOVELOVELOVE this Book!” ~ Maryam Dinzly PART-TIME PRINCESS is also available in print and Audio. 1 Click this sexy, hilarious royally romantic comedy! ( Part-time Princess © 2014 )

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Download or read book The Eye of Argon written by Jim Theis and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction. Instead, a miracle happened, and transcribed and photocopied texts began to circulate in science fiction circles, gaining a wide and incredulous audience among both professionals and fans. It became the ultimate samizdat, an underground classic, and for more than thirty years it has been the subject of midnight readings at conventions, as thousands have come to appreciate the negative genius of this amazing Ed Wood of prose.