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Book Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches From Outer Space

Download or read book Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches From Outer Space written by I. S. Noah and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a reality very close to our own, Violet Wilson thinks she is the worst babysitter of all time. She brought her two brothers on a hike in the forest with her best friend, Pamela Edison. The girls couldn't have known the boys would find a flying saucer in a cave or that six-year-old Willys would sneak away and eat the sandwich inside it. Her brother, Brad, fears that his impetuous little brother will be infected by alien parasites. Even worse, he might get superpowers! There are plenty of tasty twists and turns in this twenty-first-century fairy tale involving not only extraterrestrials, the Wilsons, and the Edisons, but also, the president, incredible agents, scientists, the US military, sniffer dogs, a three-hundred-year-old parrot, a Sasquatch, an odd science teacher, and an alien fail-safe device. Fasten your seat belt. This story will take you on a very wild ride.

Book The Cult of the Amateur

Download or read book The Cult of the Amateur written by Andrew Keen and published by Currency. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. Our most valued cultural institutions, Keen warns—our professional newspapers, magazines, music, and movies—are being overtaken by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Advertising revenue is being siphoned off by free classified ads on sites like Craigslist; television networks are under attack from free user-generated programming on YouTube and the like; file-sharing and digital piracy have devastated the multibillion-dollar music business and threaten to undermine our movie industry. Worse, Keen claims, our “cut-and-paste” online culture—in which intellectual property is freely swapped, downloaded, remashed, and aggregated—threatens over 200 years of copyright protection and intellectual property rights, robbing artists, authors, journalists, musicians, editors, and producers of the fruits of their creative labors. In today’s self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and anyone with an opinion, however ill-informed, can publish a blog, post a video on YouTube, or change an entry on Wikipedia, the distinction between trained expert and uninformed amateur becomes dangerously blurred. When anonymous bloggers and videographers, unconstrained by professional standards or editorial filters, can alter the public debate and manipulate public opinion, truth becomes a commodity to be bought, sold, packaged, and reinvented. The very anonymity that the Web 2.0 offers calls into question the reliability of the information we receive and creates an environment in which sexual predators and identity thieves can roam free. While no Luddite—Keen pioneered several Internet startups himself—he urges us to consider the consequences of blindly supporting a culture that endorses plagiarism and piracy and that fundamentally weakens traditional media and creative institutions. Offering concrete solutions on how we can reign in the free-wheeling, narcissistic atmosphere that pervades the Web, THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR is a wake-up call to each and every one of us.

Book The Cult of Light and Lies

Download or read book The Cult of Light and Lies written by Lynn Hones and published by Devine Destinies. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning _ adultery One night, and one stupid mistake, turned the life of suburban housewife and mother, Tilley Jenkins, into a prison of paranoia and fear. Dancing and drinking on a rare girl�s night out, feeling young and sexy, she flirts with a man she met briefly. Before she knows it, she�s had too much to drink and no way home. She wakes in the morning and finds herself in bed with him, the first man she�s slept with, besides her husband, in twenty-five years. Her guilt spirals her down the pathway of depression and alcoholism, while her spirited and popular daughter rebels and falls into the hands of neighbors involved in a powerful and outlandish cult. Tilley gets the shock of her life, when she encounters the cult members and their strange beliefs as she fights to regain the trust and love of her daughter, and regain her own self-esteem in the process.

Book Peanut Butter and Jelly Management

Download or read book Peanut Butter and Jelly Management written by Chris Komisarjevsky and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management theories come and go, but they all boil down to a few simple ideas: communicate openly, encourage growth and independence, give people the tools they need, evaluate their work constructively and honestly, and always let them know they are valued. Sounds a bit like being a parent, doesn't it?

Book Paradox of Plenty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harvey Levenstein
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2003-05-30
  • ISBN : 9780520234406
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Paradox of Plenty written by Harvey Levenstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for those interested in US food habits and diets during the 20th century, American history, American social life and customs.

Book Callie and the Cult

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Ann Philleo
  • Publisher : Spring Harbor Publishing ~a clean read publisher~
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 1737047934
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Callie and the Cult written by Barbara Ann Philleo and published by Spring Harbor Publishing ~a clean read publisher~. This book was released on 2023 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callie Morris is an average, happy American teenage girl living in an average Midwest town and then suddenly her life is turned upside-down without warning. How could answering the door and doing a good deed cost so much that's near and dear to her? What kind of wicked, subversive force had entered her life? Could she recover from that "innocent" encounter and live a normal life again? Just like Callie, who had to get those crucial answers there's only one way to find out!

Book American Food by the Decades

Download or read book American Food by the Decades written by Sherri Machlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating survey of American food trends that highlights the key inventions, brands, restaurant chains, and individuals that shaped the American diet and palate in the 20th century. In the United States today, how and what we eat—with all of its myriad ethnic varieties and endless choices—is firmly entrenched in every part of our culture. The American diet underwent constant evolution throughout the 20th century, starting from the meat-and-potatoes fare of the early-20th century and maturing into a culture that embraced the cuisines of immigrant populations, fast-food chains, health fads, and emerging gourmet tastes. Societal changes moved women out of the kitchen and into the workforce, spawning the invention of convenience foods and time-saving kitchen appliances. American Food by the Decades is an entertaining chronological survey of food trends in the United States during the 20th century. The book is organized by decades to illustrate how changes in society directly influenced dietary and dining habits as they emerged over the last 100 years. Detailed encyclopedic entries provide fascinating glimpses into history by telling the true stories behind the foods, restaurants, grocery stores, and cooking trends of the previous century.

Book Well Plated Every Day

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erin Clarke
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2024-10-15
  • ISBN : 0593545303
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Well Plated Every Day written by Erin Clarke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling The Well Plated Cookbook comes a collection of 100+ recipes for easy and creative everyday meals (that even work for hangry o’clock) Erin Clarke’s hugely popular food blog and her bestselling debut cookbook have brought her easy, flavor-packed, “just happens to be healthy” approach to cooking to the masses. Now Erin offers a collection of recipes that can be on regular rotation and excite us every day. Dependable, but also special, the recipes in this save-you-every-time cookbook showcase Erin’s mastery of dishes that are just a little lighter but pack the same punch, flavor combos that will surprise and delight family and friends, and cooking techniques that save steps and effort. Well Plated Every Day will inspire you to cook, because they are the recipes that you and your family will want to eat. Every day. Most of the recipes in this essential cookbook are all-in-one, ready-in-less-than-an-hour main dishes. Need a fast, quick meal everyone will love? Sheet Pan Honey Orange Pistachio Salmon is the answer. Making crispy Chicken Schnitzel? Erin will help you roast cabbage right along with it so you can check off those veggies. Love pasta? Try the Creamy Harvest Chicken Pasta, which sneaks in butternut squash and whole grains. Who can say no to dessert? With simple, throw-them-in-the-oven treats like Blueberry Cornmeal Crisp and Pumpkin Gingerbread Squares, satisfying your sweet tooth is a snap. When you have a little more time, no one will know that your Cheater’s Cassoulet took a fraction of the time. Complete with tips for healthy swaps and “next level” flavor boosts that make each dish even more delicious and company-worthy, Well Plated Every Day is your roadmap to great food on the daily.

Book Food for Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Spector
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2022-10-27
  • ISBN : 1473552265
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Food for Life written by Tim Spector and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL 'A must-read' Dr RUPY AUJLA 'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Empowering' LIZ EARLE **AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST** Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat in the age of ultra-processed food has never seemed so complicated. Drawing on cutting-edge research and personal insights, Professor Tim Spector offers clear answers in this definitive, easy-to-follow guide to the new science of eating well. Empowering and practical, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat - for our health and the health of the planet. ‘No fads, no nonsense, just practical, science-based advice on how to eat well’ Daily Mail, Books of the Year 'A rigorously academic book that welcomes the layperson with open arms' The Times ** A THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR** ** WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON SPECIAL AWARD **

Book Statement

Download or read book Statement written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cult Observer

Download or read book The Cult Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diet Cults

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matt Fitzgerald
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-05-15
  • ISBN : 1605985953
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Diet Cults written by Matt Fitzgerald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “The Four Hour Body,” to “Atkins,” there are diet cults to match seemingly any mood and personality type. Everywhere we turn, someone is preaching the “One True Way” to eat for maximum health. Paleo Diet advocates tell us that all foods less than 12,000 years old are the enemy. Low-carb gurus demonize carbs, then there are the low-fat prophets. But they agree on one thing: there is only one true way to eat for maximum health. The first clue that that is a fallacy is the sheer variety of diets advocated. Indeed, while all of these competing views claim to be backed by “science,” a good look at actual nutritional science itself suggests that it is impossible to identify a single best way to eat. Fitzgerald advocates an agnostic, rational approach to eating habits, based on one’s own habits, life- style, and genetics/body type. Many professional athletes already practice this “Good Enough” diet, and now we can too and ditch the brainwashing of these diet cults for good.

Book Bitches Brew

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ghetto english rock / Attaway
  • Publisher : Author House
  • Release : 2011-09-19
  • ISBN : 1456794760
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Bitches Brew written by Ghetto english rock / Attaway and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bitches Brew: in the hands of Blackjack Nutmeg. the novel partly inspired by Miless Davis 1970s Jazz album, explores the bend riffs and hard-times many good men experience in turbulent relationships with their significant others (women) in their lives. Bitches Brew exposes and sheds light on many hidden agenda and wrongs the woman/women play in the role of the deconstruction of humanism along with exposing many of the things women might have always wanted to know in regards of a mans TRUE feelings. And although the project carries the authors of Kenny Attaway & Ghetto English Rock and primarily centers around the lives of Dallas (leading character) and his friends Sal, Aston and Justin, over 200 different men hardships and tribulations have been packed into the novel. Bitches Brew not only explores the troubled relations THE MEN share with their significant others/women in their lives, but the hardships with the other woman in their lives such as their mother (s), daughter (s), sisters and grandmothers. Written and encrusted in/with the life spices of compassionate, honest, wits, understanding and realism--Bitches Brew is one of the best-written, honest and most personal memoirs of our lifetime.

Book Election Fraud Cult

Download or read book Election Fraud Cult written by Keith S. Scott and published by Keith S. Scott, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My entire life was taken over by Ali Alexander and his Stop The Steal Movement. I lost control of my actions. I attended more Stop The Steal Rallies after the 2020 Presidential Election than anyone. After being at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, I kept mumbling, “I feel like I just got out of a cult.” One question rattled in my head, “Was Stop The Steal a cult?” Antifa Attacked, BLM Bashed, MAGA Roared, QAnon Conspired, Proud Boys Protected and I Almost Died! This book does NOT lay out evidence of election fraud in an attempt to convince you the election was stolen. Instead, Election Fraud Cult is about a real life journey that I went on after the 2020 Presidential Election. I chronicle three months of obsession crisscrossing the country traveling to rallies and three months of recovery afterwards. Come into my world. Learn the truth about what happened. See how I Survived CHAOS, Received GRACE & Transformed Thru TRUTH!

Book Cult British TV comedy

Download or read book Cult British TV comedy written by Leon Hunt and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first sustained critical analysis of Cult British TV comedy from 1990 to the present day. The book examines ‘post-alternative’ comedy as both ‘cult’ and ‘quality’ TV, aimed mostly at niche audiences and often possessing a subcultural aura (comedy was famously declared ‘the new ‘rock’n’roll’ in the early ‘90s). It includes case studies of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and the sitcom writer Graham Linehan. It examines developments in sketch shows and the emergence of ‘dark’ and ‘cringe’ comedy, and considers the politics of ‘offence’ during a period in which Brass Eye, ‘Sachsgate’ and Frankie Boyle provoked different kinds of media outrage. Programmes discussed include Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Peep Show, Father Ted, The Mighty Boosh, The Fast Show and Psychoville. Cult British TV Comedy will be of interest to both students and fans of modern TV comedy.

Book Appetite for Change

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warren J. Belasco
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2014-02-15
  • ISBN : 0801471265
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Appetite for Change written by Warren J. Belasco and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging inquiry, originally published in 1989 and now fully updated for the twenty-first century, Warren J. Belasco considers the rise of the "countercuisine" in the 1960s, the subsequent success of mainstream businesses in turning granola, herbal tea, and other "revolutionary" foodstuffs into profitable products; the popularity of vegetarian and vegan diets; and the increasing availability of organic foods. From reviews of the previous edition: "Although Red Zinger never became our national drink, food and eating changed in America as a result of the social revolution of the 1960s. According to Warren Belasco, there was political ferment at the dinner table as well as in the streets. In this lively and intelligent mixture of narrative history and cultural analysis, Belasco argues that middle-class America eats differently today than in the 1950 because of the way the counterculture raised the national consciousness about food."—Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Nation "This book documents not only how cultural rebels created a new set of foodways, brown rice and all, but also how American capitalists commercialized these innovations to their own economic advantage. Along the way, the author discusses the significant relationship between the rise of a 'countercuisine' and feminism, environmentalism, organic agriculture, health consciousness, the popularity of ethnic cuisine, radical economic theory, granola bars, and Natural Lite Beer. Never has history been such a good read!"—The Digest: A Review for the Interdisciplinary Study of Food "Now comes an examination of... the sweeping change in American eating habits ushered in by hippiedom in rebellion against middle-class America.... Appetite for Change tells how the food industry co-opted the health-food craze, discussing such hip capitalists as the founder of Celestial Seasonings teas; the rise of health-food cookbooks; how ethnic cuisine came to enjoy new popularity; and how watchdog agencies like the FDA served, arguably, more often as sleeping dogs than as vigilant ones."—Publishers Weekly "A challenging and sparkling book.... In Belasco's analysis, the ideology of an alternative cuisine was the most radical thrust of the entire counterculture and the one carrying the most realistic and urgently necessary blueprint for structural social change."—Food and Foodways "Here is meat, or perhaps miso, for those who want an overview of the social and economic forces behind the changes in our food supply.... This is a thought-provoking and pioneering examination of recent events that are still very much part of the present."—Tufts University Diet and Nutrition Letter

Book Rachel s Tears  10th Anniversary Edition

Download or read book Rachel s Tears 10th Anniversary Edition written by Beth Nimmo and published by Tommy Nelson. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus . . . If I have to sacrifice everything . . . I will." ûRachel Scott The Columbine tragedy in April 1999 pierced the heart of our country. We later learned that the teenage killers specifically targeted Rachel Scott and mocked her Christian faith on their chilling, homemade videotapes. Rachel Scott died for her faith. Now her parents talk about Rachel's life and how they have found meaning in their daughter's martyrdom in the aftermath of the school shooting. Rachel's Tears comes from a heartfelt need to celebrate this young girl's life, to work through the grief and the questions of a nation, and to comfort those who have been touched by violence in our schools today. Using excerpts and drawings from Rachel's own journals, her parents offer a spiritual perspective on the Columbine tragedy and provide a vision of hope for preventing youth violence across the nation. Meets national education standards.