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Book Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

Download or read book Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery written by Eva Illouz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oprah Winfrey is an unprecedented and important cultural phenomenon. This book aims to understand the reasons for her spectacular success and visibility. Based on nearly one hundred show transcripts; a year and a half of watching the show regularly; and analysis of magazine articles, several biographies, O Magazine, Oprah Book Club novels, self-help manuals promoted on the show, and hundreds of messages on the Oprah Winfrey Web site, it takes the Oprah industry seriously in order to ask fundamental questions about how culture works today.

Book KELLOCK PSYCH TEXTBOOKS  FULL

Download or read book KELLOCK PSYCH TEXTBOOKS FULL written by Karen Kellock and published by CHAMPION GUIDES. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 6836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KELLOCK PSYCH TEXTBOOKS FOR A LOST GENERATION: MANUAL FOR SUPERIOR MEN. THE FULL COLLECTED WORKS OF KAREN KELLOCK. NEW PSYCH THEORY by Karen Kellock Ph.D., Psychology & Proverb Author. The cause of mental illness is other people: be shocked into a new world view seeing mental illness in a new light. Elite Review: "Koestler [1962] shows all discoveries blend art with science. Vivid poetic images combined with rock-solid psychology show the tyranny of groups vs. the individual: collective insanity, the contagion of lunacy. What does it take to be a champion in a sea of sharks? That’s the essence of this work. The writing is subtle, witty, clever and highly accurate. The therapy: open the book anywhere". Mansell Pattison M.D., Postdoctoral Sponsor at UCI School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry. Karen Kellock received her Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical School, Dept. of Psychiatry [NIAAA and NIMH grants] to develop a theory of System Pathology: the Debris Theory of Disease, presented in 120 books and 22 textbooks for the general public. The theory has a general formula: All disease is obstruction, all recovery is elimination, all success is attraction. The three obstructions are people, habit and food. Remove your obstruction and snap to your goals, waiting in the wings. "An integrator and discoverer. As her Ph.D. advisor it's WOW on pathological systems theory, a sudden eye-opener". Doug Chalmers, Ph.D., UCI Dept. of Psychology "Brilliance inspires thinking in new realms by debunking old myths. A true theoretician ties everything together so we can see the whole". Daniel Feldman M.D., Postdoc sponsor V.A. hospital/UCI Med Chapter art by Karen Kellock and Fox Design, Cover by Blaze Goldburst

Book Affinity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Waters
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2011-02-03
  • ISBN : 0748129316
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Affinity written by Sarah Waters and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eerily brilliant and spooky tale of spiritualism and deception 'Now you know why you are drawn to me - why your flesh comes creeping to mine, and what it comes for. Let it creep.' From the dark heart of a Victorian prison, disgraced spiritualist Selina Dawes weaves an enigmatic spell. Is she a fraud, or a prodigy? By the time it all begins to matter, you'll find yourself desperately wanting to believe in magic. 'Refined, repressed and simmering... a delicious tale of Victorian spiritualism' Independent on Sunday 'Spooky, spellbinding, exquisitely written' Val Hennessy 'Beautifully, atmospherically written, this is a tale to thrill your very soul' Metro 'Sexy, spooky, stylish... a wonderful book' Guardian

Book A Greek English Lexicon

Download or read book A Greek English Lexicon written by Henry R. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atheism is Winning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anonymous
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2014-04-08
  • ISBN : 1304966429
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Atheism is Winning written by Anonymous and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world of radical hypocrisy...Priests, Terrorists and Christian Evangelists use iPhones...access satellite Networks...drive automobiles and seem to exist in some kind of imaginary bubble untouched by reality. How is this possible? How can such a large number of people both demand modern technology while still refusing to listen to the very people who brought it to them? In an age of motor cars, electric light bulbs and rockets to the moon, more than half the world still insists on keeping their faith in God, even while the most rational minds are calling this behavior dangerous, archaic and possibly insane. Perhaps this is something we should talk about. But is anyone listening? Perhaps I should say it louder...Book features a variety of essays, both humorous and serious on the issues of Atheism, Marketing, Hypocrisy, Seduction, Religion, Psychology of Belief, New Atheism, Failures of Buddhism, The Templeton Prize, Beyond Sartre's Reef of Solipsism, and other mildly poetic thoughts.

Book A Lexicon of the Greek Language

Download or read book A Lexicon of the Greek Language written by Henry R. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book System of economical contradictions  or  The philosophy of misery

Download or read book System of economical contradictions or The philosophy of misery written by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ulrich Beck
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780853239185
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Global America written by Ulrich Beck and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.

Book Misery s Mathematics

Download or read book Misery s Mathematics written by Peter Balaam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render loss in innovative ways. These three key writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature.

Book The Yorkshire Magazine

Download or read book The Yorkshire Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law

Download or read book The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law written by Lutz Oette and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment has a special status. It is the foremost international human rights norm protecting persons from attacks on their dignity and integrity. Consequently, it has been at the forefront of a series of developments in international human rights law and international law more broadly. Having withstood sustained challenges to its absolute nature in the 'war on terror', it has broadened its scope of application, becoming more sophisticated and complex in the process. The prohibition of torture increasingly interacts with other fields of human rights law, such as non-discrimination law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and international migration law. The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law analyses the nature and significance of this transformation and looks into the scope of the prohibition's further evolution. Empirical scholarship, innovative human rights body practice, and challenges from activists, particularly from the Global South, have focused on the relational nature of torture and other ill-treatment, its embeddedness in wider structures of power, and the role of international law in legitimizing-if not facilitating-widespread suffering, from mass incarceration to poverty and climate change. This analysis reveals an inherent tension in the prohibition between a conventional, narrow focus on direct State violence and a wide lens encompassing myriad forms of suffering. To retain its validity and effectiveness in the twenty-first century, argues Lutz Oette, the prohibition on torture must navigate this tension and successfully address and transform abusive power asymmetries.

Book A Lexicon of the Greek Language Exhibiting in a Concise Form All the Words in General Use  with Their Leading and Figurative Significations  Inflections  and Doubtful Quantities by Henry R  Hamilton

Download or read book A Lexicon of the Greek Language Exhibiting in a Concise Form All the Words in General Use with Their Leading and Figurative Significations Inflections and Doubtful Quantities by Henry R Hamilton written by Henry R. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Grace of Misery  Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile  1919  1939  paperback

Download or read book The Grace of Misery Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919 1939 paperback written by Ilse Josepha Lazaroms and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919–1939 Ilse Josepha Lazaroms offers an account of the life and intellectual legacy of Joseph Roth, one of interwar Europe's most critical and modern writers.

Book View from the Middle

Download or read book View from the Middle written by Asuncion David Maramba and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Trauma Culture

Download or read book Popular Trauma Culture written by Anne Rothe and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Popular Trauma Culture, Anne Rothe argues that American Holocaust discourse has a particular plot structure—characterized by a melodramatic conflict between good and evil and embodied in the core characters of victim/survivor and perpetrator—and that it provides the paradigm for representing personal experiences of pain and suffering in the mass media. The book begins with an analysis of Holocaust clichés, including its political appropriation, the notion of vicarious victimhood, the so-called victim talk rhetoric, and the infusion of the composite survivor figure with Social Darwinism. Readers then explore the embodiment of popular trauma culture in two core mass media genres: daytime TV talk shows and misery memoirs. Rothe conveys how victimhood and suffering are cast as trauma kitsch on talk shows like Oprah and as trauma camp on modern-day freak shows like Springer. The discussion also encompasses the first scholarly analysis of misery memoirs, the popular literary genre that has been widely critiqued in journalism as pornographic depictions of extreme violence. Currently considered the largest growth sector in book publishing worldwide, many of these works are also fabricated. And since forgeries reflect the cultural entities that are most revered, the book concludes with an examination of fake misery memoirs.

Book Philip Roth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Hayes
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2014-06-19
  • ISBN : 0191003131
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Philip Roth written by Patrick Hayes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we try to find words to express our most visceral and primary responses to literature, we are often inclined to speak of its power. But in academic contexts, that intuitive feeling for the vividness, energy, and special intensity of literary experience is all too often subdued, and exchanged for a supposedly more sophisticated discussion of its ethical or political significance. Philip Roth has long thumbed his nose at the 'virtue racket', as one of his characters called it, and his fiction has repeatedly satirised the moralistic idiom that tends to rule the public discussion of literature. In doing so he has earned the disapproval of an unusually wide range of university teachers and intellectuals. Philip Roth: Fiction and Power argues that Roth's importance derives precisely from his revaluation of what counts as sophisticated and serious in our response to literature. As well as examining how Roth emerged as a writer, and defining the main lines of influence on him, the book measures his impact on the dominant ways of thinking about literary value in post-war America. Attention is given to particular questions: about the place of emotion and affective experience, the nature and value of tragedy, the relevance of art to life, the relationship between literature and the unconscious, the concept of the author, the idea of a literary canon, and the ways that fiction illuminates America's complex post-war history. The book will be of importance to readers of modern American literature, and indeed to anyone interested in why literature matters.

Book SAT Power Vocab

    Book Details:
  • Author : Princeton Review (Firm)
  • Publisher : Princeton Review
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0804124566
  • Pages : 626 pages

Download or read book SAT Power Vocab written by Princeton Review (Firm) and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2013 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides definitions and study tips for over sixteen hundred frequently used SAT words and includes strategies for memorizing the words and answering questions on the test.