Download or read book Collecting Lives written by Elizabeth Rodrigues and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms drawn from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data is commonly assumed to bring us closer to objectivity, but the narrative paths these algorithms assign seem, more often than not, to replicate biases about who an individual is and could become. While the social effects of such algorithmic logics seem new and newly urgent to consider, Collecting Lives looks to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century U.S. to provide an instructive prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of data collection to human selfhood in order to uncover a modernist aesthetic of data that offers an alternative to the algorithmic logic pervading our sense of data’s revelatory potential. Examining the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Rodrigues asks how each of these authors draw from their work in sociology, history, psychology, and journalism to formulate a critical data aesthetic as they attempt to answer questions of identity around race, gender, and nation both in their research and their life writing. These data-driven modernists not only tell different life stories with data, they tell life stories differently because of data.
Download or read book A Life of Collecting written by Michael Fitzgerald and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most collectors of European modernism, the Ganzes had the breadth of imagination to realize that certain young Americans were the true heirs of Picasso. With an unerring eye (sharpened by exhaustive study), they chose Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella at the beginning of their careers, and then moved on to champion Eva Hesse. In this book of essays by John Richardson, Leo Steinberg, David Sylvester, Judith Goldman, Roberta Bernstein, Linda Shearer, and others, we learn about the art and artists in the collection, as well as the risks and commitments the Ganzes made in establishing these artists we now hail as among the masters of contemporary art.
Download or read book Collecting Life written by Madelyn Garner and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Madelyn Garner and Andrea Watson offer an intriguing glimpse into the anthropology of collecting—what people love, value, and even obsess about in the passionate and occasionally quirky world of collecting. This fascinating anthology offers poems by emerging and established writers, including Denise Duhamel, Kimiko Hahn, Jane Hirshfield, Pattiann Rogers, David Trinidad, Christopher Buckley, Jonathan Rice, and Gary Young. Introduced by Bill Brown, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of English and the visual arts at the University of Chicago, a leading expert on the practice and art of collecting, the book provides crucial insights into the transformative nature of collecting through the singular lens of poetics. COLLECTING LIFE is a must-read for writers, artists, collectors, and educators.
Download or read book Mobituaries written by Mo Rocca and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From popular TV correspondent and writer Rocca comes a charmingly irreverent and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who made life worth living.
Download or read book Make the Most of Your Life Collection written by Richard Templar and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Rules of Life , Richard Templar brings together 106 practical rules that happy, successful people follow, even if they've never thought about it. These are realistic, commonsense things you can do differently, starting today... small things that make a powerful difference. Templar offers real wisdom on telling the difference between what's important and what isn't... focusing on changes you really can make... using your intuition... learning positive lessons from your regrets... having great dreams and making practical plans... staying young... forgiving without becoming a pushover. The first edition of The Rules of Life became a global phenomenon, topping bestseller charts around the world. This new, even better, edition includes nine brand-new rules to take you further, faster. Follow The Rules of Life. You'll feel better. You'll be a better friend, partner, and parent. And you'll leave the world a better place. Richard Templar's The Rules of Parenting, Expanded Edition presents the principles to follow which you can adapt to suit you and your children. Templar -- author of The Rules of Life and many other best-sellers -- has brought together 100+ parenting tips you can start using instantly. Now updated and expanded with 10 brand-new rules, Templar's rules address everything you need to know from start to finish. Beginning with the first rule "Relax" and continuing through 100+ rules, this book presents a guide to everything a parent needs to know from toddling, school, boyfriends or girlfriends, through driving lessons and college. The book begins with a section that covers the most important rules, The Rules for Staying Sane. The rest of the sections cover some of the big questions of parenting, including the Attitude Rules, the Discipline Rules, the Sibling Rules, the School Rules, the Teenage Rules, the Crisis Rules, all the way up to the Grown-up Rules.
Download or read book The Classic Collection written by Thomas & Friends and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas the Tank Engine started life as a character in a bedtime story created by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry for his yound son, Christopher. This edition is a collection of 56 stories from Reverend Awdry's hughely popular Railway Series, beautifully illustrated with restored colour artwork.
Download or read book Stitched with Love Romance Collection written by Tracey V. Bateman and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9 Romances Stitched with Love Treasure this collection of nine historical romances. Faced with finding the right fit in life and love, nine young women seek the courage to stitch together romance. But when unexpected obstacles abound, will love unravel before their eyes? Tumbling Blocks by Andrea Boeshaar Elsa Fritch’s dreams tumble from their heights when Shane Gerhard comes to town to collect on the contract between their parents. Could God expect her to endure an arranged marriage with a man who antagonizes her and disregards Him? Old Maid’s Choice by Cathy Marie Hake Betsy Larkin thinks she must choose between the siblings she is rearing and a man who loves her. Blacksmith Tyson Walker is used to bending iron, but can love and patience bend the will of a woman who is sure she is destined to be an old maid? Jacob’s Ladder by Pamela Kaye Tracy Samantha Thomasohn dreams of riches and of escaping the mundane life clerking for her father’s store. One man holds the riches while another holds her heart. How is true love to be defined, and where will Samantha place her priorities? Four Hearts by Sally Laity Diana Montclair covers her loneliness with an arrogant exterior and a drive for perfection that keeps friends at bay. She reluctantly endures the weekly sewing circle. Can Mrs. T.’s words of truth and a newfound friend help her realize she has been seeking the needs of her heart in the wrong places? Back flap: (30-word blurbs for 5) Marry for Love by Janet Spaeth Wild prairie-born Brigit Streeter lacks the domestic and social skills she needs to marry the cultured new minister, Peter Collins, who has come to the Dakota Territory from St. Paul. When Peter’s supervising elder brings Brigit a gift of fabric to make her wedding dress, Brigit is lost. She can’t sew. Can Brigit become a Psalm 31 wife? Basket Stitch by Cathy Marie Hake Bride-who-isn’t-to-be Rosemary Preston finds herself stranded in No Man’s Land without a groom. Rescued and taken to the Stafford ranch, she discovers Micah Stafford is everything she ever prayed for in a mate. Can a sampler-stitchin’ city woman soften a rough-and-rugged man’s heart? Double Cross by Tracey V. Bateman Ignoring Josephine Stafford’s vehement objections, Grandma determines to make her granddaughter into a proper lady. The whole venture becomes worth it when Pastor Mark Chamberlain starts showing interest in Jo—that is, until a “friend” double crosses her by blabbing all about Jo’s tomboyish ways. Will Mark abandon Jo, or will he love her for being true to who God created her to be? Spider Web Rose by Vickie McDonough Josh Stafford’s a tease, but he doesn’t like it when the joke’s on him. The spunky lad he found stranded in No Man’s Land has turned out to be a lovely young lady. When Josh and Rachel Donovan are together, tempers flare. When dreams would lead these two in different directions, is God weaving a web of love to keep them together? The Coat by Tracey V. Bateman As a jobless widow Leah Halliday struggles to clothe her son in the aftermath of World War II. When her boy’s coat, lined with an heirloom quilt, causes him to be the target of teasing at school, the headmaster’s heart goes out to him. But Max Reilly has a scandalous history. Should Leah trust him?
Download or read book A Collection of Poetry About Life written by Shannon Anderson and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book is a collection of poetry about life that is very personal to me. It touches on some of the most devastating times in my life when I had so many disappointments and setbacks in just trying to survive in this world. It talks about relationships and some life topics that affected me in my fifty years of living. I put so much of my frustrations on paper because I really didn't have anyone to talk to or who understood me. So I began to write poetry about everything I had been going through. When I gave my life back over to God, I saw that he gave me a gift of poetry, and that is when my healing process began through my writing. I always wanted to encourage other people to put their trust in God and never give up. No matter how many curveballs life throws my way, I remember my aunt always telling me weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning. So many nights I just prayed to God to be able to make it to the morning. So my pain will ease up. This is my testimony, and I am a survivor. My hope is that anyone who reads my book believes anything is possible and that they can achieve anything they put their mind to it and never let anyone control your mind or destroy your spirit.
Download or read book Untangling the Mundane Collection of Essays on Life Longing and Belonging written by Barun Ray and published by Barun Ray. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know that Biryani is the most popular Mughlai dish in India. But have you ever wondered why the Biryani has potatoes added in the Kolkata variety but never outside Kolkata? We know the story of Ram and Sita, but what about Laxman and Urmila? What happened to Urmila Laxman's wife after Laxman went to exile, accompanying his elder brother Ram? We know about the Oedipus Syndrome. But what about Yayati Syndorme? We all have an opinion on the Kashmir issue. But do we know its history and why Kashmir is the way it is? For us who can see, the world around us is so colourful. But what about those who can't see? Why do sports invoke so much passion across all cultures? Which was the world's first narco-state? The reader will be surprised when you know about the world's first narco-state. What are the choices we have when we die? Most often, society marginalizes women's bodies as we consider men's bodies as the default. But why is it so? These are some thoughts you will read in this compilation of essays. These essays interpret mundane and commonplace thoughts in our daily lives in entirely new ways. Commonplace things are not commonplace. They hide profound meanings. One needs to unveil them with sensitivity and humaneness. All these essays are highly eclectic and do not fall into any specific genre. The author is a blog writer. The essays included in this volume are the top twenty popular essays first published in the author's blog since 2019. Essays included in this volume are on social commentary, literary book reviews, social criticism, and sometimes even personal reflections. The essays are provocative and would make the reader think. They are highly topical and contemporary. A few relate to various historical events as well.
Download or read book Ramayana The Game of Life The Complete Collection written by Shubha Vilas and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on with total page 1101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 6 National Bestsellers Ramayana: The Game of Life – Book 1: Roar with Courage Ramayana: The Game of Life – Book 2: Conquer Change Ramayana: The Game of Life – Book 3: Adopt Patience Ramayana: The Game of Life – Book 4: Stand Strong Ramayana: The Game of Life – Book 5: Radiate Confidence Ramayana: The Game of Life – Book 6: Think Big to Win Authentic narration of the epic with life lessons The RAMAYANA is not a story. It is a way of life. It is THE GAME OF LIFE. A good game is full of twists and turns at every stage and this magical epic arms us with valuable tools to deal with anomalies in our own lives. These quirks turn us into valiant warriors in the face of the most challenging situations.
Download or read book Life MedsTM Breakfast Orange Juice a Heartfelt Collection of Poems and Words of Wisdom written by Sergio J.L.H. Sanders and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the belief that the pharmaceutical business has the human race enslaved to become dependent upon taking medications everyday to feel good and operate, author Sergio J.L.H Sanders has designed Life Meds, Breakfast & Orange Juice: A Heartfelt Collection of Poems and Words of Wisdom to help everyone realize that people dont have to drown themselves in medications that can have negative long term effects. Released through Xlibris, this book offers new mindsets to a life worth living. Life Meds , Breakfast & Orange Juice: a Heartfelt Collection of Poems and Words of Wisdom is a collection of poems and words of wisdomthe invisible, spirit-moving meds to get anyone started on their day. Throughout this book, readers will find Meds for Life that will help give their lives substance, provide them with motivation, inspire self-respect, and supply knowledge on how to look at life in a more positive light. The Breakfast and Orange Juice part comes in because normally people take their meds and eat breakfast to start their day off. This collection will give readers a chance to help renew their lives, invigorate it with new mindsets, and make it meaningful through the essential wisdom, poems and thoughts this book offers. Readers will find this book revitalizing, substantial, and life-changing. Life Meds , Breakfast & Orange Juice: a Heartfelt Collection of Poems and Words of Wisdom is enrolled in Xlibris Bookstore Returnability Program, which gives booksellers the convenient option of returning excess stocks through Ingram Distribution.
Download or read book Field Tests of Isobornyl Thiocyanoacetate Thanite for Live Collection of Fishes written by Ralph M. Burress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Underground Railroad Collection Real Life Stories of the Former Slaves and Abolitionists written by William Still and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 2030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Underground Railroad was a secret network of routes used by Southern slaves in escaping to the North. In their attempts they were often guided and helped by former fugitive slaves and abolitionist who were known as the conductors. Unravel the secrets of these incredible and unforgettable life journeys and the people who took these treacherous routes to freedom. This edition includes carefully compiled and detailed documentation about the lives and escapes of over 100 former slaves along with the incredible life stories of the two courageous female conductors, Harriet Tubman and Laura S. Haviland, who risked their own lives in helping these slaves cross over to the North in the dead of the night. So come and relive the stories of extraordinary courage, heart breaking saga of grief and separation and the overwhelming desire to break free! A MUST READ! William Still (1821–1902) was an African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist who recorded the stories of fugitive slaves to help them reunite with their families. Sarah H. Bradford (1818–1912) was an American writer, historian and a very close friend of Harriet Tubman. Bradford was also a contemporary of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Laura S. Haviland (1808-1898) was an American abolitionist, suffragette, and social reformer. She is credited to have established the first racially integrated school in Michigan with her husband, which gave lectures about the realities of life on a slave plantation.
Download or read book Simplify Your Life Collection written by Marcia Ramsland and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it really possible to simplify your life? The answer is a resounding "yes," if you know the necessary steps to unclutter your life and lifestyle. Get the inside scoop from professional organizer Marcia Ramsland and begin to solve your life management issues like a pro. With fast-paced, step-by-step instructions, Marcia walks you through refreshing new ways to manage your daily schedule, your life at home and at work, and special seasons of your life such as parenting, the holidays, and transitions. Simplify Your Life reveals do-able tips and practical systems using Marcia's trademark "PuSH" Sequence?an acronym for Project, you (the key component), System, Habit?which not only gets you organized but help you stay that way. Tips include how to: Create the illusion of a clean home in just minutes each day Predict a pending time crunch . . . and sail through it Dissolve any paper pile by answering three key questions Power through projects you never get around to Learn how to put things back together when everything falls apart Offering practical solutions designed to change your life immediately, this simplified style of living gives you and your loved ones more time to do the things you really enjoy?starting today.
Download or read book Change Your Life 3 in 1 Collection written by Julie Schooler and published by BoomerMax Ltd. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not said lightly—this boxset WILL change your life. · Do you feel like your life is going nowhere? · Do you struggle to get out of bed each morning? · Do you feel like there is a more exciting or meaningful life you could be living? This Change Your Life 3-in-1 Collection helps you take action towards your best life and do what makes your heart sing. Follow the short, chunked down chapters in this boxset to: · understand your true self better · rediscover buried desires and long-held passions · know exactly how to determine what you want in life · lead and inspire others to live life on their own terms · wake up each morning with a sense of excitement and zest for life · spend quality time with friends and family doing fun things together · feel like you are living the life you were meant to live, one with excitement, meaning and true joy Bucket List Blueprint will give you practical advice to write the best bucket list personalized for your circumstances, and, most importantly, how to check off items so that you start bringing your dreams to life. It will also: · cut through the confusion around what a bucket list is and is not (it is definitely not just for the terminally ill or nearly dead!) · provide compelling reasons why a bucket list is an essential part of life · tell you exactly what to do to discover items for your personal bucket list Don’t wait until you almost ‘kick the bucket’ to read this book! Download it today and live a breathtaking life where your long-held dreams turn into amazing memories. ‘I loved the acronyms … they gave me a great start to building my 'before 40' bucket list. Let the fun times roll!’ ‘You will be supercharging your way to a richer life in no time as you check off your bucket list.’ Super Sexy Goal Setting will give you the simplest and most fun way to set goals that lead to a life you love. It will also: · help you easily set goals that are perfect for you · explain how super sexy goals give you MORE time and energy (yes, really!) · detail what to do to work out your goals—even if you have never set goals before Don’t wait until another year rolls by with failed New Year’s resolutions! Four super sexy goals. One year. Your life transformed. ‘Takes you by the hand, step-by-step, so that by the end of the book even a goal-setting novice will have an action plan.’ ‘I feel so much more in control and excited to achieve my goals.’ Find Your Purpose in 15 Minutes delivers a handy tool to help you discover your life purpose in a matter of minutes. It will also give you: · A definition for purpose that is easy to understand · A simple template to write out your ideal purpose statement · A 15-minute exercise that creates your best purpose step-by-step · An ideal purpose that feels profoundly significant and unique to you There is a light inside of you that has been dimmed for far too long. Let the world see you shine. ‘The exercise is fun and the result is something that feels personal and genuinely meaningful.’ ‘Finding my purpose using the process in this book was amazingly quick, delightful and satisfying, and also unexpectedly moving - I found myself in tears of happiness!’ What’s stopping you from being the happy, energized and successful person you always thought you would be? To add some much-needed clarity, direction and joy back into your life, buy this boxset today.
Download or read book My Horizontal Life written by Chelsea Handler and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this raucous collection of true-life stories, Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand. You've either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend's irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won't be ashamed to talk about in the morning.
