Download or read book Confessions of a Swedish Mediocrity written by Karin Oswald and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about a plastic knight, love, friendship, betrayal, potential axmurderers, the scent of lavender, Down syndrome, madeleines, Japanese capsule hotels, fifteen minutes of fame and how to bury an old lady behind the raspberry bushes.
Download or read book Confessions of a Sociopath written by M.E. Thomas and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap—right from the source—for dealing with the sociopath in your life. “[A] gripping and important book . . . revelatory . . . quite the memorable roller coaster ride.”—The New York Times Book Review As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, “We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb the corporate ladder faster than the rest, and appear to have limitless self-confidence. Who are we? We are highly successful, noncriminal sociopaths and we comprise 4 percent of the American population.” Confessions of a Sociopath—part confessional memoir, part primer for the curious—takes readers on a journey into the mind of a sociopath, revealing what makes them tick while debunking myths about sociopathy and offering a road map for dealing with the sociopaths in your life. M. E. Thomas draws from her own experiences as a diagnosed sociopath; her popular blog, Sociopathworld; and scientific literature to unveil for the very first time these men and women who are “hiding in plain sight.”
Download or read book PC Worlds written by Jonathan Friedman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at specific critical historical conjunctures at which new elites attempt to redefine social reality. Focusing on the crises over the last thirty years of immigration and multiculturalist politics in Sweden, the book examines cases, some in which the author was himself involved, but also comparative material from other countries.
Download or read book God and the Devil written by Peter Cowie and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Cowie's book chronicles the life and the 60-year film and stage career of Bergman as he wrestles of themes of love, sex and betrayal with the figure of Death hovering overhead. Blending biographical information with critical comment, Cowie presents a man whose life and work were intimately fused. 'Bergman's films stand alone as beacons in film history.' Wim Wenders
Download or read book August Strindberg the Spirit of Revolt Studies and Impressions written by L. Lind-af-Hageby and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt: Studies and Impressions' by L. Lind-af-Hageby, readers are taken on a journey through the life and works of one of Sweden's most renowned playwrights. The book delves into the thematic elements of Strindberg's works, exploring concepts of rebellion, individualism, and existential crisis. Lind-af-Hageby's writing style is both insightful and analytical, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of Strindberg's literary significance in the context of late 19th-century European literature. The book also includes critical interpretations of Strindberg's major plays, shedding light on the deeper meanings behind his often controversial work. L. Lind-af-Hageby, a respected literary scholar and critic, brings a wealth of knowledge and perspective to this study of August Strindberg. Her profound admiration for Strindberg's contributions to the literary canon serves as a driving force behind the book, offering readers a deeper appreciation for the playwright's revolutionary ideas and creative vision. Lind-af-Hageby's meticulous research and attention to detail make this book a valuable resource for both academic researchers and general readers interested in Scandinavian literature. I highly recommend 'August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt: Studies and Impressions' to anyone seeking a nuanced exploration of Strindberg's works and their enduring impact on modern literature. Lind-af-Hageby's comprehensive analysis offers a fresh perspective on the complexities of Strindberg's writing, making this book a must-read for literature enthusiasts and scholars alike.
Download or read book Studies in Anglo Scandinavian Literary Relations written by Herbert Gladstone Wright and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The End written by Fernanda Torres and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End centers on five friends in Rio de Janeiro who, nearing the end of their lives, are left with memories—of parties, marriages, divorces, fixations, inhibitions, bad decisions—and the physical indignities of aging. Alvaro lives alone and spends his time going from doctor to doctor and bemoaning the evils of his ex-wife. Silvio is a junkie who can’t give up the excesses of sex and drugs even in his old age. Ribeiro is an athletic beach bum enjoying a prolonged sex life thanks to Viagra. Neto is the square member of the group, a faithful husband until his last days. And Ciro is the Don Juan envied by all—but the first to die, struck down by cancer. For all of them, successful careers, personal revelations, and Zen serenity are out of the question, blocked by a seemingly insurmountable wall of frustrations. Orbiting around them are a priest questioning his vocation and a cast of complicated women, neglected and embattled by these self-involved men. Edgy and wise, this tragicomic debut delves into taboo subjects—death, infidelity, impotence, the difficulties of marriage—with unsentimental honesty, and brings Rio and these characters to life in full color.
Download or read book Swedish American Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nordic Explorations written by John Fullerton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930 includes twenty previously unpublished essays written for the 1999 retrospective of Nordic cinema at la Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy. It brings together leading research on early cinema in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, and includes essays on some of the major figures in Nordic cinema including Dreyer, Christensen, Sjöstrom and Stiller. Much current research in Nordic film before 1930 is also represented in this anthology with studies of the Norwegian travel genre, Nordic animated film, the relation of Nordic cinema to German and Russian film, the development of educational cinema and industrial film, as well as studies of individual films, filmmakers and national styles, and the relation of the medium to other forms of popular entertainment.The essays make a timely contribution to the more general study of cinema, afford authoritative and stimulating insight into research in the field and challenge many assumptions regarding Nordic cinema before 1930.
Download or read book The Church of Sweden Past and Present written by Robert Murray and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cinema Borealis Ingmar Bergman and the Swedish Ethos written by Vernon Young and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scuttlebutt written by Bill Henry and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his Vietnam draft notice arriving any day, Jess Harper joins the US Navy, only to see the peace talks signed soon thereafter. Air traffic control becomes the anchor that holds him true to course throughout a twenty-year career and thereafter. The harrowing air traffic control situations and life beyond ATC create his story. Both an east and west coast sailor, exploits begin in Orlando boot camp to Glynco, Georgia, for training. Life for this sailor travels on to Lemoore, California, Cubi Point, Philippines, New Orleans, USS Forrestal, Corpus Christi, Texas, Iraq-Kuwait border, and Troutdale, Oregon. Rule 1: Never let them take your independence.
Download or read book A Confederacy of Dunces written by John Kennedy Toole and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
Download or read book The American Swedish Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aleister Crowley written by Tobias Churton and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, the unexpurgated, true story of the amazing Aleister Crowley—philosopher, poet, artists, writer, magus, explorer, parapsychology—and spy. Packed with fresh research and previously unpublished ‘Crowleyana.’ For 100 years, Aleister Crowley’s true achievements have been suppressed and his true character defaced in a campaign of vilification unparalleled in British history. Until now, Crowley’s life has not been written—it has been written over. Tobias Churton is a world authority on Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Gnosticism. In writing Aleister Crowley, he enjoyed complete access to all Crowley’s restricted papers, unpublished letters and personal diaries kept in a trust at London’s Warburg Institute and in the Ordo Templi Orientis archives. Ninety percent of the authentic material here has never before been published.
Download or read book The New Statesman and Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s written by David L. Pike and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to excavate their own backyards while governments the world over exhausted their budgets on fortified super-shelters and megaton bombs. The dreams and nightmares inspired by the spectre of nuclear destruction were expressed in images and forms from comics, movies, and pulp paperbacks to policy documents, protest movements, and survivalist tracts. Illustrated with photographs, artwork, and movie and television stills of real and imagined fallout shelters and other bunker fantasies, award-winning author David L. Pike's continues his decades-long exploration of the meanings of modern undergrounds. Ranging widely across disciplines, this volume finds unexpected connections between cultural icons and forgotten texts, plumbs the bunker's stratifications of class, region, race, and gender, and traces the often unrecognized through-lines leading from the 1960s and the less-studied 1980s into the present. Although the Cold War ended over 30 years ago, its legacy looms large in anxieties around security, borders, and all manners of imminent apocalypse. Treating the bunker in its concrete presence and in its flightiest fantasies while attending equally to its uniquely American desires and pathologies and to its global impact, Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s proposes a new way to understand the outsized afterlife of the bunkered decades.
