Download or read book I Saw it Coming written by T. K'Meyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, workers displaced by plant closings in Louisville, Kentucky tell their stories, emphasizing their agency, demanding respect for their skill, casting judgment on business and government for not showing that respect, and revealing a sense of alienation resulting from violation of their values and trust.
Download or read book Never Saw It Coming written by Karen A. Cerulo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People—especially Americans—are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery!) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood!). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories as well: people are better able to describe the best moments of their lives than they are the worst. Though there are psychological reasons for this phenomenon, Karen A.Cerulo, in Never Saw It Coming, considers instead the role of society in fostering this attitude. What kinds of communities develop this pattern of thought, which do not, and what does that say about human ability to evaluate possible outcomes of decisions and events? Cerulo takes readers to diverse realms of experience, including intimate family relationships, key transitions in our lives, the places we work and play, and the boardrooms of organizations and bureaucracies. Using interviews, surveys, artistic and fictional accounts, media reports, historical data, and official records, she illuminates one of the most common, yet least studied, of human traits—a blatant disregard for worst-case scenarios. Never Saw It Coming, therefore, will be crucial to anyone who wants to understand human attempts to picture or plan the future. “In Never Saw It Coming, Karen Cerulo argues that in American society there is a ‘positive symmetry,’ a tendency to focus on and exaggerate the best, the winner, the most optimistic outcome and outlook. Thus, the conceptions of the worst are underdeveloped and elided. Naturally, as she masterfully outlines, there are dramatic consequences to this characterological inability to imagine and prepare for the worst, as the failure to heed memos leading up to both the 9/11 and NASA Challenger disasters, for instance, so painfully reminded us.”--Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swarthmore College “Katrina, 9/11, and the War in Iraq—all demonstrate the costliness of failing to anticipate worst-case scenarios. Never Saw It Coming explains why it is so hard to do so: adaptive behavior hard-wired into human cognition is complemented and reinforced by cultural practices, which are in turn institutionalized in the rules and structures of formal organizations. But Karen Cerulo doesn’t just diagnose the problem; she uses case studies of settings in which people effectively anticipate and deal with potential disaster to describe structural solutions to the chronic dilemmas she describes so well. Never Saw It Coming is a powerful contribution to the emerging fields of cognitive and moral sociology.”--Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University
Download or read book Never Saw It Coming written by Linwood Barclay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keisha Ceylon is a psychic. At least, that's what she tells people. She watches the news for stories of missing people, then waits a few days and goes to see the family. She tells them she’s had a vision and that she may know where their missing loved one is—for a price, of course. Keisha's latest mark is Wendell Garfield, whose wife disappeared a week ago. She's seen him on TV, pleading for his wife to come home, or for whoever took her to let her go. Keisha tells Wendell her vision of what might have happened. Unluckily for Keisha, her vision turns out to be alarmingly close to the truth. As she wades deeper into the mystery, Keisha inadvertently finds herself caught in a web of suspicion and violence that’s much more complicated than she first thought—and which may end up with her own disappearance… Also includes a preview of Linwood Barclay’s newest thriller, Trust Your Eyes
Download or read book And No One Saw It Coming written by Marci Glidden Savage and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 13, 2014, Marci found Paul, her beloved husband of thirty-four years, dead by suicide on their backyard patio. No warning. No explanation. No final good-bye. Less than five years later, on March 15, 2019, the unthinkable and unimaginable happened. Michael, Marci's second husband of only eight months, was found dead by suicide. In this captivating book, Marci vulnerably shares her intimate journey from anger, hopelessness, and sorrow to acceptance and joy while offering hope to others facing similar situations today. Suicide is considered one of the most challenging types of loss to sustain. Your grief is complicated, messy, and haunting. In 2019, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death in the United States - an alarming fact and dangerous epidemic. With dogged determination, Marci uses her grief and sets out to expose the ill-conceived and biased attitudes toward mental illnesses standing in the way and keeping many individuals battling depression and anxiety from seeking help, particularly men. In the grip of unrelenting pain, Marci courageously meets grief head-on. With grit and candid openness, she opens the door into her personal story of lost love, betrayal, abandonment, shattered dreams, unanswered questions, judgements, and harmful social stigma. Vividly, Marci reveals the catastrophic impact of a suicide death on loved ones left behind. From the first page, her riveting, original, and profoundly moving open letter to mental illness exposes the insidious way it torments and holds captive its victims under the guise of silence. And why no one could see the end coming. Twice.
Download or read book Never Saw You Coming written by Erin Hahn and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "BOLD. IMPORTANT. BEAUTIFUL.” - Laura Taylor Namey, New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow In Erin Hahn’s Never Saw You Coming, sometimes it takes a leap of faith to find yourself. Eighteen-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. So instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what’s left of the family she never knew existed - all while questioning the ideals she grew up with. While there, she meets Micah Allen, a former pastor’s kid whose dad ended up in prison, leaving Micah with his own complicated relationship with faith. The clock is ticking on his probation hearing and Micah, now 19, feels the pressure to forgive - even when he can’t possibly forget. As Meg and Micah grow closer, they are confronted with the heavy flutterings of first love and all the complications it brings. Together, they must navigate the sometimes-painful process of cutting ties with childhood beliefs as they build toward something truer and straight from the heart. "Heartfelt and utterly genuine... I already want to reread it." - Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of Small Favors
Download or read book Blessed Unrest written by Paul Hawken and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s most influential environmentalists reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity Blessed Unresttells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person causes, these organizations collectively comprise the largest movement on earth. This is a movement that has no name, leader, or location, but is in every city, town, and culture. It is organizing from the bottom up and is emerging as an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide. Blessed Unrestexplores the diversity of this movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and centuries-old history. The culmination of Hawken’s many years of leadership in these fields, it will inspire, surprise, and delight anyone who is worried about the direction the modern world is headed. Blessed Unrestis a description of humanity’s collective genius and the unstoppable movement to re-imagine our relationship to the environment and one another. Like Hawken’s previous books, Blessed Unrestwill become a classic in its field— a touchstone for anyone concerned about our future.
Download or read book As I Saw It written by Marvin Scott and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott reflects on the stories that have stuck with him personally over the years, and the people who gave them life. Alongside marches with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and tense meetings with Yasser Arafat, Scott brings us Burt and Linda Pugach, the couple whose lifelong marriage was forged in deadly obsession; Abraham Zapruder, who shot history's most infamous piece of film; Charlie Walsh, the everyman hero who gave the banks a run for their money; and Stephanie Collado, the eleven-year-old girl who needed a heart and touched his. As I Saw It pairs Scott's unique storytelling and photography to give readers a new look at the singular experiences of a lifelong reporter, and the stories that shaped a generation.
Download or read book The Future written by Neil Hilborn and published by Button Poetry. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Filled with nostalgia, love, heartbreak, and the author's signature wry examinations of mental health, Neil Hilborn's second book helps explain what lives inside us, what we struggle to define. Written on the road over two years of touring, The Future is rugged, genuine, and relatable. Grabbing attention like gravity, Hilborn reminds readers that no matter how far away we get, we eventually all drift back together. These poems are fireworks for the numb. In the author's own words, The Future is a blue sky and a full tank of gas, and in it, we are alive.
Download or read book Salem Falls written by Jodi Picoult and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Some of the Best from Tor com 2014 written by Various Authors and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of the best original fantasy and science fiction stories published on Tor.com in 2014. Contents: As Good As New by Charlie Jane Anders The End of the End of Everything by Dale Bailey Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch by Kelly Barnhill Sleep Walking Now and Then by Richard Bowes Daughter of Necessity by Marie Brennan Brisk Money by Adam Christopher A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Trade-Offs for the Overhaul of the Barricade by John Chu The Color of Paradox by A.M. Dellamonica The Litany of Earth by Ruthanna Emrys A Kiss With Teeth by Max Gladstone A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star by Kathleen Ann Goonan Cold Wind by Nicola Griffith The Tallest Doll in New York City by Maria Dahvana Headley Where the Trains Turn by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen Combustion Hour by Yoon Ha Lee Reborn by Ken Liu Midway Relics and Dying Breeds by Seanan McGuire Anyway Angie by Daniel José Older The Mothers of Voorhisville by Mary Rickert Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden’s Syndrome by John Scalzi Among the Thorns by Veronica Schanoes The Insects of Love by Genevieve Valentine Sleeper by Jo Walton The Devil in America by Kai Ashante Wilson In the Sight of Akresa by Ray Wood A Cup of Salt Tears by Isabel Yap At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System S 816 S 360 H R 3686 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Contender Vol 25 No 5 written by Rev. Raymond Jackson and published by Faith Assembly Church. This book was released on 1993-07-15 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I want us to go back, and instead of leaving the Jews in Babylon and hurrying to the 70 weeks of Daniel, pick up the course the Jews followed and see how the ark of the covenant fit into the picture. We need to see what it symbolized. I touched on certain things earlier, to get certain things in your mind; but now we need to go back to Ezekiel, to the 11th chapter, and familiarize ourselves with the whole setting.
Download or read book Star Gazing written by Linda Gillard and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Jojo Moyes, Kathryn Hughes and Kelly Rimmer will fall in love with Star Gazing - a beautifully poignant tale of love, loss, courage and hope. Love isn't something that you find. It's something that finds you. Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne Fraser has accepted that she will spend the rest of her life living in frustrated anonymity with her sister, Louisa. But when Keir Harvey comes to her aide one winter's night, she cannot help but dream of a different life. Keir is unlike anyone she's ever met - he's abrupt, wonderfully unapologetic and impossibly kind. But it's not long before the similarities between Keir and Marianne's former husband become too obvious to ignore. Is history repeating itself? Can Marianne overcome her fears, let down her guard and open her heart to this mysterious stranger who wants nothing more than to 'show' a blind woman the stars? Read what everyone is saying about Star Gazing 'This was a joy to read from the first page to the last... Romantic and quirky and beautifully written' - LoveReading.co.uk 'I could not put it down. It was absolutely enthralling. You will not forget this story!' - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars 'I simply couldn't put it down...This story has more twists than a corkscrew.' - TheBookBag blog 'The best book I have read this year... a beautiful not-to-be-missed love story!' - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars '5/5 does not do this book justice! It deserves far more!' - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars
Download or read book Moctezuma s Table written by Norma E. Cantú and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The table provides the food that sustains physical life. It is also the setting for people to share the fellowship that sustains cultural, community, and political life.In the vision of artist Rolando Briseño, food is a powerful metaphor, a way of understanding how culture nurtures the spirit. When cultures collide-as they inevitably do in borderlands settings-food, its preparation, and the rituals surrounding its consumption can preserve meanings and understandings that might otherwise have been lost to the mainstream social narrative.Briseño’s exhibit, La Mesa de Moctezuma/Moctezuma’s Table, originally hosted by San Antonio’s Instituto Cultural Mexicano and later by the Instituto de México, Montreal, Canada, brings to vivid life the artist’s conception of food as life source, social symbol, and embodiment of meaning.Now, editor Norma E. Cantú has gathered the art, along with the words of fifteen poets, writers, artists, and scholars who reflect in various ways on the layers of interpretation to be derived from Briseño’s works. Their thoughts provide focal points for musings about food, transborder relationships between food and art, personal connections to food, individual works within the exhibit, and the intense and immediate connections among culture, food, and self.
Download or read book New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: (Adelson v. Dreyman) (Adelson v. Dreyman) (Adelson v. Dreyman) (American Scotti Corp. v. Pollack) (American Scotti Corp. v. Pollack) (American Scotti Corp. v. Pollack) (Arc Engineering Corp. v. State of N.Y.) (Arc Engineering Corp. v. State of N.Y.) (Bailey v. Bush Terminal Co.) (Bailey v. Bush Terminal Co.) (Bailey v. Bush Terminal Co.) (Bailey v. Bush Terminal Co.) (Battle v. Niagara Frontier Food Terminal, Inc.) (Battle v. Niagara Frontier Food Terminal, Inc.) (Battle v. Niagara Frontier Food Terminal, Inc.) (People ex rel Beardsley v. Barber) (People ex rel Beardsley v. Barber) (People ex rel Beardsley v. Barber) (Becker v. Stern) (Becker v. Stern) (Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. Bush Terminal Co.) (Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. Bush Terminal Co.) (Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. Bush Terminal Co.) (Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. Bush Terminal Co.) (Bensaude v. Flomarcy Co. Inc.) (Bensaude v. Flomarcy Co. Inc.) (Bensaude v. Flomarcy Co. Inc.) (Bensaude v. Flomarcy Co. Inc.) (Matter of Berkeley v. Waldron) (Matter of Berkeley v. Waldron)
