Download or read book What Just Happened written by Charles Finch and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous dose of groundedness in head-spinning times. "This book is so funny and so true. Charles Finch unpacks a year of plague, fear, shameless venality, and dizzying stupidity with an irrepressible wit and surgically precise cultural observations. I didn't know how badly I needed exactly this. Maybe you do too?" —Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box In March 2020, at the request of the Los Angeles Times, Charles Finch became a reluctant diarist: As California sheltered in place, he began to write daily notes about the odd ambient changes in his own life and in the lives around him. The result is What Just Happened. In a warm, candid, welcoming voice, and in the tradition of Woolf and Orwell, Finch brings us into his own world: taking long evening walks near his home in L.A., listening to music, and keeping virtual connections with friends across the country as they each experience the crisis. And drawing on his remarkable acuity as a cultural critic, he chronicles one endless year with delightful commentary on current events, and the things that distract him from current events: Murakami’s novels, reality television, the Beatles. What Just Happened is a work of empathy and insight, at once of-the-moment and timeless—a gift from one of our culture's most original thinkers.

Download or read book What You Really Really Want written by Jaclyn Friedman and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-editor of Yes Means Yes gives young women the tools to decipher the modern world's confusing, hypersexualized, sometimes dangerous landscape so they can define their own sexual identity. In this empowering, accessible guide, Jaclyn Friedman-co-editor of Yes Means Yes-gives young women the tools to decipher the modern world's confusing, hypersexualized, sometimes dangerous landscape so they can define their own sexual identity. Friedman decries the hypocrisy and mixed messages of our culture (we're failures if we don't act sexy, but we're sluts if we actually pursue sex; we need to be protected from rapists lurking in bushes, but deserve "whatever we get" if we have a drink at a party and wear a skirt), and encourages readers to separate fear from fact, decode the damaging messages all around them, and discover a healthy personal sexuality.

Download or read book Did That Just Happen written by Stephanie Pinder-Amaker and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible guide showing all people how to create and sustain diversity and inclusivity in the workplace—no matter your identity, industry, or level of experience Offering real-life accounts that illustrate common workplace occurrences around inclusivity and answers to questions like “How do I identify and handle diversity landmines at work?” and “What can I do when I’ve made a mistake?” this handbook breaks down ways that organizations (and all people) can improve their cultural awareness and become more equitable in their work and personal relationships. We know that diverse teams are stronger, smarter, and more profitable, and many companies are attempting to hire more diverse teams, but most struggle to create a real culture of inclusivity in which people from all backgrounds feel comfortable. As clinical psychologists, as well as individuals with marginalized identities, Dr. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker and Dr. Lauren Wadsworth show the emotional and physical impact of marginalization and how that leads to a decrease in employee engagement and, often, increased job turnover. “Did That Just Happen?!” will be invaluable for employees who come from underrepresented communities and identities (identities discussed include race, age, disability, sexual orientation, citizenship status, and gender expression). But the book is essential for leaders of companies, supervisors, HR departments, and for anyone who wants to understand and support diversity/equity/inclusion practices. The book will also make readers feel more confident in their navigating of friendships/interactions with people who hold different identities.

Download or read book Next The Future Just Happened written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-05-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller. "His book is a wake-up call at a time when many believe the net was a flash in the pan."—BusinessWeek With his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged changes in the way we live, work, and think. In the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions in the history of the world, the Internet has become a weapon in the hands of revolutionaries. Old priesthoods are crumbling. In the new order, the amateur is king: fourteen-year-olds manipulate the stock market and nineteen-year-olds take down the music industry. Unseen forces undermine all forms of collectivism, from the family to the mass market: one black box has the power to end television as we know it, and another one may dictate significant changes in our practice of democracy. With a new afterword by the author.

Download or read book What Just Happened written by James Gleick and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively time capsule, this brilliant chronicle explores and illuminates the ways in which technology has rearranged our world during the past ten years.

Download or read book What Just Happened written by Art Linson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2008-10-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Producer Linson gives readers a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood, from script to screen.

Download or read book What the Hell Just Happened written by Richy K. Chandler and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You feel like you're...how can I put it...falling?' This inspirational gift book helps readers overcome troubling times in their lives. Through vivid illustrations and positive affirmations, the book shows how you can face your past and embrace your future. The author provides thoughtful tips to remind you of what you can be at your emotionally strongest and smartest. Written by successful graphic novelist Richy K. Chandler, this will help you face life head-on and appreciate all that is good in your life. Ideal to gift to anyone going through a rough patch, or for use by therapists and counsellors.

Download or read book It Just Happened written by Phil Joanou and published by e&w publishing inc.. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the book: Billy Burton is a strange boy. Or, at least, that’s what everyone tells him. He lives inside his head; thinking and thinking and dreaming and scheming. But this year—1973—his twelfth year on earth, is like no other. He is constantly under threat from the school psychopath; his dad is under investigation by the Senate Select Committee on Watergate; the odd girl across the street has taken a keen interest in Billy (and him, in her); Bob Woodward is after his dad (unless Billy can stop him); his dog (Mr. Pooch) is out of control and cannot be found; Billy has come into possession of a book entitled “The Happy Hooker” (and intends to decipher the meaning of all things “sexy”); he realizes his new (and only) friend is a juvenile delinquent; and he has somehow come to know the iconoclastic physicist, Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize winner), whose motto is, “Damn the torpedoes!”—which has become Billy's motto too. 1973 is going to be a wild ride for one Billy Burton. About the author: Phil Joanou has directed feature films (“Three O’clock High”—“State of Grace”—“U2: Rattle and Hum” etc. etc.) as well as documentaries, commercials, some television and several music videos. This is his first novel.

Download or read book Bad Stories written by Steve Almond and published by Red Hen Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Almond draws on everything from The Grapes of Wrath to the voting practices of his babysitter to dismantle the false narratives about American democracy.” —Cheryl Strayed, international-bestselling author of Wild Like a lot of Americans, Steve Almond spent the weeks after the 2016 election lying awake, in a state of dread and bewilderment. The problem wasn’t just the election, but the fact that nobody could explain, in any sort of coherent way, why America had elected a cruel, corrupt, and incompetent man to the Presidency. Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country is Almond’s effort to make sense of our historical moment, to connect certain dots that go unconnected amid the deluge of hot takes and think pieces. Almond looks to literary voices—from Melville to Orwell, from Bradbury to Baldwin—to help explain the roots of our moral erosion as a people. The book argues that Trumpism is a bad outcome arising directly from the bad stories we tell ourselves. To understand how we got here, we have to confront our cultural delusions: our obsession with entertainment, sports, and political parody, the degeneration of our free press into a for-profit industry, our enduring pathologies of race, class, immigration, and tribalism. Bad Stories is a lamentation aimed at providing clarity. It’s the book you can pass along to an anguished fellow traveler with the promise, This will help you understand what the hell happened to our country. “Almond holds up literature as a guide through America’s age-old moral dilemmas and finds hope for his country in family, forgiveness, and political resistance.” —Booklist

Download or read book It Just Happened written by Y. K. Amar and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief Teaser Summery about the book Faxon Branson - Happenings happened in the life of this handsome young man putting his loyalty to test against charming women who invaded his life at various stages. He had no option but to emerge unscathed to save his marriage. Could he manage the challenge or It Just Happenedas it would have. Lubna Martin - The beautiful wife of Faxon believed in him, in his love and devotion for her. But how could she deceive her own heart with what she saw with her own eyes on a quiet lonely afternoon when It Just Happenedwith Faxon at the Valois Mansion. Rebecca Valois - The show stopper 42 years old lonely beautiful spinster heiress of the multi-billion dollar Valois Business Empire regretted her decision to remain single after attending the marriage of Faxon and Lubna. Luckily for her, It Just Happenedthat Faxon, the intelligent and handsome General Manager, worked in her organization. Gonza - The young and growing tribal beauty of a forgotten tiny island in the Atlantic Ocean. Its natives had never heard about marriage. When she found a man - Faxon Branson, lying unconscious and injured on the sea shore It Just Happenedin her tranquil life too. She didn't know how to cope with the sensual turmoil that followed. She couldn't help giving it a shot. And what a shot it was! Faxon and his college time friend Lubna hoped to live a cozy married life, but his billionaire boss Rebecca, smitten for Faxon's love, swallowed pills when he refused her covert advances. Was death of love ordained in Faxon's married life? Dejection made him board a ship. Fortunately, the shipwreck landed him on an unknown island. Wonderful men do wonders anywhere; It Just Happenedon the island too. A scintillating compulsive page-turner saga of aristocracy, intimacy, suspense and adventure.

Download or read book Holy Terror written by Bob Colacello and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, Andy Warhol’s paintings redefined modern art. His films provoked heated controversy, and his Factory was a hangout for the avant-garde. In the 1970s, after Valerie Solanas’s attempt on his life, Warhol become more entrepreneurial, aligning himself with the rich and famous. Bob Colacello, the editor of Warhol’s Interview magazine, spent that decade by Andy’s side as employee, collaborator, wingman, and confidante. In these pages, Colacello takes us there with Andy: into the Factory office, into Studio 54, into wild celebrity-studded parties, and into the early-morning phone calls where the mysterious artist was at his most honest and vulnerable. Colacello gives us, as no one else can, a riveting portrait of this extraordinary man: brilliant, controlling, shy, insecure, and immeasurably influential. When Holy Terror was first published in 1990, it was hailed as the best of the Warhol accounts. Now, some two decades later, this portrayal retains its hold on readers—as does Andy’s timeless power to fascinate, galvanize, and move us.

Download or read book What the F ck Just Happened A Survivors Guide to Life After Breast Cancer written by Jen Rozenbaum and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to get back to normal life after breast cancer?You were diagnosed with breast cancer and beat it. Congrats! You counted down until the day you could put the journey behind you and return to your life as you knew it before cancer. That day is here and yet you are still asking yourself, "When will things be normal again?". If you have been feeling like you are struggling emotionally, physically and spiritually in your post cancer life, you are not alone. Here's the good news; You have a second chance at life and you aren't going to let it slip you by. This book is for breast cancer survivors who are truly ready to reconstruct their life and feel normal once again. Author and breast cancer survivor Jen Rozenbaum will teach you her methods to help you: Finally feel normal again after cancerGet rid of the numbness and enjoy life againStop living in fear of the cancer returningFeel sexy and feminine again Grab your copy now and get started on the path to discover and live a normal life again

Download or read book Friendships Don t Just Happen written by Shasta Nelson and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential go-to guide reveals how women can enhance their lives by creating valuable friendships in today’s busy, mobile world, from nationally recognized friendship expert and CEO of GirlFriendCircles.com. Every woman is searching for a happier, healthier, more fulfilling life. Many realize the significant role that an intimate, tightly knit circle of friends plays in creating a more fulfilling life, but with hectic schedules, frequent moves, and life changes, it’s more important than ever for women to establish natural, meaningful friendships that will contribute to their overall wellbeing. In Friendships Don’t Just Happen!, Shasta Nelson, friendship expert and CEO of GirlFriendCircles.com, reveals the most important proven steps, processes, and secrets vital to establishing the five different levels of friendships, or Circles of Connectedness, that women—no matter their age or relationship status—are longing for in today’s stressful and mobile culture. This revolutionary, engaging guide will also benefit women who already feel rooted to fabulous friends, with insightful principles that will help them maintain and enhance their current friendships. Full of practical how-to tips, fun activities, guiding questions, and step-by-step instructions, Friendships Don’t Just Happen! highlights several areas of developing lasting friendships, teaching women how to: Evaluate their current circle of friends Recognize what types of friends they are seeking based on career, interests, location, and relationship status Create a prioritized friendship action plan Find extraordinary friends—where to look and how to approach them Take initiative to jumpstart friendships and face fears of rejection Establish “frientimacy,” trust, and happiness through conversation and activities Maintain meaningful friendships and determine which ones are worthwhile Excerpt from Friendships Don't Just Happen: There is a lie out there that real friendship just happens. When I was new to San Francisco eight years ago, I remember standing at a café window on Polk Street watching a group of women inside, huddled around a table laughing. Like the puppy dog at the pound, I looked through the glass, wishing someone would pick me to be theirs. I had a phone full of far-flung friends’ phone numbers, but I didn’t yet know anyone I could just sit and laugh with in a café. It hit me how very hard the friendship process is. I’m an outgoing, socially comfortable woman with a long line of good friendships behind me. And yet I stood there feeling very lonely. And insecure. And exhausted at just the idea of how far I was from that reality. I knew I couldn’t just walk in there and introduce myself to them. “Hi! You look like fun women, can I join you?” I would have been met with stares of pity. No one wants to seem desperate, even if we are. We don’t have platonic pick-up lines memorized. Flirting for friends seems creepy. Asking for her phone number like we’re going to call her up for a Saturday night date is just plain weird. All the batting of my eyelashes wasn’t going to send the right signals. And so I turned away from the scene of laughter and walked away. No, unfortunately, friendships don’t just happen. We Value Belonging Friendships may not happen automatically, but what we crave about them sure seems to! We all want to belong—that need to be connected to others is an inherent desire. We live our entire lives trying to fit in, be known, attract acceptance, and experience intimacy. We desperately want to have others care about us. This book is about that hunger. And more pointedly, it is about listening to it and learning how to fulfill it.

Download or read book What the Fuck Just Happened written by Creative Tools and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your life full of drama and conflict? We live in a complicated world. Sometimes f*cked up stuff happens. Purge that sh*t. Suck it up, buttercup. Write it down, then review it. What the f*ck did you learn from it? Let's be honest, maybe you even contributed to the chaotic clusterf*ck that's now on your mind. Do some work in this journal, quit your bitching and spare your friends and family the ordeal of listening to your bullshit. Learn from it, put it behind you and move the fuck onward and upward! Know someone else who might benefit from purging their toxic feelings? Give them the gift that keeps on giving - the gift of self-reflection! This humorous yet valuable journal makes an ideal gift for your troublesome friend, relative or even co-worker! If you'd prefer a cleaner version of this journal check out What The Heck Just Happened?

Download or read book What Just Happened written by Jimmy Burgess and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Just Happened? How to Bounce Back in Life So You Can Do More, Have More, and Be More is an inspiring guide on how to overcome life's obstacles. Jimmy Burgess walks the reader through seven simple steps on how-to move from where you are now to where you want to be. His transparency in regards to personal setbacks related to financial issues, health problems and family relations reveal how he was able to rebound to a life of more. More peace, more joy, more love, and more of everything else this world has to offer. Whether your struggle is or has been financial, relational, physical, or all of the above, the struggles of your life have come to pass and not to stay. This is your moment to find hope, a plan of action, and excitement about your future. This is the book to help get you started on that path. What others are saying about What Just Happened?: The seven steps Jimmy shares in his book are almost identical to the ones I used in my life after retiring from the NFL. What many viewed as a set-back (leaving the NFL), I was able to turn into a set-up. This led me to the purpose of my life which is to impact the lives of the next generation on a daily basis. I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to take their life to a whole new level of, as Jimmy puts it, "more." Dexter McNabb, Retired NFL Player, Current Associate High School Principal In What Just Happened?, Jimmy provides an easy-to-follow game plan that will equip the reader to recognize and overcome adversity. His transparency and perseverance throughout the book will encourage the reader to reach higher and higher. In the end the reader realizes that he, too, can do this, he too can overcome ! A must read for all families. Jimmy Sharpe, Former Head Coach of Virginia Tech University, Former University of Alabama Player and Assistant Coach under Paul "Bear" Bryant, 4-time National Champion I believe anyone that reads this book will be blessed and if they will inculcate it into their daily lives they can be successful in any venture for which they have a passion. Dr. Thomas Terry Hopper, Inductee of the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame. Two Time National Champion Coach Men's and Women Golf at The University of Mobile

Download or read book That Doesn t Just Happen written by Mike Kai and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellence in Everything If service were a simple task, there wouldn't be so many scathing Yelp reviews or dissatisfied customers venting online, on their smartphones, or at the nearest restaurant or dry cleaners. Such pique has a cost: One survey found that 94 percent of respondents avoided a purchase after reading a negative online review. Eighty percent changed their mind about a recommended purchase because of a "thumbs down." Mike Kai has encountered reasons for such reactions, be that botched food orders, unreasonable delays, or service with anything but a smile. The way to overcome such business killers lies in the teaching implicit in a centuries-old story: King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Although details of the queen's visit to the famed, wise leader of Israel are brief, in this creative reflection Mike weaves the details of what we do know into modern-day business principles. In doing so, he shows how it is possible to employ the kind of excellence that turned the heads of royalty years ago-and will still impress others.

Download or read book What Just Happened What Happens Now What Happens Next written by Prepared By: Christian Media LLC and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At every funeral, two elements always surface. First, people throw platitude after platitude, trying to make both themselves and the survivors of the deceased feel better about having lost a loved one. We say things like, "He/she is in a better place" or "He/she has gone to be with the Lord." There are too many such words expressed at internments to even mention in a work this size. The second most common thing that most all funerals have in common is people ask questions, seeking explanations about what has happened before, during, and after the death of their friend, family members, and others. Is there life after death? What is heaven/hell really like? What are they doing wherever it is that is where they are? Bookshelves and electronic media are replete with secular ideas and/or personal hypostasis about what happens after my beloved has left this life for another. This is where this work will differ. The subject at hand will be poured into God's Holy Word, and we will let the Bible interpret the Bible. The old phrase is applicable here, "If the first sense makes good sense, everything else is nonsense." We say: If the Bible makes sense, why look further to sources that at best can only report on what they are told happens by someone who has been declared clinically deceased and resurrected. Real or imagined. Why try to force man's philosophical guesses into the discussion populated with what God has given us. For more than a millennium people have concerned themselves with gathering information that would pertain to any sort of afterlife. As far back as the earliest Egyptian rulers believed that there was some sort of existence that would follow this earthly lifetime, people today are still asking questions and seeking more and more information on the subject. The writers of Christian Media, LLC have herein made an effort to expose what the Bible has to tell us about life after living on earth. Without personal doctrinal, opinion, or phycological contamination, the elements of existence after this world is put forth in expositional context. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: Because thou hast rejected knowledge. (Hosea 4:6 KJV) This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:1-7 KJV)