Download or read book How to Do Nothing written by Jenny Odell and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.
Download or read book Ain t Nobody Be Learnin Nothin written by Caleb Rossiter and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s most challenged families are segregated into high-poverty schools. Despite a 20-year experiment in nationwide school reform, few students make it over the slippery bridge to the middle class. In this book you will meet the students, families, teachers, and administrators who struggle inside this failed system, and consider proposals to give them a fighting chance. Caleb Rossiter recounts his experiences as a math teacher of African-American 9th and 10th graders in the poorest wards of the nation's capital. He describes the obstacles facing teachers who are held accountable for the performance of students whose average skills are years below grade level. Rossiter, also a professor of statistics at American University, explains how the No Child Left Behind law allows school districts to use so-called “data-driven” measures of teacher and even "school" effectiveness that ignore learning deficiencies and behavior patterns that began before a child's first day in school. These measures violate basic norms of statistical analysis, yet are used to make comparisons and draw policy-level conclusions. He exposes the pretense of success claimed by “school reformers” who pressure teachers to award unearned grades and, if they won’t, paper over failure with imitation classes euphemistically termed "credit recovery." He then offers reasonable solutions that would enable children who attend school ready to learn to be freed from the disruption of poorly socialized peers, who can be better served in alternative settings.
Download or read book Ain t Nothin Personal written by Chris Kelsey and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A strong mystery that clearly shows some secrets, like a few bodies, can't stay buried." -Kirkus Reviews After a kidnap-for-hire plot results in the death of a young boy, Burr police chief Emmett Hardy blames himself and has an alcohol-fueled breakdown. His life at a crossroads, Hardy checks into the hospital for treatment, only to discover upon his release that he's been suspended from duty. When a dying prisoner contacts him about a long-forgotten unsolved case, Emmett-temporarily at loose ends-begins an informal investigation. Soon he becomes a target of violence himself, as his investigation becomes a murder probe implicating the most powerful men in town. Hardy is forced to relive one of the most traumatic events of his childhood, and faces the possibility that members of his own family may have been involved in the crime. Ultimately, with Emmett's tenuous grasp on sobriety slipping and his moral foundation shifting beneath his feet, the answer to the question, "Who do I trust?" becomes a matter of life and death.
Download or read book Amount to Nothin written by Cary James and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stan Pauley is thirty-eight years old, healthy, gainfully employed, established in the community, and seemingly content. So why is he attempting suicide? Conversely, Stan Pauley sees himself as old, unable to achieve fulfillment, fearful of the world outside his realm, and terminally miserable. Social, familial, political and cultural tenets say Stan is out of the loop with his lifestyle choices and needs to be more conforming. His steadfast resolve to live life on his own terms is incrementally being compromised by failed dreams and unrealized goals, which he interprets as an abject character failure. Based on true accounts, Stan's suicide note takes you through his life beginning as a young boy not much different from any other, possessing quixotic dreams of great achievement and grand wealth. Whereas most young adults eventually realize fame and fortune are merely unattainable fantasies remanded to neighborhood barbecue banter, Stan intently refuses to relinquish that ineffable goal, lest his father's haunting prophecy turn to frightening reality.
Download or read book Nothin s On The Square written by Mike Houlihan and published by Abbeyfeale Press Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago is the political corruption capital of the world. To discover the future for many cities facing similar epidemics of corruption read on.
Former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mike Houlihan takes us on a rollicking ride into the underbelly of Chicago politics, with a sneak peek behind the scenes of a mayoral campaign to unseat Rahm Emanuel.
No rules apply here, “nothin’s on the square”, and the game is rigged from the get-go. Join “Houli” as he signs on as campaign advisor and takes you with him through the windy city in a battle for the soul of Chicagoland, a thrill ride for political junkies that takes you from lonely empty candidate forums to barnstorming corned beef and cabbage bashes to the pinnacle of Chicago politics.
Houlihan peels off the days of the calendar with daily body counts from the blood soaked streets of the ghetto and puts you in the smoke filled rooms with the back stabbing blowhards, fakers and Friars gobbling at the trough to get their piece of the pie, personifying the old Chicago motto of “Ubi Est Mea”, where is mine?
Rick Kogan of the Chicago Tribune says, “Houlihan minces no words here…this is a unique and essential Chicago book.”
This is also essential reading for anyone interested in the rotten core of big city politics or who has aspirations of changing anything in America.
Download or read book What If There Is Nothing Wrong with You written by Susan M. Henkels and published by Smh Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissolving and dismantling your belief that something is wrong with you and replacing that with what is. Redefining a new interpretation of right and wrong
Download or read book Nothin Much written by William A Luckey and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failure or success in a life is often calculated on what a man owns. A man with nothing, no steady job, not even a driver's license, is judged a failure to the rest of the world. When Dayton Sandoval lands unexpectedly in a small New Mexico town, he knows he will earn a few dollars, learn a few names, and be gone before entanglements hobble and hold him. It's a familiar pattern, what he does, how he survives. But it doesn't work out that way -- not at all. Because of an old woman, a rank horse, and the child who loves him . . . and a distant and fearful lady. As Dayton Sandoval allows these three women to need him, as he learns to love and care for them, he will pull apart the devastation of his past and find a completed and whole man where he thought lay only ancient, unhealing wounds.
Download or read book Don t Mean Nothin written by C.H. Williamson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fasten your seat belt, lock and load, and get ready to read about the most secret unit of the Vietnam War. Discover why and how it was formed, how it planned and conducted its actual operations, and how both its US and indigenous elements fought and died in a covert war that never made the headlines because their actions and employment locations were too classified. Get an insiders look into the most sensitive and classified operation of the entire Vietnam War; a covert raid into mainland China; a Top Secret mission that never came to light, either during or after that conflict! Find out who authorized it and why, and discover how it was planned and executed; and why China never acknowledged that it actually happened. Tag along with a Green Beret Team as they recruit and train 350 Nung Chinese mercenaries to successfully conduct it, and defying off the chart odds when they actually accomplish it! Lastly, uncover why the raid itself was essential in preventing a major escalation of the War; one so dangerous it threatened all of Southeast Asia. And discover why its success prevented a superpower confrontation where all options, including the nuclear one, were on the table!
Download or read book Nothin Short of Dyin written by John R. Riggs and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothin Short of Dyin is the long awaited 14th book in the Garth Ryland mystery series. Called an exemplary series hero by Publishers Weekly, Ryland lives and works in the small town of Oakalla, Wisconsin (Lake Woebegone made sinister) where passions run high, secrets go deep, and nothing is ever quite as it seems. His morning starts quietly on a picture perfect, mid-November day. But even as he stands at his office widow admiring the flawless blue sky and coverall layer of fresh white snow, he knows it wont last. Wisconsin Novembers are notoriously bad. They are one long gray litany of cloudsthe ankle deep slush you wade through on your way to your first cold of the season. Besides, it was a Monday. So Garth isnt surprised when town marshal Cecil Hardwick soon arrives and wants Garth to accompany him to a clover field just outside of town where a mud-caked black pickup with bullet holes in the door and blood on the seat is parked. Garth does so under protest, and only because Cecils jurisdiction ends at the city limits, where Garths begins. The driver of the pickup is nowhere to be found, and there is no way to identify the pickup because it has no license plate or registration. A day long search turns up nothing but a menacing ex-football star from the Deep South who is looking for the same pickup. The first fire occurs in the night at Fickle, a whistle-stop five miles south of Oakalla. It bears an eerie resemblance to an earlier fire along Coon Lake where a ghost reportedly walks the shoreline a stones throw away from where a father and daughter once drowned. The second fire strikes at the heart of Oakalla, and at Garths heart as well. It threatens his friendship with his housekeper Ruth, who refuses him access to Ruths ward at the Womens Shelter, and whom Garth blames for the fires. Another fire will occur. A life will be lost. What promises to become a beautiful friendship will be destroyed before the mystery is unraveled and justice served.
Download or read book Do Nothing written by Celeste Headlee and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A welcome antidote to our toxic hustle culture of burnout.”—Arianna Huffington “This book is so important and could truly save lives.”—Elizabeth Gilbert “A clarion call to work smarter [and] accomplish more by doing less.”—Adam Grant We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? Despite our constant search for new ways to optimize our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. We strive for the absolute best in every aspect of our lives, ignoring what we do well naturally and reaching for a bar that keeps rising higher and higher. Why do we measure our time in terms of efficiency instead of meaning? Why can’t we just take a break? In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside, and start living instead of doing. As it turns out, we’re searching for external solutions to an internal problem. We won’t find what we’re searching for in punishing diets, productivity apps, or the latest self-improvement schemes. Yet all is not lost—we just need to learn how to take time for ourselves, without agenda or profit, and redefine what is truly worthwhile. Pulling together threads from history, neuroscience, social science, and even paleontology, Headlee examines long-held assumptions about time use, idleness, hard work, and even our ultimate goals. Her research reveals that the habits we cling to are doing us harm; they developed recently in human history, which means they are habits that can, and must, be broken. It’s time to reverse the trend that’s making us all sadder, sicker, and less productive, and return to a way of life that allows us to thrive.
Download or read book written by Marie B. Maher and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational true account of a very special boy and the unforgettable "gifts" he left behind.
Download or read book Dreamwalkers written by Sooz Parnam-Harris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what happens in your dreams after you wake up? For some of us the journey begins when we close our eyes.
Download or read book Speed Reading for Parents and Children written by Silviu Vasile and published by Silviu Vasile. This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for you and your child. Your child is brilliant. He has a chance to thrive and live in a wonderful world of opportunity. Watch your child as he sleeps, how peaceful and how beautiful he is. All your hopes are tied to his future and the choices he will be able to make. If he learns to look for value and to relate constantly to things of certain value then his life will be successful. Parents pass on their genes to their children, and according to these genes, children will have a series of physical, mental or mental attributes. More than just genetic endowment, parents pass on family values and create character. Every single thing that parents consider insignificant can have a significant impact on the child's personality and future. Speed reading is a value that many parents have chosen to pass on to their children. When your child has speed reading with him, he will be able to look for and find solutions to all the problems and challenges he will face. We live in a changing world and those who choose to stay informed are the ones who succeed in achieving their goals. The information we have access to is increasingly devoid of content and substance. Quality information is becoming a necessity because without access to the best information you will not be able to find the best solution for you and your child. Speed reading has proven its value and usefulness over time. If the technique of speed-reading is easy to learn when it comes to the motivation to practice daily exercises everything becomes more complicated. This book contains 100 reasons why you and your child should practise speed reading exercises, as well as 17 simple, easy-to-follow techniques. The best time to make a change in your and your child's life is now. Speed reading is a boon for those who practice it seriously. For your child, being able to achieve the performance of reading one or even two books a day, understanding what they read, and memorizing much of the content of the text can be the winning advantage. You, as a parent, can be sure that by guiding your child to speed reading you are giving them the chance to shine and use the brilliant potential they were born with. You have the chance to give your child a good start in life by teaching them to navigate the information channel. More and more parents are making speed reading a priority. They understand how important this skill is in the coming years and that without it children will have a hard time adjusting. Your child has enormous potential and you need to help them, by teaching them speed reading, to increase their value to the point where they can produce additional value. That will be the time when your child begins to distance himself from those who only consume value. It's the time when your child can shine.
Download or read book Kingdom Warrior Men s Devotional written by Douglas Dickerson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you and I be true worshippers of God and not be moved to action by the evil of our time. Rather, how can we be moved to set other men free? This is a time for war! A crafty mentality has invaded over much of the church. It holds that you and I, as Christian men, should not experience troubles, and if we do, we are not walking in faith. For that reason, this men’s devotional and journal was written. As we’ll see in these pages all of these accounts have been recorded in the Bible to inspire, teach, warn, and model how to live—and how not to live. You will learn more than you expect about God and how He desires to interact with you, as a warrior, a “kingdom warrior.” You won’t regret it! I pray that, as you read the devotionals in this book, you’ll get to know God at a deeper level and see yourself as a “kingdom warrior.”
Download or read book The Penny Pinchers Club written by Sarah Strohmeyer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in suburban New Jersey, Kat has a pretty serious retail habit. Now it looks like her husband Griff is having an affair...and setting up a secret bank account in preparation for a divorce. Suspecting her spending habits may be driving him away, Kat's determined to save her marriage by saving some money. But when her rich ex-fiancé turns up with a tempting bargain, she'll have to decide whether love conquers mall...
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 1544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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