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Author : Lindy West
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780316449847

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Shit, Actually by Lindy West Pdf

One of the "Best Books of 2020" by NPR's Book Concierge **Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched** New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time: Is Twilight the horniest movie in history? Why do the zebras in The Lion King trust Mufasa-WHO IS A LION-to look out for their best interests? Why did anyone bother making any more movies after The Fugitive achieved perfection? And, my god, why don't any of the women in Love, Actually ever fucking talk?!?! From Forrest Gump, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and Bad Boys II, to Face/Off, Top Gun, and The Notebook, Lindy combines her razor-sharp wit and trademark humor with a genuine adoration for nostalgic trash to shed new critical light on some of our defining cultural touchstones-the stories we've long been telling ourselves about who we are. At once outrageously funny and piercingly incisive, Shit, Actually reminds us to pause and ask, "How does this movie hold up?", all while teaching us how to laugh at the things we love without ever letting them or ourselves off the hook. Shit, Actually is a love letter and a break-up note all in one: to the films that shaped us and the ones that ruined us. More often than not, Lindy finds, they're one and the same.

Author : Monica Heisey
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443467094

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Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey Pdf

“Hilarious, heart-warming, wise.” — Paula Hawkins A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup, from comedian, essayist, and award-winning screenwriter Monica Heisey Maggie is fine. She’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée™. Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4 am, and “get back out there” sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her newly divorced friend, Amy; and her group chat (naturally), Maggie barrels through her first year of single life, intermittently dating, occasionally waking up on the floor and asking herself tough questions along the way. Laugh-out-loud funny and filled with sharp observations, Really Good, Actually is a tender and bittersweet comedy that lays bare the uncertainties of modern love, friendship, and our search for that thing we like to call “happiness”. This is a remarkable debut from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.

Author : Richard Curtis
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0312318499

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Love Actually by Richard Curtis Pdf

The hilarious new screenplay from the writer of "Four Weddings and a Funeral"is coming to the big screen in November 2003.

Author : James Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101609125

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Christ Actually by James Carroll Pdf

A New York Times bestselling and widely admired Catholic writer explores how we can retrieve transcendent faith in modern times Critically acclaimed and bestselling author James Carroll has explored every aspect of Christianity, faith, and Jesus Christ except this central one: What can we believe about—and how can we believe in—Jesus in the twenty-first century in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religion that followed? What Carroll has discovered through decades of writing and lecturing is that he is far from alone in clinging to a received memory of Jesus that separates him from his crucial identity as a Jew, and therefore as a human. Yet if Jesus was not taken as divine, he would be of no interest to us. What can that mean now? Paradoxically, the key is his permanent Jewishness. No Christian himself, Jesus actually transcends Christianity. Drawing on both a wide range of scholarship as well as his own acute searching as a believer, Carroll takes a fresh look at the most familiar narratives of all—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Far from another book about the “historical Jesus,” he takes the challenges of science and contemporary philosophy seriously. He retrieves the power of Jesus’ profound ordinariness, as an answer to his own last question—what is the future of Jesus Christ?—as the key to a renewal of faith.

Author : Joe Shooman
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781789467130

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Quiz Actually by Joe Shooman Pdf

Which Christmas film do you love the most? Which Christmas film do you hate the most? What even is a Christmas film? Argue out all these questions and more before you even open the ultimate Christmas Day family activity book. Packed full of tricky, fun and entertaining quiz questions, Quiz, Actually will test you and your loved ones this Christmas on the movies we love to watch every year. Get ready to find out who really knows their Snowman from their Scrooged, and their Miracle on 34th Street from their Nightmare On Elm Street... Featured films include: Love, Actually Home Alone It's a Wonderful Life Elf The Grinch The Nightmare Before Christmas Scrooged Bridget Jones's Diary Harry Potter The Holiday Die Hard (yes) and more!

Author : Michele M. Miller
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365443800

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Breathtakingly Original Series Book One: Actually Funny, Actually Poignant MONOLOGUES for the Handicap-Able Actor by Michele M. Miller Pdf

Author : John Barry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199695393

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The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability by John Barry Pdf

At the level of developing a progressive and critical theoretical understanding of unsustainability, it argues for the importance of integrating vulnerability, which has been largely neglected by both mainstream western political theory and analyses of the current global ecological crisis. It suggests that valuable insights into the causes of and alternatives to unsustainability can be found in a critical embracing of human vulnerability and dependency as both constitutive and ineliminable aspects of what it means to be human. Rather than seeing invulnerability as the appropriate response, the book defends resilience, and the ability to 'cope with' rather than 'solve' vulnerability, as more productive.

Author : Elizabeth Hunter
Publisher : Recurve Press, LLC
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941674598

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Fate Actually by Elizabeth Hunter Pdf

She’s an empath who’s always prepared, but can she handle a supernatural storm of lies, temptation, and murder? Toni Dusi grew up knowing everyone’s business and everyone knowing hers because in Moonstone Cove, you can’t pass a restaurant, farm, or winery that doesn’t have at least one Dusi involved. Despite her family, Toni has managed to carve out a private niche for herself. She has a car shop she loves, a country cottage all to herself, and has carefully avoided any long-term romantic commitments. Then fate handed Toni a shot of supernatural empathy that threw all that out the window of her prized vintage Mustang. Now she’s feeling the mood swings of everyone from her parts guy to her reluctant crush to her second cousin going through a messy divorce. She’s losing her temper, she’s crying a river, and she’s definitely giving in to temptation. But when the body of a longtime family rival turns up at her cousin’s winery, Toni realizes her inconvenient feelings-magic has turned her into one heck of a lie detector. She and her new friends, Katherine and Megan, might be the only ones who can clear her cousin’s name. When fate throws a final curveball in Toni’s direction, will she drop everything with disastrous consequences? Or can a forty-one-year-old empath learn enough new tricks to keep the life she’s built without sacrificing new happiness? Fate Actually is a paranormal women’s fiction novel and the second book in the Moonstone Cove series by USA Today best-selling author Elizabeth Hunter.

Author : Ben Sheehan
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780762498468

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OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? by Ben Sheehan Pdf

Do you know what the Constitution ACTUALLY says? This witty and highly relevant annotation of our founding document is the go-to guide to how our government really works (or is supposed to work). Written by political savant and entertainment veteran, Ben Sheehan, and vetted for accuracy by experts in the field of constitutional law, OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? is an entertaining and accessible guide that explains what the Constitution actually lays out. With clear notes and graphics on everything from presidential powers to Supreme Court nominations to hidden loopholes, Sheehan walks us through the entire Constitution from its preamble to its final amendment (with a bonus section on the Declaration of Independence). Besides putting the Constitution in modern-day English so that it can be understood, OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? gives readers all of the info they need to be effective voters and citizens in the November elections and beyond.

Author : Matthew Ryan Robinson,Inja Inderst
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783374070305

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What Does Theology Do, Actually? by Matthew Ryan Robinson,Inja Inderst Pdf

»What Does Theology Do, Actually? Observing Theology and the Transcultural« is to be the first in a series of 5 books, each presented under the same question – »What Does Theology Do, Actually?«, with vols. 2–5 focusing on one of the theological subdisciplines. This first volume proceeds from the observation of a need for a highly inflected »trans-cultural«, and not simply »inter-cultural«, set of perspectives in theological work and training. The revolution brought about across the humanities disciplines through globalization and the recognition of »multiple modernities« has introduced a diversity of overlapping cultural content and multiple cultural and religious belongings not only into academic work in the humanities and social sciences, but into the Christian churches as well.

Author : Jay R. Galbraith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470316313

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Designing Matrix Organizations that Actually Work by Jay R. Galbraith Pdf

Organization structures do not fail, says Jay Galbraith, but management fails at implementing them correctly. This is why, he explains, the idea that the matrix does not work still exists today, even among people who should know better. But the matrix has become a necessary form of organization in today's business environment. Companies now know that if they have multiple product lines, do business in multiple countries, and serve many customer segments through a variety of channels, there is no way they can avoid some kind of a matrix structure and the question most are asking is "How do we learn how to operate the matrix effectively?" In Designing Matrix Organizations That Actually Work, Galbraith answers this and other questions as he shows how to make a matrix work effectively.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045469728

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Reimbursement of Nevada for Moneys Actually Advanced and Expended in Aid of the Common Defense by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Alisha Gaddis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781495049651

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Teen Girls' Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny by Alisha Gaddis Pdf

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Author : Ai Takahashi
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781646599202

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Am I Actually the Strongest? 3 by Ai Takahashi Pdf

To be reincarnated into another world with the promise of a "cheat" power is one thing... but to be reborn as a baby, and then left for dead after your royal parents think you're powerless?? That's another thing entirely! Now the newly-born Reinhardt—or Haruto to his new friends—must find his way through a dangerous world...but luckily he's got magic that's quite literally off the charts!

Author : Yin Ya
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649350435

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Actually, I also Have Plug-ins by Yin Ya Pdf

[Savage Melting VS Magical False Benevolence] Ezra Continent was a world where magic and martial arts prevailed. After death, they accidentally witnessed the murder scene and were forced to bind to the Child of Fate. Who said that the heart of the child of destiny must be filled with money? The one he met was a black bag, he thought he had found a thick leg, but who knew that this person was not only black-hearted, even the leg he hugged was black, and his conscience was also a passerby.