Hannah And Soraya S Fully Magic Generation Y Snowflake Road Trip Across America

Author : James Ward
Publisher : Cool Millennium
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hannah and Soraya’s Fully Magic Generation-Y *Snowflake* Road Trip across America by James Ward Pdf

Hannah and Soraya are in the business of making rock music with a social conscience. The way Britain currently works, that means they’re ‘snowflakes’, ‘social justice warriors’, ‘virtue signallers’. They’ve learned to live with the mudslinging, but not happily. Worse than that. It's starting to overwhelm them. Then, out of the blue, they suffer a string of personal and professional crises. Their solution? A change of scene designed to keep the lid on a looming family cataclysm and draw artistic inspiration from the pre-musical roots of rock (but without the Beats’ misogyny, plus in an eco-friendly car). Hannah and Soraya’s Fully Magic Generation-Y *Snowflake* Road Trip across America is about the value of family, friendship, human mortality, the siren call of social media, celebrity vs. anonymity, creative integrity, true love, drugs ‘n’ alcohol, literature, sexuality, the ‘special relationship’, what it means to be a millennial, what kind of world Generation Y is set to inherit, the very meaning of life itself in the 21st century. Amongst other things.

Author : James Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913851575

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Hannah and Soraya's Fully Magic Generation-Y *Snowflake* Road Trip Across America by James Ward Pdf

Hannah and Soraya are in the business of making rock music with a social conscience. The way Britain currently works, that means they're 'snowflakes', 'social justice warriors', 'virtue signallers'. They've learned to live with the mudslinging, but not happily. Worse than that. It's starting to overwhelm them. Then, out of the blue, they suffer a string of personal and professional crises. Their solution? A change of scene designed to: (1) keep the lid on a looming family cataclysm, and (2) draw artistic inspiration from the pre-musical roots of rock (but without the Beats' misogyny, plus in an eco-friendly car). Hannah and Soraya's Fully Magic Generation-Y *Snowflake* Road Trip across America is a story about the value of family, friendship, left against right, the siren call of social media, celebrity vs. anonymity, creative integrity, true love, drugs & alcohol, literature, sexuality, the 'special relationship', what it means to be a millennial, what kind of world Generation Y is set to inherit. Amongst other things.

Author : James Ward
Publisher : Cool Millennium
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Bright Fish by James Ward Pdf

Something’s not right aboard the cruise ship Aurora. Yet that’s probably what you would think when you’re with the girl you love and everyone else is about fifty years your senior. You’re 3000 miles from home, young, and high on emotion. Maybe it just ratchets up the sense of adventure. And yet perhaps something really is wrong. There’s the passenger everyone thought was dead, but who reappears one evening in the lounge without comment or explanation. And eighty-year-old Celia Soper who reads Tarot cards, but only for ‘the history of the world’ … whatever that means. And then, of course, the disappearances. Which, apparently, only you two have noticed. Above all, there are the bright fish, creatures the size of dolphins that materialise unexpectedly, at intervals, alongside the hull, glowing with indescribable colours. And which never seem to inspire the sort of delight one might expect. Quite the opposite, in fact. The Bright Fish is a love story. It deals with what it means to live, lose one’s heart, and ultimately, to die in the metaphysically reticent context of the present century. Are we always essentially alone, or is true interdependency possible? Is death our beginning or end? Or both? Conversely, is the truth stranger than we can possibly imagine?

Author : James Ward
Publisher : Cool Millennium
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Weird Problem of Good by James Ward Pdf

True love isn’t always a bed of roses. Sometimes it’s a no-holds-barred battle to the death with the incarnation of evil. Prem’s wedding to Nasreen collapses when she uncharacteristically bows to her conscience and walks out of the ceremony. He wanders alone to the town centre where he bumps into Ursula, a gypsy refugee from Eastern Europe who manages to convince him she’s someone she’s not. Warming to her, despite his ordeal, and dimly sensing her predicament, he invites her to stay with him on a friends-only basis. She accepts. Fast forward a few months. The lives of all three have now become inextricably intertwined, with mutual forgiveness and a hastily agreed unity of purpose their only practical options. Through a series of misadventures, they’ve found themselves confronting a network of women-traffickers who’ll stop at nothing to protect their interests and expand their empire. If that means torturing Prem to death, and forcing Ursula and Nasreen into 21st century sex-slavery, so be it. How did they get from the first state of affairs (fairly run-of-the-mill) to the second (off-the-wall and utterly terrifying)? And just what is the ‘weird problem of good’ anyway? Don’t ask me. I’m just a blurb. You’ll have to read the book.

Author : James Ward
Publisher : Cool Millennium
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Latest Noel by James Ward Pdf

The Latest Noel is a collection of poems on subjects as diverse as British Summer Time, car boot sales, the 20th century thinker Georges Bataille, the connection between bird watching and waterfalls and Marxism, Valentine’s Day, English folklore, Magpies, extraterrestrials visiting the Earth, and Christmas. If you’re a fan of the ‘I feel pain more deeply and sensitively than anyone who’s ever lived’ type of verse, it probably won’t be your cup of tea. But if you’re not ... well, who knows?

Author : James Ward
Publisher : Cool Millennium
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A New Theory of Justice and Other Essays by James Ward Pdf

Is justice best understood as flowing from a social contract, or is there something else going on? How can we explain the many divergent notions of justice throughout history? Is it even possible to give a separate account of justice (as opposed to, say, social convention or morality)? These are some of the questions considered in A New Theory of Justice. But there are other essays in here, other questions, and other (tentative) answers. Is it possible to talk about ‘God’ anymore? What kinds of minds do animals have, and how could we ever find out? And what about free-will: is it just a story we tell ourselves to help us navigate life and stay sane? Or not? The author has a master’s degree and a DPhil, both in Philosophy.

Author : Richard Seymour
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788739313

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The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour Pdf

A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social media Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, and the virtual data mines of Facebook and Google where we spend considerable portions of our free time. In this polemical tour de force, Richard Seymour shows how the digital world is changing the ways we speak, write, and think. Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into. Social media held out the promise that we could make our own history–to what extent did we choose the nightmare that it has become?

Author : Robert M. Sapolsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439125052

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The Trouble With Testosterone by Robert M. Sapolsky Pdf

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize From the man who Oliver Sacks hailed as “one of the best scientist/writers of our time,” a collection of sharply observed, uproariously funny essays on the biology of human culture and behavior. In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould and Oliver Sacks, Robert Sapolsky offers a sparkling and erudite collection of essays about science, the world, and our relation to both. “The Trouble with Testosterone” explores the influence of that notorious hormone on male aggression. “Curious George’s Pharmacy” reexamines recent exciting claims that wild primates know how to medicate themselves with forest plants. “Junk Food Monkeys” relates the adventures of a troop of baboons who stumble upon a tourist garbage dump. And “Circling the Blanket for God” examines the neurobiological roots underlying religious belief. Drawing on his career as an evolutionary biologist and neurobiologist, Robert Sapolsky writes about the natural world vividly and insightfully. With candor, humor, and rich observations, these essays marry cutting-edge science with humanity, illuminating the interconnectedness of the world’s inhabitants with skill and flair.

Author : Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781645950387

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Twig and Turtle 1: Big Move to a Tiny House by Jennifer Richard Jacobson Pdf

Family, friendship, new school challenges, and a rather large dog problem combine as sisters adjust to their new tiny house life in this charming chapter book series starter from award-winning author Jennifer Richard Jacobson. Perfect for fans of Ivy and Bean and Judy Moody. In a tiny house, 3 shirts + 3 pants = 9 different outfits Eight- and six-year-old sisters Twig and Turtle are excited and curious about their new small town in Colorado. And for their cool, tiny house! Their family is united in living more simply, and not stressing out the Earth's resources. But the move comes with a major problem: How do you fit a Great Dane in a tiny house? A sweet chapter book series starter with humor and heart, Big Move to a Tiny House is sure to win over fans of Ivy and Bean and Judy Moody.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Dogs
ISBN : UCAL:$B814971

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National American Kennel Club Stud Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jilly Boyce Kay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030472870

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Gender, Media and Voice by Jilly Boyce Kay Pdf

This book explores the increasing imperatives to speak up, to speak out, and to ‘find one’s voice’ in contemporary media culture. It considers how, for women in particular, this seems to constitute a radical break with the historical idealization of silence and demureness. However, the author argues that there is a growing and pernicious gap between the seductive promise of voice, and voice as it actually exists. While brutal instruments such as the ducking stool and scold’s bridle are no longer in use to punish women’s speech, Kay proposes that communicative injustice now operates in much more insidious ways. The wide-ranging chapters explore the mediated ‘voices’ of women such as Monica Lewinsky, Hannah Gadsby, Diane Abbott, and Yassmin Abdel-Magied, as well as the problems and possibilities of gossip, nagging, and the ‘traumatised voice’ in television talk shows. It critiques the optimistic claims about the ‘unleashing’ of women’s voices post-#MeToo and examines the ways that women’s speech continues to be trivialized and devalued. Communicative justice, the author argues, is not about empowering individuals to ‘find their voice’, but about collectively transforming the whole communicative terrain.

Author : James Ward
Publisher : Cool Millennium
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Eastern Ukraine Question by James Ward Pdf

The first of the John Mordred novels! “Readers will find John Mordred to be one of the most appealing characters in fiction today.” – Publisher’s Daily “John Mordred comes alive on the page and is a character readers will not soon forget.” – The Booklife Review A cabal of Russian oligarchs instigates unrest in the far east of Russia as the first stage of an attempt to unseat Vladimir Putin. Britain offers covert support in the form of five MI7 agents. The disturbances mirror those in Eastern Ukraine and, if pushed far enough, might persuade the Kremlin to retract its territorial interests in Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia. However, once the five operatives are shipped east, events take an unexpected turn. One by one, they begin to disappear. Enter Grey Department’s John Mordred, by grudging consensus, MI7’s best agent. Young, idiosyncratic and a linguistic genius, Mordred prefers diplomacy to battle, doing the right thing to defending the realm. Yet he won’t necessarily duck a confrontation. Especially when the lives of his co-agents are at stake. Which – given the job description - they usually are … “James Ward brings protagonist John Mordred alive on the page … The author displays exceptional ability when it comes to storytelling.” – Emerald Book Review. The Eastern Ukraine Question was written in 2014, at the same time as the events which form its backdrop.

Author : Robert C. Auty
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : 1846243963

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Connor's Folly by Robert C. Auty Pdf

Fantasy fiction. Connor's Folly is the second volume in Robert C Auty's gripping fantasy quest series Trance Warriors, which began with the epic adventure The Siege of Scarn. In the aftermath of the bloody siege, Connor - Grynn king - has left behind his friends (but not his enemies), in search of the White Palace, where he will perfect his t̀rancing' abilities. On his travels, he encounters new peoples and new lands - from a former Askari slave to the brave and fearsome Norsemen, transplant- ed warriors from mythology who travel the oceans in their dragon boats. With his powerful, page-turning second novel, Robert C Auty makes his mark on the fantasy landscape, hailing the arrival of a major new talent in the genre.

Author : Craig Hallam
Publisher : Inspired Quill
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908600981

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Oshibana Complex by Craig Hallam Pdf

Welcome to Shika-One City, humanity’s final home. Nations have come together. Gender and race are petty concerns of the past. But not everything is well in Shika-One. Humanity can no longer procreate and has to synthesize future generations. But there aren’t many genetic templates to go around and meeting yourself on the street is a daily occurrence. With so many people wearing the same face, the synths of Shika-One strive for individuality in a world where stepping out of line can lead to the shredder. In this pulsing neon world lives Xev and eir friends, all hard-working synths who maintain their designations to earn the XP to live and hope to afford the holographic shams that cover up their similarities. That is, until a new synth makes Xev start to ask big questions that might upset the status quo. In Shika-One, life is cheap. Xev is about to discover what e’s worth.

Author : Melissa Ivers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798529901472

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Mistletoe and Mischief by Melissa Ivers Pdf

Julia Rowe isn't just my best friend's little sister. She's a beautiful, talented baker and anytime I get within five feet of her, my blood heads south for the winter. She's got me more tangled than a box of Christmas lights. I've been in love with her for longer than I can remember. Too bad, she's also the only woman I'm not allowed to touch. Why? Because of a promise I made to her brother years ago. Not to mention, she hates me. Now, we're under the same roof, and I'm not sure I can resist her. With Christmas right around the corner, can I show her I've changed? Or will I ruin my chances, destroy Christmas and lose my best friend? I may be in need of a Christmas miracle.