Lionel Lancet And The Right Vibe

Author : Daniel Backer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578961555

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Lionel Lancet and the Right Vibe by Daniel Backer Pdf

When Art Lancet dies, his lazy grandson Lionel is named the heir to his estate. Lionel, who spends his days smoking weed and watching atheists on YouTube, expects wealth from his inheritance and a guarantee that his life will be work-free. Instead, he inherits a foundation mired in legal trouble and a job at the Hotel Bellehaven, a seaside resort managed by a failed film producer who verbally abuses him in front of guests. With lawsuits looming, Lionel reluctantly faces the almost insurmountable obstacle of working for a living. To make matters worse, a famous actress takes an interest in him and tests his atheism with her spiritual bent. Lionel worries that he'll be stuck with a beautiful celebrity at a luxurious hotel forever until he begins to suspect that there might be a conspiracy to kill him in a ritual sacrifice. Blending noir and psychedelia, Lionel Lancet and the Right Vibe is a satire of self-aggrandizing spirituality, cultural appropriation, and dark money in right-wing politics.

Author : Aleister Crowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798738096235

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Moonchild Illustrated by Aleister Crowley Pdf

Moonchild is a novel written by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1917. Its plot involves a magical war between a group of white magicians, led by Simon Iff, and a group of black magicians, over an unborn child. It was first published by Mandrake Press in 1929 and its recent edition is published by Weiser.

Author : Erich Goode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429514920

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Deviant Behavior by Erich Goode Pdf

Deviant Behavior offers an engaging and wide-ranging discussion of deviant behavior, beliefs, and conditions. It examines how the society defines, labels, and reacts to whatever, and whoever, falls under this stigmatizing process—thereby providing a distinctly sociological approach to the phenomenon. The central focus in defining what and who is deviant is the audience—members of the influential social collectivities that determine the outcome of this process. The discussion in this volume encompasses both the explanatory (or positivist) approach and the constructionist (or labeling) perspectives, thereby lending a broad and inclusive vista on deviance. The central chapters in the book explore specific instances or forms of deviance, including crime, substance abuse, and mental disorder, all of which share the quality that they and their actors, believers, or bearers may be judged by these influential parties in a negative or derogatory fashion. And throughout Deviant Behavior, the author emphasizes that, to the sociologist, the term "deviant" is completely non-pejorative; no implication of inferiority or inherent stigma is implied; what the author emphasizes is that specific members of the society—social circles or collectivities—define and treat certain parties in a derogatory fashion; the sociologist does not share in this stigmatizing process but observes and describes it.

Author : Claude Henry,Johan Rockström,Nicholas Stern
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800371781

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Standing up for a Sustainable World by Claude Henry,Johan Rockström,Nicholas Stern Pdf

The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.

Author : Sally Chivers,Ulla Kriebernegg
Publisher : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 3837638057

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Care Home Stories by Sally Chivers,Ulla Kriebernegg Pdf

Biographical note: Sally Chivers is a Full Professor in the Departments of English and Gender & Women's Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and a founding executive member of the Trent Centre for Aging and Society. Ulla Kriebernegg is an Associate Professor at the Center for Inter-American Studies of the University of Graz, Austria, and chair of the European Network in Aging Studies.

Author : Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781629638447

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Counterpoints by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Pdf

Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance struggles from across the San Francisco Bay Area and act as a roadmap to counter-hegemonic knowledge making and activism. Compiled by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, each chapter reflects different frameworks for understanding the Bay Area’s ongoing urban upheaval, including: evictions and root shock, indigenous geographies, health and environmental racism, state violence, transportation and infrastructure, migration and relocation, and speculative futures. By weaving these themes together, Counterpoints expands normative urban-studies framings of gentrification to consider more complex, regional, historically grounded, and entangled horizons for understanding the present. Understanding the tech boom and its effects means looking beyond San Francisco’s borders to consider the region as a socially, economically, and politically interconnected whole and reckoning with the area’s deep history of displacement, going back to its first moments of settler colonialism. Counterpoints combines work from within the project with contributions from community partners, from longtime community members who have been fighting multiple waves of racial dispossession to elementary school youth envisioning decolonial futures. In this way, Counterpoints is a collaborative, co-created atlas aimed at expanding knowledge on displacement and resistance in the Bay Area with, rather than for or about, those most impacted.

Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429966313

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Sword & Citadel by Gene Wolfe Pdf

The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly. Sword & Citadel brings together the final two books of the tetralogy in one volume: The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home. The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will forever alter the realm known as Urth. "Brilliant . . . terrific . . . a fantasy so epic it beggars the mind. An extraordinary work of art!"-Philadelphia Inquirer "The Book of the New Sun establishes [Wolfe's] preeminence, pure and simple. . . . The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within . . . once into it, there is no stopping."--The New York Times Book Review At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Hans-Jürgen Biersack,Leonard M. Freeman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783540280262

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Clinical Nuclear Medicine by Hans-Jürgen Biersack,Leonard M. Freeman Pdf

This work has true international scope, being a unique European/American joint venture that focuses on the state of the art in both diagnostic and therapeutic radionuclide methodology. Pertinent clinical applications are emphasized rather than attempting to cover everything included in the several large comprehensive texts available in our field. This "practical" approach should make it an essential guide to nuclear medicine physicians, technologists, students and interested clinicians alike.

Author : Thomas Dingley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000044038

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History from Marble by Thomas Dingley Pdf

Author : Timothy Polashek
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810884175

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The Word Rhythm Dictionary by Timothy Polashek Pdf

This new kind of dictionary reflects the use of “rhythm rhymes” by rappers, poets, and songwriters of today. Users can look up words to find collections of words that have the same rhythm as the original and are useable in ways that are familiar to us in everything from vers libre poetry to the lyrics and music of Bob Dylan and hip hop groups.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101577325

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Three Novels of New York by Edith Wharton Pdf

For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth: her three greatest novels, in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches in fiction that often hinges on the collision of personal passion and social convention. This volume brings together her best-loved novels, all set in New York. The House of Mirth is the story of Lily Bart, who needs a rich husband but refuses to marry without both love and money. The Custom of the Country follows the marriages and affairs of Undine Spragg, who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence concerns the passionate bond that develops between the newly engaged Newland Archer and his finacée's cousin, the Countess Olenska, new to New York and newly divorced. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Istvan Hargittai,Magdolna Hargittai
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030623333

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Science in London by Istvan Hargittai,Magdolna Hargittai Pdf

This book introduces the reader to the statues, busts, and memorial plaques of scientists, explorers, medicine men and women, and inventors found in the bustling capital of the United Kingdom, London. The former capital of the British Empire, London remains a world center of trade, navigation, finance and many more. It is also a hub of science, the seat of the Royal Society, Royal Institution, Science Museum, British Museum, Natural History Museum, and of great institutions of higher education. The historical figures depicted in these memorials are responsible for creating great institutions, milestone discoveries, contributions to the scientific and technological revolutions, fighting against epidemics, advancing medicine, and contributing to the progress seen during the past four hundred years. This is a guidebook for the visitor and the Londoner alike. It presents memorials that everybody is familiar with and others that the authors discovered during their years of painstaking research. The 750 images and the text, interlarded with anecdotes, is both informative and entertaining.

Author : Nick Tosches
Publisher : Delta
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385334297

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Dino by Nick Tosches Pdf

From dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the famous "Rat Pack" in a Hollywood he called home, Dean Martin lived in a grandstand, guttering life of booze, broads, and big money. He rubbed shoulders with the mob, the Kennedys, and Hollywood's biggest stars. He was one of America's favorite entertainers. But no one really knew him. Now Nick Tosches reveals the man behind the image--the dark side of the American dream. It's a wild, illuminating, sometimes shocking tale of sex, ambition, heartaches--and a life lived hard, fast, and without apologies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Marion County (W. Va.)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU54329469

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Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Monongalia, Marion and Taylor Counties, West Virginia by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Bartholomae,Tony Petrosky
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 031240381X

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Ways of Reading Words and Images by David Bartholomae,Tony Petrosky Pdf

Adapting the methods of the much admired and extremely successful composition anthology Ways of Reading, this brief reader offers eight substantial essays about visual culture (illustrated with evocative photographs) along with demanding and innovative apparatus that engages students in conversations about the power of images.