No Alternative

Author : William Dickerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0985188677

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"Simultaneously brutal and funny, caustic and caring, 'No Alternative' is a sacrament to be shared by all the survivors who grew up at the tail end of the fragmenting century." -Jack O'Connell, author of "The Resurrectionist" "No Alternative" is a coming-of-age drama that drills a hole into the world of suburban American teenagers in the early '90s. Thomas Harrison is determined to start his own alternative band, an obsession that blinds him to what's either the mental collapse, or the eruption of musical genius, of his little sister, Bridget. Bridget boldly rejects her brother's music, and the music of an entire generation of slackers, by taking on the persona of a gangsta' rapper named "Bri Da B." "No Alternative" probes the lives of rebellious kids who transition into adulthood via the distortion pedals of their lives in an era when the "Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll" ethos was amended to include "Suicide" in its phrase. "No Alternative" is now a major motion picture starring Michaela Cavazos, Conor Proft, Chloe Levine, Kathryn Erbe and Harry Hamlin. This updated edition of the novel includes a Foreword by Harry Hamlin and an Afterword by William Dickerson, which explores the making of the film.

Author : Shmuel Shimshoni
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434972729

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The author, Shmuel Shimshoni, born in Montreal Canada and now living in Israel, has created a number of imaginative essays, some bordering on fictionalized reality.We find David, a timid clerk looking for the host. His cell phone indicates an incoming call that happens to be from the elusive host. The voice notifies him, I won't be joining you for the Sabbath retreat. Therefore it's up to you to take things in hand and organize a program.With no alternative, our central figure somehow finds a way to become the leader of thirteen other men who were likewise invited to attend this event in total ignorance of what to expect.Throughout the story a fine strand connects all fourteen total strangers. They all have something to contribute; as between courses during their meals, each one tells of an event in his life that unwittingly relates to the other participants.But before they even get to eat their first meal they are introduced to a discourse based upon a little known religious ruling about how guests are supposed to conduct themselves, especially when the host is absent.All the seemingly disconnected guests share something in common. But it is not till the very end of the day that they learn what it is, as a most completely unexpected secret is revealed.

Author : Rosalynn A. Vega
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477316771

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Recent anthropological scholarship on “new midwifery” centers on how professional midwives in various countries are helping women reconnect with “nature,” teaching them to trust in their bodies, respecting women’s “choices,” and fighting for women’s right to birth as naturally as possible. In No Alternative, Rosalynn A. Vega uses ethnographic accounts of natural birth practices in Mexico to complicate these narratives about new midwifery and illuminate larger questions of female empowerment, citizenship, and the commodification of indigenous culture, by showing how alternative birth actually reinscribes traditional racial and gender hierarchies. Vega contrasts the vastly different birthing experiences of upper-class and indigenous Mexican women. Upper-class women often travel to birthing centers to be delivered by professional midwives whose methods are adopted from and represented as indigenous culture, while indigenous women from those same cultures are often forced by lack of resources to use government hospitals regardless of their preferred birthing method. Vega demonstrates that women’s empowerment, having a “choice,” is a privilege of those capable of paying for private medical services—albeit a dubious privilege, as it puts the burden of correctly producing future members of society on women’s shoulders. Vega’s research thus also reveals the limits of citizenship in a neoliberal world, as indigeneity becomes an object of consumption within a transnational racialized economy.

Author : Jeff Gomez
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476649191

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There Was No Alternative by Jeff Gomez Pdf

Grunge. Flannel. Generation X. In 1993, Seattle was the capital of the world, Nirvana was king, and slackers were everywhere. When the Red Hot organization, a group of activists dedicated to raising money and awareness of AIDS, released their third compilation CD featuring the biggest bands of the era--Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, The Breeders, Nirvana and more it quickly became the touchstone of a generation. Rolling Stone called No Alternative a "jaw-dropping compilation of musical gems." This book takes a look back at what happened to the bands involved with No Alternative. It includes new interviews with the musicians and others behind the record, and chronicles the downfall of an industry, the taming of a devastating illness, and the arrival of another global pandemic. It's about growing up, saying goodbye, and proving once more that you can't go home again (even if that's where you left all of your CDs).

Author : Nancy Abelmann,Jung-ah Choi,So Jin Park
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520289802

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No Alternative? by Nancy Abelmann,Jung-ah Choi,So Jin Park Pdf

Nancy Abelmann is Harry E. Preble Professor and associate vice chancellor for research (humanities, arts, and related fields) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jung-Ah Choi is an adjunct faculty member at Fairleigh Dickinson University. So Jin Park is a research fellow at the institute for Social Development Studies at Yonsei University. --Book Jacket.

Author : Claire Berlinski
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780465031221

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There Is No Alternative by Claire Berlinski Pdf

Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline—ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the richest and most influential country in Europe, and Margaret Thatcher is the reason. The preternaturally determined Thatcher rose from nothing, seized control of Britain’s Conservative party, and took a sledgehammer to the nation’s postwar socialist consensus. She proved that socialism could be reversed, inspiring a global free-market revolution. Simultaneously exploiting every politically useful aspect of her femininity and defying every conventional expectation of women in power, Thatcher crushed her enemies with a calculated ruthlessness that stunned the British public and without doubt caused immense collateral damage. Ultimately, however, Claire Berlinski agrees with Thatcher: There was no alternative. Berlinski explains what Thatcher did, why it matters, and how she got away with it in this vivid and immensely readable portrait of one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.

Author : Mark Fisher
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781803414317

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Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher Pdf

An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.

Author : Margaret Way
Publisher : Harlequin Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0373026390

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No Alternative by Margaret Way Pdf

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region V.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Sewage
ISBN : NWU:35556031058043

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Alternative Wastewater Treatment Systems for Rural Lake Projects, Case Study No. 3, Springvale-Bear Creek Sewage Disposal Authority, Emmet County, Michigan by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region V. Pdf

Author : Ed Simon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781953368133

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An Alternative History of Pittsburgh by Ed Simon Pdf

Ed Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories--the LA Review of Books calls it an "epic, atomic history of the Steel City." The land surrounding the confluence of the

Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789605099

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The Left Alternative by Roberto Mangabeira Unger Pdf

Confronting the major debates in the world today-about national alternatives and alternative globalizations-Unger shows that there is a set of initiatives that we can begin to develop with the materials at hand. Fully updated with a new preface, The Left Alternative equips the Left with the ideas that it needs to overthrow the dictatorship of no alternatives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Land use
ISBN : NWU:35556031212699

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Canon City District Wilderness Planning Amendment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556036643948

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Monongahela National Forest (N.F.), Lower Williams Vegetation by Anonim Pdf

Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1361 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780525558507

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No Good Alternative by William T. Vollmann Pdf

“The most honest book about climate change yet.” —The Atlantic “The Infinite Jest of climate books.” —The Baffler An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production—the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William T. Vollmann on the ideologies of energy production and the causes of climate change The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage." Over the course of four years Vollmann finds hollowed out towns with coal-polluted streams and acidified drinking water; makes covert visits to mountaintop removal mines; and offers documented accounts of unpaid fines for federal health and safety violations and of miners who died because their bosses cut corners to make more money. To write about natural gas, Vollmann journeys to Greeley, Colorado, where he interviews anti-fracking activists, a city planner, and a homeowner with serious health issues from fracking. Turning to oil production, he speaks with, among others, the former CEO of Conoco and a vice president of the Bank of Oklahoma in charge of energy loans, and conducts furtive roadside interviews of guest workers performing oil-related contract labor in the United Arab Emirates. As with its predecessor, No Immediate Danger, this volume seeks to understand and listen, not to lay blame--except in a few corporate and political cases where outrage is clearly due. Vollmann is a carbon burner just like the rest of us; he describes and quantifies his own power use, then looks around him, trying to explain to the future why it was that we went against scientific consensus, continually increasing the demand for electric power and insisting that we had no good alternative.

Author : Ernest Mandel
Publisher : Verso
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0860915484

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Power and Money by Ernest Mandel Pdf

Analyses of bureaucratic power and privilege have an academic pedigree but have also long preoccupied socialists. The collapse of communist rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe puts to a new test the classical theories concerning the relationship between bureaucracy and class. Power and Money is a timely contribution to this renewal of theory, exploring the social and historical roots of bureaucracy, both within the capitalist state and in workers’ mass organizations. Ernest Mandel draws on archival and contemporary accounts in an analysis of both capitalist administration and the ideology and practice of bureaucratic dictatorship in the communist bloc. He measures the actual performance of western and eastern societies against the forecasts of Lenin and Trotsky, Ludwig von Mises and Roberto Michels, or the more recent reflections of Amitai Etzioni and Alvin Gouldner. This lucid study challenges those theories—Stalinist, Weberian or social-democratic—which claim that an autonomous officialdom is a necessary feature of modern societies. It also furnishes a perceptive account of the specific dynamics of communist and post-communist society.