Nothing Important

Author : Alex K. Bishop
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781525579523

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Nothing Important by Alex K. Bishop Pdf

A culture of cynicism began to grow when art and comedy were used as tools for wealth and distraction rather than as sources of happiness. Happiness died because nothing is meaningful anymore. Nothing Important aims to find meaning in a person’s life. It can be expressed in many ways, including through art, love, religion, nature, and society. Philosophically, we often find our purpose and happiness in meaning. But if we lose that meaning, how can we recapture that purpose and happiness? Rendered in sixty clear and concise poems of varying length, this collection dips into Greek mythology and the classics, yet remains wholly modern. Alex K. Bishop wrote these poems in a three-year period, from 2017 to 2019. The existentialist theories of French philosophers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre are the driving forces behind this collection, though anyone with an interest in existential philosophy, subjective experiences, mental health concerns, and love stories may find themselves reflected in these intelligent and sensitively written poems.

Author : Will Carver
Publisher : Orenda Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912374847

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Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver Pdf

When strangers take part in a series of group suicides, everything suggests that a cult is to blame. How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member? ***Telegraph Book of the Year*** ***Longlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award*** ***Longlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2020*** ‘Heavy gusts of bedsit nihilism usher in this strange mystery … weirdly page-turning' Sunday Times ‘Laying bare our 21st-century weaknesses and dilemmas, Carver has created a highly original state-of-the-nation novel' Literary Review ‘Arguably the most original crime novel published this year' Independent _________________ Nine suicides One Cult No leader Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They've never met. But at the same time, they run, and leap to their deaths. Each of them received a letter in the post that morning, a pre-written suicide note, and a page containing only four words: Nothing important happened today. That is how they knew they had been chosen to become a part of the People Of Choice: A mysterious suicide cult whose members have no knowledge of one another. Thirty-two people on that train witness the event. Two of them will be next. By the morning, People Of Choice are appearing around the globe; it becomes a movement. A social media page that has lain dormant for four years suddenly has thousands of followers. The police are under pressure to find a link between the cult members, to locate a leader that does not seem to exist. How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member? _________________ ‘Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain. After this, he'll have his own cult following' Daily Express ‘At once fantastical and appallingly plausible … this mesmeric novel paints a thought-provoking if depressing picture of modern life' Guardian ‘This book is most memorable for its unrepentant darkness…' Telegraph ‘Unlike anything else you'll read this year' Heat ‘Utterly mesmerising…' Crime Monthly

Author : Greg Rowlerson
Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781849913492

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Ruler of Nothing...Important by Greg Rowlerson Pdf

DescriptionLife is unpredictable and magical. It is also not for the faint of heart. The Ruler Of Nothing...Important is an autobiography on the life thus far of a fairly ordinary boy. One who has been raised by loving parents in a safe and wealthy nation. But parents cannot guarantee that their child will become a success, no matter how grand their love for them is. This book explores the mind, heart and motives of that child. It delves into what influences him. The life experiences analysed here are of both a positive and negative nature, which is exactly how the rollercoaster ride of life should be. About the AuthorGreg Rowlerson is twenty-nine years old and his number one passion is writing. This is his second book.

Author : Randy Ribay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780525554936

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Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay Pdf

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT "A singular voice in the world of literature." --Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder. Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story. Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth -- and the part he played in it. As gripping as it is lyrical, Patron Saints of Nothing is a page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity.

Author : John Macdonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Communications, Military
ISBN : NYPL:33433009342894

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A Treatise Explanatory of a New System of Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Communication of General Application by John Macdonald Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Governmental investigations
ISBN : NYPL:33433004763334

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Maintenance of a Lobby to Influence Legislation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Government Hospital for the Insane (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : OSU:32435054267521

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Report of the Government Hospital for the Insane to the Secretary of the Interior by Government Hospital for the Insane (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015068601908

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Annual Report of the Government Hospital for the Insane ... by Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.) Pdf

Author : Jenny Odell
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781612197500

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How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell Pdf

** 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.

Author : Michel Noel
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781554982677

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Good for Nothing by Michel Noel Pdf

Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he's a good-for-nothing who, like all Indians, can look forward to a life of drunkenness, prison and despair. The reserve, however, offers nothing to Nipishish. He remembers little of his late mother and father. In fact, he seems to know less about himself than the people at the band office. He must try to rediscover the old ways, face the officials who find him a threat, and learn the truth about his father's death.

Author : Ivone Margulies
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822317230

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Nothing Happens by Ivone Margulies Pdf

Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is widely regarded as the most important feminist film of that decade. In Nothing Happens, Ivone Margulies presents the first comprehensive study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker. Margulies grounds her critical analysis in detailed discussions of Akerman's work--from Saute ma ville, a 13-minute black-and-white film made in 1968, through Jeanne Dielman and Je tu il elle to the present. Focusing on the real-time representation of a woman's everyday experience in Jeanne Dielman, Margulies brings the history of social and progressive realism and the filmmaker's work into perspective. Pursuing two different but related lines of inquiry, she investigates an interest in the everyday that stretches from postwar neorealist cinema to the feminist rewriting of women's history in the seventies. She then shows how Akerman's "corporeal cinema" is informed by both American experiments with performance and duration and the layerings present in works by European modernists Bresson, Rohmer, and Dreyer. This analysis revises the tired opposition between realism and modernism in the cinema, defines Akerman's minimal-hyperrealist aesthetics in contrast to Godard's anti-illusionism, and reveals the inadequacies of popular characterizations of Akerman's films as either simply modernist or feminist. An essential book for students of Chantal Akerman's work, Nothing Happens will also interest international film critics and scholars, filmmakers, art historians, and all readers concerned with feminist film theory.

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Archives
ISBN : OXFORD:N13917081

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Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs, Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice, and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy: 1636-1639 by Great Britain. Public Record Office Pdf

Author : Charles Parsons Reichel (Bishop of Meath.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000661163

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Praise and Prayer. A Sermon Preached in Chester Cathedral, at One of the Services on Its Re-opening, August 9th, 1876 by Charles Parsons Reichel (Bishop of Meath.) Pdf

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802198228

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The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker Pdf

A National Book Critics Circle Award–winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel (The Boston Globe). In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York Times–bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one’s shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. Baker’s accounts of the ordinary become extraordinary through his sharp storytelling and his unconventional, conversational style. At first glance, The Mezzanine appears to be a book about nothing. In reality, it is a brilliant celebration of things, simultaneously demonstrating the value of reflection and the importance of everyday human experiences. “A very funny book . . . Its 135 pages probably contain more insight into life as we live it today than anything currently on the best-seller list.” —The New York Times “Captures the spirit of American corporate life and invests it with a passion and sympathy that is entirely unexpected.” —The Seattle Times “Among the year’s best.” —The Boston Globe “Baker writes with appealing charm . . . [He] clowns and shows off . . . rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Wonderfully readable, in fact gripping, with surprising bursts of recognition, humor and wonder.” —The Washington Post Book World

Author : James Schouler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11549228

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History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution by James Schouler Pdf