Train Wreck Of Thought

Author : Eric G. Wilson
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429969482

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Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck by Eric G. Wilson Pdf

Why can't we look away? Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, and there's no slaking our thirst for gory entertainments like horror movies and police procedurals. What makes these spectacles so irresistible? In Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, the scholar Eric G. Wilson sets out to discover the source of our attraction to the caustic, drawing on the findings of biologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and artists. A professor of English literature and a lifelong student of the macabre, Wilson believes there's something nourishing in darkness. "To repress death is to lose the feeling of life," he writes. "A closeness to death discloses our most fertile energies." His examples are legion, and startling in their diversity. Citing everything from elephant graveyards and Susan Sontag's On Photography to the Tiger Woods sex scandal and Steel Magnolias, Wilson finds heartening truths wherever he confronts death. In Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, the perverse is never far from the sublime. The result is a powerful and delightfully provocative defense of what it means to be human—for better and for worse.

Author : Elise Faber
Publisher : Elise Faber
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781946140012

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Train Wreck by Elise Faber Pdf

Pepper O’Brien was Hollywood royalty. Also, her life sucked. Money couldn’t buy everything—including grace, true love, and the ability to not screw up. Every. Single. Time. Which was why Pepper had moved across the country to start over. Only, as was typical, her life had other plans. Namely in the form of Derek Cashette. Her former teenage crush and now ridiculously handsome man was her older brother’s friend. He was also determined to salvage the train wreck of her life. And maybe in doing that, he would save the train wreck that was her heart.

Author : Sean Carswell
Publisher : Manic D Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933149653

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Train Wreck Girl by Sean Carswell Pdf

“Sean Carswell is a wonderful storyteller. . . . Reading his stuff makes you laugh and makes you think.”—Howard Zinn “[Carswell’s writing is] the antidote to what is so boring or safe or wrong with modern book publishing.”—Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned Train Wreck Girl is the funny and tragic story of one man’s quest to figure out what to do with his life now that it’s too late for him to die young. After finding his girlfriend dead on the railroad tracks right after breaking up with her, Danny McGregor—Flagstaff bartender and surfer without an ocean—rides the next bus out of Arizona, fleeing to his Cocoa Beach, Florida, hometown, where a maelstrom of past ghosts await. Back in Florida, his treacherous friend, Bart, finds Danny a job picking up corpses. Sophie, a former crazy girlfriend who stabbed Danny, wants to rekindle their relationship. Taylor, a twelve-year-old neighborhood girl, only wants Danny to teach her to surf. And then there’s Helen, with a face that launched a dozen Greyhounds. Through the chaos, Danny discovers his strengths amid all his weaknesses and is able to move forward while making peace with his past. Sean Carswell is a former carpenter, housepainter, dishwasher, and warehouse clerk. His fiction has appeared in dozens of literary journals. He has been a staff writer for Flipside, Clamor, and Ink 19, and is a regular contributor to Razorcake. A co-founder of Gorsky Press, he is currently a professor at the University of California.

Author : Donna Hogan,Henrietta Tiefenthaler
Publisher : Phoenix Audio
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1597775401

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Train Wreck by Donna Hogan,Henrietta Tiefenthaler Pdf

Train Wreck: The Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith, is the definitive story of the rise and tragic fall of a woman who became one of the most recognized celebrities in the world because of her voluptuous beauty and her devotion to sex, drugs, money and fame. Donna Hogan, Anna's sister and confidante to Anna and other family members, provides an intimate and mesmerizing view of how her sister broke away from anonymity, poverty and an abusive family, rocketed to fame, and then all-too-soon crashed to her death at the age of 39, weighed down by drugs, alcohol, lawsuits, scandal and the unexpected death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel. Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, she left school in 10th grade, had a son by age 18, became a stripper at 20, and married a billionaire at 26. Vickie transformed herself through plastic surgery and sheer determination into Anna Nicole Smith, Playboys Playmate of the Year in 1993, spokesperson for Guess? Jeans and TrimSpa, and star of The Anna Nicole Show on E! She told everyone that she would be the next Marilyn Monroe and pursued that dream, right to her tragic end. Book jacket.

Author : Sady Doyle
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781612195643

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Trainwreck by Sady Doyle Pdf

“Smart ... compelling ... persuasive .” —New York Times Book Review She’s everywhere once you start looking: the trainwreck. She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From Mary Wollstonecraft—who, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman—to Charlotte Brontë, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Plath, and even Hillary Clinton, Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck dissects a centuries-old phenomenon and asks what it means now, in a time when we have unprecedented access to celebrities and civilians alike, and when women are pushing harder than ever against the boundaries of what it means to “behave.” Where did these women come from? What are their crimes? And what does it mean for the rest of us? For an age when any form of self-expression can be the one that ends you, Doyle’s book is as fierce and intelligent as it is funny and compassionate—an essential, timely, feminist anatomy of the female trainwreck.

Author : Frans Johansson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Creative ability
ISBN : 1633692949

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The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson Pdf

Originally published as: The Medici effect: breakthrough insights at the intersection of ideas, concepts, and cultures. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, A2004.

Author : Jeff Nichols
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439112861

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Trainwreck by Jeff Nichols Pdf

Hilarious and oddly inspiring, Trainwreck is proof that a life disastrously lived can still turn out beyond anybody's wildest imaginings. Growing up a privileged Manhattan kid, Jeff Nichols should have had it all. Instead, he got a plethora of impairments: learning disabilities, a speech impediment, dyslexia, ADD, and a mild case of Tourette's syndrome. In Trainwreck, his weird and witty memoir of utter dysfunction, Nichols gives an irreverent look at how one "idoit" made good.

Author : Gary Krist
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429905701

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The White Cascade by Gary Krist Pdf

The never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped—but nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved minute by minute: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned without escape, their railcars gradually being buried in the rising drifts. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men—led by the line's legendarily courageous superintendent, James O'Neill—worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains. But the storm was unrelenting, and to the passenger's great anxiety, the railcars—their only shelter—were parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. As the days passed, food and coal supplies dwindled. Panic and rage set in as snow accumulated deeper and deeper on the cliffs overhanging the trains. Finally, just when escape seemed possible, the unthinkable occurred: the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche tumbled from the high pinnacles, sweeping the trains and their sleeping passengers over the steep slope and down the mountainside. Centered on the astonishing spectacle of our nation's deadliest avalanche, Gary Krist's The White Cascade is the masterfully told story of a supremely dramatic and never-before-documented American tragedy. An adventure saga filled with colorful and engaging history, this is epic narrative storytelling at its finest.

Author : Robert C. Reed
Publisher : Pictorial History of Accidents
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : IND:30000053359612

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Train Wrecks by Robert C. Reed Pdf

American railroad history is filled with accounts of misadventure. Steam boilers blew up. Bridges collapsed under the weight of heavy engines. Locomotives crashed head-on because of signal failures. Passenger cars derailed, often with dire results. Lightly built wooden coaches splintered on impact, and the debris often ignited from the coals in the iron stoves used for heating. In the mid-nineteenth century American railroading was burgeoning -- a growth too fast for safe operations. Despite the grim statistics of 19th and early 20th century train wrecks that resulted, one cannot help but find the photographs and public prints of the day interesting. When you pick up this wondrous book, you will have a hard time putting it down.

Author : Fern Buzinski
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664273016

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As Sure as the Dawn by Fern Buzinski Pdf

Author Fern Buzinski writes with the heart of a teacher and the wisdom of a mentor to bring us As Sure as the Dawn. She communicates truth in clear and uncomplicated ways. This daily devotional flows from the deep well of life experience and personal study with daily prayers that touch heaven. Let the reader beware: Hope will rise!

Author : George Bibel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421405902

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Train Wreck by George Bibel Pdf

Trains are massive—with some weighing 15,000 tons or more. When these metal monsters collide or go off the rails, their destructive power becomes clear. In this book, George Bibel presents riveting tales of trains gone wrong, the detective work of finding out why, and the safety improvements that were born of tragedy. Train Wreck details 17 crashes in which more than 200 people were killed. Readers follow investigators as they sift through the rubble and work with computerized event recorders to figure out what happened. Using a mix of eyewitness accounts and scientific explanations, Bibel draws us into a world of forensics and human drama. Train Wreck is a fascinating exploration of• runaway trains• bearing failures• metal fatigue• crash testing • collision dynamics• bad rails

Author : Em Campbell-Pretty,Adrienne Wilson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359594450

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The Art of Avoiding a Train Wreck (paperback) by Em Campbell-Pretty,Adrienne Wilson Pdf

Author : Heather C. Myers
Publisher : Heather C Myers
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Trainwreck by Heather C. Myers Pdf

Detention is not the place where you're supposed to meet your next boyfriend, especially when he's Asher Boyd, known pothead and occasional criminal. But he makes good girl Sadie Brown feel something she hasn't really felt before - extraordinary. Seventeen-year-old Sadie Brown is a good girl from a good neighborhood who gets good grades and makes good choices. In the past, she's dabbled in making bad ones and ended up with an ex-boyfriend, a couple of bruises, and a year and a half of wasted time. Never again. Until detention, when she officially meets Asher Boyd, notorious pothead and occasional criminal. He's everything she shouldn't want in a potential boyfriend - irresponsible, unreliable, and frustrating - and everything she can't resist. After an impromptu makeout session in a supply closet at the end of detention, rumors follow Sadie into next week, and when people start making assumptions based on those rumors, she is thrust into her high school's hierarchy. Suddenly, everyone has an opinion on her sex life, and her reputation is tarnished for something she didn't even do. Worst of all, Asher isn't around much and doesn't seem to care when he is. But there's more to Asher than meets the eye, more than just the superficial stereotype he indulges in to meet low expectations, and the darkness no one sees is enough for Sadie to risk her reputation to be with him... If he's willing to take the chance on her, that is.

Author : Lark Anderson
Publisher : Lark Anderson
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781953191007

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The Trainwreck by Lark Anderson Pdf

When Ali Kat Carter—America’s Sweetheart—wakes up in a jail cell with no memory of the night before, she thinks things can’t possibly get any worse. SPOILER ALERT: They do! Ali Kat Carter here, or as they’re now calling me—Trainwreck Tammy. God, I hate my birth name! The tabloids say I need rehab, and to be honest, I’d much rather go there than where my publicist is bent on sending me—back to my family home in Nebraska. I suppose most people would love a little vacation to spend time with family, but then again, most people haven’t been estranged from their parents for their entire adult life. But things take a sharp turn for the better when I find out that my girlhood crush, tall, dark, and handsome Garrett Flint, is staying at the family farm. Garrett has always made my blood race, and he could be the only thing capable of getting me through what can only be described as the WORST months of my life—except for the fact that once he sampled the goods, he turned into an ice-cold, Grade-A, nasty jerk face that was obviously in it for one thing only—bragging rights for bagging the ultimate ‘Girl Next Door.’ Now, I’m stuck with my family that resents me, and an ex-lover who loathes me—or so I think. Maybe there’s more to podunk Nebraska and my family than I gave them credit for. But there’s CERTAINLY not more to that no-manners, love ‘em and leave ‘em country boy. Or is there?

Author : Donna Cooner
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545634014

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Can't Look Away by Donna Cooner Pdf

Donna Cooner establishes herself as our own Jodi Picoult in this timely tale of sisters, loss, and redemption. Torrey Grey is famous. At least, on the internet. Thousands of people watch her popular videos on fashion and beauty. But when Torrey's sister is killed in an accident -- maybe because of Torrey and her videos -- Torrey's perfect world implodes. Now, strangers online are bashing Torrey. And at her new school, she doesn't know who to trust. Is queen bee Blair only being sweet because of Torrey's internet infamy? What about Raylene, who is decidedly unpopular, but seems accepts Torrey for who she is? And then there's Luis, with his brooding dark eyes, whose family runs the local funeral home. Torrey finds herself drawn to Luis, and his fascinating stories about El Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. As the Day of the Dead draws near, Torrey will have to really look at her own feelings about death, and life, and everything in between. Can she learn to mourn her sister out of the public eye?