Using Life

Author : Ahmed Naji
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781477314807

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Using Life by Ahmed Naji Pdf

Upon its initial release in Arabic in the fall of 2014, Using Life received acclaim in Egypt and the wider Arab world. But in 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison after a reader complained that an excerpt published in a literary journal harmed public morality. His imprisonment marks the first time in modern Egypt that an author has been jailed for a work of literature. Writers and literary organizations around the world rallied to support Naji, and he was released in December 2016. His original conviction was overturned in May 2017 but, at the time of printing, he is awaiting retrial and banned from leaving Egypt. Set in modern-day Cairo, Using Life follows a young filmmaker, Bassam Bahgat, after a secret society hires him to create a series of documentary films about the urban planning and architecture of Cairo. The plot in which Bassam finds himself ensnared unfolds in the novel's unique mix of text and black-and-white illustrations. The Society of Urbanists, Bassam discovers, is responsible for centuries of world-wide conspiracies that have shaped political regimes, geographical boundaries, reigning ideologies, and religions. It is responsible for today's Cairo, and for everywhere else, too. Yet its methods are subtle and indirect: it operates primarily through manipulating urban architecture, rather than brute force. As Bassam immerses himself in the Society and its shadowy figures, he finds Cairo on the brink of a planned apocalypse, designed to wipe out the whole city and rebuild anew.

Author : Ahmed Naji
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477314821

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Using Life by Ahmed Naji Pdf

Upon its initial release in Arabic in the fall of 2014, Using Life received acclaim in Egypt and the wider Arab world. But in 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison after a reader complained that an excerpt published in a literary journal harmed public morality. His imprisonment marks the first time in modern Egypt that an author has been jailed for a work of literature. Writers and literary organizations around the world rallied to support Naji, and he was released in December 2016. His original conviction was overturned in May 2017 but, at the time of printing, he is awaiting retrial and banned from leaving Egypt. Set in modern-day Cairo, Using Life follows a young filmmaker, Bassam Bahgat, after a secret society hires him to create a series of documentary films about the urban planning and architecture of Cairo. The plot in which Bassam finds himself ensnared unfolds in the novel's unique mix of text and black-and-white illustrations. The Society of Urbanists, Bassam discovers, is responsible for centuries of world-wide conspiracies that have shaped political regimes, geographical boundaries, reigning ideologies, and religions. It is responsible for today's Cairo, and for everywhere else, too. Yet its methods are subtle and indirect: it operates primarily through manipulating urban architecture, rather than brute force. As Bassam immerses himself in the Society and its shadowy figures, he finds Cairo on the brink of a planned apocalypse, designed to wipe out the whole city and rebuild anew.

Author : Mary De Chesnay
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826134639

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Nursing Research Using Life History by Mary De Chesnay Pdf

In this book, experienced scholars in qualitative life history research discuss the theoretical rationale for using this design, describe its components and delineate a practical plan to conduct studies, including a focus on appropriate methods, ethical considerations and potential pitfalls.

Author : Clayton M. Christensen
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633692572

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How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics) by Clayton M. Christensen Pdf

In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Author : Douglas A. MD. Puryear,Douglas A. Puryear
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781937600433

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Your Life Can be Better by Douglas A. MD. Puryear,Douglas A. Puryear Pdf

"Dedicated to the disorganized, distracted and demoralized."

Author : Caroline L. Arnold
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101620250

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Small Move, Big Change by Caroline L. Arnold Pdf

"The most useful guide to getting things done since Getting Things Done." --Adam Grant, author of Give and Take Learn how small behavioral changes can lead to major personal and professional self-improvement Whether trying to lose weight, save money, get organized, or advance on the job, we’re always setting goals and making resolutions, but rarely following through on them. According to longtime Wall Street technology strategist Caroline Arnold, the “big push” strategy of the New Year’s resolution is designed to fail, because it broadly pits our limited willpower stores against an autopilot of entrenched behaviors and attitudes that is far more powerful. To change ourselves permanently, we need to focus our self-control on precise behavioral targets and overwhelm them. Small Move, Big Change is Arnold’s guide to turning broad personal goals into meaningful and discrete behavioral changes that lead to permanent improvement. Providing scores of engaging real-world examples and new scientific findings, she shows us that while the traditional resolution promises rewards on a distant “someday,” microresolutions work because they reward us today by instantly altering our routines and, ultimately, ourselves.

Author : Thomas Parnell (Archdeacon of Clogher.),John Barrow Allen (M.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : English poetry
ISBN : NLS:V000654570

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Parnell's Hermit. With Life, Explanatory Notes, ... Etc. For the Use of Schools by Thomas Parnell (Archdeacon of Clogher.),John Barrow Allen (M.A.) Pdf

Author : Jamie Lorimer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452963426

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The Probiotic Planet by Jamie Lorimer Pdf

Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal health. In fact, the term refers to any intervention in which life is used to manage life—from the microscopic, like consuming fermented food to improve gut health, to macro approaches such as biological pest control and natural flood management. In this ambitious and original work, Jamie Lorimer offers a sweeping overview of diverse probiotic approaches and an insightful critique of their promise and limitations. During our current epoch—the Anthropocene—human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment, leading to the loss of ecological abundance, diversity, and functionality. Lorimer describes cases in which scientists and managers are working with biological processes to improve human, environmental, and even planetary health, pursuing strategies that stand in contrast to the “antibiotic approach”: Big Pharma, extreme hygiene, and industrial agriculture. The Probiotic Planet focuses on two forms of “rewilding” occurring on vastly different scales. The first is the use of keystone species like wolves and beavers as part of landscape restoration. The second is the introduction of hookworms into human hosts to treat autoimmune disorders. In both cases, the goal is to improve environmental health, whether the environment being managed is planetary or human. Lorimer argues that, all too often, such interventions are viewed in isolation, and he calls for a rethinking of artificial barriers between science and policy. He also describes the stark and unequal geographies of the use of probiotic approaches and examines why these patterns exist. The author’s preface provides a thoughtful discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to the probiotic approach. Informed by deep engagement with microbiology, immunology, ecology, and conservation biology as well as food, agriculture, and waste management, The Probiotic Planet offers nothing less than a new paradigm for collaboration between the policy realm and the natural sciences.

Author : Henry Worthington Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Life insurance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047593681

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Talks with Life Insurance Agents by Henry Worthington Smith Pdf

Author : Linden West
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Adult education
ISBN : PSU:000067221028

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Using Biographical and Life History Approaches in the Study of Adult and Lifelong Learning by Linden West Pdf

"Second in a series of edited volumes resulting from conferences and seminars organized by the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults"--Preface.

Author : George Herbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026869050

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The Poetical Works of G. H. With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes [by G. Gilfillan]. The Text Edited by C. C. Clarke. (The Synagogue, ... by C. Harvey.). by George Herbert Pdf

Author : John P. Finley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Storms
ISBN : HARVARD:HN27RH

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Tornadoes ...with...suggestions for the Protection of Life and Property by John P. Finley Pdf

Author : Gwen Diehn
Publisher : Lark Books (NC)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Book design
ISBN : 1600594921

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Real Life Journals by Gwen Diehn Pdf

Includes booklet entitled: Choose your own bookbinding adventure.

Author : Yiyun Li
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399589119

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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li Pdf

In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers. “A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead “What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?” Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, a mother, a daughter—and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Søren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. Interweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live? Praise for Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life “Li has stared in the face of much that is beautiful and ugly and treacherous and illuminating—and from her experience she has produced a nourishing exploration of the will to live willfully.”—The Washington Post “Li’s transformation into a writer . . . is nothing short of astonishing.’”—The New York Times Book Review “An arrestingly lucid, intellectually vital series of contemplations on art, identity, and depression.”—The Boston Globe “Li is an exemplary storyteller and this account of her journey back to equilibrium, assisted by her closest companion, literature, is as powerful as any of her award-winning fiction, with the dark fixture of her Beijing past at its centre.”—Financial Times “Every writer is a reader first, and Dear Friend is Li’s haunted, luminous love letter to the words that shaped her. . . . Her own prose is both lovely and opaque, fitfully illuminating a radiant landscape of the personal and profound.”—Entertainment Weekly “Yiyun Li’s prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Bruce Feiler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781594206825

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Life Is in the Transitions by Bruce Feiler Pdf

A New York Times bestseller! A pioneering and timely study of how to navigate life's biggest transitions with meaning, purpose, and skill Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Secrets of Happy Families and Council of Dads, has long explored the stories that give our lives meaning. Galvanized by a personal crisis, he spent the last few years crisscrossing the country, collecting hundreds of life stories in all fifty states from Americans who’d been through major life changes—from losing jobs to losing loved ones; from changing careers to changing relationships; from getting sober to getting healthy to simply looking for a fresh start. He then spent a year coding these stories, identifying patterns and takeaways that can help all of us survive and thrive in times of change. What Feiler discovered was a world in which transitions are becoming more plentiful and mastering the skills to manage them is more urgent for all of us. The idea that we’ll have one job, one relationship, one source of happiness is hopelessly outdated. We all feel unnerved by this upheaval. We’re concerned that our lives are not what we expected, that we’ve veered off course, living life out of order. But we’re not alone. Life Is in the Transitions introduces the fresh, illuminating vision of the nonlinear life, in which each of us faces dozens of disruptors. One in ten of those becomes what Feiler calls a lifequake, a massive change that leads to a life transition. The average length of these transitions is five years. The upshot: We all spend half our lives in this unsettled state. You or someone you know is going through one now. The most exciting thing Feiler identified is a powerful new tool kit for navigating these pivotal times. Drawing on his extraordinary trove of insights, he lays out specific strategies each of us can use to reimagine and rebuild our lives, often stronger than before. From a master storyteller with an essential message, Life Is in the Transitions can move readers of any age to think deeply about times of change and how to transform them into periods of creativity and growth.