You Are Worthless

Author : Scott Dikkers
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780740789410

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You Are Worthless by Scott Dikkers Pdf

You Are Worthless is the self-help book from hell. This bracing blast of negativity takes aim at the impossibly cheerful "inspirational self-help" books flooding the market and hits the bullseye, with chapters such as "Your Good-for-Nothing Friends," "Your Miserable Job," and "Life: What's the Use". This hilarious parody collects hundreds of tidbits of painful reality such as "You're no good, you're not great-looking, and you're going to die someday and it's probably going to hurt." Who among us isn't sick to death of the gushy, new-agey inspirational books that blindly assert that everyone is worthy? We all know the truth, and this book is as refreshing as a slap to the face. Just some of the depressingly humorous nuggets of truth include: * You don't really have any outstanding qualities. It's safe to say you're pretty much just like everybody else. * The only reason your pet likes you is because you feed it. * As you get older, you are going to have less and less control over your bladder. * If you take a big risk and follow your dream, chances are you're going to fall flat on your face. You Are Worthless also features a section called "Hopeless Role Models from History," including Helen Keller ("I've had it"), and Abraham Lincoln ("The only thing I'm good at is losing").

Author : Alison Rumfitt
Publisher : Tor Nightfire
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250866240

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Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt Pdf

Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience. “A triumph of transgressive queer horror.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review “Easily one of the strongest horror debuts in recent memory.” —Booklist, STARRED review Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice’s life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. Memories of that night torment Alice, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, to go past the KEEP OUT sign and over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to venture, Alice knows she must go. Together, Alice and Ila must face the horrors that happened there, must pull themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside, and try to rescue Hannah, whom the House has chosen to make its own. Cutting, disruptive, and darkly funny, Tell Me I’m Worthless is a vital work of trans fiction that examines the devastating effects of trauma and how fascism makes us destroy ourselves and each other. “Ambitious, brutal, and brilliant.” —Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt Also by Alison Rumfitt: Brainwyrms At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Will Jorden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548642312

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You're Worthless and You Know It by Will Jorden Pdf

Finally you'll be able to find acceptance in what a worthless person you are. You're Worthless And You Know It is a parody on the popular Self Help genera to become the world's first truly De-Motivational book. This satire will help you identify your personal worthlessness, learn acceptance, and ultimately how to live in harmony with your worthless self. Self-help books would have you imagine yourself as someone who's capable of limitless achievement. Sadly all that does is set you up for limitless disappointment when you fail to achieve anything because of how worthless you are. I want you to be happy as a worthless individual. You're Worthless And You Know It is a quick read and makes the perfect gift for all the worthless people in your life. Having said that it's small enough to leave under your ex's windshield wiper after you've superglued the door shut and slash the tires (not that I've ever done that or that you could prove it was me or that I'm condoning those specific actions). Author Will Jorden lays out such groundbreaking work because believe it or not he has a history of worthlessness. His writing is to the point, humorous, and informative. You'll hardly notice your self-esteem, confidence, and dignity dropping faster than your I.Q.

Author : Aaron Clarey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1467978302

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Worthless by Aaron Clarey Pdf

"Worthless" is the single most important book young men and women can read before they attend college. While teachers, guidance counselors and even parents are afraid to tell you the truth in an effort to spare your feelings, "Worthless" delivers a blunt and real-world assessment about the economic realities and consequences of choosing various degrees with a necessary and tough fatherly love. Don't lie to yourself. And certainly don't waste four years of your youth and thousands of dollars in tuition on a worthless degree. Buy this book and understand why it is important you choose the right major. The book itself could be the wisest investment you ever make.

Author : Sait Faik Abasiyanik
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780914671084

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A Useless Man by Sait Faik Abasiyanik Pdf

With all the wit and brilliance of Chekhov, a distinctive collection of lyrical stories from Sait Faik Abasıyanık, “Turkey’s greatest short story writer” (The Guardian) Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s fiction traces the interior lives of strangers in his native Istanbul: ancient coffeehouse proprietors, priests, dream-addled fishermen, poets of the Princes’ Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. The stories in A Useless Man are shaped by Sait Faik’s political autobiography – his resistance to social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the ethnic cleansing of his city – as he conjures the varied textures of life in Istanbul and its surrounding islands. The calm surface of these stories might seem to signal deference to the new Republic’s restrictions on language and culture, but Abasıyanık’s prose is crafted deceptively, with dark, subversive undercurrents. “Reading these stories by Sait Faik feels like finding the secret doors inside of poems,” Rivka Galchen wrote. Beautifully translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe, A Useless Man is the most comprehensive collection of Sait Faik’s stories in English to date.

Author : Daniel
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422186992

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Worthless, Impossible and Stupid by Daniel Pdf

Introducing the global mind-set changing the way we do business. In this fascinating book, global entrepreneurship expert Daniel Isenberg presents a completely novel way to approach business building—with the insights and lessons learned from a worldwide cast of entrepreneurial characters. Not bound by a western, Silicon Valley stereotype, this group of courageous and energetic doers has created a global and diverse mix of companies destined to become tomorrow’s leading organizations. Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid is about how enterprising individuals from around the world see hidden value in situations where others do not, use that perception to develop products and services that people initially don’t think they want, and ultimately go on to realize extraordinary value for themselves, their customers, and society as a whole. What these business builders have in common is a contrarian mind-set that allows them to create opportunities and succeed where others see nothing. Amazingly, this process repeats itself in one form or another countless times a day all over the world. From Albuquerque to Islamabad, you will travel with Isenberg to discover unusual yet practical insights that you can use in your own business. Meet the founders of Grameenphone in Bangladesh, PACIV in Puerto Rico, Sea to Table in New York, Actavis in Iceland, Studio Moderna in Slovenia, Hartwell Metals in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, Given Imaging in Israel, WildChina in China, and many others. You’ll be moved by the stories of these plucky start-ups—many of them fueled by adversity and, more often than not, by necessity. Great stories, stunning successes, crushing failures—they’re all here. What can we, in the East and West, learn from them? What can you learn—and what will these entrepreneurial stories, so compellingly told, inspire you to do? Let this book open doors for you where you once saw only walls. If you’ve ever felt the urge to turn a glimmer of an idea into something extraordinary, these stories are for you.

Author : Jeffrey H. Gitomer
Publisher : Bard Press (TX)
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000061227116

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Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless by Jeffrey H. Gitomer Pdf

A nationally syndicated columnist and sales trainer shows how to convert "satisfied" customers into "loyal" customers. Includes real-world techniques, helpful checklists, inspiring stories, and thought-provoking self-tests.

Author : Ali Liebegott
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780872865716

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The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Liebegott Pdf

A tender, tragic, absurd and highly original voice, Liebegott's award-winning epic road poem has been compared to Kerouac and Wojnarowicz.

Author : Julia Allspaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735720585

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Songs for the Suffering by Julia Allspaw Pdf

Author : Abraham Flexner,Robbert Dijkgraaf
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780691174761

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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Flexner,Robbert Dijkgraaf Pdf

A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the man who helped bring Albert Einstein to the United States, describes a great paradox of scientific research. The search for answers to deep questions, motivated solely by curiosity and without concern for applications, often leads not only to the greatest scientific discoveries but also to the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs. In short, no quantum mechanics, no computer chips. This brief book includes Flexner's timeless 1939 essay alongside a new companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Institute's current director, in which he shows that Flexner's defense of the value of "the unobstructed pursuit of useless knowledge" may be even more relevant today than it was in the early twentieth century. Dijkgraaf describes how basic research has led to major transformations in the past century and explains why it is an essential precondition of innovation and the first step in social and cultural change. He makes the case that society can achieve deeper understanding and practical progress today and tomorrow only by truly valuing and substantially funding the curiosity-driven "pursuit of useless knowledge" in both the sciences and the humanities.

Author : Janette Sebring Lowrey
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375861291

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The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey Pdf

One night a puppy,who is always late coming home finds there is no dessert for him. On board pages.

Author : Kristen Clark,Bethany Baird
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493404889

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Girl Defined by Kristen Clark,Bethany Baird Pdf

In a Culture of Distortions, Discover God-Defined Womanhood and Beauty In a culture where airbrushed models and career-driven women define beauty and success, it's no wonder we have a distorted view of femininity. Our impossible standards place an incredible burden of stress on the backs of women and girls of all ages, resulting in anxiety, eating disorders, and depression. One question we often forget to ask is this: What is God's design for womanhood? In Girl Defined, sisters and popular bloggers Kristen Clark and Bethany Beal offer women a countercultural view of beauty, femininity, and self-worth. Based firmly in God's design for their lives, this book helps women rethink what true success and beauty look like. It invites them on a liberating journey toward a radically better vision for femininity that ends with the discovery of the kind of hope, purpose, and fulfillment they've been yearning for. Girl Defined helps readers · discover God's design for femininity and his definition of a successful woman · uncover the secrets of lasting worth, purpose, and fulfillment · be equipped and empowered to live out a radically better vision for womanhood · gain personal insight through the chapter-by-chapter study guide

Author : Marlon G. Sparks
Publisher : Trilogy Christian Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1647733847

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Hey Ref, You Stink!: Finding Your Worth in a Worthless World by Marlon G. Sparks Pdf

Marlon Sparks is known as a man with a passion and a contagious zest for life. He is a Pastor, Worship Leader, Singer/Songwriter, and an International Speaker having spoken in over 30 countries. His powerful message of encouragement and positive motivation has enabled him to speak to churches, sports teams, and various business groups. He is also known as a sports official both on the high school and college level.

Author : Chris d'Lacey
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545414647

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The Fire Within (The Last Dragon Chronicles #1) by Chris d'Lacey Pdf

Best-selling author Chris d'Lacey brings us a magical story about mysterious hand crafted clay dragons who have unusual powers.When David moves in with Liz and Lucy, he discovers a collection of hand crafted, clay dragons that comes to life and has magical powers. David's personalized dragon, Gadzooks, can forecast the future, and inspires him to write a story which reveals the truth behind an unsolved mystery close to home. The story has an unhappy ending, and when David realizes the consequences of it he is angry. Then David finds Gadzooks crying and near death, and he discovers that these special dragons die when they are not loved. Soon David is forced to save his friend and unlock the powers of the fire within.Don't miss Chris d'Lacey's addition to his rich dragon mythology in his next series, The Erth Dragons!

Author : Jess Arndt
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936787494

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Large Animals by Jess Arndt Pdf

A Buzzfeed Best Fiction Book of 2017 • An Entropy magazine Best Book of 2017 “Jess Arndt’s Large Animals is wildly original, even as it joins in with the classics of loaded, outlaw literature. Acerbic, ecstatic, hilarious, psychedelic, and affecting in turn, this is an electric debut.” —Maggie Nelson, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of The Argonauts Jess Arndt's striking debut collection confronts what it means to have a body. Boldly straddling the line between the imagined and the real, the masculine and the feminine, the knowable and the impossible, these twelve stories are an exhilarating and profoundly original expression of voice. In “Jeff,” Lily Tomlin confuses Jess for Jeff, instigating a dark and hilarious identity crisis. In “Together,” a couple battles a mysterious STD that slowly undoes their relationship, while outside a ferocious weed colonizes their urban garden. And in “Contrails,” a character on the precipice of a seismic change goes on a tour of past lovers, confronting their own reluctance to move on. Arndt’s subjects are canny observers even while they remain dangerously blind to their own truest impulses. Often unnamed, these narrators challenge the limits of language—collectively, their voices create a transgressive new formal space that makes room for the queer, the nonconforming, the undefined. And yet, while they crave connection, love, and understanding, they are constantly at risk of destroying themselves. Large Animals pitches toward the heart, pushing at all our most tender parts—our sex organs, our geography, our words, and the tendons and nerves of our culture.