Author: Clyde H. Reid
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN: 9780060668167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Celebrate the Temporary
Author: Clyde H. Reid
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN: 9780060668167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN: 9780060668167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Prevention
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Prevention magazine provides smart ways to live well with info and tips from experts on weight loss, fitness, health, nutrition, recipes, anti-aging & diets.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Prevention magazine provides smart ways to live well with info and tips from experts on weight loss, fitness, health, nutrition, recipes, anti-aging & diets.
Travels in a Tree House
Author: John S. Workman
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557287052
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In a collection of separate, mostly unrelated essays written for his newspaper column over many years, Workman charms with his grace, comforts with his wisdom and makes us smile with his wit. Like his previous collections of inspirational columns, Open Windows and Fireflies in a Fruitjar, this is a book to be read and given as a gift to those we love.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557287052
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In a collection of separate, mostly unrelated essays written for his newspaper column over many years, Workman charms with his grace, comforts with his wisdom and makes us smile with his wit. Like his previous collections of inspirational columns, Open Windows and Fireflies in a Fruitjar, this is a book to be read and given as a gift to those we love.
The Temporary Gentleman
Author: Sebastian Barry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143127128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, A Thousand Moons, is now available. Irishman Jack McNulty is a “temporary gentleman”—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he’s writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel—as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer—has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp. Award-winning author Sebastian Barry’s The Temporary Gentleman is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry’s own family.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143127128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, A Thousand Moons, is now available. Irishman Jack McNulty is a “temporary gentleman”—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he’s writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel—as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer—has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp. Award-winning author Sebastian Barry’s The Temporary Gentleman is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry’s own family.
Temp
Author: Louis Hyman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Winner of the William G. Bowen Prize Named a "Triumph" of 2018 by New York Times Book Critics Shortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award The untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy"--how deliberate decisions made by consultants and CEOs in the 50s and 60s upended the stability of the workplace and the lives of millions of working men and women in postwar America. Over the last fifty years, job security has cratered as the institutions that insulated us from volatility have been swept aside by a fervent belief in the market. Now every working person in America today asks the same question: how secure is my job? In Temp, Louis Hyman explains how we got to this precarious position and traces the real origins of the gig economy: it was created not by accident, but by choice through a series of deliberate decisions by consultants and CEOs--long before the digital revolution. Uber is not the cause of insecurity and inequality in our country, and neither is the rest of the gig economy. The answer to our growing problems goes deeper than apps, further back than outsourcing and downsizing, and contests the most essential assumptions we have about how our businesses should work. As we make choices about the future, we need to understand our past.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Winner of the William G. Bowen Prize Named a "Triumph" of 2018 by New York Times Book Critics Shortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award The untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy"--how deliberate decisions made by consultants and CEOs in the 50s and 60s upended the stability of the workplace and the lives of millions of working men and women in postwar America. Over the last fifty years, job security has cratered as the institutions that insulated us from volatility have been swept aside by a fervent belief in the market. Now every working person in America today asks the same question: how secure is my job? In Temp, Louis Hyman explains how we got to this precarious position and traces the real origins of the gig economy: it was created not by accident, but by choice through a series of deliberate decisions by consultants and CEOs--long before the digital revolution. Uber is not the cause of insecurity and inequality in our country, and neither is the rest of the gig economy. The answer to our growing problems goes deeper than apps, further back than outsourcing and downsizing, and contests the most essential assumptions we have about how our businesses should work. As we make choices about the future, we need to understand our past.
Temporary
Author: Hilary Leichter
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 156689574X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 156689574X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.
Living In Harmony
Author: Richard Exley
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 1614581495
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Do you need a breather? A few minutes to slow your heart rate, settle your mind? Welcome to life in the 21st century...If you are one of the countless people who have pinned on a long tail to chase the elusive "cheese" in the cultural rat race, Living in Harmony is for you! Ask yourself some hard questions: Are you practicing the rhythm of life, that delicate harmony between work and rest, worship and play? Are you fulfilled? Are the most important relationships in you life in good repair? Do you take time for yourself? For God? What about play? Are you fun to live with? These are among the questions bestselling author Richard Exley asks in this timely book. Answer them carefully for yourself and change your emotional address!
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 1614581495
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Do you need a breather? A few minutes to slow your heart rate, settle your mind? Welcome to life in the 21st century...If you are one of the countless people who have pinned on a long tail to chase the elusive "cheese" in the cultural rat race, Living in Harmony is for you! Ask yourself some hard questions: Are you practicing the rhythm of life, that delicate harmony between work and rest, worship and play? Are you fulfilled? Are the most important relationships in you life in good repair? Do you take time for yourself? For God? What about play? Are you fun to live with? These are among the questions bestselling author Richard Exley asks in this timely book. Answer them carefully for yourself and change your emotional address!
Friends
Author: Jerry Gillies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780064640190
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"Annotated bibliography:" p. 243-252.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780064640190
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"Annotated bibliography:" p. 243-252.
THE AMERICAN STORY: CULTURAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE MEANING AND STRUCTURE OF STORIES IN CONVERSATION..
Author: Livia Polanyi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropological linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropological linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
All Around the Year
Author: Jack Santino
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065163
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdämerung," Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays. Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to show the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles that celebrations and rituals play in people's lives.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065163
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdämerung," Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays. Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to show the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles that celebrations and rituals play in people's lives.