Author: Eric Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374181020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Argues that there is no authentic self, that reality is people continually remaking themselves to look like the people they want to be, and that there is nothing inherently wrong with that.
Keep It Fake
Author: Eric Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374181020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Argues that there is no authentic self, that reality is people continually remaking themselves to look like the people they want to be, and that there is nothing inherently wrong with that.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374181020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Argues that there is no authentic self, that reality is people continually remaking themselves to look like the people they want to be, and that there is nothing inherently wrong with that.
Jake the Fake Keeps It Real
Author: Craig Robinson
Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 0553523511
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Having faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him.
Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 0553523511
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Having faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him.
Original Fake
Author: Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0399173269
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Frankie Neumann's an introvert, and he's always been the outsider in his family of performers, but all that's about to change once he finds an outlet for his artistic talents"--
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0399173269
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Frankie Neumann's an introvert, and he's always been the outsider in his family of performers, but all that's about to change once he finds an outlet for his artistic talents"--
Against Happiness
Author: Eric G. Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429944218
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Americans are addicted to happiness. When we're not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumbling on Happiness; Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment; The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. The titles themselves draw a stark portrait of the war on melancholy. More than any other generation, Americans of today believe in the transformative power of positive thinking. But who says we're supposed to be happy? Where does it say that in the Bible, or in the Constitution? In Against Happiness, the scholar Eric G. Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary to any thriving culture, that it is the muse of great literature, painting, music, and innovation—and that it is the force underlying original insights. Francisco Goya, Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, and Abraham Lincoln were all confirmed melancholics. So enough Prozac-ing of our brains. Let's embrace our depressive sides as the wellspring of creativity. What most people take for contentment, Wilson argues, is living death, and what the majority takes for depression is a vital force. In Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, Wilson suggests it would be better to relish the blues that make humans people.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429944218
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Americans are addicted to happiness. When we're not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumbling on Happiness; Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment; The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. The titles themselves draw a stark portrait of the war on melancholy. More than any other generation, Americans of today believe in the transformative power of positive thinking. But who says we're supposed to be happy? Where does it say that in the Bible, or in the Constitution? In Against Happiness, the scholar Eric G. Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary to any thriving culture, that it is the muse of great literature, painting, music, and innovation—and that it is the force underlying original insights. Francisco Goya, Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, and Abraham Lincoln were all confirmed melancholics. So enough Prozac-ing of our brains. Let's embrace our depressive sides as the wellspring of creativity. What most people take for contentment, Wilson argues, is living death, and what the majority takes for depression is a vital force. In Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, Wilson suggests it would be better to relish the blues that make humans people.
Jake the Fake Keeps His Cool
Author: Craig Robinson
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553523597
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the third book in this laugh-out-loud series about a class clown faking his way through middle school from comedian and film star Craig Robinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach, and NAACP History Maker recipient and cartoonist Keith Knight. Life couldn't be better for Jake. He's a student at Music and Arts Academy and a budding comedian, and he finally put an end to his fake-ster ways . . . or so he thought. There's a new girl at school, and Jake would do anything to impress her, even pretending to be a master chef. And a world-renowned barber? But at home, Jake is less impressed with his mom's news: she's pregnant. Now Jake has to fake being happy about becoming the Middle Child. The King of Cool is about to drop his chill. Luckily, he has good friends and laughs on his side, along with more than two hundred illustrations--all about him!
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553523597
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the third book in this laugh-out-loud series about a class clown faking his way through middle school from comedian and film star Craig Robinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach, and NAACP History Maker recipient and cartoonist Keith Knight. Life couldn't be better for Jake. He's a student at Music and Arts Academy and a budding comedian, and he finally put an end to his fake-ster ways . . . or so he thought. There's a new girl at school, and Jake would do anything to impress her, even pretending to be a master chef. And a world-renowned barber? But at home, Jake is less impressed with his mom's news: she's pregnant. Now Jake has to fake being happy about becoming the Middle Child. The King of Cool is about to drop his chill. Luckily, he has good friends and laughs on his side, along with more than two hundred illustrations--all about him!
Classical Fake Book (Songbook)
Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1458492044
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1003
Book Description
(Fake Book). A comprehensive reference for all classical music lovers, the second edition of this fake book features 250 pieces added since the last edition. Imagine having one handy volume that includes everything from Renaissance music to Vivaldi to Mozart to Mendelssohn to Debussy to Stravinsky, and you have it here! We have included as much of the world's most familiar classical music as possible, assembling more than 850 beloved compositions from ballets, chamber music, choral music, concertos, operas, piano music, waltzes and more. Featuring indexes by composer, title and genre, as well as a timeline of major classical composers, this encyclopedic fake book is great to use for playing and performing, but it's also a terrific resource for concert-goers, music students and music lovers. The chords of the harmony are indicated, and lyrics, in the original language, are included where appropriate.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1458492044
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1003
Book Description
(Fake Book). A comprehensive reference for all classical music lovers, the second edition of this fake book features 250 pieces added since the last edition. Imagine having one handy volume that includes everything from Renaissance music to Vivaldi to Mozart to Mendelssohn to Debussy to Stravinsky, and you have it here! We have included as much of the world's most familiar classical music as possible, assembling more than 850 beloved compositions from ballets, chamber music, choral music, concertos, operas, piano music, waltzes and more. Featuring indexes by composer, title and genre, as well as a timeline of major classical composers, this encyclopedic fake book is great to use for playing and performing, but it's also a terrific resource for concert-goers, music students and music lovers. The chords of the harmony are indicated, and lyrics, in the original language, are included where appropriate.
Fake Blood
Author: Whitney Gardner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481495585
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
“LOL funny.” –Girls Life A Huffington Post Best Children’s Book of 2018 A middle schooler comes head-to-head with his vampire slayer crush in this laugh-out-loud funny graphic novel that’s a perfect coming-of-age story for anyone who’s ever felt too young, too small, or too average. It’s the beginning of the new school year and AJ feels like everyone is changing but him. He hasn’t grown or had any exciting summer adventures like his best friends have. He even has the same crush he’s harbored for years. So AJ decides to take matters into his own hands. But how could a girl like Nia Winters ever like plain vanilla AJ when she only has eyes for vampires? When AJ and Nia are paired up for a group project on Transylvania, it may be AJ’s chance to win over Nia’s affection by dressing up like the vamp of her dreams. And soon enough he’s got more of Nia’s attention than he bargained for when he learns she’s a slayer. Now AJ has to worry about self-preservation while also trying to save everyone he cares about from a real-life threat lurking in the shadows of Spoons Middle School.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481495585
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
“LOL funny.” –Girls Life A Huffington Post Best Children’s Book of 2018 A middle schooler comes head-to-head with his vampire slayer crush in this laugh-out-loud funny graphic novel that’s a perfect coming-of-age story for anyone who’s ever felt too young, too small, or too average. It’s the beginning of the new school year and AJ feels like everyone is changing but him. He hasn’t grown or had any exciting summer adventures like his best friends have. He even has the same crush he’s harbored for years. So AJ decides to take matters into his own hands. But how could a girl like Nia Winters ever like plain vanilla AJ when she only has eyes for vampires? When AJ and Nia are paired up for a group project on Transylvania, it may be AJ’s chance to win over Nia’s affection by dressing up like the vamp of her dreams. And soon enough he’s got more of Nia’s attention than he bargained for when he learns she’s a slayer. Now AJ has to worry about self-preservation while also trying to save everyone he cares about from a real-life threat lurking in the shadows of Spoons Middle School.
100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know
Author: Jerald Simon
Publisher: Jerald Simon
ISBN: 9781948274111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
100 Different Ways to play the same song. Piano students learn 100 fun left hand patterns to take any music and change it up 100 different ways. Also included in the book is the FUN FAKEBOOK which includes 100 piano pieces in facebook format where the melody (Right Hand - treble clef) and the given chords for each measure are shown. The students can then fake or make up a left hand pattern to go along with the melody.
Publisher: Jerald Simon
ISBN: 9781948274111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
100 Different Ways to play the same song. Piano students learn 100 fun left hand patterns to take any music and change it up 100 different ways. Also included in the book is the FUN FAKEBOOK which includes 100 piano pieces in facebook format where the melody (Right Hand - treble clef) and the given chords for each measure are shown. The students can then fake or make up a left hand pattern to go along with the melody.
The Keep
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400079748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400079748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.
His Fiancé To Keep
Author: Vivian Wood
Publisher: Billionaires Ever After
ISBN: 9781959830252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Vivian Wood comes a new first time billionaire romance. Fans of The Stopover by TL Swan, The Fine Print by Lauren Asher, and My Dark Romeo by Parker S. Huntington and LJ Shen will love this book. A newly single billionaire that's known to be a pr*ck. A naïve wedding planner who catches his eye. An offer to be his fake fiancé that she can't refuse. In the glitzy world of a newly single billionaire, he devises a plan to convince his ex-girlfriend he's moved on by enlisting the help of a hot, innocent wedding planner. She becomes the key to his ruse, and he offers her a tempting deal: act as his fake fiancée for a month and receive the cash she needs to kickstart her dream business. Though he promises not to touch her, he finds himself drawn to her bright smile and sexy figure, secretly coveting her as they play the role of a happy couple. But what started as a simple arrangement soon takes an unexpected turn as their chemistry grows stronger, blurring the lines of their pretend relationship. As they navigate the highs and lows of acting like a couple in love, their hearts become entangled in their charade. In front of others, they share a kiss that ignites a night of passion they can't forget. However, the more they indulge in their desires, the more forbidden their connection becomes. In the midst of pretending, they find themselves falling for each other, their hearts tangled in a love that defies the lines of their fake engagement. But can they overcome the challenges that arise from acting like they're in love? Or will their passionate façade lead them to break each other's hearts and jeopardize the chance for a genuine happily ever after? Prepare to be captivated by this tale of a wealthy billionaire, a fiery wedding planner, and the all-consuming power of pretending to be in love, where the lines between fiction and reality blur, leaving them yearning for a truth they can't deny.
Publisher: Billionaires Ever After
ISBN: 9781959830252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Vivian Wood comes a new first time billionaire romance. Fans of The Stopover by TL Swan, The Fine Print by Lauren Asher, and My Dark Romeo by Parker S. Huntington and LJ Shen will love this book. A newly single billionaire that's known to be a pr*ck. A naïve wedding planner who catches his eye. An offer to be his fake fiancé that she can't refuse. In the glitzy world of a newly single billionaire, he devises a plan to convince his ex-girlfriend he's moved on by enlisting the help of a hot, innocent wedding planner. She becomes the key to his ruse, and he offers her a tempting deal: act as his fake fiancée for a month and receive the cash she needs to kickstart her dream business. Though he promises not to touch her, he finds himself drawn to her bright smile and sexy figure, secretly coveting her as they play the role of a happy couple. But what started as a simple arrangement soon takes an unexpected turn as their chemistry grows stronger, blurring the lines of their pretend relationship. As they navigate the highs and lows of acting like a couple in love, their hearts become entangled in their charade. In front of others, they share a kiss that ignites a night of passion they can't forget. However, the more they indulge in their desires, the more forbidden their connection becomes. In the midst of pretending, they find themselves falling for each other, their hearts tangled in a love that defies the lines of their fake engagement. But can they overcome the challenges that arise from acting like they're in love? Or will their passionate façade lead them to break each other's hearts and jeopardize the chance for a genuine happily ever after? Prepare to be captivated by this tale of a wealthy billionaire, a fiery wedding planner, and the all-consuming power of pretending to be in love, where the lines between fiction and reality blur, leaving them yearning for a truth they can't deny.