Author: Kate Minehan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646540283
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Minkie Mary the Dummy Fairy is the perfect book for mums and dads wanting to help their little ones when it's time for them to give their dummy away. Follow Minkie Mary on a delightful journey as she visits little boys and girls who no longer need their dummies. Find out how she magically turns a difficult time for children into one of excitement and reward. This book pack provides all the tools you need to support your child through this difficult time. The charming story will delight young children and prepare them for giving up their own dummies. In return for being big and brave, Minkie Mary leaves behind a special toy mouse to be cuddled and loved in place of their adored dummies!
Author: Brian Massumi
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822375818
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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Rational self-interest is often seen as being at the heart of liberal economic theory. In The Power at the End of the Economy Brian Massumi provides an alternative explanation, arguing that neoliberalism is grounded in complex interactions between the rational and the emotional. Offering a new theory of political economy that refuses the liberal prioritization of individual choice, Massumi emphasizes the means through which an individual’s affective tendencies resonate with those of others on infra-individual and transindividual levels. This nonconscious dimension of social and political events plays out in ways that defy the traditional equation between affect and the irrational. Massumi uses the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement as examples to show how transformative action that exceeds self-interest takes place. Drawing from David Hume, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Niklas Luhmann and the field of nonconsciousness studies, Massumi urges a rethinking of the relationship between rational choice and affect, arguing for a reassessment of the role of sympathy in political and economic affairs.
Author: Robert J. Boardingham
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Dist. by St. Martin's Press, Exhibition catalog.
Author: John Byrne
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571325785
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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Spanning the 1950s to the 70s, the plays capture the rebellious mood of a post-war generation growing up to a backdrop of James Dean, Elvis, sharp-suited glamour, hope and despair. John Byrne takes the slab room he worked in and makes it pure theatre: the scams, the dreams, the aloof but gorgeous girl, the despair of life back home, the obligatory tormenting of the office 'weed', and the mandatory boy chat and pranks all help the day to pass. Phil and Spanky explode onto the stage in a classic vaudeville double-act. Now considered one of Scotland's defining literary works of the twentieth century, the Slab Boys Trilogy premiered at the Traverse back in the late 1970s and early 80s taking Scotland, then Britain, and then Broadway quickly by storm.
Author: Jane K. Elliott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023154751X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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From The Road to Game of Thrones, across works as seemingly different as Gone Girl and Saw, literature, film, and television have become obsessed with the intersection of survival and choice. When the trapped rock-climber hero of 127 Hours is confronted with self-amputation or death, it is only a particularly blunt example of an omnipresent set-up. In real-life settings or fantastical games, protagonists find themselves confronting extreme scenarios with life-or-death consequences, forced to make torturous either-or choices in stripped-down, brutally stark environments. Jane Elliott identifies and analyzes this new and distinctive aesthetic phenomenon, which she calls “the microeconomic mode.” Through close readings of its narratives, tropes, and concepts, she traces the implicit theoretical and political claims conveyed by this combination of abstraction and extremity. In the microeconomic mode, humans isolated from any forms of social organization operate within a mini-economy of costs and benefits, gains and losses, measured in the currency of life. Elliott reads the key concepts that emerge from this aesthetic—life-interest, sovereign capture, and binary life—in relation to biopolitics and natural law theory, becoming and the control society, and primitive accumulation in racial capitalism. The microeconomic mode interrogates the destruction of the liberal political subject, but what it leaves in its place is as disturbing as it is radically new. Going beyond the question of neoliberalism in literature, The Microeconomic Mode combines revelatory close readings of key literary and popular texts with significant theoretical interventions to identify how an aesthetics of choice has reshaped our contemporary understanding of what it means to be human.
Author: Ed Park
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588367312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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In an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unravels. There’s Pru, the former grad student turned spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety stalks him in his tooth-grinding dreams; and Jack II, who distributes unwanted backrubs–aka “jackrubs”–to his co-workers. On a Sunday, one of them is called at home. And the Firings begin. Rich with Orwellian doublespeak, filled with sabotage and romance, this astonishing literary debut is at once a comic delight and a narrative tour de force. It’s a novel for anyone who has ever worked in an office and wondered: “Where does the time go? Where does the life go? And whose banana is in the fridge?” Praise for PERSONAL DAYS "Witty and appealing...Anyone who has ever groaned to hear 'impact' used as a verb will cheer as Park skewers the avatars of corporate speak, hellbent on debasing the language....Park has written what one of his characters calls 'a layoff narrative' for our times. As the economy continues its free fall, Park's book may serve as a handy guide for navigating unemployment and uncertainty. Does anyone who isn't a journalist think there can't be two books on the same subject at the same time? We need as many as we can get right now." —The New York Times Book Review "Never have the minutiae of office life been so lovingly cataloged and collated." —"Three First Novels that Just Might Last," —Time A "comic and creepy début...Park transforms the banal into the eerie, rendering ominous the familiar request "Does anyone want anything from the outside world?" —The New Yorker "The modern corporate office is to Ed Park's debut novel Personal Days what World War II was to Joseph Heller's Catch-22—a theater of absurdity and injustice so profound as to defy all reason....Park may be in line to fill the shoes left by Kurt Vonnegut and other satirists par excellence."—Samantha Dunn, Los Angeles Times "In Personal Days Ed Park has crafted a sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but always adroit novel about office life...Sharp and lovely language." —Newsweek "A warm and winning fiction debut." — Publishers Weekly "I laughed until they put me in a mental hospital. But Personal Days is so much more than satire. Underneath Park's masterly portrait of wasted workaday lives is a pulsating heart, and an odd, buoyant hope." — Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan "The funniest book I've read about the way we work now." –William Poundstone, author of Fortune's Formula "Ed Park joins Andy Warhol and Don DeLillo as a master of the deadpan vernacular." —Helen DeWitt, author of The Last Samurai
Author: North Coast Local Land Services
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646959764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Produced by North Coast Local Land Services, the aim of this book is to provide information on animal health and husbandry issues that confront beef producers in the North Coast region of NSW. On the North Coast the big ticket causes of cattle loss and reduced productivity are nutrition, internal and external parasites, a few important infectious diseases such as three day sickness, blackleg and pink eye, and plant poisonings. This edition reflects their importance with expanded sections on each of these. There is a greater focus on disease prevention, animal welfare and occupational health and safety. A new section groups common causes of disease on the North Coast according to their presenting signs. Each of these conditions is then described in more detail later in the text and for ease of access are listed alphabetically. There is also a new section on programs and calendars to assist producers plan and budget their animal health and husbandry activities.As beef production on the North Coast is largely pasture-based, the focus of this book is on pasture management and sustainable grazing systems. In this edition other cattle production systems are recognised in a new section which includes calf rearing, store fattening, cattle in farm forestry, and cattle on forages and grain.The aim of each section and topic in this book is to give an overview; for further information, suggested references and links are provided. To include all the detail is beyond the scope of this book and would result in it being very large indeed!The information on disease signs, possible causes and therapy are general; this information is to improve your understanding of diseases. It is strongly recommended that you seek veterinary assistance to determine the cause and seek advice on the most appropriate programs or treatments. Quality assurance makes it imperative that any therapy given to stock is appropriate and not likely to compromise product quality or animal health.
Author: Daniel Wallace
Publisher: Bantam Press
ISBN: 9780593075098
Category : Comic strip characters
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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As any comics fan knows, a Super Hero is nothing without a worthy foe to battle. For every Batman there has to be a villain like the Joker, and for every Superman a Lex Luthor. This deluxe book celebrates nearly eighty years of compellingly corrupt characters from the DC Universe's remarkable gallery of super-villains. From the Penguin to Harley Quinn, and Doomsday to General Zod, DC Comics: Super-Villains will track the creation of each of these beloved baddies and the dynamic way in which they have evolved throughout the years. The book will feature the very best super-villain art from the DC Comics archives. Visually arresting, comprehensive, and insightful, DC Comics: Super-Villains will be the last word on the DC Comics characters that fans love to hate. All related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics.
Author: Hans Reihling
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780429328565
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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"Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa explores how different masculinities modulate substance use, interpersonal violence, suicidality, and AIDS as well as recovery cross-culturally. With a focus on three male protagonists living in very distinct urban areas of Cape Town, this comparative ethnography shows that men's struggles to become invulnerable increase vulnerability. Through an analysis of masculinities as social assemblages, the study shows how affective health problems are tied to modern individualism rather than African 'tradition' that has become a clichâe in Eurocentric gender studies. Affective health is conceptualized as a balancing act between autonomy and connectivity that after colonialism and apartheid has become compromised through the imperative of self-reliance. This book provides a rare perspective on young men's vulnerability in everyday life that may affect the reader and spark discussion about how masculinities in relationships shape physical and psychological health. Moreover, it shows how men change in the face of distress in ways that may look different than global health and gender transformative approaches envision. Thick descriptions of actual events over the life course make the study accessible to both graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences. Contributing to current debates on mental health and masculinity, the volume will be of interest to scholars from a number of disciplines including anthropology, gender studies, African studies, psychology and global health"--
Author: Penny Dolan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749646332
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Mary is feeling sad because she has nothing to wear to the party. A fairy flies in through Mary's window and tries to help, but things don't quite go to plan.
