Author: Sam Choo
Publisher: Hope Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"The Invisible Person's Guide: How to Blend In, Avoid Standing Out, and Be Forgotten" Ever wondered how to become so unremarkable that even your own mother might forget you? Look no further! This hilarious anti-self-help book is your ticket to mediocrity, obscurity, and social invisibility. Inside these pages, you'll discover: - Foolproof strategies to empty your bank account faster than you can say "impulse purchase" - Surefire ways to repel friends, family, and potential lovers - The art of cultivating a physique that screams "couch potato extraordinaire" - How to master the fine art of boring small talk that clears rooms in seconds - Tips to achieve that coveted "just rolled out of a dumpster" look But wait! Before you embrace your new life as a forgettable blob, there's a twist. This tongue-in-cheek guide is actually a clever blueprint for what not to do. By the time you're done laughing at our outrageous advice, you'll have a clear picture of how to live your best life. Perfect for fans of satire, self-improvement enthusiasts with a sense of humor, or anyone who's ever wanted to hide from the world (so... everyone?). Warning: Following the advice in this book may result in unexpected success, happiness, and personal growth. Read at your own risk!
The Invisible Person's Guide
Author: Sam Choo
Publisher: Hope Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"The Invisible Person's Guide: How to Blend In, Avoid Standing Out, and Be Forgotten" Ever wondered how to become so unremarkable that even your own mother might forget you? Look no further! This hilarious anti-self-help book is your ticket to mediocrity, obscurity, and social invisibility. Inside these pages, you'll discover: - Foolproof strategies to empty your bank account faster than you can say "impulse purchase" - Surefire ways to repel friends, family, and potential lovers - The art of cultivating a physique that screams "couch potato extraordinaire" - How to master the fine art of boring small talk that clears rooms in seconds - Tips to achieve that coveted "just rolled out of a dumpster" look But wait! Before you embrace your new life as a forgettable blob, there's a twist. This tongue-in-cheek guide is actually a clever blueprint for what not to do. By the time you're done laughing at our outrageous advice, you'll have a clear picture of how to live your best life. Perfect for fans of satire, self-improvement enthusiasts with a sense of humor, or anyone who's ever wanted to hide from the world (so... everyone?). Warning: Following the advice in this book may result in unexpected success, happiness, and personal growth. Read at your own risk!
Publisher: Hope Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"The Invisible Person's Guide: How to Blend In, Avoid Standing Out, and Be Forgotten" Ever wondered how to become so unremarkable that even your own mother might forget you? Look no further! This hilarious anti-self-help book is your ticket to mediocrity, obscurity, and social invisibility. Inside these pages, you'll discover: - Foolproof strategies to empty your bank account faster than you can say "impulse purchase" - Surefire ways to repel friends, family, and potential lovers - The art of cultivating a physique that screams "couch potato extraordinaire" - How to master the fine art of boring small talk that clears rooms in seconds - Tips to achieve that coveted "just rolled out of a dumpster" look But wait! Before you embrace your new life as a forgettable blob, there's a twist. This tongue-in-cheek guide is actually a clever blueprint for what not to do. By the time you're done laughing at our outrageous advice, you'll have a clear picture of how to live your best life. Perfect for fans of satire, self-improvement enthusiasts with a sense of humor, or anyone who's ever wanted to hide from the world (so... everyone?). Warning: Following the advice in this book may result in unexpected success, happiness, and personal growth. Read at your own risk!
Book Banning in 21st-Century America
Author: Emily J. M. Knox
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442231688
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Requests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books—also known as challenges—occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Banning in 21st-Century American Libraries, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in schools and public libraries. Previous research on censorship tends to focus on legal frameworks centered on Supreme Court cases, historical case studies, and bibliographies of texts that are targeted for removal or relocation and is often concerned with how censorship occurs. The current project, on the other hand, is focused on the why of censorship and posits that many censorship behaviors and practices, such as challenging books, are intimately tied to the how one understands the practice of reading and its effects on character development and behavior. It discusses reading as a social practice that has changed over time and encompasses different physical modalities and interpretive strategies. In order to understand why people challenge books, it presents a model of how the practice of reading is understood by challengers including “what it means” to read a text, and especially how one constructs the idea of “appropriate” reading materials. The book is based on three different kinds sources. The first consists of documents including requests for reconsideration and letters, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests to governing bodies, produced in the course of challenge cases. Recordings of book challenge public hearings constitute the second source of data. Finally, the third source of data is interviews with challengers themselves. The book offers a model of the reading practices of challengers. It demonstrates that challengers are particularly influenced by what might be called a literal “common sense” orientation to text wherein there is little room for polysemic interpretation (multiple meanings for text). That is, the meaning of texts is always clear and there is only one avenue for interpretation. This common sense interpretive strategy is coupled with what Cathy Davidson calls “undisciplined imagination” wherein the reader is unable to maintain distance between the events in a text and his or her own response. These reading practices broaden our understanding of why people attempt to censor books in public institutions.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442231688
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Requests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books—also known as challenges—occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Banning in 21st-Century American Libraries, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in schools and public libraries. Previous research on censorship tends to focus on legal frameworks centered on Supreme Court cases, historical case studies, and bibliographies of texts that are targeted for removal or relocation and is often concerned with how censorship occurs. The current project, on the other hand, is focused on the why of censorship and posits that many censorship behaviors and practices, such as challenging books, are intimately tied to the how one understands the practice of reading and its effects on character development and behavior. It discusses reading as a social practice that has changed over time and encompasses different physical modalities and interpretive strategies. In order to understand why people challenge books, it presents a model of how the practice of reading is understood by challengers including “what it means” to read a text, and especially how one constructs the idea of “appropriate” reading materials. The book is based on three different kinds sources. The first consists of documents including requests for reconsideration and letters, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests to governing bodies, produced in the course of challenge cases. Recordings of book challenge public hearings constitute the second source of data. Finally, the third source of data is interviews with challengers themselves. The book offers a model of the reading practices of challengers. It demonstrates that challengers are particularly influenced by what might be called a literal “common sense” orientation to text wherein there is little room for polysemic interpretation (multiple meanings for text). That is, the meaning of texts is always clear and there is only one avenue for interpretation. This common sense interpretive strategy is coupled with what Cathy Davidson calls “undisciplined imagination” wherein the reader is unable to maintain distance between the events in a text and his or her own response. These reading practices broaden our understanding of why people attempt to censor books in public institutions.
Invisible People
Author: Alex Tizon
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439918309
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
“Somewhere in the tangle of the subject’s burden and the subject’s desire is your story.”—Alex Tizon Every human being has an epic story. The late Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized people—from lonely immigrants struggling to forge a new American identity to a high school custodian who penned a New Yorker short story. Edited by Tizon’s friend and former colleague Sam Howe Verhovek, Invisible People collects the best of Tizon’s rich, empathetic accounts—including “My Family’s Slave,” the Atlantic magazine cover story about the woman who raised him and his siblings under conditions that amounted to indentured servitude. Mining his Filipino American background, Tizon tells the stories of immigrants from Cambodia and Laos. He gives a fascinating account of the Beltway sniper and insightful profiles of Surfers for Jesus and a man who tracks UFOs. His articles—many originally published in the Seattle Times and the Los Angeles Times—are brimming with enlightening details about people who existed outside the mainstream’s field of vision. In their introductions to Tizon’s pieces, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet, Atlantic magazine editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize winners Kim Murphy and Jacqui Banaszynski, and others salute Tizon’s respect for his subjects and the beauty and brilliance of his writing. Invisible People is a loving tribute to a journalist whose search for his own identity prompted him to chronicle the lives of others.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439918309
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
“Somewhere in the tangle of the subject’s burden and the subject’s desire is your story.”—Alex Tizon Every human being has an epic story. The late Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized people—from lonely immigrants struggling to forge a new American identity to a high school custodian who penned a New Yorker short story. Edited by Tizon’s friend and former colleague Sam Howe Verhovek, Invisible People collects the best of Tizon’s rich, empathetic accounts—including “My Family’s Slave,” the Atlantic magazine cover story about the woman who raised him and his siblings under conditions that amounted to indentured servitude. Mining his Filipino American background, Tizon tells the stories of immigrants from Cambodia and Laos. He gives a fascinating account of the Beltway sniper and insightful profiles of Surfers for Jesus and a man who tracks UFOs. His articles—many originally published in the Seattle Times and the Los Angeles Times—are brimming with enlightening details about people who existed outside the mainstream’s field of vision. In their introductions to Tizon’s pieces, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet, Atlantic magazine editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize winners Kim Murphy and Jacqui Banaszynski, and others salute Tizon’s respect for his subjects and the beauty and brilliance of his writing. Invisible People is a loving tribute to a journalist whose search for his own identity prompted him to chronicle the lives of others.
Invisible
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623889X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Science is said to be on the verge of achieving the ancient dream of making objects invisible. Invisible is a biography of an idea, tied to the history of science over the "longue duree." Taking in Plato to today s science, Ball shows us that the stories we have told about invisibility are not in fact about technical capability but about power, sex, concealment, morality, and corruption. Precisely because they refer to matters that lie beyond our senses, unseen beings and worlds have long been a repository for hopes, fears, and suppressed desires. Ideas of invisibility are, like all ideas rooted in legend, ultimately parables about our own potential and weaknesses. Invisible presents the first comprehensive survey of the roles that the idea of invisibility has played throughout time and culture. This territory takes us from medieval grimoires to cutting-edge nanotechnology, from fairy tales to telecommunications, from camouflage to early cinematography, and from beliefs about ghosts to the dawn of nuclear physics and the discovery of dark energy. Invisible reveals what our age-old fantasies about what lurks unseen, and whether we can enter that realm ourselves, truly say about us. "
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623889X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Science is said to be on the verge of achieving the ancient dream of making objects invisible. Invisible is a biography of an idea, tied to the history of science over the "longue duree." Taking in Plato to today s science, Ball shows us that the stories we have told about invisibility are not in fact about technical capability but about power, sex, concealment, morality, and corruption. Precisely because they refer to matters that lie beyond our senses, unseen beings and worlds have long been a repository for hopes, fears, and suppressed desires. Ideas of invisibility are, like all ideas rooted in legend, ultimately parables about our own potential and weaknesses. Invisible presents the first comprehensive survey of the roles that the idea of invisibility has played throughout time and culture. This territory takes us from medieval grimoires to cutting-edge nanotechnology, from fairy tales to telecommunications, from camouflage to early cinematography, and from beliefs about ghosts to the dawn of nuclear physics and the discovery of dark energy. Invisible reveals what our age-old fantasies about what lurks unseen, and whether we can enter that realm ourselves, truly say about us. "
Invisible People
Author: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393328097
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393328097
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art.
Invisible Ink
Author: Brian McDonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998534473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Invisible Ink is a helpful, accessible guide to the essential elements of the best storytelling by award-winning writer/director/producer Brian McDonald. Readers learn techniques for building a compelling story around a theme, engaging audiences with writing, creating appealing characters, and much more.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998534473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Invisible Ink is a helpful, accessible guide to the essential elements of the best storytelling by award-winning writer/director/producer Brian McDonald. Readers learn techniques for building a compelling story around a theme, engaging audiences with writing, creating appealing characters, and much more.
The Invisible Man
Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9180949290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A stranger with a striking appearance arrives in the small village of Bramblehurst on a cold, snowy day. His face is completely covered in bandages, with only a fake nose protruding. The villagers wonder why he is disguised, and when mysterious burglaries begin to occur, they decide to unmask the stranger. What they discover is not just a man trapped by his own creation, but a chilling reflection of the unsolvable secrets deep within human nature. The Invisible Man is a timeless classic that not only entertains and thrills, but also sheds light on questions of human nature and the dangers that arise when the boundaries of science are crossed. It is a captivating and thought-provoking reading experience that has challenged readers for generations to contemplate their own life choices. H. G. WELLS [1866-1946] was a British author and pioneer in the science fiction genre. His works, including The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, delved into futuristic and societal critique themes. Wells’s visionary portrayals of technology, social structures, and extraterrestrial life made him one of the most influential writers in his field and a precursor to modern science fiction.
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9180949290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A stranger with a striking appearance arrives in the small village of Bramblehurst on a cold, snowy day. His face is completely covered in bandages, with only a fake nose protruding. The villagers wonder why he is disguised, and when mysterious burglaries begin to occur, they decide to unmask the stranger. What they discover is not just a man trapped by his own creation, but a chilling reflection of the unsolvable secrets deep within human nature. The Invisible Man is a timeless classic that not only entertains and thrills, but also sheds light on questions of human nature and the dangers that arise when the boundaries of science are crossed. It is a captivating and thought-provoking reading experience that has challenged readers for generations to contemplate their own life choices. H. G. WELLS [1866-1946] was a British author and pioneer in the science fiction genre. His works, including The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, delved into futuristic and societal critique themes. Wells’s visionary portrayals of technology, social structures, and extraterrestrial life made him one of the most influential writers in his field and a precursor to modern science fiction.
The Invisible Element
Author: Robert Rosenfeld
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983981206
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A book for people who want to make innovation happen inside their organization. The Invisible Element takes theory and puts it into innovation practice. The focus is on how to innovate.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983981206
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A book for people who want to make innovation happen inside their organization. The Invisible Element takes theory and puts it into innovation practice. The focus is on how to innovate.
How to Be Invisible
Author: J. J. Luna
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250010454
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Using real life stories and his own consulting experience, Luna highlights legal methods for protecting oneself from information predators and how to secure bank accounts, business dealings, computer files, and even one's home address.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250010454
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Using real life stories and his own consulting experience, Luna highlights legal methods for protecting oneself from information predators and how to secure bank accounts, business dealings, computer files, and even one's home address.
A Field Guide to Germs
Author: Wayne Biddle
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 9780385484268
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Discusses nearly one-hundred notorious pathogens, describing their physical characteristics, the afflictions they cause, and their impact on folklore, philosophy, and history
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 9780385484268
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Discusses nearly one-hundred notorious pathogens, describing their physical characteristics, the afflictions they cause, and their impact on folklore, philosophy, and history