Author: Drikshita Das
Publisher: Shahan Khan
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Kalopsia, in Greek, means the delusion of things being more beautiful than they really are. Each and every writer has the power of wrapping the usual vagaries of the world into something absolutely beautiful. This book is a testament of just that Kalopsia, that magic.
The Real Fake World
Author: Daniel Lebost
Publisher: Realfakeworld
ISBN: 9780692961247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Real Fake World is a reflection of my life told after the passing of my mother who suffered from cancer for over six years. The memoir is not only about how this experience affected my life and relationships, but also how it is generally relevant to being human. What makes this story different from most is that my mother was psychic, or what she liked to call a 'sensitive'. I knew since the age of ten that she would die young. She told me she would, and she was never wrong. I begin the story with a metaphor - a crashing plane. An adolescent boy deals with the illness of his mother, pretending not to feel the world around him, until which time the plane begins to crash and he is told that his mother is dying. Not the kind of dying though that the doctors have told him before, not another surgery or another tumor, but the real kind, the kind he can feel and knows to be true. A feeling of turbulence builds and mixes with the threat of an impending end that presses the boy against an emotional wall that refuses to let up, and like a threatened animal, it leads to desperation and the rules of his society to crumble from within him. His mind reaches a point that it will do anything to find a way to escape itself. This breakdown reshapes how he sees and hears his friends and family, it escalates his sarcastic and sometimes humorous view of the world, and it leads to the trashing of his self-esteem as he throws his body carelessly into alcohol abuse and the arms of the women around him. Knowing from a young age that his mother would die, the boy struggles through life against this power, turning it every which way he can in his mind to come to an understanding of it, and doing his best to try and stop it.
Publisher: Realfakeworld
ISBN: 9780692961247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Real Fake World is a reflection of my life told after the passing of my mother who suffered from cancer for over six years. The memoir is not only about how this experience affected my life and relationships, but also how it is generally relevant to being human. What makes this story different from most is that my mother was psychic, or what she liked to call a 'sensitive'. I knew since the age of ten that she would die young. She told me she would, and she was never wrong. I begin the story with a metaphor - a crashing plane. An adolescent boy deals with the illness of his mother, pretending not to feel the world around him, until which time the plane begins to crash and he is told that his mother is dying. Not the kind of dying though that the doctors have told him before, not another surgery or another tumor, but the real kind, the kind he can feel and knows to be true. A feeling of turbulence builds and mixes with the threat of an impending end that presses the boy against an emotional wall that refuses to let up, and like a threatened animal, it leads to desperation and the rules of his society to crumble from within him. His mind reaches a point that it will do anything to find a way to escape itself. This breakdown reshapes how he sees and hears his friends and family, it escalates his sarcastic and sometimes humorous view of the world, and it leads to the trashing of his self-esteem as he throws his body carelessly into alcohol abuse and the arms of the women around him. Knowing from a young age that his mother would die, the boy struggles through life against this power, turning it every which way he can in his mind to come to an understanding of it, and doing his best to try and stop it.
Real Fake Love
Author: Pippa Grant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940517865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
When a grumpy athlete's grandma tries to play matchmaker, he turns to a jilted bride who desperately needs to NOT fall in love to play his fake girlfriend.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940517865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
When a grumpy athlete's grandma tries to play matchmaker, he turns to a jilted bride who desperately needs to NOT fall in love to play his fake girlfriend.
Fake History
Author: Otto English
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787396425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Taking the ten biggest lies from history and looking at the people who propagated them, social commentator and expert historian Otto English shows how our past has been bent and broken, used and abused over time to fit the ends of some of the world's most powerful people.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787396425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Taking the ten biggest lies from history and looking at the people who propagated them, social commentator and expert historian Otto English shows how our past has been bent and broken, used and abused over time to fit the ends of some of the world's most powerful people.
The New Real Book
Author: Chuck Sher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883217259
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The new standard in jazz fake books since 1988. Endorsed by McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Dave Liebman, and many more. Evenly divided between standards, jazz classics and pop-fusion hits, this is the all-purpose book for jazz gigs, weddings, jam sessions, etc. Like all Sher Music fake books, it features composer-approved transcriptions, easy-to-read calligraphy, and many extras (sample bass lines, chord voicings, drum appendix, etc.) not found in conventional fake books.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883217259
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The new standard in jazz fake books since 1988. Endorsed by McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Dave Liebman, and many more. Evenly divided between standards, jazz classics and pop-fusion hits, this is the all-purpose book for jazz gigs, weddings, jam sessions, etc. Like all Sher Music fake books, it features composer-approved transcriptions, easy-to-read calligraphy, and many extras (sample bass lines, chord voicings, drum appendix, etc.) not found in conventional fake books.
KALOPSIA
Author: Drikshita Das
Publisher: Shahan Khan
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Kalopsia, in Greek, means the delusion of things being more beautiful than they really are. Each and every writer has the power of wrapping the usual vagaries of the world into something absolutely beautiful. This book is a testament of just that Kalopsia, that magic.
Publisher: Shahan Khan
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Kalopsia, in Greek, means the delusion of things being more beautiful than they really are. Each and every writer has the power of wrapping the usual vagaries of the world into something absolutely beautiful. This book is a testament of just that Kalopsia, that magic.
Red Pill, Blue Pill
Author: David Neiwert
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1633886271
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A revealing trip down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories -their appeal, who believes them, how they spread -with an eye to helping people deal with the alt-right conspiracists in their own lives.Conspiracy theories are killing us. Once confined to the fringes of society, this worldview now has adherents numbering in the millions -extending right into the White House. This disturbing look at this alt-right threat to our democratic institutions offers guidance for counteracting the personal toll this destructive mindset can have on relationships and families.Author David Neiwert -an investigative journalist who has studied the radical right for decades -examines the growing appeal of conspiracy theories and the kind of personalities that are attracted to such paranoid, sociopathic messages. He explains how alt-right leaders are able to get such firm holds on the imaginations of their followers and chronicles the destruction caused by the movement's most virulent believers.Colloquially, this recruitment to alt-right ideologies is called "getting red-pilled" -a metaphor for when believers of conspiracy theories become convinced that their alternate universe is real. Uniquely, and optimistically, Neiwert provides a "blue pill toolkit" for those who are dealing with conspiracy theorists in their own lives, including strategies drawn from people who counsel former far-right extremists who have renounced their former beliefs.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1633886271
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A revealing trip down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories -their appeal, who believes them, how they spread -with an eye to helping people deal with the alt-right conspiracists in their own lives.Conspiracy theories are killing us. Once confined to the fringes of society, this worldview now has adherents numbering in the millions -extending right into the White House. This disturbing look at this alt-right threat to our democratic institutions offers guidance for counteracting the personal toll this destructive mindset can have on relationships and families.Author David Neiwert -an investigative journalist who has studied the radical right for decades -examines the growing appeal of conspiracy theories and the kind of personalities that are attracted to such paranoid, sociopathic messages. He explains how alt-right leaders are able to get such firm holds on the imaginations of their followers and chronicles the destruction caused by the movement's most virulent believers.Colloquially, this recruitment to alt-right ideologies is called "getting red-pilled" -a metaphor for when believers of conspiracy theories become convinced that their alternate universe is real. Uniquely, and optimistically, Neiwert provides a "blue pill toolkit" for those who are dealing with conspiracy theorists in their own lives, including strategies drawn from people who counsel former far-right extremists who have renounced their former beliefs.
My Black Book- Vol.1
Author: Kheneil A. Black
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456731750
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
A poetic journey of love loss and life lessons, wrapped neatly in a rhythm and rhyme format
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456731750
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
A poetic journey of love loss and life lessons, wrapped neatly in a rhythm and rhyme format
IMPLANTATION 2
Author: AUBREY DORIS
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359811086
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Seeing through the global historical indoctrination of a world happily in pursuit to acquire it dreams at the cost of a tragic demise under the guise of ambition, religion, nationality, science and political expediency. Penetrating the world's value system in which money is blood and blood is to be shed to accomplish an intended goal of materialism that is set above the value of human life. Revealing a conscious awakening to how we are and how we perpetuate ideologies that that were set in motion tyrannically to keep us in bondage and in submission to a fairy tale God and Savior that never came, never went, never sent, but was imposed without consent. Leaving the world hell bent in hopes of a heaven that is only prepared for the dead. Yet the book comes alive with enlightenment taking the reader into the depths of being awaken with all possibilities that we can be transformed and vitally renewed to manifest true living that is in us and is us. The cause, the effect, and the affected that we must inspect
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359811086
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Seeing through the global historical indoctrination of a world happily in pursuit to acquire it dreams at the cost of a tragic demise under the guise of ambition, religion, nationality, science and political expediency. Penetrating the world's value system in which money is blood and blood is to be shed to accomplish an intended goal of materialism that is set above the value of human life. Revealing a conscious awakening to how we are and how we perpetuate ideologies that that were set in motion tyrannically to keep us in bondage and in submission to a fairy tale God and Savior that never came, never went, never sent, but was imposed without consent. Leaving the world hell bent in hopes of a heaven that is only prepared for the dead. Yet the book comes alive with enlightenment taking the reader into the depths of being awaken with all possibilities that we can be transformed and vitally renewed to manifest true living that is in us and is us. The cause, the effect, and the affected that we must inspect
Granitude
Author: Dave Phillips
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490842446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Josh Hanes commits an inexcusable transgression against his dads generation and society in general. An apology cannot wholly undo it. Jail time or a citation would have been an easier debt to repay. One small blunder sends nineteen year old Josh to the edge of isolation, rejection, heart ache, and loss. Stuck in a vacuum between being a high school football hero, painful career choices, and whether its too late for college sends Josh on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery. Wounded relationships with parents, friends, and his high school sweetheart are sutured into healing bonds by an amazing spirit of grace, compassion, and truth through an unlikely messenger. Devotional Notes for Reflection and Group Discussion are included at the end of the book. Definition of the title word, granitude, is included at the end of the book.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490842446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Josh Hanes commits an inexcusable transgression against his dads generation and society in general. An apology cannot wholly undo it. Jail time or a citation would have been an easier debt to repay. One small blunder sends nineteen year old Josh to the edge of isolation, rejection, heart ache, and loss. Stuck in a vacuum between being a high school football hero, painful career choices, and whether its too late for college sends Josh on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery. Wounded relationships with parents, friends, and his high school sweetheart are sutured into healing bonds by an amazing spirit of grace, compassion, and truth through an unlikely messenger. Devotional Notes for Reflection and Group Discussion are included at the end of the book. Definition of the title word, granitude, is included at the end of the book.
How to See the World
Author: Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465096018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the world upload over 300 hours of video to YouTube; and in 2014, we took over one trillion photographs. From the funny memes that we send to our friends to the disturbing photographs we see in the news, we are consuming and producing images in quantities and ways that could never have been anticipated. In the process, we are producing a new worldview powered by changing demographics -- one where the majority of people are young, urban, and globally connected. In How to See the World, visual culture expert Nicholas Mirzoeff offers a sweeping look at history's most famous images -- from Velezquez's Las Meninas to the iconic "Blue Marble" -- to contextualize and make sense of today's visual world. Drawing on art history, sociology, semiotics, and everyday experience, he teaches us how to close read everything from astronaut selfies to Impressionist self-portraits, from Hitchcock films to videos taken by drones. Mirzoeff takes us on a journey through visual revolutions in the arts and sciences, from new mapping techniques in the seventeenth century to new painting styles in the eighteenth and the creation of film, photography, and x-rays in the nineteenth century. In today's networked world, mobile technology and social media enable us to exercise "visual activism" -- the practice of producing and circulating images to drive political and social change. Whether we are looking at pictures showing the effects of climate change on natural and urban landscapes or an fMRI scan demonstrating neurological addiction, Mirzoeff helps us to find meaning in what we see. A powerful and accessible introduction to this new visual culture, How to See the World reveals how images shape our lives, how we can harness their power for good, and why they matter to us all.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465096018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the world upload over 300 hours of video to YouTube; and in 2014, we took over one trillion photographs. From the funny memes that we send to our friends to the disturbing photographs we see in the news, we are consuming and producing images in quantities and ways that could never have been anticipated. In the process, we are producing a new worldview powered by changing demographics -- one where the majority of people are young, urban, and globally connected. In How to See the World, visual culture expert Nicholas Mirzoeff offers a sweeping look at history's most famous images -- from Velezquez's Las Meninas to the iconic "Blue Marble" -- to contextualize and make sense of today's visual world. Drawing on art history, sociology, semiotics, and everyday experience, he teaches us how to close read everything from astronaut selfies to Impressionist self-portraits, from Hitchcock films to videos taken by drones. Mirzoeff takes us on a journey through visual revolutions in the arts and sciences, from new mapping techniques in the seventeenth century to new painting styles in the eighteenth and the creation of film, photography, and x-rays in the nineteenth century. In today's networked world, mobile technology and social media enable us to exercise "visual activism" -- the practice of producing and circulating images to drive political and social change. Whether we are looking at pictures showing the effects of climate change on natural and urban landscapes or an fMRI scan demonstrating neurological addiction, Mirzoeff helps us to find meaning in what we see. A powerful and accessible introduction to this new visual culture, How to See the World reveals how images shape our lives, how we can harness their power for good, and why they matter to us all.