Author: Santosh Jha
Publisher: Santosh Jha
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Every growing young must know cooking and understand reality. Maturing is about understanding recipes of reality as well as reality of recipes. Cooking is a great simulation of life’s relationship with reality. Cooking entails conscious construction of cause-effect relationship with different ingredients to create recipes of realities of experience-cognition of taste and aroma. Good life-living, like cooking, needs knowledge of causal relationships to create recipes of blissful realities, out of the ingredients of life-living information. This innovative cook book very humbly wishes to help you cook and taste all realities, the best way they should, to optimize life-living experiences, beyond restrictiveness of populism, viscerality and intuitiveness. As you grow and become an adult, your life journey unfolds in two related ways – first you consciously and conscientiously create new relationships with lot many novel and alternative realities and secondly; you continuously redefine and rebuild your existing relationships with all realities in this big world you live. This Relationship of You with Realities and its conscious-conscientious and artistic creation are critical to richness and diversity of experiences-cognitions, which alone is the true wealth of life-living. Cooking is a great modeling of this art and science of life-living and therefore every young must learn it well to be the masterchef of life. Life is largely about consciously having good and right ingredients and ‘cooking’ them to conscientiously create and recreate good and diverse recipes of beautiful, healthy and satisfying relationships with realities. You need to understand that the universe and world outside you only has Information. They are not Reality. Reality happens only when you cook and taste ‘Relationship with the Information’. The true-right-objective-holistic ‘Information’ is the best available ‘Ingredients’ of life-living recipes of realities. Recipes of reality and their experiencing depend on the experience as well as knowledge you have of infinite ingredients of information out there in the universe. Information is critical for blissful-harmonious life-living and reality of recipes requires that you understand the twin dimensions of information – Intuitive and Non-Intuitive. As you grow, you acquire ‘Ingredients of Information’ primarily through experiencing and it happens through the Intuitive-visceral and hardwired sense of utility-worth-righteousness of five senses and emotions. This intuitive sensory experiencing however is heavily prone and susceptible to fake-fudged-fraudulent-propagandist information as evidences for and against them come only with objective-scientific-holistic knowledge. This knowledge cannot be experienced by intuitive-visceral processes but only through disciplined and persevered learning. In fact, many information you get through intuitive experiencing, have to be ‘unlearnt’ through knowledge acquisition as many experienced Information are only partial and even wrong. Knowledge acquisition process is often non-intuitive and counter-intuitive, which are hard to accept as they stand antagonistic to intuitive sense of happiness. You cook not only for tastes as it is only an intuitive experiencing of happiness. You essentially cook and eat for health and energy needs of your body and health information is non-intuitive knowledge, which is often antagonistic to intuitive-visceral validation of tastefulness. Cooking and life need you to go beyond intuitive-visceral, self-validating rationality. Cooking makes you learn to balance between intuitive and non-intuitive information. It leads you to accept the importance of having true-right-holistic ‘Ingredients of Information’, to ‘cook’ most healthy as well as tasteful recipes of realities, for harmonious life-living. This novel-innovative-experimental cook book very humbly journeys all realities for your life-living wellness and prosperity. Welcome…
Recipes of Reality Beyond Trap of Tastefulness
Author: Santosh Jha
Publisher: Santosh Jha
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Every growing young must know cooking and understand reality. Maturing is about understanding recipes of reality as well as reality of recipes. Cooking is a great simulation of life’s relationship with reality. Cooking entails conscious construction of cause-effect relationship with different ingredients to create recipes of realities of experience-cognition of taste and aroma. Good life-living, like cooking, needs knowledge of causal relationships to create recipes of blissful realities, out of the ingredients of life-living information. This innovative cook book very humbly wishes to help you cook and taste all realities, the best way they should, to optimize life-living experiences, beyond restrictiveness of populism, viscerality and intuitiveness. As you grow and become an adult, your life journey unfolds in two related ways – first you consciously and conscientiously create new relationships with lot many novel and alternative realities and secondly; you continuously redefine and rebuild your existing relationships with all realities in this big world you live. This Relationship of You with Realities and its conscious-conscientious and artistic creation are critical to richness and diversity of experiences-cognitions, which alone is the true wealth of life-living. Cooking is a great modeling of this art and science of life-living and therefore every young must learn it well to be the masterchef of life. Life is largely about consciously having good and right ingredients and ‘cooking’ them to conscientiously create and recreate good and diverse recipes of beautiful, healthy and satisfying relationships with realities. You need to understand that the universe and world outside you only has Information. They are not Reality. Reality happens only when you cook and taste ‘Relationship with the Information’. The true-right-objective-holistic ‘Information’ is the best available ‘Ingredients’ of life-living recipes of realities. Recipes of reality and their experiencing depend on the experience as well as knowledge you have of infinite ingredients of information out there in the universe. Information is critical for blissful-harmonious life-living and reality of recipes requires that you understand the twin dimensions of information – Intuitive and Non-Intuitive. As you grow, you acquire ‘Ingredients of Information’ primarily through experiencing and it happens through the Intuitive-visceral and hardwired sense of utility-worth-righteousness of five senses and emotions. This intuitive sensory experiencing however is heavily prone and susceptible to fake-fudged-fraudulent-propagandist information as evidences for and against them come only with objective-scientific-holistic knowledge. This knowledge cannot be experienced by intuitive-visceral processes but only through disciplined and persevered learning. In fact, many information you get through intuitive experiencing, have to be ‘unlearnt’ through knowledge acquisition as many experienced Information are only partial and even wrong. Knowledge acquisition process is often non-intuitive and counter-intuitive, which are hard to accept as they stand antagonistic to intuitive sense of happiness. You cook not only for tastes as it is only an intuitive experiencing of happiness. You essentially cook and eat for health and energy needs of your body and health information is non-intuitive knowledge, which is often antagonistic to intuitive-visceral validation of tastefulness. Cooking and life need you to go beyond intuitive-visceral, self-validating rationality. Cooking makes you learn to balance between intuitive and non-intuitive information. It leads you to accept the importance of having true-right-holistic ‘Ingredients of Information’, to ‘cook’ most healthy as well as tasteful recipes of realities, for harmonious life-living. This novel-innovative-experimental cook book very humbly journeys all realities for your life-living wellness and prosperity. Welcome…
Publisher: Santosh Jha
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Every growing young must know cooking and understand reality. Maturing is about understanding recipes of reality as well as reality of recipes. Cooking is a great simulation of life’s relationship with reality. Cooking entails conscious construction of cause-effect relationship with different ingredients to create recipes of realities of experience-cognition of taste and aroma. Good life-living, like cooking, needs knowledge of causal relationships to create recipes of blissful realities, out of the ingredients of life-living information. This innovative cook book very humbly wishes to help you cook and taste all realities, the best way they should, to optimize life-living experiences, beyond restrictiveness of populism, viscerality and intuitiveness. As you grow and become an adult, your life journey unfolds in two related ways – first you consciously and conscientiously create new relationships with lot many novel and alternative realities and secondly; you continuously redefine and rebuild your existing relationships with all realities in this big world you live. This Relationship of You with Realities and its conscious-conscientious and artistic creation are critical to richness and diversity of experiences-cognitions, which alone is the true wealth of life-living. Cooking is a great modeling of this art and science of life-living and therefore every young must learn it well to be the masterchef of life. Life is largely about consciously having good and right ingredients and ‘cooking’ them to conscientiously create and recreate good and diverse recipes of beautiful, healthy and satisfying relationships with realities. You need to understand that the universe and world outside you only has Information. They are not Reality. Reality happens only when you cook and taste ‘Relationship with the Information’. The true-right-objective-holistic ‘Information’ is the best available ‘Ingredients’ of life-living recipes of realities. Recipes of reality and their experiencing depend on the experience as well as knowledge you have of infinite ingredients of information out there in the universe. Information is critical for blissful-harmonious life-living and reality of recipes requires that you understand the twin dimensions of information – Intuitive and Non-Intuitive. As you grow, you acquire ‘Ingredients of Information’ primarily through experiencing and it happens through the Intuitive-visceral and hardwired sense of utility-worth-righteousness of five senses and emotions. This intuitive sensory experiencing however is heavily prone and susceptible to fake-fudged-fraudulent-propagandist information as evidences for and against them come only with objective-scientific-holistic knowledge. This knowledge cannot be experienced by intuitive-visceral processes but only through disciplined and persevered learning. In fact, many information you get through intuitive experiencing, have to be ‘unlearnt’ through knowledge acquisition as many experienced Information are only partial and even wrong. Knowledge acquisition process is often non-intuitive and counter-intuitive, which are hard to accept as they stand antagonistic to intuitive sense of happiness. You cook not only for tastes as it is only an intuitive experiencing of happiness. You essentially cook and eat for health and energy needs of your body and health information is non-intuitive knowledge, which is often antagonistic to intuitive-visceral validation of tastefulness. Cooking and life need you to go beyond intuitive-visceral, self-validating rationality. Cooking makes you learn to balance between intuitive and non-intuitive information. It leads you to accept the importance of having true-right-holistic ‘Ingredients of Information’, to ‘cook’ most healthy as well as tasteful recipes of realities, for harmonious life-living. This novel-innovative-experimental cook book very humbly journeys all realities for your life-living wellness and prosperity. Welcome…
Class
Author: Paul Fussell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671792253
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671792253
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.
Thinking in Systems
Author: Donella Meadows
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603581480
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! "This is a fabulous book... This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing."—Forbes "Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind."—Hunter Lovins In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603581480
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! "This is a fabulous book... This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing."—Forbes "Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind."—Hunter Lovins In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.
Under the Table
Author: Katherine Darling
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416566198
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
A deliciously entertaining memoir about one woman's adventures in the student kitchens of the legendary French Culinary Institute -- flavored with celebrity chefs, eccentric characters, and mouthwatering recipes To anyone who has ever dreamed of life in a French kitchen, imagining days filled with puff pastry and sips of vintage wine, Katherine Darling serves up a savory dose of reality in this funny, fascinating, and altogether delightful account of her time spent slaving over a hot stove, wrestling with veal calves, and cleaning fish heads at the French Culinary Institute in downtown New York City. As she goes from clueless amateur to certified chef, Katherine and her quirky fellow students learn the secrets behind the art of French cooking and frequently find themselves the objects of scorn and ridicule as their teachers wage psychological warfare over steaming pots of bisque. The kitchen, they soon discover, is no place for soft-hearted romantics. It's a cutthroat world, and no one ever made a soufflé without breaking a few eggs -- or cracking a few heads together. From the basics to the final exam, Darling reveals everything that goes into the making of a chef. Filled with delicious food lore and trivia, and including dozens of classic and original French recipes, Under the Table takes readers deep into the trenches of one of the world's most prestigious cooking schools -- and shows what really goes on behind the doors of every great restaurant kitchen.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416566198
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
A deliciously entertaining memoir about one woman's adventures in the student kitchens of the legendary French Culinary Institute -- flavored with celebrity chefs, eccentric characters, and mouthwatering recipes To anyone who has ever dreamed of life in a French kitchen, imagining days filled with puff pastry and sips of vintage wine, Katherine Darling serves up a savory dose of reality in this funny, fascinating, and altogether delightful account of her time spent slaving over a hot stove, wrestling with veal calves, and cleaning fish heads at the French Culinary Institute in downtown New York City. As she goes from clueless amateur to certified chef, Katherine and her quirky fellow students learn the secrets behind the art of French cooking and frequently find themselves the objects of scorn and ridicule as their teachers wage psychological warfare over steaming pots of bisque. The kitchen, they soon discover, is no place for soft-hearted romantics. It's a cutthroat world, and no one ever made a soufflé without breaking a few eggs -- or cracking a few heads together. From the basics to the final exam, Darling reveals everything that goes into the making of a chef. Filled with delicious food lore and trivia, and including dozens of classic and original French recipes, Under the Table takes readers deep into the trenches of one of the world's most prestigious cooking schools -- and shows what really goes on behind the doors of every great restaurant kitchen.
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
Author: Zelda la Grange
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147516277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“An important reminder of the lessons Madiba taught us all.”—President Bill Clinton There are numerous books about Nelson Mandela, but Good Morning, Mr. Mandela is the first by a trusted member of his inner circle. In addition to offering a rare close portrait, Zelda la Grange pays tribute to Madiba as she knew him—a teacher who gave her the most valuable lessons of her life. Growing up in apartheid South Africa, La Grange, a white Afrikaner, feared the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as “a terrorist.” Yet she would become one of his most devoted associates for almost two decades. Inspiring and deeply felt, this book honors a great man’s lasting gift.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147516277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“An important reminder of the lessons Madiba taught us all.”—President Bill Clinton There are numerous books about Nelson Mandela, but Good Morning, Mr. Mandela is the first by a trusted member of his inner circle. In addition to offering a rare close portrait, Zelda la Grange pays tribute to Madiba as she knew him—a teacher who gave her the most valuable lessons of her life. Growing up in apartheid South Africa, La Grange, a white Afrikaner, feared the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as “a terrorist.” Yet she would become one of his most devoted associates for almost two decades. Inspiring and deeply felt, this book honors a great man’s lasting gift.
Sweetness and Power
Author: Sidney W. Mintz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101666641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101666641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle
Falafel Nation
Author: Yael Raviv
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803290217
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
When people discuss food in Israel, their debates ask politically charged questions: Who has the right to falafel? Whose hummus is better? But Yael Raviv's Falafel Nation moves beyond the simply territorial to divulge the role food plays in the Jewish nation. She ponders the power struggles, moral dilemmas, and religious and ideological affiliations of the different ethnic groups that make up the "Jewish State" and how they relate to the gastronomy of the region. How do we interpret the recent upsurge in the Israeli culinary scene--the transition from ideological asceticism to the current deluge of fine restaurants, gourmet stores, and related publications and media? Focusing on the period between the 1905 immigration wave and the Six-Day War in 1967, Raviv explores foodways from the field, factory, market, and kitchen to the table. She incorporates the role of women, ethnic groups, and different generations into the story of Zionism and offers new assertions from a secular-foodie perspective on the relationship between Jewish religion and Jewish nationalism. A study of the changes in food practices and in attitudes toward food and cooking, Falafel Nation explains how the change in the relationship between Israelis and their food mirrors the search for a definition of modern Jewish nationalism.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803290217
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
When people discuss food in Israel, their debates ask politically charged questions: Who has the right to falafel? Whose hummus is better? But Yael Raviv's Falafel Nation moves beyond the simply territorial to divulge the role food plays in the Jewish nation. She ponders the power struggles, moral dilemmas, and religious and ideological affiliations of the different ethnic groups that make up the "Jewish State" and how they relate to the gastronomy of the region. How do we interpret the recent upsurge in the Israeli culinary scene--the transition from ideological asceticism to the current deluge of fine restaurants, gourmet stores, and related publications and media? Focusing on the period between the 1905 immigration wave and the Six-Day War in 1967, Raviv explores foodways from the field, factory, market, and kitchen to the table. She incorporates the role of women, ethnic groups, and different generations into the story of Zionism and offers new assertions from a secular-foodie perspective on the relationship between Jewish religion and Jewish nationalism. A study of the changes in food practices and in attitudes toward food and cooking, Falafel Nation explains how the change in the relationship between Israelis and their food mirrors the search for a definition of modern Jewish nationalism.
Someone Knows
Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525539654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Bestselling and award-winning author Lisa Scottoline reaches new heights with this riveting novel about how a single decision can undo a family, how our past can derail our present, and how not guilty doesn't always mean innocent. Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is not only grief-stricken, she's full of dread. Because going home means seeing the other two people with whom she shares an unbearable secret. Twenty years earlier, a horrific incident shattered the lives of five teenagers, including Allie. Drinking and partying in the woods, they played a dangerous prank that went tragically wrong, turning deadly. The teenagers kept what happened a secret, believing that getting caught would be the worst thing that could happen. But time has taught Allie otherwise. Not getting caught was far worse. Allie has been haunted for two decades by what she and the others did, and by the fact that she never told a soul. The dark secret has eaten away at her, distancing her from everyone she loves, including her husband. Because she wasn't punished by the law, Allie has punished herself, and it's a life sentence. Now, Allie stands on the precipice of losing everything. She's ready for a reckoning, determined to learn how the prank went so horribly wrong. She digs to unearth the truth, but reaches a shocking conclusion that she never saw coming--and neither will the reader. A deeply emotional examination of family, marriage, and the true nature of justice, Someone Knows is Lisa Scottoline's most powerful novel to date. Startling, page-turning, and with an ending that's impossible to forget, this is a tour de force by a beloved author at the top of her game.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525539654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Bestselling and award-winning author Lisa Scottoline reaches new heights with this riveting novel about how a single decision can undo a family, how our past can derail our present, and how not guilty doesn't always mean innocent. Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is not only grief-stricken, she's full of dread. Because going home means seeing the other two people with whom she shares an unbearable secret. Twenty years earlier, a horrific incident shattered the lives of five teenagers, including Allie. Drinking and partying in the woods, they played a dangerous prank that went tragically wrong, turning deadly. The teenagers kept what happened a secret, believing that getting caught would be the worst thing that could happen. But time has taught Allie otherwise. Not getting caught was far worse. Allie has been haunted for two decades by what she and the others did, and by the fact that she never told a soul. The dark secret has eaten away at her, distancing her from everyone she loves, including her husband. Because she wasn't punished by the law, Allie has punished herself, and it's a life sentence. Now, Allie stands on the precipice of losing everything. She's ready for a reckoning, determined to learn how the prank went so horribly wrong. She digs to unearth the truth, but reaches a shocking conclusion that she never saw coming--and neither will the reader. A deeply emotional examination of family, marriage, and the true nature of justice, Someone Knows is Lisa Scottoline's most powerful novel to date. Startling, page-turning, and with an ending that's impossible to forget, this is a tour de force by a beloved author at the top of her game.
The Circle
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385351402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385351402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
Catch the Rabbit
Author: Lana Bastašic
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529039630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
‘Two young women plunging into post-war Bosnia like two Alices into Wonderland . . . smart, energetic, passionate, announcing a major talent.’ - Aleksandar Hemon Sara hasn’t seen or heard from her childhood best friend, Lejla, in years. She’s comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. But when Lejla calls her and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara finds that she can’t say no. What begins as a road trip becomes a journey through the past, as the two women set off to find Armin, Lejla’s brother who disappeared towards the end of the Bosnian War. Presumed dead by everyone else, only Lejla and Sara believed Armin was still alive. Confronted with the limits of memory, Sara is forced to reconsider the things she thought she understood as a girl: the best friend she loved, the first experiences they shared, but also the social and religious lines that separated them, that brought them such different lives. Translated into English by author Lana Bastašic, Catch the Rabbit tells the story of how we place the ones we love on pedestals, and then wait for them to fall off, how loss marks us indelibly, and how the traumas of war echo down the years.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529039630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
‘Two young women plunging into post-war Bosnia like two Alices into Wonderland . . . smart, energetic, passionate, announcing a major talent.’ - Aleksandar Hemon Sara hasn’t seen or heard from her childhood best friend, Lejla, in years. She’s comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. But when Lejla calls her and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara finds that she can’t say no. What begins as a road trip becomes a journey through the past, as the two women set off to find Armin, Lejla’s brother who disappeared towards the end of the Bosnian War. Presumed dead by everyone else, only Lejla and Sara believed Armin was still alive. Confronted with the limits of memory, Sara is forced to reconsider the things she thought she understood as a girl: the best friend she loved, the first experiences they shared, but also the social and religious lines that separated them, that brought them such different lives. Translated into English by author Lana Bastašic, Catch the Rabbit tells the story of how we place the ones we love on pedestals, and then wait for them to fall off, how loss marks us indelibly, and how the traumas of war echo down the years.