Author: Susan Shapiro
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312644727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she's got her addictive personality under control. Then her psychoanalyst moves away, her husband takes off to L.A. and her best friend moves to Ohio. Feeling lonely and left out, Julia fills in the void with food. This is a huge problem--especially since she's about to go on national television to plug her hot new self-help book about how she conquered her sugar addiction. Julia desperately sees eight shrinks in eight days, speed-dating for Dr. Replacement to help shrink back her body and anxiety in time for her close-up.
Speed Shrinking
Author: Susan Shapiro
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312644727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she's got her addictive personality under control. Then her psychoanalyst moves away, her husband takes off to L.A. and her best friend moves to Ohio. Feeling lonely and left out, Julia fills in the void with food. This is a huge problem--especially since she's about to go on national television to plug her hot new self-help book about how she conquered her sugar addiction. Julia desperately sees eight shrinks in eight days, speed-dating for Dr. Replacement to help shrink back her body and anxiety in time for her close-up.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312644727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she's got her addictive personality under control. Then her psychoanalyst moves away, her husband takes off to L.A. and her best friend moves to Ohio. Feeling lonely and left out, Julia fills in the void with food. This is a huge problem--especially since she's about to go on national television to plug her hot new self-help book about how she conquered her sugar addiction. Julia desperately sees eight shrinks in eight days, speed-dating for Dr. Replacement to help shrink back her body and anxiety in time for her close-up.
Social Acceleration
Author: Hartmut Rosa
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231148348
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies in particular three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and acceleration in the pace of life, which happens despite the expectation that technological change should increase an individual's free time. According to Rosa, both the structural and cultural aspects of our institutions and practices are marked by the "shrinking of the present," a decreasing time period during which expectations based on past experience reliably match future results and events. When this phenomenon combines with technological acceleration and the increasing pace of life, time seems to flow ever faster, making our relationships to each other and the world fluid and problematic. It is as if we are standing on "slipping slopes," a steep social terrain that is itself in motion and in turn demands faster lives and technology. As Rosa deftly shows, this self-reinforcing feedback loop fundamentally determines the character of modern life.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231148348
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies in particular three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and acceleration in the pace of life, which happens despite the expectation that technological change should increase an individual's free time. According to Rosa, both the structural and cultural aspects of our institutions and practices are marked by the "shrinking of the present," a decreasing time period during which expectations based on past experience reliably match future results and events. When this phenomenon combines with technological acceleration and the increasing pace of life, time seems to flow ever faster, making our relationships to each other and the world fluid and problematic. It is as if we are standing on "slipping slopes," a steep social terrain that is itself in motion and in turn demands faster lives and technology. As Rosa deftly shows, this self-reinforcing feedback loop fundamentally determines the character of modern life.
The Electrical World and Engineer
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
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Electrical World
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Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
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Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
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The Disston Crucible, a Magazine for the Millman
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Category : Saw industry
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Saw industry
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Textile World
Author: Walter S. Kelley
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Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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American Machinist & Automated Manufacturing
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Great Lakes Stamp & Mfg. Co., Inc. V. Reese Finer Foods, Inc
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Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Languages : en
Pages : 450
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The Iron Age
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Category : Hardware
Languages : en
Pages : 2160
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Category : Hardware
Languages : en
Pages : 2160
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High Speed Dynamo Electric Machinery
Author: Henry Metcalf Hobart
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Category : Electric generators
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : Electric generators
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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