Break in Case of Emergency
Author: Jessica Winter
Publisher: Borough Press
Published: 2017-04-20
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780008132132
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In Case of Emergency, Break Glass
Author: Sarah Van Arsdale
Publisher:
Published: 2016-01-20
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781938466601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the far-flung to the far gone, the characters in Sarah Van Arsdale's triad of novellas face, against a foreign backdrop, a fear most familiar. Whether immersed in an ancient culture or born into our modern world, the people of In Case of Emergency, Break Glass find themselves explorers in their own lives. How to recognize themselves in unidentifiable locations? How to know themselves in unestablished relationships? In physical and emotional frontiers fraught with uncertainty, it is by landmarks of empathy and perception that they navigate a way home.
In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World
Author: Nate Anderson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1324004800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Ars Technica Holiday Reading Title of 2021 A lively and approachable meditation on how we can transform our digital lives if we let a little Nietzsche in. Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche’s passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by “content.” Written long before the advent of smartphones, Nietzsche’s aphoristic philosophy advocated a fierce mastery of attention, a strict information diet, and a powerful connection to the natural world. Drawing on Nietzsche’s work, technology journalist Nate Anderson advocates for a life of goal-oriented, creative exertion as more meaningful than the “frictionless” leisure often promised by our devices. He rejects the simplicity of contemporary prescriptions like reducing screen time in favor of looking deeply at what truly matters to us, then finding ways to make our technological tools serve this vision. With a light touch suffused by humor, Anderson uncovers the impact of this “yes-saying” philosophy on his own life—and perhaps on yours.
In Case of Emergency Break Glass!
Author: David Glass
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-12-09
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781981182763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere we are again! After the great success of the first book we're back with the second volume of guaranteed belly laughs and eye watering tales. Whether you're an adventuring the great outdoors type or prefer to stay indoors you can be sure that you'll relate to Mr Glass's mishaps and mayhem that blight his daily life. Some chapters contain adult themes but all chapters contain uncontrollable bouts of laughter, so have the Tena Ladies at the ready!
Break in Case of Emergency
Author: Jessica Winter
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2017-06-13
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 110191193X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her early thirties, Jen has all but abandoned a once-promising painting career when she takes a poorly defined job at a feminist nonprofit. The Leora Infinitis Foundation—or LIFt—claims to empower women, but staffers spend all their time devising acronyms for imaginary programs, ruthlessly undermining one another, and stroking the ego of their boss, a larger-than-life celebrity philanthropist. Stuck in this passive-aggressive hellscape, Jen struggles with insecurity, especially when she compares herself to her two best friends, Meg and Pam—one a wealthy attorney with a picture-perfect family, the other a passionately committed artist. When the personal and the professional begin to collide in the course of a fateful art exhibition, a surreal business trip, and a devastating loss, it forces Jen to reckon with some hard truths about herself and the people she loves most.
Break in Case of Emergency
Author: Brian Francis
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-02-04
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 148806248X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in a small town in the 1990s, this is the story of a girl on the edge—of a breakdown, of family secrets, of learning who she really is. Life has been a struggle for Toby Goodman. Her mother died by suicide five years ago, and her father left before Toby was born. Now a teenager living on her grandparents’ dairy farm, Toby has trouble letting people in. Convinced that she is destined to follow her mother’s path, she creates a plan to escape her pain. But with the news that her father is coming home and finally wants to meet her, Toby learns the truth of her parents’ story. Her father is gay and a world-famous female impersonator—in a time when these facts are a source of small-town whispers and secrets, and not something anyone had dared talk with her about before. As her careful plans go awry, Toby must rebuild her life from the ground up. While she might not follow an expected path, with the support of a quirky but lovable circle of friends and family, Toby will finally put together the many different pieces that make up her past, her present and her future.
100 Deadly Skills
Author: Clint Emerson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-10-13
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 147679605X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers one hundred concise methods of surviving dangerous situations based on the skills of military special forces operatives, covering such topics as evading ambushes, escaping confinement, and winning a knife fight.
In Case of Emergency
Author: Mahsa Mohebali
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 1952177871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this prize-winning Iranian novel, a spoiled and foul-mouthed young woman looks to get high while her family and city fall to pieces. What do you do when the world is falling apart and you’re in withdrawal? Disillusioned, wealthy, and addicted to opium, Shadi wakes up one day to apocalyptic earthquakes and a dangerously low stash. Outside, Tehran is crumbling: yuppies flee in bumper-to-bumper traffic as skaters and pretty boys rise up to claim the city as theirs. Cross-dressed to evade hijab laws, Shadi flits between her dysfunctional family and depressed friends—all in search of her next fix. Mahsa Mohebali's groundbreaking novel about Iranian counterculture is a satirical portrait of the disaster that is contemporary life. Weaving together gritty vernacular and cinematic prose, In Case of Emergency takes a darkly humorous, scathing look at the authoritarian state, global capitalism, and the gender binary.
In Case of Spiritual Emergency
Author: Catherine G. Lucas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1844093921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonal stories of spiritual crises are presented alongside practical and effective guidance in this exploration of a fascinating phenomenon. When spiritual emergencies, such as mystical psychosis and dark nights of the soul, are understood, managed, and integrated, they can offer enormous potential for growth and fulfillment, and this book offers three key phases for successful navigation. Encouraging, supportive, and life-saving, this resource is essential for avoiding the mental, emotional, or spiritual paralysis or exhaustion that can result from underestimating the current age of increased individual and global emergencies.
In Case of Emergency
Author: Courtney Moreno
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2014-09-09
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1940450632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat do you do when you can’t function? After rookie EMT Piper Gallagher responds to a call outside a Los Angeles shopping mall for a man who can only tell her, “I can’t function,” the question begins to haunt her. How will Piper continue to function despite the horror she sees working in South Central, and despite her own fractured past? And how will the woman Piper loves continue to function as she experiences the aftershocks of her time spent serving in Iraq? Piper’s experiences as a rookie break her down and open her up as her genuine urge to help patients confronts the daily realities of life in the back of an ambulance and a hospital's hallways. This vivid and visceral debut is a rich study in trauma—in its causes and effects, in its methods and disguises, in its power and its pull.
