Hoi Polloi
Hoi Polloi

Author: Robert McNulty Editor

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0615177603

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A collaborative, non-profit anthology of literary submissions and the writing craft. Authors include: Nava Atlas, Dean Baris, Janet Bornstein, Paula J. Botch, Elizabeth Bullock, Sofija V. Canavan, Sally A. Connolly, Claire Cook, Katherine Critelli, Skip DeBrusk, Karyn Donahue, Bill Dunn, Harriet Emerson, Richard Fannoney, Robert Feeney, Dennis Feeney, Alessandra Fisher, Dave Fisher, Ralph Fletcher, Sarah Fox, Chris Fraas, Walter C. Frye, Elizabeth Evans Fryer, Frank M. Hynes, Marilyn Johnson, Robert Laplander, Valerie Lawson, Jamie Long, Heidi Marble, Mark McNulty, Robert McNulty, Richard Mills, Shea Mullaney, Erin O'Brien, Jay O'Callahan, April Parker, D. T. Pollard, Stephen Puleo, Chet Raymo, Jordan Rich, William Russo, Mike Ryan, Bob Sanchez, Jackson Sellers, Tucker Smallwood, Reed F. Stewart, Renee Summers, Michael Trainor, Kimmy Van Kooten, Caitlin Womersley, Alexander Woodbury and Virginia Young. The book encourages the 'writer in all of us' to become engaged in literary pursuits.

Hoi Polloi
Hoi Polloi

Author: Craig Sherborne

Publisher: Black Inc.

Published: 2011-06-30

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1921870273

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The hilariously compelling memoir that was hailed as an instant classic. Hoi Polloi recounts a childhood spent on racetracks and in bars, as the author’s parents struggle to climb the social ladder. It begins in 1968 in the small town of Heritage, New Zealand. Living above the bar of his family’s hotel, the young Craig is exposed to violence, drinking and murky racial politics. His parents, whom Sherborne thinks of as “Winks” and “Heels” in his eccentric personal language, decide to sell the hotel and move to Sydney, Australia – which they imagine as New Zealand’s “England”, a place of boundless wealth, prestige and social opportunities. Once in Sydney, the family begins a love affair with the racing scene. Written with extraordinary sympathy and verve, Hoi Polloi is the portrait of an extraordinary childhood – brutal, poignant and unforgettable. ‘Craig Sherborne has written one of the great Australian memoirs ... Hoi Polloi is a pure comic outrage of a book that will keep you wide-eyed with wonder way past dawn.’ —Peter Craven ‘A lyrical, candid memoir ... Sherborne’s parents are reanimated as tragi-comic grotesques, irresistibly awful, touchingly ludicrous, mordantly sensitive and painfully funny’ —Times ‘I read the first sentence and then pushed the day’s work aside and sat down to read it all. I haven’t come across such a lively and gripping memoir in a long time.’ —Hilary Mantel ‘A brilliant, searing memoir and a major new work of life writing.’ —David McCooey, Australian Book Review ‘A scalding memoir, funny, fast-moving, shot through with a fierce pathos.’ —Helen Garner

Hobnobbing with the Hoi Polloi
Hobnobbing with the Hoi Polloi

Author: Val Hughes

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-22

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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People often cause the poetic gene to start twitching. A funny walk, a way of being, something someone says or purely the observation of personal behaviours can all initiate a burbling mound of words and phrases to fire those patterns of language and away you go on a journey of adventure and creation. Indeed lots of people poems can be found here - a mix of funny, sober, heartening, emotive and the unexpected.

Rich People Things
Rich People Things

Author: Chris Lehmann

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1608461521

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"Social criticism at its scorching-hot best."--Barbara Ehrenreich "Think H.L. Mencken crossed with Jon Stewart."--The Phoenix In Rich People Things, Chris Lehmann lays bare the various dogmas and delusions that prop up plutocratic rule in the post-meltdown age. It's a humorous and harrowing tale of warped populism, phony reform, and blind deference to the nation's financial elite. As the author explains, American class privilege is very much like the idea of sex in a Catholic school--it's not supposed to exist in the first place, but once it presents itself in your mind's eye, you realize that it's everywhere. A concise and easy-to-use guide, Rich People Things catalogs the fortifications that shelter the opulent from the resentments of the hoi polloi. From ideological stanchions such as the Free Market through the castellation of media including The New York Times and Wired magazine, to gatekeepers such as David Brooks, Steve Forbes, and Alan Greenspan, Lehmann covers the vast array of comforting and comprehensive protections that allow the über-privileged to maintain their iron grip on almost half of America's wealth. With chapters on Malcolm Gladwell, the Supreme Court, the memoir, and more, no one is spared from Lehmann's pointed prose. Chris Lehmann is employed, ever precariously, as an editor for Yahoo! News, Bookforum, and The Baffler, while dissecting the excesses of his social betters for his column Rich People Things at TheAwl.com. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Ana Marie Cox and a quartet of excellent pets.

Chat Republic
Chat Republic

Author: Angelo Fernando

Publisher:

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780989338004

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Conversations, and the need for exchanging ideas is integral to a vibrant society. Social media, a great enabler of rich conversations, continues to touch and infect organizations, even those that have remained on the sidelines. What appears to be chatter -rants, 'Likes, ' re-tweets, video responses, 'check-ins' - contain clues to how communities are socially adjusting to being both talkers and listeners, producers and consumers of media. Angelo Fernando shows us why re-instating our authentic voice through social media sends ripples through PR and politics, media and marketing. You will learn how to plan for a time when socially enhanced conversations will become inseparable from everything your organization undertakes. Social media often sounds more complicated than it is. This book will give you the confidence to dive in. "An accessible and engaging text to help more people participate in social media and have their voice heard." "Emanuel Rosen, Author, The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited, a national bestseller" "Angelo does a brilliant job of making sense of how advancements in technologies are so intertwined with our daily lives in language that will catch you up to speed quickly." "Dr. Cyndi Laurin, author of bestselling "The Rudolph Factor""

The Kingdom of Happiness
The Kingdom of Happiness

Author: Aimee Groth

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-02-21

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1501129929

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Fearless gonzo journalism—an insider’s look at the enigmatic and successful CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, and his quest to create his own version of utopia in the center of Las Vegas. In 2010 Tony Hsieh was introduced to many as a visionary modern business leader. Under Hsieh’s leadership, Zappos became the world’s largest online shoe company by championing satisfied customers and a valued workforce. After his company was purchased by Amazon, even as he continued as its CEO, Hsieh engaged his energies and considerable fortune toward a much larger goal: building a new and more socially conscious Silicon Valley in the heart of downtown Las Vegas, all within his five-year plan. Hsieh challenged business and technology journalist Aimee Groth to uproot her life and participate in his social engineering experiment. Beginning with couch surfing, moving to a Downtown Project crash pad, and then living in Zappos corporate housing above the Gold Spike bar, Groth had a front-row view of Hsieh’s efforts to build his ideal society. With interviews from insiders on all ends of the Zappos spectrum—like the “broken dolls” who gravitate toward Hsieh’s almost cultlike personality and make up some of his inner circle, to the Zapponians who live and work on campus, to players in the top echelon of Silicon Valley—Groth offers a unique view of a world few people know much about, and sheds a new light on this complex, eccentric man. The Kingdom of Happiness is the story of one man’s quest to create his own nirvana in the desert based on his exacting design and experimentation with lessons he’s gleaned not only from the incredible success of Zappos, but also from rave culture and Burning Man. Is it the business model of the future or a cautionary tale of hubris?

Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein

Author: James Rondeau

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300179712

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Examines all periods in Lichtenstein's career, going well beyond his brushstrokes and the classic Pop romance and war cartoon paintings that made him famous. Gives special consideration to Lichtenstein's historical influences, from Picasso and Cubism through Surrealism, Futurism, and British Pop. Examines the various styles and subjects featured in paintings created throughout his lifetime and includes a complete chronology of his life and work.

Ex Libris
Ex Libris

Author: Anne Fadiman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-11-25

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780374527228

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A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.

The Aristocracy of Talent
The Aristocracy of Talent

Author: Adrian Wooldridge

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1510768629

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The Times (UK) book of the year! Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left? In The Aristocracy of Talent, esteemed journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy forged by the politicians and officials who introduced the revolutionary principle of open competition, the psychologists who devised methods for measuring natural mental abilities, and the educationalists who built ladders of educational opportunity. He looks outside western cultures and shows what transformative effects it has had everywhere it has been adopted, especially once women were brought into the meritocratic system. Wooldridge also shows how meritocracy has now become corrupted and argues that the recent stalling of social mobility is the result of failure to complete the meritocratic revolution. Rather than abandoning meritocracy, he says, we should call for its renewal.

Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV
Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV

Author: John Peter Anton

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1971-01-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780791406540

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Papers originally presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy. Seventeen essays demonstrate a shared and strikingly high regard for Plato as a major thinker in the western philosophical tradition, a recognition that the dialogues he wrote continue to exert influence as well as attract theoretical attention. Paper edition ($18.95) not seen. The essays in this collection have been selected from a much larger set of papers on Aristotle's ethics, presented before the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy during the past decade. The essays are arranged (roughly) according to several unifying themes: methodology, ergon, virtue and character, moral reasoning, and persons and property. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR