Do Something for Nothing: Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, through the Simple Act of a Haircut
Do Something for Nothing: Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, through the Simple Act of a Haircut

Author: Joshua Coombes

Publisher: Akashic Books

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1617759473

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Through the simple act of a haircut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into the lives of humans experiencing homelessness in different cities across the world. “In this uplifting book, Coombes deftly illustrates how reaching out and listening can break down barriers in an often indifferent world.” —Booklist Online “Joshua’s stories show the power that empathy and compassion have to turn a common, everyday act into something transformative. They are the revelations of connection.” —Michael Sheen, actor and activist When you're on the fringes of society, being noticed can mean everything. In 2015, while working at a London hair salon, Joshua Coombes took to the streets with his scissors to build relationships with people sleeping rough in the capital. This inspired him to begin posting transformative images on social media to amplify their voices. These stories resonated and thousands of people got involved in their own way. #DoSomethingForNothing was born--a movement that encourages people to connect their skills and time to those who need it. Via the simple act of a haircut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into the lives of humans experiencing homelessness in different cities across the world. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and all-new writing, Do Something for Nothing explores themes of love, acceptance, shame, and perseverance, while inviting us to see ourselves in one another and dissolve the negative stigmas surrounding homelessness. Additionally, a portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to organizations dedicated to assisting unsheltered people.

Something for Nothing
Something for Nothing

Author: Brian Tracy

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Tracy reveals the social and personal threats inherent in the emerging "grabbing match" culture, explaining how the something-for-nothing mentality corrupts and undermines. He also helps readers set a personal and culture-wide agenda for change.

Something for Nothing
Something for Nothing

Author: T. J. Jackson Lears

Publisher: Viking Adult

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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Drawing on a vast body of research, Lears ranges through the entire sweep of American history as he uncovers the hidden influence of risk taking, conjuring, soothsaying, and sheer dumb luck on our culture, politics, social lives, and economy."--BOOK JACKET.

Something for Nothing
Something for Nothing

Author: Terrence Daryl Shulman

Publisher: Infinity Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0741417790

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Mr. Shulman has developed an enhanced understanding of kleptomania, based on an addiction model. It offers the best hope we have today for effective treatment of this baffling disorder.

Nothing
Nothing

Author: Annie Barrows

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 0062668250

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“Remarkable.”—New York Times Book Review From Annie Barrows, the acclaimed #1 New York Times–bestselling coauthor of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and the author of the award-winning and bestselling Ivy + Bean books, this teen debut tells the story of Charlotte and Frankie, two high school students and best friends who don’t have magical powers, fight aliens, crash their cars, get pierced, or discover they are royal. They just go to school. And live at home. With their parents. A great read for fans of Becky Albertalli, Louise Rennison, and Adi Alsaid. Nothing ever happens to Charlotte and Frankie. Their lives are nothing like the lives of the girls they read about in their YA novels. They don’t have flowing red hair, and hot romantic encounters never happen—let alone meeting a true soul mate. They just go to high school and live at home with their parents, who are pretty normal, all things considered. But when Charlotte decides to write down everything that happens during their sophomore year—to prove that nothing happens and there is no plot or character development in real life—she’s surprised to find that being fifteen isn’t as boring as she thought. It’s weird, heartbreaking, silly, and complicated. And maybe, just perfect.

A Universe from Nothing
A Universe from Nothing

Author: Lawrence Maxwell Krauss

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 145162445X

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This is a provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical question: Where did the universe come from and how will it end?

Something for Nothing
Something for Nothing

Author: David Anthony

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1616200227

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His extravagant suburban lifestyle deteriorating along with his small-aircraft business in the face of the 1970s oil crisis, Martin Anderson attempts to clear his mounting debts by using his planes for drug runs to Mexico only to find himself wrongly implicated in a double murder. Original. A first novel.

Suffering Is Never for Nothing
Suffering Is Never for Nothing

Author: Elisabeth Elliot

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2019-02-01

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1535914165

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Hard times come for all in life, with no real explanation. When we walk through suffering, it has the potential to devastate and destroy, or to be the gateway to gratitude and joy. Elisabeth Elliot was no stranger to suffering. Her first husband, Jim, was murdered by the Waoroni people in Ecuador moments after he arrived in hopes of sharing the gospel. Her second husband was lost to cancer. Yet, it was in her deepest suffering that she learned the deepest lessons about God. Why doesn’t God do something about suffering? He has, He did, He is, and He will. Suffering and love are inexplicably linked, as God’s love for His people is evidenced in His sending Jesus to carry our sins, griefs, and sufferings on the cross, sacrificially taking what was not His on Himself so that we would not be required to carry it. He has walked the ultimate path of suffering, and He has won victory on our behalf. This truth led Elisabeth to say, “Whatever is in the cup that God is offering to me, whether it be pain and sorrow and suffering and grief along with the many more joys, I’m willing to take it because I trust Him.” Because suffering is never for nothing.

A Nation of Moochers
A Nation of Moochers

Author: Charles J. Sykes

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2012-01-17

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1429951079

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We have experienced a shift in American character: we've become a nation of moochers. Increasingly dependent on the efforts of others over our own, Americans are free to freeload. From the corporate bailouts on Wall Street to the alarming increases in personal default and dependency, from questionable tax exemptions to enormous pension, healthcare, and other entitlement costs, the new moocher culture cuts across lines of class, race, and private and public sectors. And the millions that plan and behave sensibly, only to bail out the profligate? They're angry. Charles Sykes' argument is not against compassion or legitimate charity, but targets the new moocher culture, in which self-reliance and personal responsibility have given way to mass grasping after handouts. A Nation of Moochers is a persuasively argued and entertaining rallying cry for Americans who are tired of playing by the rules and paying for those who don't.

Something from Nothing
Something from Nothing

Author: Phoebe Gilman

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2017-04-25

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1338208497

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Joseph's grandfather transforms his blanket many times over the years, but what can be done when the final item is lost? Gilman's version of this Yiddish folk tale won the 1993 Ruth Schwartz Award. When Joseph was a baby, his grandfather made him a wonderful blanket. But as Joseph grows older, the blanket becomes tattered and worn. Throw it out! cries Joseph's mother. Luckily, Grandpa is an extraordinary tailor. He can fix anything! And so with a snip! snip! here, and a few stitches there, Grandpa transforms the treasured blanket into a jacket, a vest, a Sabbath tie, a handkerchief, and finally a beautiful button. But when the button is lost, even Grandpa can't help. After all, how can you make something from nothing?In a rich and loving portrait of shtetl life, Phoebe Gilman presents a traditional Jewish folktale about family love and ingenuity that will warm the hearts of readers young and old.