Jazz Fiction

Jazz Fiction

Author: David Rife

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780810859074

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Broad in scope, meticulously researched, and including titles that have long been inaccessible, this resource is an overview of the history of the genre from its beginning to the present."--BOOK JACKET.


The Self-Employment Survival Guide

The Self-Employment Survival Guide

Author: Jeanne Yocum

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-04-08

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1538108720

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Anyone who opts for self-employment quickly learns that succeeding as your own boss is no walk in the park. While professional freedom has many, many joys, it also involves significant risks. If you’re considering self-employment, or you’re already self-employed, The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss alerts you to the challenges involved and provides proven strategies for surmounting these obstacles and succeeding. You’ll also learn what you need to put in place before taking the leap to being your own boss to help assure your success. Working for yourself offers personal freedoms and rewards, but the road can curve or travel uphill at times. Here, Jeanne Yocum shares eight key behaviors that impede success and provides proven solutions for the various obstacles that might cross your path, including unreasonable client demands, slow payers, unexpected client defections, daily schedules, health and financial planning, and the feelings of isolation that can sometimes accompany working on your own. Unlike many books that provide only a rose-colored view of self-employment, this book gives a full, realistic view of what being your own boss is actually like. By learning about the ups and downs that come with being in charge of your own livelihood, you will be better able to handle the demands of self-employment and succeed on your own terms.


Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real

Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real

Author: Harrison Fisher

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2000-08-29

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1462804381

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"This is the only book youll ever need. Herein I have collected the produce of my continual forays into the plastic flow of the earths interior and poetical translations of the cryptic discharge of the material nothingness, including meditations on skin-sortie, drink empery, Now Sound. Theres even a wee bit of prose for those who like to read all the way to the right margin. In the words of I, Adult Strong, See atoms lifeless! Feel my throbbing emptiness. Experience the wild heat of a morbid heart. Buy this, die strangely happy."


Elegant Failure

Elegant Failure

Author: Richard Shrobe

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2010-05-25

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1930485255

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Zen koans are stories of exchanges between Zen masters and their disciples at the moment of enlightenment or near-enlightenment. These stories have long fascinated Western readers because of their wisdom, humor, and enigmatic quality. Drawing on over thirty years of practice and teaching, Richard Shrobe (himself a recognized Zen Master) has selected twenty-two cases from The Blue Cliff Record and Wu-men-kuan that he finds deeply meaningful and helpful for meditation practice. In Elegant Failure, he provides a wealth of background information and personal anecdotes for each koan that help to illuminate its meaning without detracting from its paradoxical nature. As Shrobe reminds us, "The main core of Zen teaching is the bare bones of what is there. In a certain sense, embellishing a story takes away from the central teaching: Don’t embellish anything, just be with it as it is."


Zen and Now

Zen and Now

Author: Mark Richardson

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2009-09-08

Total Pages: 5

ISBN-13: 0307373150

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On the Trail of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Zen and Now is the story of a story that will appeal to the 5 million readers of the original and serve as an initiation to a whole new generation. Since its original publication in 1968, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values has touched whole generations of readers with its serious attempt to define “quality” in a world that seems indifferent to the responsibilities that quality brings. Mark Richardson expands that journey with an investigation of his own – to find the enigmatic author of Zen and the Art, ask him a few questions, and place his classic book in context. The result manages to be a biography of Pirsig himself – in the discovery of an unknown life of madness, murder and eventual resolution – and a splendid meditation on creativity and problem-solving, sanity and insanity.


The Way of Zen

The Way of Zen

Author: Alan W Watts

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1473590876

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'The perfect guide for a course correction in life' Deepak Chopra If we open our eyes and see clearly it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant An insightful exploration into the origins and history of Zen Buddhism from pioneering Zen scholar Alan Watts. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, Watts explores the principles of Zen and how it can revolutionize our daily life.