Rotting in a Stranger's World

Rotting in a Stranger's World

Author: Ben Brykczynski

Publisher: Ben Brykczynski

Published: 2022-04-02

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13:

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As the world comes to an end, a new society rises from its ashes. A Stranger gathers survivors into a new sanctuary hidden away in the mountains. Built on a foundation of community and collaboration, the Stranger stokes the fire of paranoia as he turns the new society ever more towards the worship of an ancient deity.


Strangers in Their Own Land

Strangers in Their Own Land

Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1620973987

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The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.


The Soul Is a Stranger in This World

The Soul Is a Stranger in This World

Author: Micah Mattix

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1532660154

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The Soul Is a Stranger in This World is a timely examination of some of the best modern and contemporary poets and a trenchant defense of poetry as a narrative, musical, and theological art. While it is common today to view the poet as a revolutionary, who breaks old forms in the name of aesthetic and political freedom, this volume begins with the classical view of the poet “as a man speaking to men,” as Wordsworth put it. Poetry may challenge and shock, but it also consoles, probing the contours of the human soul in a broken world. Collected from essays and reviews first published in The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Books and Culture, First Things, and other outlets, the volume traces these concerns in the work of modern masters such as Rilke and Eliot, avant-garde exemplars like André du Bouchet and Basil Bunting, and contemporary writers such as Dana Gioia and Franz Wright.


Rotten Apple

Rotten Apple

Author: Marilyn Barr

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc

Published: 2023-06-07

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1509249559

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Rose has loved Fae Princess Orchid since childhood. Helpless to stop Orchid’s exile to Strawberry, she vows to avenge her death. If she had one more day with Orchid, would she have the courage to confess her love? It’s too late now…or is it? Vampire Ryan’s myelodysplastic anemia has caught up with him. He fights in the Winter Solstice Battle for an honorable death but instead finds Orchid. While she’s not his ideal mate, she does offer him a trip to Magmell, where she promises their healers can cure him. Will he switch sides in the war against the Sluagh for immortality? When Rose and Orchid are reunited, their passion burns out of control, but Ryan has already left his mark and changed the trajectory of Magmell forever. Royal alliances are built and destroyed, leaving Strawberry’s future in the balance. In a tale of villains, who deserves a happily ever after?


The Face

The Face

Author: Tash Aw

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-03

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1632060450

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A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage


Rotten to the Core

Rotten to the Core

Author: Vincenzo Blaschi

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1326547143

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A novel without any interior illustrations. It is set in the Wild West, about a villainous outlaw called Grizzly McShane, and his band of outlaws who terrorize their town. When a handsome reward is offered to bring the villainous Grizzly to his demise, a few men start to fancy their chances. But can anyone bring Grizzly down? Plenty of action, gunfights, heated confrontation, sharp dialogue and beautiful women. All the things you'd expect from a Western! Strictly for adults only. Strong, graphic violence and sex throughout. Definitely not for the faint hearted.


Taste, Waste and the New Materiality of Food

Taste, Waste and the New Materiality of Food

Author: Bethaney Turner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-11-16

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0429755198

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Anthropocentric thinking produces fractured ecological perspectives that can perpetuate destructive, wasteful behaviours. Learning to recognise the entangled nature of our everyday relationships with food can encourage ethical ecological thinking and lay the foundations for more sustainable lifestyles. This book analyses ethnographic data gathered from participants in Alternative Food Networks from farmers’ markets to community gardens, agricultural shows and food redistribution services. Drawing on theoretical insights from political ecology, eco-feminism, ecological humanities, human geography and critical food studies, the author demonstrates the sticky and enduring nature of anthropocentric discourses. Chapters in this book experiment with alternative grammars to support and amplify ecologically attuned practices of human and more-than-human togetherness. In times of increasing climate variability, this book calls for alternative ontologies and world-making practices centred on food which encourage agility and adaptability and are shown to be enacted through playful tinkering guided by an ethic of convivial dignity. This innovative book offers a valuable insight into food networks and sustainability which will be useful core reading for courses focusing on critical food studies, food ecology and environmental studies.


Rotten Peaches

Rotten Peaches

Author: Robin Devereaux-Nelson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-02

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1329874293

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Seventeen pieces of short and flash fiction (plus a bonus selection) ranging from dramatic fiction to speculative to horror. Features the National League for Innovation winner Chocolate, Forward, winner of the 2011 Renker Foundation Creative Writing Award, story turned into short film Intent, and Night Before which was a finalist in the New York City Midnight Writing Challenge in 2014.


Decay

Decay

Author: Ann Smith

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2010-02-10

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1449072372

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In the near future when Immortals have completely usurped control over all mankind, one Immortal family fights to protect all remaining human children. When undead creatures begin mercilessly murdering Immortals, the Ventoni family struggles to figure out where the creatures are coming from, and wonders who will protect them. Loaded with action and filled with unprecedented plot twists, Decay will leave you holding your breath until the very last page.


Dirty Rotten Recruiter Tricks

Dirty Rotten Recruiter Tricks

Author: Elaine Delanna Priestley

Publisher: Bitingduck Press LLC

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1932482377

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This book is an expos(r) of unscrupulous recruiters, those who deceive job seekers and cheat client companies. It is a fictive memoir of the author's early years in the recruiting business. And she knows what she's talking about. She's a woman who rose to the top of her profession and learned every deceptive practice and dirty recruiter trick imaginable along the way. Dirty Rotten Recruiter Tricks, dramatized through embellished dialogue, gives you a peek inside the grubby end of the business where recruiting charlatans practice their wily crafts. Honest recruiters who provide genuine services to job seekers and client companies alike find their reputations tarnished by such frauds. At the conclusion of each chapter, you will find ElaineOCOs Diary, a summary of salient points that provide solid advice to help both job candidates and hiring executives avoid the kind of recruiter scams described so graphically in the book. In essence youOCOre getting both an entertaining story along with some valuable advice. For example, you'll learn: *how recruiters are often trained to lie *what the phrase slinging shit at a screen means and why it reflects the philosophy of far too many recruiters *why it's vitally important that companies vet their recruiters face to face and not over the phone *the dirty tricks recruiters use to get leads on job orders *the obvious disregard, even contempt, many recruiters feel for job candidates *why job applicants should never believe recruiters when they ask for references unless they have job orders in hand *how honesty is the most difficult policy in a profession riddled with liars and cheats *why the recruiting business and telemarketing business are kindred spirits *the underhanded tricks recruiters use to gain the names and addresses of company executives and other hiring authorities *why recruiting is the essential dog-eat-dog business where survival of the fittest takes on biting meaning *why recruiting managers often view the recruiter-company client relationship as essentially adversarial *what broadcasting resumes means and how it (justifiably) results in lawsuits against recruiters *how unscrupulous recruiters encourage job candidates to lie on their resumes *why job candidates must keep in touch with hiring authorities of companies during and after the interviewing process, and not rely on what recruiters tell them *why many company executives won't deal with recruiters under any circumstances. For an author bio, photo, and a sample read visit bosonbooks.com."