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Is the American Dream Killing You?: How "The Market" Rules Our Lives by Paul Stiles
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-09-27 | Author:Paul Stiles

( Category: Consumer Behavior June 11,2015 )
Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke by Kuipers Giselinde
epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Kuipers, Giselinde [Kuipers, Giselinde]

Since the 1970s, sick jokes have reached unprecedented heights (Davies 1999; Dundes and Hauschild 1987; Oring 1992: 29-40). Every disaster is immediately followed by morbid jokes: famines in Biafra, Ethiopia ...
( Category: Linguistics June 8,2015 )
Solar Dance by Modris Eksteins
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Modris Eksteins [Eksteins, Modris]

CELA N’EST PAS … Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) By 1932 Otto Wacker, who said he loved beautiful things, was in deep financial difficulty. But so was Count Harry Kessler, ...
( Category: History June 7,2015 )
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:Tom Wolfe [Wolfe, Tom]

ON THE WAY BACK THEY PUT THE BEATLES TAPE ON AGAIN, from Help! but it was no use. They were all too dispirited. Except for Mountain Girl and Zonker. Mountain ...
( Category: Minority Studies June 6,2015 )
How to Find Fulfilling Work (School of Life) by Krznaric Roman & The School Of Life
mobi |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Krznaric, Roman & The School Of Life [Krznaric, Roman]

I Flow, Therefore I Am The quest to find fulfilling work begins with acting, but is resolved by reflecting. Because even when we have tested a selection of our possible ...
( Category: Job Hunting June 5,2015 )
AA to Z by Christopher Cavanaugh
epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Christopher Cavanaugh [Cavanaugh, Christopher]

When I think about the First Step, the thing that stays with me is complete defeat. I didn’t get that when I struggled with sobriety. GREG First Things First. A ...
( Category: Twelve-Step Programs June 5,2015 )
The Rock Cover Song by Doyle Greene
epub |eng | 2014-03-26 | Author:Doyle Greene

Coleman’s longtime bassist Charlie Haden made free jazz explicitly political with Liberation Music Orchestra (LMO), a free jazz big band. Adapting traditional revolutionary songs from Central and South America as ...
( Category: Rock June 1,2015 )
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
epub |eng | 2015-03-05 | Author:Jon Ronson

Hi ladies. Just to confirm the scenario on Friday at Chelsea starting at 3. If you’re around before then, I’m doing a judicial on him at noon so if you’d ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions May 27,2015 )
Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Susan Sontag

“The Primary and most beautiful of Nature’s qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times. But this motion is simply the perpetual consequence of crimes; and it is conserved ...
( Category: European May 27,2015 )
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (PSY8) by Jon Ronson
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Jon Ronson

8 THE SHAME ERADICATION WORKSHOP Twelve Americans - strangers to one another - sat in a circle in a room in the JW Marriott hotel in Chicago. There were buttoned-down, ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions May 27,2015 )
The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Greil Marcus [Marcus, Greil]

—while some words, seemingly harmless, dive right out of the song. One could speak of Boggs accompanying himself on his banjo, but that’s not how it feels. The banjo creates ...
( Category: Rock May 25,2015 )
The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Michael Blanding

Whether the company colluded with the violence against the union or just benefited from it, the union has been decimated by the constant threats and attacks. In 1993, when Panamco ...
( Category: Restaurant & Food May 25,2015 )
Dish by Jeannette Walls
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-08 | Author:Jeannette Walls

* Some of the criticism may have been fueled by jealousy. Jane Amsterdam, editor of the then-hot Manhattan inc. considered Brown a rival. Amsterdam was married to Jon Larsen, the ...
( Category: Popular Culture May 25,2015 )
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Ken Auletta

CHAPTER ELEVEN Google Enters Adolescence (2007-2008) For all its democratic ethos, its belief in “the wisdom of crowds,” at Google the engineer is king, held above the crowd. The vaunted ...
( Category: Company Profiles May 9,2015 )
Rule of Life by Richard Templar
epub |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Richard Templar [Templar, Richard]

R U L E 5 0 Stay Young I did say earlier that if you were worrying about getting older, you should stop because there wasn’t anything you could do ...
( Category: Popular Culture May 1,2015 )

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