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Off The Edge
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Author : Orvar Löfgren
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2006
Off The Edge written by Orvar Löfgren and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
Have you ever heard of the cream effect or witnessed the power of cultural backdraft? Have you watched the slow process of fossilization or used the tactics of cultural stealth? You might be waiting for just the right word to describe what you have seen and done. This collection revitalizes the study of the cultural processes of stability and change. The 25 essays invent new processes for a rapidly changing world. They illustrate how different perspectives enrich cultural analysis and add a bit of playfulness and experimentation to a longstanding academic issue. The authorsfrom anthropology, European ethnology, sociology, and cultural studiesare peeking into blind spots and looking under the furniture in order to understand why and how some kinds of social life become visible, while so many others remain unseen. This book will inspire researchers and students to develop new approaches in cultural analysis. This is a reprint of the journal Ethnologia Europaea - Journal of European Eth
Off The Edge
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Author : Kelly Weill
language : en
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Release Date : 2022-02-22
Off The Edge written by Kelly Weill and has been published by Algonquin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with Computers categories.
"A history of the Flat Earth movement and a look at the recent boom in conspiratorial thinking in America"--
Off The Edge
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Author : Carolyn Crane
language : en
Publisher: Carolyn Crane
Release Date : 2013-12-30
Off The Edge written by Carolyn Crane and has been published by Carolyn Crane this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-30 with Fiction categories.
Hunted by her psycho ex-husband for years, Lanie flees across the globe to start a new life in Bangkok with a whole new identity. She thought she was safe…but now familiar faces are appearing in the crowds. Has her past caught up with her? The last person she wants to turn to is her mysterious new frenemy—sexy, arrogant Professor Peter Maxwell. What could a linguistics expert do to help her, anyway? It’s not as if he’s a badass secret agent with a unique way of solving crimes. Right? “Full of action and sparkling chemistry between Laney and Peter, this book is so much fun to read.” ~USA Today “Addictive and loads of fun to read…one of the very best romantic suspense novels I read this year.” ~Dabney, The Passionate Reader “Do yourself a favor and pick up this Carolyn Crane book. It is unique and stimulating and one of my favorites for this year.” ~Sunny, Love Affair with an Ereader "Full of action and sparkling chemistry between Laney and Peter, this book is so much fun to read." ~USA Today “Wow...this book was most definitely a keep-you-at-the-edge-of-your-seat kind of novel. I went to bed when I was around the 60-65% novel, then woke up wide awake at 2:00 AM thinking about the book. There was no way I was going to go back to sleep until I finished the book. Yes, it was one of those.” ~Smitten with Reading ~Winner of the RITA award for excellence in romance fiction~ ~ Named a 'Desert Island Keeper' at All About Romance ~ Top Romantic suspense novel, romance novel, steamy romance, thriller
Step Off The Edge
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Author : Ashlea Spivey
language : en
Publisher: Ashlea Renee Spivey
Release Date : 2010-12-25
Step Off The Edge written by Ashlea Spivey and has been published by Ashlea Renee Spivey this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-25 with Fiction categories.
Lorraine is a quiet, meticulous thinker that has gone her whole life blaming her father for her childhood torment and her failed relationships. She has hid behind blame, regret and doubt, building walls around herself in order to remain invisible - in the hopes of alluding hurt and heartbreak again. Those same walls come crashing down as she finds herself facing a judge who sentences her to mandatory therapy. Lorraine's therapist helps her break through to the truth of her paralyzing fear, and forces her to stop pointing her fingers in blame, take responsibility for her a waiting destiny and step off the edge into life. Winston is a high level executive making big moves and seemingly has it all together. He, however, is convinced no one would ever understand the pain he has silently experienced and the tears he has cried for the love he lost. He is too ashamed to reach out for help and too afraid that everyone deserves forgiveness, but him. A chance encounter on an elevator ignites his heart. This leads him to an old friend that will help him see that forgiveness may be the very thing that will give Winston the second chance he has been praying for.Living in fear is a slow long drawn straight line to nothing. We struggle to set goals and to create a realistic dream; too afraid to live. We choose fantasies filled with knights in shining armor coming to rescue us from our sin and personal state of woe. We decide not to change on our own, knowing what's necessary to complete our purpose. When does it end? When do we stop living in fear of the unknown or fear of success or fear of inadequacy? When do we take the leap of faith, when do we take the opportunity to step off the edge?
Off The Edge
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Author : Kelly Weill
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-02-22
Off The Edge written by Kelly Weill and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with Social Science categories.
“A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad range of conspiracy theories in the social media age. Beautiful, probing, and often empathetic . . . An insightful, human look at what fuels conspiracy theories.” —Science Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. More and more people believe that we all live on a pancake-shaped planet, capped by a solid dome and ringed by an impossible wall of ice. How? Why? In Off the Edge, journalist Kelly Weill draws a direct line from today’s conspiratorial moment, brimming not just with Flat Earthers but also anti-vaxxers and QAnon followers, back to the early days of Flat Earth theory in the 1830s. We learn the natural impulses behind these beliefs: when faced with a complicated world out of our control, humans have always sought patterns to explain the inexplicable. This psychology doesn’t change. But with the dawn of the twenty-first century, something else has shifted. Powered by Facebook and YouTube algorithms, the Flat Earth movement is growing. At once a definitive history of the movement and an essential look at its unbelievable present, Off the Edge introduces us to a cast of larger-than-life characters. We meet historical figures like the nineteenth-century grifter who first popularized the theory, as well as the many modern-day Flat Earthers Weill herself gets to know, from moms on vacation to determined creationists to neo-Nazi rappers. We discover what, and who, converts people to Flat Earth belief, and what happens inside the rabbit hole. And we even meet a man determined to fly into space in a homemade rocket-powered balloon—whose tragic death is as senseless and absurd as the theory he sets out to prove. In this incisive and powerful story about belief, Kelly Weill explores how we arrived at this moment of polarized realities and explains what needs to happen so that we might all return to the same spinning globe.
Stepping Off The Edge
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Author : Anne McConnell
language : en
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Stepping Off The Edge written by Anne McConnell and has been published by Deep Vellum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Stepping Off the Edge addresses the question of literary edges and endings in contemporary works of literature from France, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The book includes discussion of works by nine different authors, including Anne Carson, Marie NDiaye, Paul Auster, and César Aira. It considers the way that specific texts identify and interrogate textual boundaries, and also draw attention to questions of closure. Each of these texts also reflects on the way we experience and write about edges and endings in our lives.
Falling Off The Edge
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Author : Alex Perry
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-03-05
Falling Off The Edge written by Alex Perry and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations and governments have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits. What if that's not the case? Alex Perry, award-winning foreign correspondent, travels from the South China Sea to the highlands of Afghanistan to the Sahara to see first-hand globalization at the sharp end -- and it's not pretty. Whether it's Shenzen, China's boom city where sweatshops pay under-age workers less than $4 a day, or Bombay, where the gap between rich and poor means million-dollar apartments overlook million-people slums, or on the high seas with the pirates of southeast Asia who prey on the world's central trade artery, or South Africa, where Mandela's dream for a Rainbow Nation is being crushed by a new economic apartheid, Perry demonstrates, vividly and chillingly, that for every winner in our brave new world, there are hundreds of millions of losers. And be they Chinese army veterans, Indian Maoist rebels or the Somali branch of al Qaeda, they are all very, very angry. Falling Off the Edge is an adrenaline-charged journey through the developing world, which reveals with clarity that globalization starts wars. Far from living in a time of peace and prosperity, Perry suggests, the boom is about to go bang.
Falling Off The Edge Of Paradise
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Author : Joseph James
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2006-06
Falling Off The Edge Of Paradise written by Joseph James and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06 with Fiction categories.
Sex with multiple females, the abuse of drugs from marijuana to mushrooms, and ecstasy to tobacco, and cocaine to alcohol, and prescription pills to paradise was probably the reason why our relationship was facing pure pandemonium. We rode the surf; this getaway took its toll. I knew, in retrospect, this would happen the moment we planned the trip (except we didn't remember planning it), but I didn't think drugs and alcohol would spoil a good buzz this quickly. Grabbing the phone from my hands with a smile, Mr. Edwards-the blame for half of my mistakes-said, "Its over," and fell on the floor after he unplugged the phone from its outlet. Paradise Island, Bahamas, January 2005: Joseph James and Jeffrey Edwards are two men who push life to the edge. But they're on the verge of going overboard. Traveling to Paradise Island from Detroit, Michigan, the two cousins disrespect and destroy the tourist haven in an attempt to break the paradox between total control and reckless abandon. From mixing with happy families, high-stakes gambling, and nightlife with upper society to sharing a pint of rum with a homeless local and sleeping with random women, the pair's contribution to the Bahamas is nothing more than an abuse of free will and destiny.
Falling Off The Edge Of The World
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Author : Shelly Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-05-22
Falling Off The Edge Of The World written by Shelly Anderson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-22 with Travel categories.
What would tempt a young woman to run off to a country she knew almost nothing about? I was that young woman. Fleeing a bitter divorce and my safe, but mundane, life I accepted a job in Saudi Arabia, a country that by all reports was the most austere on earth. I ran headlong into an unexpected adventure that would change my life forever. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - mysterious, beautiful and dangerous. A land of stunning desert landscapes where modern ways co-exist uneasily with ancient traditions. An enigma of a place where the state executioner is revered, where beautiful women shroud themselves in black, and ferocious desert sandstorms turn high noon into darkest night. Somewhere along the way I fell in love with the Middle East and its people, their proud history, and their gracious hospitality. This is my story.
Off The Edge
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Author : OPIO YAW ASANTE
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2007-12-03
Off The Edge written by OPIO YAW ASANTE and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-03 with Fiction categories.
Off The Edge is an action thriller mixed with romance and suspense. It sensitively describes the picturesque sceneries and reggae culture of Jamaica. Ivor Mansong, a descendant of the Maroons of Nanny Town, Jamaica, saw that the battle for paradise, fought by the Maroons, was far from over. After being caught up in the middle of a shootout that left him close to death, Ivor's life had taken a new direction. Being among the first of the highly charged Sea Wasps, trained in military techniques perfected by the US Navy Seals, Ivor found himself at the firing line of the fight against illegal firearms and cocaine trade in the western Caribbean. After losing the woman he loved and being close to the edge, Ivor saw the need to change direction once more.