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Shiny Objects
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Author : James A. Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-11-15
Shiny Objects written by James A. Roberts and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-15 with Social Science categories.
In Shiny Objects, a cross between In Praise of Slowness and The Tipping Point, consumer behavior expert Professor James A. Roberts takes us on a tour of America's obsession with consumerism—pointing out its symptoms, diagnosing specific problems, and offering a series of groundbreaking solutions. Roberts gives practical advice for how to correct the materialistic trends in our lives which lock us into a cycle of financial hardship and stress. Shiny Objects, a new The Paradox of Choice for the modern reader, is more than a critique of capitalism—it's also an exploration into how we can live happier, fuller, more productive lives today.
Shiny Things
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Author : Leonard Diepeveen
language : en
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Release Date : 2021-06-25
Shiny Things written by Leonard Diepeveen and has been published by Intellect (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-25 with categories.
Shiny objects attract and fascinate us. While they used to derive their power from their rarity, today, shininess is pervasive: its attraction is a foundation of consumer culture and it has attendant effects on our architecture, our conceptions of the body, and our production of spectacle. In Shiny Things, Leonard Diepeveen and Timothy van Laar examine the meanings and functions of shininess in visual art and material culture. Exploring the works of a diverse range of artists--including Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Jeff Koons, Carolee Schneemann, Audrey Flack, Fra Angelico, and Gerard ter Borch--the authors open the discourse to topics as disparate as automobiles, Richard Nixon, and Liberace. With accessible writing and a careful application of contemporary theory, this is scholarship that challenges stale thought and will appeal to any progressive thinker looking for new ways to present ideas.
Nine Shiny Objects
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Author : Brian Castleberry
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2020-06-30
Nine Shiny Objects written by Brian Castleberry and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-30 with Fiction categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION "In this extraordinary novel, Castleberry brilliantly hopscotches from person to person, from era to era, while somehow making all this fancy footwork look effortless and essential." - Jenny Offill, author of Department of Speculation and Weather A luminous debut novel in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the eerily intersecting lives of a series of American dreamers whose unforeseen links reveal the divided heart of a haunted nation—and the battered grace that might lead to its salvation June 26, 1947. Headlines across America report the sighting of nine pulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any aircraft. In Chicago, inspired by the news, Oliver Danville, a failed actor now reduced to a mediocre pool hustler, hitchhikes west in a fever-dream quest for a possible sign from above that might illuminate his true calling. A chance encounter with Saul Penrod, an Idaho farmer, and his family sets in motion the birth of “the Seekers”—a collective of outcasts, interlopers, and idealists devoted to creating a society where divisions of race, ethnicity, and sexuality are a thing of the past. When Claudette Donen, a waitress on the lam from her suffocating family, encounters the group, she is compulsively drawn to Oliver’s sister Eileen, but before she is able to join the enigmatic community, it has vanished. Reunited across the country, the Seekers attempt to settle in the suburbs of Long Island. One night, their purpose suddenly revealed, a stranger emerges, and a horrific crime ensues. In the decades that follow, the perpetrators, survivors, and their children will be forced to face the consequences of what happened—a reckoning that will involve Charlie Ranagan, a traveling salesman; Max Felt, a dissolute late-1960s rock star; Alice Linwood, an increasingly paranoid radio host; Stanley West, a struggling African American poet; Marly Feldberg, a Greenwich Village painter; and Debbie Vasquez, a Connecticut teenager trapped by an avalanche of midnight legacies. Each will prove to be a piece of a puzzle that, when assembled, reveals a shocking truth about the clash between the optimism of those who seek inspiration from spacious skies, and the venom of others who relish the underworld—not only via conspiratorial maneuverings, but the literal unearthing of the dead. The result is one of the most exciting, and unforgettable, debut novels in recent memory, and the launch of a major career in American letters.
Shiny Objects
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Author : Diana Anhalt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Shiny Objects written by Diana Anhalt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Shiny Objects
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Author : Dianne Benedict
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 1982
Shiny Objects written by Dianne Benedict and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Fiction categories.
A successful professional painter and art instructor for years, Benedict was dissatisfied that she could paint petal-perfect flowers and expensive portraits of wealthy clients, but could not capture the light on the garden at dusk or the tender hands and faces of her own children. Seven years ago she walked into a poetry workshop and found "the window I needed for my imagination." She never painted another painting, and has never stopped writing. She got her BA in English and her MFA in writing at Goddard College, taught workshops, won scholarships, and recieved grants and awards for her fiction. her stories have appeared in INTRO and fiction international, and the title story in this award-winning collection was published as an Atlantic Monthly First.
Shiny Objects Marketing
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Author : David A. LaBonte
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-04-03
Shiny Objects Marketing written by David A. LaBonte and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-03 with Business & Economics categories.
"Shiny Objects Marketing has given us a dramatic new insight into what our customers want and how to make our service a shiny object." –Michael Purcell, Senior Vice President, Product Development, Global Cash Card "Shiny Objects Marketing is a very simple and easy-to-understand approach to attracting customers." –Catherine Monson, President, PIP Printing "Based on a very simple characteristic that most creatures on this planet have in common-attraction to shiny objects-LaBonte lays out a commonsense approach that can turn any product or service into a massive success. Once a person understands the power and influence of shiny objects, their marketing will never be the same." –Marc Anthony, President, Black Dot Wireless "In this world of mind-numbing marketing theories, Shiny Objects Marketing stands out as something truly refreshing. It makes absolute sense and actually works for any product or service." –Donald Disbro, Vice President, New Business Development and Marketing, Professional Community Management
Bright Shiny Things
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Author : Barbara Nadel
language : en
Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd
Release Date : 2017-04-20
Bright Shiny Things written by Barbara Nadel and has been published by Allison & Busby Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-20 with Fiction categories.
'This series has brilliantly established itself and this latest is another masterpiece from Barbara Nadel' CRIMESQUADA friend from the past asks for private investigator Lee Arnold's help in tracing his son: Fayyad al'Barri was last thought to be in Syria having embraced radical Islam. But a cryptic message has prompted his family to believe Fayyad has had a change of heart and is searching for a way back home. With fellow investigator Mumtaz Hakim's help, they might be able to establish contact.From the bright lights of the Western world, to shady boxing clubs and murky online jihadist recruitment, and while violence erupts close to home, Mumtaz and Lee are on an unknown path into the mind of a terrorist, journeying closer to danger than they ever imagined.
Mastering Shiny
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Author : Hadley Wickham
language : en
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Release Date : 2021-04-29
Mastering Shiny written by Hadley Wickham and has been published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc." this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-29 with Computers categories.
Master the Shiny web framework—and take your R skills to a whole new level. By letting you move beyond static reports, Shiny helps you create fully interactive web apps for data analyses. Users will be able to jump between datasets, explore different subsets or facets of the data, run models with parameter values of their choosing, customize visualizations, and much more. Hadley Wickham from RStudio shows data scientists, data analysts, statisticians, and scientific researchers with no knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript how to create rich web apps from R. This in-depth guide provides a learning path that you can follow with confidence, as you go from a Shiny beginner to an expert developer who can write large, complex apps that are maintainable and performant. Get started: Discover how the major pieces of a Shiny app fit together Put Shiny in action: Explore Shiny functionality with a focus on code samples, example apps, and useful techniques Master reactivity: Go deep into the theory and practice of reactive programming and examine reactive graph components Apply best practices: Examine useful techniques for making your Shiny apps work well in production
Shiny Objects
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Author : James A. Roberts
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Shiny Objects written by James A. Roberts and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Unexpected Shiny Things
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Author : Bruce Dethlefsen
language : en
Publisher: Cowfeather Press
Release Date : 2011
Unexpected Shiny Things written by Bruce Dethlefsen and has been published by Cowfeather Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Poetry categories.
In his second, full-length collection, poems of innocence and experience take readers from the schoolyard to the trout stream, from birth to death. Bruce Dethlefsen's familiar, folksy voice acquires new depth and darkness. As Max Garland notes, "there's clarity that's not to be confused with naiveté or simplicity." Dethlefsen chooses to speak in a plain voice that makes room for the lyrical in these poems, using a common vocabulary and an understated tone of voice. While his previous collections have hinted at darker tints to life, this book allows the darkness its due, paying attention to death, to loss, to grief, and to anger. The people in this book, including the poet/speaker, are conflicted and multi-dimensional: failing, trying again, and, in the meantime, loving as best they can. W.E. Butts praises the balance of the "elliptical, conversational, playful, and serious," in Dethlefsen's poems. The shifts in voice, using song, pun, and rhyme by turn, bring the reader closer to the heart of the book and then playfully, skittishly, evade and deflect the attention. It is by what he leaves out, as much as what he says, that Dethlefsen expresses the inexpressible. The terms which spring to mind on reading Bruce Dethlefsen's poems, tenderness, kindness, gentleness, aren't words we're used to hearing in relation to contemporary poetry. These poems have a wide scope and a lot of give. They're tough enough to admit how fragile they-and we-are. And they whisper whatever you are feeling, whatever you are going through, you are not alone. You are not alone. Together, these poems lead us to, in Garland's words, "a redemptive vision of the world around us." Visit brucedethlefsen.org for more information about the poet. Visit cowfeatherpress.org for supporting materials, including discussion questions for book groups, an interview with the poet, and audio from Unexpected Shiny Things.