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Smile Or Die
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Author : Barbara (Y) Ehrenreich
language : en
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Release Date : 2021-03-04
Smile Or Die written by Barbara (Y) Ehrenreich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-04 with categories.
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Author : QuickRead
language : en
Publisher: QuickRead.com
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Smile Or Die By Barbara Ehrenreich Summary written by QuickRead and has been published by QuickRead.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Study Aids categories.
Do you want more free book summaries like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. Smile or Die (2009) explores the dark side of our cultural obsession with positive thinking. Although positive thinking is widely considered to be a good and helpful thing, Barbara Ehrenreich wants readers to be aware that being positive about everything all the time is not only unrealistic, it’s actively harmful. By exploring the impact of toxic positivity, Ehrenreich contemplates the mass delusion of the “power of positive thinking” movement and encourages her audience to take precautions for their health.
Natural Causes
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Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2018-04-12
Natural Causes written by Barbara Ehrenreich and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-12 with Social Science categories.
We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at the microscopic level, the cells in our bodies facilitate tumours and attack other cells, with life-threatening consequences. In this revelatory book, Barbara Ehrenreich argues that our bodies are a battleground over which we have little control, and lays bare the cultural charades that shield us from this knowledge. Challenging everything we think we know about life and death, she also offers hope - that we find our place in a natural world teeming with animation and endless possibility.
Blood Rites
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Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-01-07
Blood Rites written by Barbara Ehrenreich and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with Social Science categories.
A New York Times Notable BookAn ALA Notable Book "Original and illuminating." --The Washington Post What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued in paperback, Blood Rites takes readers on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of twentieth-century "total war." Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place -- not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experiences of predation by stronger carnivores. Brilliant in conception and rich in scope, Blood Rites is a monumental work that continues to transform our understanding of the greatest single threat to human life.
Bright Sided
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Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2010-08-03
Bright Sided written by Barbara Ehrenreich and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with Social Science categories.
Barbara Ehrenreich's New York Times bestselling Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism Americans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive is the key to getting success and prosperity. Or so we are told. In this utterly original debunking, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the false promises of positive thinking and shows its reach into every corner of American life, from Evangelical megachurches to the medical establishment, and, worst of all, to the business community, where the refusal to consider negative outcomes--like mortgage defaults--contributed directly to the current economic disaster. With the myth-busting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of positive thinking: personal self-blame and national denial. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best--poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.
Had I Known
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Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2021-01-07
Had I Known written by Barbara Ehrenreich and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Literary Collections categories.
A self-proclaimed 'myth buster by trade', over her long-ranging career as a journalist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich has delved with devastating wit and insight into the social and political fabric of America. Had I Known gathers together Ehrenreich's most significant articles and excerpts from the last four decades - some of which became the starting point for her bestselling books - from her award-winning article 'Welcome to Cancerland', published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking investigative journalism in 'Nickel and Dimed', which explored living in America on the minimum wage. Issues she identified as far back as the 80s and 90s such as work poverty, rising inequality, the gender divide and medicalised health care, are top of the social and political agenda today. Written with remarkable tenderness, humour and incisiveness, Ehrenreich's describes an America of struggle, inequality, racial bias and injustice. Her extraordinarily prescient and relevant perspective announces her as one of most significant thinkers of our day.
Top Five Regrets Of The Dying
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Author : Bronnie Ware
language : en
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Release Date : 2019-08-13
Top Five Regrets Of The Dying written by Bronnie Ware and has been published by Hay House, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with Self-Help categories.
Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.
Smile Or Die
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Author : J. Shafer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Smile Or Die written by J. Shafer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Dysfunctional families categories.
One out of five kids in school today has a gun, knife or club. School violence grabs at the gut of America & concerned adults want to know who their kid is in school with. SMILE OR DIE! shows them, through the eyes of a tormented twelve year-old modeled after a real-life character fiercely determined to confound the system. He pulls no punches to effect his demands, including poking pins through his fingers. He's as out of place in school as the wild skunk that follows him in. The story revolves around his interaction with people who variously want to help, hurt, trick & ignore him. The book tackles behavior behind the forces driving the coarsening of America. It is adult fiction from the trenches of miscreants mingling with rosy-cheeked straights. Plot develops from research of a middle school counselor's actual experience. 5.5 X 8.5, softcover, 272 pages. Fiction/psychology. Order through Pacific Pipeline; The Bookmen or call direct at 1-800-PEASANT. 40%.
Before I Die
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Author : Jenny Downham
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-09-04
Before I Die written by Jenny Downham and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Tessa has just a few months to live. So she compiles her bucket list, her To Do Before I Die list. Number one is sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Heartbreaking yet astonishingly life-affirming, Before I Die will take you to the very edge.
Bait And Switch
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Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2006-07-25
Bait And Switch written by Barbara Ehrenreich and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-25 with Political Science categories.
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible résumé of a professional "in transition," she attempts to land a middle-class job—undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then trawling a series of EST-like boot camps, job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She gets an image makeover, works to project a winning attitude, yet is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and—again and again—rejected. Bait and Switch highlights the people who've done everything right—gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive résumés—yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster, and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle. Today's ultra-lean corporations take pride in shedding their "surplus" employees—plunging them, for months or years at a stretch, into the twilight zone of white-collar unemployment, where job searching becomes a full-time job in itself. As Ehrenreich discovers, there are few social supports for these newly disposable workers—and little security even for those who have jobs. Like the now classic Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch is alternately hilarious and tragic, a searing exposé of economic cruelty where we least expect it.