The Good Life Elsewhere
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The Good Life Elsewhere
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Author : Vladimir Lorchenkov
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2014-02-18
The Good Life Elsewhere written by Vladimir Lorchenkov and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-18 with Fiction categories.
The Good Life Elsewhere is a very funny book. It is also a very sad one. In it, Moldovan writer Vladimir Lorchenkov tells the story of a group of villagers and their tragicomic efforts, against all odds and at any cost, to emigrate from Europe’s most impoverished nation to Italy for work. This is a book with wild imagination and heartbreaking honesty, grim appraisals alongside optimistic commentary about the nature of human striving. The Good Life Elsewhere aims to present the complexity of a new Europe, where allegiances shift but memories are rooted in place. The book integrates small-scale human follies with strategic partnerships, unification plans, and the Soviet legacies that still hang over the former Eastern Bloc. Lorchenkov addresses the vexing question of what to do when many formerly pro-Soviet/pro-Russia countries want to link arms with their West European brethren. In Lorchenkov’s uproarious tale, an Orthodox priest is deserted by his wife for an art-dealing atheist; a mechanic redesigns his tractor for travel by air and sea; thousands of villagers take to the road on a modern-day religious crusade to make it to the promised land of Italy; meanwhile, politicians remain politicians. Like many great satirists from Voltaire to Gogol to Vonnegut, Lorchenkov makes use of the grotesque to both horrify us and help us laugh. It is not often that stories from forgotten countries such as Moldova reach us in the English-speaking world. A country where 25 percent of its population works abroad, where remittances make up nearly 40 percent of the GDP, where alcohol consumption per capita is the highest in the world, and which has the lowest per capita income in all of Europe – this is a country that surely has its problems. But, as Lorchenkov vividly shows, it’s a country whose residents don’t easily give up.
A Life Elsewhere
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Author : Segun Afolabi
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-05-05
A Life Elsewhere written by Segun Afolabi and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-05 with Fiction categories.
For the characters in Segun Afolabi's debut collection, 'elsewhere' is a place they must transform into home. In the award-winning 'Monday Morning' a refugee boy puzzles out his place in a new land. A bereaved father in 'Arithmetic' thinks back to a confusing, youthful sexual encounter that has left him emotionally scarred; Jacinta faces a long retirement with a husband she is not sure she likes in 'Jumbo and Jacinta' and 'The Wine Guitar' tells the story of an aging musician who pays a prostitute for the gift of her youth. These are tales of diaspora, of people making their lives in new lands. Moving, funny and occasionally shocking, Afolabi's stories reflect the way we live now. A Life Elsewhere was shorlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Elsewhere
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Author : Gabrielle Zevin
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Elsewhere written by Gabrielle Zevin and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Presents a novel of hope, love, and redemption.
Practising The Good Life
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Author : Inês David
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-06-18
Practising The Good Life written by Inês David and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-18 with Social Science categories.
This edited collection adds to the growing body of research on lifestyle migration with empirically grounded explorations focusing on a wide range of practices involved in living 'the good life'. The volume brings together a variety of socio-geographical contexts-from Swedish 'lifestyle movers' in Malta, retired Britons and Germans in Spain, and seekers of the 'rural idyll' in the Iberian Peninsula, to expats in Nepal, North Americans in Ecuador and 'utopian' lifestyle migrants in Patagonia-t ...
A Place Elsewhere
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Author : Nigel Joslin
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-10-15
A Place Elsewhere written by Nigel Joslin and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-15 with categories.
I would like to take you on a journey. It's an exciting one, without doubt the most thrilling of all voyages. In an adventure of learning through marvelling at what life shows us, we'll encounter hidden depths whilst hiking in my own locale, the `great outdoors' of Dumfries and Galloway. But we will also reach beyond, way beyond, out into the incredible vastness of the cosmos and deep into the depths of beauty held by our earth. This is not just a journey through the solid terrain of the physical, though. It's an expedition into the inner world of our thoughts, perceptions and feelings. We shall probe the nature of reality and reflect upon the struggles of humanity to comprehend it. We shall also contemplate the nature of the soul, scratch our heads in bewilderment over the mysterious flow of time, and explore the meaning of life. And there is more. I will share some strange personal experiences with you, ones that have transformed my ideas about the reality of life. These adventures have taken me into another life that lies beyond the experience of living through a human body. We shall visit a place elsewhere, the territory outside of the world of matter, filling silence and empty spaces and endowing the physical with beauty. It's a place we'll love, because it is the home of love itself. There is no fuller path to walk. It takes us into great beauty. And we'll also have some light-hearted moments, laughs on the way. Come with me and feel the awe.
The Art Of The Good Life
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Author : Rolf Dobelli
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-11-07
The Art Of The Good Life written by Rolf Dobelli and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Self-Help categories.
Since antiquity, people have been asking themselves what it means to live a good life. How should I live? What constitutes a good life? What's the role of fate? What's the role of money? Is leading a good life a question of mindset, or is it more about reaching your goals? Is it better to actively seek happiness or to avoid unhappiness? Each generation poses these questions anew, and somehow the answers are always fundamentally disappointing. Why? Because we're constantly searching for a single principle, a single tenet, a single rule. Yet this holy grail--a single, simple path to happiness--doesn't exist. Rolf Dobelli -- successful businessman, founder of the TED-style ideas conference Zurich Minds, bestselling author, and all-around seeker of big ideas--has made finding a shortcut to happiness his life's mission. He's synthesized the leading thinkers and the latest science in happiness to find the best shortcuts to satisfaction in The Art of the Good Life, his follow up to the international bestseller The Art of Thinking Clearly (which has sold more than 2.5 million copies in 40 languages all around the globe). The Art of the Good Life is a toolkit designed for practical living. Here you'll find fifty-two happiness hacks -- from guilt-free shunning of technology to gleefully paying your parking tickets -- that are certain to optimize your happiness. These tips may not guarantee you a good life, but they'll give you a better chance (and that's all any of us can ask for).
Research Handbook On Urban Sociology
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Author : Miguel A. Martínez
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2024-04-12
Research Handbook On Urban Sociology written by Miguel A. Martínez and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-12 with Social Science categories.
Emphasising the social, critical and situated dimensions of the urban, this comprehensive Research Handbook presents a unique collection of theoretical and empirical perspectives on urban sociology. Bringing together expert contributors from across the world, it provides a rich overview and research agenda for contemporary urban sociological scholarship.
Migration And Environmental Change In The West African Sahel
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Author : Victoria van der Land
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-12
Migration And Environmental Change In The West African Sahel written by Victoria van der Land and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-12 with Business & Economics categories.
The West African Sahel is predicted to be heavily affected by climate change in the future. Slow-onset environmental changes, such as increasing rainfall variability and rising temperature, are presumed to worsen the livelihood conditions and to increase the out-migration from the affected regions. Based on qualitative and quantitative data from study areas in Mali and Senegal, this book examines the relationship between population dynamics, livelihoods and environment in the Sahel region, focussing specifically on motives for migration. Critiquing the assumption that environmental stress is the dominating migration driver, the author demonstrates the important role of individual aspirations and social processes, such as educational opportunities and the pull of urban lifestyles. In doing so, the book provides a more nuanced picture of the environment-migration nexus, arguing that slow-onset environmental changes may actually be less important as drivers of migration in the Sahel than they are often depicted in the media and climate change literature. This is a valuable resource for academics and students of environmental sociology, migration and development studies.
How To Live A Good Life
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Author : Massimo Pigliucci
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2020-01-07
How To Live A Good Life written by Massimo Pigliucci and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with Philosophy categories.
A collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choosing a philosophy for living an examined and meaningful life. Socrates famously said "the unexamined life is not worth living," but what does it mean to truly live philosophically? This thought-provoking, wide-ranging collection brings together essays by fifteen leading philosophers reflecting on what it means to live according to a philosophy of life. From Eastern philosophies (Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism) and classical Western philosophies (such as Aristotelianism and Stoicism), to the four major religions, as well as contemporary philosophies (such as existentialism and effective altruism), each contributor offers a lively, personal account of how they find meaning in the practice of their chosen philosophical tradition. Together, the pieces in How to Live a Good Life provide not only a beginner's guide to choosing a life philosophy but also a timely portrait of what it means to live an examined life in the twenty-first century. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL
Gender Religion Extremism
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Author : Katherine E. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-15
Gender Religion Extremism written by Katherine E. Brown and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-15 with Political Science categories.
Radicalization, and the terrorism that is frequently linked to it, have been subject to much study and governmental intervention. Nevertheless, the processes that lead to radicalization remain thinly conceptualized although governments and their agencies worldwide have invested heavily in counter and de-radicalization programs. There are at least 34 anti-radicalization programs worldwide, most of which were initiated post-2001, with a focus on Muslims and Muslim communities. These policies and programs have led to interventions in the daily lives of thousands, often in ways that push the boundaries of human rights law and norms. However, the effectiveness of these programs is unclear. This book compares anti-radicalization programs that target Islamic extremism in the UK, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, the Netherlands and Pakistan. It looks particularly at the ways in which the program tactics differ depending on the gender of the target, arguing that the gendered way in which anti-radicalization is pursued helps to reveal its limitations. These programs fail to take into account how masculinity and femininity inform the radicalization process. Moreover, the programs tend to link men's radicalization to excessive, but flawed, masculinity, and women's radicalization to passivity, which consequentially limits understandings of the various modes of belief, belonging, and behavior of those they are trying to engage. Solutions for male de-radicalization hinge on particular ideals of masculinity that few men can obtain, while the de-radicalization of women is seen as a rescue mission. Although the rhetoric of battling terrorism is often couched in a narrative of "women's rights" and "liberal values", the book demonstrates that the consequences of the programs often run counter to such ideals. The book's findings are applicable not just to de-radicalization programs, but also to broader counter-radicalization agendas that address resilience and community engagement. The book also highlights the way in which anti-radicalization measures hew to or differ from older programs addressing right-wing extremism, anti-cult measures, and sectarianism. Ultimately, Gender, Religion, Extremism proposes an alternative way of implementing anti-radicalization efforts that are rooted in a feminist peace--one that is transformative, inclusive, and sustainable.