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Author: Donald E. Smith Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467857084 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
In his quest to look for adventure in exotic lands, the author found himself. The book includes his daily journals kept while traveling in Tanzania, Java ,and the former Soviet Union.It includes, also, brief glimpses of life in Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and England. The journals exphasize the lives of people whom he met, not the usual descriptions of statues, monuments and museums. The book is the story of one man's attempt to find meaning for his life as he seeks to learn how other people live out their lives in far-away places.
Author: Donald E. Smith Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467857084 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
In his quest to look for adventure in exotic lands, the author found himself. The book includes his daily journals kept while traveling in Tanzania, Java ,and the former Soviet Union.It includes, also, brief glimpses of life in Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and England. The journals exphasize the lives of people whom he met, not the usual descriptions of statues, monuments and museums. The book is the story of one man's attempt to find meaning for his life as he seeks to learn how other people live out their lives in far-away places.
Author: Myra J. Fournier Publisher: America Star Books ISBN: 1683948785 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 64
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Divorcing a mate is easier than ditching a travel companion. You've paid, you're there, you're stuck. So opens the first of 12 humorous, poignant, and highly personal travel essays in My Suitcase Runneth Over. With backdrops in locales worldwide, including Vietnam, Australia, Egypt, Europe, Alaska, the American southwest, and even Logan International Airport circa 1968, the essays are a celebration of the human condition as viewed during nearly four decades of travel. To the author, no amount of breathtaking scenery, haute cuisine, or great shopping opportunities can compare with the joy, surprise, and impact of the human interactions organic to travel. If you're an experienced traveler, you will readily identify with the foibles of travel, from pre-dawn wake-up calls to impossible travel companions. And also the joys of new friends, new experiences, and new possibilities. If you have not yet entered the world of travel, be prepared for the bug to hit on page one. Bon voyage! Don't bother packing this book for your next vacation. My Suitcase Runneth Over: A Dozen Personal Travel Essays Celebrating the Human Condition by Myra J. Fournier should be read NOW, for the fun of it, for the ahha moments, for entertainment. This book IS what all travel essay collections should beCfunny, bright and intelligent. Sheer delight in a book jacket. C Eva Shaw, Ph.D., www.evashaw.com, author, speaker, writing instructor and mentor
Author: Geoff Dyer Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN: 9781555970260 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 432
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*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism* *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* *A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects—music, literature, photography, and travel journalism—that, in Dyer's expert hands, becomes a kind of irresistible self-reportage. Otherwise Known as the Human Condition collects twenty-five years of essays, reviews, and misadventures. Here he is pursuing the shadow of Camus in Algeria and remembering life on the dole in Brixton in the 1980s; reflecting on Richard Avedon and Ruth Orkin, on the status of jazz and the wonderous Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, on the sculptor ZadKine and the saxophonist David Murray (in the same essay), on his heroes Rebecca West and Ryszard Kapus ́cin ́ski, on haute couture and sex in hotels. Whatever he writes about, his responses never fail to surprise. For Dyer there is no division between the reflective work of the critic and the novelist's commitment to lived experience: they are mutually illuminating ways to sharpen our perceptions. His is the rare body of work that manages to both frame our world and enlarge it.
Author: Myra Fournier Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated ISBN: 9781413750980 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
Divorcing a mate is easier than ditching a travel companion. You've paid, you're there, you're stuck. So opens the first of 12 humorous, poignant, and highly personal travel essays in My Suitcase Runneth Over. With backdrops in locales worldwide, including Vietnam, Australia, Egypt, Europe, Alaska, the American southwest, and even Logan International Airport circa 1968, the essays are a celebration of the human condition as viewed during nearly four decades of travel. To the author, no amount of breathtaking scenery, haute cuisine, or great shopping opportunities can compare with the joy, surprise, and impact of the human interactions organic to travel. If you're an experienced traveler, you will readily identify with the foibles of travel, from pre-dawn wake-up calls to impossible travel companions. And also the joys of new friends, new experiences, and new possibilities. If you have not yet entered the world of travel, be prepared for the bug to hit on page one. Bon voyage!
Author: Braden R. Allenby Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262294400 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 235
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A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. They argue that if we are to have any prospect of managing that complexity, we will need to escape the shackles of current assumptions about rationality, progress, and certainty, even as we maintain a commitment to fundamental human values. Humans have been co-evolving with their technologies since the dawn of prehistory. What is different now is that we have moved beyond external technological interventions to transform ourselves from the inside out—even as we also remake the Earth system itself. Coping with this new reality, say Allenby and Sarewitz, means liberating ourselves from such categories as “human,” “technological,” and “natural” to embrace a new techno-human relationship. Contributors Boris Barbour, Mario Biagioli, Paul S. Brookes, Finn Brunton, Alex Csiszar, Alessandro Delfanti, Emmanuel Didier, Sarah de Rijcke, Daniele Fanelli, Yves Gingras, James R. Griesemer, Catherine Guaspare, Marie-Andrée Jacob, Barbara M. Kehm, Cyril Labbé, Jennifer Lin, Alexandra Lippman, Burkhard Morganstern, Ivan Oransky, Michael Power, Sergio Sismondo, Brandon Stell, Tereza Stöckelová, Elizabeth Wager, Paul Wouters
Author: Paul Schmidtberger Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0767927923 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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As can only happen in New York, two strangers find themselves railroaded into an anger-management class, where they soon become fast friends. Iris is there because of an eminently justifiable meltdown on a crowded flight, whereas Ken got caught defacing library books with rude (but true!) messages about his former boyfriend. The boyfriend that he caught in bed with another man. Needless to say, Iris and Ken were cosmically destined to be friends. What follows is a strikingly original comedy as Ken enlists Iris to infiltrate his ex-boyfriend’s life in the hope of discovering that he’s miserable. And Iris reciprocates, dispatching Ken to work himself into the confidence of her own boyfriend, whom she suspects of cheating. But what if Ken’s ex isn’t crying himself to sleep? What if he’s not the amoral fiend Ken wants to believe he is? And what should Iris do when her worst suspicions start to come true? Exactly how perfect do we have the right to expect our fellow human beings to be? Anger, betrayal, loyalty, and friendship—Design Flaws of the Human Condition explores these universal themes with wisdom, compassion, and a wickedly irreverent sense of humor.
Author: Hans A. Baer Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429513585 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 213
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The number of airplane flights worldwide continues to grow and is one of the many drivers of climate change. This book examines the aviation industry from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the sector’s environmental impact and the challenges facing attempts to shift to more sustainable solutions. Hans Baer outlines how airplanes have become a key component of modern cultural and social life, and how the world system has become increasingly dependent on them to function. He critically examines current efforts to mitigate the climatic impact of the air travel and argues for a significant move away from air transport, suggesting that such a shift may only be achieved through a more fundamental change in the world system.
Author: Geoff Dyer Publisher: Canongate Books ISBN: 1847679668 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 312
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Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces - 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block', among other gems. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today.
Author: Marja-Liisa Honkasalo Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1782382356 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 230
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Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection is that suicide should not be understood as a separate realm of pathological behavior but as a form of human action. As such it is always dependent on the decision that the individual makes in a cultural, ethical and socio-economic context, but the context never completely determines the decision. This book also argues that cultural narratives concerning suicide have a problematic double function: in addition to enabling the community to make sense of self-inflicted death, they also constitute a blueprint depicting suicide as a solution to common human problems.
Author: Donald E. Smith
Author: Donald E. Smith
Author: Myra J. Fournier
Author: Geoff Dyer
Author: Myra Fournier
Author: Braden R. Allenby
Author: Paul Schmidtberger
Author: Hans A. Baer
Author: Frithjof Schuon
Author: Geoff Dyer
Author: Marja-Liisa Honkasalo