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"Full of gorgeous language and wild insights."—Nick Flynn Set in the beleaguered heart of Indiana’s opioid crisis, Brian Allen Carr’s timely and tender novel about a teen struggling to find his place in the world—and come up with $800 rent—is at once a moving rumination on the hopeful power of story and a harrowing insight into modern America. It is a book you won’t soon forget. Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle’s girlfriend after the death of his parents. Now his uncle is missing, probably on a drug binge. It’s Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who’s been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get th...
Where I come from, the children sing a song: Oh the motherfucking sharks - Oh they're gonna come to town - Oh they're gonna kill the babies - Oh they're gonna make you drowned in your blood. Oh the motherfucking sharks - Oh they're gonna mince the flesh - They're gonna swim up and surround you - Don't you know you'll never pass the test, it's over. Oh the motherfucking sharks - Oh they don't care about the gods - And they don't care about the families - And they don't care about the cries or tears they're killers. Motherfucking sharks. Motherfucking sharks. Motherfucking sharks. Motherfucking sharks.
"Ready to choose or change your job? Stuck in work you hate? Think the career of your dreams is beyond your reach?" IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO FIND YOUR VITAL VOCATION If you don't love your work, you deserve better - and with this book at your side, you can get it. A lively and potentially life-changing guide, How To Find Your Vital Vocation sets out a simple-to-follow yet profoundly effective process that will take you step-by-step from wherever you are now to a working life based on your most cherished dreams. LEARN HOW TO: - Hear the inner call that's telling you what will make you truly happy - Rediscover your gifts and use them to build a perfectly-tailored career - Identify and overcome t...
The Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy is a unique one-volume reference work which makes a broad range of richly varied philosophical, ethical and theological traditions accessible to a wide audience. The Companion is divided into six sections covering the main traditions within Asian thought: Persian; Indian; Buddhist; Chinese; Japanese; and Islamic philosophy. Each section contains a collection of chapters which provide comprehensive coverage of the origins of the tradition, its approaches to, for example, logic and languages, and to questions of morals and society. The chapters also contain useful histories of the lives of the key influential thinkers, as well as a thorough analysis of the current trends.
Written by the Shale Shaker Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, originally of the American Association of Drilling Engineers, the authors of this book are some of the most well-respected names in the world for drilling. The first edition, Shale Shakers and Drilling Fluid Systems, was only on shale shakers, a very important piece of machinery on a drilling rig that removes drill cuttings. The original book has been much expanded to include many other aspects of drilling solids control, including chapters on drilling fluids, cut-point curves, mud cleaners, and many other pieces of equipment that were not covered in the original book. - Written by a team of more than 20 of the world's foremost drilling experts, from such companies as Shell, Conoco, Amoco, and BP - There has never been a book that pulls together such a vast array of materials and depth of topic coverage in the area of drilling fluids - Covers quickly changing technology that updates the drilling engineer on all of the latest equipment, fluids, and techniques
A lyrical, apocalyptic debut novel about addiction, friendship, and the struggle for survival at the height of an epidemic. The sickness started with a single child and quickly spread: you could get high by drinking your own shadow. Artificial lights were destroyed so addicts could sip shadow at night in the pure moonlight. Gangs of shadow addicts chased down children on playgrounds, rounded up old ladies from retirement homes. Cities were destroyed and governments fell. And if your shadow was sipped entirely, you became one of them, had to drink the shadows of others or go mad. One hundred and fifty years later, what’s left of the world is divided between the highly regimented life of those inside dome cities who are protected from natural light (and natural shadows), and those forced to the dangerous, hardscrabble life in the wilds outside. In rural Texas, Mira, her shadow-addicted-friend Murk, and an ex-domer named Bale search for a possible mythological cure to the shadow sickness—but they must find it, it is said, before the return of Halley’s Comet, which is only days away.
"Shadow Cities dispels the myth that shantytowns are purely a third world phenomenon, showing that the great cities of Europe and North America were once dominated by shantytowns. And Neuwirth shows that squatters will build vital neighborhoods without private titles as long as they know they are not subject to eviction." "Shadow Cities acknowledges that the world of the squatters may be gritty, but it shows that it is governed by hope. Squatters, Neuwirth argues are building the cities of tomorrow."--BOOK JACKET.
Features political diaries of one of Australia's most promising national leaders - Mark Latham. This work includes bulletins from the front line of Labor politics. It provides a view into the life of a man, the Party and the nation at a crucial time in Australian history.
Tackling some of the more than 500 updates to Oracle 11g that are intended to automate the inherent complexity of the Oracle engine, this guidebook explores all of the new features from the perspective of a working Oracle professional. This valuable resource examines only the important Oracle 11g enhancements and includes expert discussion about each new feature, why the new feature is important, and how to use the new 11g functionality. Written by working Oracle experts for both current DBAs and Oracle developers and programmers, this flagship book on Oracle 11g explores language and PL/SQL, DBA features, RAC and enhancements, performance features, new security features, and Enterprise Manager.
Looks at the history of jazz music, discusses its influence on American culture, and examines record labels, movies, and fashion