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You're Not That Pretty and Other Things My Parents Told Me
This memoir slips n' slides us from the fifties on up to the nineties by Award-winning comedy writer, Debbie Kasper who has already been hailed, "a female David Sedaris." A collection of acerbic, hilarious, sometimes poignant tales that hold up a crack mirror into the chaotic Kasper household--a home where alcohol ruled, hamsters roamed freely, and sanity ran scared. Debbie's parents smoked and drank like they only had a day to live, offering twisted advice like, "Don't have children, you'll just end of hating them." Debbie navigates through the suburban jungle overrun with three mischievous brothers who dangle snakes in her face, hid mice in her sock drawer, run naked through the house, jum...
"You're Not That Pretty" & Other Things My Parents Told Me
This memoir (of sorts) slips 'n slides from the fifties on up to the nineties in a few dozen bizarrely true tales, by award-winning and Emmy-nominated comedy writer, Debbie Kasper, who has already been hailed "a female David Sedaris." A deliciously honest memoir splattered with so many scathing family secrets, that she had to wait for some people to die to even write it. Her collection of acerbic, hilarious, sometimes poignant tales drops us smack into the middle of the fifties & sixties, inside the chaotic Kasper house--a home where bourbon rules, hamsters roam freely, and sanity runs scared. Debbie's parents smoke and drink like they only have a day to live, spewing out twisted advice like...
Beyond the Knowledge Crisis
In the face of complex, interwoven, planet-scale problems, many cite the need for more integrated knowledge—especially across the natural and social sciences. Excessive specialization, they argue, gets in the way of knowing what we know, much less being able to use it to address urgent socio-environmental crises. These concerns, it turns out, go back centuries. This book picks up where most leave off, exploring the history of how we got here and proposing a way forward. Along the way, readers find that the synthesis long called for depends on theoretical advancements in social science. Fortunately, the author argues, we have everything we need to achieve those advancements, thanks largely to the contributions of Norbert Elias. Integrating his insights with history, science, sociological theory, and more, this book neatly packages the upgraded paradigm we need to be able to meaningfully address complex socio-environmental problems and more intentionally shape humanity’s collective future.
You're Not That Pretty
This memoir (of sorts) slips 'n slides from the fifties on up to the nineties in a few dozen bizarrely true tales, by award-winning and Emmy-nominated comedy writer, Debbie Kasper, who has already been hailed "a female David Sedaris." A deliciously honest memoir splattered with so many scathing family secrets, that she had to wait for some people to die to even write it. Her collection of acerbic, hilarious, sometimes poignant tales drops us smack into the middle of the fifties & sixties, inside the chaotic Kasper house--a home where bourbon rules, hamsters roam freely, and sanity runs scared. Debbie's parents smoke and drink like they only have a day to live, spewing out twisted advice like...
National Health Directory
A guide to federal, congressional, state, county and city health agencies and officials. Includes congressional standard, select, and joint committees, key health subcommittees, and delegations. Also includes federal health agencies, and state county and city health officials.
The Comedy Bible
Judy Carter, guru to aspiring comedy writers and stand-up comics, tells all about the biz of being funny and writing funny in this bright, entertaining, and totally practical guide on how to draw humor from your life and turn it into a career. Do you think you’re funny? Do you want to turn your sense of humor into a career? If the answer is yes, then Judy Carter’s The Comedy Bible is for you. The guru to aspiring stand-up comics provides the complete scoop on being—and writing—funny for money. If you’ve got a sense of humor, you can learn to make a career out of comedy, says Judy Carter. Whether it’s creating a killer stand-up act, writing a spec sitcom, or providing jokes for ra...
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis
In Transversal Ecocritical Praxis: Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique, Patrick D. Murphy, Ph.D, utilizes ecocriticism and ecofeminism to develop his concept of transversal practice: an interdisciplinary combination of theory and applied criticism. He begins by explaining the necessity for cutting across disciplinary boundaries of all kinds in order to address the ecological dimensions of culture and literature. The dialogical foundation of this orientation is elaborated through a consideration of the theories of Mikhail Bkahtin, particularly in terms of the ethical responsibilities of the reader and critic. Murphy then takes up issues of identity and subject form...
Armageddon or Evolution?
We are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to confront these problems ever more effectively. This book develops and builds upon new methods for addressing such social problems as global warming, terrorism, growing inequalities, and others. Phillips reveals procedures for achieving conscious evolution by uncovering fundamental assumptions and their contradictions and by moving toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve these contradictions.
Putting Sustainability into Practice
Putting Sustainability into Practice offers a robust and interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary consumption routines that challenges conventional approaches to social change premised on behavioral economics and social psychology. Empirical research is featured from eight different countries, using both qualitative and quantitative data to support its thesis.
Immigration and Privacy in the Law of the European Union
Immigration and Privacy in the Law of the European Union: The Case of Information Systems examines the privacy challenges posed by the establishment and operation of pan-European centralised databases processing personal data of different categories of third-country nationals.
