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The Leftovers

Autor: Matt Sayman , David L. Thomas

Número de Páginas: 312

As a young boy, Matt Sayman dreamed of playing pro basketball. His family believed in his vision, even agreeing to move to Texas when one of Matt’s favorite coaches left Pennsylvania for the Lone Star State. Matt eventually received a full athletic scholarship from Baylor University. He was only six-feet-four but what he lacked in height, he made up for in skill and positive attitude. Then the summer before his senior year, the bottom fell out of Matt’s world. A player went missing…and was found dead. A teammate was the murder suspect. A coach was accused of paying players under the table. Some players had received drug-free urine samples to pass off as their own. And through it all, Matt was supposed to be the glue who held the Baylor basketball team together. In The Leftovers: Baylor, Betrayal, and Beyond, Matt shares his personal story of dealing with the fallout after tragedy and trouble nearly sank Baylor’s program. Matt was senior co-captain, but with a short-manned team of leftover players, there was no way to have a winning season, no way some talent scout would take a chance on him. Matt’s hope and faith were shaken because of the scandals that summer. His...

The Leftovers

Autor: L.m.glenn

Número de Páginas: 264

‘The Leftovers’ by Lisa Glenn is a mainstream romance novel with characters you can relate to. Destiny Glass, a stripper and single mother of a rebellious teen, Trinity, just happens to win the Florida Lottery. Winning the Lottery puts Destiny and Trinity in grave danger! As a class 4 hurricane crashes through Fort Hope Florida, life becomes a battle of survival. When FBI agent Colin Welsh shows up in Fort Hope to rescue this bad luck pair, Destiny believes things are getting better. She is wrong and sets out on an adventure in the mists of mass devastation. Determined to survive at all costs, Destiny forgets about the money and focuses on keeping her family alive. What will happen next? Will love prevail or will they lose everything they love?

Les résonances de The Leftovers

Autor: Sylvain Romieu

Número de Páginas: 435

Amoureux de la série The Leftovers, Sylvain Romieu en étudie les personnages, l'écriture et la musique. Le 14 octobre 2011, 2 % de la population mondiale disparaît en une fraction de seconde, sans explications. De ce point de départ tragique, la série The Leftovers, créée par Damon Lindelof (Lost) et le romancier Tom Perrotta, déroule un récit puissant, centré sur des personnages complexes et fracturés de l'intérieur. Fruit d'une documentation méticuleuse, Les Résonances de The Leftovers. Perdre et se (re)trouver propose une lecture globale, pointue et limpide de ce qui fait le sel de la série, de sa génèse passionnante à ses multiples symboles et ambiguïtés. Un décryptage complet écrit par Sylvain Romieu, auteur célébré pour son analyse minutieuse des jeux vidéo Dark Souls au sein des ouvrages Dark Souls. Par-delà la mort, du même éditeur. Cet ouvrage retrace la genèse de la série, en propose le décryptage et des interprétations. Vous y trouverez également des anecdotes de tournage, le profil psychologique des personnages, la revue des phénomènes ambigus ainsi qu'une étude de l'art de la narration. EXTRAIT "Narration caractéristique...

The Leftovers Handbook

Autor: Suzy Bowler

Número de Páginas: 236

The waste this book tackles is not just of food and money but of really good eating opportunities. With this book you'll discover delicious ways of making the most of every scrap of food available, without being forced into the cycle of buying more ingredients just to use up leftovers. There are hundreds of suggestions for imaginative, ingredient-inspired cooking. Never again leave food to fester because you can't think what to do with it. Take advantage of special offers and discover the many ways they can be enjoyed.Find out which ingredients can be substituted for others to vary a basic recipe.Use even small amounts of food to create a 'cook's treat' or as a tasting sample.Enjoy the freedom of impromptu cooking with the ultimate list of essential store cupboard, fridge and freezer basics - you won't have to hit the shops in order to use up what you have.Be inspired by 100s of fun and useful tips; e.g. how to turn a lonely bacon rasher into Bacon Salt to sprinkle on poached eggs, roast tomatoes, cheese on toast, or any number of things. DID YOU KNOW? The most wasted food is bread and yet there are so many delicious dishes that can be made with it, even when stale; from French...

The Leftovers. Life is a Story - story.one

Autor: Ariana Vallejo

Número de Páginas: 78

With honesty and vulnerability, the author shares her story. The story of a young girl shaped by the paradoxes of privilege and pressure, of love and loss. Time has granted her the privilege of perspective over the joys and difficulties faced by her family during childhood and adolescence. From the indulgence of candy to the trials of growth injections, from morning rituals to the haunting presence of anxiety, "The Leftovers" aims to capture the essence of transformation.

The Leftovers, le troisième côté du miroir

Autor: Sarah Hatchuel , Pacôme Thiellement

Número de Páginas: 159

Inspirée du roman de Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers (2014-2017) est la série héritière de Lost (2004-2010) : les deux œuvres partagent le même showrunner, Damon Lindelof, et peuvent être vues comme les deux faces d’un même disque. Si Lost suivait le destin de disparus après le crash d’un avion, The Leftovers se consacre à ceux qui sont restés derrière à la suite d’un événement singulier et inexpliqué : la disparition soudaine, le 14 octobre 2011, de 2 % de la population humaine. Au sein d’un monde hanté par le doute, le mystère et l’ambiguïté, la série présente des personnages qui pensent parfois avoir compris le sens de leur vie, à tort. Les spectateurs, eux, sont emmenés sur un très grand nombre de fausses pistes, alors que l’évidence est sous leurs yeux. The Leftovers met en scène non seulement la fin de l’humanité, mais surtout le déni des êtres humains devant l’extinction du vivant, dont ils sont eux-mêmes responsables. Dans notre monde en crise, The Leftovers, le troisième côté du miroir interroge la capacité de la fiction à résoudre les maux des humains et à les aider dans les combats à venir. Sarah Hatchuel est...

Revenir d'entre les morts

Autor: Aline Wiame

Número de Páginas: 109

Un essai à la fois très personnel et constituant une introduction claire à la pensée de Gilles Deleuze à travers son rapport au cinéma, pensé comme champ d'expérimentation (existentielle, conceptuelle et esthétique) pour résister à la mort, au désastre et à la sidération produite par le « fait moderne ». Pour Deleuze, le cinéma, après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, a dû revenir d'entre les morts – revenir de la catastrophe, revenir de la compromission du cinéma classique avec les outils de soumission des masses. Mais revenir des morts est aussi un geste à sans cesse reprendre dans la création artistique ou conceptuelle afin de lutter contre toutes les formes de contrôle et de normalisation : mort du regard, mort de l'affect, mort du désir, mort de la révolte, mort devant la pensée-pour-le-marché. En se plongeant dans Cinéma 2. L'image-temps ainsi que dans des films de Capra, Truffaut et Resnais et dans les séries The Leftovers et Station Eleven, cet ouvrage cherche à cartographier quelques gestes de retour d'entre les morts. Comment empêcher nos vies d'être vampirisées par la catastrophe, par le désir d'apocalypse, par les circuits de la barbarie...

Focus On: 100 Most Popular Television Series by Warner Bros. Television

Autor: Wikipedia Contributors

Número de Páginas: 1270

Apocalypse TV

Autor: Michael G. Cornelius , Sherry Ginn

Número de Páginas: 207

The end of the world may be upon us, but it certainly is taking its sweet time playing out. The walkers on The Walking Dead have been "walking" for nearly a decade. There are now dozens of apocalyptic television shows and we use the "end times" to describe everything from domestic politics and international conflict, to the weather and our views of the future. This collection of new essays asks what it means to live in a world inundated with representations of the apocalypse. Focusing on such series as The Walking Dead, The Strain, Battlestar Galactica, Doomsday Preppers, Westworld, The Handmaid's Tale, they explore how the serialization of the end of the world allows for a closer examination of the disintegration of humanity--while it happens. Do these shows prepare us for what is to come? Do they spur us to action? Might they even be causing the apocalypse?

Divine Programming

Autor: Charlotte E. Howell

Número de Páginas: 289

From the mid-90s to the present, television drama with religious content has come to reflect the growing cultural divide between white middle-America and concentrated urban elites. As author Charlotte E. Howell argues in this book, by 2016, television narratives of white Christianity had become entirely disconnected from the religion they were meant to represent. Programming labeled 'family-friendly' became a euphemism for white, middlebrow America, and developing audience niches became increasingly significant to serial dramatic television. Utilizing original case studies and interviews, Divine Programming investigates the development, writing, producing, marketing, and positioning of key series including 7th Heaven, Friday Night Lights, Rectify, Supernatural, Jane the Virgin, Daredevil, and Preacher. As this book shows, there has historically been a deep ambivalence among television production cultures regarding religion and Christianity more specifically. It illustrates how middle-American television audiences lost significance within the Hollywood television industry and how this in turn has informed and continues to inform television programming on a larger scale. In recent...

Pig City

Autor: Andrew Stafford

Número de Páginas: 410

From cult heroes the Saints and the Go-Betweens to national icons Powderfinger and international stars Savage Garden, Brisbane has produced more than its share of great bands. But behind the music lay a ghost city of music and corruption.

The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians

Número de Páginas: 390

This volume contains fifteen essays in honor of L. Michael White, whose work has been influential in exploring the social histories of ancient Jews and Christians within the Graeco-Roman world. Following an introduction that highlights some of White’s main scholarly contributions, the essays are grouped into three topic areas: Paul and his Legacy, Social Relations, and Material Culture. The essays are united by an interest in reconstructing the social worlds of ancient Jews and Christians through careful analysis of literary sources and material culture in their most precise ancient contexts.

Control social e imaginarios en las teleseries actuales

Autor: Jorge Martínez Lucena , Arturo González De León Berini , Stefano Abbate

Número de Páginas: 263

Este libro versa sobre la relación entre las series y nuestras sociedades de la transparencia, Las ficciones televisivas son herramientas que diseminan nuevos imaginarios posmodernos, Aunque, a veces, siguiendo una tendencia propia de la postelevisión, también reflejan una cierta autoconciencia crítica, capaz de mostrar al espectador los mecanismos del control social que se verifican en él, Capítulo tras capítulo, estas páginas revelan y denuncian los modos en los que se configura nuestra identidad en la cultura del reality, Black Mirror, Westworld, Manhunt: Unabomber, Altered Carbon, Mr, Robot, The Leftovers, The Handmaid’s Tale, y tantas otras grandes series, nos cuentan muchos de sus secretos,

Composing TV Drama

Autor: Marco Ianniello

Número de Páginas: 113

In this book, Marco Ianniello investigates the complex art of television drama screenwriting, arguing that the screenplay itself, rather than the final product, is at the heart of the current success of the genre. Bridging a crucial gap between theory and practice through textual analyses of various case studies, Ianniello expands on television story structure theory and screenwriting practice by foregrounding story construction and character development in the serial drama. The development of these key frameworks – structure and character – will enable both screenwriting scholars and practitioners to better identify, assess, critique, and craft the complexities of the television drama screenplay.

Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China

Autor: Roel Sterckx

Número de Páginas: 247

In ancient China, the preparation of food and the offering up of food as a religious sacrifice were intimately connected with models of sagehood and ideas of self-cultivation and morality. Drawing on received and newly excavated written sources, Roel Sterckx's book explores how this vibrant culture influenced the ways in which the early Chinese explained the workings of the human senses, and the role of sensory experience in communicating with the spirit world. The book, which begins with a survey of dietary culture from the Zhou to the Han, offers intriguing insights into the ritual preparation of food - some butchers and cooks were highly regarded and would rise to positions of influence as a result of their culinary skills - and the sacrificial ceremony itself. As a major contribution to the study of early China and to the development of philosophical thought, the book will be essential reading for students of the period, and for anyone interested in ritual and religion in the ancient world.

Grains of Truth

Autor: Joshua A. Fogel

Número de Páginas: 393

Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries immersed in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their discussions constitute the bulk of what we know as the Talmud. This collection is not only massive; it is forbiddingly difficult, having accumulated numerous commentaries over the centuries since it first appeared. Recent translations have made it somewhat more accessible to English-language readers, but textual difficulties remain. This volume looks at tractate Menachot (grain offerings), which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple (when it stood) to atone for various misdeeds. Joshua A. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain and humanize the text for contemporary readers.

Planet Auschwitz

Autor: Brian E. Crim

Número de Páginas: 281

Planet Auschwitz explores how the Holocaust has influenced science fiction and horror film and television. These genres explore important Holocaust themes - trauma, guilt, grief, ideological fervor and perversion, industrialized killing, and the dangerous afterlife of Nazism after World War II.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ

Autor: Felix Wantang

Número de Páginas: 275

We all have questions regarding the different challanges we face in life but how we embrace some of the answers to these questions will determine our perceptions and reactions when future struggles show up. This book will definitely answer your questions, prepare you, and also shape your mind for future struggles. When you read this book, your life will never be the same again because it will change you for the best.

Mental Floss The Curious Viewer

Autor: Jennifer M. Wood , The Team At Mental Floss

Número de Páginas: 304

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In His Footsteps: A Devotional Journal

Autor: Shauna Leis

Número de Páginas: 148

In His Footsteps is a devotional journal that will aid anyone in drawing closer to God, no matter what life journey you have been through so far. Whether you are newly devoted to God, an experienced Christian for decades, or wondering who in the world this God really is; then this book is for you. Even if you have walked close to God every day of your life, or strayed away from Him at every turn; God longs to draw you close and develop a very personal relationship with you. He desires to reconnect with each one of us and getting into His Word is one of the best places to start.

Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Pre-modern South Asia

Autor: Tilottama Mukherjee , Nupur Dasgupta

Número de Páginas: 259

This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history. It covers issues broadly related to religion, materiality and nature from differing perspectives and methods to offer a kaleidoscopic view of Indian history until the late eighteenth century. The essays in the volume focus on understanding questions of premodern religion, material culture processes and their spatial and environmental contexts through a study of networks of commodities and cultural and religious landscapes. From the early history of coastal regions such as Gujarat and Bengal to material networks of political culture, from temples and their connection with maritime trade to the importance of landscape in influencing temple-building, from regions considered peripheral to mainstream historiography to the development of religious sects, this collection of articles maps the diverse networks and connections across regions and time. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, museum and heritage studies, religion, especially Hinduism, Sufism and Buddhism, and South Asian studies.

Eating Clean For Dummies

Autor: Jonathan Wright , Linda Larsen

Número de Páginas: 443

The fast and easy way to eat clean Clean foods are natural; free of added sugars, hydrogenated fats, trans-fats, and anything else that is unnatural and unnecessary. Used as a way of life, clean eating can improve overall health, prevent disease, increase energy, and stabilize moods. Whether you've lived on white bread and trans fats all your life and are looking to clean-up your diet, or are already health conscious, Eating Clean For Dummies embraces this lifestyle and provides you with an easy-to-follow guide to a clean-eating diet, recipes, and budgeting. The foundation of the clean eater's diet More than 40 clean-eating recipes Tips on how to change your eating habits without sacrificing taste or breaking your budget Tips to bring the whole family (even kids) on the path to a clean lifestyle If you're part of the growing population of consumers coming to the realization of the harmful impacts that highly processed and unnatural foods have on your body, or are taking preventive measures to avoid metabolic syndromes and diabetes, this is your hands-on, friendly guide to clean-eating diet, recipes, and budgeting.

The IKEA ScrapsBook

Autor: Ikea Canada Limited Partnership

Número de Páginas: 111

A free cookbook from IKEA? Oh, scrap. Waste is a terrible thing to waste. That’s why IKEA has created The ScrapsBook. It’s a cookbook filled with 50 exclusive recipes dedicated to cooking with the bits of food you’d usually think of as waste or compost. Ingredients in the recipes include things like carrot tops, banana peels, wilting greens, even used tea bags. If you usually throw it in the compost, don’t—there’s probably a recipe for it in The ScrapsBook. Featuring 50 recipes created by 10 chefs from across North America: Trevor Bird Christa Bruneau-Guenther Andrea Carlson Justin Cournoyer Fisun Ercan Adrian Forte David Gunawan Lindsay-Jean Hard Jason Sheardown Craig Wong

Stirring Up Liberation Theologies

Autor: Jione Havea

Número de Páginas: 170

In this critical time in world history when many spirits and bodies are plagued (by AIDS, covid, monkeypox, hunger, bird-flu, mad-cow disease, and other ailments) and many communities are broken (by wars, juntas, climate crises, domestic abuse, poverty, and other shitstems), this book stirs up the ends of Liberation Theology – re(l)ease. As long as the world is plagued and broken, the re(l)ease that Liberation Theology seeks are needed. Bringing together a diverse and global array of theologians who have taken up the liberative mantel, this book will demonstrate why liberation theology today needs releasing from its illusions and assumptions, and what comes next once it does so. With contributors including Miguel A. De La Torre, Anna Kasafi Perkins and Michael Jaggesar, the book demonstrates that Liberation Theology is not passé or dead. But it needs some stirring up.

Grhastha

Autor: Patrick Olivelle

Número de Páginas: 305

For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation represent an enigma. The Vedic religion, centered on the married household, had no place for such a figure. Much has been written about the Indian ascetic but hardly any scholarly attention has been paid to the married householder with wife and children, generally referred to in Sanskrit as grhastha: "the stay-at-home." The institution of the householder is viewed implicitly as posing little historical problems with regard to its origin or meaning. This volume problematizes the figure of the householder within ancient Indian culture and religion. It shows that the term grhastha is a neologism and is understandable only in its opposition to the ascetic who goes away from home (pravrajita). Through a thorough and comprehensive analysis of a wide range of inscriptions and texts, ranging from the Vedas, Dharmasastras, Epics, and belle lettres to Buddhist and Jain texts and texts on governance and erotics, this volume analyses the meanings, functions, and roles of the householder from the earliest times unti about the fifth century CE. The...

Seeing It on Television

Autor: Max Sexton , Dominic Lees

Número de Páginas: 213

Seeing It on Television: Televisuality in the Contemporary US 'High-end' Series investigates new categories of high-end drama and explores the appeal of programmes from Netflix, Sky Atlantic/HBO, National Geographic, FX and Cinemax. An investigation of contemporary US Televisuality provides insight into the appeal of upscale programming beyond facts about its budget, high production values and/or feature cinematography. Rather, this book focuses on how the construction of meaning often relies on cultural discourse, production histories, as well as on tone, texture or performance, which establishes the locus of engagement and value within the series. Max Sexton and Dominic Lees discuss how complex production histories lie behind the rise of the US high-end series, a form that reflects industrial changes and the renegotiation of formal strategies. They reveal how the involvement of many different people in the production process, based on new relationships of creative authority, complicates our understanding of 'original content'. This affects the construction of stylistics and the viewing strategies required by different shows. The cultural, as well as industrial, strategies of...

Authenticity and Adaptation

Autor: Christina Wilkins

Número de Páginas: 235

This collection seeks to explore what authenticity means in the context of adaptation, whether there is such a thing as an authentic adaptation, and what authenticity can offer for adaptation. It does so through four specific sections, each thinking through related questions raised by the theme. By outlining theoretical approaches to authenticity, querying authorship’s relationship to adaptation, the role of medium, and the place or value of the audience, this collection brings together a holistic perspective of authenticity that will intervene in the contemporary debates within adaptation. Authenticity’s increasing importance in the zeitgeist filters through to adaptation, yet it is something that has not been explicitly debated or discussed within the field. As such, this collection both highlights and attempts to fill a gap in scholarship.

Television and Serial Adaptation

Autor: Shannon Wells-lassagne

Número de Páginas: 212

As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged its tendency to adapt, an ability that contributed to its status as narrative art (capable of translating canonical texts onto the screen), television adaptations have seemingly been relegated to the miniseries or classic serial. From remakes and reboots to transmedia storytelling, loose adaptations or adaptations which last but a single episode, the recycling of pre-existing narrative is a practice that is just as common in television as in film, and this text seeks to rectify that oversight, examining series from M*A*S*H to Game of Thrones, Pride and Prejudice to Castle.

Rabies in the Streets

Autor: Deborah Nadal

Número de Páginas: 279

Found in two-thirds of the world, rabies is a devastating infectious disease with a 99.9 percent case-fatality rate and no cure once clinical signs appear. Rabies in the Streets tells the compelling story of the relationship between people, street animals, and rabies in India, where one-third of human rabies deaths occur. Deborah Nadal argues that only a One Health approach of “interspecies camaraderie” can save people and animals from the horrors of rabies and almost certain death. Grounded in multispecies ethnography, this book leads the reader through the streets and slums of Delhi and Jaipur, where people and animals, such as dogs, cows, and macaques, interact intimately and sometimes violently. Nadal explores the intricate web of factors that bring humans and animals into contact with one another within these urban spaces and create favorable pathways for the transmission of the rabies virus across species. This book shows how rabies is endemic in India for reasons that are as much social, cultural, and political as they are biological, ranging from inadequate sanitation to religious customs, from vaccine shortages to reliance on traditional medicine. The continuous...

Anarchist Prophets

Autor: James R. Martel

Número de Páginas: 216

In Anarchist Prophets James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archism in order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics. He shows how archism—a centralized and hierarchical political form that is a secularization of ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditions—dominates contemporary politics through a prophet’s promises of peace and prosperity or the threat of violence. Archism is met by anarchism, in which a community shares a collective form of judgment and vision. Martel focuses on the figure of the anarchist prophet, who leads efforts to regain the authority for the community that archism has stolen. The goal of anarchist prophets is to render themselves obsolete and to cede power back to the collective so as to not become archist themselves. Martel locates anarchist prophets in a range of philosophical, literary, and historical examples, from Hobbes and Nietzsche to Mary Shelley and Octavia Butler to Kurdish resistance in Syria and the Spanish Revolution. In so doing, Martel highlights how anarchist forms of collective vision and action can provide the means to overthrow archist authority.

The New Living & Learning in Home Economics 6

Número de Páginas: 356

Math Hysteria

Autor: Ian Stewart

Número de Páginas: 238

Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name but a few. Along the way, we also meet many curious characters: in short, these stories are engaging, challenging, and lots of fun!

Unleavened II In His Presence

Autor: Jonathan Maddox

Número de Páginas: 153

Business & Economics

Autor: Abraham Kuyper

Número de Páginas: 306

Kuyper on the Positive Potential of Business In his vast treasury of writings, Abraham Kuyper addressed nearly every sphere of society, including politics, science, and the arts. But his views on business and economics are often overlooked because he rarely engaged with that sphere directly. Still, his doctrine of common grace has great significance for showing how Christ is at work in the workplace. In this anthology of essays, speeches, and reflections, we see Kuyper's attempts to think positively and creatively about the calling and potential of business. Included are his ideas about economic freedom, the eternal value of earthly work, stewardship and philanthropy, economic globalization, the workings of God's grace in business, and the social function of money.

Speculative Television and the Doing and Undoing of Religion

Autor: Gregory Erickson

Número de Páginas: 297

This book explores the concept that, as participation in traditional religion declines, the complex and fantastical worlds of speculative television have become the place where theological questions and issues are negotiated, understood, and formed. From bodies, robots, and souls to purgatories and post-apocalyptic scenarios and new forms of digital scripture, the shows examined – from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Westworld – invite their viewers and fans to engage with and imagine concepts traditionally reserved for religious spaces. Informed by recent trends in both fan studies and religious studies, and with an emphasis on practice as well as belief, the thematically focused narrative posits that it is through the intersections of these shows that we find the reframing and rethinking of religious ideas. This truly interdisciplinary work will resonate with scholars and upper-level students in the areas of religion, television studies, popular culture, fan studies, media studies, and philosophy. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives...

Strike Anywhere

Autor: Michael Lista

Número de Páginas: 228

"I’d like to think that I’m polarizing the way a battery is," explains Michael Lista in his introduction to Strike Anywhere, "energizing the flashlight by which you read in the dark only because it has a negative and a positive side. Collected here, under one cover, are my cathodes and my anodes." In his self-described ‘arsons’, Lista assesses with equal fire our literary darlings (Anne Carson, Don McKay), talented veterans (Steven Heighton, David McGimpsey) and promising newcomers (Stevie Howell, Aisha Sasha John) of the poetic genre. He depicts a literary institution pathologically averse to the sustenance of a traditional repertoire and addicted to the empty calories of poetic experiments. Television, too, falls prey to his jaundiced eye, from the militant sincerity of The Bachelorette to the receptacle of American anxieties that is The Walking Dead. But beyond passing judgment on the contemporary Literary Industrial Complex, Strike Anywhere acknowledges the inherent contradiction of poetic expression—that its power lies in its uselessness—and recognizes that poets are, nonetheless, the happy few, the unacknowledged legislators of the world. With thoughtfulness, wit ...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Simple Home Repair

Autor: Judy Ostrow

Número de Páginas: 340

How many readers does it take to change a light bulb? Only one . . . if he or she is armed with this book! Rather than focus on the big projects that most homeowners would wisely leave to professionals, it concentrates on the common repairs that everyone encounters and anyone can do—with the right instruction—including repairing holes and dents in drywall; fixing popped nails in walls; checking and replacing fuses; unclogging drains; replacing light fixtures; fixing squeaky floors; repairing cracked tile and damaged carpet; replacing screens; screening gutters; and much more. • Contains 250 to 300 step–by–step illustrations

God-Imagined Adventures

Autor: Jeff Zirkle

Número de Páginas: 237

Are you enjoying a God-imagined life, fulfilling dreams and leaving a contagious legacy worth inheriting? Or are you only following your own imagination, pursuing mundane and hollow worldly paths that lead to only temporary success and limited joy? God-Imagined Adventures is a series of real-life experiences and examples sure to inspire you to dream and live as God imagines. Jeff "Coach" Zirkle will encourage you through these real stories, showing you all the joys and challenges that come in the seasons of life and in biblical principles that will work. You will learn how to build a healthy spirit, mind, and body, gaining intimacy in relationships and improving finances as you enjoy a servant lifestyle. Coach Zirkle's real-life stories will broaden the possibilities of your life and comfort your heart. His amusing life encounters can uplift your soul as you laugh and relive family adventures and Christmas stories; walking with characters in the biblical stories of Jesus's birth will also provide fresh insights and inspire imaginative celebrations of faith and goodwill. With God-Imagined Adventures, you will gain valuable insight to key questions in life, overcome and thrive in...

Inviting Happiness: Food Sharing in Post-Communist Mongolia

Autor: Sandrine Ruhlmann

Número de Páginas: 316

For Mongols, sharing food is more than just eating meals. Through a process of “opening” and “closing”, on a daily basis or at events, in the family circle or with visitors, sharing food guarantees the proper order of social relations. It also ensures the course of the seasons and the cycle of human life. Through food sharing, humans thus invite happiness to their families and herds. Sandrine Ruhlmann has lived long months, since 2000, in the Mongolian steppe and in the city. She describes and analyzes in detail the contemporary food system and recognizes intertwined ideas and values inherited from shamanism, Buddhism and communist ideology. Through meat-on-the-bone, creamy milk skin, dumplings or sole-shaped cakes, she highlights a whole way of thinking and living.

The Everything Couponing Book

Autor: Karen Wilmes

Número de Páginas: 565

Want to save money on the items you buy every week? Want to learn how to find deals without spending hours looking for them? Want to leave a store with money in your pocket? Then it's time to start couponing! Saving the most cash isn't just about clipping those paper coupons from your weekly newspaper. Today, the couponing world is expanding, with endless options like rewards cards, online coupons, loyalty programs, and group deals. But what should you choose to make the most impact on your budget? That's where The Everything® Couponing Book comes in! This book--the most comprehensive of its kind--teaches you how to find incredible deals and stretch your purchasing power with a combination of coupons, rebates, rewards points, and in-store sales. And you'll learn how to create your own game plan, depending on how much time you have to devote to couponing. Inside, you'll find money-saving information on: How to read and interpret coupon fine print Organizing a couponing system and locating the best deals How to reduce the amount of time you spend looking for coupons and deals Saving big on entertainment, travel, and dining 100 budget-friendly recipes that maximize each grocery...