We Want What We Want

2021-07-27 Fiction

Author : Alix Ohlin
Release : 2021-07-27
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 907/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book We Want What We Want written by Alix Ohlin. This book was released on 2021-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen glittering, surprising, and darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of their lives, from two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin. In the mordantly funny “Money, Geography, Youth,” Vanessa arrives home from a gap year volunteering in Ghana to find that her father is engaged to her childhood best friend. Unable to reconcile the girl she went to dances with in the eighth grade and the woman in her father’s bed, Vanessa turns to a different old friendship for her own, unique diversion. In the subversive “The Brooks Brothers Guru,” Amanda drives to upstate New York to rescue her gawky cousin from a cult, only to discover clean-cut, well-dressed men living in a beautiful home, discussing the classics and drinking cocktails, moving her to wonder what freedoms she might be willing to trade for a life of such elegant comfort. And in “The Universal Particular,” Tamar welcomes her husband’s young stepcousin into her home, only to find her cool suburban life knocked askew in ways she cannot quite understand. Populated with imperfect families, burned potential, and inescapable old flames, the stories in We Want What We Want are, each one, diamond-sharp — sparkling with pain, humour, and beauty.

We Want Everything

2022-04-12 Fiction

Author : Nanni Balestrini
Release : 2022-04-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 692/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book We Want Everything written by Nanni Balestrini. This book was released on 2022-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s Hot Autumn. A young worker from the impoverished south arrives at Fiat’s Mirafiori factory in Turin, where his darker complexion begins to fade from the fourteen-hour workdays in sweltering industrial heat. His bosses try to withhold his wages. Our cynical, dry-witted narrator will not bend to their will. “I want everything, everything that’s owed to me,” he tells them. “Nothing more and nothing less, because you don’t mess with me.” Around him, students are holding secret meetings and union workers begin halting work on the assembly lines, crippling the Mirafiori factory with months of continuous strikes. Before long, barricades line the roads, tear gas wafts into private homes, and the slogan “We Want Everything” is ringing through the streets. Wrought in spare and measured prose, Balestrini’s novel depicts an explosive uprising. Introduced by Rachel Kushner, the author of the best-selling The Flamethrowers, We Want Everything is the incendiary fictional account of events that led to a decade of revolt.

We Want Our Books

2021-06-10 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Jake Alexander
Release : 2021-06-10
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 24X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book We Want Our Books written by Jake Alexander. This book was released on 2021-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defiant, moving and joyful picture book about the power of protest and the importance of books. From the winner of the Macmillan Prize 2019, We Want Our Books is a stunningly illustrated story that shows how any child has the power to change the world. Rosa wants a book. But when she gets to the library, she finds it is closed. What could be the end of the story is just the beginning, as Rosa and her sister Maria try everything they can think of to bring their community together and fight to get back their precious library. A picture book that features big subjects in a child-friendly way, with beautiful artwork, making this the perfect discussion starter for curious children. From debut author and illustrator, Jake Alexander, winner of the Creative Conscience Gold Medal.

On Desire

2006 Philosophy

Author : William Braxton Irvine
Release : 2006
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 071/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book On Desire written by William Braxton Irvine. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irvine looks at what modern science can tell about desire--what happens in the brain when one desires something and how animals evolved particular desires. He suggests that people who can convince themselves to want what they already have dramatically enhance their happiness.

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life

2015-10-13 Business & Economics

Author : Russ Roberts
Release : 2015-10-13
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 958/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life written by Russ Roberts. This book was released on 2015-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How the insights of an 18th century economist can help us live better in the 21st century. Adam Smith became famous for The Wealth of Nations, but the Scottish economist also cared deeply about our moral choices and behavior--the subjects of his other brilliant book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). Now, economist Russ Roberts shows why Smith's neglected work might be the greatest self-help book you've never read. Roberts explores Smith's unique and fascinating approach to fundamental questions such as: - What is the deepest source of human satisfaction? - Why do we sometimes swing between selfishness and altruism? - What's the connection between morality and happiness? Drawing on current events, literature, history, and pop culture, Roberts offers an accessible and thought-provoking view of human behavior through the lenses of behavioral economics and philosophy"--

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