Orientation and Other Stories

Orientation and Other Stories
Title Orientation and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author Daniel Orozco
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 174
Release 2011-05-24
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1429995211

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Breakfast's boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break—daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed—by a coworker's taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge—cracks appear, revealing alienation, casual cruelty, madness, and above all a simultaneous hunger for and fear of the unknown. Daniel Orozco leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; a new employee's first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers' most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination. Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction. Orientation is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Short Story Collections title.

Temporary Stories

Temporary Stories
Title Temporary Stories PDF eBook
Author Daniel Orozco
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 21
Release 2011-09-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1466800615

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A triptych chronicling the unexpectedly epic adventures of an ordinary office temp. "Temporary Stories" appears in Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection Orientation, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; a new employee's first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers' most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination. Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction.

Advantages and Other Stories

Advantages and Other Stories
Title Advantages and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author Markwick Smith
Publisher Infinity Publishing
Pages 113
Release 2006-07
Genre
ISBN 0741433524

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Advantages and Other Stories is a collection of short stories, more-or-less in chronological order, occasionally approaching the autobiographical, and always understated as a means of inverted emphasis.

Making Meaningful Lives

Making Meaningful Lives
Title Making Meaningful Lives PDF eBook
Author Iza Kavedžija
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 208
Release 2019-06-28
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0812296265

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What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that which makes one's life worth living," ikigai has also come to mean that which gives a person happiness. In Japan, where the demographic cohort of elderly citizens is growing, and new modes of living and relationships are revising traditional multigenerational family structures, the elderly experience of ikigai is considered a public health concern. Without a relevant model for meaningful and joyful older age, the increasing older population of Japan must create new cultural forms that center the ikigai that comes from old age. In Making Meaningful Lives, Iza Kavedžija provides a rich anthropological account of the lives and concerns of older Japanese women and men. Grounded in years of ethnographic fieldwork at two community centers in Osaka, Kavedžija offers an intimate narrative analysis of the existential concerns of her active, independent subjects. Alone and in groups, the elderly residents of these communities make sense of their lives and shifting ikigai with humor, conversation, and storytelling. They are as much providers as recipients of care, challenging common images of the elderly as frail and dependent, while illustrating a more complex argument: maintaining independence nevertheless requires cultivating multiple dependences on others. Making Meaningful Lives argues that an anthropology of the elderly is uniquely suited to examine the competing values of dependence and independence, sociality and isolation, intimacy and freedom, that people must balance throughout all of life's stages.

The Formation of Campaign Agendas

The Formation of Campaign Agendas
Title The Formation of Campaign Agendas PDF eBook
Author Holli A. Semetko
Publisher Routledge
Pages 174
Release 2013-04-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1135023492

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This unusual volume seeks to accomplish three related goals: * to assess the extent and limits of media power in election campaigns * to extend the concept of media agenda-setting to include the contributions of powerful news sources in the process of election agenda formation * to evaluate the impact of national system variables (differences in political and media systems) on the balance of party and media forces in the formation of campaign agendas In the process, it searches for ways of measuring the discretionary power of the media in electoral politics, testing this in terms of the relative ability of journalists and politicians to shape election campaign agendas.

No Limits to Literacy for Preschool English Learners

No Limits to Literacy for Preschool English Learners
Title No Limits to Literacy for Preschool English Learners PDF eBook
Author Theresa A. Roberts
Publisher Corwin Press
Pages 265
Release 2009-01-12
Genre Education
ISBN 1412965640

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Combining theory with proven teaching strategies, this resource helps preschool educators produce strong language and literacy outcomes for English learners ages three to five.

Regression and Other Stories

Regression and Other Stories
Title Regression and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author Andrew Gelman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 551
Release 2021
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 110702398X

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A practical approach to using regression and computation to solve real-world problems of estimation, prediction, and causal inference.