Smile Or Die
Title | Smile Or Die PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara (Y) Ehrenreich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-03-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781783787531 |
Smile Or Die
Title | Smile Or Die PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher | Granta Books |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Attitude (Psychology) |
ISBN | 1847081738 |
POPULAR CULTURE. Offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. Ehrenreich conceived of the book when she became ill with breast cancer, and found herself surrounded by pink ribbons and platitudes. She balked at the way her anger about having the disease was seen as unhealthy and dangerous by health professionals and other sufferers. In her droll and incisive analysis of the cult of cheerfulness, Ehrenreich ranges across contemporary religion, business and the economy, arguing, for example, that undue optimism and a fear of giving bad news sowed the seeds for the current banking crisis. She argues passionately that the insistence on being cheerful actually leads to a lonely focus inwards, a blaming of oneself for any misfortunes, and thus to political apathy. Rigorous, insightful and bracing as always, and also incredibly funny, "Smile or Die" uncovers the dark side of the 'have a nice day' nation.
Smile Or Die
Title | Smile Or Die PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Happiness |
ISBN |
Bright-sided
Title | Bright-sided PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0805087494 |
Exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking, which the author believes leads to self-blame and a preoccupation with stamping out "negative" thoughts on a personal level, and, on a national level, has brought on economic disaster.
Living with a Wild God
Title | Living with a Wild God PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher | Twelve |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2014-04-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1455501751 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In Living With a Wild God, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find ""the Truth"" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone. It was the kind of event that people call a ""mystical experience""-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist, nothing less than shattering. In Living With a Wild God, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. With her signature combination of intellectual rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to entertain but amaze.
Blood Rites
Title | Blood Rites PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher | Twelve |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1455543713 |
A New York Times Notable BookAn ALA Notable Book "Original and illuminating." --The Washington Post What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued in paperback, Blood Rites takes readers on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of twentieth-century "total war." Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place -- not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experiences of predation by stronger carnivores. Brilliant in conception and rich in scope, Blood Rites is a monumental work that continues to transform our understanding of the greatest single threat to human life.
Natural Causes
Title | Natural Causes PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher | Granta Books |
Pages | |
Release | 2018-04-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1783782439 |
We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at the microscopic level, the cells in our bodies facilitate tumours and attack other cells, with life-threatening consequences. In this revelatory book, Barbara Ehrenreich argues that our bodies are a battleground over which we have little control, and lays bare the cultural charades that shield us from this knowledge. Challenging everything we think we know about life and death, she also offers hope - that we find our place in a natural world teeming with animation and endless possibility.