The Shock of the Fall
Title | The Shock of the Fall PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Filer |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2013-05-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007491441 |
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The Shock Doctrine
Title | The Shock Doctrine PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi Klein |
Publisher | Metropolitan Books |
Pages | 721 |
Release | 2010-04-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1429919485 |
The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
A Shock
Title | A Shock PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Ridgway |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2021-07-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811230864 |
Ever since Keith Ridgway published his landmark cult novel Hawthorn & Child, his ardent fans have yearned for more Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it’s at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They’re on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. A deft, high-wire act, full of imprecise yet sharp dialog as well as witchy sleights of hand reminiscent of Muriel Spark, A Shock delivers a knockout punch of an ending. Perhaps Ridgway’s most breathtaking quality is his scintillating stealthiness: you can never quite put your finger on how he casts his spell—he delivers the shock of a master jewel thief (already far-off and scot-free) stealing your watch: when at some point you look down at your wrist, all you see is that in more than one way you don’t know what time it is…
This Book Will Change Your Mind about Mental Health
Title | This Book Will Change Your Mind about Mental Health PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Filer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780571345977 |
A powerful work of non-fiction and the natural sequel to The Shock of the Fall.
The Silver Linings Playbook
Title | The Silver Linings Playbook PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Quick |
Publisher | Sarah Crichton Books |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2010-04-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 142996023X |
A New York Times bestseller, The Silver Linings Playbook was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. It tells the riotous and poignant story of how one man regains his memory and comes to terms with the magnitude of his wife's betrayal. During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings: he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally supportive, and his happy ending will be the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. When Pat goes to live with his parents, everything seems changed: no one will talk to him about Nikki; his old friends are saddled with families; the Philadelphia Eagles keep losing, making his father moody; and his new therapist seems to be recommending adultery as a form of therapy. When Pat meets the tragically widowed and clinically depressed Tiffany, she offers to act as a liaison between him and his wife, if only he will give up watching football, agree to perform in this year's Dance Away Depression competition, and promise not to tell anyone about their "contract." All the while, Pat keeps searching for his silver lining. In this brilliantly written debut novel, Matthew Quick takes us inside Pat's mind, deftly showing us the world from his distorted yet endearing perspective. The result is a touching and funny story that helps us look at both depression and love in a wonderfully refreshing way.
The Shock of the Old
Title | The Shock of the Old PDF eBook |
Author | David Edgerton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2011-08-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199832617 |
In this new history, David Edgerton invites us to rethink how technology is used. For instance, horses contributed more to Nazi conquests than the V2. In influence, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad matches Bill Gates. And corrugated iron is not dead yet.
The Shock of the Fall Free Sampler
Title | The Shock of the Fall Free Sampler PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Filer |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2013-05-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007534469 |
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