The Art of Non-Conformity

The Art of Non-Conformity
Title The Art of Non-Conformity PDF eBook
Author Chris Guillebeau
Publisher Penguin
Pages 257
Release 2010-09-07
Genre Self-Help
ISBN 0399536108

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If you've ever thought, "There must be more to life than this," The Art of Non-Conformity is for you. Based on Chris Guillebeau's popular online manifesto "A Brief Guide to World Domination," The Art of Non-Conformity defies common assumptions about life and work while arming you with the tools to live differently. You'll discover how to live on your own terms by exploring creative self-employment, radical goal-setting, contrarian travel, and embracing life as a constant adventure. Inspired and guided by Chris's own story and those of others who have pursued unconventional lives, you can devise your own plan for world domination-and make the world a better place at the same time.

Nonconformity

Nonconformity
Title Nonconformity PDF eBook
Author Nelson Algren
Publisher Seven Stories Press
Pages 148
Release 1997-11-04
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9781888363623

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The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers. "You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery." Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: "Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder." And it is about the trouble writers ask for when they try to describe America: "Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards . . . [where there] are still . . . defeats in which everything is lost [and] victories that fall close enough to the heart to afford living hope." In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer's relation to society, drawing examples from Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Twain, and Fitzgerald, as well as utility infielder Leo Durocher and legendary barkeep Martin Dooley. He shares his deepest beliefs about the state of literature and its role in society, along the way painting a chilling portrait of the early 1950s, Joe McCarthy's heyday, when many American writers were blacklisted and ruined for saying similar things to what Algren is saying here.

Freaks Talk Back

Freaks Talk Back
Title Freaks Talk Back PDF eBook
Author Joshua Gamson
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 298
Release 2009-02-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0226280632

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Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as an audience member, Joshua Gamson argues that talk shows give much-needed, high-impact public visibility to sexual nonconformists while also exacerbating all sorts of political tensions among those becoming visible. With wit and passion, Freaks Talk Back illuminates the joys, dilemmas, and practicalities of media visibility. "This entertaining, accessible, sobering discussion should make every viewer sit up and ponder the effects and possibilities of America's daily talk-fest with newly sharpened eyes."—Publishers Weekly "Bold, witty. . . . There's a lot of empirical work behind this deceptively easy read, then, and it allows for the most sophisticated and complex analysis of talk shows yet."—Elayne Rapping, Women's Review of Books "Funny, well-researched, fully theorized. . . . Engaged and humane scholarship. . . . A pretty inspiring example of what talking back to the mass media can be."—Jesse Berrett, Village Voice "An extraordinarily well-researched volume, one of the most comprehensive studies of popular media to appear in this decade."—James Ledbetter, Newsday

The Christian Century

The Christian Century
Title The Christian Century PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 640
Release 1921
Genre Theology
ISBN

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Philosophy, Dissent and Nonconformity, 1689-1920

Philosophy, Dissent and Nonconformity, 1689-1920
Title Philosophy, Dissent and Nonconformity, 1689-1920 PDF eBook
Author Alan P.F. Sell
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 297
Release 2009-11-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1608991016

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This is a pioneering study of philosophy in the English and Welsh Dissenting academies and Nonconformist theological colleges from the Toleration Act of 1689 to 1920. The author discusses the place of philosophy in the curriculum and the philosophical works published by tutors, professors, and alumni, among them Isaac Watts, Henry Grove, Richard Price, James Martineau, and Robert Mackintosh. It is shown that particular attention was paid to natural theology, moral philosophy, and apologetics, and some of the ideas propounded are of continuing interest. This important book will interest historians of philosophy, of the Church, and of education.

The Church and Nonconformity

The Church and Nonconformity
Title The Church and Nonconformity PDF eBook
Author John Harold Greig
Publisher
Pages 280
Release 1912
Genre Dissenters, Religious
ISBN

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Nonconformity in Nineteenth Century York

Nonconformity in Nineteenth Century York
Title Nonconformity in Nineteenth Century York PDF eBook
Author Edward Royle
Publisher Borthwick Publications
Pages 48
Release 1987
Genre
ISBN 9781904497431

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