Scott's haunting and hilarious second collection of short stories is set in disparate spots across the American map and delves deeply into the lives and psyches of a stunning array of ordinary American misfits trying to come to terms with the meaning of their lives.
VALEDICTORY is set at a university in New York in the 1980s during a student takeover that shuts down the campus for three weeks. Earl Castle is an ambitious senior trying to secure the prize of valedictorian. Brilliant and aloof, he cannot, however, stay completely above the turmoils roiling the university. Due to his affection for Calvin Reynolds, one of the student activists, Earl becomes an unwitting participant in the takeover, risking everything he has striven to achieve, and forcing him to choose between the nobility of his feelings for Calvin and his desire for the award he so dearly covets.
Since the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive debt taking, private equity investment helped normalize once-taboo business strategies while growing into an over $3 trillion industry in control of thousands of companies and millions of workers. Daniel Scott Souleles opens a window into the rarefied world of private equity investing through ethnographic fieldwork on private equity financiers. Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss documents how and why investors buy, manage, and sell the companies that they do; presents the ins and outs of private equity deals, management, and valuation; and explains the historical context that gave rise to private equity and other forms of investor-led capitalism. In addition to providing invaluable ethnographic insight, Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss is also an anthropological study of inequality as Souleles connects the core components of financial capitalism to economic disparities. Souleles uses local ideas of “value” and “time” to frame the ways private equity investors comprehend their work and to show how they justify the prosperity and poverty they create. Throughout, Souleles argues that understanding private equity investors as contrasted with others in society writ large is essential to fully understanding private equity within the larger context of capitalism in the United States.
When a term is overused, it tends to fall out of fashion. Cynicism seems to be an exception. Its polytropic versatility apparently prevents any discontinuation of its application. Everyone knows that cynicism denotes that which is deemed deleterious at a given time; and every time will specify its toxicities – the apparent result being the term’s non-specificity. This study describes the cynical stance and statement so as to render the term’s use scholarly expedient. Close readings of textual sources commonly deemed cynical provide a legible starting point. A rhetorical analysis of aphorisms ascribed to the arch-Cynic Diogenes facilitates describing the design of cynical statements, as well as the characteristic features of the cynical stance. These patterns are identifiable in later texts generally labeled cynical – above all in Machiavelli’s Principe. With recourse to the Diogenical archetype, cynicism is likewise rendered describable in Gracián’s Oráculo manual, Diderot’s Le neveu de Rameau, and Nietzsche’s Posthumous Fragments. This study’s description of cynicism provides a phenomenon otherwise considered amorphous with distinct contours, renders transparent its workings, and tenders a dependable basis for further analyses.
A collection of short stories offers tales of loss and the ways in which problems in expressing and sharing emotions can distort relationships with family members and friends.
This book provides a systematic and comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on tourism and water. It is the first book to thoroughly examine the interrelationships of tourism and water use based on global, regional and business perspectives. Its assessment of tourism’s global impact along with its overviews of sectoral and management approaches will provide a benchmark by which the water sustainability of tourism will be measured for years to come. In making a clear case for greater awareness and enhanced water management in the tourism sector, it is hoped that the book will contribute to the wise and sustainable use of this critical resource. The book is interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope. It is designed as essential reading for not only students of tourism but also practitioners.
Theodore Roosevelt/Spring Rice in WWI, Joshua Barney, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, & USN "Airdales" is a collection of nine biographical essays describing the lives and accomplishments of those "who have made America a better nation." Along with the individuals listed in the title, the book has four additional brief essays on: Hugh Mercer, Martha Washington, Anthony Wayne, and Oliver Otis Howard-"The Christian General." On the book cover are images of TR and his family; Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice; Commodore Joshua Barney and an ink sketch of one of his Flotilla boats; and First Ladies Dolley Madison and Elizabeth Monroe. At the bottom of the book cover is a 1960s photograph of the U.S. Navy "Airdales" with the author's late father standing at extreme right. Enlisted "Airdales" serve as crewmembers in U.S. Navy warplanes. During WWII, Daniel C. Marrone fought as a tail gunner on USN Avenger TBFs. Among his many military decorations was the "U.S. Navy Air Crewman Wings.
The Hitter by Emily Devenport. Eternal Boiler by Taiyo Fujii. The Algorithms for Love by Ken Liu. The Year of the Rat by Chen Quifan. Edited by Daniel Scott White.
Featuring Ken Liu, Jerry Oltion, Yoon Ha Lee, Robert J Sawyer, Rebecca Linam, Joe Taylor, and Liam Hogan. Edited by Daniel Scott White. There's a common thread in this magazine. And it's a good one. From over the rainbow, far beyond the edge of the real world, bards and sages keep telling us: "Be careful what you wish for!" You might think the grass is greener on the other side, but there's a price to be paid when the genie offers you those three lucrative wishes. There are unforetold consequences to being granted your deepest dreams and desires. And so it goes in the wonderful world of magic, a topsy-turvy place that keeps knocking the characters bound inside each story off balance. Stop and think about it for a moment. Isn't that the way things really are for you and I? Aren't we all living somehow strangely in those same faraway places that appear upon these very pages? Don't we also get knocked off balance from day to day while chasing our desires? Life is but a dream... While you're reading this magazine, put on a pair of wings, because you're going to need it. This magazine is about fiction that isn't made for this world. - "State Change" by Ken Liu is a metaphorical look at being a prisoner to yourself. - "Flying Lessons" by Liam Hogan is a humorous take on a magical lesson gone suddenly wrong. - "The Graphology of Hemorrhage" by Yoon Ha Lee tells the intricate story of a magical writing system. - "There Goes The Neighborhood" by Jerry Oltion is a modern day magical rendition of keeping up with the Joneses. - "Fallen Angel" by Robert J Sawyer is about the danger of flying too high, about promises broken and the payment that follows. - "Damsel in Distress" by Rebecca Linam is about a knight who's had way too much adventure. - "What Is Sewn Daintily, Is Sewn" by Joe Taylor is a symbolic treatment of the foreplay that leads up to an angelic encounter. These stories will make your head spin, your heart flutter, your pulse fluctuate and your knees weaken. They'll bring you high and take you low, and then they'll drop you on the curb next to the portal you just left behind. They are the stuff of dreams gone through a mind-bending encounter. Worked over and turned upside-down. Thanks for reading these pages. Please return your wings at the door when you're done. See you next time in Vol. 3!
New York Heroes consists of four in-depth biographical essays on Nicholas Herkimer, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, as well as, four brief essays on Nathanael Greene, Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer, Thomas E. Dewey and Ed Koch. These individuals faced formidable obstacles and while their accomplishments differ, they all made an indelible mark on New York State history. These individuals rose to greatness and became leaders by eventually triumphing over all adversities with an abundance of can do spirit. The book is intended for those wishing to study leaders and leadership. On the book cover is the 1942-1943 U.S. Navy Roundel--the insignia painted on World War II Grumman Avenger TBFs (Torpedo-Bomber-Fighters). The author's father, USN Petty Officer 3rd Class Daniel C. Marrone was an Avenger TBF tailgunner in the Pacific Theater. At the center of the Roundel is the historic marker honoring General Nicholas Herkimer for his valor at the decisive Battle of Oriskany.
Mere years after Famine and the sinking of Magog, Lady Mew and her fledgling cult have disappeared, while Wulf hides, coordinating an underground resistance against the spread of an evangelizing Horde. Out on frozen plains, War rages in a battlefield between angel and demon, and a resurrected Liege of Foes rises to unite a disparate land. While beneath it all, the Garm begin to make their move... Lie by the Sword is the follow-up to Wind of Chains and the penultimate chapter of the Fimbulvetr Books. Daniel Scott Westby tells a tale of destiny and legacy while imagining a future in which no hope remains, but in which unique characters find solace and salvation in each other.
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