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Raising Hell, Living Well

Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (including me)

By: Jessica Elefante

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Raising Hell, Living Well

Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (including me)

By: Jessica Elefante

Part cultural criticism, part rueful confessional, a reformed brand strategist brings to light the impact of influence on us and our society and offers an escape in this ironically persuasive case for not being so easily influenced anymore. “Jessica Elefante practices what she preaches by rising above complaints to confront modern, twisted problems right in the face.”—Jaron Lanier, bestselling author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now We live in a world that is under the influence. Our lives are being choreographed by forces that want something from us. Everything from ingrained family values to mind-altering algorithms create our foundations, warp how we see the world, manipulate our decisions, and dictate our beliefs. Yet rarely do we question these everyday influences of our modern times even as we go further down the path of unwell, unhappy, and unhinged. A high-spirited exploration through the troublesome influences of our world, Raising Hell, Living Well, Jessica Elefante’s eye-opening debut, follows one bullshit artist’s journey, from small-time salesperson to award-winning corporate strategist to founder of the digital wellbeing movement Folk Rebellion, in coming to terms with how she was wielding influence—and the forces she was under herself. With whip-smart writing and wry humor, Elefante’s collection of essays is a head-trip through her misadventures. From explaining productivity as a symptom of the influence of capitalism to how the wellness industry makes us feel more unwell or our unquestioning participation in oversharing, optimization, and instant gratification, she invites us to reexamine our world, our pasts, and ourselves through the lens of influence. Now a reformed brand strategist, Elefante lays bare her own culpability, sharing what she learned—and what she got wrong. She offers a new take on intentional living and provides a simple practice to deconstruct how the powers-that-be are attempting to modify our behaviors. Before you know it, you’ll be questioning everything from how you take your coffee to how our social institutions are structured. And you’ll learn how to live free from the influences around us—including Elefante herself. The much-needed subversive voice to demystify these times, Elefante will make you angry, make you laugh, and make you think about how you’re really living. Unpretentious, sharply observed, and devil-hearted, Raising Hell, Living Well holds out a hand to help you climb out from under the influence.

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385

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Ballantine Books

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0593500563

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9780593500569

Madison Avenue Shoot

A Murder, She Wrote Mystery : a Novel

By: Jessica Fletcher,Donald Bain

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Madison Avenue Shoot

A Murder, She Wrote Mystery : a Novel

By: Jessica Fletcher,Donald Bain

The residents of Cabot Cove are pulling out all the stops for their 4th of July celebration. After a businessman's body is found on the evening of the fireworks show, Jessica Fletcher pores over a long list of potential suspects.

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290

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Penguin

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0451226038

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9780451226037

Murder, She Wrote: Madison Ave Shoot

By: Jessica Fletcher,Donald Bain

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Murder, She Wrote: Madison Ave Shoot

By: Jessica Fletcher,Donald Bain

It's lights... Camera... Murder! The USA Today bestselling series-more than 4.5 million copies in print When Jessica Fletcher's nephew, Grady, asks her to visit him in New York City, she's happy to reunite. The production firm Grady works for is creating commercials featuring big-name celebrities, and he has proposed that Jessica star in one. She reluctantly agrees. But when one of the most creative-and despised-bigwigs is found murdered on the set, there's a long list of suspects. And Jessica soon finds herself not just a witness in a murder case-but the only one who can uncover the killer...

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1101028807

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9781101028803

The Restless Clock

A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick

By: Jessica Riskin

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The Restless Clock

A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick

By: Jessica Riskin

A core principle of modern science holds that a scientific explanation must not attribute will or agency to natural phenomena. "The Restless Clock" examines the origins and history of this, in particular as it applies to the science of living things. This is also the story of a tradition of radicals--dissenters who embraced the opposite view, that agency is an essential and ineradicable part of nature. Beginning with the church and courtly automata of early modern Europe, Jessica Riskin guides us through our thinking about the extent to which animals might be understood as mere machines. We encounter fantastic robots and cyborgs as well as a cast of scientific and philosophical luminaries, including Descartes and Leibnitz, Lamarck and Darwin, whose ideas gain new relevance in Riskin's hands. The book ends with a riveting discussion of how the dialectic continues in genetics, epigenetics, and evolutionary biology, where work continues to naturalize different forms of agency. "The Restless Clock "reveals the deeply buried roots of current debates in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology.

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571

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University of Chicago Press

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022630292X

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9780226302928

Rome Measured and Imagined

Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City

By: Jessica Maier

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Rome Measured and Imagined

Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City

By: Jessica Maier

At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a “crumbling city” populated by “broken ruins” into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by Rome were spurred to develop new graphic modes for depicting the city—and the genre known as the city portrait exploded. In Rome Measured and Imagined, Jessica Maier explores the history of this genre—which merged the accuracy of scientific endeavor with the imaginative aspects of art—during the rise of Renaissance print culture. Through an exploration of works dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, her book interweaves the story of the city portrait with that of Rome itself. Highly interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated with nearly one hundred city portraits, Rome Measured and Imagined advances the scholarship on Renaissance Rome and print culture in fascinating ways.

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297

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University of Chicago Press

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022612777X

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9780226127774

Making Connections Level 1 Student's Book

Skills and Strategies for Academic Reading

By: Jessica Williams

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Making Connections Level 1 Student's Book

Skills and Strategies for Academic Reading

By: Jessica Williams

This title introduces first-time readers of academic text to basic reading strategies such as finding paragraph topics, finding supporting details and learning to read quickly.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107683807

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9781107683808

Book's by Jessica Elefante

Raising Hell, Living Well

Raising Hell, Living Well

Madison Avenue Shoot

Madison Avenue Shoot

Murder, She Wrote: Madison Ave Shoot

Murder, She Wrote: Madison Ave Shoot

The Restless Clock

The Restless Clock

Rome Measured and Imagined

Rome Measured and Imagined

Making Connections Level 1 Student's Book

Making Connections Level 1 Student's Book

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