In Fannie + Freddie / The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography, Amy Sara Carroll 'undocuments' the quotidian's shades of gray/grey, the contingencies of post-Fordist relationality in the pre-Occupy window of time between September 11, 2001 and the 2008 Great Recession.
This saga of a stockbroker-turned-whistleblower is a mosaic which, when all the components are assembled, reveals a picture of corruption, persistence, betrayal and healing. One woman's fight on a battlefield belonging to all citizens takes an unusual twist. Humorously, this war becomes most civilized with laughter as their battlecries.
With new graphical data added to this revision of the original classic, this volume is still the largest and most comprehensive collection of thermodynamic data on carbon dioxide ever produced, the ONLY book of its kind in print. With carbon dioxide sequestration gaining in popularity around the world in the scientific and engineering communities, having this data in an easy-to-access format is more useful and timely than ever. With data that is accurate down to within a fraction of a degree, this handbook offers, in one volume, literally thousands of data points that any engineer or chemist would need when dealing with carbon dioxide. Not available in other formats, these easy-to-read tables are at your fingertips and are accessed within seconds and does away with the need for constantly working with mathematical formulas. Carbon dioxide is used in many fields, across many industries, including the oil and gas industry and food processing. Even coffee is decaffeinated using carbon dioxide! Though CO2 has many uses in industry, it is also one of the most offensive of the greenhouse gases, on which many scientists and engineers are working to eradicate in the future production of power and fuel. This data is useful for any scientist or engineer in any of these fields, but it is also useful for the chemical engineering or petroleum engineering student.
In a world in which individuals will undergo multiple career changes, is it possible any longer to conceive of a job as a meaningful vocation? Against the background of fragmentation and rationalisation of work, this book explores the significance and meaning of work in contemporary life, raising the question of whether people continue to feel motivated to dedicate their lives to their work, or must now look to other areas of life for meaning. Based on rich, in-depth interviews conducted with workers of different ages and across a broad range of occupations in the major city of Melbourne, Making a Living, Making a Life reveals that work continues to be a source of pride, passion and purpose, the author shedding light on the ways in which cultural narratives, collective meanings and structural factors influence people’s feelings about work. An engaging and empirically grounded examination of the meaning and centrality of work to people’s lives in today’s 'liquid' modern world, this book will appeal to sociologists with interests in cultural sociology, social theory, ethics, the sociology of work and questions of identity.
Jake doesn't understand big and small, so the Tweenies try to help him. Max and Judy explain that lots of small things added together can sometimes make one big thing. Lots of blades of grass make a field, lots of grains of sand make a beach, lots of bricks make a house. Then Max and Judy suggest a game, where the Tweenies see how important small things are.
When Judy reads the Tweenies the story of the 'Three Little Pigs', they want to act it out. But no matter how much the Tweenies huff and puff, surely they won't be able to blow a house down like the big bad wolf does in the story? Judy, however, has a clever idea.
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