A Crazy Occupation

Author : Ben Kassoy
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1467717096
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weird Jobs written by Ben Kassoy and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sniffing armpits. Scuba diving for golf balls. Building secret passageways. For some lucky people, these strange tasks are all in a day's work. Want to learn about the men and women who destroy old buildings or make movie sound effects? Discover a range of weird jobs from around the world!

Author : Jamie Tarabay
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741156122
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Crazy Occupation written by Jamie Tarabay and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jamie Tarabay, a young Australian journalist, was posted to Israel to report on the conflict in the Occupied Territories, her family were, understandably, somewhat concerned. Her parents had left Lebanon before war broke out in 1975 and watched as their beloved Beirut, the city they called the Paris of the Middle East, was violated by warring militias and torn apart by civil war. Her father took the family back to Lebanon in 1987 to live for three years, where they struggled with what it meant to be Christians in a Lebanon that was being overtaken by political and religious violence, before returning to Australia. And now their daughter, an Arabic-speaking Australian of Catholic Lebanese descent, was about to be plunged back into the thick of Middle Eastern politics. Wouldn't you be worried? But Jamie was unafraid, or perhaps just stunningly naive. Plunging into the vibrant life, culture and politics of the region, this memoir of her time in the Middle East is a vivid and highly readable snapshot of a life lived at the epicentre of the Arab-Israeli conflict. From the great optimism of the Camp David summit in 2000, the start of the intifada in 2001 and all that came after, Jamie was in the thick of it - Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, suicide bombers, hard-line Jewish settlers, Palestinians living under curfew, seeing in the new millennium after Christmas in Bethlehem - all the while redefining her sense of what it means to be Australian, her morality, her heritage and her religion. This is an entertaining, unique and highly illuminating memoir.

Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501143336
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bullshit Jobs written by David Graeber and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).

Author : Natalie Labarre
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536212199
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incredible Jobs You've (Probably) Never Heard Of written by Natalie Labarre and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what you want to do when you grow up? Why not work as a babysitter . . . for sloths? Or become a farmer . . . of corpses? You might even grow up to be someone who gets paid to actually sleep on the job! From taste testers to dinosaur dusters, there are all kinds of incredible jobs that you've probably never heard of — and one of them might be just right for you!

Author : Linda Rottenberg
Publisher : Portfolio
ISBN 13 : 1591847990
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crazy Is a Compliment written by Linda Rottenberg and published by Portfolio. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how companies like GE and Burberry have broken the corporate mould, and introduces us to entrepreneurs like Leila Velez, who started a multi-million hair-care company from her kitchen sink in Rio.

Author : Shaul Bartal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317519604
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jihad in Palestine written by Shaul Bartal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century exists in the shadow of the return of extremist Islam to the center of the world’s political stage, a process that began at the end of the previous century. While researchers have focused on the rise of Hamas, this return has in fact manifested itself in a range of independent Islamic extremist groups with their own philosophies. Jihad in Palestine provides a comprehensive study of the variety of Islamic extremist groups operating inside Israel/Palestine today, examining their philosophies and views concerning martyrdom, as well as their attitudes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These ideologies are presented in their own words, thanks to the author’s extensive translations and commentary of primary sources in Arabic, including the writings of the Islamic Jihad, al-Jama’a al-Islamiya, Hizbal-Tahrir al-Islami, Hamas and the Islamic Movement. The book studies the attitudes of these organisations towards the fundamental issues surrounding Jihad, including the concept of personal obligation, the relationship of the movement to the peace agreements and attitudes towards Jews expressed in the movement’s writings. Exploring the basic theories of sacrifice and analysing modern day Palestinian society, it promotes a greater understanding of the religious angle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East Studies, Jewish Studies, Political Islam and Terrorism & Political Violence.

Author : Osho
Publisher : Osho Media International
ISBN 13 : 0880507713
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mustard Seed written by Osho and published by Osho Media International. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book explores the wisdom of the Gnostic Jesus, who challenges our preconceptions about the world and ourselves. Based on the Gospel of Thomas, the book recounts the missing years in Jesus’ life and his time in Egypt and India, learning from Egyptian secret societies, then Buddhist schools, then Hindu Vedanta. Each of Jesus' original sayings is the "seed" for a chapter of the book; each examines one aspect of life — birth, death, love, fear, anger, and more — counterpointed by Osho’s penetrating comments and responses to questions from his audience.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Careers: Agriculture, forestry, and fishery occupations written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, questionnaires, and games provide information which help the reader assess his or her interests and talents in order to make career choices.

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393345629
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small g: A Summer Idyll written by Patricia Highsmith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like Ripley, [Highsmith's characters] burn in a reader's memory."—Susan Salters Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review In unmistakable Highsmithian fashion, Small g, Patricia Highsmith's final novel, opens near a seedy Zurich bar with the brutal murder of Petey Ritter. Unraveling the vagaries of love, sexuality, jealousy, and death, Highsmith weaves a mystery both hilarious and astonishing, a classic fairy tale executed with a characteristic penchant for darkness. Published in paperback for the first time in America, Small g is at once an exorcism of Highsmith's literary demons and a revelatory capstone to a wholly remarkable career. It is a delightfully incantatory work that, in the tradition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, shows us how bizarre and unpredictable love can be.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Workforce Protections
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearing to Examine the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Reinvention Project written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Workforce Protections and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: