Bedtime Stories For Worried Liberals

Author : Stuart Heritage
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782836063
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals written by Stuart Heritage and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxious? Angry? Waking up in the middle of the night to worry about plastic pollution, Brexit and why everything seems to be so horrible all the time? Thumb sore from scrolling through the Guardian news app, even though it makes you want to cry? Us too. But help is here, in the shape of Stuart Heritage's hilarious Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals. Put down your phone, log off Twitter, and let yourself be lulled to sleep by stories from a world where Brexit disappears in a puff of smoke, Waitrose is free, and Fairy Godmothers look a lot like Barack Obama. Including: The Three Liberal Pigs; Jack and the Sustainably Produced Meat Substitute Stalk; and The Night Before Brexmas; The Very Trendy Caterpillar; Trumplestiltskin; Camerella.

Author : Stuart Heritage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788163385
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals written by Stuart Heritage and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxious? Angry? Waking up in the middle of the night to worry about plastic pollution, Brexit and why everything seems to be so horrible all the time? Thumb sore from scrolling through the Guardian news app, even though it makes you want to cry? Us too.But help is here, in the shape of Stuart Heritage's hilarious Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals. Put down your phone, log off Twitter, and let yourself be lulled to sleep by stories from a world where Brexit disappears in a puff of smoke, Waitrose is free, and Fairy Godmothers look a lot like Barack Obama.Including: The Three Liberal Pigs; Jack and the Sustainably Produced Meat Substitute Stalk; and The Night Before Brexmas; The Very Trendy Caterpillar; Trumplestiltskin; Camerella.

Author : Stuart Heritage
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9781784705213
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Be a Dick Pete written by Stuart Heritage and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Heritage got where he is today by being decent, thoughtful, hardworking and kind. He is, in short, a model citizen. The favourite son. His younger brother Pete is quick-tempered, peevish and aggressively pig-headed and, for a while, known to his friends as 'Shagger'. But now, Stu has returned to his hometown to discover that Pete has taken his place. Don't Be A Dick, Pete is a hilarious examination of home and family; sons, fathers, fatherhood, sibling relationships and how hard it is to move on in a system that's loaded with several decades of preconceived ideas about you.

Author : James Finn Garner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780025427310
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politically Correct Bedtime Stories written by James Finn Garner and published by . This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stuart Heritage
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241475821
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonathan the Magic Pony written by Stuart Heritage and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan the Magic Pony is a brilliant magician. With one wave of his magic wand he can make anything disappear. Boomf! And because he's such a brilliant magician, with one more wave he can make things come back too. It's foolproof. Failsafe. Always works. Or does it? When Jonathan magics away Sarah's bear... it doesn't come back! And with each, increasingly desperate, wave of his wand, Jonathan sets off an anarchic chain of events that builds to a swirl of hilarious chaos. There are sharks chasing ducks, baboons with giant wooden spoons, chimpanzees covered in fleas... but where is Sarah's bear? Will it ever come back? Is Jonathan even a real magician?! Find out in this silly, playful and very, very funny picture book, perfect for fans of Supertato and Grumpycorn. Jonathan's tricks may be rubbish but this book is definitely magic!

Author : Krisanne Hall
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781467951463
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedtime Stories for Budding Patriots written by Krisanne Hall and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not the normal children's book. Most children's books are picture books with some words; this is a “word book” with some pictures. It is meant to be a tool that parents can use to help rescue their children from the constant brainwashing by those that hate America or who are unwitting victims to those who do. In 2008 America took a hard turn to the Left, toward the destructive ideologies of collectivism. For the enemies of Liberty to implement collectivist policies, everyday Americans must be convinced that America is a failure, that its ideals are outdated or flawed from the beginning. The most susceptible to these lies are our children. Since I have not been able to convince very many parents to remove their children from the poisonous government school system which is every day destroying what parents claim to hold most dear, then I thought it would be good to give parents something to help vaccinate their children against this Anti-American disease. Enough of the cute little nursery rhymes, our nation is dying – we have already lost a generation. These little ones at our feet may be the only hope for America. We must start now! Take this book and others like it and SOW THE SEEDS OF LIBERTY into the minds of a new generation of patriots. May God grant us a space of grace to save the greatest nation ever founded in His name. If not, may HE come quickly and deliver us from our folly!

Author : Andy Borowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668003880
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Profiles in Ignorance written by Andy Borowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named One of 7 Best Nonfiction Books of the Fall by Kirkus Reviews Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump. The winner of the first-ever National Press Club award for humor, Andy Borowitz has been called a “Swiftian satirist” (The Wall Street Journal) and “one of the country’s finest satirists” (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column “The Borowitz Report.” Now, in Profiles in Ignorance, he offers a witty, spot-on diagnosis of our country’s political troubles by showing how ignorant leaders are degrading, embarrassing, and endangering our nation. Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan’s first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour news and social media, the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan, Quayle, Bush, Palin, and Trump, Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons, senators, and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades. Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures, and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly, the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesn’t move in a straight line, and we can change course if we act now.

Author : Dani Rodrik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199603332
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Globalization Paradox written by Dani Rodrik and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade. Yet there have been consistent warning signs that a global economy and free trade might not always be advantageous. Where are the pressure points? What could be done about them?Dani Rodrik examines the back-story from its seventeenth-century origins through the milestones of the gold standard, the Bretton Woods Agreement, and the Washington Consensus, to the present day. Although economic globalization has enabled unprecedented levels of prosperity in advanced countries and has been a boon to hundreds of millions of poor workers in China and elsewhere in Asia, it is a concept that rests on shaky pillars, he contends. Its long-term sustainability is not a given.The heart of Rodrik>'s argument is a fundamental 'trilemma': that we cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national self-determination, and economic globalization. Give too much power to governments, and you have protectionism. Give markets too much freedom, and you have an unstable world economy with little social and political support from those it is supposed to help. Rodrik argues for smart globalization, not maximum globalization.

Author : Jason Stanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400865808
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Propaganda Works written by Jason Stanley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attention Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy—particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality—and how it has damaged democracies of the past. Focusing on the shortcomings of liberal democratic states, Stanley provides a historically grounded introduction to democratic political theory as a window into the misuse of democratic vocabulary for propaganda's selfish purposes. He lays out historical examples, such as the restructuring of the US public school system at the turn of the twentieth century, to explore how the language of democracy is sometimes used to mask an undemocratic reality. Drawing from a range of sources, including feminist theory, critical race theory, epistemology, formal semantics, educational theory, and social and cognitive psychology, he explains how the manipulative and hypocritical declaration of flawed beliefs and ideologies arises from and perpetuates inequalities in society, such as the racial injustices that commonly occur in the United States. How Propaganda Works shows that an understanding of propaganda and its mechanisms is essential for the preservation and protection of liberal democracies everywhere.

Author : Nathan Hill
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101946628
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nix written by Nathan Hill and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of the Year A Washington Post 2016 Notable Book A Slate Top Ten Book NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The Nix is a mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America. . . . Nathan Hill is a maestro.” —John Irving From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change. It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.