The Art Of Dumpster Diving

Author : John Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559500883
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art & Science of Dumpster Diving written by John Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is probably the most important section in the while catalog. With the times a'changin' as they are, we all need to better prepared for the uncertain changes ahead. The books in this section will give you a head start. A twisted guide to hardcore garbage-picking... sprinkled with bizarre asides, irreverent tone and political tirades appreciated by the hyper-cynical Generation X crowd". -- The Orlando Sentinel This book will show you how to get just about anything you want or need -- food, clothing, furniture, building materials, entertainment, luxury goods, tools, toys -- you name it -- Absolutely Free! Take a guided tour of America's back alleys where amazing wealth is carelessly discarded. Hoffman will show you where to find the good stuff, how to rescue it and how to use it.

Author : Jennifer Anne Moses
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 168442464X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Dumpster Diving written by Jennifer Anne Moses and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old James and his little brother, Danny, live in Crystal Springs, Louisiana, with their grandmother, mother, and first cousin, Lila. The family is working class, proud, strict, and church-going. When a big, clumsy boy named Gabriel moves up the street with his minuscule and mysterious “auntie,” James has a new friend who he loves and hates in equal measure. When Grandma dies and Lila runs away, James and Danny’s mother struggles to make things work, but something’s wrong, so wrong that one awful day, James finds his mother lying in her bed, dead. Panicked, he runs to the only person he can think of, his friend Gabriel. Gabriel insists that if the authorities know that there are no adults at home, they’ll send James and Danny away to foster care or worse, and ends up convincing James that the only way to maintain any kind of decent life for himself and his little brother is to carry on as if things are normal. The boys bury the body under an abandoned house, and, as James tries to make ends meet (procuring food from dumpsters) things become increasingly desperate. It’s Gabriel who comes up with a “master plan” to find a woman who looks enough like the boys’ mother that she can pass for her---and get money out of the bank. They recruit Lucetta from a soup kitchen, and she moves in. For a while, things begin to look up---and then they fall apart completely. But in the process of losing everything, James and his brother Danny gain a new family, one based on grit, faith and hope.

Author : John Hoffman
Publisher : Paladin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781581603699
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course written by John Hoffman and published by Paladin Press. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been 10 years since the publication of John Hoffman's cult classic of urban scavenging, The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving. Now the Garbage Guru is back with an advanced course in the unconventional economics of exploring the trash for fun and profit. Just some of the lessons you will learn include: the key secret to dealing with locked dumpsters; how to dive for information and use it to humiliate corporations, politicians and other evil-doers; the unusual profitability of diving for movie and celebrity castoffs; the BIG-bucks potential of industrial diving, including the top 10 most lucrative places to do it; how to sell your dumpster-dived wares through the flea market of the 21st century - eBay; how to parlay dumpster diving consciousness into finding cheap property, supporting radical causes, even landing political office; and much more!

Author : Janet S. Wong
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 9780763623807
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dumpster Diver written by Janet S. Wong and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.

Author : Jeff Ferrell
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814727379
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Scrounge written by Jeff Ferrell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this engaging narrative, full of a colorful cast of characters, from the mansion living suburbanites to the junk haulers themselves, Ferrell makes a persuasive argument about the dangers of over-consumption.

Author : John Chase
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859841389
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving written by John Chase and published by Verso. This book was released on 2004-07-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape of Southern California, grounding architecture as a multidisciplinary art.

Author : John Hoffman
Publisher : Paladin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781581605501
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art & Science Of Dumpster Diving written by John Hoffman and published by Paladin Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In step-by-step, illustrated detail, John Hoffman shows you how to use dumpster diving for food, clothing, appliances, furniture, books and other treasures. Discover how to dress for dumpster diving success, work your neighborhood dumpsters, dive a restaurant, use a "bag blade" and "dive stick", handle run-ins with the authorities, convert your trash to cash, and much more! While you are learning all these professional secrets, you will be entertained by outrageous anecdotes from a life-long master diver.

Author : Lars Eighner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 146683644X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels with Lizbeth written by Lars Eighner and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets is Lars Eighner’s account of his descent into homelessness and his adventures on the streets that has moved, charmed, and amused generations of readers. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years “When I began writing this account I was living under a shower curtain in a stand of bamboo in a public park. I did not undertake to write about homelessness, but wrote what I knew, as an artist paints a still life, not because he is especially fond of fruit, but because the subject is readily at hand.” Containing the widely anthologized essay “On Dumpster Diving,” Travels with Lizbeth is a beautifully written account of one man’s experience of homelessness, a story of physical survival, and the triumph of the artistic spirit in the face of enormous adversity. In his unique voice—dry, disciplined, poignant, comic—Eighner celebrates the companionship of his dog, Lizbeth, and recounts their ongoing struggle to survive on the streets of Austin, Texas, and hitchhiking along the highways to Southern California and back. “Lars Eighner is the Thoreau of the Dumpsters. Comparisons to Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Hamsun’s Hunger leap to mind. A classic of down-and-out literature.”—Phillip Lopate, author of Bachelorhood: Tales of the Metropolis “Eighner’s memoir contains the finest first-person writing we have about the experience of being homeless in America. Yet it’s not a dirge or a Bukowski-like scratching of the groin but an offbeat and plaintive hymn to life. It’s the sort of book that releases the emergency brake on your soul...A literate and exceedingly humane document.”—The New York Times

Author : Kevin D. Mitnick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 076453839X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Deception written by Kevin D. Mitnick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most infamous hacker offers an insider's view of the low-tech threats to high-tech security Kevin Mitnick's exploits as a cyber-desperado and fugitive form one of the most exhaustive FBI manhunts in history and have spawned dozens of articles, books, films, and documentaries. Since his release from federal prison, in 1998, Mitnick has turned his life around and established himself as one of the most sought-after computer security experts worldwide. Now, in The Art of Deception, the world's most notorious hacker gives new meaning to the old adage, "It takes a thief to catch a thief." Focusing on the human factors involved with information security, Mitnick explains why all the firewalls and encryption protocols in the world will never be enough to stop a savvy grifter intent on rifling a corporate database or an irate employee determined to crash a system. With the help of many fascinating true stories of successful attacks on business and government, he illustrates just how susceptible even the most locked-down information systems are to a slick con artist impersonating an IRS agent. Narrating from the points of view of both the attacker and the victims, he explains why each attack was so successful and how it could have been prevented in an engaging and highly readable style reminiscent of a true-crime novel. And, perhaps most importantly, Mitnick offers advice for preventing these types of social engineering hacks through security protocols, training programs, and manuals that address the human element of security.

Author : Maximus Thaler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1592539289
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Curious Harvest written by Maximus Thaler and published by . This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with gorgeous renditions of raw ingredients, readers will discover descriptions and a list of all the ways to prepare them.