A gripping and hilarious satire of hipsters, consumerism, contemporary art and urban culture featuring a lost soul who navigates a toxic corporate world and, against all odds, stumbles toward redemptionMeet Eric Nye: hipster, player, philosopher, drunk, sociopath. A ruthless, young Chief Idea Officer at a New York City–based ad agency, Eric is in charge of downsizing his department, which entails firing dozens of long-time employees before their pensions kick in. In his free time, he guzzles the finest Sancerre, balances a hodgepodge of prescription pills, obsesses over his lavish furnishings and chases women.One day, he meets Intern, whose name he can’t remember—it might be Megan or Caitlin or Sari—at a bar in Bushwick. After a few drunken sexual encounters with her, he loses his appetite for food—and seems to be losing his mind, too. Is she in love with him, or is she stalking him? Will she be the cause of his downfall or the cure for his sociopathic tendencies?A timely meditation on the inherent absurdity of corporatism and our ubiquitous culture of branding, The Deep Whatsis follows a brilliant anti-hero’s quest for contemporary self-identity, with echoes of American Psycho, Cosmopolis and Fight Club.

The Deep Whatsis

Other

<p>Milt Kovak, a divorced Deputy Sheriff, begins an affair with Laura Johnson, a married witness to one of the serial murders he is investigating</p>

Sociology Modernization & Devel Cl

Business & Money

HARRISON

Management & Leadership

MILLER, D. / M. ROWLANDS / C. TILLEY, EDS.: DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE. LONDON, 1989, xx 332 p. figuras.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

DOMINATION & RESISTANCE CL (One World Archaeology)

History

MILLER

Ancient Civilizations

<p>This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September l986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds who could lend their own expertise to the discussions at the Congress. The series addresses world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place, resulting in the forms of society and culture which exist today. "Foraging and Farming" develops a new approach to plant exploitation and early agriculture in a worldwide comparative context. It modifies the conceptual dichotomy between "hunter-gatherers" and "farmers", viewing human exploitation of plant resources as a global evolutionary process which incorporated the beginnings of cultivation and crop domestication. The studies throughout the book come from a worldwide range of geographical contexts, from the Andes to China and from Australia to the Upper Mid-West of North America. This work should be of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists and geographers.</p>

FORAGING & FARMING: EVOLUTION CL (One World Archaeology, 13)

Politics & Social Sciences

HARRIS

Social Sciences

This collection of essays demonstrates how territory (defined as geographically-organized human activity) shapes social life, and explores some of the consequences of this shaping. It elucidates how routine practices of daily living in the realm of social reproduction - gender, family, education, tradition, culture and ethnicity - within territorial limits are effective in maintaining and reproducing the social order of contemporary capitalism. The editors see one of the aims of this book as being a contribution towards the reconstruction of social theory in the light of increasing complexity of interaction between society and space. They hope to provide new focus on contemporary capitalist society. This work provides a demonstration of the territorially-dependent nature of the political, social and economic spheres of human activity.

Power Geography Pb

Wolch

This is part of a four-volume series which contains the papers and personal diaries of James Meade, one of the earliest British economists to serve in government as a member of the Economic Section of the Cabinet Offices, of which he became Director immediately after World War II, succeeding Lionel Robbins. Meade was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1977 (jointly with Bertil Shlin) for his contribution to international economics. This volume contains Meade's diary from November 1944, when he was appointed Director of the Cabinet's Economic Section, until September 1946. It provides detailed personal insight into how British economic affairs were directed at the end of World War II.

COLLECTED PAPERS MEADE V4 CL (Collected Papers of James Meade)

Meade

Economics

Through the study of international relations is a conceptual pursuit, it has only been given formal academic recognition this century. This volume reviews how the great thinkers of the past considered relations between political and social units. It then broaches the emergence of a discipline which sought first to explain the state system that had emerged in the 17th century and now struggles to come to grips with many different conceptions of a rapidly transforming world society. International relations "then" looks at the conceptual worlds of 18th and 19th century theorists and practitioners which gave birth to the creative period of institution-building produced by the demand that World War I would be the last. This was the foundation of international relations as an academic discipline. There follows the first of several debates in the field, that between idealism and realism which ended up with a consensus on the latter in the decades surrounding World War II. In the second part of the book the analysis deals with contemporary theorizing - how realism was challenged and then resurged, how world society and structuralist approaches are now well established and how what has been an Anglo-American discipline is poised now to become a genuinely global field. This intellectual history of our efforts to understand international relations provides an introduction for the advanced student in International Relations with some background in the cognate fields of philosophy, law, history and the social sciences.

Intl Relations Then & Now Pb

OLSON

Politics & Government

Ethnic Relations In Ussr Pb

Karklins

A cultural-linguistic examination of graffiti in the Soviet Union since 1978. Bushnell uses his study of the forms and formation of contemporary Russian graffiti to look closely at Soviet youth, popular culture, and countercultures. The author argues that graffiti functions as a language - not just as a generic sign system, but as a real language - and that that there is a connection between modern Soviet graffiti and subculture. His study is chiefly of graffiti in Moscow, but he has also drawn on graffiti gathered in Leningrad, Minsk, Kiev and Smolensk.

Moscow Graffiti: Language Cl

Bushnell

The Soviet Union occupies as much as one-sixth of the earth's surface and is second only to the United States in total industrial production. Its significance in the modern world, however, extends far beyond economic and military might. The country's socialist system presents an alternative to Western capitalism both in terms of ideology and organisation. This fully revised edition of the textbook first published in 1978 is designed as an introductory guide for students to the contemporary Soviet Union. 13 British scholars survey the major components of the society, including politics and science and technology, and debate the principle issues. The book begins with an examination of the geography and history of the Soviet Union before turning to the present political, social and economic system, and the efforts taken to adapt this system to the requirements of the 20th century. The authors, all specialists on the theme of their own chapters, have endeavoured to provide the basic facts and to introduce readers to major disputes and unsolved problems.

Soviet Union 2E Cl/ Davies

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