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Recipes from My Vietnamese Kitchen Authentic Food to Awaken the Senses Feed the Soul (Uyen Luu) (Z-Library).epub | Recipes from My Vietnamese What to eat for breakfast
Breakfast provides a valuable store of energy for a hard working day. It is usually filled with heat and spice to awaken the senses. After a night’s sleep, the body and mind need to be stimulated by hot chilli, warm spices, lively curries and rich hot broth.
Phở an... | 142,026 |
Funny on Purpose The Definitive Guide to an Unpredictable Career in Comedy Standup + Improv + Sketch + TV + Writing +... (Joe Randazzo, John Hodgman) (Z-Library).epub | Funny On Purpose
Part 1
WRITING COMEDY
the foundation for the basis of the structure in the center of the comedy
At the heart of all great comedy, no matter the language or style, is one core element: a big tubby fatso falling out of his teeny chair face-first into a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs.
But... | 476,597 |
God, If Youre Not Up There, Im Fucked Tales of stand-up, Saturday Night Live, and other mind-altering mayhem (Darrell Hammond) (Z-Library).epub | God, if You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked: Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem
God, if You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked: Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem
God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked
Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live , and Other M... | 408,387 |
How to Be Funny The One and Only Practical Guide for Every Occasion, Situation, and Disaster (no kidding) (Jon Macks) (Z-Library).epub | Unknown
ALSO BY JON MACKS
Heaven Talks Back
From Soup to Nuts: The Cannibal Lover’s Cookbook
Fuhgeddaboutit:
How to Badda Boom, Badda Bing,
and Find Your Inner Mobster
HOW TO BE
Funny
JON MACKS
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
New York London Toronto Sydney
SIMON & SCHUSTER PAPERBACKS
Rockefeller Center
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How to Talk to Anyone About Any Topic Master Small Talk, Make Real Friends, Understand Self Confidence and Develop Deep... (James Collins) (Z-Library).epub | Unknown
How to Talk to Anyone About Any Topic
Master Small Talk, Make Real Friends, Understand Self Confidence and Develop Deep Relationships
By James Collins
Unknown PUBLISHED BY: James Collins
© Copyright 2021 - All rights reserved.
The content contained within this book may not be reproduced, duplicated, or... | 177,341 |
Stand-Up Comedy for Beginners (Corey Martin Craig) (Z-Library).epub | Stand-Up Comedy for Beginners Stand-Up Comedy for Beginners
Corey Craig
Cool Beans Comedy
Stand-Up Comedy for Beginners Copyright © 2020 Cool Beans Comedy
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical... | 127,377 |
Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy - Revised Edition (Greg Dean) (Z-Library).epub | Step_by_Step_for_ebook_FINAL_no_cover
Step_by_Step_for_ebook_FINAL_no_cover-1 Cover & book design: Kurt Reichenbach
ISBN: 978-0-9897351-9-3
© 2010, 2019 Greg Dean
Published by Be Funny Inc.
Step_by_Step_for_ebook_FINAL_no_cover-2 Dedication
For my mother, Dona Dean-Silvers.
I can still hear your laughter.
St... | 377,117 |
The Eight Characters of Comedy A Guide to Sitcom Acting and Writing (Scott Sedita) (Z-Library).epub | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to thank fellow sitcom aficionado Jim Martyka for his dedication to helping me research, edit and self-publish this book.
Special thanks to all the teachers at Scott Sedita Acting Studios for helping to make the studio the success that it is, especially my funny wingman and... | 488,859 |
The Science of Likability Charm, Wit, Humor, and the 16 Studies That Show You How To Master Them (Patrick King) (Z-Library).epub | Cover
Unknown Chapter 15: How to be credible and trustworthy.
Who was the last person that you thought there was something ‘off’ about? You might not have been able to explain it, but you just got a ‘bad vibe’ from them and subsequently didn’t feel like you could trust them.
Scientifically speaking, there are a w... | 113,674 |
English Humour for Beginners (George Mikes) (Z-Library).epub | English Humour for Beginners
English Humour for Beginners George Mikes ENGLISH HUMOUR FOR BEGINNERS
Illustrated by Walter Goetz
English Humour for Beginners Contents
PART ONE : THEORY Does it Exist? If it’s Good it’s English What is ‘English’? The Irish Joke What is Humour? What Humour Really is Not Cruel or Kind... | 211,866 |
How to Analyze People with Dark Psychology 3 Books in 1 Dark Psychology and Manipulation, How to Read People Like a Book and... (Kingler, Christopher) (Z-Library).epub | Unknown
How to Analyze People with Dark Psychology
3 Books in 1
Dark Psychology and Manipulation, How to Read People Like a Book and Psychological Warfare.
Understanding Human Behavior for a Better Life
CHRISTOPHER KINGLER
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How to Make People Laugh Learn the Science of Laughter to Make a Powerful Impression, Win Friends and Improve Your Sense of... (Christopher Kingler) (Z-Library).epub | part0000
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PEOPLE LAUGH
Learn the Science of Laughter to Make a Powerful Impression, Win Friends and Improve Your Sense of Humour Even If You Don’t Think You’re Funny
CHRISTOPHER KINGLER
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How to Read People Like a Book Find Out What People Really Think, Even When They Lie. Anticipate Intentions and Defend... (Kingler, Christopher) (Z-Library).epub | Desconocido
How to Read People Like a Book
Find Out What People Really Think, Even When They Lie. Anticipate Intentions and Defend Yourself Against Those Who Are Deceiving You Through Body Language
CHRISTOPHER KINGLER
Desconocido
© Copyright 2021 by Christopher Kingler - All rights reserved.
The content conta... | 150,161 |
Humour (Terry Eagleton) (Z-Library).epub | part0001 HUMOUR
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part0003 ‘To Those Born After’, originally published in German in 1939 as ‘An Die Nachgeborenen’, translated by Tom Kuhn. Copyright 1939, © 1961 by Bertolt-Brecht-Erben / Suhrkamp Verlag. Translation copyright © 2019, 2015 by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine, from COLLECTED POEMS OF BERTOLT B... | 277,098 |
Humour, Seriously (Jennifer Aaker Naomi Bagdonas) (Z-Library).epub | Chapter 1: The Humour Cliff It’s the first day of spring quarter at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Fifty students excitedly file into a lecture hall, a few still wondering whether the course they’ve registered for is an elaborate joke played by the administration. “Humour: Serious Business” is about to begin. ... | 374,498 |
The Art of Living A satirical novel (Stephen Bayley) (Z-Library).epub | About the Author About the Author
Stephen Bayley Hon FRIBA was the person for whom the term ‘design guru’ was coined, something he accepts with what he likes to think of as self-deprecating irony. After a short and blameless period in provincial academe, he joined Terence Conran in an attempt to popularize design. Thi... | 636,907 |
The Denial A satirical novel of climate change (Clark Ross) (Z-Library).epub | Cover
The Denial
Ross Clark
Copyright © Ross Clark 2020
Ross Clark has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
First published in 2020 by Lume Books.
Table of Contents
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A Biography of Loneliness The History of an Emotion (Fay Bound Alberti) (Z-Library).epub | A Biography of Loneliness A Biography of
Loneliness
The History of an Emotion
Fay Bound Alberti
A Biography of Loneliness Source Acknowledgements
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer, copyright © 2007, 2009, reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Co., an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Excerpt from A Writer’s D... | 548,265 |
A Book of Silence (Sara Maitland) (Z-Library).epub | A Book Of Silence
‘In Maitland’s hands, silence turns out to be another entire, psycho-geographical world laid alongside the one we know and hear and yack about so much. “I learned to tell when it had been snowing in the night by the quality of silence”… her book is full of such moments, articulating the common but u... | 665,523 |
A History of Solitude (David Vincent) (Z-Library).epub | A History of Solitude ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book, as with any other historical enterprise, is the product of lone endeavour and collective support. I am particularly grateful to Barbara Taylor, both for the funded network she has established on the history of solitude and for sharing her own knowledge and expertise. H... | 788,529 |
A Philosophy of Loneliness (Lars Svendsen) (Z-Library).epub | Philosophy of Loneliness
FOUR
Loneliness and Trust
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
GEORGE ELIOT , Romola
S tudies have demonstrated a clear inverse correlation between loneliness and generalized trust: the more trusting you are, the less lonely; and t... | 325,351 |
Feeling Lonesome the Philosophy and Psychology of Loneliness (Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare) (Z-Library).epub | Feeling Lonesome
“Each man is like a nautilus, who lives in a house of his own making, and carries it around on his back.”
—Brand Blanshard, The Nature of Thought
Feeling Lonesome Feeling Lonesome
The Philosophy and Psychology of Loneliness
Ben Lazare Mijuskovic
Feeling Lonesome
Contents
Introduction
Chapte... | 555,648 |
Finding Your Way through Loneliness (Elisabeth Elliot) (Z-Library).epub | Cover
Finding Your Way through Loneliness 9
A Love Strong Enough to Hurt
The loss of someone we love, whether by death or otherwise, brings us to the brink of the abyss of mystery. If we wrestle, as most of us are forced to do, with the question of God in the matter, we are bound to ask why He found it necessary to... | 239,132 |
Hermits The Insights of Solitude (Peter France) (Z-Library).epub | Hermits About the Author
Peter France spent the first 15 years of his working life as a civil servant in the Fiji Islands. After a spell as an academic, he joined the BBC, first in radio where he launched and presented Kaleidoscope , and later in television, where he wrote and presented programmes such as Everyman and... | 557,198 |
How To Be Alone (Jonathan Franzen) (Z-Library).epub | How to be Alone BOOKS IN BED
I N THE EROTIC BROADSHEETS Of the New York Times , which every morning lies on my breakfast table, silently awaiting my attentions, there recently appeared what seemed to me a wholly reasonable op-ed piece by Adam Hochschild on the horror of airport television. “At gates cursed with the TV... | 520,228 |
Invitation to Solitude and Silence (Ruth Haley Barton) (Z-Library).epub | Invitation To Solitude And Silence: Experiencing God’s Transforming Presence G ROUP G UIDE
Sharing silence is a profound act of trust, love, and courtesy. It is a mutual gift, a necessity, a helping hand, a path, and a discipline.
G UNILLA N ORRIS
PREFACE: Invitation to Solitude and Silence
Opening Silence. For thi... | 254,996 |
Inward Revolution Bringing About Radical Change in the World (Krishnamurti Jiddu Others) (Z-Library).epub | Cover
Inward Revolution: Bringing About Radical Change in the World
Inward Revolution: Bringing About Radical Change in the World
Copyright © 1971, 2005 Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, Ltd
Edited by Ray McCoy
Inward Revolution: Bringing About Radical Change in the World Seven
How do you look at your life?
It... | 394,997 |
Lead Yourself First Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude (Erwin, Michael S. Kethledge, Raymond M.) (Z-Library).epub | 12. “No Never Alone”: Martin Luther King Jr., 1956 CHAPTER 12
“No Never Alone”
Martin Luther King Jr., 1956
“And he said, Certainly I will be with thee.”
— EXODUS 3:12
There are sources of moral courage that lie latent within us. The source might be one’s bond with a friend or mentor to whom one has not spoken in... | 443,340 |
Leaving Loneliness A Workbook Building Relationships with Yourself and Others (Narang, David S) (Z-Library).epub | Cover
Leaving Loneliness: A Workbook CONCLUSION
How do I wrap up a book such as this?! You have determined which attachment problem you identify with most (i.e., Attachment Anxiety, Attachment Avoidance, or both), and you focused on and experienced the activities specific to that type of attachment problem. Having ... | 394,477 |
Loneliness (Clark E. Moustakas) (Z-Library).epub | Unknown
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To join our mailing list for new titles or for issues with our books—picklepublishing@gmail.com
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Text originally published in 1961 under the same title.
© Pickle Partners Publishing 2016, all rights reserved. No... | 273,127 |
Loneliness How to be Alone but Not Lonely (June Hunt) (Z-Library).epub | Cover
Loneliness: How to Be Alone but Not Lonely Dear Friend,
Have you ever thought about what God was referring to the first time He said the words “not good” ? Was it going without food or shelter? Was it being selfish or proud? No .
In Genesis 2:18 the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.”
Go... | 89,274 |
Loneliness Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection (John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick) (Z-Library).epub | Loneliness PART THREE
finding meaning in connection
I remember the year eye contact stopped. It was not some big demo graphic shift. People just seemed to give up on relating to each other. Now this town is one of the loneliest places on earth. People are vaguely paranoid, oversensitive and self-involved. Incomes are... | 605,863 |
Loneliness, Stress and Well-Being A Helpers Guide (G. A. Kupshik P. M. Murphy) (Z-Library).epub | Loneliness, Stress and Well-Being: A Helper's Guide Document Outline
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Lost and stranded expert advice on how to survive being alone in the wilderness (Sprinkle, Timothy) (Z-Library).epub | Lost and Stranded Introduction
K NOW THIS FIRST: T HIS PLACE is beautiful.
We’re in a stand of 300-year-old hemlock, some of the oldest trees on the eastern seaboard, and the light mist that’s gathered around us deflects the light, softening it, as if we’re in a cloud forest.
The woods in this part of Virginia are h... | 555,187 |
Love Freedom and Aloneness The Koan of Relationships (Osho) (Z-Library).epub | Love, Freedom, Aloneness Love, Freedom,
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Love, Freedom, Aloneness
ALSO BY OSHO
The Book of Secrets
Osho Zen Tarot
Meditation: The First and Last Freedom
Courage
Creativity
Maturity
Osho Transformation Tarot
Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
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Osho Book of Secrets
Osho Meditat... | 475,161 |
On Love and Loneliness (Jiddu Krishnamurti) (Z-Library).epub | On Love and Loneliness
On Love and Loneliness On Love and Loneliness
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Foreword
Madras, 16 December 1972
Brockwood Park, 11 September 1971
With Students at Rajghat School, 19 December 1952
Bombay, 12 February 1950
Ojai, 28 August 1949
Bo... | 296,449 |
Solitude A Philosophical Encounter (Philip Koch) (Z-Library).epub | Solitude
Solitude
Solitude To order books from Open Court, call toll free 1-800-815-2280.
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Solitude A Return to the Self (Storr Anthony) (Z-Library).epub | Solitude Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
1 – The Significance of Human Relationships
2 – The Capacity to be Alone
3 – The Uses of Solitude
4 – Enforced Solitude
5 – The Hunger of Imagination
6 – The Significance of the Individual
7 – Solitude and Temperament
8 – Separation, Isolation, and ... | 481,874 |
Solitude Seeking Wisdom in Extremes A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness (Robert Kull) (Z-Library).epub | Solitude
APRIL 2001
Every little thing
gonna be all right.
— BOB MARLEY
APRIL 1, 2001
MORNING: Sun shines gold through floating kelp leaves and stirs them to leap from the water and remind me of swirling autumn leaves. Far out in the basin, the bodies of the grey back, creamy belly ducks blend with the sea, but... | 870,911 |
The Anatomy of Loneliness How to Find Your Way Back to Connection (Teal Swan) (Z-Library).epub | The Anatomy of Loneliness Cover
Title
Contents
Dedication
Introduction The Three Pillars of Loneliness
Part I The Pillar of Separation
Part II The Pillar of Shame
Part III The Pillar of Fear
Part IV Creating Connection
Part V Keeping Connection
Conclusion Be Brave Enough to Love
Copyright
The Anatomy of Lo... | 430,224 |
The Loneliness Solution Finding Meaningful Connection in a Disconnected World (Jack Eason) (Z-Library).epub | The_Loneliness_Solution_epubCS20 Cover
The_Loneliness_Solution_epubCS20-8 Part One: The Problem of Loneliness
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What Will It Take?
In life, you have three choices: give up, give in, or give it your all.
Unknown
I ’m getting to that age. It’s known as old. It was... | 278,106 |
The Music of Solitude (Krishna Sobti, Vasudha Dalmia (translation)) (Z-Library).epub | The Music of Solitude five
T here could also come a day when we don’t find each other.
Aranya knitted her brows.
Must we hurl frustration at each other, even if in jest?
Listen, Aranya, listen.
Aranya had already left.
Ishan was coming after many weeks.
The bell rang. The door opened. Come in.
How are you?
And... | 254,801 |
The Solitudes (Crowley John) (Z-Library).epub | THE SOLITUDES EIGHT
T he storm did not come then; neither did it pass. After the darkening wind and a few inconclusive drops it seemed to pause, leaving the evening sky clear; it lay still visible on the horizon, though, muttering lowly from time to time, probably raining (those at Spofford’s party said to one anothe... | 824,079 |
The Unexpected Joy of Being Single Locating happily-single serenity (Catherine Gray) (Z-Library).epub | The Unexpected Joy of Being Single Praise for The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
‘Truthful, modern and real’
Stylist
‘The first half of the book describes in graphic detail Gray’s misadventures as a borderline alcoholic…but the second half jauntily and convincingly argues that sobriety can be just as enjoyable as int... | 489,881 |
Zen Encounters with Loneliness (Terrance Keenan) (Z-Library).epub | Zen Encounters with Loneliness Part IV
WAYS TO LIVE HAPPILY
Zen Encounters with Loneliness 10
LOVE EVERYTHING
I read somewhere that the monotheist’s God is an angry god because he has to do everything alone. I think this sense of an angry god is why we are often angry, though we may not know it is why. We are so... | 357,426 |
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (Green Hank) (Z-Library).epub | An Absolutely Remarkable Thing Contents
Cover
Praise
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFT... | 553,622 |
Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata) (Z-Library).epub | Convenience Store Woman Copyright © 2016 by Sayaka Murata
English translation © 2018 by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Cover design by Gretchen Mergenthaler
Cover photograph © plainpicture/Score. Aflo/Naho Yoshizawa
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical me... | 175,996 |
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Adib Khorram) (Z-Library).epub | Darius the Great Is Not Okay Contents
COVER
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
THE CHIEFEST AND GREATEST OF CALAMITIES
TRUCK NUTS
THE DISTINGUISHED PICARD CRESCENT
MOBY THE WHALE
SLINGSHOT MANEUVERS
A NON-PASSIVE FAILURE
INTERMIX RATIO
OLYMPUS MONS
TEMPORAL DISPLACEMENT
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS
THE D... | 385,586 |
Educated (Tara Westover) (Z-Library).epub | Educated Copyright
Educated .
Copyright © 2018 by Second Sally, Ltd.
All rights reserved under all applicable International Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this tex... | 633,784 |
Everything Is Fcked A Book About Hope (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck (2 Book Series)) (Mark Manson) (Z-Library).epub | Everything Is F*cked Acknowledgments
This book, in many ways, lived up to its title while being written. There were many occasions when it seemed as though everything was irreparably fucked because I had fallen victim to my own overzealous hopes. Yet, somehow—often late at night, with me staring bleary-eyed at a mush ... | 492,802 |
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Ottessa Moshfegh) (Z-Library).epub | Epigraph, My Year of Rest and Relaxation If you’re smart or rich or lucky
Maybe you’ll beat the laws of man
But the inner laws of spirit
And the outer laws of nature
No man can
No, no man can . . .
“ THE WOLF THAT LIVES IN LI NDSEY ,”
JONI MITCHELL
Chapter Five, My Year of Rest and Relaxation Five
I WOKE UP A... | 385,611 |
The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up (Marie Kondo) (Z-Library).epub | The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Copyright © 2014 by Marie Kondo
All rights reserved.
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The Martian (Andy Weir) (Z-Library).epub | The Martian: A Novel
The Martian: A Novel
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2011, 2014 by Andy W... | 587,053 |
We Are Okay (Nina LaCour) (Z-Library).epub | We Are Okay
We Are Okay chapter twenty-three
“COME WITH ME,” Mabel says.
Our talk is over. We’re on the floor across from each other, each of us leaning against a bed. I should feel a weight lifted now that I’ve told her everything, but I don’t. Not yet. Maybe in the morning some new feeling will settle.
“I promis... | 262,170 |
管他的：愈在意愈不開心！停止被洗腦，活出瀟灑自在的快意人生 (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life) (馬克・曼森 ( Mar... (Z-Library).epub | 管他的：愈在意愈不開心！停止被洗腦，活出瀟灑自在的快意人生 第８章 拒絕的智慧
二○○九年，我收拾所有家當，要嘛變賣，要嘛寄放在儲藏室，離開下榻的公寓，出發前往拉丁美洲。這時，我在網路經營的約會達人部落格已略有人氣，靠著出售電子版文章與課程，小賺了一筆。我打算接下來幾年移居國外，接觸不同的文化。像是去亞洲與拉美幾個開發中國家長居，畢竟當地的生活費相對低廉，有助於我進一步打造事業。這是我的數位遊民夢。對二十五歲、喜歡冒險刺激的我而言，這正是我想要的生活方式。
我的計畫聽起來霸氣又讓人羨慕，但是驅策我踏上游牧生活的價值觀，並非個個言之成理。當然啦，有些價值觀值得肯定，諸如渴望看看外面的世界、好奇其他的民族與文化，這些都是出外冒險闖蕩... | 103,502 |
Alone Time Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude (Stephanie Rosenbloom) (Z-Library).epub | Cover, Alone Time
The Rainbow Stairs of Beyoğlu: Appreciation, Alone Time The Rainbow Stairs of Beyoğlu
Appreciation
Some day in the future we will remember the here and now.
—Orhan Pamuk, The Innocence of Objects
On the tumbledown stairs between the Bosporus and Cihangir were two black crows and a pack of skelet... | 397,468 |
How to Be Alone (Sara Maitland) (Z-Library).epub | How to Be Alone 2. Do Something Enjoyable Alone
The most commonly offered reason for not doing something like regular exercise is ‘I don’t have the time …’ Often this is a pretty transparent excuse (‘I don’t have time to go to the doctor, but I do have time to play computer games’). But in fact many of us do live extr... | 200,616 |
Solitude In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World (Michael Harris) (Z-Library).epub | Solitude 11
The Failing Body
Death
Death is, of course, the final and inviolate solitude.
The obliteration it promises we view with horror, if we look on it at all. It is a final separation so unthinkable—literally unthinkable—that most of us manage to live our entire lives without wholly contemplating it. Indeed, ... | 372,007 |
The Art of Solitude (Stephen Batchelor) (Z-Library).epub | Chapter 18 18
One who takes no issue with things
sees what’s before his eyes, is open to what is said,
acts in tune with what he senses.
Who can judge him here? By what measure?
FOUR EIGHTS , 3:6
In 1554, King Henry II commanded a fleet to establish a settlement for French Protestants in Brazil, a land discovered... | 231,787 |
The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love Committed The Last American Man Stern Men Pilgrims (Elizabeth Gilbert) (Z-Library).epub | PILGRIMS ELIZABETH GILBERT
Pilgrims
PILGRIMS THE COMPLETE
ELIZABETH
GILBERT
eat pray love
ALSO INCLUDING:
Committed
The Last American Man
Stern Men
& Pilgrims
BLOOMSBURY
PILGRIMS Contents
Title
Dedication
Praise
Pilgrims
Elk Talk
Alice to the East
Bird Shot
Tall Folks
Landing
Come and Fetch T... | 2,801,541 |
The Lonely City Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Olivia Laing) (Z-Library).epub | The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ONE MIGHT EXPECT WRITING A book about loneliness to be an isolating experience, but on the contrary it has been astonishingly connecting. I’ve been amazed at how many people have gone out of their way to support this project, and it underscores my ... | 493,380 |
The Year Of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion) (Z-Library).epub | The Year of Magical Thinking Acclaim for Joan Didion’s
THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
“Achingly beautiful…. We have come to admire and love Didion for her preternatural poise, unrivaled eye for absurdity, and Orwellian distaste for cant. It is thus a difficult, moving and extraordinarily poignant experience to watch he... | 286,178 |
Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition) (Cheryl Strayed) (Z-Library).epub | Tiny Beautiful Things Contents
Cover
About the Author
Also by Cheryl Strayed
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface to the Vintage Books Tenth Anniversary Edition (2022)
Introduction by Steve Almond
Part One: It Was Always Only Us Like an Iron Bell
How You Get Unstuck
That Ecstatic Parade
A Motor... | 580,341 |
Wild (Cheryl Strayed) (Z-Library).epub | Wild Prologue
Les arbres étaient hauts, mais je me trouvais encore plus haute qu’eux, accrochée au flanc d’une montagne du nord de la Californie. Quelques instants plus tôt, j’avais retiré mes chaussures de randonnée, et la gauche avait été propulsée dans le précipice par mon énorme sac à dos qui venait de se renverse... | 743,571 |
A Book of Silence (Sara Maitland) (Z-Library).epub | A Book Of Silence
Granta Publications, 12 Addison Avenue, London W11 4QR
First published in Great Britain by Granta Books 2008
Paperback edition published by Granta Books 2009
This ebook edition published by Granta Books 2010
Copyright © Sara Maitland, 2008
The right of Sara Maitland to be identified as the au... | 665,536 |
Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey) (Z-Library).epub | Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness Contents
Author’s Introduction
The First Morning
Solitaire
The Serpents of Paradise
Cliffrose and Bayonets
Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks
Rocks
Cowboys and Indians
Cowboys and Indians Part II
Water
The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud
The... | 574,000 |
Désert solitaire (Edward Abbey) (Z-Library).epub | Désert solitaire DU MÊME AUTEUR
LE GANG DE LA CLEF À MOLETTE , 2006
LE RETOUR DU GANG DE LA CLEF À MOLETTE , 2007
LE FEU SUR LA MONTAGNE , 2008
UN FOU ORDINAIRE , 2009
Désert solitaire Edward Abbey
DÉSERT
SOLITAIRE
Traduit de l’américain
par Jacques Mailhos
Ouvrage traduit avec le concours
du Centre nationa... | 675,906 |
Into the wild (Jon Krakauer) (Z-Library).epub | Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer 11
Chesapeake
Tout avait changé soudainement. Le ton, le climat moral ; on ne savait que penser, ni qui croire. C’était comme si on nous avait conduits par la main – tels de petits enfants – toute notre vie et que soudain nous nous retrouvions seuls ; il fallait apprendre à marcher par so... | 436,321 |
Notes from Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]) (Z-Library).epub | Table of Contents Table of Contents
Titlepage
Imprint
Part I : Underground I
II
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IV
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VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
Part II : À Propos of the Wet Snow Epigraph
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II
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IV
V
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VII
VIII
IX
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Endnotes
Colophon
Uncopyright
Landmarks
Titlepage
Imprint
Notes from Underground
Endnotes
Colophon
U... | 244,468 |
Quiet El poder de los introvertidos Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Cant Stop Talking (Susan Cain) (Z-Library).epub | 11. De remendones y generales. Cómo criar a niños callados en un mundo incapaz de oírlos, El poder de los introvertidos 11
DE REMENDONES Y GENERALES
Cómo criar a niños callados en un mundo incapaz de oírlos
Sabes que nada hay más importante que el principio a la hora de acometer cualquier empresa, y sobre todo si ha... | 813,075 |
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse) (Z-Library).epub | SIDDHARTHA
An Indian Tale
by Hermann Hesse
FIRST PART
To Romain Rolland, my dear friend
THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN
In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman,... | 229,149 |
Steppenwolf A Novel (Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton) (Z-Library).epub | Steppenwolf Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Author’s Note — 1961
Preface
Harry Haller’s Records
“For Madmen Only”
Copyright
Steppenwolf “You don’t need to be jolly,” she said. “Hermine told me that you had troubles. Any one can understand that. Tell me, then, do I please you still? The other day, when we ... | 406,965 |
The Hermit (Rydahl Thomas) (Z-Library).epub | the-hermit-4
The Corpse
22 January–28 January
32
– Are you ready for Virgin del Carmen’s arrival?
A loud voice down on the street cuts through Erhard’s sleep. He sits upright on the sofa and glances around the empty terrace. He recognizes that sound. It’s coming from a loudspeaker on the roof of an old Ma... | 919,552 |
The Monk (Matthew Gregory Lewis) (Z-Library).epub | The Monk V OLUME I
The Monk Suggested Reading
Botting, Fred. Gothic . London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
Bruhm, Steven. Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
Cavaliero, Glen. The Supernatural and English Fiction . New York: Oxford Univers... | 823,248 |
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) (Z-Library).epub | Cover
Unknown The Old Man
and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Unknown
To Charlie Shribner And
To Max Perkins
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream
and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty
days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a... | 137,626 |
The Solitude of Prime Numbers A Novel (Paolo Giordano) (Z-Library).epub | The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Epigraph
SNOW ANGEL - 1983
Chapter 1
THE ARCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE - 1984
Chapter 2
ON THE SKIN AND JUST BEHIND IT - 1991
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapt... | 408,289 |
The Stranger in the Woods (Michael Finkel) (Z-Library).epub | The Stranger in the Woods
The Stranger in the Woods ‘ The Stranger in the Woods is a wry meditation on one man’s attempt to escape life’s distractions and look inwards, to find meaning not by doing, but by being’
Martin Sixsmith, bestselling author of Philomena
‘Michael Finkel has somehow found a story that takes t... | 296,419 |
Tracks (Robyn Davidson) (Z-Library).epub | Tracks Acknowledgements
I SHOULD LIKE TO thank my friend, Rick Smolan, for the photographs in this edition. I would also like to thank Janine Roberts for allowing me to use the research and several quotes from her book From Massacres to Mining.
Tracks 4
M Y DEPRESSION OVER THE shooting of Kate was compounded by my ... | 457,317 |
Walden (Thoreau, Henry David) (Z-Library).epub | Walden Spring
T HE opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice. But such was not the effect on Walden that year, for she had soon got a thick new garment to take the place of the old. Th... | 638,596 |
Wild From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Strayed, Cheryl) (Z-Library).epub | dc91228e-8c26-4fcb-819a-12b899602dfa TRIVIA-ON-BOOKS
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Beyond Good and Evil Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) (Z-Library).epub | Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future BEYOND
GOOD AND EVIL
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
(HELEN ZIMMERN TRANSLATION)
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
INFORMATION ABOUT THIS E-TEXT EDITION
PREFACE
CHAPTER I PREJUDICES OF PHILOSOPHERS
CHAPTER II THE FREE SPIRIT
CHAPTER... | 383,813 |
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume I (Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong (Translator) etc.) (Z-Library).epub | Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments INTRODUCTION 15 [VII 1]
You will perhaps recall, my dear reader, that there was a remark at the end of Philosophical Fragments (p. 162 16 ), something that might look like the promise of a sequel. Regarded as a promise [ Løfte ], that remark (“if I ever do ... | 1,680,234 |
EitherOr A Fragment of Life (Kierkegaard Søren Hannay Alastair) (Z-Library).epub | SØREN KIERKEGAARD Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
EITHER/OR
SØREN AABYE KIERKEGAARD was born in Copenhagen in 1813, the youngest of seven children. His mother, his sisters and two of his brothers all died before he reached his twenty-first birthday. Kierkegaard’s childhood was an isolated and unhappy one, clouded by th... | 1,419,555 |
Fear and Trembling A New Translation (Kierkegaard, Søren) (Z-Library).epub | Fear and Trembling NOTES
Translator’s Introduction
1 . Once again, more than a few investigators have noted that the tale of Agnete and the Merman contains significant parallels to the story of Kierkegaard’s broken engagement to Regine Olsen, and thus have seen in this tale, and in other episodes included in Fear and... | 358,798 |
On the Genealogy of Morals (Frederich Nietzsche) (Z-Library).epub | On the Genealogy of Morals On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals FIRST ESSAY.
‘GOOD AND EVIL,’ ‘GOOD AND BAD.’
1
Those English psychologists, who up to the present are the only philosophers who are to be thanked for any endeavour to get as far as a history of the origin of mora... | 318,817 |
Parerga and Paralipomena Vol.1 (Arthur Schopenhauer) (Z-Library).epub | Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer
Parerga and Paralipomena
The purpose of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer is to offer translations of the best modern German editions of Schopenhauer’s work in a uniform format for Schopenhauer scholars, together with philosophical introductions and full editor... | 1,435,752 |
Parerga and Paralipomena Vol.2 (Arthur Schopenhauer) (Z-Library).epub | On reading and books
Chapter 24 588 On reading and books
§290
Ignorance only degrades mankind when it is encountered in the company of wealth. The poor man is limited by his poverty and plight; his achievements take the place of knowledge and occupy his thoughts. On the other hand, wealthy men who are ignorant live ... | 1,763,698 |
The Sickness Unto Death (Søren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay) (Z-Library).epub | Cover
The Sickness unto Death
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The World As Will And Representation (volume 1) (Arthur Schopenhauer) (Z-Library).epub | The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1 § 47.
B ecause beauty with grace is the principal subject of sculpture, it likes the nude, and tolerates clothing only in so far as this does not conceal the form. It makes use of drapery, not as a covering, but as an indirect presentation of the form. This method of presen... | 1,516,201 |
The World As Will And Representation (volume 2) (Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne) (Z-Library).epub | The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2 CHAPTER XVI 71
On the Practical Use of Our Reason and on Stoicism
I showed in the seventh chapter that, in the theoretical, to start from concepts is sufficient only for mediocre achievements, whereas eminent and superior achievements demand that we draw from perception it... | 1,780,618 |
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, Ludwig]) (Z-Library).epub | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY OF MY FRIEND
DAVID H. PINSENT
Motto: . . . und alles, was man weiss, nicht bloss rauschen und brausen gehört hat, lässt sich in drei Worten sagen.
K ÜRNBERGER .
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Contents
Introduction
Chapter
In... | 195,764 |
Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large) (Z-Library).epub | Twilight of the Idols 19 For further thoughts on ‘the circular complicity of the metaphors of the eye and the ear’, cf. Jacques Derrida, ‘Tympan’, in Margins of Philosophy , trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Hassocks: Harvester, 1982), pp. ix–xxix.
Twilight of the Idols 26 Cf. Daniel W. Conway, ... | 373,607 |
Wittgenstein Philosophy in an Hour (Paul Strathern) (Z-Library).epub | Wittgenstein: Philosophy in an Hour Afterword
Wittgenstein outlined his legacy in the unpublished foreword to his Philosophical Remarks. There he explains that his philosophy is intended only for those who are in sympathy with the spirit in which it was written. As Russell observed, Wittgenstein had the pride of Lucif... | 68,672 |
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman) (Z-Library).epub | Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine 14
T he musician must have been experiencing a maelstrom of emotions at this moment. A shy, modest, self-effacing man, a man who is forced to perform because of his talent, to share it with the world, not because he wants to, but because he simp... | 561,464 |
Fangirl (Rainbow Rowell) (Z-Library).epub | Fangirl
SEVEN
When Cath saw Abel’s name pop up on her phone, she thought at first that it was a text, even though the phone was obviously ringing.
Abel never called her.
They e-mailed. They texted—they’d texted just last night. But they never actually talked unless it was in person.
“Hello?” she answered. She was ... | 610,142 |
Radio Silence (Alice Oseman) (Z-Library).epub | Radio Silence POWER STATION
“I don’t know whether you’re aware,” I said, as we walked down the road in the complete opposite direction to Aled’s house, “but this is not the way to Aled’s house.”
“You’re so amazingly intelligent,” Daniel said. “Did you get your four A’s?”
“Yep. Did you?”
“Yup.”
“Nice.” Then I shook... | 438,580 |
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen C Chbosky) (Z-Library).epub | The Perks of Being a Wallflower acclaim for stephen chbosky’s
the perks of being a wallflower
“Charlie’s loving instincts are very strong. Again and again throughout the book he exhibits pure wisdom we all like to read about and witness. And Stephen Chbosky doesn’t let us down. The language is plain and springy and ... | 330,429 |
Where The Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens) (Z-Library).epub | Where the Crawdads Sing Contents
Cover
Also by Delia Owens
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Map
PART 1 | The Marsh Prologue
1. Ma
2. Jodie
3. Chase
4. School
5. Investigation
6. A Boat and a Boy
7. The Fishing Season
8. Negative Data
9. Jumpin’
10. Just Grass in the Wind
11. Croker Sacks Full... | 555,027 |
Alone Reflections on Solitary Living (Daniel Schreiber) (Z-Library).epub | How the Country House Became English Farewells
I returned to a spring that seemed unable to chase away the cold and dark of winter. The parks, streets and squares of Berlin still seemed to be doused in twilight, to be half asleep, but, in people’s interactions, something seemed to be simmering away beneath the surface... | 243,704 |
Alonement How to be alone and absolutely own it (Francesca Specter) (Z-Library).epub | 9781529412635_Alonement_-_EPUB
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This ebook published in 2021 by
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Copyright © 2021 Francesca Specter
The moral right of Francesca Specter to
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