Never Home Alone

Author: Rob Dunn
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 154164574X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343

Book Description
A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwittingly cultivating an entirely new playground for evolution. These changes are reshaping the organisms that live with us -- prompting some to become more dangerous, while undermining those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again.

Never Be Alone

Author: Paige Dearth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735079622
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A fatal car crash. A young orphan. Can she survive the harsh life of the seedy city streets? Eight-year-old Joon has no time to grieve her parents' sudden death. Ripped from the security of a loving family, she endures horrific abuse in a system intended to protect her. After four years of torture and her foster brother's attempt to steal her innocence, she runs away to Philadelphia's poverty-stricken streets.Coming of age while homeless, Joon must fight just to stay alive. Despite the danger and desperation that surrounds her, she clings to her dream of offering the world something positive. But kind acts don't put food in her belly as she searches for love and a place to call home.Never Be Alone is a standalone dark psychological thriller. If you are looking for courageous characters, an edgy story, and a heartbreaking true-to-life tale, then you need to read this book.

I Was Never Alone or Oporniki

Author: Cassandra Hartblay
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487588402
Category : Disabilities in the theater
Languages : en
Pages : 219

Book Description
I Was Never Alone or Oporniki presents an original ethnographic stage play, based on fieldwork conducted in Russia with adults with disabilities. The core of the work is the script of the play itself, which is accompanied by a description of the script development process, from the research in the field to rehearsals for public performances. In a supporting essay, the author argues that both ethnography and theatre can be understood as designs for being together in unusual ways, and that both practices can be deepened by recognizing the vibrant social impact of interdependency animated by vulnerability, as identified by disability theorists and activists.

Never Alone

Author: C.J. Carpenter
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 073874137X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
NYPD detective Megan McGinn has just solved the most important case of her career, and yet she has reached her breaking point. Struggling under the weight of her broken family and the brutality of her job, Megan is ready to walk away from the force—until the bizarre, ritualistic murder of a young woman brings her back. When the killer gets too close, stalking her from the shadows, Megan becomes trapped in a highstakes game of cat and mouse. To understand the mind of a murderer, Megan must walk a treacherous path. And the danger is only beginning. Praise: "NYPD detective Megan McGinn plays fast and loose with the rules in this fascinating debut."—RT Book Reviews "A promising debut."—Kirkus Reviews "Never Alone . . . has all the ingredients of a blockbuster police thriller and it delivers on every level."—Suspense Magazine

Never Leave Well Enough Alone

Author: Raymond Loewy
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872112
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 460

Book Description
"Written and designed by Loewy, this profusely illustrated book is part autobiography and part design manifesto."--BOOK JACKET.

Never Die Alone

Author: Donald Goines
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1496733266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Donald Goines, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, has influenced many of today's urban writers with his gritty, realistic look at the streets. For the first time in over a decade, his classic expose of a drug dealer's brutal rise to the top of Cocaine Mountain is now repackaged and reissued in trade with a whole new look to attract new readers, as well as long-time fans of the legend himself. King David was determined to claw his way out of the mean streets of New York City any way he could. It didn't matter if that meant battering and robbing old people, conning the innocent, or even killing a kid's mother. Lacing cocaine with battery acid for revenge was acceptable too. Ultimately, it meant leaving town. Now King's made it big, and made his way back, flush with cash and a Cadillac. But he hasn't been forgotten--or forgiven. And when payback time hits, he's only got one wish--not to die alone.

Never Alone, Except for Now

Author: Kris Cohen
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822372509
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
How is it that one can be connected to a vast worldwide network of other people and places via digital technologies and yet also be completely alone? Kris Cohen tackles this philosophical question in Never Alone, Except for Now by exploring how contemporary technologies are changing group formations and affiliations within social life. He identifies a new form of collectivity that exists between publics, which are built through conscious acts, and populations, which are automatically constructed through the collection of Big Data. Finding traditional liberal concepts of the public sphere and neoliberal ideas of populations inadequate on their own to examine these new forms of sociality, Cohen places familiar features of the web—such as emoticons, trolling, and search engines—in conversation with artworks by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, William Gibson, Sharon Hayes, and Thomson & Craighead to more precisely articulate the affective and aesthetic experiences of living between publics and populations. This liminal experience—caught between existing as a set of data points and as individuals newly empowered to create their own online communities—explains, Cohen contends, how one is simultaneously alone and connected in ways never before possible.

Nobody's Angel

Author: Thomas McGuane
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030782201X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
A novel about a former soldier in Big Sky Country whose life is spiraling out of control, from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, who is "among the most arresting and fascinating [writers] of his generation" (San Francisco Chronicle). In McGuane's first novel set in his famed American West, Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuane's Montana. Nowhere has McGuane mapped that territory more precisely—or with such tenderhearted lunacy—than in Nobody's Angel, a novel that places him in a genre of his own.

You Are Never Alone

Author: Max Lucado
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 9781400220991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
When life feels depleted, does God care I'm facing an onslaught of challenges, will God help When life grows dark and stormy, does God notice I'm facing the fear of death, will God help me The answer in the life-giving miracles in the Gospel of John is a resounding yes. In You Are Never Alone, Max will help you: Realize that Jesus is walking with you and lifting you out of your storms. Dwell in the grace of the cross, the miracle of the empty tomb, and the assurance of restoration power. Believe that God is your ever-present source of help. Recognize that you are never without hope or strength because you are never, ever, alone. Today, take courage that you are stronger than you think because God is nearer than you know.

You Are Never Alone

Author: Kelsey
Publisher: Owlkids
ISBN: 9781771473156
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
A lyrical and scientific exploration of the ways humans are supported by nature