Beware of Cynicism

Beware of Cynicism
Author: Rhett Butler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2021-07-26
Genre:
ISBN:

Beware of Cynicism is a satire that examines medical education with sharp and cutting humor in the context of profound disillusionment. The story chronicles the adventures of The Morality Police, Jaded Larry, Follows the Rules, and The Grumbler, four over 40-year-old students, as they navigate medical school at the world's most conservative university, The Land of the Zealots. The heroes find themselves immersed in a milieu with classmates young enough to be their children, bureaucrats who out of touch, and administrators struggling to adhere to their own proclaimed values. The Morality Police soon discovers a sinister plot to overthrow The Four Commands, which all Zealots are sworn to uphold, and an evil spirit of entitlement that threatens to destroy the foundations of medicine. Butler's story pulls back the curtain on medical education and the toll that it takes on students, especially those with lived experience.

The First Days of Class

The First Days of Class
Author: Rebecca Wilke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1510737022

This easy-to-use, step-by-step guide takes you through everything you need to know in your first days, weeks, and months as a new teacher, from developing your plan book and filing system in August to updating your grade book and celebrating your success in June. Chapters cover diverse learners, classroom organization and management, curriculum and instruction, lesson planning, grading systems, professional development, and more. Practical and specific advice helps you build the right classroom environment, create “essential file folders,” make a curriculum calendar, and even find the right wall art! The First Days of Class provides all the tools of the trade for new, substitute, returning, and emergency credential teachers, including: Short, easy-to-reference sections within each chapter Tip boxes at the end of every chapter Classroom material samples, including “Our Classroom Rules” and a calendar of multicultural celebrations Resources that include a “A Teacher’s Ten Commandments,” Recommended Reading, and Educational websites.

Apathy and Other Small Victories

Apathy and Other Small Victories
Author: Paul Neilan
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429907347

A scathingly funny debut novel about disillusionment, indifference, and one man's desperate fight to assign absolutely no meaning to modern life. The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it's complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shane's cosmically unstable dentist. When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn't care enough to act like he didn't do it, the question becomes just how he'll clear the good name he never had and doesn't particularly want: his own. “The malaise of cubicle culture may be well-trodden comedic territory by now, but Neilan's debut skewers office life with a flourish for the grotesque.” —The Village Voice

The Church

The Church
Author: Jeff Lucas
Publisher: David C Cook
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830780882

The church. The bride of Christ. The body of Christ on earth. A joy, delight, and a comfort to all Christians.And the source of some of our greatest hurt and struggle. We fight for the church, but we also fight inside the church, and the sight of a local congregation or denomination battling it out is one of the saddest and most shaming sights that we ever come across. So do we have the choice to opt out of the church altogether, to go it alone, just us and God? No, says Jeff Lucas. Whatever the problems, we have to learn to work together. With his usual humor and understanding, Jeff takes us through some of the key issues facing Christians in the twenty-first-century church—bullying leaders, grumbling, gossiping, spiritual dementia, and finally the overwhelming need for love. Whether it is asking for our daily bread, forgiving and seeking forgiveness, or exploring what it means for God’s will to be done, these Bible Daily notes are food for the brain and sustenance for the spirit. Bible Daily notes are written by Jeff Lucas to help you apply the lessons of God’s Word daily. Each day and with each devotion, Jeff uses his signature wit and wisdom to reveal insights and practical application you can use in your own life. Each Bible devotion takes only a few minutes to read, but the lessons learned can last a lifetime.

On Zizek's Dialectics

On Zizek's Dialectics
Author: Fabio Vighi
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2010-08-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0826464432

An examination of Žižek's groundbreaking psychoanalytic methodology and its implications within our contemporary capitalist universe.>

The Writer's Reader

The Writer's Reader
Author: Robert Cohen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-01-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1628925388

Brings together both classic and less well-known essays by major writers, past and present, on the vocation and craft of writing.

From the Sayings to the Gospels

From the Sayings to the Gospels
Author: Christopher Tuckett
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783161532887

The essays by Christopher Tuckett collected in this volume represent a number of studies, published over a period of 30 years, seeking to throw light on the way in which Jesus traditions were developed and used in early Christianity. Many of the essays are concerned in one way or another with the Sayings Source "Q", discussing its existence, its possible pre-history, and key features of the material it contains. Further essays look at Jesus traditions in Paul and in the Gospel of Thomas. In a final section the author focuses on the individual synoptic gospels, with a number of studies concerned with Christology, especially the use of the term "Son of Man". These essays show that early Christian traditions about Jesus can provide valuable information not only about Jesus but also about how early Christians used these traditions to relate to their own situations and contexts.

The De-valuing of America

The De-valuing of America
Author: William John Bennett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1994
Genre: Cultural pluralism
ISBN: 0671797190

Discusses the need to reclaim American culture and how to protect and nurture the children of our country.

Homo Poeticus

Homo Poeticus
Author: Danilo Kis
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2003-11
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0374529442

Serbian writer Danilo Kis was preoccupied with man's dehumanization in a mechanized, totalitarian world. His dazzling fiction established him as one of the most artful and eloquent authors of postwar Europe. In this first collection of his non-fiction, Kis displays the dynamic, sensitive, and insistently questioning approach to the dilemmas of the modern world that distinguishes his novels and stories and confirms his reputation as one of the most important voices of our time.