How to Stop Flogging a Dead Horse

How to Stop Flogging a Dead Horse
Author: Alison Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2006-02-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781905430062

Those contemplating starting out in business will find the help they need to tackle the obstacles that hold them back and to recognize when the time is right to accept the challenge. Filled with case studies and anecdotes, this witty and honest guide includes practical suggestions and exercises based on the authors' own experiences.

Kicking a Dead Horse

Kicking a Dead Horse
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2009
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822223368

THE STORY: The play begins with a man alone in a desert landscape digging a grave. Hobart Struther's horse has just dropped dead. He stands there in the vast open desert trying to figure out what to do about his predicament. Every once in a while,

The 30-day Vegan Challenge

The 30-day Vegan Challenge
Author: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Publisher: Random House LLC
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2011
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780345526175

Presents a step-by-step guide to adopting a vegan lifestyle, describing its health and environmental benefits while counseling readers on everything from stocking a kitchen and preparing vegan foods to understanding how to achieve complete nutrition.

Music

Music
Author: Ted Gioia
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1541617975

"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. In Music: A Subversive History, Ted Gioia reclaims the story of music for the riffraff, insurgents, and provocateurs. Gioia tells a four-thousand-year history of music as a global source of power, change, and upheaval. He shows how outcasts, immigrants, slaves, and others at the margins of society have repeatedly served as trailblazers of musical expression, reinventing our most cherished songs from ancient times all the way to the jazz, reggae, and hip-hop sounds of the current day. Music: A Subversive History is essential reading for anyone interested in the meaning of music, from Sappho to the Sex Pistols to Spotify.

Consumed

Consumed
Author: David Cronenberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416596135

The story of two journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher's death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy.

Four Dead Horses

Four Dead Horses
Author: K. T. Sparks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-04-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781646030668

On May 1, 1982, eighteen-year-old Martin Oliphant watches a horse drown off the shore of Lake Michigan--the first of four equine corpses marking the trail that will lead Martin out of the small-minded small town of Pierre, Michigan, onto the open ranges of Elko, Nevada, and into the open arms, or at least open mics, of the cowboy poets who gather there to perform. Along the way, he nurtures a dying mother, who insists the only thing wrong with her is tennis elbow; corrals a demented father, who believes he's Father Christmas; assists the dissolute local newspaper editor; and serves stints as horse rustler and pet mortician. For thirty years, Martin searches for an escape route to the West, to poetry, and to his first love, the cowgirl Ginger, but never manages to get much farther than the city limits of his Midwestern hometown--that is, until a world famous cow horse dies while touring through Pierre, and Martin is tapped to transport its remains to the funeral at the 32nd Annual Elko Cowboy Poetry Confluence.

Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth-Century England

Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth-Century England
Author: Peter Edwards
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004326219

The lives of William Cavendish, first duke of Newcastle, and his family including, centrally, his second wife, Margaret Cavendish, are intimately bound up with the overarching story of seventeenth-century England: the violently negotiated changes in structures of power that constituted the Civil Wars, and the ensuing Commonwealth and Restoration of the monarchy. William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and his Political, Social and Cultural Connections: Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth Century England brings together a series of interrelated essays that present William Cavendish, his family, household and connections as an aristocratic, royalist case study, relating the intellectual and political underpinnings and implications of their beliefs, actions and writings to wider cultural currents in England and mainland Europe.

Beyond Germs

Beyond Germs
Author: Catherine M. Cameron
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816532206

There is no question that European colonization introduced smallpox, measles, and other infectious diseases to the Americas, causing considerable harm and death to indigenous peoples. But though these diseases were devastating, their impact has been widely exaggerated. Warfare, enslavement, land expropriation, removals, erasure of identity, and other factors undermined Native populations. These factors worked in a deadly cabal with germs to cause epidemics, exacerbate mortality, and curtail population recovery. Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World was caused primarily by diseases brought by European colonists that infected Native populations lacking immunity to foreign pathogens. In Beyond Germs, contributors expertly argue that blaming germs lets Europeans off the hook for the enormous number of Native American deaths that occurred after 1492. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians come together in this cutting-edge volume to report a wide variety of other factors in the decline in the indigenous population, including genocide, forced labor, and population dislocation. These factors led to what the editors describe in their introduction as “systemic structural violence” on the Native populations of North America. While we may never know the full extent of Native depopulation during the colonial period because the evidence available for indigenous communities is notoriously slim and problematic, what is certain is that a generation of scholars has significantly overemphasized disease as the cause of depopulation and has downplayed the active role of Europeans in inciting wars, destroying livelihoods, and erasing identities.