The Weight of this World

The Weight of this World
Author: David Joy
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0399173110

Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature" (The Huffington Post), returns to the mountains of North Carolina with a powerful story about the inescapable weight of the past. A combat veteran returned from war, Thad Broom can't leave the hardened world of Afghanistan behind, nor can he forgive himself for what he saw there. His mother, April, is haunted by her own demons, a secret trauma she has carried for years. Between them is Aiden McCall, loyal to both but unable to hold them together. Connected by bonds of circumstance and duty, friendship and love, these three lives are blown apart when Aiden and Thad witness the accidental death of their drug dealer and a riot of dope and cash drops in their laps. On a meth-fueled journey to nowhere, they will either find the grit to overcome the darkness or be consumed by it.

Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds (2019-) #5

Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds (2019-) #5
Author: Becky Cloonan
Publisher: Young Animal
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2019-11-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Clark is a comic book fan just like you, and his favorite title is Doom Patrol! But Clark’s fandom is put to the test when he literally falls into the reality of the world’s weirdest superheroes, where he must team up with long-lost Doom Patrol heroine Dorothy Spinner in her first appearance in more than a decade!

Star Trek: The Original Series: The Weight of Worlds

Star Trek: The Original Series: The Weight of Worlds
Author: Greg Cox
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476702853

The Ephrata Institute is an intellectual think tank at the outer fringes of the final frontier. Dedicated to the arts and sciences, the Institute seems an unlikely target for an invasion, but it proves easy pickings when the Crusade comes from beyond, determined to impose its harsh, unbending Truth on all the worlds of the Federation. Armed with weaponized gravity, the alien Crusaders will stop at nothing to rescue the universe from its myriad beliefs . . . even if it means warping the mind and soul of every sentient being they encounter. Responding to an urgent distress signal, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise soon find themselves in conflict with the Crusade, and facing individual challenges. When Kirk and Spock are transported to the Crusade’s distant homeland to confront the source of the invasion, Sulu finds himself trapped behind enemy lines, while Lieutenant Uhura is faced with possibly the most difficult decisions of her career. As the Crusade sets its sights beyond Ephrata IV, it is up to the Enterprise and its besieged crew to keep freedom of thought from being crushed beneath the weight of worlds!

Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds (2019-) #1

Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds (2019-) #1
Author: Jeremy Lambert
Publisher: Young Animal
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2019-07-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

All hail the Supreme Shape! Gerard Way and the World’s Strangest Superheroes return in an all-new series that takes them beyond the borders of time and space! Featuring artwork by acclaimed cartoonist James Harvey, this issue finds the Doom Patrol facing off against the fanatical fitness fiends of planet Orbius and the Marathon Eternal! Meanwhile, Cliff Steele, formerly known as Robotman, must come to terms with his new body of flesh and bone...yet the real test turns out to be something far more frightening: his mom.

The Weight of the World

The Weight of the World
Author: Peter Handke
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781250767295

A combination of professional notebook and personal diary that records -- both in short, informal jottings and through more formal, extended meditations -- the details of Handke's daily life in Paris from November 1975 through March 1977. Along with references to such mentors as Truffaut, John Cowper Powys, Robert DeNiro and Goethe, the journal recounts Handke's passing impressions of strangers; the deep and delicate nature of his relationship with his daughter; and a brief hospital stay which stirs his ever-present fear of death.

Weight of the Worlds: Book Two

Weight of the Worlds: Book Two
Author: D. B. Greenhalgh
Publisher: D.B. Greenhalgh
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2022-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1736114042

Pallas Zenith just wants to save her friends and go home. She has no interest in being a princess and even less in fulfilling prophecies. Once upon a time, Pallas was a normal teenage girl from a troubled family. Then she was kidnapped and taken 90,000 light-years to the planet Titan where she was trained for a mission to gain control of the Celestial Sphere. Now, Pallas and the rest of Gamma Squad have a new quest—to rescue their friends and return home to Earth. Their journey takes them back to Olympus, and then to Phoenicia, where Pallas is unexpectedly made Crown Princess of the Eternal Phoenician Empire. Something strange is happening to Pallas, and all is not well on Phoenicia, but Pallas can’t just leave her friends to die in a civil war. If she’s going to save lives, Pallas will have to become something greater than a princess.

La Misère Du Monde

La Misère Du Monde
Author: Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 646
Release: 1999
Genre: Alienation (Social psychology)
ISBN: 9780745615936

This book can be read like a series of short stories - the story of a steel worker who was laid off after twenty years in the same factory and who now struggles to support his family on unemployment benefits and a part-time job; the story of a trade unionist who finds his goals undermined by the changing nature of work; the story of a family from Algeria living in a housing estate in the outskirts of Paris whose members have to cope with pervasive, everyday forms of racism; the story of a school teacher confronted with urban violence; and many others as well. Reading these stories enables one to understand these people's lives and the forms of social suffering which are part of them. And the reader will see that this book offers not only a distinctive method for analysing social life, but also another way of practising politics.

This Is Big

This Is Big
Author: Marisa Meltzer
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 7
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316413992

From a contributor to The Cut, one of Vogue's most anticipated books "bravely and honestly" (Busy Philipps) talks about weight loss and sheds a light on Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch: "a triumphant chronicle" (New York Times). Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand. Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, also a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with Marisa's own journey through Weight Watchers, she chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.

Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds (2019-) #2

Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds (2019-) #2
Author: Jeremy Lambert
Publisher: Young Animal
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2019-08-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

It is a time of great upheaval as Cliff transforms, Larry gives birth, Casey babysits—and the Doom Patrol becomes embroiled in the divorce proceedings of feuding cosmic entities.

World Without Weight

World Without Weight
Author: Daniel Povinelli
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2012
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198570961

In every domain of reasoning humans deploy an wide range of intuitive 'theories' about how the world works. So are we alone in trying to make sense of the world by postulating theoretical entities to explain how the world works, or do we share this ability with other species. This is the focus of this new book from Daniel Povinelli