The Story Of Stuff

one's top, burn the candle at both ends, bury the hatchet, catch someones eye, have a good time, have someones ear, hit the ceiling, keep an ear to the ground, kick the bucket, leí the cat out of the bag, make up ones mind, miss the bus, pull someone's leg, rain pitchforks, rock the boat. Frases feitas - expressões fixas consagradas pelo uso: don't give me that, give up the ship, it takes two to tango, like a cat on a hot tin roof, never say die, now you're talking, (just) one of those…

INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace YEAR OF GLAD I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair. This is a cold room in University Administration, wood-walled, Remington-hung, double-windowed against the November heat, insulated from Administrative sounds by the reception area outside, at which Uncle Charles, Mr. deLint and I were lately received. I am in here. Three faces have resolved into…

Anthony Jon Moore A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL December 2009 Copyright © Anthony Jon Moore 2009 ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere and deep appreciation to the many people who fielded my incessant queries and one-track mind conversations for the last two years,…

Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Author: Lewis Carroll Release Date: June 25, 2008 [EBook #11] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK…

FREAKONOMICS A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner CONTENTS AN EXPLANATORY NOTE In which the origins of this book are clarified. vi INTRODUCTION: The Hidden Side of Everything 3 In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work. Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong . . . How…

SPECIAL_IMAGE-copy.png-REPLACE_ME ATRIA Books A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 [http://www.SimonandSchuster.com] www.SimonandSchuster.com Copyright ©? 2011 by Shania Twain This work is a memoir. It reflects my present recollections of experiences over a period of years. Certain names and identifying characteristics have been changed. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in…

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de uma hora pra outra e isso é uma experiência estranha pra ele, cada foco de industrialização é uma nova surpresa, vemos o ganho de espaço pelas novas tecnologias e a perda de espaço do ambiente natural. Aonde iremos para? (No documentário (The story of stuff)) Annie Leonard explica que a extração e uma palavra pomposa para a exploração de recursos naturais que por sua vez é uma palavra pomposa para a destruição do nosso planeta. Realmente fazemos como ela diz: cortamos todas as…

The Art and Practice of the Learning Organisation Peter M Senge (Random House, 1992, 424 pages) My thoughts about application to the Kirk are in italics. For those who can’t face 12 pages, The first chapter forms a summary of the rest of the book. I. HOW OUR ACTIONS CHANGE OUR REALITY... AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE IT 1. ‘Give me a lever long enough... and single-handed I can move the world’ We are taught to break problems down into component parts and then ‘see the big picture’ by…

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