Автор: Ladner Kiare Название: Nightshift ISBN: 0063138247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780063138247 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 32020.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Once again, we have arrived at our favorite topic: fraught female friendship. This time it's young women working nights at crappy jobs in 90s London. You'll rip through this, reading through the night, as fixated on the story as Ladner's characters are fixated on each other. --Glamour
A riveting debut novel of complex female friendship and obsession, following one young woman's decision to abandon her normal life and join the otherworldly, nocturnal existence of London's nightshift workers.
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When twenty-three-year-old Meggie meets her distant and enigmatic new coworker Sabine, she recognizes in her the person she would like to be. Meggie is immediately drawn to worldly, beautiful, and uninhibited Sabine; and when Sabine announces she's switching to the nightshift, Meggie impulsively decides to follow her. Giving up her daytime existence, her reliable boyfriend, and the trappings of a normal life, Meggie finds a liberating sense of freedom as she indulges her growing preoccupation with Sabine and plunges into another existence, immersing herself in the transient and uncertain world of the nightshift worker.
While the city sleeps, she passes the hours at work clipping crime stories from the next day's newspapers. The liminal hours between night and day are spent haunting deserted bars and nightclubs with her eclectic coworkers and going on increasingly wild adventures with Sabine. Yet the closer she gets to Sabine, the more Sabine seems to push her away, leaving Meggie desperately trying to hold on to their intense friendship while doubting if she truly knows her friend at all.
A fresh twist on the coming of age story and a dark love letter to city life, Nightshift explores the thin line between self-invention and self-destruction, as Meggie's sleep deprivation, drinking, and fixation with Sabine gain a momentum all their own. Vividly set in late-nineties London and framed by Meggie's present-day reflections, Nightshift is a captivating and moving debut that asks profound questions about who we are and if we can truly escape ourselves.
Автор: Ladner, Kiare Название: Nightshift ISBN: 1529010381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529010381 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 11540.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A dark, provocative story of obsession and compulsion: one woman`s decision to shrug off her normal life and join the other-worldly existence of London`s nightshift workers.
Автор: Ladner, Kiare Название: Nightshift ISBN: 152901039X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529010398 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 10770.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A dark, provocative story of obsession and compulsion: one womans decision to shrug off her normal life and join the other-worldly existence of Londons nightshift workers.
Автор: Ladner Gerhart B. Название: The Idea of Reform ISBN: 0674334795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674334793 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 45930.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Husband Douglas Название: Community Comments: A Fourth Generation Ladner Boy ISBN: 1984549324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781984549327 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18380.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In 1979, a previous Delta Council held a public hearing on the "Spetifore" lands and approved it unanimously for residential development. The Greater Vancouver Regional District rejected the application. Ten years later, my council held a similar public hearing on those same lands and, after an exhaustive and divisive hearing, defeated the proposal. Some thirty-seven years after the first public hearing with a new owner and following extensive community engagement, the development was approved. This sorry saga and conclusion was no consolation to the well-regarded Spetifore family, nor has it satisfied a large segment of South Delta residents. My wife happily stated that I was "unelected" after the 1990 municipal elections. After a decade on the municipal council, I continued with active volunteer service. Whether winning or losing, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the many people who offered their unqualified support during my seven election campaigns seeking a seat on the Delta Council. In 1992, I was appointed to the National Parole Board by the solicitor general of Canada. This challenging appointment reflected my RCMP service and community background. Weighing the risks to public safety and the inmate's right to freedom under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was a daunting task. I carried on with community service with some recognition, culminating with the Queen's Golden Jubilee service medal awarded in 2002. Along with others, I am pleased to have been involved in the preservation of three of Delta's important historical buildings. As alderman and chair of Delta's advisory heritage committee, I liaised with Rick Hankin, Regional Parks director, and Delta Council, and we were successful in the retention, movement, and restoration of the significant home of the pioneering Burr family, an elementary schoolhouse located on the Paterson estate in East Delta, and a barn from Ladner's historic Paterson Park. Burrvilla, dating back to 1904, and the 1909 Inverholm school are representative of Delta's early settlement history. All three buildings are located in Deas Island Regional Park in Delta and are popular tourist attractions. I have also had the pleasure and opportunity of working with some of Delta's finest volunteers, raising funds for needed community, social, and sport facilities in South Delta. Generations of volunteers have made Delta a special place called home.
Compassion is often seen as a distant, altruistic ideal cultivated by saints, or as an unrealistic response of the naively kind-hearted. But by seeing compassion in this way, we lose out on experiencing the transformative potential of one of our most neglected inner resources.
Clinical psychologist and Tibetan Buddhist practitioner Dr. Lorne Ladner rescues compassion from this marginalized view, showing how its practical application in our life can be a powerful force in achieving happiness. Ladner provides a clear explanation of what healthy compassion is and why it is so essential to our lives. Combining the wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism and Western psychology, The Lost Art of Compassion presents clear, effective practices for cultivating compassion in daily living. Lorne Ladner, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Washington DC, and an adjunct faculty member in the counseling program at Argosy University. He began studying Buddhist meditation 15 years ago and is a longtime student of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Dr. Ladner is currently Center Director of the Guhyasamaja Buddhist Center in Northern Virginia, where he regularly teaches classes, runs workshops, and leads meditation retreats. "A helpful, kindhearted, articulate teaching of the way of compassion. Buddhism and Western psychology meet here wisely and beautifully." - Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
--Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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