Trainwreck

Trainwreck
Author: Jeff Nichols
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-07-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781439112861

Download Trainwreck Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Hilarious and oddly inspiring, Trainwreck is proof that a life disastrously lived can still turn out beyond anybody's wildest imaginings. Growing up a privileged Manhattan kid, Jeff Nichols should have had it all. Instead, he got a plethora of impairments: learning disabilities, a speech impediment, dyslexia, ADD, and a mild case of Tourette's syndrome. In Trainwreck, his weird and witty memoir of utter dysfunction, Nichols gives an irreverent look at how one "idoit" made good.

Trainwreck

Trainwreck
Author: Bill Press
Publsiher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008-03-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780470182406

Download Trainwreck Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A news commentator explains how the conservative movement went awry and traces its rise and fall from Robert Taft and Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, looking at the budget deficits, spending overruns, and corruption that has resulted from its missteps.

Trainwreck

Trainwreck
Author: Sady Doyle
Publsiher: Melville House
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781612195643

Download Trainwreck Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

“Smart ... compelling ... persuasive .” —New York Times Book Review She’s everywhere once you start looking: the trainwreck. She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From Mary Wollstonecraft—who, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman—to Charlotte Brontë, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Plath, and even Hillary Clinton, Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck dissects a centuries-old phenomenon and asks what it means now, in a time when we have unprecedented access to celebrities and civilians alike, and when women are pushing harder than ever against the boundaries of what it means to “behave.” Where did these women come from? What are their crimes? And what does it mean for the rest of us? For an age when any form of self-expression can be the one that ends you, Doyle’s book is as fierce and intelligent as it is funny and compassionate—an essential, timely, feminist anatomy of the female trainwreck.

The Trainwreck

The Trainwreck
Author: Lark Anderson
Publsiher: Lark Anderson
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2023-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781953191007

Download The Trainwreck Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

When Ali Kat Carter—America’s Sweetheart—wakes up in a jail cell with no memory of the night before, she thinks things can’t possibly get any worse. SPOILER ALERT: They do! Ali Kat Carter here, or as they’re now calling me—Trainwreck Tammy. God, I hate my birth name! The tabloids say I need rehab, and to be honest, I’d much rather go there than where my publicist is bent on sending me—back to my family home in Nebraska. I suppose most people would love a little vacation to spend time with family, but then again, most people haven’t been estranged from their parents for their entire adult life. But things take a sharp turn for the better when I find out that my girlhood crush, tall, dark, and handsome Garrett Flint, is staying at the family farm. Garrett has always made my blood race, and he could be the only thing capable of getting me through what can only be described as the WORST months of my life—except for the fact that once he sampled the goods, he turned into an ice-cold, Grade-A, nasty jerk face that was obviously in it for one thing only—bragging rights for bagging the ultimate ‘Girl Next Door.’ Now, I’m stuck with my family that resents me, and an ex-lover who loathes me—or so I think. Maybe there’s more to podunk Nebraska and my family than I gave them credit for. But there’s CERTAINLY not more to that no-manners, love ‘em and leave ‘em country boy. Or is there?

Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck

Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck
Author: Eric G. Wilson
Publsiher: Sarah Crichton Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-02-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781429969482

Download Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Why can't we look away? Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, and there's no slaking our thirst for gory entertainments like horror movies and police procedurals. What makes these spectacles so irresistible? In Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, the scholar Eric G. Wilson sets out to discover the source of our attraction to the caustic, drawing on the findings of biologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and artists. A professor of English literature and a lifelong student of the macabre, Wilson believes there's something nourishing in darkness. "To repress death is to lose the feeling of life," he writes. "A closeness to death discloses our most fertile energies." His examples are legion, and startling in their diversity. Citing everything from elephant graveyards and Susan Sontag's On Photography to the Tiger Woods sex scandal and Steel Magnolias, Wilson finds heartening truths wherever he confronts death. In Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, the perverse is never far from the sublime. The result is a powerful and delightfully provocative defense of what it means to be human—for better and for worse.

Train Wreck

Train Wreck
Author: George Bibel
Publsiher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2012-10-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781421405902

Download Train Wreck Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Trains are massive—with some weighing 15,000 tons or more. When these metal monsters collide or go off the rails, their destructive power becomes clear. In this book, George Bibel presents riveting tales of trains gone wrong, the detective work of finding out why, and the safety improvements that were born of tragedy. Train Wreck details 17 crashes in which more than 200 people were killed. Readers follow investigators as they sift through the rubble and work with computerized event recorders to figure out what happened. Using a mix of eyewitness accounts and scientific explanations, Bibel draws us into a world of forensics and human drama. Train Wreck is a fascinating exploration of• runaway trains• bearing failures• metal fatigue• crash testing • collision dynamics• bad rails

Trainwreck

Trainwreck
Author: Heather C. Myers
Publsiher: Heather C Myers
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2022-03-24
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

Download Trainwreck Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Detention is not the place where you're supposed to meet your next boyfriend, especially when he's Asher Boyd, known pothead and occasional criminal. But he makes good girl Sadie Brown feel something she hasn't really felt before - extraordinary. Seventeen-year-old Sadie Brown is a good girl from a good neighborhood who gets good grades and makes good choices. In the past, she's dabbled in making bad ones and ended up with an ex-boyfriend, a couple of bruises, and a year and a half of wasted time. Never again. Until detention, when she officially meets Asher Boyd, notorious pothead and occasional criminal. He's everything she shouldn't want in a potential boyfriend - irresponsible, unreliable, and frustrating - and everything she can't resist. After an impromptu makeout session in a supply closet at the end of detention, rumors follow Sadie into next week, and when people start making assumptions based on those rumors, she is thrust into her high school's hierarchy. Suddenly, everyone has an opinion on her sex life, and her reputation is tarnished for something she didn't even do. Worst of all, Asher isn't around much and doesn't seem to care when he is. But there's more to Asher than meets the eye, more than just the superficial stereotype he indulges in to meet low expectations, and the darkness no one sees is enough for Sadie to risk her reputation to be with him... If he's willing to take the chance on her, that is.

Train Wreck

Train Wreck
Author: Elise Faber
Publsiher: Elise Faber
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2018-12-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781946140012

Download Train Wreck Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Pepper O’Brien was Hollywood royalty. Also, her life sucked. Money couldn’t buy everything—including grace, true love, and the ability to not screw up. Every. Single. Time. Which was why Pepper had moved across the country to start over. Only, as was typical, her life had other plans. Namely in the form of Derek Cashette. Her former teenage crush and now ridiculously handsome man was her older brother’s friend. He was also determined to salvage the train wreck of her life. And maybe in doing that, he would save the train wreck that was her heart.