Jack Avery has always had questions about his daughter, Olivia. His intuition has always told him there is more to her than what appears on the surface. In the past, he has always shrugged it off, telling himself it is due to the fact that she was adopted at nine years old.

Jack's marriage is also crumbling. He and his wife, Melissa, seem to be constantly fighting. In his last-ditch effort to save his marriage, Jack agrees to move his family back to his wife's hometown. It is here that strange events start occurring, and the questions surrounding Olivia become stronger.

Slavoj Zizek is no ordinary philosopher. Approaching critical theory and psychoanalysis in a recklessly entertaining fashion, Zizek's critical eye alights upon a bewildering and exhilarating range of subjects, from the political apathy of contemporary life, to a joke about the man who thinks he's a chicken, from the ethicial heroism of Keanu Reeves in Speed, to what toilet designs reveal about the national psyche. Tony Myers provides a clear and engaging guide to Zizek's key ideas, explaining the main influences on Zizek's thought (most crucially his engagement with Lacanian psychoanalysis) using examples drawn from popular culture and everyday life. Myers outlines the key issues that Zizek's work has tackled, including:
* What is a Subject and why is it so important?
* The Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real
* What is so terrible about Postmodernity?
* How can we distinguish reality from ideology?
* What is the relationship between men and women?
* Why is Racism always a fantasy?

Slavoj Zizek is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the thought of the critic whom Terry Eagleton has described as "the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in Europe for some decades."

Jack Avery has always had questions about his daughter, Olivia. His intuition has always told him there is more to her than what appears on the surface. In the past, he has always shrugged it off, telling himself it is due to the fact that she was adopted at nine years old.

Jack's marriage is also crumbling. He and his wife, Melissa, seem to be constantly fighting. In his last-ditch effort to save his marriage, Jack agrees to move his family back to his wife's hometown. It is here that strange events start occurring, and the questions surrounding Olivia become stronger.

(me)volution is written to help us understand our own power. It is a wake-up call for us, that we might realize that we have both the ability and the tools to begin a conversation for good that can ignite passions and set the world on fire. But more than a wake-up call, it is a confidence-booster. For many of us secretly knowour power. So this book shares the experiences of ordinary people who have changed the world, so that we can see the path and travel it ourselves. This is the path, the journey of (me)volution. (me)volution is a model of how ordinary people go from having a great, powerful ideaabout changing something, to building a movement that actually changes it. It is about seeing and hearing how others have changed their world and mapping that experience so it can be shared. And by sharing it, we hope that (me)volution will help you make your mark, build your legacy, and make your difference. Because all change begins with me. Or in this case, it begins with you.

Designed for undergraduate English majors as well as for any undergraduate working on an English essay, Upgrade Your English Essay offers a carefully structured approach to improving essay writing. This short guide focuses on three key strategies for upgrading an English essay: answering the question and making a strong argument, analyzing language and examining literary technique, and discussing genre and considering context. All advice is supported by clear demonstrations that make use of the most commonly studied primary texts and examples from student essays. Written in a lively, humorous, and student-friendly style, this volume will surely help students improve their English essay writing--and their grades.

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