The Holy Sh!t Moment


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Motivation expert James Fell teaches readers how to skip the hard part and go directly from intention to committed action. After years of helping people change, James Fell had a sudden insight about sudden insight: significant life change doesn’t often come from just putting one foot in front of the other, carefully observing and altering habits, slogging through baby steps toward new behavior. Rather, the research reveals that serious life turnaround usually happens in a moment, with a flash of inspiration. Epiphany arrives like a lightning strike, rapidly shifting the recipient of such enlightenment onto a new path that creates a better life. Motivational psychology has traditionally focused on slow and steady—gradual improvement over time to reach a desired goal, whether it’s weight loss, career change, battling addiction, or success in relationships. We’ve been told since toddlerhood that the tortoise beats the hare. But, through compelling science and powerful stories, James Fell shows us that the hare has the edge; overwhelming desire can be awakened fast and furiously. When you learn to become attuned to that sensation of sudden awakening, a new path can be followed almost effortlessly, because it feels like destiny. Everyone has the ability to experience the lightning strike. The Holy Sh!t Moment will teach you how to create a life-changing epiphany and go directly from intention to action.




Inhale the Good Shit Exhale the Bullshit


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A Gratitude Journal with Prompts for Awesome Bitches Women Our customized journal has unique interior designs and is specialized for awesome bitches' women dealing with shits in life. Cuz' you know what? cursing makes you feel better! Fuck! It can help you relieve stress and is a great way to express yourself. So, what are you waiting for? Go grab your journal and get shit done! Journal Features: unique interior with theme background design Today, I am thankful for... Shit List of the day (good shit & bad shit) My fucking mood today 100 interesting & fun prompts 50 Shit Quote of the day plus 20 pages of Journal to write in This unique and fun journal can be a perfect gift for your girlfriends, best friends, daughters, sisters, mom, aunts, and other awesome bitches' women you know. Our designs are available in 5 different sizes: 5" x 8" inches (extra-small) 6" x 9" inches (small) 7" x 10" inches (medium) 8" x 10" inches (large) 8.5" x 11" inches (extra-large) You may also like some of our collections with unique, specialized themes each book: "Savage As Fuck" (Pit Ball, Bulldog) "Bitch Please, I'm so Fucking Fabulous. I Tinkle Glitter, Pewp Cupcakes, & Fart Rainbows" (Unicorn, Catnicorn) "My Pit Bull and I Talk Shit About You" (Pitbull, Bulldog, Pug, Chihuahua) "Yas Queen of the Shit Show" (crown) "Today, I Will Manifest some Cool Ass Shit but first Coffee" (coffee) "YOLO Let that Shit Go" (Yoga Bulldog) "She's Beauty She's Grace She's Got Resting Bitche Face" (unicorn) "You're my favorite Bitch to bitch about bithches with" (pineapple) "Inhale the Good Shit. Exhale the Bullshit" (Yoga Bulldog) "In a World Full of Assholes, Shit Happens" (poop) "Run on Coffee Chihuahua & Curse Words" (Coffee Chihuahua) "I'm mostly peace, love, and light" (Yoga Bulldog)




Get Sh*t Done


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Part step-by-step guide, part interactive journal, Get Sh*t Done helps you to identify and achieve your goals using a variety of tools. Experienced life coach Caro Handley looks at common problems and offers positive approaches to solving them, guiding you through all the challenges you will face with an exercise, tip or piece of advice. Follow each 30-step plan and you will get support and encouragement, the tools for change and gain a deeper understanding of who you are, where your strengths lie and be able to make deep and lasting changes in your life. If you want to take control of your life, to transform some or all of the important areas (career, money, dating, relationships), this empowering book shows you how to do it. We are all capable of far more than we imagine. It is mostly our doubts and fears that stop us making changes and pursuing our dreams.




Women, Camp, and Popular Culture


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This innovative study claims camp as a critical, yet pleasurable strategy for women’s engagement with contemporary popular culture as exemplified by 30 Rock or Lady Gaga. In detailed analyses of lesbian cinema, postfeminist TV, and popular music, the book offers a novel take on its subject. It defines camp as a unique mode of detached attachment, which builds on affective intensity and emotional investment, while strongly encouraging a critical edge.




Pretty/Funny


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“A totally engaging read [and] a fascinating look at the diversity and range of female comics . . . by an author who herself obviously has a sense of humor.” —Joanna E. Rapf, coeditor of The Blackwell Companion to Film Comedy Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either “pretty” or “funny.” Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars—and often they’ve been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis Diller to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. Pretty/Funny focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don’t all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, Pretty/Funny makes a convincing case that women’s comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century.




The Trouble with Jokes


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We’re accustomed to seeing humour as a diversion from the serious side of life, but humour also permeates some of the most troubling political developments in recent years. From the resurgence of white nationalism to the erosion of democratic norms, jokes force-feed us objectionable ideologies while we gasp and splutter at all the side-splitting shenanigans. This book explores the relationship between humour and offensiveness in contemporary society. Drawing on examples from philosophical thinkers and popular culture, it invites readers to consider the dark side of humour. Weaving together cultural analysis, political discussion and philosophical reflection, the book provides an antidote to positive thinking about laughter and a roadmap for navigating different types of offensive humour.




Bitch


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Delve into the history of the word 'bitch', from its humble origins to the complex modern phenomenon it is today.




Buffoon Men


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Fans and scholars of film history, gender studies, and broadcast studies will appreciate Balcerzak's thorough exploration of the era's fascinating gender constructs.




Screen Comedy and Online Audiences


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The question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity. This book contributes to that debate by exploring how we evaluate screen comedy. What kinds of criteria do we use to judge films and TV shows that are meant to be funny? And what might that have to do with our social and cultural backgrounds, or with wider cultural ideas about film, TV, comedy, quality and entertainment? The book examines these questions through a study of audience responses posted to online facilities such as Twitter, Facebook, review sites, blogs and message boards. Bore’s analysis of these responses considers a broad range of issues, including how audiences perceive the idea of "national" comedy; what they think of female comedians; how they evaluate romcoms, sitcoms and web comedy; what they think is acceptable to joke about; what comedy fans get excited about; how fans interact with star comedians; and what comedy viewers really despise. The book demonstrates some of the ways in which we can adapt theories of humour and comedy to examine the practices of contemporary screen audiences, while offering new insights into how they negotiate the opportunities and constrictions of different online facilities to share their views and experiences.




If He Had Been with Me


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If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...