Going Postal

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061807192
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Postal written by Terry Pratchett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Pratchett’s] books are almost always better than they have to be, and Going Postal is no exception, full of nimble wordplay, devious plotting and outrageous situations, but always grounded in an astute understanding of human nature.” — San Francisco Chronicle The 33rd installment in acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, a splendid send-up of government, the postal system, and everything that lies in between. Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into . . . a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, greedy Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical headman. But if the bold and undoable are what's called for, Moist's the man for the job—to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every being, human or otherwise requires: hope. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Going Postal is the first book in the Moist von Lipwig series.

Author : Don Lasseter
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786037962
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Postal written by Don Lasseter and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You Get To A Point Where You Can Take Just So Much." EDMOND, OK-Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill fatally shoots 14 co-workers before turning the gun on himself. ESCONDIDO, CA-Postal employee John Merlin Taylor murders his wife in her sleep before executing 2 colleagues at work. RIDGEWOOD, NJ-Postal employee Joseph H. Harris breaks into his boss's house and slashes her to death with a samurai sword after losing his job. ROYAL OAK, MI-Postal employee Thomas Mellvane shoots and kills three supervisors following his dismissal, then pumps a bullet into his own head. GOING POSTAL Are they vengeful, cool-blooded killers? Or model employees driven beyond the brink of madness? Bloody massacres across America have struck like an epidemic, leaving a stunned nation in shock and mourning as growing numbers of disgruntled postal workers savagely strike out at the bosses who criticized or fired them. With this deadly violence on the rise, true crime author Don Lassester travels coast to coast probing the lives and grisly crimes of these enraged killers. Including first-hand accounts by the survivors and witnesses, GOING POSTAL asks who's to blame as it explores this horrifying, exclusively American phenomenon that is turning post offices into ticking time bombs. With 12 pages of shocking photographs!

Author : Richard Seymour
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788739310
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twittering Machine written by Richard Seymour and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social media Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, and the virtual data mines of Facebook and Google where we spend considerable portions of our free time. In this polemical tour de force, Richard Seymour shows how the digital world is changing the ways we speak, write, and think. Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into. Social media held out the promise that we could make our own history–to what extent did we choose the nightmare that it has become?

Author : Martha Cooper
Publisher : Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780979966651
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Postal written by Martha Cooper and published by Mark Batty Publisher. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postal stickers have long been a preferred substrate used by street artists to get up. Of course, because stickers from the US Postal Service, UPS, DHL and FEDEX are so readily available, so many of these stickers get lost in the fray. That's where graffiti photography legend Martha Cooper comes in. Shooting the origins of hip-hop and graffiti cultures since the late 1970s in New York City, and later all over the world, Cooper's well-trained eyes know how to recognize deft sticker art. Here then is a collection of more than 200 photographs of some of Cooper's favorite handmade postal stickers from around the world, whether done by some of the scene's better-known artists or the anonymous. Going Postal documents how an old-school method has burgeoned into another rich facet of the world's graffiti cultures.

Author : Mark Ames
Publisher : Soft Skull
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Postal written by Mark Ames and published by Soft Skull. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going Postal examines the phenomenon of rage murder that took America by storm in the early 1980's and has since grown yearly in body counts and symbolic value. By looking at massacres in schools and offices as post-industrial rebellions, Mark Ames is able to juxtapose the historical place of rage in America with the social climate after Reaganomics began to effect worker's paychecks. But why high schools? Why post offices? Mark Ames examines the most fascinating and unexpected cases, crafting a convincing argument for workplace massacres as modern day slave rebellions. Like slave rebellions, rage massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Going Postal seeks to contextualize this violence in a world where working isn't—and doesn’t pay—what it used to. Part social critique and part true crime page-turner, Going Postal answers the questions asked by commentators on the nightly news and films such as Bowling for Columbine.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472537076
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Postal written by Terry Pratchett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moist von Lipwig was a con artist, a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. With the help of a golem who has been at the bottom of hole in the ground for over two hundred years, a pin fanatic and Junior Postman Groat, he's got to see that the mail gets through. In taking on the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer, he's also got to stay alive. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too. In the mad world of the mail, can a criminal succeed where honest men have failed and died? Perhaps there's a shot at redemption for man who's prepared to push the envelope...

Author : Willie R. Hargis
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 166555052X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Postal written by Willie R. Hargis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is a riveting account of my journey to become one of America’s finest; a paratrooper and a Special Forces, Green Beret. This memoir will also take you through the very highs and very lows in working for the Postal Service. If you have heard the phrase Going Postal, I will give you tantalizing stories that will place you there with me as I attempted to navigate the mine fields of the Postal Service. After retiring from the Postal Service, with time on my hands, I started reminiscing about our dog Sparky, who we recently put to sleep, and the crazy things the dog had gotten into over the 20 years of his life. After authoring stories about Sparky and enjoying doing so, I turned my attention to my military and Postal careers, realizing I had so many interesting stories to tell about those experiences. With the combination of my military and Postal experiences and the stories associated with each, you will either feel sorry for me, or feel sorry for those I encountered. In titling my book “Going Postal,” I wanted to provide a different point-of-view of the phrase; mainly because it implies dangerous or unstable people work for the Postal Service. My stories will either confirm that belief or give you another perspective of a postal worker. The stories I share in this book are funny, daring, disappointing, revealing, insightful, and most of all, I believe, entertaining. You will travel with me through basic training, advanced infantry training, paratrooper jump school training, Special Warfare school, in addition to uncountable challenging situations the Postal Service presented. You will then understand why I decided to Go Postal.

Author : Stephan Jaramillo
Publisher : Berkley Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Postal written by Stephan Jaramillo and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hero is Steve Reeves of California, the first person in his family to attend college. He considers himself superior to his father, a postman, and feels the world owes him a living. A look at a first-generation intellectual and a debut in fiction.

Author : Stephen D. Musacco
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781439220757
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Going Postal written by Stephen D. Musacco and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an answer to the question: Why has there been so much violence in the U.S. Postal Service and what can be done to prevent it?

Author : Dale Duke
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483624692
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Postal written by Dale Duke and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what your letter carrier is doing when you're not looking? What do some of them do with the mail when theyre all alone in their vehicle or working the graveyard shift at night? Did you ever have mail disappear or mail that looks tempered with? Are you comfortable with the mailman who delivers your mail? Are any of the workers criminals, peeping toms or child molesters? GOING POSTAL answers all of those questions and gives true examples of what has happened in cities around the country. What are the unions in the Postal Service really like? Are they there to help the Postal Service to become stronger and better or are they simply there to undermine the business and get employees off the hook when they commit heinous behaviors? What about higher level management at the upper levels of the organization? Do they treat their employees well or is profane abuse a common behavior by those in charge? Does the Postal Service employee dangerous individuals, especially persons that may be a hazard to your children? The book tells it all in a true, accurate format. A must read!