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Author : X. J. Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780605982529
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Exploding Gravy Poems to Make You Laugh written by X. J. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Gardner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 144063808X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Science of Fear written by Daniel Gardner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An invaluable resource for anyone who aspires to think clearly” (The Guardian) from the New York Times bestselling author of Superforecasting and Future Babble From terror attacks to collapsing economies, from painkiller epidemics to mass gun violence and poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. Yet we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Why are we so worried? The Science of Fear is an introduction to the new brain science of risk, dissecting the fears that misguide and manipulate us every day. Award-winning journalist Dan Gardner demonstrates how irrational fear springs from the ways humans miscalculate risks based on our hunter-gatherer brains. With the exclusive cooperation of risk-science pioneer Paul Slovic and other leading experts, Gardner reveals how our "gut" reactions lead us astray. Understanding our irrational fears frees us from political and corporate manipulation, and makes our choices better. Ultimately, The Science of Fear will make you brave. “Excellent... Analyzes everything from the media’s predilection for irrational scare stories to the cynical use of fear by politicians… [A] cheery corrective to modern paranoia.”—The Economist “An entertaining, often jolting account of why trivial risks terrify us, even as we engage in wildly dangerous activities with hardly a qualm.”—Kirkus (starred review) “Elegantly weaves academic research and everyday experience, exposing the secrets of emotion and reason, and the essential roles they play on our lives. An excellent book.”—Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational
Author : Dan Gardner
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551992108
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Risk written by Dan Gardner and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, Gardner explores a new way of thinking about the decisions we make. We are the safest and healthiest human beings who ever lived, and yet irrational fear is growing, with deadly consequences — such as the 1,595 Americans killed when they made the mistake of switching from planes to cars after September 11. In part, this irrationality is caused by those — politicians, activists, and the media — who promote fear for their own gain. Culture also matters. But a more fundamental cause is human psychology. Working with risk science pioneer Paul Slovic, author Dan Gardner sets out to explain in a compulsively readable fashion just what that statement above means as to how we make decisions and run our lives. We learn that the brain has not one but two systems to analyze risk. One is primitive, unconscious, and intuitive. The other is conscious and rational. The two systems often agree, but occasionally they come to very different conclusions. When that happens, we can find ourselves worrying about what the statistics tell us is a trivial threat — terrorism, child abduction, cancer caused by chemical pollution — or shrugging off serious risks like obesity and smoking. Gladwell told us about “the black box” of our brains; Gardner takes us inside, helping us to understand how to deconstruct the information we’re bombarded with and respond more logically and adaptively to our world. Risk is cutting-edge reading.
Author : Gail Carriger
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316179957
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Heartless written by Gail Carriger and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault in the fourth book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past. Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux's latest mechanical invention, and a plague of zombie porcupines, Alexia barely has time to remember she happens to be eight months pregnant. Will Alexia manage to determine who is trying to kill Queen Victoria before it is too late? Is it the vampires again or is there a traitor lurking about in wolf's clothing? And what, exactly, has taken up residence in Lord Akeldama's second best closet? HEARTLESS is the fourth book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. The Parasol Protectorate Soulless Changeless Blameless Heartless Timeless For more from Gail Carriger, check out: The Custard Protocol Prudence ImprudenceCompetenceReticence Finishing School (YA) Etiquette & Espionage Curtsies & Conspiracies Waistcoats & Weaponry Manners & Mutiny
Author : Rob Reid
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838909736
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)
Download or read book More Family Storytimes written by Rob Reid and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book from best-selling author Rob Reid features stories, fingerplays, songs, and movement activities to enhance the time families spend at the library. Brimming with all new material, More Family Storytimes offers practical, creative, and active storytime programs that will captivate audiences of all ages.
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Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756505639
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Free and the Brave written by and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of poems about the United States, plus Toolbox tips that help the reader understand poetry and how poems are written
Author : X. J. Kennedy
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781929918966
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Peeping Tom's Cabin written by X. J. Kennedy and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "X. J. Kennedy's well-known travels between the realms of the comic and the serious qualify him for dual citizenship in the world of poetry. Here, the playful is on full display in verse not just 'light' but bright and delightful."--Billy Collins Peeping Tom's Cabin is the first full-length collection of light verse for adults composed by one of America's most celebrated poets. An uncompromising formalist, Kennedy uses a broad range of longstanding poetic forms, including limerick, nursery rhyme, ballad, rhymed epitaph, and clerihew. This collection includes many poems previously published in poetry and popular journals, including The Sewanee Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and Poetry. These poems honor and skewer all classes of citizen, regardless of their revered place in society. Parents, lovers, poetry critics, students, and especially notable literary figures receive Kennedy's astute comic attention. "To Someone Who Insisted I Look Up Someone" I rang them up while touring Timbuktu, Those bosom chums to whom you're known as "Who?" X. J. Kennedy has published six collections of verse, including Nude Descending a Staircase, which received the Lamont Award from the Academy of American Poets. His newest collection, The Lords of Misrule, received the 2004 Poets' Prize. Kennedy has also authored eighteen children's books and several textbooks on fiction and poetry. Other recognitions include the Los Angeles Book Award for Poetry, the Aiken-Taylor Award, and Guggenheim and National Arts Council fellowships. Kennedy was also given the first Michael Braude Award for light verse by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Author : Gail Carriger
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316082562
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Blameless written by Gail Carriger and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto.!--EndFragment-- BLAMELESS is the third book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. The Parasol Protectorate Soulless Changeless Blameless Heartless Timeless For more from Gail Carriger, check out: The Custard Protocol Prudence ImprudenceCompetenceReticence Finishing School (YA) Etiquette & Espionage Curtsies & Conspiracies Waistcoats & Weaponry Manners & Mutiny
Author : Gail Carriger
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 031621227X
Total Pages : 1429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Parasol Protectorate Boxed Set written by Gail Carriger and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 1429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart? The Parasol Protectorate is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. This boxed set includes the whole series: Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless, and Timeless.
Author : Rob Reid
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838911471
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)
Download or read book What's Black and White and Reid All Over? written by Rob Reid and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reid shows you how to share humor with children, in order to connect them to literature and imagination. The programs and the books he uses are kid-tested and ready for you to share.
Author : Dan Gardner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780525950622
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Science of Fear written by Dan Gardner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the scientific causes of irrational fear offers insight into the brain's role in causing people to experience and react to fear, in a report that explains how heightened fear in the post-9/11 world is dangerously intersecting with biologically driven responses.
Author : X. J. Kennedy
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801886538
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus written by X. J. Kennedy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Kennedy's The Lords of Misrule: "New England's master of light verse returns to familiarly sardonic territory in this, his seventh collection, which mixes dry wit and restrained verse-narrative with poems on surprisingly serious subjects... Kennedy's work remains cultured, likable, and witty." -- Publisher's Weekly "[Kennedy] can be light and amusing, or tender and touching, or acerbic and cutting... The Lords of Misrule demonstrates convincingly his poetic breadth and vigor, and the depth of feeling that his verse can convey. The collection confirms his position as a preeminent voice in American poetry today." -- Chronicles "Some poets... form part of a historically small but robust band whose spirits never seem to flag in their prolonged observation of the human concourse. Such poets, being able to maintain a witty engagement with life in all its forms and in a variety of stances, strike us as perpetually young and remain consistently readable. X. J. Kennedy falls into this company." -- Times Literary Supplement "Kennedy is widely regarded, and occasionally disregarded, as a practitioner of light verse. But he serves his light with a healthy dose of darkness." -- New York Times Book Review "Kennedy's verse is wonderfully successful and a delight to read. His work makes us think: How wonderful rhyme and meter are -- I want to try that too!" -- Jack Foley on station KPFA, San Francisco
Author : Rob Reid
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 9780838908877
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Cool Story Programs for the School-Age Crowd written by Rob Reid and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers eighteen offbeat literary programs featuring creepy, dirty, and stinky stories that will appeal to young readers.
Author : Rebekah Sack
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620232146
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book So You Want to… Write a Children’s Book written by Rebekah Sack and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young adults are in the prime position to write children’s books because they can actually remember what it was like to be a kid. Take Jake Marcionette, for example, who reached the NY Times bestseller list at the age of 12. His books for middle grades are praised for having such a realistic, authentic voice. This book gives the young audience everything they need to know to successfully write and publish a children’s book. From understanding the children’s book market to learning about illustrations and design, this book has it all. Top publishers and writers in the industry — such as Aaron Shepard, Susan Collins Thoms, Fiona Tapp, and more — have lent their expertise to this book to provide an overview of everything that is needed in the process. Also included is a foreword by children’s book author Cathleen Francisco, and an afterword by author, mentor, and entrepreneur Melissa Carter. You will learn what morals and values publishers and readers look for in good children’s books, what you should expect in a publication deal, what material is appropriate for each age range, and how to convey messages in a way that appeals to both parents and children. This book will help you learn how to build a relationship with your editor, what to expect in revisions, and the process of selling your book. Any young adult that is interested in starting any kind of writing career will learn valuable tips and tricks to understanding the publishing market with this conversational, easy-to-read book.
Author : Byron Tau
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0593443225
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Means of Control written by Byron Tau and published by Crown. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are being surveilled right now. This sweeping exposé reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home. “A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes terrifying examination of the decline of privacy in the digital age.”—Kirkus Reviews “That evening, I was given a glimpse inside a hidden world. . . . An entirely new kind of surveillance program—one designed to track everyone.” For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring. Of course, our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware of this: Ever get the sense that an ad is “following” you around the internet? But the true potential of our phones, computers, homes, credit cards, and even the tires underneath our cars to reveal our habits and behavior would astonish most citizens. All of this surveillance has produced an extraordinary amount of valuable data about every one of us. That data is for sale—and the biggest customer is the U.S. government. In the years after 9/11, the U.S. government, working with scores of anonymous companies, many scattered across bland Northern Virginia suburbs, built a foreign and domestic surveillance apparatus of breathtaking scope—one that can peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. This cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats has one directive—“get everything you can”—and the result is a surreal world in which defense contractors have marketing subsidiaries and marketing companies have defense contractor subsidiaries. And the public knows virtually nothing about it. Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is the defining story of our dangerous grand bargain—ubiquitous cheap technology, but at what price?
Author : Tom Harris
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849542112
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Why I'm Right. . . written by Tom Harris and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a real insight into the bizarre circus that is the Westminster village, look no further... For two and a half years, Tom Harris used his And Another Thing... blog to dish the dirt on the reality of life as an MP. From defending politicians to dissecting Doctor Who, from how to survive a zombie holocaust to what to do when Gordon Brown forgets your name, the blog proved that politics - and politicians - do have a lighter side. Why I'm Right... And Everyone Else is Wrong compiles the very best of Harris's blog. With exclusive new material detailing the attempted coup against Tony Blair in September 2006 and his own attempt to persuade Gordon Brown to step down three years later, the book covers the highlights (and lowlights) of life in the political spotlight with humour, warmth and an insider view that's hard to beat.
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Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Michigan Alumnus written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In v.1-8 the final number consists of the Commencement annual.
