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Book Synopsis Sometimes the Dragon Wins by : Alan Dundes
Download or read book Sometimes the Dragon Wins written by Alan Dundes and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Xerox lore and humour circulating widely in today's workplace. Have you seen anytime recently the High School Math Test, or Varying Interpretations of a Basic Philosophical Principle, or Why God Never Received Tenure. Well, it's all here and much more. The book features humorous commentaries - cartoons, mottoes, zany poems, defiant sayings, parodies, funny faxes, ethnic slurs, and crude jokes - on all of the issues and problems facing the modern world. No one and nothing escapes their raunchy wit and sarcasm.
Book Synopsis Sometimes the Dragon Wins by : Robert V. Van Trees
Download or read book Sometimes the Dragon Wins written by Robert V. Van Trees and published by Robert V. Van Trees. This book was released on 1994 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the turbulent years after the Revolutionary War, it is a mesmerizing story of love, hope, courage, sacrifice, and despair in the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio.
Book Synopsis Sometimes the Dragon Wins by : William Walling
Download or read book Sometimes the Dragon Wins written by William Walling and published by Virtualbookworm.com. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chin Zhonghua Renmin Gonghehuo, the Peoples Republic of China, achieves a technological triumph with its “Great Leap Upward,” the late 21st century deployment of a “space elevator” rising from an equatorial mountain in Kalimantan to an enormous microgravity production satellite in geosynchronous orbit, as well as starward to a spacecraft inertial launch and retrieval complex. This radical, innovative system permits the importation of lunar and orbital products at negligible cost, creating economic chaos in world marketplaces . Blackmailed into accepting a “suicide” mission to penetrate the space elevator’s closely guarded secrets and effect minor sabotage, United Nations intelligence asset Rudy Cateel becomes embroiled in the subterfuge of China's counterintelligence director who convinces China’s hierarchy that economic overkill might end in thermonuclear holocaust and, since system repair and rework are mandatory, arranges an artificial hiatus in operation in order for China to “save face.” Things go awry when a Nipponese double-agent is ordered to do away with Cateel and effect totally destructive sabotage.
Book Synopsis "Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words" by : Wolfgang Mieder
Download or read book "Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words" written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a composite picture of the richness of proverbs as significant expressions of folk wisdom as is manifest from their appearance in art, culture, folklore, history, literature, and the mass media. The book draws attention to the fact that proverbs as metaphorical signs continue to play an important role in oral and written communication. Proverbs as so-called monumenta humana are omnipresent in all facets of life, and while they are neither sacrosanct nor saccharine, they usually offer much common sense or wisdom based on recurrent experiences and observations."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Who Killed the Jingle? by : Steve Karmen
Download or read book Who Killed the Jingle? written by Steve Karmen and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). In this funny and insightful investigation, Steve Karmen dubbed the "King of the Jingle" by People magazine takes us back to a time when consumers happily sang along to "Pepsi Cola Hits the Spot," "This Bud's for You," and "Hershey Is the Great American Chocolate Bar," and brings us to the era of borrowed melodies, electronic sounds, and lyrics that never mention the name of the product. Did Madison Avenue get too sophisticated for its own good? Too cheap? Too sneaky? In its quest to combat the technology that allows viewer to "zap" the commercials, "tune out," or eliminate advertising, did the advertising world invent "integration" (putting the product into the programming) rather than make the commercials lovable, hummable units of entertainment themselves? Karmen explores the demise of the advertising music business and why the future of advertising is so precarious.
Download or read book Beginning written by Nirmal Rathore and published by Suvidhi Publication. This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I pay my heartiest gratitude to the almighty for creating this beautiful world where we can share our ideas and live a wonderful life. Secondly i thank all the co-authors who devoted their valuable time in shaping this book beautifully and contributing their immense love through their remarkable writeups without them this book would have not been the reality. Last but not the least i would like to thanks Suvidhi Publication for helping and guiding through the process of publishing.
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs by :
Download or read book The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs written by and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects more than 1,400 English-language proverbs that arose in the 20th and 21st centuries, organized alphabetically by key words and including information on date of origin, history and meaning.
Book Synopsis The Nature of War in the Information Age by : David J. Lonsdale
Download or read book The Nature of War in the Information Age written by David J. Lonsdale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of today's Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) literature subscribes to the idea that the information age will witness a transformation in the very nature of war. In this book, David Lonsdale puts that notion to the test.
Book Synopsis The New Welfare Bureaucrats by : Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Download or read book The New Welfare Bureaucrats written by Celeste Watkins-Hayes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the recession worsens, more and more Americans must turn to welfare to make ends meet. Once inside the agency, the newly jobless will face a bureaucracy that has undergone massive change since the advent of welfare reform in 1996. A behind-the-scenes look at bureaucracy’s human face, The New Welfare Bureaucrats is a compelling study of welfare officers and how they navigate the increasingly tangled political and emotional terrain of their jobs. Celeste Watkins-Hayes here reveals how welfare reform engendered a shift in focus for caseworkers from simply providing monetary aid to the much more complex process of helping recipients find work. Now both more intimately involved in their clients’ lives and wielding greater power over their well-being, welfare officers’ racial, class, and professional identities have become increasingly important factors in their work. Based on the author’s extensive fieldwork in two very different communities in the northeast, The New Welfare Bureaucrats is a boon to anyone looking to understand the impact of the institutional and policy changes wrought by welfare reform as well as the subtle social dynamics that shape the way welfare is meted out at the individual level.
Book Synopsis All the Wrong Places by : Anne Elliott
Download or read book All the Wrong Places written by Anne Elliott and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about men and women who are trying to live up to the expectations of those around them, looking to others to make them happy, not realizing that the power lies within.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs by : Wolfgang Mieder
Download or read book Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Compiled by Wolfgang Mieder, a key figure in the field of proverb studies, this compendium features nearly 1,500 proverbs with American origins, spanning the 17th century to present day, including a scholarly introduction exploring the history of proverbs in America, the structure and variants of these proverbs, known authors and sources, and cultural values expressed in these proverbs. Along with a comprehensive bibliography of proverb collections and interpretive scholarship, this dictionary offers a glimpse into the history of American social and cultural attitudes through uniquely American language.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies by : Simon J. Bronner
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This handbook surveys the materials, approaches, contexts, and applications of American folklore and folklife studies to guide students and scholars of American folklore, culture, history, and society in the future. In addition to longstanding areas in the 350-year legacy of the subject's study and applications such as folktales and speech, the handbook includes exciting fields that have emerged in the twenty-first century such as the Internet, bodylore, folklore of organizations and networks, sexual orientation, neurodiverse identities, and disability groups. These studies encompass cultural traditions in the United States ranging from bits of slang in private conversations to massive public demonstrations, ancient beliefs to contemporary viral memes, and a simple handshake greeting to festivals encompassing multiple genres and groups. Folklore and folklife studies include material traditions such as buildings and crafts as well as oral and social genres of dance, ritual, drama, and play. Whereas the use of lore often emphasizes speech, song, and story that all people express, the rhetoric of life draws attention to tradition-centered communities such as the Amish and Hasidim, occupational groups and their workaday worlds, and children and other age groups. Significant to the American context has been the cultural diversity and changing national boundaries of the United States, relative youth of the nation and its legacy of mass immigration, mobility of residents and their relation to an indigenous and racialized population, and a varied landscape and settlement pattern. The handbook is a reference, therefore, to American studies as well as the global study of tradition, folk arts, and cultural practice"--
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Book Synopsis Memo to the Leader by : William Walling
Download or read book Memo to the Leader written by William Walling and published by Virtualbookworm.com. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is year 142 of Deutsches Weltreich, the German World Empire dating from 1933, when the vilified Nazi régime was born. Tenured history professor and seasoned retrotemporal researcher Dr. James Silverthorne reluctantly accepts the key role in a desperate conspiracy aimed at obliterating Deutschesweltanreich tyranny in retrospect via a desperate, clandestine return to wartime Berlin in order to thwart the efforts of SS hero of heroes Erich Lustmann. Sent back to 1939 Berlin decades after the war by Odessa expatriates in Argentina, Lustmann is armed with prescient knowledge of actual wartime events and circumstances, the former SS "Deathshead" officer’s mission is to “rectify” via a decidedly outré method Hitler’s meddlesome misdirection of the war that culminated in erroneous, fanciful military decisions, and thereby ensured a Nazi victory in WW II. Fearing his own “mission impossible” is exactly that, Professor Silverthorne nevertheless doggedly pursues his world-changing crusade in an exciting time travel adventure grand in scope and world-changing in purpose.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife [2 volumes] by : Pauline Greenhill
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife [2 volumes] written by Pauline Greenhill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the stone age to the cyber age, women and men have experienced the world differently. Out of a cosmos of goddesses and she-devils, earth mothers and madonnas, witches and queens, saints and whores, a vast body of women's folklore has come into bloom. International in scope and drawing on more than 130 expert contributors, this encyclopedia reviews the myths, traditions, and beliefs central to women's daily lives. More than 260 alphabetically arranged entries cover the lore of women across time, space, and life. Students of history, religion and spirituality, healing and traditional medicine, literature, and world cultures will value this encyclopedia as an indispensable guide to women's folklore. In addition, there are entries on women's folklore and folklife in 15 regions of the world, such as the Caribbean, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe. Entries provide cross-references and cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected bibliography of print and electronic resources. Students learning about history, world cultures, religion and spirituality, healing and traditional medicine, and literature will welcome this companion to the daily life of women across time and continents.
Book Synopsis Rebellious Laughter by : Joseph Boskin
Download or read book Rebellious Laughter written by Joseph Boskin and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellious Laughter changes the way we think about the ordinary joke. Claiming that humor in America is a primary cultural weapon, Boskin surveys the multitude of joke cycles that have swept the country during the last fifty years. Dumb Blonde jokes. Elephant jokes. Jewish-American Princess jokes. Lightbulb jokes. Readers will enjoy humor from many diverse sources: whites, blacks, women, and Hispanics; conservatives and liberals; public workers and university students; the powerless and power brokers. Boskin argues that jokes provide a cultural barometer of concerns and anxieties, frequently appearing in our day-to-day language long before these issues become grist for stand-up comics.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Stress in an Age of Ease by : William J. Elenchin
Download or read book Rethinking Stress in an Age of Ease written by William J. Elenchin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stress is a concept that has become both increasingly popularized and misunderstood in society. Today we often think about how “stressed” we are, many on a daily basis. This is especially interesting when we consider that as life has become easier, at least from a materialistic standpoint, rates of depression and anxiety in our culture have risen. It is true that living with too many demands in life can be harmful to our physical and emotional health. But it is equally true that when we believe difficult circumstances are an unnatural part of life, we only set ourselves up for increased fear and sorrow. Hans Selye, the scientist who discovered how stress operates in the mind and body nearly a century ago, never intended for it morph into the now common idea that all stress is “bad” for us. Yet that’s precisely what has occurred, driven by three particular social changes in the last half-century. This little guide is a “back to the basics” kind of field manual written for students, but is generally for all ages. By rethinking the proper role that stress plays in our lives, we will be better positioned not only to deal with life’s challenges, but to embrace all seasons as a part of our journey while on earth.
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