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The Book of Bad

Author : Christopher Barish
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806533322
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Bad written by Christopher Barish and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Bad is lined with instructions on how to pull off a multitude of nefarious activities, ranging from playful deviance to downright mischief. Over 30 forms of bad behaviour are described along with nearly 40 humorous line drawings to illustrate the bad behaviour in question. Also, each chapter offers more than one way to perform the bad action (so readers have options). The Book of Bad is the perfect balance of detailed instruction with irreverent humour, in an amusing step-by-step guide on how to be bad...and get away with it.

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense (Bad Arguments)

Author : Ali Almossawi
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615192263
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense (Bad Arguments) written by Ali Almossawi and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This short book makes you smarter than 99% of the population. . . . The concepts within it will increase your company’s ‘organizational intelligence.’. . . It’s more than just a must-read, it’s a ‘have-to-read-or-you’re-fired’ book.”—Geoffrey James, INC.com From the author of An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, here’s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals! Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school, a la Aristotle). Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short—plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn’t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that were true, he wouldn’t like the result (the argument from consequences). Once you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to YouTube comments—which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions.

The Book of Bad Things

Author : Dan Poblocki
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545645557
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Bad Things written by Dan Poblocki and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One kid's trash is another kid's terror in this spooky supernatural mystery. When Cassidy Bean leaves New York to spend the summer upstate, she's disappointed to find that Whitechapel is not the quiet, pleasant suburb she remembers. Ursula Chambers, the strange old hermit at the end of the cul-de-sac, has passed away under mysterious circumstances. And the townspeople are shocked to discover that Ursula was a hoarder: Her farmhouse is teeming with stacks of newspapers, piles of furniture, mounds of antique dolls and taxidermy animals.Cassidy watches as the people of Whitechapel descend upon Ursula's farmhouse, claiming her abandoned treasures for their own. She listens as rumors spread that Ursula's vengeful ghost is stalking the town with a warning from beyond the grave. And when Cassidy resolves to uncover the truth behind the strangeness, she learns there are more bad things in the world than she ever suspected. . . .Modern master of the macabre Dan Poblocki is back with another scary story best read at night.

The Book of Bad Ideas

Author : Laura Huliska-Beith
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316055883
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Bad Ideas written by Laura Huliska-Beith and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-12-21 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a compilation of bad ideas, such as rollerblading with your dog even though he was kicked out of obedience school and giving everyone a closer look at your ant farm by taking the lid off.

An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What's Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments)

Author : Ali Almossawi
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615198415
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What's Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments) written by Ali Almossawi and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a book for every thinking person, the perfect antidote to today’s culture wars.”—Hope Jahren The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return with this desperately timely guide to how words can trick us. Learn to “hear” hidden bias, slant, and spin—from an irresistible cast of woodland creatures! Public discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with “loaded language”—be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you’ll miss what Ali Almossawi finds more frightening still: words that erase accountability, history, even identity through what they leave unsaid. Speaking as wise old Mr. Rabbit, Almossawi leads us through a dark forest of rhetoric—aided by Orwell, Baldwin, and a squee-worthy cast of wide-eyed woodland creatures. Here, passive voice can pardon wrongdoers, statistics may be a smokescreen, gaslighting entraps the downtrodden, and irrelevant adjectives cement stereotypes. Emperor Squirrel isn’t naked; he has a clothes-free sartorial style. Mouse’s roof becomes flattened (Elephant’s foot just happens to be there at the time). And when keen-eyed Owl claims a foreign shore, he seems to be overlooking someone . . . Fans of Almossawi’s An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments couldn’t ask for a better primer on the less logical ways that words can trick us. It takes a long pair of ears to hear what’s left unsaid—but when you’re a rabbit in a badger world, listening makes all the difference.

The 10 Worst of Everything

Author : Sam Jordison
Publisher : Portable Press
ISBN 13 : 1645171604
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book The 10 Worst of Everything written by Sam Jordison and published by Portable Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch out for the people whose actions have earned them a place in this entertaining book! The 10 Worst of Everything is a celebration of failures, doom, disaster, mistakes, miscalculations, hubris, and folly from across a range of human endeavors—and when humans are involved, the potential for failure is great. This book includes chapters that focus on science, nature, pop culture, travel, and even romance. Each entertaining article will leave you shaking your head and wondering what these people were thinking.

The Bad Side of Books

Author : D.H. Lawrence
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373645
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Side of Books written by D.H. Lawrence and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf. Here Geoff Dyer, one of the finest essayists of our day, draws on the whole range of Lawrence’s published essays to reintroduce him to a new generation of readers for whom the essay has become an important genre. We get Lawrence the book reviewer, writing about Death in Venice and welcoming Ernest Hemingway; Lawrence the travel writer, in Mexico and New Mexico and Italy; Lawrence the memoirist, depicting his strange sometime-friend Maurice Magnus; Lawrence the restless inquirer into the possibilities of the novel, writing about the novel and morality and addressing the question of why the novel matters; and, finally, the Lawrence who meditates on birdsong or the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains. Dyer’s selection of Lawrence’s essays is a wonderful introduction to a fundamental, dazzling writer.

Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs

Author : Dave Barry
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449437583
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs written by Dave Barry and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humorist asked his readers to share their least favorite tunes and chronicles the hilarious responses. When funnyman Dave Barry asked readers about their least favorite tunes, he thought he was penning just another installment of his weekly syndicated humor column. But the witty writer was flabbergasted by the response when over 10,000 readers voted. “I have never written a column that got a bigger response than the one announcing the Bad Song Survey,” Barry wrote. Based on the results of the survey, Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs is a compilation of some of the worst songs ever written. Dave Barry fans will relish his quirky take. Music buffs too will appreciate this humorous stroll through the world’s worst lyrics. The only thing wrong with this book is that readers will find themselves unable to stop mentally singing the greatest hits of Gary Puckett. Praise for Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs “Barry is his usual puckish self, but the real surprise here is how funny many of the survey respondents are.” —Kirkus Reviews “Who can resist such a book?” —Publishers Weekly

Bad

Author : Jean Ferris
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613493901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Bad written by Jean Ferris and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Seventeen-year-old Dallas loves the rush of doing wild and crazy things. But after she is caught robbing a convenience store, her father sends her to the Girls' Rehabilitation Center, where Dallas meets an assortment of "bad" girls, forcing her to face the reality of her life and behavior.

Bad Magic

Author : Pseudonymous Bosch
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 140959128X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Bad Magic written by Pseudonymous Bosch and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is incredibly BAD. It does not contain MAGIC. Or a mysterious ghost girl. Or spontaneous combustion. Or Spanish-speaking llamas. Nope. None of these things. Okay... maybe one of these things. But certainly not MAGIC. It’s just an ordinary tale of a normal boy who goes to summer camp on a desert island. Nothing exciting or weird happens. The camp is definitely NOT for crazy, badly-behaved kids, and there are NO SECRETS or MYSTERIES at all. And absolutely NO MAGIC whatsoever...

Bad City

Author : Paul Pringle
Publisher : Celadon Books
ISBN 13 : 1250824095
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Bad City written by Paul Pringle and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pringle’s fast-paced book is a master class in investigative journalism... when institutions collude to protect one another, reporting may be our last best hope for accountability." —The New York Times For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating across Los Angeles from one of the region's most powerful institutions, a riveting tale from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who investigated the shocking events and helped bring justice in the face of formidable odds. On a cool, overcast afternoon in April 2016, a salacious tip arrived at the L.A. Times that reporter Paul Pringle thought should have taken, at most, a few weeks to check out: a drug overdose at a fancy hotel involving one of the University of Southern California’s shiniest stars—Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the head of the prestigious medical school. Pringle, who’d long done battle with USC and its almost impenetrable culture of silence, knew reporting the story wouldn’t be a walk in the park. USC is one of the biggest employers in L.A., and it casts a long shadow. But what he couldn’t have foreseen was that this tip would lead to the unveiling of not one major scandal at USC but two, wrapped in a web of crimes and cover-ups. The rot rooted out by Pringle and his colleagues at The Times would creep closer to home than they could have imagined—spilling into their own newsroom. Packed with details never before disclosed, Pringle goes behind the scenes to reveal how he and his fellow reporters triumphed over the city’s debased institutions, in a narrative that reads like L.A. noir. This is L.A. at its darkest and investigative journalism at its brightest.

Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141919221
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things written by Michael Rosen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully exuberant yet poignant poetry collection from one of Britain's greatest children's poets Michael Rosen. Here are tales of childhood, from the horrors of being late for school, to making a raft, and going to a cafe, as well as poems to ponder - just think, how great would Satnav trousers be! Touching, light-hearted and funny, Michael's poems will delight readers young and old. Former Children's Laureate, Michael continuously promotes the need for children's poetry in our education system, and this collection, first published in 2010, has something for everyone.

The Book of Bad Betties

Author : Vanessa Kisuule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913268237
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Bad Betties written by Vanessa Kisuule and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this book pay tribute to the women who've changed our lives, globally or personally. The fighters, survivors, rebels, queens, bosses, mentors, mothers, lovers and friends. Poetry by Gale Acuff, Polly Atkin, Erdem Avsar, Honey Baxter, Chloe Bettles, K. Blair, Laurie Bolger, Helen Bowie, Helen Bowell, Troy Cabida, Jemima Foxtrot, Jasmine Gray, Fee Griffin, Marguerite Harrold, Julie Irigaray, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Cecilia Knapp, Jill Michelle, Jenny Mitchell, Charlotte Newbury, Madeleine Pulman-Jones, Ellora Sutton, Ojo Taiye, Claudine Toutoungi and Christian Yeo.

The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray

Author : Robert Schnakenberg
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594748225
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray written by Robert Schnakenberg and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Best Seller. Part biography, part critical appreciation, part love letter, and all fun, this enormous full-color volume, packed with color film stills and behind-the-scenes photography, chronicles every Murray performance in loving detail, recounting all the milestones, legendary “Murray stories,” and controversies in the life of this enigmatic performer. He’s played a deranged groundskeeper, a bellowing lounge singer, a paranormal exterminator, and a grouchy weatherman. He is William James “Bill” Murray, America’s greatest national treasure. From his childhood lugging golf bags at a country club to his first taste of success on Saturday Night Live, from his starring roles in Hollywood blockbusters to his reinvention as a hipster icon for the twenty-first century, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray chronicles every aspect of his extraordinary life and career. He’s the sort of actor who can do Hamlet and Charlie’s Angels in the same year. He shuns managers and agents, and he once agreed to voice the lead in Garfield because he mistakenly believed it was a Coen Brothers film. He’s famous for crashing house parties all over New York City—and if he keeps photobombing random strangers, he might just break the Internet.

Bad Blood

Author : John Carreyrou
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524731668
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Bad Blood written by John Carreyrou and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos—one of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword covering her trial and sentencing, bringing the story to a close. “Chilling ... Reads like a thriller ... Carreyrou tells [the Theranos story] virtually to perfection.” —The New York Times Book Review In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings—from journalists to their own employees.

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?

Author : Lauren Child
Publisher : Orchard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781408307724
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? written by Lauren Child and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly original fairy-tale twist from Children's Laureate and Charlie & Lola creator Lauren Child.

The Power of Bad

Author : John Tierney
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101616466
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Bad written by John Tierney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read."—Martin E. P. Seligman, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at that University of Pennsylvania and author of Learned Optimism Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when it’s mixed with lavish praise? Because our brains are wired to focus on the bad. This negativity effect explains things great and small: why countries blunder into disastrous wars, why couples divorce, why people flub job interviews, how schools fail students, why football coaches stupidly punt on fourth down. All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. Eminent social scientist Roy F. Baumeister stumbled unexpectedly upon this fundamental aspect of human nature. To find out why financial losses mattered more to people than financial gains, Baumeister looked for situations in which good events made a bigger impact than bad ones. But his team couldn’t find any. Their research showed that bad is relentlessly stronger than good, and their paper has become one of the most-cited in the scientific literature. Our brain’s negativity bias makes evolutionary sense because it kept our ancestors alert to fatal dangers, but it distorts our perspective in today’s media environment. The steady barrage of bad news and crisismongering makes us feel helpless and leaves us needlessly fearful and angry. We ignore our many blessings, preferring to heed—and vote for—the voices telling us the world is going to hell. But once we recognize our negativity bias, the rational brain can overcome the power of bad when it’s harmful and employ that power when it’s beneficial. In fact, bad breaks and bad feelings create the most powerful incentives to become smarter and stronger. Properly understood, bad can be put to perfectly good use. As noted science journalist John Tierney and Baumeister show in this wide-ranging book, we can adopt proven strategies to avoid the pitfalls that doom relationships, careers, businesses, and nations. Instead of despairing at what’s wrong in your life and in the world, you can see how much is going right—and how to make it still better.