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Book Synopsis The Book of Weird by : Barbara Ninde Byfield
Download or read book The Book of Weird written by Barbara Ninde Byfield and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read "The Book of Weird and enter into the mysterious netherworld of the fantastical. Ever since its original publication over a quarter of a century ago, this book has delighted fans of arcana and the occult. Now, a new package will draw still another generation to its mysterious charms. With the help of this playful sourcebook, you can decide which sounds like the more attractive occupation--witch or sorceress (or warlock or wizard). Using the table of ancient remedies you can learn how to cure common afflictions--from epilepsy to warts--that have plagued human history from the dawn of time. And by reading this book, you will finally know the proper time for matins and vespers, and when to celebrate Candlemas, Beltane, and Michaelmas. "The Book of Weird will take you through each of the deadly sins, and for good measure, each of the splendid virtues. You will learn how to avoid werewolves and vampires, and what to do to get rid of ghosts. It will teach you how to distinguish an incubus from a succubus in order to determine which you'd rather be visited by in the dark of night. Whether you are faced with gnome or dwarf, troll or ogre, elf or fairy, you will know the difference after browsing through this fun-filled, informative treasure chest of hidden knowledge.
Download or read book Weird Al written by Nathan Rabin and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fun and colorful” biography of the accordion-toting comedy legend—with rare photos, lyrics, lists, tweets, and more from Al himself (Publishers Weekly). The undisputed king of pop-culture parody, “Weird Al” Yankovic has sold more comedy recordings than any other artist in history, receiving three Grammy Awards (and fourteen nominations) in the process. This is a comprehensive illustrated tribute to this icon of the American humor landscape, the man behind such classics as “Eat It,” “Amish Paradise,” and “White & Nerdy.” Covering more than three decades of hilarious songs, videos, and concert performances, and his life story in words and pictures—and featuring an introduction, lists, tweets, and photo captions from Yankovic himself—Weird Al: The Book is the ultimate companion piece to an extraordinary career. “Part biography and part pop culture museum . . . a treat.” —Huffington Post
Download or read book Weird written by Olga Khazan and published by Hachette Go. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn why the concept of "weird" is being reclaimed and turned into a badge of honor, used to show how being different—culturally, socially, physically, or mentally—can be a person's greatest strength. Most of us have at some point in our lives felt like an outsider, sometimes considering ourselves "too weird" to fit in. Growing up as a Russian immigrant in West Texas, Olga Khazan always felt there was something different about her. This feeling has permeated her life, and as she embarked on a science writing career, she realized there were psychological connections between this feeling of being an outsider and both her struggles and successes later in life. She decided to reach out to other people who were unique in their environments to see if they had experienced similar feelings of alienation, and if so, to learn how they overcame them. Weird is based on in-person interviews with many of these individuals, such as a woman who is professionally surrounded by men, a liberal in a conservative area, and a Muslim in a predominantly Christian town. In addition, it provides actionable insights based on interviews with dozens of experts and a review of hundreds of scientific studies. Weird explores why it is that we crave conformity, how that affects people who are different, and what they can do about it. First, the book dives into the history of social norms and why some people hew to them more strictly than others. Next, Khazan explores the causes behind-and the consequences of-social rejection. She then reveals the hidden upsides to being "weird," as well as the strategies that people who are different might use in order to achieve success in a society that values normalcy. Finally, the book follows the trajectories of unique individuals who either decided to be among others just like them; to stay weird; or to dwell somewhere in between. Combining Khazan's own story with those of others and with fascinating takeaways from cutting-edge psychology research, Weird reveals how successful individuals learned to embrace their weirdness, using it to their advantage.
Book Synopsis The Weird and the Eerie by : Mark Fisher
Download or read book The Weird and the Eerie written by Mark Fisher and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted cultural critic unearths the weird, the eerie, and the horrific in 20th-century culture through a wide range of literature, film, and music references—from H.P. Lovecraft and Daphne Du Maurier to Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan. What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the pull of the outside and the unknown. In several essays, Mark Fisher argues that a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of transitory concepts such as the Weird and the Eerie. Featuring discussion of the works of: H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christopher Nolan.
Book Synopsis The Big Book of the Weird Wild West by : John Whalen
Download or read book The Big Book of the Weird Wild West written by John Whalen and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These bizarre tales are a far cry from the Wild West you remember from the movies. Among the stepping stones to the conquest of North America: cannibalism, mummified murderers, sadism, lynch mobs, bad-luck curses, unexplained decapitations, mysterious airships, cults, communes, and more.
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Weird News by : Geoff Tibballs
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Weird News written by Geoff Tibballs and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bumper collection of the most outrageous, but absolutely true, news stories.
Book Synopsis The Book of Weird by : Rogue Planet Press
Download or read book The Book of Weird written by Rogue Planet Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the world of the strange and the bizarre! Stories of a post-apocalypse world where a baby decides to trade his mother for a new one... A police officer makes a ghastly discovery inside and elderly woman's shed... A mentally challenged man has a monster in his closet... And a stranger enters a family's house, bringing a cicada dream... Short stories of the weird and bizarre by Mark Slade and illustrated by Ida Astero.
Book Synopsis The Book of Weird by : Barbara Ninde Byfield
Download or read book The Book of Weird written by Barbara Ninde Byfield and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Book of Weird and Unusual Trivia by : Publications International Ltd
Download or read book The Book of Weird and Unusual Trivia written by Publications International Ltd and published by Publications International Limited. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Weird and Unusual Trivia is a 704-page, padded hardcover book that's crammed with stories that are eerie, unexpected, and just plain bizarre. Learn about strange scientific facts, discover the quirky truths behind historical events, and thrill yourself with stories of the supernatural. A wide range of articles, anecdotes, and lists, this book will provide hours of enthralling reading. You'll laugh at stories of outlandish lawsuits and fumbling felons, find out about sword swallowing, and learn about the world's most expensive foods. Topics include the natural world, history, business, popular culture, sports, the human body, law, and the supernatural.
Book Synopsis The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words by : Andy Seed
Download or read book The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words written by Andy Seed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what 'park your jam on the frog' means? Fancy some ognib? What rhymes with 'circus'? ...plus many more amazing things you never knew about words. Have hours of fun wixing up your murds with this hilarious book, packed full of rhymes, puns, games, jokes, gibberish and more.
Download or read book The Weird written by Ann VanderMeer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oversized anthology of dark and bizarre tales written throughout the past century includes entries by international best-sellers and award-winners, including Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Franz Kafka.
Download or read book Weird-o-Pedia written by Alex Palmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Check out the weird and wonderful facts in this massive encyclopedia of alphabetized oddities: HUMANS ARE THE ONLY ANIMALS THAT ENJOY SPICY FOOD (there’s a reason no one sells Tabasco-flavored cat food). NAPPING CAN SAVE YOU FROM A HEART ATTACK (assuming you are not operating heavy machinery at the time). PSYCHOLOGISTS CAN ASSESS YOUR PERSONALITY FROM HOW YOU DIP FRIES IN KETCHUP (nice fries, sociopath). SURFING THE INTERNET ACTUALLY MAKES YOU SMARTER (but not as smart as reading this book will). Now the next time someone tells you smugly that Pluto isn’t a planet, you can counter with any one of these hundreds of weird facts and remain king or queen of the cocktail (or kegger) chatter.
Download or read book Weird Texas written by Wesley Treat and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If your taste extends to the odd side of traveling, [this is your ticket]."--"Booklist."
Book Synopsis Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by : Mary Elisabeth Braddon
Download or read book Wyllard's Weird: A Novel written by Mary Elisabeth Braddon and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some travellers who think when they cross the Tamar, over that fairy bridge of Brunel's, hung aloft between the blue of the river and the blue of the sky, that they have left England behind them on the eastern shore—that they have entered a new country, almost a new world. This land of quiet woods and lonely valleys, and bold brown hills, barren, solitary—these wild commons and large moorlands of Cornwall seem to stand apart, as they did in the days gone by, when this province was verily a kingdom, complete in itself, and owning no sovereignty but its own. It is a beautiful region which the traveller sees, perchance for the first time, as the train skims athwart the quaint little waterside village of Saltash, and pierces the rich depths of the woodland, various, enchanting. Now the line seems strung like a thread of iron in mid-air above a deep gorge, now winds sinuous as a snake through a labyrinth of hills. A picturesque bit of road, this between Plymouth and Bodmin Road, at all times; but, perhaps, loveliest in the still evening hour, when the summer sunset steeps the land in golden light, while the summer wind scarcely stirs the woods. In the mellow light of a July eventide the express from Paddington swept with slackened speed round the curve which marked the approach to a viaduct between Saltash and Bodmin Road—a heavy wooden structure, spanning a vale of Alpine beauty. An exquisite little bit of scenery, upon which the stranger is apt to look with some touch of fear mingled in the cup of his delight: but to the dweller in the district, familiar with every yard of the journey, the transit is as nothing. He is carried through the air serenely, as he smokes his cigar and reads his paper, and the notion of peril never occurs to him. One man, sitting by the window of a third-class carriage near the end of the train, looked out at the familiar scene dreamily to-night. He was an elderly, gray-headed man, a parish doctor, hard-worked and poorly paid; but he had a keen eye for the beautiful in Nature, dead or living, and familiar as this spot was to his eye, it always impressed him. He sat with his face to the engine, puffing lazily at his black briarwood, and gazing at the landscape, in that not unpleasant condition of bodily and mental fatigue, when the mind seems half asleep, and the external world is little more than a dream-picture. The train was not a long one, a good many of the London coaches having been left behind at Plymouth. Dr. Menheniot put out his head, and surveyed the line of carriages as they rounded the curve. There was a figure here and there by a window; but the train seemed sparsely occupied. They were nearing the viaduct. That narrow thread of water trickling over its rocky bed in the depth of the gorge was in winter a rushing torrent. The line at this point was under repair, and the wooden palisade had been removed in the progress of the work. The actual danger was in nowise increased by the absence of this barrier, which would have crumbled like matchwood before the weight of the train, had the engine run off the rails—but there was a seeming insecurity to the eye of the traveller as he looked into the gulf below; and Dr. Menheniot gave an involuntary shudder.
Book Synopsis The Weird, The Whacky and The Wonderful by : Michael Siddall
Download or read book The Weird, The Whacky and The Wonderful written by Michael Siddall and published by Michael Siddall. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Weird, Whacky and the Wonderful. Mind-bending short stories, poems and teasing thoughts. Funny, scary and strange. But each one pushes the boundaries of storytelling to the Outer Limits.
Book Synopsis Weird Kentucky by : Jeffrey Scott Holland
Download or read book Weird Kentucky written by Jeffrey Scott Holland and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the odd and interesting history, places, and people in Kentucky.
Download or read book Weird Confucius written by Zhao Lu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning antiquity until the present, Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic and fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities of people throughout history. While mainstream scholarship mostly considers Confucius in terms of his role as a celebrated man of wisdom and as a teacher with a humanistic worldview, Zhao addresses the weirder representations. He considers depictions of Confucius as a prophet, a fortune-teller, a powerful demon hunter, a shrewd villain of 19th century American newspapers, an embodiment of feudal evils in the Cultural Revolution, and as a cute friend. Zhao asks why some groups would risk contradicting the well-accepted image of Confucius with such representations and shows how these illustrations reflect the specific anxieties of these communities. He reveals not only how people across history perceived Confucius in diverse ways, but more importantly how they used Confucius in daily life, ranging from calming their anxiety about the future, to legitimizing a dynasty, stereotyping Chinese people, and even to forging a new sense of history.
