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Author : David R. Branon
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457511649
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)
Download or read book The Curmudgeon's Tree written by David R. Branon and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Soisson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514486164
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book The Curmudgeon's Dictionary written by William Soisson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, when the author first read Ambrose Bierce's "Devil's Dictionary," he was ecstatic. Here at last was a creative work that was utterly lacking in discrimination. Worth no regard whatever for race, creed, color, sex, religion, or fast food preference, Bierce kicked everyone's sacred cow right in the udder. The author instantly knew that somehow, some day, he must continue the work begun by Ambrose. So it is that "The Curmudgeon's Dictionary" follows the great Bierce's lead in flaying without mercy the pretentious of our world. At the same time, "TCD" unavoidably reflects many of the changes in style that have occurred in our language since 1911, when "The Devil's Dictionary" was first published. Many of the old poets, like Biddle Tamey and Opned Teal, so well quoted by Bierce, are gone, having been replaced by such contemporary greats as Taner Bane and Sigson Kolgy, who, though they lack the elegance of the poets of Bierce's day, have the virtues of simplicity and forthrightness. Then, too, changes in science and technology have brought us many new terms such as "computer," "CAT Scan," "Jive," and "Monica," which did not yet exist in Bierce's day. Moreover, changes in the attention span have made it desirable to abbreviate many definitions and support the work of the aforementioned more concise poets. The author has violated this procedure only when considerations of clarity or beauty have made it imperative, as with the haunting "Ode to a Giant Bonsai Tree." Aside from such evolutionary matters, one will find that some of the venerable Bierce's definitions are still valid today and have found their way into this magnificent book in updated form. The updating is no criticism of the master, only recognition that time moves things, if not forward, at least along.
Author : Olivier Dunrea
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101647655
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book A Christmas Tree for Pyn written by Olivier Dunrea and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is coming. In the craggy rocks on the snowy mountainside, tiny Pyn has her heart set on decorating her very first Christmas tree. But, "No Christmas tree," Papa says. Still, Pyn won't take no for an answer. She knows that a Christmas tree is just the thing their cottage needs to make the season festive and cheery. Pyn is determined to find the perfect Christmas tree - no matter what. With this story of the love between a father and daughter, Olivier Dunrea captures the true spirit of Christmas.
Author : Matthew Burgess
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 039955663X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon written by Matthew Burgess and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BANK STREET BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "For any kid or parent that's having a bit of a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, this book is an instant pick me up. Great for siblings, too!" --Red Tricycle "After reading aloud, listeners might discover their own ways to unbudge curmudgeons."--Publishers Weekly "Playful language and a subtly rhyming text create an enjoyable read-aloud about frustrations and bad moods." --Booklist What do you do with a curmudgeon that just won't budge? Why, shake off the grumpy 'tude and embrace the fun! Have you ever seen a curmudgeon that looks like your brother, but is in such a bad mood you hardly recognize him? You can try all the peanut butter sandwiches and brownies you have, but he is not moving. Nothing works, especially nudging, and he just makes you so grumpy that eventually you have no choice but to fight back--and then... Have you ever become a curmudgeon that just won't budge? Matthew Burgess's playful depiction of bad moods and sibling rivalry is matched perfectly by Fiona Woodcock's unique childlike art style.
Author : Jerry Flemmons
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875652177
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Curmudgeon in Corduroy written by Jerry Flemmons and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Flemmons' Texas is sometimes a place of sadness, even tragedy, sometimes a place of high jinx and great jokes, but most often, it's a place of vanishing traditions and long-ago days.
Author : Shawn M. Tomlinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329222016
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (292 download)
Download or read book A Photo Curmudgeon's Tale written by Shawn M. Tomlinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-time columnist and lifelong photographer Shawn M. Tomlinson writers about the art and technique of photography with wit and humor. He focuses in his Photo Curmudgeon columns on getting started in as well as moving into advanced photography. Instead of concentrating upon the newest, shiniest photographic equipment, Tomlinson works with all levels of older equipment, makes recommendations and recounts his own "Voyages of Photography." He helps the novice get started with higher end, older cameras and lenses, and helps with photo editing suggestions and techniques.
Author : Charles Murray
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0804141444
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead written by Charles Murray and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those starting out in their careers—and those who wish to advance more quickly—this is a delightfully fussy guide to the hidden rules of the road in the workplace and in life. As bestselling author and social historian Charles Murray explains, at senior levels of an organization there are curmudgeons everywhere, judging your every move. Yet it is their good opinion you need to win if you hope to get ahead. Among the curmudgeon’s day-to-day tips for the workplace: • Excise the word “like” from your spoken English • Don’t suck up • Stop “reaching out” and “sharing” • Rid yourself of piercings, tattoos, and weird hair colors • Make strong language count His larger career advice includes: • What to do if you have a bad boss • Coming to grips with the difference between being nice and being good • How to write when you don’t know what to say • Being judgmental (it’s good, and you don’t have a choice anyway) And on the great topics of life, the curmudgeon urges us to leave home no matter what, get real jobs (not internships), put ourselves in scary situations, and watch Groundhog Day repeatedly (he’ll explain). Witty, wise, and pulling no punches, The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead is an indispensable sourcebook for living an adult life.
Author : Cleveland Amory
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316037457
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Cat and the Curmudgeon written by Cleveland Amory and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 1991-10-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his hard-knock beginnings, Polar Bear is finicky about his newfound fame. Will nine lives be enough for him to answer all his fan mail? This tale of two curmudgeons will tickle the fancy of everyone who has ever been owned by a cat. And it doesn't end here-Polar Bear's fans won't want to miss the third and most poignant installment of the trilogy: The Best Cat Ever.
Author : Thomas P. Lowry
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803280243
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools written by Thomas P. Lowry and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, a Union colonel was five times more likely to be court-martialed than a private. Worse, courts-martial of all ranks increased by 400 percent in the winter months. Among the court-martialed transgressors presented in this volume are an officer nicknamed ?Stumpy? because he tended to hide behind tree stumps during combat and a man tried for calling his superior a ?miserable reptile.? The gallery of offenders also includes a Vermont colonel who became a chloroform addict and a New York colonel who rode his horse into a barroom, ordered a brandy for himself and one for his horse, then fired his pistol through the ceiling. The stories of fifty misdeeds, along with a statistical exploration of twenty-two thousand other courts-martial, provide a pioneering study of the little-known world of Civil War misbehavior and clarify the often-bewildering dynamics between volunteer soldiers and their professional superiors.
Author : William B. Caudle II
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449043593
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Old Curmudgeon written by William B. Caudle II and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . .Miss Emma, he doesn't have to be worthy to listen and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ. All he has to do is be willing. If we could only get him to listen and let us talk to him." "There were only three noticeable and important differences he could immediately observe about north Florida. First, the lush-green countryside was filled with trees, such as would never grow in the arid climate of Colorado. The second was the lilting, often difficult-to-understand, sometimes heavily-accented, language spoken by the true native in the area. It was perceptible as English, but was laced with colloquialisms never heard before by the farm-boy-turned-missionary. The third was the impossible humidity which left a man sweating and drained of energy before 10:00 a.m. each day during the six-month-long summer. But, Elder Butters thought, he would be able to adjust, and he had begun to come out of his shell after a month or two. That is, until he was transferred as his second assignment to the newly-formed Dixie Ward and met "that old curmudgeon."
Author : Monica Ferris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440673144
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Hanging by a Thread written by Monica Ferris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Monica Ferris has a talent for vivid detail,” raves the Old Book Barn Gazette. And her heroine, needlecraft shop owner Betsy Devonshire, is “a great character” says Midwest Book Review. Now it’s up to Betsy to unravel a five-year-old murder case that refuses to die… Betsy is still new enough to Excelsior, Minnesota, to not know a scandal when she causes one. So, when she hires Foster Johns to fix her roof, the resulting uproar has her needled. The whole town has pinned a five-year-old unsolved double murder on him. Betsy believes Johns when he says he isn’t guilty. But she’ll have to use every stitch of her sleuthing skills to tie up all the loose ends that will prove his innocence once and for all.
Author : Allan Wooley
Publisher : Book Venture Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1946735485
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (467 download)
Download or read book The Curmudgeon's Quests written by Allan Wooley and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After growing up in Maine and attending Bowdoin, the author earned a PhD in Classics at Princeton. He taught at Duke, before returning to Phillips Exeter Academy, where he taught for 36 years and was department chair and coordinator of academic computing. In the New England Classical Association he served as president and executive secretary.
Author : Susan Perry
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674060385
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Manipulative Monkeys written by Susan Perry and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their tonsured heads, white faces, and striking cowls, the monkeys might vaguely resemble the Capuchin monks for whom they were named. How they act is something else entirely. They climb onto each other's shoulders four deep to frighten enemies. They test friendship by sticking their fingers up one another's noses. They often nurse--but sometimes kill--each other's offspring. They use sex as a means of communicating. And they negotiate a remarkably intricate network of alliances, simian politics, and social intrigue. Not monkish, perhaps, but as we see in this downright ethnographic account of the capuchins of Lomas Barbudal, their world is as complex, ritualistic, and structured as any society. Manipulative Monkeys takes us into a Costa Rican forest teeming with simian drama, where since 1990 primatologists Susan Perry and Joseph H. Manson have followed the lives of four generations of capuchins. What the authors describe is behavior as entertaining--and occasionally as alarming--as it is recognizable: the competition and cooperation, the jockeying for position and status, the peaceful years under an alpha male devolving into bloody chaos, and the complex traditions passed from one generation to the next. Interspersed with their observations of the monkeys' lives are the authors' colorful tales of the challenges of tropical fieldwork--a mixture so rich that by the book's end we know what it is to be a wild capuchin monkey or a field primatologist. And we are left with a clear sense of the importance of these endangered monkeys for understanding human behavioral evolution.
Author : Bruce Wayne Workman
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Ten Assholes and a Curmudgeon written by Bruce Wayne Workman and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Author Bruce Wayne Workman is a retired rubber chemist with a BS in Information Technology. He is a jack of many trades who has taken to freelance writing in his retirement. Bruce has a passion for information and research, first evidenced when he began reading the entire World Book Encyclopedia at age eight. He was called a natural by a professor in one of his literature courses at UMass Lowell. His first essay on the differences between the working class and the ruling class, The New Robber Barons, was written in 2002 about CEO v worker wages. Bruce is an amateur political activist. Much of his blog at bruceworkman.com is devoted to politics and inequality. He writes a regular feature known as “Asshole of the Week.” Bruce was not named after Batman, but the president of Cooper Tire and Rubber Company. Bruce lives in Findlay, Ohio, with his wife and son. His daughter and grandchildren live in a Detroit suburb. Bruce is a lifelong Detroit Tigers fan and spends an unhealthy amount of time in front of a computer.
Author : Wallace McRae
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423609315
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems written by Wallace McRae and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wally McRae, a regularly featured performer at the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, has performed on a syndicated television program and at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. He is the first cowboy poet to be granted a National Heritage Award. This book contains 94 of his poems, including such classics as Reincarnation, along with 40 new poems published for the first time.Paperback; 25 black & white illustrations
Author : James Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780741440877
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Christmas Curmudgeon written by James Cox and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas, the entire Christmas season, is the ultimate symbol of the decadence of American society and Santa is its corporate sign. As you slide into your crackling pit of electronic junk, gadgets, and toys, there may be only one thing that will save you. That one thing is this book. Well, this book and a complete change in attitude. Follow the brothers Jenkins? from Thanksgiving Day (the more you eat the more you can eat) to Christmas Day as they plaster the mall with anti-Christmas posters, start an anti-Christmas card campaign, and address the world with their life-sized ideas about Christmas. It's a spiritual journey with an important message ? ?Remember, nothing is better than debt.'
Author : David R. Branon
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 145753715X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Angels With Broken Wings written by David R. Branon and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s inflammatory headlines come to satiric life in this convoluted tale of self-serving hustlers as Detective Lawrence Striker and FBI Special Agent Cassandra Cassidy put their heads (and other things) together to weave their way through the violent eruptions of racial animosities and the rabble-rousing buzzards who feast on those divisions. There are crimes to solve but as the story evolves the layers of the fetid onion are peeled away to expose the maggots of deception and double-dealing. In an early morning shootout on the mean streets of River City two African-American teenagers are gunned down by the cops and that heralds the emergence of the devious and race-baiting Reverend Abraham Castille to media-driven, national prominence as he, with incendiary rhetoric, escalates civil protest into open warfare. As flames threaten to consume the city a kindly old lady who was witness to the shootout is murdered, the city’s police commissioner is assassinated, and the rioting spins inexorably out of control and spreads with lethal effect to other parts of the country. Striker and Cassidy are sucked into a cesspool of evil doings that include a drug trafficking network that reaches from River City all the way to Russian mobsters in Chicago. In this miasma of duplicity everyone is sworn to different agendas and Striker’s resolve is put to yet another cruel and life-changing test. With a comedic and jaundiced eye, Branon depicts how today’s warped self-righteousness and avaricious self-aggrandizement have squandered the nonviolent legacies of those who led the civil rights movement of the 60s, a movement that wanted an equal opportunity for a seat at the table but didn’t intend to burn the house down while they courageously pursued the invitation. All this wrapped inside a page-turning thriller, a jigsaw puzzle of nefarious motives and end games.
