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Author: William (Bill) Daugherty Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1475983212 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
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Bill Daugherty has been collecting and telling jokes and humorous stories for many years. He does this, not for profit, but for the sheer enjoyment he receives from making people laugh. With stories such as these, he has entertained his Rotary Club, local and National Audubon Societies, literary group meetings, humorous roast, and members of his weekly bridge games. Bill's occupation has not been entertainment. Rather, he has post graduate degrees in Physics and Education, and before retiring, was an Aerospace Engineering Manager at Hughes Aircraft Company, Space Technology Laboratories, and TRW Systems. He has written two WWII novels about the air war in the South Pacific, Black Cats, and Nightmares. He published a monolog on education, Public School Education Destroyed by Educators, and an engineering text he co authored, Mechanical Engineering for Electrical Engineers. His OP-ED pieces have appeared in major newspapers. Bill firmly believes that laughter is sorely missing in our world, and jokes about mature subjects are especially entertaining. To find out of this "Not our typical joke book" you'll have to read it.
Author: William (Bill) Daugherty Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1475983212 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
Bill Daugherty has been collecting and telling jokes and humorous stories for many years. He does this, not for profit, but for the sheer enjoyment he receives from making people laugh. With stories such as these, he has entertained his Rotary Club, local and National Audubon Societies, literary group meetings, humorous roast, and members of his weekly bridge games. Bill's occupation has not been entertainment. Rather, he has post graduate degrees in Physics and Education, and before retiring, was an Aerospace Engineering Manager at Hughes Aircraft Company, Space Technology Laboratories, and TRW Systems. He has written two WWII novels about the air war in the South Pacific, Black Cats, and Nightmares. He published a monolog on education, Public School Education Destroyed by Educators, and an engineering text he co authored, Mechanical Engineering for Electrical Engineers. His OP-ED pieces have appeared in major newspapers. Bill firmly believes that laughter is sorely missing in our world, and jokes about mature subjects are especially entertaining. To find out of this "Not our typical joke book" you'll have to read it.
Author: Ned Vizzini Publisher: Disney Electronic Content ISBN: 1423141083 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 452
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Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.
Author: Gerald Mast Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226509788 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 421
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Although books on the comedies of the silent era abound, few have attempted to survey film comedy as a whole—its history and evolution, how the philosophical visions of its greatest artists and directors have shaped its traditions, and how these visions have informed both the meaning and manner of their work. Blending information with interpretation, description with analysis, Mast traces the development of screen comedy from the first crude efforts of Edison and Lumière to the subtlety and psychological complexity of Annie Hall. As he guides the reader through detailed discussions of specific films, Mast reveals the structures, the values, and the cinematic techniques which have appeared and reappeared in comic cinema. The second edition of The Comic Mind treats the comic developments of the 1970s in terms of the traditions of film comedy set forth in the first edition, including a discussion of the evolution of Jacques Tati and the emergence of Mel Brooks and Woody Allen as the two greatest American comic stylists of the seventies. "The most comprehensive study of film comedy yet written in English. . . .The book's extensive index with references to companies from which 16mm prints of many of the cited films may be rented will be of great value to the film teacher and audiovisual librarian."—Choice
Author: Lisa Scottoline Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250100038 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 701
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The collections from beloved mother-daughter writing duo Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella are among the best reviewed humor books published today and have been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Here for the first time in a fabulous eBook bundle are two of their witty and warm collections. Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog This one's for you, extraordinary ordinary women everywhere! Here Lisa Scottoline shares a hilarious collection of scenes from her real life, and she bets her life sounds a lot like yours...if you crave carbs, can't find jeans that fit, and still believe that these two things are unrelated. My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space Lisa and Francesca give their mother-daughter perspective on everything from blind dates to empty calories, as well as life with the feistiest octogenarian on the planet, Mother Mary. Three generations, triple the laughs-and the love.
Author: Leslie Noelani Laurio Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1430324945 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 206
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Volume 1 of Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschool Series paraphrased sentence by sentence into plain English by Leslie Laurio. This is a good place for parents of very young children to begin, since Charlotte Mason details ways to prepare children up to age 9 for a CM education. If you prefer to print or read this book online for free, the complete text is also available at http: //www.amblesideonline.org/CM/ModernEnglish.htm
Author: Benjamin Tomes Publisher: Benjamin Tomes ISBN: Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 327
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There have been books about ADHD before, but nothing quite like this funny ebook series. Undiscovered author Benjamin Tomes outlines the distinct line between discovery and origin as he details a childhood impacted by ADHD in a world not yet familiar with the disorder. Many have treated ADHD as a pandemic that sprang from nowhere, sapping the attention spans of scores of school-aged children. Nothing could be further from the truth, yet few have delved into our past to examine instances of the disorder before it was recognized by modern medicine. This humorous memoir entertains while it recounts life in the 1970's and 1980's, before anyone had ever heard of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. In his four part humorous memoir entitled Confessions of the Unmedicated Mind, Tomes provides an unprecedented firsthand account of ADHD. His take on a childhood impacted by the focus disorder and dysfunctional family is as hilarious as it is poignant, albeit not for the faint of heart. Despite home tumult and academic failure, Tomes would go on to become an award winning coach and successful teacher, providing an interesting perspective on an unlikely ascent from rural miscreant to urban legend. Set primarily in the small towns of Northern Wisconsin, Tomes uses heavy handed humor to deliver blunt force drama drawn from his personal war on boredom. His birth to twenty-one account is broken into four key areas and the series is issued in volumes along those lines. Volume 1: Home Home reads like a self-written psych report, detailing family idiosyncrasies, dalliances with girls, experimentation with alcohol and meandering through life without regard; as well as a potential road to redemption. Along the way, fish are thrown at tourists, prank calls are made, children are led astray in church, a bowling alley is defiled and socially challenged relatives are antagonized. Nothing is sacred as Tomes spins a classic piece of humorous non-fiction with his true stories of bad behavior. In vivid detail, Tomes recounts his dysfunctional childhood, the genetic roots of his ADHD, the influence of ill behaved cousins and extended family, his parent's awkward religious beliefs, and a laundry list of bad behavior, stunts, pranks, and a life heavily influenced by a chronic intolerance of boredom.
Author: Various Authors Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 501
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Traits of American Humour is a three volume edition which contains numerous short stories, sketches and tales, illustrating the character and wit of American people from North to South and from East to West. _x000D_ Table of Contents:_x000D_ Vol. 1:_x000D_ My First and Last speech in the General Court_x000D_ Hoss Allen, of Missouri_x000D_ The Widow Rugby's Husband_x000D_ The Big Bear of Arkansas_x000D_ Johnny Beedle's Courtship_x000D_ The Marriage of Johnny Beedle_x000D_ Johnny Beedle's Thanksgiving_x000D_ Aunt Nabby's Stewed Goose_x000D_ Decline and Fall of the City of Dogtown_x000D_ The Coon-Hunt_x000D_ A Ride With Old Kit Kuncker_x000D_ Seth Willett; The Elk County Witness_x000D_ The Two Fat Sals_x000D_ War's Yure Hoss?_x000D_ Bob Lee_x000D_ The Shooting-Match_x000D_ The Horse Swap_x000D_ Three Chances for a Wife_x000D_ The Yankee Amongst the Mermaids_x000D_ Captain Stick and Tony_x000D_ The Way Billy Harris Drove the Drum-Fish to Market_x000D_ Yankee Homespun_x000D_ The Indefatigable Bear-Hunter_x000D_ Colonel Crockett's Ride on the Back of a Buffalo _x000D_ Colonel Crockett's Adventure with a Grizzly Bear_x000D_ Colonel Crockett's, The Bear, and the Swallows_x000D_ A Pretty Predicament_x000D_ Vol. 2:_x000D_ The Editor's Creed_x000D_ Josh Beanpole's Courtship_x000D_ Peter Brush, the Great Used Up_x000D_ Cousin Sally Dilliard_x000D_ The Age of Wonders_x000D_ How Simon Suggs "Raised Jack"_x000D_ My First Visit to Portland_x000D_ Billy Warrick's Courtship and Marriage_x000D_ Our Town_x000D_ Falling off a Log, in a Game of "Seven Up"_x000D_ A Yankee Card-Table_x000D_ Dick M'Coy's Sketches of His Neighbours_x000D_ Kicking a Yankee_x000D_ Why Mr. Sellum Disposed of the Horse_x000D_ Metaphysics_x000D_ A Tight Race Considerin'_x000D_ A Shark Story_x000D_ A Bear Story_x000D_ The Best-Natured Man in the World_x000D_ Chunky's Fight With the Panthers_x000D_ A Bully Boat, and a Brag Captain_x000D_ Fydget Fyxington_x000D_ Doing a Sheriff_x000D_ The Muscadine Story_x000D_ Polly Peablossom's Wedding_x000D_ The Mother and Her Child_x000D_ Peleg Ponder_x000D_ Vol. 3:_x000D_ The Thimble Game_x000D_ Mike Hooter's Bar Story_x000D_ Cousin Guss_x000D_ The Gander-Pulling_x000D_ How Mike Hooter Came Very Near Walloping Arch Cooney_x000D_ An Interesting Interview_x000D_ Ben Wilson's Last Jug-Race_x000D_ Mike Fink in a Tight Place_x000D_ Our Singing-School_x000D_ Where Joe Meriweather Went To_x000D_ Georgia Theatrics_x000D_ Taking the Census_x000D_ A Family Picture_x000D_ Colonel Jones's Fight_x000D_ The Fastest Funeral on Record_x000D_ Old Tuttle's Last Quarter Race…
Author: Theodore X. O'Connell Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323528023 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 706
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Written and reviewed by students, residents, and experts, and led by bestselling review author Dr. Ted O'Connell, Crush Step 1, 2nd Edition, is the perfect review resource you need to score high on this high-stakes exam. This comprehensive, focused resource is the most effective review tool available for truly understanding the material on which you'll be tested. - Up-to-date, easy-to-read, high-yield coverage of all the material tested on the exam. - Numerous color images, helpful lists, and quick-reference tables help students retain and recall information quickly. - Review questions for each chapter test student mastery of core knowledge and aid retention of high-yield facts. Test prep strategies help readers identify and understand question stems rather than memorizing buzz words. - A new review board of current students and residents, as well as authors who scored within the 99th percentile on the USMLE Step 1, ensures relevance and accuracy. - Student ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, references and animations, designed to produce a more rounded learning experience.
Author: Samuel Longfellow Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag ISBN: 3849626504 Category : Languages : en Pages : 351
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This is the biography of a man of letters. Mr. Longfellow was not that exclusively, but he was that supremely. He touched life at many points; and certainly he was no bookworm or dry-as-dust scholar shut up in a library. He kept the doors of his study always open, both literally and figuratively. But literature, as it was his earliest ambition, was always his most real interest; it was his constant point of view; it was his chosen refuge. His very profession was a literary one. Now, the life of a man of letters needs be unexciting and uneventful in the eyes of men of activities and affairs. In such a life, a new book is a great adventure, a new poem or tale a chief event. Such a life can be painted only by a multitude of minute touches. For this reason, and because it was desirable that he should tell his own story as far as possible, a large part of this biography is made up of extracts from a daily journal. By such a method could the reader best learn how a man of letters spends his time, and what occupies his thoughts. This is volume 1, covering the years 1807 through 1842.
Author: Ashton Applewhite Publisher: Celadon Books ISBN: 1250297249 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 302
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Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride! “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author
Author: William (Bill) Daugherty
Author: William (Bill) Daugherty
Author: Ned Vizzini
Author: Gerald Mast
Author: Lisa Scottoline
Author: Leslie Noelani Laurio
Author: Benjamin Tomes
Author: Various Authors
Author: Theodore X. O'Connell
Author: Samuel Longfellow
Author: Ashton Applewhite