Author: Peter Funt Publisher: ISBN: 9780615797014 Category : Candid camera (Television program) Languages : en Pages : 212
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How is the American spirit holding up in these difficult times? Peter Funt, syndicated columnist and host of TV's "Candid Camera," looks beyond the headlines to find out. In six-dozen essays, Funt uses a light but penetrating touch to take the nation's temperature. "I've always been fascinated by small slices of life," he writes. "During my time in broadcast and print journalism, as well as in entertainment television, I've looked for the smaller items that, when taken together, create a bigger picture of who we are and where we're headed." Funt's columns appear regularly in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and many of his op-eds formed the basis for these essays. Funt's canvas is very much like the real world we deal with every day. Sure, Americans are concerned about taxes, education and crime. But we also care about mobile apps that talk back to us, Paul McCartney's hairdo, and raccoons that destroy our lawns. "On 'Candid Camera, ' Funt explains, "we celebrated the American spirit, and in the last five years of traveling, interviewing and researching, I'm happy to report that the spirit remains strong. That said, my opinion pieces often focus on the negative. That's inherent in news and commentary; we don't dismiss all the good, but we search out those things that need to be fixed." In "Cautiously Optimistic," Peter Funt finds the good, the bad and the occasionally hilarious. These essays are designed to make you think, but also to smile.
Author: Ct Meek Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This is Heidi's 2nd book. Her first was Weight In Gold, a poetry book. This new book is about her memoirs and memories. And what a revelation they are. It takes guts, real guts, to lay yourself bare like this on the written page. And Heidi is made of strong enough stuff to confront her challenging life head on. She shirks away from nothing, no one, or any subject. This is how a life story should be presented, honestly.
Author: Michael E. Mann Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 1541758226 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we've been told can slow climate change. But the inordinate emphasis on individual behavior is the result of a marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals. Fossil fuel companies have followed the example of other industries deflecting blame (think "guns don't kill people, people kill people") or greenwashing (think of the beverage industry's "Crying Indian" commercials of the 1970s). Meanwhile, they've blocked efforts to regulate or price carbon emissions, run PR campaigns aimed at discrediting viable alternatives, and have abdicated their responsibility in fixing the problem they've created. The result has been disastrous for our planet. In The New Climate War, Mann argues that all is not lost. He draws the battle lines between the people and the polluters-fossil fuel companies, right-wing plutocrats, and petrostates. And he outlines a plan for forcing our governments and corporations to wake up and make real change, including: A common-sense, attainable approach to carbon pricing- and a revision of the well-intentioned but flawed currently proposed version of the Green New Deal; Allowing renewable energy to compete fairly against fossil fuels Debunking the false narratives and arguments that have worked their way into the climate debate and driven a wedge between even those who support climate change solutions Combatting climate doomism and despair-mongering With immensely powerful vested interests aligned in defense of the fossil fuel status quo, the societal tipping point won't happen without the active participation of citizens everywhere aiding in the collective push forward. This book will reach, inform, and enable citizens everywhere to join this battle for our planet.
Author: Deirdre Wilson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 052176677X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 397
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When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts that humans are capable of entertaining and conveying? How should we analyse literal meaning, approximations, metaphors and ironies? Is the ability to understand speakers' meanings rooted in a more general human ability to understand other minds? How do these abilities interact in evolution and in cognitive development? Meaning and Relevance sets out to answer these and other questions, enriching and updating relevance theory and exploring its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies.
Author: Jacquie May Miller Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc ISBN: 1509235493 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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When Jamie Crandall left Seattle for college twenty-five years ago, she was pregnant. Her mother demanded that she abort the child or get the hell out of Seattle and never come back. Jamie chose the latter, using her scholarship to UC Berkeley to disappear with the son she refused to abort. But now, everything has changed. Her mother has died, and Jamie is coming home to face the father of her son. Reuniting her son and his father will come at a high price though…Jamie has one more secret left to reveal.
Author: Dan Sperber Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195141156 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 462
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This volume concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. It collects studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors.
Author: Amy Haimerl Publisher: Running Press Adult ISBN: 076245735X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 274
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Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for 35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy. As she and her husband restore the 1914 Georgian Revival, a stately brick house with no plumbing, no heat, and no electricity, Amy finds a community of Detroiters who, like herself, aren't afraid of a little hard work or things that are a little rough around the edges. Filled with amusing and touching anecdotes about navigating a real-estate market that is rife with scams, finding a contractor who is a lover of C.S. Lewis and willing to quote him liberally, and neighbors who either get teary-eyed at the sight of newcomers or urge Amy and her husband to get out while they can, Amy writes evocatively about the charms and challenges of finding her footing in a city whose future is in question. Detroit Hustle is a memoir that is both a meditation on what it takes to make a house a home, and a love letter to a much-derided city.
Author: Kelly Utt Publisher: Standards of Starlight ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 238
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Suspense Thriller: Take Me to Fight (Ithaca Falls Series Book 4) - A Pulse-Pounding Continuation Prepare for a pulse-pounding and suspenseful reading experience that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Immerse yourself in the captivating world of the Ithaca Falls series, where national security is at stake, and George Hartmann finds himself at the forefront of the battle against ruthless villains. George, a military hero turned family man, never anticipated being forced out of retirement and thrust back into the world of special ops. With the safety of his loved ones hanging in the balance, he must navigate divided loyalties and put his personal interests aside to protect millions from an imminent threat. Take Me to Fight continues the gripping saga of the Ithaca Falls series, an ongoing family story that will leave you craving for more. Previously published as Limits of Protection in the George Hartmann Series, this book delves deeper into the high-stakes world that fans of Melinda Leigh, Kendra Elliot, Lisa Regan, and Mary Burton adore. Join the close-knit Hartmann and Davies family as they return to their cozy hometown of Ithaca Falls, New York, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Anchored by the profound affection shared between George and Alessandra, this suspense-filled story illuminates the power of human connections during the most challenging times, as they strive to protect each other at any cost. Don't miss out on this gripping series. Purchase Take Me to Fight, the fourth book in the Ithaca Falls series, and continue the pulse-pounding journey where loyalty, duty, and sacrifice intertwine. Keywords: suspense thriller, pulse-pounding, Ithaca Falls series, national security, military hero, family safety, ruthless villains, high stakes, divided loyalties, gripping saga, captivating series, Melinda Leigh, Kendra Elliot, Lisa Regan, Mary Burton, suspense-filled story, profound affection, ongoing family saga, gripping suspense, captivating thriller, family bonds, gripping series, pulse-pounding journey.
Author: William Safire Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195340612 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 887
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Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.
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