Author: Sumit Dhar Publisher: ISBN: 9781519016508 Category : Languages : en Pages : 178
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Omnibus of the four volumes of the Kindle Bestseller series and one of Amazon's Top Rated quiz books With over 75 five star ratings, the InQUIZitive series features quizzes that will give you multiple "Aha!" moments. Each question in this series has been selected with utmost care and the book features trivia not seen in any of the other books. This is an ideal book for party games, family get-togethers and long drives with your family. Add this book to your cart now and impress your friends with trivia that is truly unique.Limited Time Offer: Get Kindle copies of the series free with the paperback. Contact the author at [email protected] for details.Praise for the InQUIZItive Series- Best concept in a trivia book I've ever seen.- InQUIZitive is extremely infectious!- Trivia at its best in this written format.- InQUIZitive series offers a great collection of good trivia questions that will be fun for almost audiences and formats.- Fascinating questions with answers that will very enjoyably expand your knowledge.Sample QuestionsQ1. In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Indians in America. Both the parties agreed that each deer skin was worth a dollar and thus it became an important unit of commerce on the American frontier. This story is widely believed to be the origin of what word? Q2. Lady Godiva appealed to her husband to reduce the oppressive taxes he levied on the town people. He agreed to do so provided she rode naked through the town. Legend has it that Lady Godiva sent word to the town folks and asked them to avert their eyes as she rode by. Out of respect for Lady Godiva, they all complied with her wishes. All expect one who couldn't help but sneak a peek. Who?Q3.In 2005, a software company Scansoft Inc. was looking for a voice artist for a special database project. They reached out to GM Voices, a company providing such facility. Their main voice over artist was absent and this project went to Susan Bennett. Susan worked for over a month reading phrases and sentences for the project. Her recordings were then concatenated into various words, sentences, and paragraphs used in the project. What did Susan lend her voice to?Answers: 1. Buck, the slang term for a dollar.2. Peeping Tom3. Siri, Apple's intelligent personal assistant.Get your copy right away
Author: Bill O'Neill Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781978145122 Category : Languages : en Pages : 184
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Are you a pub trivia enthusiast looking for some new challenges? Then The Great Book of Pub Trivia is the perfect companion for game nights, fun family times, fun evenings with friends, or just reading to brush up on your pub trivia knowledge. These trivia questions will get your brain working, and these random facts will give you bragging rights with all your friends (if you get them right). You'll get instant access to fun quizzes covering different topics such as film, politics, science, history, fashion and many more. You'll get a taste of quizzes like: In emergency situations, this process is used to determine which injured people should receive medical attention first, based on how serious and how treatable they are. This especially happens out in the field. The term comes from the French meaning to separate, sift or select. What is the name of this process? This man was a famous businessman, investor, pilot and film industry genius who was incredibly wealthy becoming a millionaire at age 18. He was also incredibly troubled with OCD and pain from injuries he got in a plane crash. He was born in 1905 and died in 1976 at which point he had become a major recluse. He famously dated Katherine Hepburn, broke a world record for a flight around the world. His famous plane was known as the Spruce Goose. He was the subject of the movie The Aviator, where he was portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio. What is his name? The Mustang was originally unveiled in 1964 and is a classic America muscle car. It appeared in many famous films, including Goldfinger. It was created to compete with the Chevrolet Camaro, Pontiac Firebird, AMC Javelin, and the Chrysler Plymouth Barracuda, and the Dodge Challenger. Which car manufacturer created the Mustang?
Author: Bill O'Neill Publisher: ISBN: 9781648450297 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Have no fear! The Great Book of Pub Trivia Vol.2 is finally here and it's the perfect companion for game nights, fun family times, fun evenings with friends, or just reading to brush up on your pub trivia knowledge. These trivia questions will get your brain working, that's for sure. You'll get instant access to fun quizzes covering different topics such as film, politics, science, history, fashion and many more.You'll get a taste of quizzes like:- This is a character in Star Wars and one of the villains in the franchise. He was Darth Sidious's first apprentice and a Sith Lord. He has quite a shocking appearance, with black and red skin, yellow eyes and horns. He survived death in the Phantom Menace, killed Obi-Wan Kenobi's love interest, and formed a group of crime lords called the Shadow Collective. What was this character's name?- Almost half of the world's population speak one of only ten languages as their mother tongue. Mandarin is the most spoken language with 1.2 billion speakers, Spanish is the second most spoken language, then followed by English. What is the fourth most spoken language on the planet? It is the official language of the government of India, and it is also a recognized language in Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname. Name this language.- He is one of the most iconic villains in film and television who we first met in the 1952 novel Psycho, by Robert Bloch. The character is psychotic and has Dissociative Identity Disorder. He also suffers from visual and auditory hallucinations. His delusions made him think he was his mother, and that she was controlling him to kill people. The character was inspired by notorious serial killer Ed Gein. What is this character's name?
Author: Stanislas Dehaene Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698151402 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 352
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WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before. In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive neuroscientists worldwide have accomplished in defining, testing, and explaining the brain events behind a conscious state. We can now pin down the neurons that fire when a person reports becoming aware of a piece of information and understand the crucial role unconscious computations play in how we make decisions. The emerging theory enables a test of consciousness in animals, babies, and those with severe brain injuries. A joyous exploration of the mind and its thrilling complexities, Consciousness and the Brain will excite anyone interested in cutting-edge science and technology and the vast philosophical, personal, and ethical implications of finally quantifying consciousness.
Author: Nancy Keene Publisher: Childhood Cancer Guides ISBN: 1941089143 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 481
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More than 325,000 children, teens, and adults in the United States are survivors of childhood cancer. The surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and stem cell transplants used to cure children can affect growing bodies and developing minds. If survivors know of these potential problems, they can take steps to identify, cope with, or treat them early if they do develop. The third edition of Childhood Cancer Survivors charts the territory for survivors by providing state-of-the-art information about: " Medical late effects from treatment " Emotional aspects of surviving cancer " Schedules for follow-up care " Challenges in the heath-care system " Lifestyle choices to maximize health " Discrimination in employment or insurance Woven throughout the text are stories from more than 100 survivors and parents. Authors Keene, Hobbie, and Ruccione are experts in the field of childhood cancer. Keene is the mother of a survivor of childhood leukemia and the author of several books including Childhood Leukemia, Childhood Cancer, Educating the Child with Cancer, and Chemo, Craziness & Comfort. Hobbie is Associate Director of the Cancer Survivorship Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Ruccione is Co-Director of the HOPE (Hematology-Oncology Psychosocial and Education) Program in the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Author: Rodney V. Salm Publisher: IUCN ISBN: 9782831705408 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 406
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This is a new edition of the classic textbook on marine protected area (MPA) management in the tropics, originally produced as an output of the Bali World Parks Congress in 1982. Approaches to planning and managing MPAs have evolved considerably. Major advances include innovative financing mechanisms, partnerships with the private sector and NGOs, and collaborative management between government and coastal communities. These advances have brought new approaches for MPA establishment and management that are more participatory, involving communities through interaction and collaboration rather than prescription. With new case studies and illustrations, the guide comes in a water-resistant cover for field use. It is intended for those who plan individual and/or national MPA systems and gives philosophical context for MPAs along with some basic principles and approaches.
Author: Jeff Kolby Publisher: Nova Press ISBN: 1889057150 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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Other vocabulary books list difficult, esoteric words that readers quickly forget or feel self-conscious about using. Here there is a bounty of choice words, between the common and the esoteric, that will flow forth, once learned. Brief Description: English offers perhaps the richest vocabulary of all languages, in part because its words are culled from so many languages. It is a shame that we do not tap this rich source more often in our daily conversation to express ourselves more clearly and precisely. Many a vocabulary book lists esoteric words we quickly forget or feel self-conscious using. However, there is a bounty of choice words between the common and the esoteric that often seem be just on the tip of our tongue. Vocabulary 4000 brings these words to the fore.All the words you need for success in business, school, and life!Features: * Word Analysis section* Idiom and Usage section* 200 Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes* Concise, practical definitions* Great for the SAT, GRE and other entrance exams.
Author: Велимир Хлебников Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674140455 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 494
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Dubbed by his fellow Futurists the "King of Time," Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) spent his entire brief life searching for a new poetic language to express his convictions about the rhythm of history, the correspondence between human behavior and the "language of the stars." The result was a vast body of poetry and prose that has been called hermetic, incomprehensible, even deranged. Of all this tragic generation of Russian poets (including Blok, Esenin, and Mayakovsky), Khlebnikov has been perhaps the most praised and the more censured. This first volume of the Collected Works, an edition sponsored by the Dia Art Foundation, will do much to establish the counterimage of Khlebnikov as an honest, serious writer. The 117 letters published here for the first time in English reveal an ebullient, humane, impractical, but deliberate working artist. We read of the continuing involvement with his family throughout his vagabond life (pleas to his smartest sister, Vera, to break out of the mold, pleas to his scholarly father not to condemn and to send a warm overcoat); the naive pleasure he took in being applauded by other artists; his insistence that a young girl's simple verses be included in one of the typically outrageous Futurist publications of the time; his jealous fury at the appearance in Moscow of the Italian Futurist Marinetti; a first draft of his famous zoo poem ("O Garden of Animals!"); his seriocomic but ultimately shattering efforts to be released from army service; his inexhaustibly courageous confrontation with his own disease and excruciating poverty; and always his deadly earnest attempt to make sense of numbers, language, suffering, politics, and the exigencies of publication. The theoretical writings presented here are even more important than the letters to an understanding of Khlebnikov's creative output. In the scientific articles written before 1910, we discern foreshadowings of major patterns of later poetic work. In the pan-Slavic proclamations of 1908-1914, we find explicit connections between cultural roots and linguistic ramifications. In the semantic excursuses beginning in 1915, we can see Khlebnikov's experiments with consonants, nouns, and definitions spelled out in accessible, if arid, form. The essays of 1916-1922 take us into the future of Planet Earth, visions of universal order and accomplishment that no longer seem so farfetched but indeed resonate for modern readers.
Author: Deirdre Boyle Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195043340 Category : Documentary television programs Languages : en Pages : 321
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This is a history of "guerilla television", a form of TV which was part of an alternative media tide sweeping the United States in the 1960s. Inspired by the fracturing issues of the decade and the theories and writings of various exponents, guerilla television put forth "utopian" programming.
Author: Sumit Dhar
Author: Bill O'Neill
Author: Bill O'Neill
Author: Stanislas Dehaene
Author: Nancy Keene
Author: Rodney V. Salm
Author: Jeff Kolby
Author: J. Stephen Russell
Author: Велимир Хлебников
Author: Deirdre Boyle