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Author: Richard Ross Publisher: Plume Books ISBN: 9780452285873 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 164
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After months of research at the U.S. Patent Office--the repository of delightfully improbable dreams--Ross amassed a collection of some of the most unique, odd, and awe-inspiring patent applications ever seen over the last century.
Author: Richard Ross Publisher: Plume Books ISBN: 9780452285873 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 164
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After months of research at the U.S. Patent Office--the repository of delightfully improbable dreams--Ross amassed a collection of some of the most unique, odd, and awe-inspiring patent applications ever seen over the last century.
Author: Terry Reed Publisher: Algora Publishing ISBN: 1628940352 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 219
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This book presents a provocatively, outrageously assertive exposure of fools in their not infrequently bizarre manifestations, the object being to leave no halfwits behind. It explores the world of the fool from many perspectives, including Engines of Limited Cognition: Dumb Bells, Dumb Clucks and Dumb Waiters; Imprudence and Its Imbecilic Implications; Fools, Eccentrics & Sons of Momus; and Idiotic Opportunities: Putting Fools to Work. This is not to infer (or even hint) that either the author or his readership is in any demonstrable sense of the word foolish, now or at any other time. After all, no fool would write a book like this, and no fool would read it. Precisely who does read it is a discretely personal decision we leave to those gifted with more than ordinarily inquiring minds. Indeed, those who elect to come along for the ride are likely to find their minds piqued, tickled and enriched by this tour de farce. True to form, Reed illustrates Ambrose Bierce's definition of educational -- 'that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fools their lack of understanding.' Abundantly documented, endlessly subtle, hopelessly eccentric and deadly funny, the book blends history, sociology, literature, philosophy, etymology and even theology, all with a good laugh.
Author: Cal Jillson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351863185 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 559
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Cal Jillson continues to approach the politics of the Lone Star State from historical, developmental, and analytical perspectives, while giving students the most even-handed, readable, and engaging description of Texas politics available today. Throughout the book students are encouraged to connect the origins and development of government and politics in Texas--from the Texas Constitution, to party competition, to the role and powers of the Governor--to its current day practice and the alternatives possible through change and reform. This text helps instructors prepare their students to master the origin and development of the Texas Constitution, the structure and powers of state and local government in Texas, how Texas fits into the U.S. federal system, as well as political participation, the electoral process, and public policy in Texas. Pedagogical Features Each chapter opens with an engaging vignette and a series of focus questions to orient readers to the learning objectives at hand. Each chapter concludes with a chapter summary, a list of key terms, review questions, suggested readings, and web resources. Each chapter includes "Let's Compare" boxes to help students see how Texas sits alongside other states, "Pro & Con" boxes to bring conflicting political views into sharper focus, and "Texas Legend" boxes featuring important figures in Texas political history. Tables, figures, timelines, and photos throughout highlight the major ideas, issues, individuals, and institutions discussed. Key terms are bolded and defined in the text, listed at the end of the chapter, and included in a glossary at the end of the book New to the 6th Edition Comprehensive assessment of the impact of Rick Perry’s unprecedented 14-year tenure as Governor of Texas Thorough consideration of the election of Sylvester Turner as Mayor of Houston and the national response to the police shootings in Dallas Coverage and analysis of the 2014 gubernatorial and state elections, the 2015 state legislative session, and the 2016 national elections as they affect Texas New boxes and narrative on current issues and laws, including: state-constitutional conventions, secession, and federalism voter identification abortion state budget, taxation and spending, and the 2016 Texas Supreme Court school funding decision the University of Texas battle between Wallace Hall, Jr. and William Powers, and its implications for gubernatorial power over directing and changing state institutions
Author: Jim Ford Publisher: C & R Crime ISBN: 1472112040 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 121
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DCI Theo Vos does not regard himself as a typical middle-aged cop. He doesn't have a drink problem, he's not depressed and he really hates jazz. So he's divorced - but that's because his wife ran off to Florida with a dentist, leaving him to bring up their teenage son. In any case, who has time for domestic problems when your job is presiding over the Bug House? Like all close-knit families, Vos's team has it's fair share of dysfunction, dark secrets and competing egos - except when they are working on a case. And when a dead drug dealer seemingly falls from a clear blue sky into a premier footballer's back garden, the team are faced with their most baffling case yet.
Author: James Chapman Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0857716638 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 296
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Eccentric, ironic and fantastic series like The Avengers and Danger Man, with their professional secret agents, or The Saint and The Persuaders, featuring flamboyant crime-fighters, still inspire mainstream and cult followings. Saints and Avengers explores and celebrates this television genre for the first time. Saints and Avengers uses case studies to look, for example, at the adventure series' representations of national identity and the world of the sixties and seventies. Chapman also proves his central thesis: that this particular type of thriller was a historically and culturally defined generic type, with enduring appeal, as the current vogue for remaking them as big budget films attests.
Author: Jason A. Kirk Publisher: University of Arkansas Press ISBN: 1610757564 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 242
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Nikki Haley has been an emerging force in American politics, her star power burnished over a decade that has seen her move from the national spotlight to the global stage. In Rising Star, political scientist Jason A. Kirk analyzes her ascendance in the Republican Party, from her governorship of South Carolina—during which she faced extraordinary challenges in a state reckoning with tragedy, race, and its own history—to her elevated profile as Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, where, as the daughter of immigrants and a woman of color, she became the face of his America First policy to the world. In considering a wide range of perspectives, Kirk illuminates how the combination of Haley’s political talents and her identity as an Indian American, Christian, southern woman has made her an unlikely bridge between the Trump years and the GOP’s embattled path forward.
Author: M. Perelman Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137079290 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 263
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This book describes how corporate powers have erected a rapacious system of intellectual property rights to confiscate the benefits of creativity in science and culture. This legal system threatens to derail both economic and scientific progress, while disrupting society and threatening personal freedom. Perelman argues that the natural outcome of this system is a world of excessive litigation, intrusive violations of privacy, the destruction system of higher education, interference with scientific research, and a lopsided distribution of income.
Author: Randal Rauser Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 0830857869 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 225
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What can evangelicals learn from liberal Christians, Darwinists, atheists and animal-rights activists? Randal Rauser sketches a path toward dialogue with the people we understand least.
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