Download or read book How wacko is that written by Ranjit Lal and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are not a military-trained commando or wilderness expert but just an ordinary child, then what’s the best way to survive in the wild? Does it help to know how to start a fire by rubbing sticks together, or should you carry a matchbox when you go out into the wild? A poacher, if caught and convicted for killing a protected animal, can be thrown behind the bars for several years. Yet it’s okay for a government to drown an entire ancient rainforest the size of a small country and every living creature in it for a ‘development’ project. Now how wacko is that?!! In this book, best buddies Shaila and Sachin face many such situations, which makes them realize just how wacko and absurd some of our attitudes to and dealings with animals, nature, and wildlife can be. Follow their journey to know what needs to change before we relearn to coexist with nature.
Download or read book Brewer s Dictionary of Modern Phrase Fable written by John Ayto and published by Chambers Harrap Pub Limited. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated for the twenty-first century, this reference presents definitions and origins of thousands of words, idioms, catchphrases, slogans, nicknames, and events from TV, literature, music, comic strips, and computer games.
Download or read book Wacko Academy written by Faith Wilkins and published by Arundel Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighth-grader Lily Mason has enough hassles dealing with siblings, cranky teachers, and the cute new guy in school. But after she's kidnapped and brought to the elite Wackerson (Wacko) Academy, it will take all of her smarts and courage to outwit the school's treacherous owner--even if it means teaming up with his infuriating yet handsome son.
Download or read book A Field Guide to Left Wing Wackos written by Kfir Alfia and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's everything you need to know about Anarchists, Peace Moms, Granolas, and many other types of left-wing wackos…so you can annoy them before they annoy you! Dreadlocks. Megaphones. The stench of patchouli oil and bad ideas. Who are these ridiculous characters clogging our streets and college campuses, protesting everything from "American imperialism" to genetically modified food to tax cuts? And how can an articulate, employed, sane person like yourself glean entertainment value from their antics? Kfir Alfia and Alan Lipton, the founders of ProtestWarrior, America's leading antiactivist organization, have spent years studying the eighteen distinct species of leftist protesters in our midst-everyone from Blacktivists to Hacktivists to Islamothugs. And in this hilarious guide, they will teach you: How to easily differentiate among similar species like Communists, Anarchists, and College Students. How to recognize the subtleties of the Performance Artist versus the Dylan Wannabe and the Acid Freak versus the Granola. How to confront, tease and taunt these wackos with witty comebacks, demolishing zingers, and infuriating facts. (Here's one: "War never solved anything ... except for slavery, fascism, Nazism and communism!") A Field Guide to Left Wing Wackos is the manual you want at your fingertips to defend yourself and the American Way-and have some fun while you're at it.
Download or read book The Wacko from Waco written by Carolyn Permentier and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hoteko s Laws written by Sarge Hoteko and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoteko's Laws are Chief Inspector Sarge Hoteko's golden rules on managing in the federal government. He states only 10 percent of those in management make any useful contribution. The remaining 90 percent are along for the free ride - all at taxpayer expense. You'll meet the people he labels: The sandbaggers, the clowns, the wackos, the yes men and the stargazers. Discover the other myriad impeding factors that face the 10 percenters. Observe how prying reporters, pompous politicians, devious lawyers, power hungry unions and volatile EEO issues can impact a manager's ability to get the job done. Learn the shocking truth behind some talented people who sadly self-destructed. Examine his compelling case that the 10 percenters are better managers than their private industry counterparts. Hoteko's Laws offer a fascinating insight into the inner workings of a federal agency. A unique look at the good, the bad and the funny that run the government. Hoteko throws open the door, takes you behind-the-scenes and tells it like it is. It's informative, often humorous and intriguingly provocative! A must read for students of government, management and human behavior!
Download or read book It Takes a School written by Jonathan Starr and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of David and Goliath proportions, how an American hedge fund manager created a unique school in Somaliland whose students, against all odds, have come to achieve success beyond anyone’s wildest dreams Jonathan Starr, once a cutthroat hedge fund manager, is not your traditional do-gooder, and in 2009, when he decided to found Abaarso, a secondary school in Somaliland, the choice seemed crazy to even his closest friends. “Why,” they wondered, “would he turn down a life of relative luxury to relocate to an armed compound in a breakaway region of the world’s #1 failed state?” To achieve his mission, Starr would have to overcome profound cultural differences, broken promises, and threats to his safety and that of his staff. It Takes a School is the story of how an abstract vision became a transformative reality, as Starr set out to build a school in a place forgotten by the world. It is the story of a skeptical and clan-based society learning to give way to trust. And it’s the story of the students themselves, including a boy from a family of nomads who took off on his own in search of an education and a girl who waged a hunger strike in order to convince her strict parents to send her to Abaarso. Abaarso has placed forty graduates and counting in American universities, from Harvard to MIT, and sends Somaliland a clear message: its children can compete with anyone in the world. Now the initial question Starr was asked demands another: “If such a success can happen in an unrecognized breakaway region of Somalia, can it not happen anywhere?”
Download or read book Boyos written by Richard Marinick and published by Justin, Charles & Co.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack "Wacko" Curran, a rising young player in the Boston underworld, dreams of replacing a drug-dealing Mob boss, and figures that the bankroll from the armored-car heist he's planning will put him on his way. Trouble is, Curran's getaway driver has spilled the beans to the mobster.
Download or read book Pharafaneelya written by JAWS and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharafaneelya takes you into a place of several symbolic mirrors in several chapters—some mirrors are shattered, cold, and pitch-black. These mirrors and doors only accept fresh dead victims. The young victim in Pharafaneelya is an unlucky teenager girl. She’s a girl whose life has been bent and broken by false mirrors of guidance and lost love. With her virtue taken and forgotten and soul destroyed, she becomes a resident of the asylum of Pharafaneelya, to be consumed and integrated into it due to her heinous crimes committed towards her own family. She’s doomed to be turn into Watchmen to forever serve the asylum. She’s caught forever in a looping fragmented dream world of dreams, dreams which are forever monitored by prying eyes. Just when you think you know what’s coming next, you get thrown a sharp curve, so prepare yourself for a rollercoaster of a ride. Look for Weirdens Black Book, The first serious to this book, Pharafaneelya. Coming soon…… Writing books enables me to tell fiction stories in shattered mirrors—mirrors that may have passed through some unlucky soul once and live to tell about it. There’s a positive message in all the stories, and I hope the readers can find it through all the insanity and emotion of the book. Ultimately, having readers that like your creativity and your twisted style of the writing, is enough one could ask for. One can only hope to keep the eager readers neurons firing and their attention glued to the whole story, captured by the shockers in each special chapter—capturing and keeping—the reader a part of the story. I truly want to create books that readers, can, read a long with each other and have fun doing it.
Download or read book Did You Know This written by Rosemary LeRoy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book is about some of the things some people in the entertainment world do on a daily regular basis you may not have heard of. I was married to a man who worked for a famous country/rock band. My eyes were opened to a whole other world of goings on that I knew little about. Some do such wacky wrong things it is hard to believe even if they are in the entertainment world. Some do not want people to know and some are so out there, that they do want people to know what they do because it would help their image. Believe it or not.
Download or read book Cloud Chamber written by Michael Dorris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-01-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Rose Mannion, an Irish woman transplanted in western Kentucky, showing how her legacy of love and betrayal affected succeeding generations of her family.
Download or read book Hate Smile written by Neal Studzinski and published by Contagious Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Hate/Smile- The Greatest Story Never Told is an autobiography of Neal Studzinski. The story captures the various facets and the ups and downs of the personal life of the author. The narration is casual, friendly, empathetic, and expressive, taking into account the stressful experiences of his bipolar disorder and other life problems, and how he conquers it. Neal Studzinski is a multi-talented creative mind who has shown his prowess as a marketing professional, entrepreneur, front-end developer, and writer. A business graduate from Baker College of Clinton Township, MI, Studzinski went to high school on 8 Mile and hung out with Eminem and his roommates: Robert Claus (Chedda' Bob), Mike (Manix) & Matt (Butterfingers) Ruby, and the late James Deel (Chaos Kid). He learned to walk the walk at a young age hanging out with those guys. Neal watched the formation of the groups Soul Intent and Bassmint Productions. He already knew how to talk the talk.
Download or read book Swimming for My Life written by Kim Fairley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970s Cincinnati, Kim’s overwhelmed, financially stressed parents dragged her and her four younger siblings into swimming—starting with a nearby motel pool—as a way to keep them occupied and out of their way. When Kim was eleven, they began leaving the kids at home with a sitter while they traveled the Midwest, where they sold imported wooden ornaments from their motorhome. But when Kim’s six-year-old brother crashed his new Cheater Slick bike and the babysitter deserted the children, what started as an accident became a pattern: Mom and Dad leaving for weeks at a time and the kids wrestling with life’s emergencies on their own. As Kim coped in the role of fill-in mother while dealing with the stresses of elite swimming, she struggled to shape her own life. She eventually found strength, competence and achievement through swimming—and became the second female swimmer to win a full ride to the University of Southern California, where she earned two national titles. Swimming for My Life is a peek into the dark side of elite swimming as well as a tale of family bonds, reconciling with the past, and how it is possible to emerge from life’s toxic and lifesaving waters.
Download or read book Resurrection written by Robert S. C. Cutler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient demon, banished for over two centuries, is unwittingly released when three teenage boys vandalize a small, forgotten graveyard deep within the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Now free, the demon sets out on a murderous rampage, immersing the boys in a dark, murky world in-between life and death; forcing them to fight for not only their lives, but for the lives of their friends and family.
Download or read book Stuck Together written by J. Nelson Kraybill and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a peacemaker in a polarized world? It can feel as if the world—and the church—has never been more polarized. But when we feel worn down by the chasms dividing us, we can take hope from the early Christian vision of God uniting all things in Christ, a hope that can lead us to act. Stuck Together explores Bible stories and narratives ancient and modern that inspire us to open hearts and minds to persons with whom we disagree as we gain confidence in our own convictions. Drawing from Scripture, from his own life journey, and from the witness of others, author J. Nelson Kraybill demonstrates how even small steps of reconciliation by confessionally grounded Christians can have big effect and give loving Christian witness in a polarized church and society.
Download or read book Switch Pitcher written by R. Bruce Stock and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Carter Browne makes his mid-season MBL debut as an ambidextrous reliever for the New York Americans in the ninth, and the batters can't hit him, the die is cast, as he takes his team from fifteen games out of first place to the postseason. But rather than describe the rest of the plot and its unexpected twists and turns, some of which are life-threatening, let's hear from those most involved, the players--those with him or against him. Visitors He's hard to figger, and he keeps you guessin' as you burn up the strikes. --Roy Higgins, Boston Blue Sox I heard so much about this kid. I just wanted to watch him throw. Then I was out. --Johnny Barilko, Baltimore Eagles What the hell is he trying to do, change the game? We don't need something we've never seen before to make this game innerestin'. --Bobby Valentino, Manager, Boston Blue Sox Home You gotta love him. Never misses a sign, intimidates the batters, and always throws strikes. --Tommy Sarbrucken, catcher, The New York Americans We think he's champion even if he's always reducing our workload. Beauty! --Bill Boyd, relief pitcher, The New York Americans If you think he's dangerous as a pitcher, wait till you see him hitting. The ball doesn't have a snowball's chance of seeing the catcher's glove! --Benny Wilder, hitting coach, The New York Americans
Download or read book Hartsburg USA written by David Mizner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the failing rustbelt town of Hartsburg, Ohio, the competition between two very different candidates--born-again Christian mother Bevy Baer and Wallace Cormier, a failed Hollywood screenwriter and avowed atheist--has a profound impact on the town and for the country as a whole. By the author of Political Animal.
