Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Download or read book The 30 Rock Book written by Mike Roe and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious true story of the making of the cult classic hit show 30 Rock It’s hard to remember a time when Tina Fey wasn’t a star, but back in the early 2000s, she was an SNL writer who was far from a household name. It’s even harder to remember when Fey’s sitcom 30 Rock was tanking, but it was—it premiered in the fall of 2006, and by November, the New York Times wrote that 30 Rock was “perilously close to a flop.” But despite all expectations (including those of some of the cast and crew), Tina Fey’s eccentric buddy comedy lasted 138 episodes, spanning seven seasons. It resurrected the career of Alec Baldwin, survived an extended absence by Tracy Morgan, and permeated the culture— its breakneck pacing, oddball characters, and extremely rich joke writing are deeply beloved by millions of fans. Through more than fifty original interviews with cast, crew, critics, and more, culture writer Mike Roe brings to life the history of the gloriously goofy show that became an all-time classic. The 30 Rock Book has everything in it, from tales of the amazing music still stuck in our heads, to the iconic bit characters that make the show, to all the love and drama of the backstage crew . . . and the creative failures and successes along the way. So grab your night cheese and muffin tops, cuddle up with your slanket against your Japanese body pillow, and settle in for the story of one of the funniest shows in television history.
Download or read book By Popular Demand written by Jess Vallance and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in a brilliantly funny YA series featuring the trials and embarrassing tribulations of teenager Gracie Dart. 'Gracie Dart is the screamingly funny YA heroine I've been waiting for' - Harriet Reuter Hapgood When Gracie realises that she is the only person in her group of friends who has not been invited to THE party of the year, Gracie decides to do something about it. Gracie being Gracie does nothing by halves, and goes into overdrive turning herself into the most popular person around. As ever, Gracie overdoes it - with some very funny results ... and perhaps Gracie will find out the value of true friendship along the way.
Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Download or read book Dead by Popular Demand written by Teddy Hayes and published by Justin, Charles & Co.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Devil Barnett, ex-CIA wet-ops agent turned Harlem tavern owner, is a modern day ronin, a highly skilled, highly trained street samurai who no longer fights for "the company," but picks his own battles. A London rap group hs been flown into New York by their record label, Grooveline Records, and are poised to take America by storm, when two of their members turn up dead on the same night."--Cover.
Download or read book Laughing at My Nightmare written by Shane Burcaw and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With acerbic wit & a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaw's YA memoir describes the challenges he faces as a 20-year-old with muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to trying to finding a girlfriend and everything in between"--
Download or read book Surfs Up in the City of Angels written by James Scott Lafon and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Richard Schmidt forms a "Generic Therapy Group". All the good Doctor hopes to do is tip the scales of hate and chaos toward the side of love, mercy and forgiveness. When these characters meet, angels and devils are difficult to tell apart. With each comes a collection of friends, family and plots that confirm California is indeed the fated "Land of Fruits and Nuts".
Download or read book Tune In written by Mark Lewisohn and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, Tune In is the New York Times bestseller by the world’s leading Beatles authority – the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy about the band that revolutionized music. The Beatles have been in our lives for half a century and surely always will be. Still, somehow, their music excites, their influence resonates, their fame sustains. New generations find and love them, and while many other great artists come and go, the Beatles are beyond eclipse. So . . . who really were these people, and just how did it all happen? 'The Beatles story' is everywhere. Told wrong from early on, rehashed in every possible way and routinely robbed of its context, this is a phenomenon in urgent need of a bright new approach. In his series All These Years, Mark Lewisohn – the world-recognized Beatles historian – presses the Refresh button to relate the entire story as it’s never been told or known before. Here is a full and accurate biography at last. It is certain to become the lasting word. Tune In is book one of three, exploring and explaining a period that is by very definition lesser-known: the formative pre-fame years, the teenage years, the Liverpool and Hamburg years – in many ways the most absorbing and incredible period of them all. The Beatles come together here in all their originality, attitude, style, speed, charisma, appeal, daring and honesty, the tools with which they’re about to reshape the world. It’s the Beatles in their own time, an amazing story of the ultimate rock band, a focused and colorful telling that builds and builds to leave four sharp lads from Liverpool on the very brink of a whole new kind of fame. Using impeccable research and resources, Tune In is a magisterial work, an independent biography that combines energy, clarity, objectivity, authority and insight. The text is anti-myth, tight and commanding – just like the Beatles themselves. Here is the Beatles story as it really was. Throw away what you think you know and start afresh.
Download or read book Love First Site written by Jane Moore and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her girlfriends, who disapprove of her happy single life, secretly place a personal ad on a hot singles Web site on her behalf, thirty-four-year-old Jessica Monroe is thrown headlong into the bizarre world of online dating, embarking on a series of disastrous dating misadventures in search of Mr. Right. By the author of Fourplay. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
Download or read book Dying for the Rose A Bisexual Gay Friendly Romantic Mystery written by A. Anders and published by RateABull Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a near-future dystopian world, ‘The Bachelorette’ is turned into a reality show where contestants have to find love or die. The flawed but easy-to-love hero will fight for his woman through suspense, laugh out loud humor, and surprising moments of heart. What if you were a Bachelorette secluded on a tropical island with an emotionally-distant marine, a cutthroat survivalist, a sexually-charged bisexual and 9 other equally winning bachelors. Which one would you choose to spend the rest of your life with? Think that's a tough situation for Rose Kaitlyn, the bachelorette? Imagine being Ford Stone, the bachelor who discovers that once a guy gets eliminated he dies. That was not what Ford signed up for when he agreed to be on the show. And if the show's producers knew who he really was, they might not have tricked him to be there. Ford’s dystopian world might not have made him boyfriend material, but it did teach him how to hunt down a killer. So if Ford can survive the show's crazy challenges and the other psychotic contestants, he is going to figure out who is murdering everyone and make them pay. But can he find the killer before his relationship demons get him eliminated? And in spite of everything, could this be the best shot Ford will ever have at finding love? Only time will tell, and Ford’s time on the show is running out fast. ‘Dying for the Rose’ is a romantic suspense with laugh out loud humor, surprising moments of heart, and flawed characters who are easy to love. Written by international bestselling author A. Anders, this page-turner is a life and death race against time that will thrill you and keep you guessing until the last page.
Download or read book Fish Lips written by Fish Rap Live! Books and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student publication for Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz, "231 expletives . and other words, remembered by a newspaper staff."
Download or read book Yippee Ki Yay Moviegoer written by Vern and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the hilarious “instant cult classic” Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal, Vern wrote a book that shook the very foundations of film criticism, broke their wrists, and then threw them through a window. Now he’s back, and this time he’s got all of ‘the films of badass cinema’ in his sights... From Die Hard to The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Transformers to Mary Poppins, Vern has an opinion on everything, and he’s not shy about sharing them...
Download or read book The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology written by Austin Powell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since publishing its first issue in 1981, The Austin Chronicle has evolved alongside the city's sound to define and give voice to 'The Live Music Capital of the World.' ... In honor of the Chronicle's thirtieth anniversary, this anthology gathers the weekly's best music writing and photography ... Capturing the moments that make music history as they happen ...
Download or read book The Lyceum Magazine written by Ralph Albert Parlette and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Yellow Table written by Anna Watson Carl and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something magical happens when people come together to share a meal--and this cookbook, named for the beloved wooden table in Anna Watson Carl 's childhood kitchen, celebrates that joy and conviviality. Featuring delicious seasonal recipes just right for feeding the people you love, it includes everything from Crustless Quiche Lorraine and Pumpkin Spice Pancakes to a Kale Detox Salad, Roasted Vegetable Ratatouille, and Grilled Skirt Steak with Chimichurri. Enjoy snacks like Watermelon, Feta, & Mint Skewers; soups and stews, including Three-Bean Turkey Chili; sandwiches, simple suppers, sweets, and stress-free dinner-party menus. You'll even find plenty of vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options--and wine pairings from award-winning sommelier Jean-Luc Le D add the perfect finishing touch.
Download or read book Mad Fold This Book written by Al Jaffee and published by Warner Books (NY). This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Jaffee's Fold-Ins have been a staple of the phenomenally successful "MAD" magazine since 1964. "Fold This Book!" contains the best of the Fold-Ins, culled from more than 350 issues of the legendary satire magazine. Illustrations throughout, many in color.
