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Book One upmanship

Download or read book One upmanship written by Stephen Potter and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book One upmanship  Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of Oneupness and Gameslifemastery

Download or read book One upmanship Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of Oneupness and Gameslifemastery written by Stephen Potter and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book One upmanship  Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of Oneupness and Gameslifemastery

Download or read book One upmanship Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of Oneupness and Gameslifemastery written by Stephen 1900-1969 Potter and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book One upmanship  Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of Oneupness and Gameslifemastery  Illustrated by Frank Wilson

Download or read book One upmanship Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of Oneupness and Gameslifemastery Illustrated by Frank Wilson written by Stephen Potter and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book One upmanship     Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of One upness and Gameslifemastery  Illustrated by Lt  Col  Frank Wilson

Download or read book One upmanship Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of One upness and Gameslifemastery Illustrated by Lt Col Frank Wilson written by Stephen POTTER and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book One upmanship  Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence of One upness and Gameslifemastery

Download or read book One upmanship Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence of One upness and Gameslifemastery written by Stephen Potter and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irrepressible

Download or read book Irrepressible written by Leslie Brody and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Red Star Sister “An excellent biography. Brody has made the world a better place by telling [Mitford’s] saga so skillfully” (San Francisco Chronicle). Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, mischief–maker, muckraker. J.K. Rowling calls her her “most influential writer.” Those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain’s most famous aristocratic families, she eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew as a teenager. Their marriage severed ties with her privilege, a rupture exacerbated by the life she lead for seventy–eight years. After arriving in the United States in 1939, Decca became one of the New Deal’s most notorious bureaucrats. For her the personal was political, especially as a civil rights activist and journalist. She coined the term frenemies, and as a member of the American Communist Party, she made several, though not among the Cold War witch hunters. When she left the Communist Party in 1958 after fifteen years, she promised to be subversive whenever the opportunity arose. True to her word, late in life she hit her stride as a writer, publishing nine books before her death in 1996. Yoked to every important event for nearly all of the twentieth century, Decca not only was defined by the history she witnessed, but by bearing witness, helped to define that history. “Brisk, engaging.” —Wall Street Journal “A valuable retelling of a provocative life.” —Kirkus Reviews

Book The Morality of Laughter

    Book Details:
  • Author : F. H. Buckley
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2010-03-25
  • ISBN : 0472022725
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Morality of Laughter written by F. H. Buckley and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bravo! I’ll say nothing funny about it, for it is a superior piece of work.” —P. J. O’Rourke “F. H. Buckley’s The Morality of Laughter is at once a humorous look at serious matters and a serious book about humor.” —Crisis Magazine “Buckley has written a . ne and funny book that will be read with pleasure and instruction.” —First Things “. . . written elegantly and often wittily. . . .” —National Post “. . . a fascinating philosophical exposition of laughter. . . .” —National Review “. . . at once a wise and highly amusing book.” —Wall Street Journal Online “. . . a useful reminder that a cheery society is a healthy one.” —Weekly Standard

Book Nutters with Putters

Download or read book Nutters with Putters written by and published by Prints of Pirates. This book was released on 2008 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book One upmanship   being some account of the activities and teaching of the lifemanship Correspondence College of One upness and Gameslifemasterey

Download or read book One upmanship being some account of the activities and teaching of the lifemanship Correspondence College of One upness and Gameslifemasterey written by Stephen Potter and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book OK

    OK

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allan Metcalf
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2010-11-08
  • ISBN : 0199752524
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book OK written by Allan Metcalf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is "OK"--the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used countless times every day. Yet few of us know the hidden history of OK--how it was coined, what it stood for, and the amazing extent of its influence. Allan Metcalf, a renowned popular writer on language, here traces the evolution of America's most popular word, writing with brevity and wit, and ranging across American history with colorful portraits of the nooks and crannies in which OK survived and prospered. He describes how OK was born as a lame joke in a newspaper article in 1839--used as a supposedly humorous abbreviation for "oll korrect" (ie, "all correct")--but should have died a quick death, as most clever coinages do. But OK was swept along in a nineteenth-century fad for abbreviations, was appropriated by a presidential campaign (one of the candidates being called "Old Kinderhook"), and finally was picked up by operators of the telegraph. Over the next century and a half, it established a firm toehold in the American lexicon, and eventually became embedded in pop culture, from the "I'm OK, You're OK" of 1970's transactional analysis, to Ned Flanders' absurd "Okeley Dokeley!" Indeed, OK became emblematic of a uniquely American attitude, and is one of our most successful global exports. "An appealing and informative history of OK." --Washington Post Book World "After reading Metcalf's book, it's easy to accept his claim that OK is 'America's greatest word.'" --Erin McKean, Boston Globe "Entertaininga treat for logophiles." --Kirkus Reviews "Metcalf makes you acutely aware of how ubiquitous and vital the word has become." --Jeremy McCarter, Newsweek

Book A History of Forensic Science

Download or read book A History of Forensic Science written by Alison Adam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science is the first book to consider the wide spectrum of influences which went into creating the discipline in Britain in the first part of the twentieth century. This book offers a history of the development of forensic sciences, centred on the UK, but with consideration of continental and colonial influences, from around 1880 to approximately 1940. This period was central to the formation of a separate discipline of forensic science with a distinct professional identity and this book charts the strategies of the new forensic scientists to gain an authoritative voice in the courtroom and to forge a professional identity in the space between forensic medicine, scientific policing, and independent expert witnessing. In so doing, it improves our understanding of how forensic science developed as it did. This book is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminology, the history of forensic science, science and technology studies and the history of policing.

Book Research Handbook on Corporate Board Decision Making

Download or read book Research Handbook on Corporate Board Decision Making written by Oliver Marnet and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a state-of-the-art perspective on corporate board decision-making that encourages thinking outside the box, this cutting-edge Research Handbook provides fresh insights on the meaning, value, contribution, quality and purpose of the decision-making of those charged with corporate governance.

Book The Human Behind the Coach

Download or read book The Human Behind the Coach written by Claire Pedrick and published by Practical Inspiration Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever come away from a coaching session feeling it didn’t quite hit the mark, despite your skills and knowledge? It’s not just the words we use, it’s the music, the lyrics and the dance of the conversation that make a difference to the quality of the outcome, and getting these right demands not just skill but humanity. Explore the human qualities that great coaches need to develop - humility, vulnerability, courage, and more - based on research from thousands of real coaching sessions, with stories, reflections, practical examples and tips on how to develop yourself and your work. This is a book for anyone who wants to deepen their work without adding more tools and techniques, and who is willing to do some deeper work in service of having more transformational conversations.

Book Literature of the 1950s  Good  Brave Causes

Download or read book Literature of the 1950s Good Brave Causes written by Alice Ferrebe and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period.Alice Ferrebe's lively study rereads the decade and its literature as crucial in twentieth-century British history for its emergent and increasingly complicated politics of difference, as ideas about identity, authority and belonging were tested and contested. By placing a diverse selection of texts alongside those of the established canon of Movement and 'Angry' writing, a literary culture of true diversity and depth is brought into view. The volume characterises the 1950s as a time of confrontation with a range of concerns still avidly debated today, including immigration, education, the challenging behaviour of youth, nuclear threat, the post-industrial and post-imperial legacy, a consumerist economy and a feminist movement hampered by the perceivedly comprehensive nature of its recent success. Contrary to Jimmy Porter's defeatist judgement on his era in John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger, the volume upholds such concerns as 'good, brave causes' indeed.

Book Misery and Company

    Book Details:
  • Author : Candace Clark
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2007-12-01
  • ISBN : 0226107582
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Misery and Company written by Candace Clark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a kind of social tour of sympathy, Candace Clark reveals that the emotional experience we call sympathy has a history, logic, and life of its own. Although sympathy may seem to be a natural, reflexive reaction, people are not born knowing when, for whom, and in what circumstances sympathy is appropriate. Rather, they learn elaborate, highly specific rules—different rules for men than for women—that guide when to feel or display sympathy, when to claim it, and how to accept it. Using extensive interviews, cultural artifacts, and "intensive eavesdropping" in public places, such as hospitals and funeral parlors, as well as analyzing charity appeals, blues lyrics, greeting cards, novels, and media reports, Clark shows that we learn culturally prescribed rules that govern our expression of sympathy. "Clark's . . . research methods [are] inventive and her glimpses of U.S. life revealing. . . . And you have to love a social scientist so respectful of Miss Manners."—Clifford Orwin, Toronto Globe and Mail "Clark offers a thought-provoking and quite interesting etiquette of sympathy according to which we ought to act in order to preserve the sympathy credits we can call on in time of need."—Virginia Quarterly Review

Book Literature of the 1950s

Download or read book Literature of the 1950s written by Alice Ferrebe and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively study challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period. It rereads the decade and its literature as crucial in twentieth-century British history for its emergent and increasingly complicated politics