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Book Based on a True Story

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  • Author : Norm Macdonald
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2016-09-20
  • ISBN : 0812993632
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Based on a True Story written by Norm Macdonald and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Driving, wild and hilarious” (The Washington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”

Book Beyond the Norm

Download or read book Beyond the Norm written by Norm Miller and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story behind the phenomenal success of Norm Miller, chairman of Interstate Batteries and businessman extraordinare. From his early years in sales to becoming chairman of the largest independent replacement battery company in the U.S., Miller talks about the principles that have been the guiding force in his life. This is a great success story and the compelling spiritual journey of an innovative leader. 8-pp photo insert.

Book May Produce Gas

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  • Author : Jonathan Meres
  • Publisher : Orchard Books
  • Release : 2012-10-04
  • ISBN : 1408323613
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book May Produce Gas written by Jonathan Meres and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems like the whole world has gone mad. His dad's obsessed with gas, his best friend has come down with a case of hormones and his brother is in dire need of deodorant. Looks like there's going to be quite a stink. Is life still unfair for Norm? ABSO-FLIPPING-LUTELY! Jonathan Meres follows up May Contain Nuts and May Cause Irritation with another laugh-out-loud story about Norm, a boy who can't understand why everything always seems unfair...

Book The Norm Chronicles

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  • Author : David Spiegelhalter
  • Publisher : Profile Books
  • Release : 2013-05-30
  • ISBN : 1847658296
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Norm Chronicles written by David Spiegelhalter and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9", just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week. He likes a drink, doesn't do enough exercise and occasionally treats himself to a bar of chocolate (milk). He's a pretty average kind of guy. In fact, he is the average guy in this clever and unusual take on statistical risk, chance, and how these two factors affect our everyday choices. Watch as Norm (who, like all average specimens, feels himself to be uniquely special), and his friends careful Prudence and reckless Kelvin, turns to statistics to help him in life's endless series of choices - should I fly or take the train? Have a baby? Another drink? Or another sausage? Do a charity skydive or get a lift on a motorbike? Because chance and risk aren't just about numbers - it's about what we believe, who we trust and how we feel about the world around us. From a world expert in risk and the bestselling author of The Tiger That Isn't (and creator of BBC Radio 4's More or Less), this is a commonsense (and wildly entertaining) guide to personal risk and decoding the statistics that represent it.

Book The Norm of Belief

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  • Author : John Gibbons
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2013-08
  • ISBN : 019967339X
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book The Norm of Belief written by John Gibbons and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Gibbons presents a new account of epistemic normativity. Belief seems to come with a built-in set of standards or norms—truth and reasonableness, for example—but which one is the fundamental norm of belief? He explains both the norms of knowledge and of truth in terms of the fundamental norm, the one that tells you to be reasonable.

Book Norm struggles

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  • Author : Lena Martinsson
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2010-02-19
  • ISBN : 1443820512
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Norm struggles written by Lena Martinsson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norm-Struggles explores and challenges normativity in general and heteronormativity in particular. A common trait in all chapters is the focus on contradictions, changes, disruptions and uncertainties that follow with different norms and structuring forces. The authors discuss and explore how norms are produced, and reproduced but also disrupted, subverted and changed. The chapters are based on observations from different settings such as preschools, schools, universities, factories, social welfare, popular culture, passanger ships, and the fire service. They are also based on observations from different countries; Lithuania, Canada, USA, Sweden, Finland, and Great Britain. The book presents studies of media, policies, machines, organisations, academic sexual theory, and the ongoing constructions of nations and nationalities.

Book Archives of Psychology

Download or read book Archives of Psychology written by Robert Sessions Woodworth and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Must End Soon

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  • Author : Jonathan Meres
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2017-06-29
  • ISBN : 1408346044
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Must End Soon written by Jonathan Meres and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The TWELFTH - AND FINAL - hilarious title in this award-winning, laugh-out-loud series. Get ready for Norm's most outrageous adventure yet! For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and David Walliams.

Book Between the Norm and the Exception

Download or read book Between the Norm and the Exception written by William E. Scheuerman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997-01-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 1996 Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize for the best book onliberal and democratic theory, Conference for the Study of Political Thought. Winner, 1994 First Book Prize, Foundations of Political Thought Organized Section, American Political Science Association. Between the Norm and the Exception contributes historical insight to the ongoing debate over the future of the rule of law in welfare-state capitalist democracies. The core issue is whether or not society can offer its citizens welfare-state guarantees and still preserve the liberal vision of a norm-based legal system. Franz Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer, in an age dominated by Hitler and Stalin, sought to establish a sound theoretical basis for the "rule of law" ideal. As an outcome of their sophisticated understanding of the liberal political tradition, their writings suggest a theoretical missed opportunity, an alternative critical theory that might usefully be applied in understanding (and perhaps countering) the contemporary trend toward the deformalization of law.

Book The Shield

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 632 pages

Download or read book The Shield written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book This Old House  Ask Norm

Download or read book This Old House Ask Norm written by Norm Abram and published by This Old House. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask Norm - Practical answers from America's most trusted remodeling expert, responding to tough questions.

Book Law and Social Norms

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  • Author : Eric Posner
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-01
  • ISBN : 9780674042308
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Law and Social Norms written by Eric Posner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of law in a society in which order is maintained mostly through social norms, trust, and nonlegal sanctions? Eric Posner argues that social norms are sometimes desirable yet sometimes odious, and that the law is critical to enhancing good social norms and undermining bad ones. But he also argues that the proper regulation of social norms is a delicate and complex task, and that current understanding of social norms is inadequate for guiding judges and lawmakers. What is needed, and what this book offers, is a model of the relationship between law and social norms. The model shows that people's concern with establishing cooperative relationships leads them to engage in certain kinds of imitative behavior. The resulting behavioral patterns are called social norms. Posner applies the model to several areas of law that involve the regulation of social norms, including laws governing gift-giving and nonprofit organizations; family law; criminal law; laws governing speech, voting, and discrimination; and contract law. Among the engaging questions posed are: Would the legalization of gay marriage harm traditional married couples? Is it beneficial to shame criminals? Why should the law reward those who make charitable contributions? Would people vote more if non-voters were penalized? The author approaches these questions using the tools of game theory, but his arguments are simply stated and make no technical demands on the reader.

Book Small Groups

Download or read book Small Groups written by John M. Levine and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on small groups is highly diverse because investigators who study such groups vary in their disciplinary identifications, theoretical interests, and methodological preferences. The goal of this volume is to capture that diversity, and thereby convey the breadth and excitement of small group research by acquainting students with work on five fundamental aspects of groups. The volume also includes an introductory chapter by the editors which provides an overview of the history of and current state-of-the-art in the field. Together with introductions to each section, discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, make the volume ideal reading for senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in group dynamics.

Book My Travels with Norm

Download or read book My Travels with Norm written by Frederick J. Ruggio and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories about fishing, hunting, and other miscellaneous activities which revolve around a friendship of more than 45 years.

Book Out of the Norm

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  • Author : Iveta Ongley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 9781738580958
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Out of the Norm written by Iveta Ongley and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Norm

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  • Author : Sylvia Liang
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2019-05-21
  • ISBN : 0500651612
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Norm written by Sylvia Liang and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale about a boy from a very orderly town who discovers immeasurable freedom and creativity when he lets go of rigid uniformity. Norm lives in a town where everything is orderly and everything is measured—even the roses! There’s a uniform height for every tree and a standard look for every person. Anyone who dares to stray from the rules is likely to be noticed. One day, as Norm is going about his daily routine, a brightly colored bird catches his eye and he follows it until it lands on an extraordinary flower. At first, Norm is afraid—everything outside his town is so unruly! He discovers flowers that are bigger than trees, magical houses shaped like bubbles, and an incredible diversity of people in all shapes and sizes. Norm no longer feels the security of his ruled and measured world, but thanks to the friendship of a young girl named Jess, he begins to see that although sometimes order and uniformity can be useful (in a library, for example), it can also limit the possibilities for creativity, self- expression, and wonderful surprises that ignite the imagination. Norm returns to his town with the newfound understanding that some things in life can’t be measured, and little by little, he begins to let go of the rules. A highly topical commentary on the value of personal freedoms, Norm teaches an important lesson through its gentle and whimsical narrative.

Book The Journal of Comparative Psychology

Download or read book The Journal of Comparative Psychology written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: