Download or read book Rough but True written by Vernon Clair and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Unbelievable But True written by Sidney Lockwood and published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu. This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twisted But True written by Darren Burch and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired Phoenix Police Sergeant Darren Burch captivates you on another wild police ride-along with outrageously macabre and compelling stories from his thirty-year career as a rookie cop, sex crime detective, and night detective sergeant in the Phoenix Police Department’s Homicide Unit in this gut-clinching, horrific, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud funny follow-up to Darren’s award-winning true-crime book, Twisted But True. Darren’s dark humor reemerges with a vengeance, starting with death and despair, and then to the hilarious as a rookie cop in “That First Squad,” to a case of animal sexual depravity in “Choking the Chicken,” and a deadly home invasion beyond belief in “That One Case”, which was featured on the ID Channel’s American Detective TV series. These thirty true-crime stories mirror the time frame of Twisted But True, but this time, Darren goes even deeper and darker by filling in the cracks.
Download or read book Amazing But True Golf Facts written by Allan Zullo and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing but True Golf Facts, one of AMP¿s most successful golf humor books, has been updated both inside and out! Allan Zullo and Chris Rodell have put together more astonishing, mind-boggling, and beyond belief morsels from the world of golf.Some of the more intriguing new details in Amazing But True Golf Facts include the most holes played (73); Hollywood movie star Will Smith¿s obsession with the game (he built a par 3 hole in his back yard); the surge of the Dow Jones Industrial Average every time Tiger Woods played a televised match during the 1990s; and the fact that Phil Mickelson¿s 2001 commercial that features his famous ¿backward flop¿ shot, in which Mickelson, back to the green, hits the ball backward over the head of a company¿s CEO, and into the cup, required only three takes.The original Amazing but True Golf Facts sold almost 50,000 copies and was a great-selling backlist hit for a decade. It also spawned the day-to-day Amazing but True Golf Facts calendar line, which has increased consecutively in sales over the past five years. Amazing but True Golf Facts will sail to the Top 10 Books list of every golf aficionado.
Download or read book Stop What You re Doing And Read This written by Mark Haddon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter, the news, the TV, Playstation, music, movies, sport, responsibilities, passions, desires, dreams. Why should you stop what you're doing and read a book? People have always needed stories. We need literature - novels, poetry - because we need to make sense of our lives, test our depths, understand our joys and discover what humans are capable of. Great books can provide companionship when we are lonely or peacefulness in the midst of an overcrowded daily life. Reading provides a unique kind of pleasure and no-one should live without it. In the ten essays in this book some of our finest authors and passionate advocates from the worlds of science, publishing, technology and social enterprise tell us about the experience of reading, why access to books should never be taken forgranted, how reading transforms our brains, and how literature can save lives. In any 24 hours there are so many demands on your time and attention - make books one of them. Carmen Callil Tim Parks Nicholas Carr Michael Rosen Jane Davis Zadie Smith Mark Haddon Jeanette Winterson Blake Morrison Dr Maryanne Wolf & Dr Mirit Barzillai
Download or read book Tough written by Terry Crews and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews, the deeply personal story of his lifelong obsession with strength—and how, after looking for it in all the wrong places, he finally found it Terry Crews spent decades cultivating his bodybuilder physique and bravado. On the outside, he seemed invincible: he escaped his abusive father, went pro in the NFL, and broke into the glamorous world of Hollywood. But his fixation with appearing outwardly tough eventually turned into an exhausting performance in which repressing his emotions let them get the better of him—leading him into addiction and threatening the most important relationships in his life. Now Crews is sharing the raw, never-before-told story of his quest to find the true meaning of toughness. In Tough, he examines arenas of life where he desperately sought control—masculinity, shame, sex, experiences with racism, and relationships—and recounts the setbacks and victories he faced while uprooting deeply ingrained toxic masculinity and finally confronting his insecurities, painful memories, and limiting beliefs. The result is not only the gripping story of a man's struggle against himself and how he finally got his mind right, but a bold indictment of the cultural norms and taboos that ask men to be outwardly tough while leaving them inwardly weak. With Tough, Crews's journey of transformation offers a model for anyone who considers themselves a “tough guy” but feels unfulfilled; anyone struggling with procrastination or self-sabotage; and anyone ready to achieve true, lasting self-mastery.
Download or read book The Language Gap written by Robert Hull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1985. Dialogue between teacher and pupil is a crucial factor in the learning experience. This book questions the role of language as a ‘natural’ vehicle for learning and considers how it may, in fact, hinder communication. In a detailed examination of day-to-day language practices across a range of subjects, including English, History, Maths and Remedial teaching, in a particular comprehensive school, Robert Hull develops a powerful and coherent critique of the closed and limiting nature of the language employed by classroom teachers. By analysing the texts of school knowledge – worksheets, textbooks and teacher’s talk – and relating pupils’ views and responses to teachers’ intentions and attitudes, he indicates how pupils are denied access to that knowledge, and prevented from sharing their own, by those very practices which are intended to facilitate learning – talk which actually gets in the way of learning. Written by a schoolteacher for schoolteachers, this book should help any training or practising teacher in the primary or secondary context concerned with the crucial relationship between language and learning to develop an alternative approach, and so make better sense in the classroom.
Download or read book The Shallows What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains written by Nicholas Carr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind”—from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer—Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways. Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic—a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption—and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection. Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes—Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive—even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
Download or read book Rough but True written by Vernon Clair and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
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Download or read book The Rough Guide to True Crime written by Cathy Scott and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to True Crime tells the stories of criminal acts ranging from the absurd to the appalling, using a light touch with the former and illuminating the psychology in play behind the crimes. A compilation of crime's greatest hits, preposterous occurrences and heinous acts, the Rough Guide to True Crime will satisfy the armchair voyeur and amateur criminologist alike.
Download or read book Rough and Ready written by Sandra Hill and published by Sandra Hill Books. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHE’S ROUGH… After being terrorized by an evil tyrant, Hilda Berdottir, a no-nonsense Viking woman, established a Dark Age sanctuary for abused women.. And they are not only surviving, but have been thriving for five years now. Everything is perfect, except that the women have begun to yearn for the one thing that is a danger to their lives. Men! Oh, not for their companionship, but for their seed…as in children. They want to bed them, then shed them, not wed them. Holy Thor! Good thing there are no men around. Until… HE’S READY… Torolf Magnusson and his team of Navy SEALs are cruising along a Norwegian fjord like bleepin’ tourists when their reproduction Viking longship wrecks, and they somehow find themselves back in the tenth century outside a medieval version of a woman’s shelter. And the females women there are trying everything in their erotic repertoire to lure the men into their bed furs. Hoo-yah! Except for Hilda who wants nothing to do with Torolf. Until… TOGETHER, THEY’RE A MATCH… After Torolf and his comrades-in-arms rid the old Norse world of the villainous Steinolf, they return to present-day California. But oops! Somehow, Torolf accidentally brings Hilda along for the ride through time and space. What’s a guy to do when suddenly responsible for a reluctant girlfriend who is being stalked by a mad scientist bent on dissecting her thousand-year-old body? Especially when said body is so hot it’s making him think they were meant to be together, ready or not. Booklist Top Ten Romance Novel for 2006!! Winner of the Hughie Award for Best Time Travel Finalist for the PRISM Award in the Time Travel Category Finalist for the P.E.A.R.L. Award
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Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh Illustrated written by Vincent van Gogh and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 3193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most celebrated artists of Western art, the Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh created masterpieces that are now famous for their striking colour, emphatic brushwork and contoured forms. Although the artist died in obscurity, his artworks would go on to change the course of modern art, powerfully influencing Expressionism and the works of leading artists. A first of its kind in digital print, the ‘Masters of Art’ series allows readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents the complete paintings and letters of the Dutch master. For all art lovers, this stunning collection offers a personal and unique digital portrait of one of the world’s greatest artists. (Version 2) Features: * the complete paintings of Vincent van Gogh — over 800 paintings, fully indexed and arranged in chronological order * features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * beautiful 'detail' images, allowing you to explore van Gogh's celebrated works in detail * numerous images relating to van Gogh’s life and works * includes over 800 letters — explore the artist’s vast and scholarly correspondence with his brother Theo * EVEN includes the detailed biography by van Gogh’s sister-in-law * hundreds of images in stunning colour - highly recommended for tablets, iPhone and iPad users, or as a valuable reference tool on traditional eReaders * UPDATED with improved and larger images Please visit: www.delphiclassics.com for more information and to browse our range of titles CONTENTS: The Highlights STILL LIFE WITH CABBAGE AND CLOGS AVENUE OF POPLARS IN AUTUMN THE POTATO EATERS SKULL WITH BURNING CIGARETTE SELF-PORTRAIT WITH STRAW HAT THE WHITE ORCHARD PORTRAIT OF THE POSTMAN JOSEPH ROULIN STILL LIFE: VASE WITH TWELVE SUNFLOWERS VINCENT’S HOUSE IN ARLES (THE YELLOW HOUSE) THE CAFÉ TERRACE ON THE PLACE DU FORUM, ARLES, AT NIGHT PORTRAIT OF DR. GACHET VINCENT’S BEDROOM IN ARLES VINCENT’S CHAIR WITH HIS PIPE THE RED VINEYARD SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BANDAGED EAR THE STARRY NIGHT WHEAT FIELD WITH CYPRESSES IRISES WHEAT FIELD WITH CROWS The Paintings THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PAINTINGS The Letters THE CORRESPONDENCE OF VINCENT VAN GOGH The Biography MEMOIR OF VINCENT VAN GOGH by Johanna Gesina van Gogh Please visit: www.delphiclassics.com for more information
Download or read book Masters of Art Vincent Van Gogh Illustrated written by Vincent van Gogh and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 3046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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