Download or read book Sour Grapes written by Jon Elster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Jon Elster's influential study of irrationality, challenging orthodox theories of rational choice.
Download or read book Sour Grapes written by Dan Rhodes and published by Eye Books (US&CA). This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Dan Rhodes is a true original' – Hilary Mantel When the sleepy English village of Green Bottom hosts its first literary festival, the good, the bad and the ugly of the book world descend upon its leafy lanes. But the villagers are not prepared for the peculiar habits, petty rivalries and unspeakable desires of the authors. And they are certainly not equipped to deal with Wilberforce Selfram, the ghoul-faced, ageing enfant terrible who wreaks havoc wherever he goes. Sour Grapes is a hilarious satire on the literary world which takes no prisoners as it skewers authors, agents, publishers and reviewers alike.
Download or read book Sour Grapes written by William Carlos Williams and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sour Grapes written by Jon Elster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Elster analyses the notation of rationality through the study of irrational behaviour, desires and belief.
Download or read book Sour Grapes written by Tim Jones and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOUR GRAPES IS A COMIC ABOUT AESOP, A MISERABLY FUNNY DOG THAT CAN'T SEEM TO GET AWAY FROM THE MISFORTUNES OF LIFE, INCLUDING HIS COMPANIONS: MADDY, SLICE AND CONSTANCE, WHO JUST ADD TO THE PROBLEM.I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE FOLLOWING EPISODES!
Download or read book Go Go Grapes written by April Pulley Sayre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fun verse, the author creates a rhyming story about different fruits you can find at a fruit stand.
Download or read book Fish in the Dark written by Larry David and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the comic genius behind Curb Your Enthusiasm—a play with “a perfect second-act twist, and a solid last-minute kicker” (Vulture). Fish in the Dark marked Seinfeld co-creator Larry David’s playwriting debut, his Broadway debut—and his first time acting on stage since eighth grade. David starred as Norman Drexel, a man in his fifties who is average in most respects, except for his hyperactive libido. As Norman, his more successful brother Arthur, their elderly mother, and a host of other characters try to navigate the death of a loved one, old acquaintances and unsettled arguments resurface—with hilarious consequences.
Download or read book Chew Vol 12 written by John Layman and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final story arc of Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from what he eats. Mysteries are solved, secrets are revealed, and lives are lost. Many, many lives. This is the end of the line for the New York Times bestselling, Harvey and multiple Eisner Award-winning series about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals, and clairvoyants. Collects CHEW #55-60 plus the smash hit spin off one shot CHEW DEMON CHICKEN POYO.
Download or read book Sour Heart written by Jenny Zhang and published by Lenny. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction • Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Guardian • Esquire • New York • BuzzFeed A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to the tumultuous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent; an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke; and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God. Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as artists back home only to struggle to stay afloat—dumpster diving for food and scamming Atlantic City casino buses to make a buck—these seven stories showcase Zhang’s compassion, moral courage, and a perverse sense of humor reminiscent of Portnoy’s Complaint. A darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, Sour Heart examines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again. Praise for Sour Heart “[Jenny Zhang’s] coming-of-age tales are coarse and funny, sweet and sour, told in language that’s rough-hewn yet pulsating with energy.”—USA Today “One of the knockout fiction debuts of the year.”—New York “Compelling writing about what it means to be a teenager . . . It’s brilliant, it’s dark, but it’s also humorous and filled with love.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, Today “[A] combustible collection . . . in a class of its own.”—Booklist (starred review) “Gorgeous and grotesque . . . [a] tremendous debut.”—Slate
Download or read book The Sour Grape written by Jory John and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't miss the sixth picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Food Group series that's ripe with humor from Jory John and Pete Oswald! The Sour Grape holds grudges for every reason under the sun. Lime never returned a scarf they borrowed? Grudge! Orange never called back? Grudge! But when a friend holds a grudge against the Sour Grape without listening to an explanation, the Sour Grape realizes how unfair grudges can be. Could a bunch of forgiveness and compassion be enough to turn a sour grape sweet? Jory John and Pete Oswald serve up another heaping plate of laughs and lessons with this empowering, witty, and charming addition to their #1 New York Times bestselling series! Check Out Jory John and Pete Oswald's other funny bestselling books for kids 4-8 and anyone who wants a laugh: The Bad Seed The Good Egg The Cool Bean The Couch Potato The Smart Cookie The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape! The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, the Spooky! The Cool Bean Presents: As Cool As It Gets! That's What Dinosaurs Do
Download or read book Aesop s Fables written by Aesop and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesop's Fables, attributed to the legendary storyteller Aesop from ancient Greece, comprise a collection of succinct and timeless moral tales. These fables feature animal characters, each symbolizing human qualities or foibles, and they convey essential moral lessons through engaging and straightforward narratives. Their hallmark characteristics include simplicity, accessibility, and universal themes that explore human behavior, ethics, and wisdom across a wide range of scenarios. These fables remain enduring classics, such as "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," continuing to captivate readers of all ages by imparting moral wisdom through memorable storytelling.
Download or read book A Case of Sour Grapes written by Gae-Lynn Woods and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wine, women, and song. What could possibly go wrong? Meet Maxine Leverman, lover of expensive shoes, beautiful handbags, and her lingerie wearing ex-husband's hush money. When she pleads her way into a job at family run Lost and Found Investigations, Maxine's only goal is to gain the concealed carry license and PI skills she needs to find the man who attacked her, and then kill him. (Or maybe just put him in jail, that decision can wait.) But when she secretly takes a missing husband case on her first day at the agency, she stumbles into a high-stakes game of blackmail and murder. Maxine must unravel the links between a forgotten folk punk band, an international drug cartel, and the tangled history of the missing husband to keep the women in his life alive. Fans of the early Stephanie Plum novels and Stuart Woods' Holly Barker series will love Maxine's tenacity, grit, and lust for life.
Download or read book Sweet Grapes written by Jean W. Carter and published by Perspectives Press (IN). This book was released on 1998 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Vino Duplicitas written by Peter Hellman and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on ABC’s The Con, an “engrossing account of wine fraud and forgery” that duped some of the biggest names in the elite world of wine collecting (Wall Street Journal) In 2002, Rudy Kurniawan, an unknown twentysomething, burst into the privileged world of ultrafine wines. Blessed with a virtuoso palate, and with a seemingly limitless supply of coveted bottles, Kurniawan quickly became the leading purveyor of rare wines to the American elite. But in April 2008, at a New York auction house, dozens of Kurniawan's trophy bottles were abruptly pulled from sale. Journalist Peter Hellman was there, and he began to investigate: Were the bottles fake? Were there others? And was Kurniawan himself duped by forgery...or had he ensnared the world's top winemakers, sellers, and drinkers in a web of deceit?
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Download or read book The Baseball Codes written by Jason Turbow and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s look at baseball’s unwritten rules, explained with examples from the game’s most fascinating characters and wildest historical moments. Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. All aspects of baseball—hitting, pitching, and baserunning—are affected by the Code, a set of unwritten rules that governs the Major League game. Some of these rules are openly discussed (don’t steal a base with a big lead late in the game), while others are known only to a minority of players (don’t cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter’s box). In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game’s most hallowed—and least known—traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining. At the heart of this book are incredible and often hilarious stories involving national heroes (like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays) and notorious headhunters (like Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale) in a century-long series of confrontations over respect, honor, and the soul of the game. With The Baseball Codes, we see for the first time the game as it’s actually played, through the eyes of the players on the field. With rollicking stories from the past and new perspectives on baseball’s informal rulebook, The Baseball Codes is a must for every fan.
Download or read book Coping written by Luc Bovens and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coping is a collection of philosophical essays on how we deal with life’s challenges. We hope for better times, but what is hope, and is it a good thing to hope? How do we look back and make sense of our lives in the face of death? What is the nature of love, and how do we deal with its hardships? What makes for a genuine apology, and is there too much or too little apologizing in this world? Can we bring about changes in ourselves to adapt to our circumstances? How can we make sense of all the good advice—such as, count your blessings, don’t cry over spilled milk—that people have on offer? Coping is a perfect companion text for a moral psychology course, a resilience course, or part of an ethics course. The material is written for readers who are new to philosophy and progresses in short self-contained sections. It draws on literature, music, podcasts, and news items. Each chapter has questions for discussion or essay writing and suggestions for material to explore the topic further.
