Download or read book Amy s Answering Machine written by Amy Borkowsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-02-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your mother call you in a panic whenever there's a storm warning for your area? Does she act as though it's her duty to alert you to every health story on the news? Have you ever been briefly out of touch with your mother only to find she's phoned everyone short of the National Guard to track you down -- or, just maybe, are you that mother? Take comfort in knowing you're not alone, as Amy Borkowsky shares more than a decade's worth of maddening phone messages from her hilariously overprotective mom. Based on the hit CD of the same name, Amy's Answering Machine features actual messages in which Amy's mom warns her not to wear a red bathrobe because a friend's grandson "said that red is a gang color"...advises her not to get a cat because "what if you finally found a nice guy and he was allergic?"...cautions her not to wear crepe-soled shoes because "they were just saying on the news that if you're ever in a plane crash, crepe is no good if you have to go down the slide." Amy also reveals the stories behind the messages and shares calls not available on CD, each one brimming with the worry and annoying comments only a loving mother could dish out. The same warnings and suggestions that had Amy cringing are sure to have you doubled over with laughter. But before you turn the page, take some advice from Amy's mom: Make sure you have plenty of reading light, because squinting causes crow's feet.
Download or read book The Ultimate Answering Machine Message Book written by Marnie Winston-Macauley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Audio Book written by Mikko Keskinen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audio Book deals with the ways in which various technologies enabling the transmission or storing of sound and voice are figured in selected works drawn from contemporary narrative fiction. The sound technologies are shown to influence the narrative structure, metaphorics, and style of the works studied.
Download or read book Prodigal written by John Chomeau and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Collins is an ambitious young man from Minnesota who longs to escape from the dull, dutiful life his father, Larry, and older brother, Steve, have built while attending church and running a successful group of car dealerships. He wants to go places, party with his friends, and have independence and freedom. After a tragedy near the end of his senior year, Matt prepares to go on a trip to Greece, a gift from his dad for graduation. But he plans to make an even bigger change and stay in Greece for good—with the help of his share of inheritance from his father. Once Matt arrives, he goes through a series of ups and downs, making bad decision after bad decision. Where else can he go, in the end, but back home to the unconditional love of his father? In this novel, a young man lives out a parable that Jesus Christ shared with his disciples. While Jesus was silent on the challenges the prodigal son faced after his decision to return to his father, those who have taken this journey know what really happens. Resolve to return to the Father brings unexpected and dangerous challenges. Through Matt’s eyes, Prodigal chronicles a cycle of pride, arrogance, deception, failure, humility, survival, resistance, and redemption.
Download or read book Innovation Equality written by Joshua Gans and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to get more innovation and more equality. Is economic inequality the price we pay for innovation? The amazing technological advances of the last two decades—in such areas as artificial intelligence, genetics, and materials—have benefited society collectively and rewarded innovators handsomely: we get cool smartphones and technology moguls become billionaires. This contributes to a growing wealth gap; in the United States; the wealth controlled by the top 0.1 percent of households equals that of the bottom ninety percent. Is this the inevitable cost of an innovation-driven economy? Economist Joshua Gans and policy maker Andrew Leigh make the case that pursuing innovation does not mean giving up on equality—precisely the opposite. In this book, they outline ways that society can become both more entrepreneurial and more egalitarian. All innovation entails uncertainty; there's no way to predict which new technologies will catch on. Therefore, Gans and Leigh argue, rather than betting on the future of particular professions, we should consider policies that embrace uncertainty and protect people from unfavorable outcomes. To this end, they suggest policies that promote both innovation and equality. If we encourage innovation in the right way, our future can look more like the cheerful techno-utopia of Star Trek than the dark techno-dystopia of The Terminator.
Download or read book Tribe of Shadows written by David Fergusson and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The flashing from the answering machine drew my attention. 'Mr. Hunt, we know you have something that belongs to us, and you have until midday today to return it. We will text you the coordinates of where you are to leave the ....' " At the same moment William Hunt receives a cryptic message in London, his twin brother, Ross, is running for his life through the bush of Sub-Saharan Africa. David Fergusson's Tribe of Shadows-The Hunted unveils the plight of two brothers whose destiny, and that of an entire community, lies in their ability to outsmart General Merjuta-'the priest of the dead'-a man who is both a national and spiritual leader of a nation deeply rooted in ancestral worship. When the general, unexpected and unwelcome, arrives at Ross's camp, Ross sends a desperate cry for help to his brother, a renowned journalist based in London. With the unveiling of a powerful secret, the fate of friends and family members is set in motion as they are hunted across two continents by mercenaries who will stop at nothing short of genocide to protect their interest. Tribe of Shadows-The Hunted delves deeply into the darkness of the lost soul and the compassion and patience needed to draw it out of the shadows. As readers unveil a plot within the shadows, they will realize that not everything that hunts them in the darkness is necessarily human.
Download or read book Themes from G E Moore written by Susana Nuccetelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These thirteen original essays, whose authors include some of the world's leading philosophers, examine themes from the work of the Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore (1873-1958), and demonstrate his considerable continuing influence on philosophical debate. Part I bears on epistemological topics, such as scepticism about the external world, the significance of common sense, and theories of perception. Part II is devoted to themes in ethics, such as Moore's open question argument, his non-naturalism, utilitarianism, and his notion of organic unities.
Download or read book The Smoking Gun written by JoAnna Carl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the national bestselling author of the Chocoholic Mysteries—the series that has #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris raving, “I’m proud to stand up and say, ‘My name is Charlaine, and I’m a Chocoholic!’” A split-second judgment and a single bullet turn a routine assignment into murder for reporter Nell Matthews and officer Mike Svenson. The shoot-out at the Grantham Women’s Shelter may have liberated a woman from her knife-wielding husband, but it also left Mike holding the gun and targeted for scandal. Especially when it turns out that the deceased was the son of the most powerful matriarch in town. Now Nell finds herself with an unexpected key to the dead man’s past—a key that links him to a bizarre conspiracy and will lure Nell into the crosshairs of a killer still on the loose… The Nell Matthews Mysteries are... “Strong and unique.”—Sue Henry “Beguiling and wicked.”—Boston Herald “Hooks you on the first page and never lets go.”—William Bernhardt Includes a preview of The Violence Beat and JoAnna Carl’s The Chocolate Book Bandit.
Download or read book The Little Red Schoolhouse written by Milton Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diane Enfield joined the FBI to save underprivileged children of the street, but her 13th brought to light some strange aspects of her job. After pick-up and delivery of number 13, she became the hunted by both the good and bad guys. Her “Control,” Hal Chandler claimed to know nothing about the source of her orders. When she was almost run down by, what appeared to be a government agent, Hal was convinced there was indeed something strange going on. The kidnapping of Diane’s family, without a ransom, was to gain Diane’s continued cooperation and stop her investigations. Hal was an ex-field agent and with his cohorts, Diane was able to locate and rescue her family, thwarting the high level people running the shady operation, eventually returning the 5-year-old to his family’s waiting arms.
Download or read book Google Voice For Dummies written by Bud E. Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save time and money with Google's revolutionary new phone system Google Voice combines existing phone lines, e-mail, and Web access into one central communication channel. Tech industry watchers expect it to give Skype some serious competition, yet little information is available on this new Google service. Google Voice For Dummies is the first and only book on Google's breakthrough new offering and provides essential information for individuals and businesses who want to take advantage of this exciting new technology. Google Voice is expected to have a major impact on telephony and to offer major cost savings for individuals and businesses This guide focuses on an in-depth understanding of setting up and using Google Voice and how to integrate it with other Google services, including Gmail, Google Chat, and Google Talk Discusses managing Google Voice within organizations and examines key concerns for business, schools, government, and other kinds of organizations Explains how Google Voice connects with the many phone options currently available and how to move toward an optimized and inexpensive, yet flexible and powerful phone environment The book is supported by news and updates on www.gvDaily.com, the leading Google Voice question and answer site created by authors Bud E. Smith and Chris Dannen Google Voice For Dummies supplies much-needed information on this free and exciting technology that the New York Times has called revolutionary.
Download or read book Fathers for Life written by Curtis Threatt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fathers for Life" is a story about four men trying to redefine fatherhood in a society that has all but given up on men to be good fathers.
Download or read book By Bread Alone written by Sarah-Kate Lynch and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, loss, and the redemptive power of breadmaking are the irresistible ingredients in this warm, witty novel by the author of Blessed Are the Cheesemakers.
Download or read book The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life written by Ruth Ayass and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on how people appropriate media in their daily lives. This book contributes to the burgeoning field of interactional linguistic media studies. It analyses the minutiae of the moment when people actively appropriate media for their own purposes in different fashions.
Download or read book 7 Steps to Finding Flow written by Nicky Rowbotham and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhausted? Strung out? Shackled in your own invisible straitjacket of stress? Seventy per cent of us spend most of our day in a state of stress, with our nervous systems in a position of fight, flight or freeze. Modern day stress has become pervasive in all aspects of our lives through constant pressure, the weight of perceived expectations and the drive to be always on. Many live with an energy and nervous system that feels like a tightly clenched fist, rather than an easeful, gently unfurling hand. Staying shackled in a state of overwhelm and stress has far-reaching consequences on our health. We often only pay attention when illness strikes, having tuned out to all the messages our bodies were sending us along the way. Health whispers until one day it screams. Let's not wait for the scream. But how do we do this? By having a nervous system in flow. Everything we do transforms energy in our bodies into something supportive or destructive to us, emotionally or physically. What we need is a more easeful, beneficial energy in our lives. In this book you will learn: What's truly behind your stress, how stress impacts your energy, hormones and nervous system, how to move your nervous system into a state of flow, and how to make choices that support your energy, by living in harmony with your body. Full of practical solutions, wisdom and strategies, 7 Steps to Finding Flow is your guide to lighten the load that stress places on us, and how to move through it with ease when it lands. We can't avoid stress, but we can deal with it differently and access better health, energy and balance. Nicky Rowbotham's 7 Steps to Finding Flow will help you move from being overwhelmed and locked in by stress to a more easeful, resilient and aligned life. Let's flip the script on stress.
Download or read book The Brave written by James Bird and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Rain Reign, this middle-grade novel The Brave is about a boy with an undiagnosed anxiety issue and his move to a reservation to live with his biological mother. Collin can't help himself—he has a mental health condition that finds him counting every letter spoken to him. It's a quirk that makes him a prime target for bullies, and frustrates the adults around him, including his father. When Collin asked to leave yet another school, his dad decides to send him to live in Minnesota with the mother he's never met. She is Ojibwe, and lives on a reservation. Collin arrives in Duluth with his loyal dog, Seven, and quickly finds his mom and his new home to be warm, welcoming, and accepting of his disability. Collin’s quirk is matched by that of his neighbor, Orenda, a girl who lives mostly in her treehouse and believes she is turning into a butterfly. With Orenda’s help, Collin works hard to learn the best ways to manage his anxiety disorder. His real test comes when he must step up for his new friend and trust his new family.
Download or read book Safety of Computer Control Systems 1985 Safecomp 85 written by W. J. Quirk and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety of Computer Control Systems 1985 (Safecomp '85): Achieving Safe Real Time Computer Systems presents the proceedings of the Fourth IFAC Workshop, held in Como, Italy, on October 1–3, 1985. This book discusses a wide range of topics ranging from direct process control through robotics to operator assistance. Organized into 28 chapters, this compilation of papers begins with an overview of the implementation of atomic actions by means of concurrent programming constructs. This text then examines the safety-related applications that usually demand the provision of redundant resources within the system. Other chapters consider the safe performance of an industrial robot system that relies on several factors. This book discusses as well the increasing demand for Computer Assisted Decision Making (CADM) both in engineering and service industries. The final chapter deals with the ways of reducing the effects of an error introduced during the design of a program. This book is a valuable resource for software engineers.
Download or read book The Back Porch Philosopher written by Douglas McLaughlin and published by The Guest Cottage, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our fast-paced world is filled with books, tapes and television shows that tell us how great life can be if we just listen to them and buy their products. It seems that our lives need to follow the same road as the crowd or we won't be happy. In The Back Porch Philosopher, Doug McLaughlin uses cliches, both popular and unheard of, to relay stories and spread the wisdom that we all have the power within us to find happiness. McLaughlin's engaging words and conversational style will make you laugh and make you think about life's choices.
