Download or read book The Sound of One Team Sucking written by Christopher Gudgeon and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-02-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious and strangely insightful meditation on the futility of Leafs fandom ... a self-help book for recovering Toronto hockey fans wherever they may live. Longtime Leafs fan and “de-motivational guru” Christopher Gudgeon sets out to help fellow addicts as they stick with their struggling team through thin and thinner.
Download or read book You Can Have a Dog When I m Dead written by Paul Benedetti and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-02-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Benedetti has a good job, a great family, and successful neighbours — but that doesn’t stop him from using it all as grist for a series of funny, real, and touching essays about a world he can’t quite navigate. Family life, marriage, kids, new experiences — he's written about them all, both funny and heartbreaking.
Download or read book The Sound of One Team Sucking written by Christopher Gudgeon and published by Dundurn Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious self-help book for recovering Leafs fans everywhere. We’ve all heard it. The sound of one team sucking. Our team. The Leafs. It starts as an almost imperceptible hum, a month or so after the home opener, once the shine of the new season wears off, building in intensity with each defeat until the sound explodes like the noise a star might make if you ripped its heart out. Fact is, being a Maple Leafs fan is a kind of addiction: irrational, compulsive, dependent. You can’t just quit cold turkey. You need help ... And that’s where The Sound of One Team Sucking comes in. Think of it as your own portable support group, designed to accompany you through another disappointing season (plus draft day!), and guide your recovery as you strive to live a more emotionally and spiritually balanced life. Written by Leafs addicts, The Sound of One Team Sucking is a hilarious meditation on the futility of Leafs fandom.
Download or read book The Myth of Mirror Neurons The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition written by Gregory Hickok and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology. In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror neurons, responded equally well during the monkey’s own motor actions, such as grabbing an object, and while the monkey watched someone else perform similar motor actions. Researchers speculated that the neurons allowed the monkey to understand others by simulating their actions in its own brain. Mirror neurons soon jumped species and took human neuroscience and psychology by storm. In the late 1990s theorists showed how the cells provided an elegantly simple new way to explain the evolution of language, the development of human empathy, and the neural foundation of autism. In the years that followed, a stream of scientific studies implicated mirror neurons in everything from schizophrenia and drug abuse to sexual orientation and contagious yawning. In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok reexamines the mirror neuron story and finds that it is built on a tenuous foundation—a pair of codependent assumptions about mirror neuron activity and human understanding. Drawing on a broad range of observations from work on animal behavior, modern neuroimaging, neurological disorders, and more, Hickok argues that the foundational assumptions fall flat in light of the facts. He then explores alternative explanations of mirror neuron function while illuminating crucial questions about human cognition and brain function: Why do humans imitate so prodigiously? How different are the left and right hemispheres of the brain? Why do we have two visual systems? Do we need to be able to talk to understand speech? What’s going wrong in autism? Can humans read minds? The Myth of Mirror Neurons not only delivers an instructive tale about the course of scientific progress—from discovery to theory to revision—but also provides deep insights into the organization and function of the human brain and the nature of communication and cognition.
Download or read book Mister Mercury A Modern Greek Myth written by Giando Sigurani and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek god Hermes has spent thousands of years in a mountain prison for disobeying Zeus. Emerging in a new world where the gods have been shunned by humankind, he hatches a plan straight from the comic books to revive the glory days of Olympus. As Mister Mercury, caped hero, he fights not for freedom, not for justice, but to put the Fear of the Gods back into the hearts of mortals everywhere- whether they believe it or not.
Download or read book How Children Develop written by Robert S. Siegler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors emphasize the fundamental principles and enduring themes underlying children's development and focus on key research. This new edition also contains a new chapter on gender, as well as recent work on conceptual development.
Download or read book Six Days to Zeus Alive Day Based on a True Story written by Samuel Hill and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alive Day" is currently optioned by Phoenix Pictures to become a blockbuster movie. Watch for the rest of the series as it becomes available! Based on a true story. On August 6, 2003, Task Force Arc Angel is 30 minutes from extraction after 26 months on a covert operation deep in denied territory. The highly classified organization known as “the Activity,” answerable only to the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States, is mistaken for an Iraqi unit, and attacked by friendly forces. Of the seven members of the team, only one, Chief Warrant Officer Samuel Hill, made it out alive. During the subsequent investigation, Chief, now paralyzed and homeless, is charged with six counts of premeditated homicide. This is Chief’s story. "Alive Day" is currently optioned by Phoenix Pictures to become a blockbuster movie. Watch for the rest of the series as it becomes available!
Download or read book The Little Black Book of Innovation With a New Preface written by Scott D. Anthony and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Little Black Book of Innovation, long-time innovation expert Scott D. Anthony draws on stories from his research and field work with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. Anthony presents a simple definition of innovation and illuminates its vital role in organizational success and personal growth. Anthony also provides a powerful 28-day program for mastering innovation’s key steps: finding insight, generating ideas, building businesses, and strengthening capabilities. With its wealth of illustrative case studies from around the globe, this engaging and potent playbook is a must-read for anyone seeking to turn themselves or their companies into true innovation powerhouses.
Download or read book Psycholinguistics written by Lise Menn and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psycholinguistics: Introduction and Applications, Second Edition is the first textbook in psycholinguistics created for working language professionals and students in speech-language pathology and language education, as well as for students in psychology and linguistics. It provides a clear, lively introduction to research and ideas about how human brains process language in speaking, understanding, and reading. Within a unifying framework of the constant interplay of bottom-up (sensory) and top-down (knowledge-based) processing across all language uses and modalities, it is an integrated, self-contained, fully updated account of psycholinguistics and its clinical and pedagogical applications. In this second edition, author Lise Menn is joined by leading brain researcher and aphasiologist, Nina Dronkers. The significantly revised brain chapter contains current findings on brain structure and function, including the roles of newly delineated fiber tracts and language areas outside Broca's and Wernicke's areas. Fully-explained examples are taken from Spanish and other languages as well as English. Five core chapters (language description; brain structure and function; pragmatic and semantic stages of speech production; syntactic, morphological, phonological, and phonetic stages of speech production; and experimental psycholinguistics) form the foundation for chapters, presenting classic and recent research on aphasia, first language development, reading, and second language learning. A final chapter demonstrates how linguistics and psycholinguistics can and should inform classroom and clinical practice in test design and error analysis, while also explaining the care that must be taken in translating theoretically based ideas into such real-world applications. Concepts from linguistics, neurology, and experimental psychology are kept vivid by illustrations of their uses in the real world, the clinic, and language teaching. Technical terms are clearly explained in context and also in a large reference glossary. Disclaimer: Please note that ancillary content (such as documents, audio, and video, etc.) may not be included as published in the original print version of this book.
Download or read book Oblivion II written by Jeff Schmoke and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking place in present day, Jessica and Stake soon confronted with death one early morning realize their planet in space must be extremely vulnerable. Aliens having known about the planet before even the appearance of the dinosaurs, are out for blood. Unknowing what was happening, Stake and Jessica are abducted after a massive alien ship embeds itself into the planet for unknown reasons. After being returned, the planet had been decimated from orbit, the human race left to a transforming disease called Tycostiforious, mutations roamed. Again they're picked up for placement forever somewhere else they believe. It was the knowledge of their sun's nova soon immanent foretold they awaited a natural genocide. Believing they would never feel the warmth of their birth sun, their forced to accept it the Kriec'Tik like a disease rule the entire universe, and their only offspring, Alyson, had taken to outlandish deeds with her alien friends, and being a natural linguist, she quickly favored well, and she left them. Years pass as Jessica and Stake live lives amongst alien environments, and having luckily fled one of the oldest worlds, searching for Alyson they began to give up on until it was the Kriec'Tik themselves that brought the three back together amongst the process of a massive planetary acquisition they all nearly die in, but after the nova, the chance to take in the warmth of a new sun sets their sights to new hopes.
Download or read book Speech and Language written by Norman J. Lass and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speech and Language: Volume 1, Advances in Basic Research and Practice is a compendium of papers that discusses the processes and pathologies of, as well as applies theories and clinical issues to, speech and language. Some papers discuss perception of speech in early infancy, the problems faced by speech clinicians, and the anatomy of the perioral motor system. Based on data compiled on the infant's perception of speech sounds, one paper notes that human infants discriminate depending on fine temporal and frequency changes in a complex auditory array. Infants also show perceptual constraints while listening to speech characterized as adult- like; they are also predisposed to perceive certain speech-sound categories such as vowel and fricative categories. One paper examines the suggestion of Kent (1976) that "acoustic characteristics of children's speech...hold the promise of sensitive methods for the study of speech maturation and developmental disorders." This investigation involves the following: the recent attempts at multidimensional analyses of speech and perception; a measure of perceptual contrast; and results of feature comparison efforts. The compendium is well suited for linguists, ethnologists, psychologists, and researchers whose works involve linguistics, language learning, communications, and syntax.
Download or read book If I Ruled the World written by Ray Burton and published by Author House. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MONEY MAY NOT BUY HAPPINESS. BUT IT CAN COME OH SO CLOSE. If you were the overwhelmingly handsome Allan Wright, money could make your grandest, wildest dreams of worldly possessions, of social prestige, of sexual pleasure, and lastly, of having an entire congregation centering around you, come true. If you were Wright's eager followers, money could draw more attention to your discouraging voices against a world that has lost its order with its explosion of minorities, gays, mixed marriages, as well as an array of other injustices. If you were the Honorable Judge Peter Nolan, money could put the world's greatest artifacts, the now illustrious Allan Wright, and even members of the world's most elite group, the FBI, into your grateful hands--making you nearly untouchable. However, if you were the immense, well-muscled Jack Parish, tipping the scales at three hundred and fifty pounds, an insane militiaman seething with racial hatred, and a devout follower of Allan Wright, money would be valueless. Preparing for a New World, setting things right, rising to the heavens--these would be things which held priority. And no police division in the city, in the state, in the world no demons in or out of Hell would stop you from your mission. One of the most chilling, thought-provoking thrillers you'll ever read--one that will stay with you for years. IF I RULED THE WORLD
Download or read book Baseball Without Borders written by George Gmelch and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays about baseball in other cultures, notably Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific, which explores a wide range of issues for each region.
Download or read book A Complete Dictionary of the English and German and German and English Languages written by Johann Gottfried Flügel and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hunter s Paradise written by Phillip R. Onagan and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 1980s near Yakutat, Alaska, Hunter's Paradise: The Homecoming is the story of the Bootans, owners of a sixty-thousand-acre outfitter and ranch, Paradise. Paradise is a land of splendor with virgin forests, lakes, and streams filled with the abundance of wildlife. The head of the family is the tough and hardened but godly man, former Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant John Bootan. He and his business partner, Dan Lupa, are professional hunting guides. They book fly-in clients from the United States and other countries for Alaskan big game hunting and fishing. John's outfitter team includes four nephews, their wives, a niece, and hired help. Whether their story takes you to the war scenes of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, the dangers of big game hunting, or the lost romances of their past, their courage and spirit exemplify the heart of a true American Christian family. In The Homecoming a thirteen-year tribulation continues involving John's oldest nephew Brandon. An emotionally torn veteran, who lost his most precious possessions before his Vietnam trauma: His faith in God, his wife to be, Marcy Lamore, and his dignity as a man. In a desperate search for a meaning and purpose in life, he is fostered by the sage wisdom of his Uncle John and the devoted love of his younger brother Bud. However, Bud's recent marriage to Elaine Petry is a threat to Brandon, fearing that she has taken Bud away from him. In their homecoming to Paradise, a clash between husband and wife, between brother and brother, and between sister-in-law and brother-in-law unfold. To save his family from destruction, Brandon seeks refuge at Little Splendor, land also owned by the Bootans. Months later after leaving Paradise, Brandon learns of a hunting disaster involving Bud and quickly joins his family for a search and rescue. It becomes a long journey back home for the Bootans as they struggle with the natural elements, their fellow man, and ultimately with themselves.
Download or read book Games written by Youth Specialties, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You want whacked-out, run-till-you-drop games? Here they are. You want sedate games for small, quiet groups? Got 'em. Inside Games are more than 400 indoor and outdoor games teenagers love to play: - Balloon Games . . . Twice the fun of a church board meeting, with only half the hot air. An inexpensive good time. - Basketball Games . . . All of them slam dunks. - Volleyball Games . . .What self-respecting youth group doesn't love a good volleyball game? They'll go crazy for these bizarre mutations of the sport. - Indoor Games for Large Groups . . .Reserve your church's gym or fellowship hall for the night, and turn to page 35 for this collection of games! - Living Room Games . . . Great for parties, informal gatherings -- or anytime you've got a roomful of people just sitting around. And more -- indoor games for small groups, mind reading games, and dozens of Ping-Pong variations. Whether you're a youth worker or a recreation leader at a church, school, club, or camp -- Games is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.
Download or read book Baseball Beyond Our Borders written by George Gmelch and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played. This collection of essays tells the story of America's national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive, entertaining, and sometimes quirky changes in the process. Covering nineteen countries and a U.S. territory, the contributors show how each country imported baseball, how baseball took hold and developed, how it is organized, played, and followed, and what local and regional traits tell us about the sport's place in each culture. But what lies in store as baseball's passport fills up with far-flung stamps? Will the international migration of players homogenize baseball? What role will the World Baseball Classic play? These are just a few of the questions the authors pose.
