Book Description
A treasury of ten stories featuring characters that fool others includes contributions by such authors as David A. Adler, Eve B. Feldman, and Michelle Knudsen.
Author : Johanna Hurwitz
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763637890
A treasury of ten stories featuring characters that fool others includes contributions by such authors as David A. Adler, Eve B. Feldman, and Michelle Knudsen.
Author : Johanna Hurwitz
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763637890
A treasury of ten stories featuring characters that fool others includes contributions by such authors as David A. Adler, Eve B. Feldman, and Michelle Knudsen.
Author : Nancy E. Krulik
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545117760
It's April Fool's Day in Miss Popper's firstgrade class, and six-year-old Justine decides to play some pranks on her teacher and classmates. Once Justine starts playing jokes, though, she can't stop. The pranking just keeps getting worse and worse. When Justine's friends get tired of the constant pranks, they decide to play a joke of their own. But will Justine be able to handle a taste of her own medicine?
Author : T.D. Jakes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 1416547339
Shares uplifting advice about the virtues of forgiveness, offering strategic and biblically based advice on how to achieve peace and personal fulfillment by letting go of past wrongs.
Author : Roy Cook
Publisher : Lioncrest Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 2020-12-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781544516264
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard how important it is to set goals. You've probably also heard a million different life hacks to help you reach them: get more sleep, meditate, journal. That's all helpful advice, but when push comes to shove, it won't help you lead a more fulfilling, peaceful life. That's because the key to success is how you pick the best goals...for you. The goals you set must be consistent with your inner core values. As Roy Cook shows, every person has 10-20 core values, unique to them. And when you build a life around your core values, success will follow. In the words of Socrates, "The unexamined life is not worth living." A Fool's Errand is your indispensable guide to self-examination and value-oriented living. You will learn what core values are, how to discover them, and how to use your values to make wise goal choices. You don't need life hacks. All the tools you need are already inside you.
Author : Denis Carroll
Publisher : Columba Press (IE)
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782183006
A biography of Fr Michael O'Flanagan, an Irish priest who also served as president of Sinn Fein, and was instrumental in shaping the early Irish government.
Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher : Random House
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1588367673
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill–the world of trading–Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives. The book is populated with an array of characters, some of whom have grasped, in their own way, the significance of chance: the baseball legend Yogi Berra; the philosopher of knowledge Karl Popper; the ancient world’s wisest man, Solon; the modern financier George Soros; and the Greek voyager Odysseus. We also meet the fictional Nero, who seems to understand the role of randomness in his professional life but falls victim to his own superstitious foolishness. However, the most recognizable character of all remains unnamed–the lucky fool who happens to be in the right place at the right time–he embodies the “survival of the least fit.” Such individuals attract devoted followers who believe in their guru’s insights and methods. But no one can replicate what is obtained by chance. Are we capable of distinguishing the fortunate charlatan from the genuine visionary? Must we always try to uncover nonexistent messages in random events? It may be impossible to guard ourselves against the vagaries of the goddess Fortuna, but after reading Fooled by Randomness we can be a little better prepared. Named by Fortune One of the Smartest Books of All Time A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year
Author : Elaine Pascoe
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805075281
Discusses nearly a dozen infamous hoaxes and how they came about and why people were fooled.
Author : Mardy Grothe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2002-02-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780142000571
What do Mae West, John F. Kennedy, Victor Hugo, and H. L. Mencken have in common? They all indulged in chiasmus-a literary device in which word order is reversed to hilarious or poignant effect. When Mae West said, "It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men," she was using chiasmus; when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," he was doing the same. Dr. Mardy Grothe has compiled hundreds of examples of chiasmus in this whimsically illustrated collection, bringing this witty and thought-provoking device out of obscurity and into the public imagination.
Author : Leon Black
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 150118072X
Everyone’s favorite houseguest who never left, Leon Black (played by award-winning comedian JB Smoove on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm) drops his wisdom and good-bad advice for the masses. Learn the secrets Larry David has gleaned from the Falstaff of television. Live your best Leon. Bring the Ruckus. Aristotle. Gandhi. Lao Tzu. Dr. Ruth. Amateurs. For centuries bespeckled dorks have pored over the scrolls of the ancients, read tea leaves, and looked to the stars for philosophy, wisdom, and advice. While some people have probably offered good advice, and others offer bad advice, Leon is here to offer his brand of good-bad advice. These are the musings of a master genius spitting out the secrets of the universe—to help you become just like him. Be forewarned: in opening this tome and Leon’s mind, you need to be prepared for straight talk. The kind of unfiltered blunt straight talk that pounds on your door, invites itself in, makes itself at home, helps itself to your food, security pass code, your expensive organic beet juice, and finally makes itself comfortable on that twin bed in your guest room. All the while you think you’re helping it—but really it’s helping you help yourself! Because that’s how this book doozit. Leon Black, he ain’t wrong...he just ain’t right.