Author: Mike Albo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596917075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Successful, gorgeous, and beloved by everyone you know, the Underminer remembers your every foolish ambition and humiliating mistake-and never fails to remind you. The Underminer makes you feel suicidal. But the Underminer is your friend. Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan do us all a public service by capturing the elusive evils of an age-old archetype. To understand and resist your toxic friend, you need The Underminer. Who is the Underminer? "An insincere, name-dropping predator with a rise so meteoric that you feel like crawling into your sad little apartment and eating gallons of ice cream right out of the carton while sniffling over reruns of old Bette Davis movies."-New York Times Book Review "A character that is so malicious, so insensitive and sadistic, that we can only gape horror-struck as every venomous phrase rolls off her tongue."-Rocky Mountain News "A psychological predator of the highest order. A viper cloaked in velvet. The Shaquille O'Neal of schadenfreude."-Boston Globe "An ego-skewering, passive-aggressive blowhard of indeterminate gender, surfing annoyingly along the breaking waves of pop and consumer culture-from dot-com to New Age, from hip-hop to a yurt in Afghanistan-always on top and armed with a put-down."-New York Times "The 'friend' who somehow manages to turn every compliment into an incredibly subtle insult, thus making you wonder whether you are truly the most neurotic person in all of Manhattan-or if your friend is just, well, evil."-New York Post
The Underminer
Author: Mike Albo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596917075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Successful, gorgeous, and beloved by everyone you know, the Underminer remembers your every foolish ambition and humiliating mistake-and never fails to remind you. The Underminer makes you feel suicidal. But the Underminer is your friend. Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan do us all a public service by capturing the elusive evils of an age-old archetype. To understand and resist your toxic friend, you need The Underminer. Who is the Underminer? "An insincere, name-dropping predator with a rise so meteoric that you feel like crawling into your sad little apartment and eating gallons of ice cream right out of the carton while sniffling over reruns of old Bette Davis movies."-New York Times Book Review "A character that is so malicious, so insensitive and sadistic, that we can only gape horror-struck as every venomous phrase rolls off her tongue."-Rocky Mountain News "A psychological predator of the highest order. A viper cloaked in velvet. The Shaquille O'Neal of schadenfreude."-Boston Globe "An ego-skewering, passive-aggressive blowhard of indeterminate gender, surfing annoyingly along the breaking waves of pop and consumer culture-from dot-com to New Age, from hip-hop to a yurt in Afghanistan-always on top and armed with a put-down."-New York Times "The 'friend' who somehow manages to turn every compliment into an incredibly subtle insult, thus making you wonder whether you are truly the most neurotic person in all of Manhattan-or if your friend is just, well, evil."-New York Post
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596917075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Successful, gorgeous, and beloved by everyone you know, the Underminer remembers your every foolish ambition and humiliating mistake-and never fails to remind you. The Underminer makes you feel suicidal. But the Underminer is your friend. Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan do us all a public service by capturing the elusive evils of an age-old archetype. To understand and resist your toxic friend, you need The Underminer. Who is the Underminer? "An insincere, name-dropping predator with a rise so meteoric that you feel like crawling into your sad little apartment and eating gallons of ice cream right out of the carton while sniffling over reruns of old Bette Davis movies."-New York Times Book Review "A character that is so malicious, so insensitive and sadistic, that we can only gape horror-struck as every venomous phrase rolls off her tongue."-Rocky Mountain News "A psychological predator of the highest order. A viper cloaked in velvet. The Shaquille O'Neal of schadenfreude."-Boston Globe "An ego-skewering, passive-aggressive blowhard of indeterminate gender, surfing annoyingly along the breaking waves of pop and consumer culture-from dot-com to New Age, from hip-hop to a yurt in Afghanistan-always on top and armed with a put-down."-New York Times "The 'friend' who somehow manages to turn every compliment into an incredibly subtle insult, thus making you wonder whether you are truly the most neurotic person in all of Manhattan-or if your friend is just, well, evil."-New York Post
Incredibles 2 Junior Novel
Author: Disney Books
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1368020747
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Disney·Pixar Incredibles 2 brings back everyone’s favorite family of superheroes in an exciting, hilarious, and heartfelt super sequel. Mr. & Mrs. Incredible, Violet, Dash, and even baby Jack-Jack encounter a brand-new nemesis who puts their powers—and their family to the ultimate test! Disney·Pixar Incredibles 2: The Junior Novelization retells the whole action-packed story and features eight full-color pages of details about the world’s most exciting superheroes.
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1368020747
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Disney·Pixar Incredibles 2 brings back everyone’s favorite family of superheroes in an exciting, hilarious, and heartfelt super sequel. Mr. & Mrs. Incredible, Violet, Dash, and even baby Jack-Jack encounter a brand-new nemesis who puts their powers—and their family to the ultimate test! Disney·Pixar Incredibles 2: The Junior Novelization retells the whole action-packed story and features eight full-color pages of details about the world’s most exciting superheroes.
The Art of Incredibles 2
Author: John Lasseter
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452164118
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
From Pixar's upcoming film Incredibles 2, this making-of book is a dive back into the beloved world of the Incredibles. The Art of Incredibles 2 explores Pixar's highly anticipated sequel through colorful artwork, energetic character sketches, intriguing storyboards, and spellbinding colorscripts. Featuring gorgeous production art and interesting details from the production team about the making of the film, The Art of Incredibles 2 overflows with insights into the artistic process behind Pixar's engaging creative vision. Copyright ©2018 Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Pixar. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452164118
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
From Pixar's upcoming film Incredibles 2, this making-of book is a dive back into the beloved world of the Incredibles. The Art of Incredibles 2 explores Pixar's highly anticipated sequel through colorful artwork, energetic character sketches, intriguing storyboards, and spellbinding colorscripts. Featuring gorgeous production art and interesting details from the production team about the making of the film, The Art of Incredibles 2 overflows with insights into the artistic process behind Pixar's engaging creative vision. Copyright ©2018 Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Pixar. All rights reserved.
Buttocks Reshaping
Author: Raul Gonzalez
Publisher: Indexa
ISBN: 8560138005
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Book and DVD. This is the world's first book on plastic surgery of the buttocks and posterior contour. With over 1100 illustrations, the author takes the reader step-by-step through buttocks surgery, from patient examination, to indicating procedures, to pre- and post-op. A detailed atlas explains the anatomy of the region, including a beginner's guide to surface anatomy. Following chapters explain the main procedures in plastic surgery of the posterior contour with each step shown in photographs and explained in detail. Some of these procedures covered are buttlifts; liposculpture; treatment of retractions, banana fold, and common sequelae; and choosing and placing buttock, thigh, and calf implants. The book comes with a DVD, featuring live buttock implant surgery performed and narrated by the author, with Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. The author uses the XYZ plan; a safe, reproducible and anatomically precise technique to place buttock implants intramuscularly.
Publisher: Indexa
ISBN: 8560138005
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Book and DVD. This is the world's first book on plastic surgery of the buttocks and posterior contour. With over 1100 illustrations, the author takes the reader step-by-step through buttocks surgery, from patient examination, to indicating procedures, to pre- and post-op. A detailed atlas explains the anatomy of the region, including a beginner's guide to surface anatomy. Following chapters explain the main procedures in plastic surgery of the posterior contour with each step shown in photographs and explained in detail. Some of these procedures covered are buttlifts; liposculpture; treatment of retractions, banana fold, and common sequelae; and choosing and placing buttock, thigh, and calf implants. The book comes with a DVD, featuring live buttock implant surgery performed and narrated by the author, with Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. The author uses the XYZ plan; a safe, reproducible and anatomically precise technique to place buttock implants intramuscularly.
Crazy Love
Author: W. Brad Johnson
Publisher: Impact Publishers
ISBN: 9781886230804
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The scenario is all too common: Girl meets guy (or Guy meets girl). Guy is smart, charming, and maybe even endearing. Girl falls in love. As the relationship progresses Guy's serious personality problems begin to surface. She gets longer and more vivid glimpses of habits and tendencies she didn't notice at first. With about 15% of the adult population suffering from one or more personality disorders -- that's over 16 million potential relationship partners, says the National Institutes of Health -- finding the right partner and maintaining a healthy love relationship is harder work than we thought! Crazy Love sheds light on the odd but surprisingly common disorders of personality so that readers can become better informed and more careful when entering or continuing a relationship. Johnson and Murray tell us why so many of us are attracted to personality disordered partners, and--most important--they offer strategies for detecting and avoiding such potential disasters. They also recognize the needs of readers who are already in committed relationships with personality-impaired partners, and offer hope in the form of healthy survival strategies and tips for making the relationship more livable.
Publisher: Impact Publishers
ISBN: 9781886230804
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The scenario is all too common: Girl meets guy (or Guy meets girl). Guy is smart, charming, and maybe even endearing. Girl falls in love. As the relationship progresses Guy's serious personality problems begin to surface. She gets longer and more vivid glimpses of habits and tendencies she didn't notice at first. With about 15% of the adult population suffering from one or more personality disorders -- that's over 16 million potential relationship partners, says the National Institutes of Health -- finding the right partner and maintaining a healthy love relationship is harder work than we thought! Crazy Love sheds light on the odd but surprisingly common disorders of personality so that readers can become better informed and more careful when entering or continuing a relationship. Johnson and Murray tell us why so many of us are attracted to personality disordered partners, and--most important--they offer strategies for detecting and avoiding such potential disasters. They also recognize the needs of readers who are already in committed relationships with personality-impaired partners, and offer hope in the form of healthy survival strategies and tips for making the relationship more livable.
The Fabulous Girl's Guide To Life
Author: Ceri Marsh
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446464105
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
THE FABULOUS GIRL'S GUIDE TO LIFE is fully of witty, incisive and helpful advice for the thoroughly modern woman It covers many of the dilemmas and tricky situations a Fabulous Girl will encounter as she moves on to the next stage of her life, and will resonate with women everywhere. It includes: * CHANGING CAREERS MIDSTREAM * HOW TO WORK WITH SOMEONE WHO UNDERMINES YOU * BUSINESS TRIP ETIQUETTE * GETTING BETTER SERVICE * HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN FASHION STYLE * WHAT TO DO WHEN TWO FRIENDS SPLIT UP * HOW TO TELL FRIEND TO STOP DRINKING/LOSE WEIGHT * MAKING BOOTY CALLS * DATING SOMEONE WITH KIDS * CAREER CONFLICTS IN A RELATIONSHIP * HOW TO BREAK UP WITH STYLE * LAST-MINUTE ENTERTAINING * HOW TO SURVIVE FAMILY GATHERINGS AND END FAMILY FEUDS And woven through the books is the continuing story of the Fabulous Girl herself.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446464105
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
THE FABULOUS GIRL'S GUIDE TO LIFE is fully of witty, incisive and helpful advice for the thoroughly modern woman It covers many of the dilemmas and tricky situations a Fabulous Girl will encounter as she moves on to the next stage of her life, and will resonate with women everywhere. It includes: * CHANGING CAREERS MIDSTREAM * HOW TO WORK WITH SOMEONE WHO UNDERMINES YOU * BUSINESS TRIP ETIQUETTE * GETTING BETTER SERVICE * HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN FASHION STYLE * WHAT TO DO WHEN TWO FRIENDS SPLIT UP * HOW TO TELL FRIEND TO STOP DRINKING/LOSE WEIGHT * MAKING BOOTY CALLS * DATING SOMEONE WITH KIDS * CAREER CONFLICTS IN A RELATIONSHIP * HOW TO BREAK UP WITH STYLE * LAST-MINUTE ENTERTAINING * HOW TO SURVIVE FAMILY GATHERINGS AND END FAMILY FEUDS And woven through the books is the continuing story of the Fabulous Girl herself.
Embracing Change
Author: Joseph F. Sica
Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications
ISBN: 9781585952489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Are you living the life you want to live? In this uplifting and inspiring book, Fr. Joe Sica affirms that life is a gift waiting to be unwrapped and lived abundantly with every breath we take. Embracing Change: 10 Ways to Grow Spiritually and Emotionally is not another self-help fix. Instead it offers a self-care solution, a program that is about revealing the person you want--and are meant--to be. It's a spiritual renovation of your self, a way of moving toward wholeness, and it can begin now. Embracing Change is filled with practical, easy-to-apply suggestions and illustrations with plenty of stories, humor, and quotes. This marvelous resource is for everyone who wants to make a positive change in their life.
Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications
ISBN: 9781585952489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Are you living the life you want to live? In this uplifting and inspiring book, Fr. Joe Sica affirms that life is a gift waiting to be unwrapped and lived abundantly with every breath we take. Embracing Change: 10 Ways to Grow Spiritually and Emotionally is not another self-help fix. Instead it offers a self-care solution, a program that is about revealing the person you want--and are meant--to be. It's a spiritual renovation of your self, a way of moving toward wholeness, and it can begin now. Embracing Change is filled with practical, easy-to-apply suggestions and illustrations with plenty of stories, humor, and quotes. This marvelous resource is for everyone who wants to make a positive change in their life.
Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law
Author: Richard S. Markovits
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364224307X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
This volume (1) defines the specific-anticompetitive-intent, lessening-competition, distorting-competition, and exploitative-abuse tests of illegality promulgated by U.S. and/or E.U. antitrust law, (2) compares the efficiency defenses promulgated by U.S. and E.U. antitrust law, (3) compares the conduct-coverage of the various U.S. and E.U. antitrust laws, (4) defines price competition and quality-or-variety-increasing-investment (QV-investment) competition and explains why they should be analyzed separately, (5) defines the components of individualized-pricing and across-the-board-pricing sellers’ price minus marginal cost gaps and analyses each’s determinants, (6) defines the determinants of the intensity of QV-investment competition and explains how they determine that intensity, (7) demonstrates that definitions of both classical and antitrust markets are inevitably arbitrary, not just at their periphery but comprehensively, (8) criticizes the various protocols for market definition recommended/used by scholars, the U.S. antitrust agencies, the European Commission, and U.S. and E.U. courts, (9) explains that a firm’s economic (market) power or dominance depends on its power over both price and QV investment and demonstrates that, even if markets could be defined non-arbitrarily, a firm’s economic power could not be predicted from its market share, (10) articulates a definition of “oligopolistic conduct” that some economists have implicitly used–conduct whose perpetrator-perceived ex ante profitability depended critically on the perpetrator’s belief that its rivals’ responses would be affected by their belief that it could react to their responses, distinguishes two types of such conduct–contrived and natural–by whether it entails anticompetitive threats and/or offers, explains why this distinction is critical under U.S. but not E.U. antitrust law, analyzes the profitability of each kind of oligopolistic conduct, examines these analyses’ implications for each’s antitrust legality, and criticizes related U.S. and E.U. case-law and doctrine and scholarly positions (e.g., on the evidence that establishes the illegal oligopolistic character of pricing), and (11) executes parallel analyses of predatory conduct--e.g., criticizes various arguments for the inevitable unprofitability of predatory pricing, the various tests that economists/U.S. courts advocate using/use to determine whether pricing is predatory, and two analyses by economists of the conditions under which QV investment and systems rivalry are predatory and examines the conditions under which production-process research, plant-modernization, and long-term full-requirements contracts are predatory.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364224307X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
This volume (1) defines the specific-anticompetitive-intent, lessening-competition, distorting-competition, and exploitative-abuse tests of illegality promulgated by U.S. and/or E.U. antitrust law, (2) compares the efficiency defenses promulgated by U.S. and E.U. antitrust law, (3) compares the conduct-coverage of the various U.S. and E.U. antitrust laws, (4) defines price competition and quality-or-variety-increasing-investment (QV-investment) competition and explains why they should be analyzed separately, (5) defines the components of individualized-pricing and across-the-board-pricing sellers’ price minus marginal cost gaps and analyses each’s determinants, (6) defines the determinants of the intensity of QV-investment competition and explains how they determine that intensity, (7) demonstrates that definitions of both classical and antitrust markets are inevitably arbitrary, not just at their periphery but comprehensively, (8) criticizes the various protocols for market definition recommended/used by scholars, the U.S. antitrust agencies, the European Commission, and U.S. and E.U. courts, (9) explains that a firm’s economic (market) power or dominance depends on its power over both price and QV investment and demonstrates that, even if markets could be defined non-arbitrarily, a firm’s economic power could not be predicted from its market share, (10) articulates a definition of “oligopolistic conduct” that some economists have implicitly used–conduct whose perpetrator-perceived ex ante profitability depended critically on the perpetrator’s belief that its rivals’ responses would be affected by their belief that it could react to their responses, distinguishes two types of such conduct–contrived and natural–by whether it entails anticompetitive threats and/or offers, explains why this distinction is critical under U.S. but not E.U. antitrust law, analyzes the profitability of each kind of oligopolistic conduct, examines these analyses’ implications for each’s antitrust legality, and criticizes related U.S. and E.U. case-law and doctrine and scholarly positions (e.g., on the evidence that establishes the illegal oligopolistic character of pricing), and (11) executes parallel analyses of predatory conduct--e.g., criticizes various arguments for the inevitable unprofitability of predatory pricing, the various tests that economists/U.S. courts advocate using/use to determine whether pricing is predatory, and two analyses by economists of the conditions under which QV investment and systems rivalry are predatory and examines the conditions under which production-process research, plant-modernization, and long-term full-requirements contracts are predatory.
What Every Parent Needs to Know about Video Games
Author: Richard Abanes
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 9780736917407
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In this helpful primer, an award-winning journalist and experienced gamer gives readers a survey of the field and a framework for thinking through the issues in order to make judgments about not only what is shown in games, but how it's shown, in what context, and what overall message is being delivered.
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 9780736917407
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In this helpful primer, an award-winning journalist and experienced gamer gives readers a survey of the field and a framework for thinking through the issues in order to make judgments about not only what is shown in games, but how it's shown, in what context, and what overall message is being delivered.
1000 Facts About Animated Films
Author: James Egan
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132650309X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
In the original script of The Lion King, Mufasa was the one who cut Scar's face. Walt Disney HATED the spaghetti-eating scene in Lady and the Tramp. It is now one of the most beloved scenes in Disney history. Toy Story only cost $30 million. Christopher Barnes was only 16 when he voiced Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid. In Frozen, Elsa was supposed to have blue hair. The villain of The Incredibles was supposed to be an alien called Xerek. The merchant in the beginning of Aladdin is the Genie. It took ten years to make Alice in Wonderland. Gru's appearance in Despicable Me is based on an emperor penguin. Disney were certain that Finding Nemo would fail. The Prince in Beauty and the Beast was 11 when the Enchantress cursed him. If Cinderella flopped, Disney would've gone bankrupt. Inside Out is the first Pixar film that doesn't have a villain. Walt Disney's favourite Disney film was Bambi. Elvis nearly starred in The Jungle Book.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132650309X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
In the original script of The Lion King, Mufasa was the one who cut Scar's face. Walt Disney HATED the spaghetti-eating scene in Lady and the Tramp. It is now one of the most beloved scenes in Disney history. Toy Story only cost $30 million. Christopher Barnes was only 16 when he voiced Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid. In Frozen, Elsa was supposed to have blue hair. The villain of The Incredibles was supposed to be an alien called Xerek. The merchant in the beginning of Aladdin is the Genie. It took ten years to make Alice in Wonderland. Gru's appearance in Despicable Me is based on an emperor penguin. Disney were certain that Finding Nemo would fail. The Prince in Beauty and the Beast was 11 when the Enchantress cursed him. If Cinderella flopped, Disney would've gone bankrupt. Inside Out is the first Pixar film that doesn't have a villain. Walt Disney's favourite Disney film was Bambi. Elvis nearly starred in The Jungle Book.