Author: Jon Elster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107142024
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This book is Jon Elster's influential study of irrationality, challenging orthodox theories of rational choice.
Sour Grapes
Author: Jon Elster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107142024
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This book is Jon Elster's influential study of irrationality, challenging orthodox theories of rational choice.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107142024
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This book is Jon Elster's influential study of irrationality, challenging orthodox theories of rational choice.
Sour Grapes
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Sour Grapes
Author: Dan Rhodes
Publisher: Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN: 1785632949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
'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.
Publisher: Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN: 1785632949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
'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.
Sour Grapes
Author: Tim Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692467497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
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!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692467497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
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!
My Year of Flops
Author: Nathan Rabin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439160317
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In 2007, Nathan Rabin set out to provide a revisionist look at the history of cinematic failure on a weekly basis. What began as a solitary ramble through the nooks and crannies of pop culture evolved into a way of life. My Year Of Flops collects dozens of the best-loved entries from the A.V. Club column along with bonus interviews and fifteen brand-new entries covering everything from notorious flops like The Cable Guy and Last Action Hero to bizarre obscurities like Glory Road, Johnny Cash’s poignantly homemade tribute to Jesus. Driven by a unique combination of sympathy and Schadenfreude, My Year Of Flops is an unforgettable tribute to cinematic losers, beautiful and otherwise.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439160317
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In 2007, Nathan Rabin set out to provide a revisionist look at the history of cinematic failure on a weekly basis. What began as a solitary ramble through the nooks and crannies of pop culture evolved into a way of life. My Year Of Flops collects dozens of the best-loved entries from the A.V. Club column along with bonus interviews and fifteen brand-new entries covering everything from notorious flops like The Cable Guy and Last Action Hero to bizarre obscurities like Glory Road, Johnny Cash’s poignantly homemade tribute to Jesus. Driven by a unique combination of sympathy and Schadenfreude, My Year Of Flops is an unforgettable tribute to cinematic losers, beautiful and otherwise.
Sour Grapes
Author: Bob Joseph
Publisher: Moopstoboops Books
ISBN: 9781733542203
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Melvin and Marty are two of the funniest grapes ever to hang together. Everything upsets Melvin. He's a real pain in the...vine. A constant complainer. If he were on a rose bush, he'd be a thorn! When these two grapes get picked to go to market, things don't go too well for Melvin. "It's too hot! It's too cold!" It's always too...something-or-other. Let's face it, Melvin is one sour grape. Luckily for Melvin, his bestest bud Marty is "as cool as a cucumber" and "smarter than spinach" and is joining him on a fantastically fun adventure that can only be described as truly GRAPE!
Publisher: Moopstoboops Books
ISBN: 9781733542203
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Melvin and Marty are two of the funniest grapes ever to hang together. Everything upsets Melvin. He's a real pain in the...vine. A constant complainer. If he were on a rose bush, he'd be a thorn! When these two grapes get picked to go to market, things don't go too well for Melvin. "It's too hot! It's too cold!" It's always too...something-or-other. Let's face it, Melvin is one sour grape. Luckily for Melvin, his bestest bud Marty is "as cool as a cucumber" and "smarter than spinach" and is joining him on a fantastically fun adventure that can only be described as truly GRAPE!
Sour Heart
Author: Jenny Zhang
Publisher: Lenny
ISBN: 0399589392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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
Publisher: Lenny
ISBN: 0399589392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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
Chew Vol. 12
Author: John Layman
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 1534302727
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 1534302727
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
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.
Drip Irrigation for Agriculture
Author: Jean-Philippe Venot
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113498975X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries. This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders but also some disappointments and disillusion faced in the global South. It explores and explains under which conditions it works, for whom and with what effects. The book deals with drip irrigation 'behind the scenes', showcasing what largely remain 'untold stories'. Most research on drip irrigation use plot-level studies to demonstrate the technology’s ability to save water or improve efficiencies and use a narrow and rather prescriptive engineering or economic language. They tend to be grounded in a firm belief in the technology and focus on the identification of ways to improve or better realize its potential. The technology also figures prominently in poverty alleviation or agricultural modernization narratives, figuring as a tool to help smallholders become more innovative, entrepreneurial and business minded. Instead of focusing on its potential, this book looks at drip irrigation-in-use, making sense of what it does from the perspectives of the farmers who use it, and of the development workers and agencies, policymakers, private companies, local craftsmen, engineers, extension agents or researchers who engage with it for a diversity of reasons and to realize a multiplicity of objectives. While anchored in a sound engineering understanding of the design and operating principles of the technology, the book extends the analysis beyond engineering and hydraulics to understand drip irrigation as a sociotechnical phenomenon that not only changes the way water is supplied to crops but also transforms agricultural farming systems and even how society is organized. The book provides field evidence from a diversity of interdisciplinary case studies in sub-Saharan Africa, the Mediterranean, Latin America, and South Asia, thus revealing some of the untold stories of drip irrigation.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113498975X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries. This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders but also some disappointments and disillusion faced in the global South. It explores and explains under which conditions it works, for whom and with what effects. The book deals with drip irrigation 'behind the scenes', showcasing what largely remain 'untold stories'. Most research on drip irrigation use plot-level studies to demonstrate the technology’s ability to save water or improve efficiencies and use a narrow and rather prescriptive engineering or economic language. They tend to be grounded in a firm belief in the technology and focus on the identification of ways to improve or better realize its potential. The technology also figures prominently in poverty alleviation or agricultural modernization narratives, figuring as a tool to help smallholders become more innovative, entrepreneurial and business minded. Instead of focusing on its potential, this book looks at drip irrigation-in-use, making sense of what it does from the perspectives of the farmers who use it, and of the development workers and agencies, policymakers, private companies, local craftsmen, engineers, extension agents or researchers who engage with it for a diversity of reasons and to realize a multiplicity of objectives. While anchored in a sound engineering understanding of the design and operating principles of the technology, the book extends the analysis beyond engineering and hydraulics to understand drip irrigation as a sociotechnical phenomenon that not only changes the way water is supplied to crops but also transforms agricultural farming systems and even how society is organized. The book provides field evidence from a diversity of interdisciplinary case studies in sub-Saharan Africa, the Mediterranean, Latin America, and South Asia, thus revealing some of the untold stories of drip irrigation.
Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes
Author: Margie Palatini
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689802463
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Retells Aesop's fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689802463
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Retells Aesop's fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.