Author: Shahrukh Husain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846862267
Category : Fables, Arabic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Meet Mulla Nasruddin, a legendary character whose adventures and misadventures are enjoyed across the Islamic world. This witty collection of stories portrays his eccentric, engaging and irreverent character. Nasruddin always has a twinkle in his eye, a sliver of wisdom in his ramblings and a few good surprises up his sleeve! AGES: 6 and up AUTHOR: Shahrukh Husain writes for both adults and children and is the author of THE BAREFOOT BOOK OF STORIES FROM THE OPERA. When she is not writing, Shahrukh practices as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, specialising in transcultural work. Micha Archer has always loved the way words and pictures go together. Her illustrations are created using gouache, watercolour, pen and ink, and collage. She is influenced by her travels in West Africa, Mexico and Central America and the folk arts and crafts she saw there. She has also illustrated LOLA'S FANDANGO. REVIEWS: ". . . Husain's accessible and lively prose delivers satisfying morals that are rarely predictable; for example, when the Mulla concocts an inventive story to keep his pupils from eating his baklava and returns to find the plate empty, he praises a pupil who tells a tall tale of his own. Rendered in vibrant golds, greens, and blues, Archer's collages, created from a variety of papers and homemade stamps, seamlessly intermesh with the spirited vignettes" -- Publishers Weekly
Author: Tim McGhee
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595183271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Mason Bricker is a young man from West Virginia, a college student facing many challenges as he comes of age. He is compelled by duty to justice to help his black friends who are the victims of racism. He must face the pain of the tragic death of a hero, pain from his early teens manifesting in his young adult life. Mason strives to realize his dreams of glory on the gridiron. And romance grasps his heart. All these converge on him in a week in early November 1975. Think about it. You're an anonymous walk-on who every autumn Saturday wears the uniform of the college football team of your boyhood dreams. A total stranger presents you with evidence that your head coach is accepting bribes from a wealthy bigot. What would you do? Think again. You're a bright college student serving as a tutor in the English Department. It happens. You've met the stunning woman of your fantasies. One problem: she's faculty. What would you do? What would you do? Read Wise Fools.
Author: François Rabelais
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780437425126
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: David Gardner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743216113
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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For Making Sense of Investing Today...the Fully Revised and Expanded Edition of the Bestselling The Motley Fool Investment Guide Today, with the Internet, anyone can be an informed investor. Once you learn to tune out the hype and focus on meaningful factors, you can beat the Street. The Motley Fool Investment Guide, completely revised and updated with clear and witty explanations, deciphers all the new information -- from evaluating individual stocks to creating a diverse investment portfolio. David and Tom Gardner have investing ideas for you -- no matter how much time or money you have. This new edition of The Motley Fool Investment Guide is built for today's investor, sophisticate and novice alike, with updated information on: Finding high-growth stocks that will beat the market over the long term Identifying volatile young companies that traditional valuation measures may miss Using Fool.com and the Internet to locate great sources of useful information
Author: Cathy Malkasian
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 160699638X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Cartoonist and animator Cathy Malkasian follows up her 2007 graphic novel Percy Gloom (a minor classic) with the further adventures of the small, immortal man with a light-up head. In Wake Up, Percy Gloom, kindhearted Percy awakens from (what he thinks is) a 200-year nap and finds himself in a strange new land. As Percy goes on a quest to locate his mother, he encounters many inspired inventions and bizarre, and sometimes dangerous, characters and situations, such as singing goats and furniture parades. Through it all he pines for his long-lost love and soul mate, Miss Margaret―but his love may not be as doomed as he thinks. Malkasian’s lush and detailed pencil drawings, surreal humor, absurdist characters and stunning visual storytelling ensure that fans of the first graphic novel will find the sequel just as fantastical, touching, and hilarious; new readers will discover a gorgeously rendered world of luminous landscapes, gentle humor, and a cast composed variously of wise, naive, and flawed characters in a wide-ranging story that stands on its own.
Author: Robert Hillis Goldsmith
Publisher: [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Author: Robert Hillis Goldsmith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fools and jesters in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Author: Joan Silber
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781838956615
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Author: Austin Strong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Author: Roger von Oech
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111984326X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Tackle your thorniest problems using the Wise Fool’s savvy Strategies! The Wise Fool is the archetypal contrarian known for his creativity, irreverence, and humor. He looks at life in unorthodox ways and pushes back against the status quo. Throughout history, powerful decision-makers (Egyptian pharaohs, Chinese emperors, Persian sultans, and European kings) consulted Wise Fools to question the assumptions that kept them mired in stale and obsolete solutions. In The Creative Contrarian, best-selling author (A Whack on the Side of the Head), speaker, and toy designer (Ball of Whacks) Dr. Roger von Oech provides readers with a fully-illustrated “Wise Fool Guide” to challenge established procedures and engage in creative thinking. Roger shows how to gain the confidence to speak up in “groupthink” situations — and boldly present a different perspective. From laughing at your most beloved ideas to test their validity to adding constraints to problems to reveal new solutions, he offers a framework for creativity that works in business, design, education, and anywhere new ideas are required — and appreciated! Employing a wealth of stories and examples, The Creative Contrarian presents 20 Wise Fool Strategies: Some offer ideas to enhance your creativity (“Reverse Your Perspective,” “Look for Ambiguity,” and “Kiss a Favorite Idea Goodbye”) Some provide tips on how to break away from the herd (“Buck the Crowd,” “Flex Your Risk Muscle,” and “Seek Other Right Answers”) And still others convey prudent warnings in an unpredictable world (“Exercise Humility,” “Imagine Unintended Outcomes,” and “Develop a Thick Skin”) Together, these jewels of insight will help you see things from the Wise Fool’s perspective! As the Wise Fool puts it: “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it’s the only one you have”; and “Every ‘right’ idea eventually becomes the ‘wrong’ one.” The Creative Contrarian: 20 “Wise Fool” Strategies to Boost Creativity and Curb Group think is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking fresh solutions to common problems at the office, in the classroom, or at home.
