Another Fine Mess

Author : Tim Moore
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781473554801

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Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman – switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford. ‘Alarmingly full of incident, very funny – even mildly transformative’ Daily Mail Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original Model T Ford. Armed only with a fan belt made of cotton, wooden wheels and a trunkload of ‘wise-ass Limey liberal gumption’, his route takes him exclusively through Donald-voting counties, meeting the everyday folks who voted red along the way. He meets a people defined by extraordinary generosity, willing to shift heaven and earth to keep him on the road. And yet, this is clearly a nation in conflict with itself: citizens ‘tooling up’ in reaction to ever-increasing security fears; a healthcare system creaking to support sugar-loaded soda lovers; a disintegrating rust belt all but forgotten by the warring media and political classes. With his trademark blend of slapstick humour, affable insight and butt-clenching peril, Tim Moore invites us on an unforgettable road trip through America. Buckle up!

Author : Tony Bonning
Publisher : Gullane Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Animals
ISBN : 1862331456

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When a fox cleans his den to prepare for a visit from his uncle, his trash inadvertently makes the rounds of the homes of other animals before ending up right back where it began.

Author : Saul Austerlitz
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781569767634

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Charlie Chaplin. Buster Keaton. The Marx Brothers. Billy Wilder. Woody Allen. The Coen brothers. Where would the American film be without them? Yet the cinematic genre these artists represent--comedy--has perennially received short shrift from critics, film buffs, and the Academy Awards. Saul Austerlitz’s Another Fine Mess is an attempt to right that wrong. Running the gamut of film history from City Lights to Knocked Up, Another Fine Mess retells the story of American film from the perspective of its unwanted stepbrother--the comedy. In 30 long chapters and 100 shorter entries, each devoted primarily to a single performer or director, Another Fine Mess retraces the steps of the American comedy film, filling in the gaps and following the connections that link Mae West to Doris Day, or W. C. Fields to Will Ferrell. The first book of its kind in more than a generation, Another Fine Mess is an eye-opening, entertaining, and enlightening tour of the American comedy, encompassing the masterpieces, the box-office smashes, and all the little-known gems in between.

Author : Helen Epstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0997722924

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Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors? In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naïve dealings with strongmen are at the root of much of the turmoil in eastern and central Africa. Museveni's involvement in the conflicts in Sudan, South Sudan, Rwanda, Congo, and Somalia has earned him substantial amounts of military and development assistance, as well as near-total impunity. It has also short-circuited the power the people of this region might otherwise have over their destiny. Epstein set out for Uganda more than 20 years ago to work as a public health consultant on an AIDS project. Since then, the roughly $20 billion worth of foreign aid poured into the country by donors has done little to improve the well-being of the Ugandan people, whose rates of illiteracy, mortality, and poverty surpass those of many neighboring countries. Money meant to pay for health care, education, and other public services has instead been used by Museveni to shore up his power through patronage, brutality, and terror. Another Fine Mess is a devastating indictment of the West's Africa policy and an authoritative history of the crises that have ravaged Uganda and its neighbors since the end of the Cold War. "A stunning new book of reportage and analysis." --Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg

Author : Annie West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Death
ISBN : 184840705X

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An illustrated and humourous assembly of a fine cast of those who met untimely (and entertaining) ends.

Author : T. R. Reid
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735223967

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New York Times bestelling author T. R. Reid travels around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unravelling a complex topic in plain English - and telling a rollicking story along the way. The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Crammed with loopholes and special interest provisions, it works for no one except tax lawyers, accountants, and huge corporations. Not for the first time, we have reached a breaking point. That happened in 1922, and again in 1954, and again in 1986. In other words, every thirty-two years. Which means that the next complete overhaul is due in 2018. But what should be in this new tax code? Can we make the U.S. tax system simpler, fairer, and more efficient? Yes, yes, and yes. Can we cut tax rates and still bring in more revenue? Yes. Other rich countries, from Estonia to New Zealand to the UK—advanced, high-tech, free-market democracies—have all devised tax regimes that are equitable, effective, and easy on the taxpayer. But the United States has languished. So byzantine are the current statutes that, by our government’s own estimates, Americans spend six billion hours and $10 billion every year preparing and filing their taxes. In the Netherlands that task takes a mere fifteen minutes! Successful American companies like Apple, Caterpillar, and Google effectively pay no tax at all in some instances because of loopholes that allow them to move profits offshore. Indeed, the dysfunctional tax system has become a major cause of economic inequality. In A Fine Mess, T. R. Reid crisscrosses the globe in search of the exact solutions to these urgent problems. With an uncanny knack for making a complex subject not just accessible but gripping, he investigates what makes good taxation (no, that’s not an oxymoron) and brings that knowledge home where it is needed most. Never talking down or reflexively siding with either wing of politics, T. R. Reid presses the case for sensible root-and-branch reforms with a companionable ebullience. This affects everyone. Doing our taxes will never be America's favorite pastime, but it can and should be so much easier and fairer.

Author : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802197559

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Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming Pdf

From the author of Ninety Degrees North, a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars. In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. For the next thirty years, his handpicked teams of elite British naval officers scoured the globe from the Arctic to Antarctica, their mission: to fill the blanks that littered the atlases of the day. Barrow’s Boys is the spellbinding story of these adventurers, the perils they faced—including eating mice, their shoes, and even each other to survive—and the challenges they overcame on their odysseys into the unknown. Many of these expeditions are considered the greatest in history, and here they’ve been collected into one volume that captures the full sweep of Barrow’s program. “Here is all the adventure you could want, stirringly and generously told.” —Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure “History at its most romantic.” —The Columbus Dispatch “A sure bet for fans of Caroline Alexander’s The Endurance, this captivating survey of England’s exploration during the nineteenth century illuminates a host of forgotten personalities.” —Publishers Weekly “Travel history of the best kind: entertaining, informed and opinionated.” —The Sunday Times

Author : Stuart J. Knickerbocker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1491028971

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This is a work of nonfiction and the memoir of the author. His life from the first grade to serving in the Navy and seeing action in the South Pacific during WW II. Going through college and eventually becoming an animator and finally a writer.

Author : Randy Skretvedt,Jordan R. Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Comedy films
ISBN : 094041077X

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Laurel and Hardy by Randy Skretvedt,Jordan R. Young Pdf

Author : petersen
Publisher : Dunmore Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692097600

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crime comedy set in Vermont

Author : Jr. Raymond Valinoti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Comedians
ISBN : 1593935463

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Another Nice Mess - the Laurel and Hardy Story by Jr. Raymond Valinoti Pdf

Arguably the greatest comedy duo in show business history, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy delighted filmgoers and theatregoers for over thirty years. The public not only found Laurel's serene simpleton and Hardy's pompous buffoon hilarious, but they also thought of them as friends. Laurel and Hardy may have been nitwits, but they were loveable nitwits. Another Nice Mess: The Laurel and Hardy Story explores the lives and careers of Laurel and Hardy. The book examines how the comedians teamed up and it explains why, nearly half a century after their deaths, their films continue to enchant people all over the world.

Author : Norman Jorgensen
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1921064552

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Another Fine Mess 002 by Norman Jorgensen Pdf

In this sequel to A Fine Mess! the adventures of hapless Year 9 students Michael Hardy and Woody Decker continue. Michael and Woody have a serious knack for getting themselves into a lot of trouble, from exploding fire trucks to exploding cows, sewage laden willy-willys, kidnapped Harry Potter gnomes, cattle prods, smoking penises and serious wardrobe malfunctions, there's nothing these boys can't stuff up. On the other hand, Michael's alter-ego the uber-cool Dirk Fleming, Junior MI6 Agent, can do no wrong with his feats of danger, daring and high drama. From dreadful delinquent to reluctant hero in just 192 pages - can Michael save the day, win the girl and stay out of the poo?

Author : Pope Brock
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015046483858

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Indiana Gothic by Pope Brock Pdf

The lines between fiction and nonfiction have become increasingly blurred, but in journalist Pope Brock's first book, about murder and adultery in his family, everything is true. Journalist Pope Brock grew up ignorant of his family's most closely guarded secret. It was only when his great-aunt was dying that he learned the true circumstances surrounding the death of his great-grandfather Ham Dillon. An aspiring young Indiana politician, Dillon was shot to death in 1908 by his own brother-in-law, Link Hale--a man half-crazed with anger and grief over the fact that his wife, Allie, had just borne Ham a child. To add another twist, Allie Hale was more than just Ham Dillon's lover; she was also his wife's only sister. Fascinated by this revelation, Pope Brock began his research. In Indiana Gothic, he tells the story of Ham Dillon with the sweep and power of a novel, re-creating the era in such vivid detail that we have the sensation of time travel. Readers first meet the young Ham Dillon--handsome, charismatic, ambitious--as he courts Maggie Thompson, the daughter of a well-to-do farmer. But after their marriage in 1898, Ham comes into the orbit of Maggie's sister, Allie, who is locked in a joyless marriage to the depressive Link Hale. Passion soon takes over, and tragedy ensues--culminating in the drama of Link's murder trial, which made headlines for its controversial use of the insanity plea. Atmospheric and gripping, Indiana Gothic is a bold saga of an American past that is both forever lost and strangely, startlingly familiar.

Author : Robert Asprin
Publisher : Ace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Demonology
ISBN : 0441013465

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Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin Pdf

A magician's apprentice teams up with the demon Aahz and experiences a variety of adventures with many strange, other-worldy characters.

Author : Alice Feeney
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250144836

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Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney Pdf

My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?