As Long As It S Fun

Author : Herb McCormick
Publisher : Paradise Cay Publications
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781929214990

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As Long as It’'s Fun by Herb McCormick Pdf

In As Long as It’s Fun, the biography of Lin and Larry Pardey, Herb McCormick recounts their remarkable sailing career—from their early days in Southern California to their two circumnavigations to their current life in a quiet cove in New Zealand. Through interviews with their families, friends, and critics, McCormick delves deeply into the couple’s often-controversial opinions, sometimes-tenuous marriage, and amazing list of accomplishments. As Long as It’s Fun is as much a love story as it is a sea yarn, and, like all such stories, it’s not without complications . . . which makes it not only a sailing tale but also a human one.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590304107

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Diprose's annual book of fun, facts & fiction [afterw.] Diprose's annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jessica McDiarmid
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501160295

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Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid Pdf

In the vein of the astonishing and eye-opening bestsellers I'll Be Gone in the Dark and The Line Becomes a River, this stunning work of investigative journalism follows a series of unsolved disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in rural British Columbia.

Author : Josh A. Lerner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-21
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780262026871

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Making Democracy Fun by Josh A. Lerner Pdf

Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy. Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for or against, accompanied by constant heckling, often with no clear outcome or decision. Is this the best democracy can offer? In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable progress (such as scores and levels), and engaging sounds and visuals? These game mechanics would make meetings more effective and more enjoyable—even fun. Lerner reports that institutions as diverse as the United Nations, the U.S. Army, and grassroots community groups are already using games and game-like processes to encourage participation. Drawing on more than a decade of practical experience and extensive research, he explains how games have been integrated into a variety of public programs in North and South America. He offers rich stories of game techniques in action, in children's councils, social service programs, and participatory budgeting and planning. With these real-world examples in mind, Lerner describes five kinds of games and twenty-six game mechanics that are especially relevant for democracy. He finds that when governments and organizations use games and design their programs to be more like games, public participation becomes more attractive, effective, and transparent. Game design can make democracy fun—and make it work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990983865

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The Cyclopædia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. By Abraham Rees, ... with the Assistance of Eminent Professional Gentlemen. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings, by the Most Disinguished Artists. In Thirthy-nine Volumes. Vol. 1 [- 39] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Industrial arts
ISBN : WISC:89077823847

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Popular Mechanics Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Amusements
ISBN : NYPL:33433088044783

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New York Amusement Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Long
Publisher : L1fe, Incorporated
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0692196846

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Fundamism by Paul Long Pdf

HOW DO YOU IMPROVE YOUR OWN LIFE? You find a way to deal with the challenges life throws your way... which is always easier said than done. A favorite quote of mine, by George Bernard Shaw, explains a lot of why I feel we struggle in life: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." Which is why I wanted to write this book. To share how incorporating more FUN into our lives will ultimately allow us to deal with any challenging moments that come our way. Take a moment right now and think about someone you know who is consistently upbeat, optimistic, and appears to be troubled by nothing. On the surface, they look like they enjoy life and have a lot of FUN. Ever wished you could be more like them? Wished you could approach life the same way, letting things just roll off your back like water off a duck's back? YOU CAN! By reading Fundamism: Connecting to Life Through F.U.N. you're one step closer to feeling more joy and fulfilment in your life. You're one step closer to feeling good and looking like the person you recalled above. We all desire happiness and minimal stress but life doesn't always work out the way we want it to. Throughout this book, you'll learn how to improve self-esteem, deal with life challenges, overcome fear... ultimately, this book will help you to change your life. Using 10 FUNdamentals, you'll quickly learn how easy it is to add more fun to your life and those around you. What are you waiting for? It's time to jump on the F.U.N. train (all aboard!) and smile, laugh and have more fun... all you have to do is buy Fundamism: Connecting to Life Through F.U.N. to get started!

Author : Eternity Martis
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771062209

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They Said This Would Be Fun by Eternity Martis Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction Nominated for the Evergreen Award A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus. A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by white students in blackface at parties, dealt with being the only person of colour in class and was tokenized by her romantic partners. She heard racial slurs in bars, on the street, and during lectures. And she gathered labels she never asked for: Abuse survivor. Token. Bad feminist. But, by graduation, she found an unshakeable sense of self--and a support network of other women of colour. Using her award-winning reporting skills, Eternity connects her own experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today. It's a memoir of pain, but also resilience.

Author : Horrified Press
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244922931

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Bronies Gone Wild by Horrified Press Pdf

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : London : J.C. Hotten
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : UOMDLP:acj8524:0001.001

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Charles Dickens, the Story of His Life by John Camden Hotten Pdf

Author : Annie Payson Call
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433070254960

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As a Matter of Course by Annie Payson Call Pdf

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082340534

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Charles Dickens by John Camden Hotten Pdf

Author : Alison Bechdel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618871713

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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel Pdf

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.

Author : Gary Snyder,Julia Martin
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781595342522

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Nobody Home by Gary Snyder,Julia Martin Pdf

In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively—globally, locally, and in their personal lives—and these changing conditions provide the back story for a long conversation. It begins in the early 1980s as an intellectual exchange between an earnest graduate student and a generous distinguished writer, and becomes a long-distance friendship and an exploration of spiritual practice. At the project’s heart is Snyder’s understanding of Buddhism. Again and again, the conversations return to an explication of the teachings. Snyder’s characteristic approach is to articulate a direct experience of Buddhist practice rather than any kind of abstract philosophy. In the version he describes here, this practice finds expression not primarily as an Asian import or a monastic ideal, but in the specificities of a householder’s life as lived creatively in a particular location at a particular moment in history. This means that whatever “topic” a dialogue explores, there is a sense that all of it is about practice—the spiritual-social practice of a contemporary poet.