Knockin On Wood

Author : Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781443453097

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Knock on Wood by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Pdf

Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, author of the bestseller Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities, was born on Friday the thirteenth, a fact that he discovered long after he had become one of the world’s pre-eminent statisticians. Had he been living ignorantly and innocently under an unlucky cloud for all those years? Or is thirteen just another number? As a scientist and a man of reason, Rosenthal has long considered the value of luck, good and bad, seeking to measure chance and hope in formulas scratched out on chalkboards. In Knock on Wood, with great humour and irreverence, Rosenthal divines the world of luck, fate and chance, putting his considerable scientific acumen to the test in deducing whether luck is real or the mere stuff of superstition.

Author : W. Scott Prudham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136072345

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Knock on Wood by W. Scott Prudham Pdf

Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Prudham employs a political economic approach to explain the social and economic conflicts arising from the timber industry's presence in the region. As well, he provides a thorough accounting of the timber industry itself, tracing its motivations, practices, and labor relations.

Author : Candice Bergen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476770130

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Knock Wood by Candice Bergen Pdf

Candice Bergen's bestselling 1984 memoir: an “engaging, intelligent, and wittily self-deprecating autobiography” (The New York Times). Candice Bergen was born into the heady Hollywood of the 1950s, where “celebrity offspring” were celebrities unto themselves. And because she was the daughter of Edgar Bergen, vaudeville and radio's greatest dignitary/comedian, her “sibling” was Charlie McCarthy, the impudent dummy beloved of millions. Bergen—much as he loved his daughter—was a man who “kept his emotions pressed and neatly hung,” and was more comfortable speaking to—and through—his brainchild who never had to grow up and leave the paradise that was childhood. Knock Wood is a book all about growing up—about the comedy of expectations that ruled Candice Bergen's early life, about the ironies that attended her exotic rites of passage. She stepped out into a world that offered her a wealth of options: adolescence in Swiss boarding schools; at nineteen, costarring opposite Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles; quick entry into the profession of photojournalism; automatic acceptance among the esteemed company of the moment—be it the international jet set, Bel Air in the 1960s, or the world that was radical politics in the 1970s. But always she carried the conviction that her gifts were untested, her luck unearned. Told with wit, self-deprecation, and a rare degree of courage, Knock Wood is the extraordinary record of Candice Bergen's coming of age. It is at once the moving fable of the love between a father and a daughter, of a woman's triumph over self-doubt, and a dazzling journal of America's life and times over the past four decades.

Author : Lynne Barasch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1600609805

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Knockin' on Wood by Lynne Barasch Pdf

An inspirational biography of Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates (1907--1998), an African American man who overcame the hardship of losing a leg at age 12 and went on to become a world-renowned tap dancer.

Author : Eddie Floyd,Tony Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 1947026429

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Knock! Knock! Knock! on Wood by Eddie Floyd,Tony Fletcher Pdf

Known for the classics "Knock on Wood," "634-5789," "Raise Your Hand," "Big Bird," and "I've Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)," among others, Eddie Floyd's career as a soul legend spans over sixty years. His professional singing career began in Detroit in the 1950s as a founding member of the Falcons, considered "The First Soul Group." A solo artist and songwriter for Memphis's famed Stax Records from 1966 until 1975, Floyd has subsequently been the singer for the Blues Brothers Band and for Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, while continuing to perform and record solo. In Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood, Floyd recounts how a three-year stint in an Alabama reform school shaped his young life; recalls the early years of R&B in Detroit alongside future Motown and Stax legends; discusses the songwriting sessions with Steve Cropper and Booker T. Jones that produced his biggest hits; addresses his complicated life-long relationship with the often-unpredictable Wilson Pickett; shares his memories of friend Otis Redding; reveals his unlikely involvement in the rise of southern rock darlings Lynyrd Skynyrd; and offers an insider perspective on the tragic downfall of Stax Records. With input from Bruce Springsteen, Bill Wyman, Paul Young, William Bell, Steve Cropper, and others, Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood captures Eddie's tireless work ethic and warm personality for an engrossing first-hand account of one of the last true soul survivors.

Author : Susan L. Lipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0967790204

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Knock on Wood by Susan L. Lipson Pdf

Author : Janet S. Wong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000055327763

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Knock on Wood by Janet S. Wong Pdf

A collection of seventeen original poems about superstitions, including walking under a ladder, breaking a mirror, and knocking on wood.

Author : Marcie Colleen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 1338166352

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Gnawing Around by Marcie Colleen Pdf

"When a few beavers come to town, the Grumpy Woods are even more grumpy than usual. These beavers are chewing down the trees and drying up their river water with a dam. Everyone gets even angrier when the Super Happy Party Bears throw a dance party to celebrate the new dam, but when they dance that dam right down the river, everyone admits the bears aren't so bad after all"--

Author : Leslie Tall Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0960017739

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Knock on Wood by Leslie Tall Manning Pdf

1978: Fourteen-year-old Billy Baker is the first into the pond that early summer day. Ten minutes later, his lifeless body is pulled from the chilly water, his lips like two slivers of blue ice. Billy Baker dies...but only for a little while. Thirty-nine days later, he emerges from a coma. But he is not alone.Sixteen years later: Billy Baker (aka William) is turning thirty. He forgets some letters in the alphabet. He can't set a table properly. He still believes it's the disco era. And he can't remember that day at the pond.But the young boy William used to be has never left his side.A brain-damaged hero. A love for a girl he cannot have. A lottery windfall. A jealous brother. A mysterious equine disease. A memory hidden just below the surface. Sharp contrasts of disco favorites and life's dark periphery are delicately mingled in Knock on Wood, putting a new twist on the age-old question: Is it possible to find the way home again when one's memory of the past is nothing more than a blank slate?

Author : Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mathematical statistics
ISBN : 186207996X

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Struck by Lightning by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Pdf

"Human beings have long been both fascinated and appalled by randomness. On the one hand, we love the thrill of a surprise party or the freedom of not knowing what tomorrow will bring. We are inexplicably delighted by strange coincidences and striking similarities. But we also hate uncertainty's dark side. From cancer to bird flu, diseases may strike with no apparent pattern. Terrorists attack, airplanes crash, bridges collapse, and we never know if we'll be that one-in-a-million statistic. In this entertaining look at the world of probabilities, Jeffrey Rosenthal, maths professor and improvisational comedian, explains the mechanics of randomness in fields as diverse as poker hands, email spam, crime statistics, opinion polls and lottery jackpots"--Publisher website.

Author : Tom Wood
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780751575927

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A Knock at the Door by Tom Wood Pdf

'Riveting, twisty as all hell, and very, very clever, A Knock at the Door is a rollercoaster ride of brilliance. Tom Wood is a superb thriller writer' --- SARAH PINBOROUGH They ask for your husband. They just want to talk. THEY'RE LYING. Your husband isn't who he says he is, say the people at your door. Come with us. Don't trust them, says a voice on the phone. Run. Who would you believe? In this terrifying first psychological thriller by bestselling author Tom Wood (previously published under T.W. Ellis), one woman goes on the run and is forced to question everything she held dear . . . 'A Knock at the Door is a riveting, twisty thriller that grips and intrigues from the very beginning. Tom Wood is the real deal' --- ALEX NORTH 'Highly original and very twisty . . . this is his first psychological thriller and it's a cracker' --- DAILY MAIL 'A thrilling fast-paced story, full of twists and turns' --- CLAIRE MCGOWAN 'Only one thing is certain with this heart-pounding thrill-ride of a novel, and that is nothing is what it seems' --- HEAT

Author : John Vornholt
Publisher : Simon Pulse
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0671040707

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Knock on Wood by John Vornholt Pdf

Sabrina trys to teach the football team not to be superstitious but the plan backfires so she must try to fix it.

Author : Charles Marshall Sayers
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486141077

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The Book of Wood Carving by Charles Marshall Sayers Pdf

In clear, straightforward language, Sayers carefully guides the reader through the fundamentals — what tools and materials to use and how to use them. Still the finest book for the beginning student in wood sculpture.

Author : Jennifer Militello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1945814969

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Knock Wood by Jennifer Militello Pdf

Anchored by a wooden ring, an award-winning poet explores her life through the lens of three intertwined elements: the story of a mentally ill aunt in an abusive marriage; a high-school romance with a boy who eventually dies of a heroin overdose; and an extramarital affair characterized by an otherworldly connection.

Author : Trinity College London (approximately 1980- )
Publisher : Trinity Rock & Pop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : Drum set
ISBN : 0857366408

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Trinity Rock and Pop 2018 Drums by Trinity College London (approximately 1980- ) Pdf

(Drum Instruction). Whether you are self-taught or taking lessons, learning for fun or heading for a career in the music industry, Trinity College London Rock & Pop exams will help you develop valuable playing skills and achieve your musical ambitions. Available for bass, drums, guitar, keyboard and vocals, from Initial (beginner) to Grade 8 (advanced), these exams cover a wide variety of music and artists giving a great choice in all rock and pop styles.