Losers Inc

Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466852860

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Losers, Inc. by Claudia Mills Pdf

Ethan Winfield has never been an academic or athletic star like his older brother, Peter. But does that make him a failure? Of course not. Still, Ethan and his best friend, Julius Zimmerman, decide that they qualify to found an exclusive club: Losers, Inc. No sooner have they done this, however, than both boys fall in love with the new student teacher. Ethan knows right away that to impress Ms. Gunderson he has to excel. Instead of reading the shortest book for his report, he has to read the longest. Instead of working with Julius on the worst project for the science fair, he has to make the best one--alone. Unfortunately, it isn't Ms. Gunderson who falls for Ethan, but Lizzie Archer, class nerd. The teasing is unbearable! So without regard for Lizzie's feelings--and over Julius's objections--Ethan helps hatch a plot to prove that he's not Lizzie's boyfriend. The result is that even as he reports on a book that's longer than any Peter read in the sixth grade, and prepares a potentially winning science project, Ethan feels that he doesn't deserve anyone's love--not Ms. Gunderson's, not Lizzie's, not Julius's, not his own. Claudia Mills, creator of Dinah Seabrooke (Dynamite Dinah, Dinah for President, Dinah in Love, Dinah Forever) and other overachievers, portrays a boy who needs a reason to strive, finds one, then realizes that success isn't enough. Smart, funny, and down to earth, this hero engages and entertains as he struggles mightily to grow up.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756941539

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Losers, Inc. by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Internal Revenue Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1370 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Tax administration and procedure
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006279553

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Internal Revenue Cumulative Bulletin by United States. Internal Revenue Service Pdf

Author : Leonard Cohen
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007341481

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Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen Pdf

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : PSU:000066194699

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Pension trusts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021064717

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"Pension Losers" by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1484 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Patents
ISBN : UCLA:31158004356928

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Nate Hendley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610695862

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The Big Con by Nate Hendley Pdf

This book examines a broad range of infamous scams, cons, swindles, and hoaxes throughout American history—and considers why human gullibility continues in an age of easy access to information. Covering American cons and hoaxes past and present, including the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, the controversy over "subliminal messaging" (do bands, filmmakers, and advertisers really put secret messages in their works?), the panic about "satanic" daycare operators in the 1980s, and recent Internet scams, this book provides a fascinating, fact-based look at infamous frauds across the centuries. Offering an engaging mix of history, sociology, and psychology, author Nate Hendley gives readers an appreciation of how prominent scams, cons, "confidence men," and hoaxes have impacted American society, past and present. Each entry details the scheme or hoax and the pertinent con artist/schemer involved, examining the sociological, cultural, political, and/or economic effect of the scams. Each topic is accompanied by a short bibliography of further reading selections. As the old saying goes, "There is a sucker born every minute"—and there has always been a keen-eyed swindler to take advantage of the situation. The Big Con: Great Hoaxes, Frauds, Grifts, and Swindles in American History explores this sordid underbelly of American civilization and invites readers to revel in the felonious experience.

Author : Mukti Lakhi Mangharam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350200821

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Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture by Mukti Lakhi Mangharam Pdf

While globalization is often credited with the eradication of 'traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the Indian economy in the 1990s has led to a decline in freedom for many female, Dalit, and lower class Indians. This book explores the contraction of what it means to be free in post-liberalization India, examining how global capitalism has exacerbated existing inequalities based on traditional femininities and masculinities, while also creating new hierarchies. Freedom Inc. argues that post-1990s literature and culture frequently represents and reinforces the equation of free-market capitalism with individual freedom within the new 'idea of India.' However, many texts often also challenge this logic by pointing to more expansive horizons of autonomy for the gendered self. Through readings of texts as diverse as Dalit women's life-writing, pop fiction, realist novels, self-help, regional film, and Netflix TV shows, Mangharam investigates how notions like 'free trade,' 'entrepreneurship,' and 'self-help' are experienced, embodied, and challenged by disadvantaged peoples, and by women differently than men. In the process, Freedom Inc. explores how different literary forms illuminate alternative and buried pathways to fuller freedoms.

Author : Charles D. Ellis
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0071387676

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Winning the Loser's Game by Charles D. Ellis Pdf

"Winning the Loser's Game is considered by many to be a classic analysis of investing."­­Financial Planning The premise of the bestselling Winning the Loser's Game­­that individual investors can achieve far greater success working with financial markets than against them­­has grown increasingly popular in today's hard-to-predict markets. The latest edition of this concise yet comprehensive classic offers updated strategies to leverage the power of time and compounding, protect against down cycles, and more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1696 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005999573

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Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UCBK:C049523107

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : IND:30000090588009

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United States Reports by United States. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : Dennis Glover
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743821428

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Factory 19 by Dennis Glover Pdf

We’re told that the future will be brighter. But what if human happiness really lies in the past? Hobart, 2022: a city with a declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery of Future Art, known to the world as GoFA. One day the city’s residents are awoken by a high-pitched sound no one has heard for two generations: a factory whistle. GoFA’s owner, world-famous billionaire Dundas Faussett, is creating his most ambitious installation yet. He’s going to defeat technology’s dominance over our lives by establishing a new Year Zero: 1948. Those whose jobs have been destroyed by Amazon and Uber and Airbnb are invited to fight back in the only way that can possibly succeed: by living as if the internet had never been invented. The hold of Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and their ilk starts to loosen as the revolutionary example of Factory 19 spreads. Can nostalgia really defeat the future? Can the little people win back the world? We are about to find out. ‘Like Orwell, of whom he has written so brilliantly, Dennis Glover’s work is charged with courage, intelligence and purpose. He is the complete writer, and one made for our times.’ —Don Watson ‘Savagely hilarious and unlike anything else you’ll read this year. It boils with the anger of the present moment.’ —Rohan Wilson

Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466852884

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You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman by Claudia Mills Pdf

The sequel to Losers, Inc. Twelve-year-old Julius Zimmerman is the former vice president of the defunct organization Losers, Inc. Ethan Winfield, the former president, no longer feels like a loser. But Julius still does, maybe because his mother thinks of him that way. To "improve" him, Mrs. Zimmerman signs Julius up for a summer course in intensive French and for a part-time job baby-sitting three-year-old Edison Blue. She also sets a summer reading goal for him. Julius doesn't ace the French class and doesn't do the required reading, but he does turn out to have a winning way with kids -- and adults -- and in the end proves to his mother that her criteria for success aren't the only ones.