Prisoner Of Trebekistan

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307351505
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of Trebekistan written by Bob Harris and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of Jeopardy! where obscure information is crucial to survival, vast sums of cash are at stake, and milliseconds can change not just a game but the course of your entire life. Prisoner of Trebekistan is Bob Harris’s hilarious, insightful account of one man’s unlikely epic journey through Jeopardy!, gleefully exploring triumph and failure, the nature of memory, and how knowledge itself can transform you in unpredictable ways—all against the backdrop of the most popular quiz show in history. Bob chronicles his transformation from a struggling stand-up comic who repeatedly fails the Jeopardy! audition test into an elite player competing against the show’s most powerful brains. To get there, he embarks on a series of intense study sessions, using his sense of humor to transform conventional memory skills into a refreshingly playful approach to learning that’s as amusing as it is powerful. What follows is not only a captivating series of high-stakes wins and losses on Jeopardy!, but also a growing appreciation of a borderless world that Bob calls Trebekistan, where a love of learning reigns and the smarter you get the more you realize how much you don’t yet know. Filled with secrets that only a veteran contestant could share—from counterintuitive game strategies to Jedi-like tactics with the Jeopardy! signaling device—Prisoner of Trebekistan also gives you the chance to play along with the actual clues that led to victory or defeat in high-level tournaments, plus candid, moving reflections on how the games affected Bob’s offstage life—and vice versa. Not only an irresistible treat for Jeopardy! fans, Prisoner of Trebekistan is a delight for anyone who loves a rollicking tale that celebrates the unpredictability of life and the sneaky way it has of teaching us the things that really matter.

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802777511
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Bank of Bob written by Bob Harris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how the author was compelled to help the world's working poor, describing how he discovered the Kiva.org micro-loan portal and his visits to world regions where the organization's loans have enabled people and small businesses to revitalize.

Author : Michael Dupee
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806519913
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Get on Jeopardy and Win written by Michael Dupee and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1996 "Jeopardy" Tournament of Champions winner reveals what it takes to succeed on the popular television game and provides "Jeopardy" wannabes with insider information and thousands of "Jeopardy"-style questions.

Author : Chuck Forrest
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780446393522
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of the Jeopardy! Champions written by Chuck Forrest and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells how contestants are selected for the popular game show, recommends a winning strategy, and gathers categories of information that frequently appear on the show

Author : Camryn Manheim
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767903633
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wake Up, I'm Fat! written by Camryn Manheim and published by Crown. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this New York Times-bestselling inspirational memoir, Camryn Manheim, Emmy Award-winning costar of The Practice, chronicles her journey from a self-hating, "overweight" teenager, who desperately wanted to fit in, to a self-loving, fat activist who is proud to be a misfit. Wake Up, I'm Fat! shares her intelligent, candid, poignant, and often hilarious stories of being fat in a society obsessed with being thin. Camryn takes us from her days as a motorcycle-riding hippie in Santa Cruz to her enrollment at New York University's prestigious school of drama--where Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner broke the unspoken theater rules of size by casting her in the role of the ingenue--and finally to Hollywood, where she dispelled the fallacy that large women can't be portrayed as sensual, sophisticated, and confident. Camryn's endearing honesty, sass, and razor-sharp wit will appeal to any reader who has ever felt like an outcast or yearned to make peace with their body.

Author : Lisa Robinson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594632952
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There Goes Gravity written by Lisa Robinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insider’s behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll. Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music—including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Jay Z, and Kanye West. She visited the teenage Michael Jackson many times at his Encino home. She spent hours talking to John Lennon at his Dakota apartment—and in recording studios just weeks before his murder. She introduced David Bowie to Lou Reed at a private dinner in a Manhattan restaurant, helped the Clash and Elvis Costello get their record deals, was with the Rolling Stones on their jet during a frightening storm, and was mid-flight with Led Zeppelin when their tour manager pulled out a gun. A pioneering female journalist in an exclusive boys’ club, Lisa Robinson is a preeminent authority on the personalities and influences that have shaped the music world; she has been recognized as rock journalism’s ultimate insider. A keenly observed and lovingly recounted look back on years spent with countless musicians backstage, after-hours, and on the road, There Goes Gravity documents a lifetime of riveting stories, told together here for the first time.

Author : Carol Prisant
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101427418
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dog House written by Carol Prisant and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dog House wasn't supposed to be a book about love. It was supposed to be a hugely funny account of the dogs in Carol Prisant's life. And not just the dogs, but that first bird she found at Woolworth's, the monkey that fell in love with her husband's leg, the thankless tiny turtle, and the goldfish her pet- challenged mother flushed down the toilet. Somehow though, this straightforward telling got a little blindsided by things like making marriage work and home- owning and children and a profession and her dear, supportive husband, Millard. Which is why the goldfish will just have to wait for the sequel. This book is still about cold noses, warm bellies, four on the floor, and a snuggler or two. Your basic fur family. It's also about the love of a mother for her son, a wife for her husband, a husband for some dogs, and the love it takes to make a haunted house a home. Your basic family furnisgings. Throw in a lot of antiques, a couple triumphs over adversity, and a more-than-seems-fair share of heartbreaking loss and you have Dog House--the warm, absorbing, and humorous tale of dogs and marriage, love and marriage and life.

Author : A.C. Baantjer
Publisher : De Fontein Romans & Spanning
ISBN 13 : 9026169035
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DeKok and the Dead Harlequin written by A.C. Baantjer and published by De Fontein Romans & Spanning. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. DeKok is faced with a double murder, and his only leads are two unlikely witnesses... Inspector DeKok is faced with a grotesque double murder in a well-known Amsterdam hotel. He finds the murder victims looking like macabre wooden harlequins. Inspector DeKok must unravel clues from two unexpected characters: a six-year-old girl who has trouble sleeping, and a respected accountant who seeks DeKok’s advice on committing the perfect crime. But when DeKok meets with the murderer, he tries everything possible to prevent the man from giving himself up to the police...

Author : Hogan Gorman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399537287
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Cripple written by Hogan Gorman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Prada to poverty-one woman's harrowing and hilarious journey Ex-model Hogan Gorman was living the typical New York working actor's life-auditions and classes by day, waitressing and fending off handsy customers by night-when a wise (or just crazy) friend convinced her to ask the universe for a change. And she got one-coming at her at forty miles per hour. Hit by a car and suffering debilitating injuries, and with no health insurance, the fashionista attempts to bounce back into her (thrift store-purchased) Jimmy Choos even as she deals with short-term memory loss, stalker ambulance drivers, trying to stay vegan on food stamps, crazy judges, hot doctors, and unsympathetic government workers. Inspired by her acclaimed one-woman show, this is a bitingly funny and keenly observed account of the cracks in our medical and social welfare system and how one woman's resilience combined with a generous dollop of humor helped her fight her way to recovery.

Author : Jill Ker Conway
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679744622
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Education written by Jill Ker Conway and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-11-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved bestselling author of The Road from Coorain and True North continues her remarkable autobiography with an account of her decade as the first woman president of Smith College–a time when she was faced with the challenge of reinventing women’s education and with the demands of her own life. Conway took on the helm at Smith at the height of exploding culture wars and the rising popularity of coeducation. With the college’s future at stake, she battled conservative faculty, ossified traditions, and doubtful funders to turn Smith into a place committed to preparing young women for the new realities of the future. Through it all, Conway served as an inspiration to thousands of students, while balancing the demands of her public role against the private pressures of coping with her husband’s bipolar disorder. A moving tribute to the value of single-sex education and to one woman’s achievements, A Woman’s Education is sure to become a classic.