Tinkering The Complete Book Of John Clarke

Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925626245
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tinkering written by John Clarke and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke’s writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Karenina in forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents. Tinkering is full of surprises, and includes all kinds of puzzles and propositions. Each one has different rules but together they reveal the different facets of John Clarke’s comic genius. In these pages you will find Fred Dagg dispensing advice on everything from dentistry to dreaming, the complete history of the lost sport of farnarkeling, the famous ‘Quiz Answers’, and ‘Saint Paul’s Letter to the Electorates’ —a brilliant account of the Rudd–Gillard years that was first inscribed onto stone tablets. Tinkering also includes previously unpublished material including the ‘Doorstop Poems’, and the ‘Letters from the School’ suggesting what a serious matter birdwatching was for John Clarke. John Clarke was born in New Zealand in 1948. He was and remains one of Australia’s best known and most loved faces on TV. A comedian, writer and actor, his appearances included the famous Fred Dagg character, The Gillies Report and The Games. John’s books include The Even More Complete Book of Australian Verse, A Dagg at My Table, The Howard Miracle, The 7.56 Report and A Pleasure to be Here, The Best of Clarke and Dawe (2017). His only novel, The Tournament, was published in the UK and the US to great critical acclaim and will be republished in the Text Classics in November. He died in April 2017. ‘Tinkering is packed with puzzles and propositions, with tea-fuelled musings on everything from plumbing to Paul Holmes. A gem.’ North & South NZ ‘This book comes with some magnificent pictures of Clarke’s beloved birds and they seem to have represented the magic of the reality of the world to him. There is plenty of that magic in this book and everyone who liked John Clarke should buy it and find in it what will soothe their spirit. It will be there.’ Australian ‘ The late John Clarke, aka. Fred Dagg, really was a satirical one-off...Tinkering is packed with puzzles and propositions, with tea-fuelled musings on everything from plumbing to Paul Holmes. A gem.’ North & South ‘...Assessment of his The Games co-writer Ross Stevenson that Clarke was “the great satirist in the English language” is probably pretty close to the mark.’ Otago Daily Times

Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921776811
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 7.56 Report written by John Clarke and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inimitable John Clarke is back with another hilarious collection of the highs and lows in Australian politics. Here are the interviews with Australia's leading citizens, drawn from John Clarke and Bryan Dawe's weekly broadcasts on ABC TV's 7.30 Report, from 2003 to 2006.

Author : Paul Horan
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776710444
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny As written by Paul Horan and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A big, authoritative, hilarious illustrated account of New Zealand's funniest comedians.From the Kiwi Concert Party to The Topp Twins, Billy T. James to Rose Matafeo, Fred Dagg to Flight of the Conchords and Taika Waititi, New Zealanders have made each other laugh in ways distinctive to these islands. Funny As tells the story of comedy in this country through more than 300 pictures and an engaging text based on over 100 interviews with our best comedians. Published alongside a major TVNZ documentary series at a time when comedy has never been bigger, the book takes us inside the comedy clubs, cabarets and television studios where comedians work; it charts the rise of cartoons and skits, parody and stand-up; it introduces us to how New Zealand's funniest men and women have made sense (and nonsense) out of this country's changing culture and society. Funny As is the authoritative, hilarious story of New Zealand comedy.

Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 192177679X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Howard Miracle written by John Clarke and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Thursday evening, at the end of ABC TV's 7:30 Report, John Clarke and long-time collaborator Bryan Dawe conduct a mock interview in which they satirise a current political issue or personality. In The Howard Miracle John Clarke presents a new collection of interviews, spanning the life of the Howard government.

Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 192192215X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Even More Complete Book Of Australian Verse written by John Clarke and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years it was assumed that poetry came from England. Research now clearly demonstrates, however, that a great many of the world’s most famous poets were actually Australians. Possibly the most important anthology ever published. The definitive collection featuring key works by such famous Australian poets as Gavin Milton, Arnold Wordsworth, Sylvia Blath, Very Manly Hopkins, R.A.C.V. Milne and Dylan Thompson.

Author : John Drury Clark
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813599199
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignition! written by John Drury Clark and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, and described as “a good book on rocket stuff…that’s a really fun one” by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.

Author : Christopher Steiner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101572159
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automate This written by Christopher Steiner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today’s best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it. It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills—and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled by algorithms that can do precise work not only with speed but also with nuance. These “bots” started with human programming and logic, but now their reach extends beyond what their creators ever expected. In this fascinating, frightening book, Christopher Steiner tells the story of how algorithms took over—and shows why the “bot revolution” is about to spill into every aspect of our lives, often silently, without our knowledge. The May 2010 “Flash Crash” exposed Wall Street’s reliance on trading bots to the tune of a 998-point market drop and $1 trillion in vanished market value. But that was just the beginning. In Automate This, we meet bots that are driving cars, penning haiku, and writing music mistaken for Bach’s. They listen in on our customer service calls and figure out what Iran would do in the event of a nuclear standoff. There are algorithms that can pick out the most cohesive crew of astronauts for a space mission or identify the next Jeremy Lin. Some can even ingest statistics from baseball games and spit out pitch-perfect sports journalism indistinguishable from that produced by humans. The interaction of man and machine can make our lives easier. But what will the world look like when algorithms control our hospitals, our roads, our culture, and our national security? What hap­pens to businesses when we automate judgment and eliminate human instinct? And what role will be left for doctors, lawyers, writers, truck drivers, and many others? Who knows—maybe there’s a bot learning to do your job this minute.

Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921351993
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tournament written by John Clarke and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Albert Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and Van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 128 players-everyone from Louis Armstrong to George Orwell, Gertrude Stein to Coco Chanel - fight it out until the exhilarating final on centre court. John Clarke, Australia's best-loved comedian, the inventor of farnarkling and comic genius behind ABC television's The Games, is there to report on everything of interest. This is a funny, strange and beguiling book in which, game by game and match by match, the world's most creative players put their tennis skills to the ultimate test. A brilliant, bizarre comic novel.

Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925603202
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pleasure to Be Here written by John Clarke and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • When John Clarke died on 9 April this year millions of people in Australia and New Zealand mourned his sudden passing • To celebrate and preserve his genius, Text is proud to publish A Pleasure to Be Here - the best of the popular satirical interviews he presented with collaborator Bryan Dawe for almost thirty years, first on radio and then on TV • Always tackling a thorny topical issue, John Clarke’s hilarious scripts never failed to hit the mark. With Dawe acting as the interviewer Clarke assumed the persona of a politician or other prominent figure, who always tried as hard as possible to avoid answering any questions • For everyone missing their weekly dose of Clarke and Dawe this is the perfect gift • To be published in a handsome C Format paperback with a quote from Bryan Dawe

Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1589792548
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Time Baseball written by Harvey Frommer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frommer's latest book takes us to the birthplace of America's most beloved sport. Starting from baseball's humble beginnings, Frommer vividly introduces the reader to the trailblazing personalities that shaped baseball's history. From the first games in Madison, New York to the rise of the National League, Frommer vividly recreates the energy of this early time. Frommer's expertise lends itself to tell the magical story of baseball's history and insight into an era that is not to be forgotten.