When Youre Up To Your Ass In Alligators

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814318676
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators written by Alan Dundes and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Office copier folklore that regularly circulate in office buildings everywhere-is the subject of this innovative study.

Author : Gwendolyn Hallsmith
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781550923971
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Key to Sustainable Cities written by Gwendolyn Hallsmith and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the world’s population now live in cities, but despite wide agreement on the core values of sustainable societies, municipalities are so busy solving current problems, they don’t have the time or resources to plan effective action for sustainability. The Key to Sustainable Cities uses the principles of system dynamics to demonstrate how today’s problems were yesterday’s solutions. The book points to a new approach to city planning that builds on assets as a starting point for cities to develop healthy social, governance, economic, and environmental systems. Gwendolyn Hallsmith has worked to build sustainable communities for over twenty years as a municipal manager, a regional planning director, and with the Institute for Sustainable Communities. She lives in Marshfield, Vermont.

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800731329
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Compiled by Wolfgang Mieder, a key figure in the field of proverb studies, this compendium features nearly 1,500 proverbs with American origins, spanning the 17th century to present day, including a scholarly introduction exploring the history of proverbs in America, the structure and variants of these proverbs, known authors and sources, and cultural values expressed in these proverbs. Along with a comprehensive bibliography of proverb collections and interpretive scholarship, this dictionary offers a glimpse into the history of American social and cultural attitudes through uniquely American language.

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025304037X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Right Makes Might" written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A powerful and timely addition to the literature of rhetoric and folklore.” —Choice In 1860, Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb Right makes might—opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right—in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the fourteenth century phrase had taken on new ethical and democratic connotations in the nineteenth century. In this collection, famed scholar of proverbs Wolfgang Mieder explores the multifaceted use and function of proverbs through the history of the United States, from their early beginnings up through their use by such modern-day politicians as Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. Building on previous publications and unpublished research, Mieder explores sociopolitical aspects of the American worldview as expressed through the use of proverbs in politics, women’s rights, and the civil rights movement—and by looking at the use of proverbial phrases, Mieder demonstrates how one traditional phrase can take on numerous expressive roles over time, and how they continue to play a key role in our contemporary moment.

Author : Kathleen Gallagher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442630809
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defence of Theatre written by Kathleen Gallagher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the role that theatre can and must play in professional, community, and educational venues."

Author : John Anthony Maltese
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863165
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spin Control written by John Anthony Maltese and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spin Control, originally published in 1992, chronicles the development of the powerful White House Office of Communications and its pivotal role in molding our perception of the modern presidency. In this new edition, John Maltese brings his analysis up to date with a chapter detailing the media techniques of the Bush administration, the 1992 presidential campaign (including the use of talk shows like 'Larry King Live'), and the early Clinton administration.

Author : AnnA Rushton
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847991068
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Procrastination How To Stop It Right Now! written by AnnA Rushton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626743037
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behold the Proverbs of a People written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies) in general, the spread of Anglo-American proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second section analyzes the use of proverbs in the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third concentrates on the uses of proverbs in literature. The final section ends with detailed cultural studies of the origin, history, dissemination, use, function, and meaning of specific proverbs. Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder shows that proverbs matter in culture, literature, and politics. Proverbs remain part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture, and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in literary works, or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and wisdom.

Author : Kregg P. Jorgenson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307874516
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MIA Rescue written by Kregg P. Jorgenson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an inspiring story of courage and sacrifice--one hell of an exciting true war story!" --Kenn Miller Author of Tiger the Lurp Dog On 17 June 1970, in Mondol Kiri Province, Cambodia, the five men of Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) Team 5-2 were about to halt for the day. Night was coming, the skies were dark, and so were the men's thoughts--they'd just found freshly dug NVA bunkers inside a scrub-brush tree line and their position was not secure. As they carefully searched for better night lager, they learned the hard way that they had walked into an ambush kill zone: NVA fire quickly downed two men and wounded two others. In minutes, Team 5-2 had been transformed from the hunters to the hunted. They had no radio comms with their headquarters and had just two rifles and fifteen magazines of ammunition. Two men were down, but the team was not out. MIA RESCUE is the story of Team 5-2 and the heroic and ultimately successful attempts to rescue them despite extraordinarily bad weather and an angry and aware enemy. "Seldom can an author stimulate emotions, from the taste of fear to sweaty palms to the feeling of relief when the mission is over, but Jorgenson does and much more. If the reader was never in combat, he will feel like a Nam vet when he finishes this book." --Jerry Boyle Author of Apache Sunrise

Author : Web Augustine
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578085100
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book $500,000* Worth of Inspiring Quotations for Our Times written by Web Augustine and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful hardcover book is a compilation of 1,400 top-quality, inspiring quotations for our times from leading figures of today and the past regarding life, love, attitude, happiness, success, character and more. Provides far more practical wisdom and wit than you would gain from earning BA, MA and PhD degrees! Includes quotations from over 600 identified authors plus many unknown quipsters. Highlights include ten or more quotations from Sir Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Denis Waitley, John Wooden, Zig Ziglar and seven other prominent authors. Includes detailed indices by author and by quotation. Flip to any page in this book for captivating wisdom, insight, wit and humor.