It Wasn't Always Easy, But I Sure Had Fun

It Wasn't Always Easy, But I Sure Had Fun
Author: Lewis Grizzard
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1995-05
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780783812878

The book Grizzard was working on when he died, and contains what he thought represented the best of the last decade of his writing.

Merde, French Is Hard... But Fun!

Merde, French Is Hard... But Fun!
Author: France Dubin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2019-05-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781096342267

This book should be the second novel you read in French, right after you read "Merde, It's Not Easy to Learn French", volume 1 in this series! Reading a book in French can be difficult, even for advanced students. French novels are usually full of idiomatic expressions. They use complicated tenses, complex sentence structures, and often slang. The books in this series are in simple French. They tell of the joys and the frustrations of an adult learning French. You'll find a good dose of humor, exercises, and illustrations. Note: this book contains adult language. The book has two sections, allowing more levels of French students to enjoy it. Section 1 has the story written completely in French, and includes grammar exercises. Section 2 contains the complete translation in English and the answers to the exercises.

Trouble Gum

Trouble Gum
Author: Matthew Cordell
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780312387747

From Matthew Cordell, the author-illustrator of the Caldecott award-winning book Wolf in the Snow, comes this delightful picture book that's as charming as it is fun. It's raining. There's nothing to do. Ruben is bored. But things start looking up when his grandmother gives him and his little brother some gum. Gum is fun. There's just one problem with gum—it tends to make a mess! Uh-oh. . . .

Spider...The Celebrity

Spider...The Celebrity
Author: S. D. Burke
Publisher: Doodleface Publishing
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2020-07-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735215723

Spider thinks he is a celebrity. Why you ask? Because if anyone sees him, they scream with "delight." This charming tale shows that your perspective on life, no matter how misconstrued, can keep you confident in any situation.

Overdoing Democracy

Overdoing Democracy
Author: Robert B. Talisse
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190924195

"'The cure for democracy's ills is more democracy.' This popular adage is false. Contemporary democracy faces problems that derive from the tendency among citizens to overdo democracy. In this book, Robert Talisse argues that even in a democracy, politics must be put in its place"--

Fitness Fiesta!

Fitness Fiesta!
Author: Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2024-08-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 147805980X

As a fitness brand, Zumba Fitness has cultivated a devoted fan base of fifteen million participants spread across 180 countries. In Fitness Fiesta! Petra R. Rivera-Rideau analyzes how Zumba uses Latin music and dance to create and sell a vision of Latinness that’s tropical, hypersexual, and party-loving. Rivera-Rideau focuses on the five tropes that the Zumba brand uses to create this Latinness: authenticity, fiesta, fun, dreams, and love. Closely examining videos, ads, memes, and press coverage as well as interviews she conducted with instructors, Rivera-Rideau traces how Zumba Fitness constructs its ideas of Latinx culture by carefully balancing a longing for apparent authenticity with a homogenization of a marketable “south of the border”-style vacation. She shows how Zumba Fitness claims to celebrate Latinx culture and diversity while it simultaneously traffics in the same racial and ethnic stereotypes that are used to justify racist and xenophobic policies targeting Latinx communities in the United States. In so doing, Rivera-Rideau demonstrates not only the complex relationship between Latinidad and neoliberal, postracial America but also what that relationship means for the limits and possibilities of multicultural citizenship today.

Atheism, Morality, and Meaning

Atheism, Morality, and Meaning
Author: Michael Martin
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2009-12-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1615923829

Despite the pluralism of contemporary American culture, the Judaeo-Christian legacy still has a great deal of influence on the popular imagination. Thus it is not surprising that in this context atheism has a slightly scandalous ring, and unbelief is often associated with lack of morality and a meaningless existence. Distinguished philosopher and committed atheist Michael Martin sets out to refute this notion in this thorough defense of atheism as a both moral and meaningful philosophy of life. Martin shows not only that objective morality and a meaningful life are possible without belief in God but that the predominantly Christian world view of American society is seriously flawed as the basis of morality and meaning.Divided into four parts, this cogent and tightly argued treatise begins with well-known criticisms of nonreligious ethics and then develops an atheistic meta-ethics. In Part 2, Martin criticizes the Christian foundation of ethics, specifically the Divine Command Theory and the idea of imitating the life of Jesus as the basis of Christian morality. Part 3 demonstrates that life can be meaningful in the absence of religious belief. Part 4 criticizes the theistic point of view in general terms as well as the specific Christian doctrines of the Atonement, Salvation, and the Resurrection.This highly informed and sophisticated defense of atheism is a stimulating challenge to religious believers and a serious contribution to ethical theory.

Encyclopædia

Encyclopædia
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 890
Release: 1798
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN: