Good Ideas And Other Disasters
Download Good Ideas And Other Disasters full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Good Ideas And Other Disasters ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Nickelodeon Publishing |
| Publisher | : Nickelodeon Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 50 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1612630510 |
Who knew doing good could turn out so bad? SpongeBob SquarePants offers a generous collection of laughs in this hilarious new joke book! Good is bursting out all over Bikini Bottom . . . thanks to SpongeBob! Who knew that SpongeBob’s idea of doing something nice for Mrs. Puff could turn out so wrong—and yet turn everyone into do-gooders? SpongeBob’s deed ended up with Mrs. Puff going to the hospital (twice), which led to Mr. Krabs’s run-in with angry parents . . . and so on. Even Gary weighed in on all the goodhearted action! SpongeBob fans will be inspired to laugh--and lend a hand as well!
| Author | : Rebecca McCarthy |
| Publisher | : Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009-02-24 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781416960867 |
Who knew doing good could turn out so bad? SpongeBob offers a generous collection of laughs in this hilarious new joke book! Good is bursting out all over Bikini Bottom . . . thanks to SpongeBob! Who knew that SpongeBob’s idea of doing something nice for Mrs. Puff could turn out so wrong—and yet turn everyone into do-gooders? SpongeBob’s deed ended up with Mrs. Puff going to the hospital (twice), which led to Mr. Krabs’s run-in with angry parents . . . and so on. Even Gary weighed in on all the goodhearted action! SpongeBob fans will be inspired to laugh--and lend a hand as well!
| Author | : Bill Gates |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2021-02-16 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0385546149 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
| Author | : Meredith Zeitlin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0142424218 |
Smart, occasionally insecure, and ambitious 14-year-old Kelsey Finkelstein of Brooklyn embarks on her freshman year of high school in Manhattan with the intention of "rebranding" herself, but unfortunately everything she tries to do is a total disaster.
| Author | : Rebecca Solnit |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2010-08-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1101459018 |
The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.
| Author | : Malka Older |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2019-11-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780996103787 |
Fiction. Poetry. ...AND OTHER DISASTERS, the smart and moving collection of short fiction and poetry from acclaimed author Malka Older, examines otherness, identity and compassion across a spectrum of possible existence. In stories about an AI built for empathy, a corps of fighting midwives traveling to a new planet, and a young anthropologist who returns to study the cultures of a dying Earth, Older's characters grapple with what it means to belong and be othered, to cling to the past and face the future, all while navigating a precarious world, riddled with natural and man-made disasters.
| Author | : Steven Heller |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2008-10-28 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 1581159706 |
The thrill of victory…the agony of defeat. We're not talking about just any failure. Design failure. So public. So humiliating. How do designers who are really, really good (we swear!) turn a disaster into a triumph? Read this book and find out, as dozens of top names reveal the heartbreaking—and sometimes hilarious—mistakes they have made and talk about how they were able to grow from the experiences. Self-delusion, overcommitment, procrastination…they’re all here. Poor communication, missed deadlines, enraged clients…yes, they’re here too. Read Design Disasters and weep? No! Read Design Disasters and be inspired to find the silver lining in even the cloudiest situation. Featuring essays by: Henry Petroski • Alissa Walker • David Barringer • Allan Chocinov • Peter Blegvad • Ross MacDonald • Robert Grossman • Ina Saltz • Warren Lehrer • Rob Trostle • Ralph Caplan • Richard Saul Wurman • Marian Bantjes • Rick Meyerowitz • Amanda Bowers • David Jury • Veronique Vienne • Francis Levy • Colin Berry • Nick Curry • Debbie Millman, and more!
| Author | : Misa Sugiura |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2021-06-08 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062991256 |
This delightfully disastrous queer YA rom-com is a perfect read for fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon. When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn’t what she had in mind. That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous, glamorous, and…heartbroken? And when she enlists Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Nozomi is a willing volunteer. Because Nozomi has a master plan of her own: one to show Willow she’s better than a stand-in, and turn their fauxmance into something real. But as the lies pile up, it’s not long before Nozomi’s schemes take a turn toward disaster…and maybe a chance at love she didn’t plan for.
| Author | : Kim Stanley Robinson |
| Publisher | : Orbit |
| Total Pages | : 579 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0316300160 |
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem "If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox) The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis. "One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination."―New York Review of Books "If there’s any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity’s efforts to try and turn the tide before it’s too late." ―Polygon (Best of the Year) "Masterly." —New Yorker "[The Ministry for the Future] struck like a mallet hitting a gong, reverberating through the year ... it’s terrifying, unrelenting, but ultimately hopeful. Robinson is the SF writer of my lifetime, and this stands as some of his best work. It’s my book of the year." —Locus "Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom." ―Bloomberg Green
| Author | : Francine Pascal |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 2014-06-10 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1481401688 |
During summer vacation, Victoria Martin falls for two different boys, both of whom are already taken.
