Poke the Box

Poke the Box
Author: Seth Godin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1591848253

"A one-two punch! Half kick in the ass, half cheerleading encouragement." —Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art If you are happy being just a dreamer, perhaps you don’t need this book. If you’re enjoying the status quo, don’t even consider reading this book. If you are content waiting for success to find you, please put this book down and go find something else to read. Why has Poke the Box become a cult classic? Because it’s a book that dares readers to do something they’re afraid of. It could be what you need, too. "Is Seth Godin the Pied Piper for however many of us have been afraid to fail? Will I answer his call? Will you?" —Peter Shermeta, reviewing the original edition of Poke the Box

In Persuasion Nation

In Persuasion Nation
Author: George Saunders
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2006-04-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101217456

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables—all in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection from an author hailed as the heir to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon. "The first thing you ought to know is that Saunders is the funniest writer in America... [But] Saunders's laughs are a cover, a diversion, beneath which reside some profoundly serious intentions regarding the morality of how we live and the power of love and immanent death to transform us into vastly better creatures... I can't think of another writer who would try to do what Saunders is doing, or anything close to it. This is an important book."—The Nation "Saunders is a hilarious, wicked, and pitch-perfect satirist of our times, of course, but for a satirist he has a whole lot of heart."—Esquire

Jack Tree and the Copper Princess

Jack Tree and the Copper Princess
Author: Joh Hartog
Publisher: Australian Self Publishing Group
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1925152510

This is the story of Jack Tree and Kaavi Noname who live on a large island called Aurelia. They meet an 11 year old girl, Jodie Jones, a survivor of a shipwreck. Jodie has rescued a copper statue of a very young girl with a cart and a goat. To everyone's surprise the statue comes to life. As the child cannot speak, they have no idea who this mysterious toddler is. Jodie decides to call her Hazel and announces that she must be a princess because she appears to have the power to control the weather and only princesses can do things like that. Meanwhile, the treacherous Tulgon, a sorcerer from the island of Kraag, stalks the copper princess. Tulgon craves the power she possesses, but Jodie’s innocent heart prevents him from coming too close. After some investigation, Jack, Kaavi and Jodie learn that the toddler is the daughter of Neva, a rival sorceress. They decide to return the child to her mother who is still faraway on what is left of Kraag. After a number of adventures and meetings with some who help and some who hinder, they succeed in defeating Tulgon and return the child to her mother.

Dictionary of Australian Analogies, Similes, & Idioms

Dictionary of Australian Analogies, Similes, & Idioms
Author: Kerrin P. Rowe
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2018-03-12
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1490786376

What is an an-al-o-gy? Its a similarity between like features of two things which are quite different from each other, on which, a comparison may be based: the Analogy between the heart and a pump. Writers use analogies as a literary technique as a play-on-words or for the purpose of wit or amusement. What is a simile? A simile is (dictionary form) a figure of speech that makes a comparison showing similarities between two different things, the resemblance is drawn by use of like or as (they are) like two peas in a pod (he is) as a slippery as an eel.

Third Language Dictionary

Third Language Dictionary
Author: Kerrin P. Rowe
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 783
Release: 2018-05-03
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1490786341

Third Language Dictionary is a guide to everyday language that is peculiar to and used by Australian folks from all walks of life no matter what or who they are or the level of success, education, credence, or place in society they have attained.

THE TIRNANO

THE TIRNANO
Author: Peter Emmerson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 626
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1291310622

Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English

Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English
Author: Michael B. Montgomery
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 3218
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1469662558

The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Award–winning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice. Editors Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller document the variety of English used in parts of eight states, ranging from West Virginia to Georgia—an expansion of the first edition's geography, which was limited primarily to North Carolina and Tennessee—and include over 10,000 entries drawn from over 2,200 sources. The entries include approximately 35,000 citations to provide the reader with historical context, meaning, and usage. Around 1,600 of those examples are from letters written by Civil War soldiers and their family members, and another 4,000 are taken from regional oral history recordings. Decades in the making, the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English surpasses the original by thousands of entries. There is no work of this magnitude available that so completely illustrates the rich language of the Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachia.

An Ethics Beyond

An Ethics Beyond
Author: Kevin Richard Kaiser
Publisher: Universitat de València
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 8491344616

This study examines the fiction of contemporary American author George Saunders in terms of how it presents situations applicable to the chief notions of posthumanist ethics and how these conceptions concern nonhuman animals, which are prevalent in his writing. Posthumanist ethics can help us understand what is at play in Saunders’s fiction. Meanwhile, his texts can help us understand what is at stake in posthumanist ethics. This interdisciplinary project may be beneficial both to conceiving new notions of ethics that are more inclusive and, more implicitly, to understanding the relevance of Saunders’s fiction to the current American sociocultural climate.

Hand Poked No Electricity

Hand Poked No Electricity
Author: Sarah Lu
Publisher: Carpet Bombing Culture
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-03
Genre: Tattoo artists
ISBN: 9781908211538

A love letter to stick and poke tattoo culture. Not only an artists handbook but a resource book, a history book and a visual feast of everything single colour.

The Bulletin

The Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1322
Release: 1986-11
Genre: Sydney (N.S.W.)
ISBN: