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Affiche du document Science Studies

Science Studies

J. Hess David

2h12min00

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176 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h12min.
The first comprehensive survey of the nascent field of "science studies"Thrust into the public eye by the contentious "Science Wars"—played out most recently by physicist Alan Sokal''s hoax—the nascent field of science studies takes on the political, historical, and cultural dimensions of technology and the sciences. Science Studies is the first comprehensive survey of the field, combining a concise overview of key concepts with an original and integrated framework. In the process of bringing disparate fields together under one tent, David J. Hess realizes the full promise of science studies, long uncomfortably squeezed into traditional disciplines. He provides a clear discussion of the issues and misunderstandings that have arisen in these interdisciplinary conversations. His survey is up-to-date and includes recent developments in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, and feminist studies. By moving from the discipline-bound blinders of a sociology, history, philosophy, or anthropology of science to a transdisciplinary field, science studies, Hess argues, will be able to provide crucial conceptual tools for public discussions about the role of science and technology in a democratic society.
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Une vie facile

Gil Blondel

57min00

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76 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 57min.
Pendant cinq ans, Gil Blondel déballe sa vie sur les réseaux sociaux : ses premières flatulences, ses voyages manuchawesques, sa fainéantise estudiantine, ses problèmes de transpiration, son rapport puéril aux enfants, sa jalousie maladive, sa gourmandise de camion poubelle, son amour des hamacs, sa terreur des méduses, sa fascination pour les tiques, les consultants en marketing et les utilisateurs de gyroroue... En rassemblant toutes ces histoires dans Une Vie Facile, il comprend que l’écriture n’est pas une thérapie efficace. Il arrête et adopte un chien.
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To Quote Myself

Khaya Dlanga

2h48min45

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225 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h49min.
From rural roots to social media sensation: Khaya Dlanga's inspiring journeyIn To Quote Myself, Khaya Dlanga, one of South Africa's most influential social media personalities, shares entertaining and moving stories from his remarkable life. From his humble beginnings in rural Transkei to his rise as a prominent figure in advertising and comedy, Dlanga's journey is one of perseverance and wit.With candor and humor, he recounts his experiences at school, his time studying advertising, and his stint as a stand-up comedian. Dlanga also fearlessly delves into his political views and the challenges he faced, including a period of homelessness, on his path to becoming one of South Africa's most influential marketers.Throughout To Quote Myself, readers are treated to a dose of the truly weird and wonderful that is routinely a part of Dlanga's life, making for a memoir that is as insightful as it is entertaining.
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Affiche du document You Look Better Online

You Look Better Online

Truxes Emmet Truxes

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Emmet Truxes's cartoons brilliantly poke fun at our modern preoccupations and misfortunes-like New Yorker cartoons for the next generation. Featuring all-too-relatable depictions of millennial milestones and struggles (squeezing into cramped apartments, finding true love on dating apps, nailing the perfect selfie), You Look Better Online is for anyone who's ever narrowly avoided walking into traffic because they were looking at their smartphone. This book takes a humorous look at how becoming an adult intersects with the entrenchment of technology in our everyday lives; it cleverly and keenly observes and captures a moment in time.
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Affiche du document Maddie Lounging On Things

Maddie Lounging On Things

Humphrey Theron

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Maddie the coonhound has captured the hearts and imaginations of dog lovers all around the world. Maddie Lounging On Things follows Maddie's adventures at play and at rest as she accompanies her owner, Theron, from Utah to Illinois to Mexico and everywhere in between. From cross-country trips sleeping in cars and cheap motels to visiting family near and far, Maddie finds a way to settle in for a nap in any set of circumstances. This collection highlights Maddie's snuggly, cuddly side, as she curls up in unexpected places, belly flops onto sofas all over the country, and nestles herself into the lap of her much-loved owner. These sweet, touching, and oftentimes silly photos will be absolutely irresistible to Maddie's fans and dog lovers just getting to know her.
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Affiche du document Marriage Wars

Marriage Wars

Hale Humphrey-Jones Sherry

34min30

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46 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 34min.
You may believe that you know the person with whom you are walking down the aisle, but do you know the person that he/she will become after the vows are spoken? What changes take place with the placement of rings? What are the critical issues that you might be facing that you had never addressed, or thought you had addressed?For example: how will you handle money, friendships and family, children, hidden addictions, sex, and cheating? While not insurmountable, they can become overwhelming, and potential battlegrounds for the war that has so often become marriage.Learning to navigate the battles, and choosing the right weaponry, can help you to win the war without destroying the relationship-or yourself.
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Affiche du document Dock Tok Presents...The Good, the Dad, and the Punny

Dock Tok Presents...The Good, the Dad, and the Punny

Logan Lisle

2h34min30

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206 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h34min.
From the online sensation comes this family-friendly collection of gloriously groan-inducing dad jokes, delivered straight from the dock and directly to your funny bone. Nobody does dad jokes better than the guys from Dock Tok, TikTok's #1 home for the wackiest one-liners, funniest puns, and most priceless plays on words you've ever heard. But you don't need to go online to find the best of these clever quipsthey're right here in this book! Still not hooked? Maybe these wisecracks from the water's edge will help reel you in: I'm writing a book on reverse psychology. Please don't buy it. I wonder what kind of doctor Dr. Pepper was. A fizzician. I took my cat's meds. Don't ask meow. Get The Good, the Dad, and the Punny for your friends and family. After all, who doesn't love a good dad pun? No one . . . and that's no joke!
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Affiche du document Broad View of Educational Perspectives

Broad View of Educational Perspectives

Nicola Walsh

41min15

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55 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 41min.
A Broad View of Educational Perspectives is for teachers and school leaders working in English as a Second Language. It is a comprehensive textbook written by Nicola Walsh, an experienced educator from Yorkshire, England. With a hands-on approach to education and a focus on what truly makes a difference in the lives of children and their families, this book is designed for teachers and school leaders working in English as a Second Language. It covers a wide range of topics, from language acquisition to classroom management, and assessment strategies to cultural considerations. The book is organized in chapters that are easy to read and understand, making it an ideal resource for educators at all levels. It offers a great way to explore and gain an understanding of the latest thinking in the field of English as a Second Language education, by choosing a topic and diving in. It is written in a simple and engaging style, with practical examples and case studies, making it an essential guide for any teacher or school leader working in this field.
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Affiche du document Dosser's Dreams

Dosser's Dreams

Alexander Rodger

44min15

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59 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 44min.
We all dream when we sleep. Whether you can remember your dreams is neither here nor there as we all daydream.Both nocturnal dreams and daydreams are part of our mental health and how we see and interpret the world. Dosser's Dreams are about the dreams of Dosser, a fictional character that emanates from his dreams.
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Affiche du document Sex, Dating and Really Confusing Girls

Sex, Dating and Really Confusing Girls

Sue Ostler

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285 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h34min.
Sex, Dating and Really Confusing Girls! sets out to offer the soundest, sanest, wittiest information you'll ever get about life as a single guy whilst giving you the scoop on what the other sex is thinking. Author, expert and all round ass-kicker of those who need a boot in the romantic behind, Sue Ostler tells it like it is and comes out swinging. Using a step-by-step format, Sex, Dating and Really Confusing Girls! explains the frequently irrational response of women, explores common complaints, suggests endless remedies and looks at what will happen when you cross the threshold and make that cold approach on a hot, but haughty woman.
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Affiche du document Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir

Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir

Georges Courteline

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84 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h03min.
Cet ebook bénéficie d’une mise en page esthétique optimisée pour la lecture numérique. Ce magnifique tableau-roman de Georges Courteline vous plongera au coeur des turpitudes de l'administration grâce à une série de portraits caustiques et truculents ayant pour fond une simple intrigue : les démarches d’un conservateur de musée pour entrer en possession du legs d'un certain Quibolle . L’auteur nous offre ici une satire sociale et morale qui reste d’actualité tant elle dépeint avec clarté la nature humaine et l’absurdité du système bureaucratique français. Vous passerez un moment agréable de lecture avec ce texte qui ne manquera pas de vous rappeler vos propres expériences avec l’administration. EXTRAIT : « Il avait, quand il s’y mettait, la verve facile et féroce. Cinq minutes, il ne tarit pas ; la présence de son amie éveillant en lui des coquetteries de jeune coq qui parade devant la poulette favorite. Sa recherche à se montrer spirituel l’amenait à l’être tout de bon, et une pointe de canaillerie faubourienne pimentait insensiblement l’amusement de ce qu’il disait. – Tu vas voir, c’est très curieux. Les uns (ce sont les rédacteurs) rédigent des lettres qui ne signifient rien ; et les autres (ce sont les expéditionnaires) les recopient. Là-dessus arrivent les commis d’ordre, lesquels timbrent de bleu les pièces du dossier, enregistrent les expéditions, et envoient le tout à des gens qui n’en lisent pas le premier mot. Voilà. Le personnel des bureaux coûte plusieurs centaines de millions à l’État. – C’est pour rien, fit Gabrielle. Il appuya : – Pour rien. Et ça a le précieux avantage d’enrayer la marche d’affaires qui iraient toutes seules sans cela. » (Quatrième tableau, II)
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Affiche du document Aileen the Alien

Aileen the Alien

Andrew MacLaren-Scott

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69 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 52min.
A light-hearted novella about alien abduction that will make you smile and will make you think. A middle-aged man heads off for a break on the wild west coast of Scotland but gets a much greater change of routine than he expected. This fast-paced tale is surprising, entertaining and thought-provoking. It reveals another world rather close to home that is strangely similar to our own world, but also very different.
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Affiche du document Madame de Gaulle's Penis

Madame de Gaulle's Penis

Herbie Brennan

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167 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h05min.
Cast as a fictional memoir of the 1960s, 'Madame de Gaulle's Penis' tells the story of John Sinclair, an ambitious young broadcaster with marital problems whose career nosedives following what should have been a turning-point interview with the recently-retired General de Gaulle. In a beautifully-crafted comic thriller, Sinclair follows de Gaulle and his diminutive wife to America in an attempt to get his revenge - an attempt that takes him all the way to the White House and introduces him to characters like a karate-trained nun and a near-mummified general... not to mention a series of hallucinations that make life increasingly difficult before leading to a satisfying resolution. This is light, easy reading at its best, produced by a master of fictional entertainment.
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Affiche du document Going Nowhere

Going Nowhere

Craig Low Roderick

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289 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h37min.
On a touring holiday in south-west France, a young English couple, Jennifer and Peter Robbins, quickly fall under the charms of the Lot region - a land of wide meandering rivers, wooded hillsides, rugged moors and quaint stone villages bathed in warm sunshine (not to mention the more worldly pleasures of good food and curiously strong drink). Their holiday takes a step into the unknown when they decide, on impulse, to purchase a house in need of restoration in the remote and pretty village of Lecul-en-Quercy. During their frequent visits, they get to know many of the local characters, including Thomas Chene, the wily mayor; Maisie Connell, the English estate agent who has special techniques for promoting business; Messieurs Blanc and Grospetit, the rival bakers; Marie, the Mayor's long suffering sister and reluctant spinster who daily faces the challenges of computers, community keys and the temperamental town-hall toilet. The Robbinses also have to deal with incomers like themselves -William Montgomery, the retired palaeontologist with a deep secret; Gilbert and Nancy, who impress the locals with their fertility; Stephanie de Chartres, with her out-of-place airs and graces, and even President Jacques Chirac. But it's the hilarious situations that prove the most memorable - the hunter's dinner, where British honour is at stake; the annual snail race, when extreme steps are taken to ensure victory; the terrible revenge meted out to an ambitious mobile trader; the auction of the beer-drinking billy goat; the curious consequence of the incomers' visit to the cemetery that divides the community, and the pending disaster that brings them all together again. And all this in a village that, due to a cartographer's deafness and a faulty telephone, has been removed from the Michelin maps since 1939.
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Affiche du document Search for Donald Cottee

Search for Donald Cottee

Philip Spires

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583 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 7h17min.
A Search for Donald Cottee is a comic tragedy about individualism. Donald, nicknamed Donkey, is an internet Quixote, bent on doing good works. Donkey Cottee and his wife, Poncho Suzie, have retired to Benidorm on Spain's Costa Blanca from their Yorkshire mining village. Don has left behind his incessant self-education and Suzie has turned the corner of her illness. Their new life is parked on the La Manca campsite from where they pursue their ambition of eternal holiday. To record the precious experience and make its potential paradise available to all, they blog. But they can never escape their Yorkshire origins. Episodes from the past reappear. Meanwhile, Don's environmental campaigning and Suzie's quest for business success fill their time. However, they discover that friends are transacting the businesses of their own lives. There is money in vice, more in property, even more in trading people. In a world where competition is the norm, where a dog's only possible diet is another dog, Don and Suzie are determined to do good works, be honest and loyal to all, to support what is right. But then, in the final analysis, when the jigsaw of lives is broken apart, it appears that perhaps the pieces never did fit. So finally, still trying to do good, Donkey Cottee and Poncho Suzie leave us with an enigma. Or is it a riddle?
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Affiche du document Out of the Mouths of Babes

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Autumn Stephens

42min45

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57 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 43min.
Humorous, startling, and shocking quotations from fierce and fiery women fill the pages of this sassy little book. Out of the Mouths of Babes continues the tradition started by author Autumn Stephens in her books Wild Women and Wild Words from Wild Women. There is no lack of confidence and sense of self in these women's sayings. More than 150 outrageously entertaining quotes present mostly wellknown women in their outspoken glory. Organized into sections with titles like Gifted Gabbers, Liberated Lovers, and Brazen Biddies, Out of the Mouths of Babes is a perfect reminder to all women that the feminine spirit is alive and well
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Affiche du document Tales of a Pet Vet

Tales of a Pet Vet

Dr. Dawn Filos

8h48min00

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704 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 8h48min.
In stories tailor-made for pet lovers, a seasoned veterinarian shares her good, bad, and messy days on the job—and highlights the undeniable magic of the human-animal bond.Dr. Dawn Filos’s own menagerie of pets, including Willie the woolly monkey, primed her for a. career as a veterinarian. With emotional honesty, Dr. Dawn shares her heartfelt, and often hilarious journey, from nervous novice to seasoned, self-assured doctor. This modern-day James Herriot finds her niche as a house-call vet, with unique, intimate access into the homes and lives of her beloved patients and their human families. She understands with all of her heart that no visit or emergency is too trivial to a pet parent. After reading Tales of a Pet Vet you will never see your own vet the same way.Sometimes heartwarming, sometimes sad, and often hilarious, Tales of a Pet Vet will resonate deeply with pet lovers everywhere.
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Affiche du document The Adventure of W.J. Bear

The Adventure of W.J. Bear

Schmidt We

30min45

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41 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 31min.
W.J. Bear writes his own story of things that have happened in his young life. He is a normal young bear cub, ready to go at a moment's notice. He is almost human but still a bear. He experiences things like the great outdoors, swings, slides and recycle, where his nose and smells get the better of him. Come along and see what life is like for a little mischievous bear cub named W.J. Bear.
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Affiche du document Maybe It's Me essays

Maybe It's Me essays

Eileen Pollack

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129 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h37min.
Eileen is too smart for the third grade, but when she gets a chance to be skipped ahead, she fails the test. The clownish school psychologist tries to gain her trust with an offer of Oreos, but she refuses. After all, he is a stranger and might try to poison her! This is the start of the author’s love-hate relationship with the rules as they were laid out for a girl in the 1960s and as they persist in some form today. As she ascends through a physics degree at Yale that dashes her hopes for love and romance, to a post-graduate summer that leaves her “peed on, shot at, and kidnapped,” to a marriage of supposed equals in which she is expected to do all the housework, child-rearing, and bill paying and make sure the Roto-Rooter guy arrives on time, Pollack shares with poignant humor the trials of being smart and female in a world in which women are rarely appreciated for both their bodies and their minds. Maybe It’s Me is a question all women have asked themselves. But Pollack’s message will resonate with readers of all genders as a story of the very human search for connection, love, acceptance, and self-respect. The author of the groundbreaking memoir The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club, Pollack proves that even in her sixties, wiser and more bruised but no less hilarious, she is still very much in the game.
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Affiche du document ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

Edward Steep

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169 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h7min.
The Value of the right WORDS & words of the right values. Your first step might well be to READ all of the author’s books as they form the backbone of wisdom. It is open to debate, as we are all different, and if you need to adapt certain meanings/inputs (from those writings), that’s fine. Get into the spirit of things, adapt to change and a calm mindset in your own style and manner. Never push things as YOU are the example others should see the need to follow – YOU should seek to become an EXEMPLAR and should act in that manner!
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