Mission Accomplished! or How We Won the War in Iraq, Cerf Christopher, Navasky Victor S.

Автор: Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, Foreword by M
Название: I Wish I Hadn`t Said That
ISBN: 0006531490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006531494
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Рейтинг:
Цена: 1979.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Описание: Did you ever have the uneasy feeling that the experts are not ...well, experts? 'We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.' Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962 I Wish I Hadn't Said That sets straight thousands of examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history and science. In I Wish I Hadn't Said That we see just how much the experts don't know. 'No woman in my lifetime will be Prime Minister' Margaret Thatcher

Автор: Cerf, Christopher
Название: Skunk In My Bunk!
ISBN: 0525578722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525578727
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 919.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: A playful easy reader in the tradition of Dr. Seuss's Hop on Pop that teaches the basics of word construction.

From award-winning humorist Christopher Cerf comes a super-simple, delightfully silly Beginner Book in which the rhymed text and the position of the words on the page teach the basics of word construction. Written in the style of Dr. Seuss's classic Hop on Pop with rhyming words placed directly above each other to show their shared construction, A Skunk in My Bunk combines phonics and word recognition to make learning to read easy--and fun With bright, charming illustrations by Nicola Slater, kids will be delighted to read for themselves about a goat in a coat in a boat in a moat, a pig in a wig dancing a jig, a skunk in a bunk, and much, much more

Launched in 1957 with The Cat in the Hat and written specifically for emergent readers, Beginner Books combine an exacting blend of simple words and fun pictures that encourage children to read--all by themselves.

Автор: Navasky, Victor S
Название: Experts Speak, The
ISBN: 0679778063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679778066
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 2115.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: The new and updated version of a classic reference work brings the history of distortions, errors, half-truths, and outright lies into the information age.

Who said the following?
-- "The one thing I won't let happen to me is I won't let a ball go through my legs".(1)
-- "640K ought to be enough for anybody".(2)
-- "Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican nominee who doesn't drool on stage".(3)

When first published in 1984, The Experts Speak was hailed by Time magazine as "irreverent, unfair and subversive", and over the years it has proven to be the ultimate resource for skeptics. Since then, we've lived through such monumental world events as the Gulf War, the Iran-contra scandal, and the O. J. Simpson trial, fostering the need to examine once more those sure things that turned out to be dead wrong.

Whether it's business or technology, the arts, the environment, or politics, The Experts Speak documents thousands of examples of expert miscalculation, misunderstanding, egregious prognostication, and boo-boos, all systematically cataloged, footnoted, and set straight.

This is a perfect gift for students of all ages, and sure to remain the lie-detector of record for years to come.

(1) Bill Buckner, Red Sox, first baseman, prior to the 1986 World Series

(2) Bill Gates, Microsoft, 1981

(3) Wall Street Journal editorial, October 1995