Hyperbole and a Half
Hyperbole and a Half

Author: Allie Brosh

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-10-29

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1451666187

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#1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!

My Half Day
My Half Day

Author: Doris Fisher

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 1934359149

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A young boy goes to fraction camp and describes the activities of his day through fractions, including eating breakfast, archery class, and playing soccer with a team of aliens.

China
China

Author:

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9789251008980

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Introduction to China: background information, administrative structure, the people's commune, agricultural policy. The agricultural training system: historical review of the educational system, the colleges of agriculture, communist labour university, the agriculture schools, spare-time education, development of the research and extension system, higher research institutions, the four-level research network, popularization. Appraisal, suggestions, applications: an overview of the agricultural training system, an appraisal of the educational system, an appraisal of the research and extension system, some suggestions on the training system, possible applications to other countries, suggestions for China-FAO cooperation in the field of agricultural training.

The Time and the Place
The Time and the Place

Author: Naguib Mahfouz

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2016-06-15

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0525431632

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Selected and translated by the distinguished scholar Denys Johnson-Daivies, these stories have all the celebrated and distinctive characters and qualities found in Mahfouz's novels: The denizens of the dark, narrow alleyways of Cairo, who struggle to survive the poverty; melancholy ruminations on death; experiments with the supernatural; and witty excursions into Cairene middle-class life.

Half the Day Is Night
Half the Day Is Night

Author: Maureen McHugh

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1466865741

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Half the Day Is Night by Maureen F. McHugh In a twenty-first-century undersea city, terrorists threaten old-money banker Mayla Ling, potentially plunging her and her bodyguard, war veteran David Dai, back into the nightmare of David's violent past. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Essential Naguib Mahfouz
The Essential Naguib Mahfouz

Author: Najīb Maḥfūẓ

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 9774163877

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A carefully curated selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate in a single volume Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, a regular weekly newspaper column, and in later life his intensely brief and evocative Dreams. His Cairo Trilogy achieved the status of a world classic, and the Swedish Academy of Letters in awarding him the 1988 Nobel prize for literature noted that Mahfouz "through works rich in nuance--now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous--has formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind." Here Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time," makes an essential selection of short stories and extracts from novels and other writings, to present a cross-section through time of the very best of the work of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate.