A Man Must Stand Up
Author: John E. Reinecke
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780824815172
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Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up
Author: David W. Bercot
Publisher: Scroll Publishing Co.
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780924722004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Guide to Stoicism
Author: St. George Stock
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 1775418448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most influential schools of classical philosophy, stoicism emerged in the third century BCE and later grew in popularity through the work of proponents such as Seneca and Epictetus. This informative introductory volume provides an overview and brief history of the stoicism movement.
Born Standing Up
Author: Steve Martin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1847395848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSteve Martin has been an international star for over thirty years. Here, for the first time, he looks back to the beginning of his career and charmingly evokes the young man he once was. Born in Texas but raised in California, Steve was seduced early by the comedy shows that played on the radio when the family travelled back and forth to visit relatives. When Disneyland opened just a couple of miles away from home, an enchanted Steve was given his first chance to learn magic and entertain an audience. He describes how he noted the reaction to each joke in a ledger - 'big laugh' or 'quiet' - and assiduously studied the acts of colleagues, stealing jokes when needed. With superb detail, Steve recreates the world of small, dark clubs and the fear and exhilaration of standing in the spotlight. While a philosophy student at UCLA, he worked hard at local clubs honing his comedy and slowly attracting a following until he was picked up to write for TV. From here on, Steve Martin became an acclaimed comedian, packing out venues nationwide. One night, however, he noticed empty seats and realised he had 'reached the top of the rollercoaster'. BORN STANDING UP is a funny and riveting chronicle of how Steve Martin became the comedy genius we now know and is also a fascinating portrait of an era.
How I Escaped My Certain Fate
Author: Stewart Lee
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2010-08-19
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0571254829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExperience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny word! See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed, before your astonished face! In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a loss-making musical, Jerry Springer: The Opera. Nine years later, How I Escaped My Certain Fate details his return to live performance, and the journey that took him from an early retirement to his position as the most critically acclaimed stand-up in Britain, the winner of BAFTAs and British Comedy Awards, and the affirmation of being rated the 41st best stand up ever. Here is Stewart Lee's own account of his remarkable comeback, told through transcripts of the three legendary full-length shows that sealed his reputation. Astonishingly frank and detailed in-depth notes reveal the inspiration and inner workings of his act. With unprecedented access to a leading comedian's creative process, this book tells us just what it was like to write these shows, develop the performance and take them on tour. How I Escaped My Certain Fate is everything we have come to expect from Stewart Lee: fiercely intelligent, unsparingly honest and very, very funny.
Stand-Up Comedy
Author: Judy Carter
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2010-03-03
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0307575209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you think you’re funny, buy this book! Whether you dream of becoming a star . . . A better public speaker . . . A more effective communicator . . . A funnier, happier human being . . . You can learn to leave ‘em laughing! David Letterman learned to do it. Jay Leno learned to do it. Roseanne Barr learned to do it. So can you! Now successful stand-up comic Judy Carter—who went from teaching high school to performing in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Lake Tahoe, and on over 45 major TV shows—gives you the same hands-on, step-by-step instruction she’s taught to students in her comedy workshops. She shows you how to do it: create an act, perform it, make money with it, or apply it to everyday life. Discover: • The formulas for creating comedy material • How to find your own style • The three steps to putting your act together • Rehearsal do’s and don’ts • What to do if you bomb • Ways to punch up your everyday life with humor
Real Stories
Author: Toni Ortner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-02-02
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 1504028988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReal Stories is a writing and reading text that works. The method Toni Ortner discusses is classroom-tested and designed to meet the needs of multi-cultural high school students. It contains three sections: “The Process of Writing” covers the basic building blocks of writing. “Time Savers for Grammar and Punctuation” includes types of sentences, how to find and eliminate runs-ons, comma splices and fragments, comma use, nouns, capitalization, direct quotes, verb tenses, and irregular verbs, practice exercises, an answer key, and tests. “The Reader” contains students’ personal stories for analysis and discussion. Real Stories helps students use words to empower and enrich their lives.
Stand Up That Mountain
Author: Jay Erskine Leutze
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-07-30
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1451682646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the tradition of A Civil Action—this true story of a North Carolina outdoorsman who teams up with his Appalachian neighbors to save treasured land from being destroyed will “make you want to head for the mountains” (Raleigh News & Observer). LIVING ALONE IN HIS WOODED MOUNTAIN RETREAT, Jay Leutze gets a call from a whip-smart fourteen-year-old, Ashley Cook, and her aunt, Ollie Cox, who say a local mining company is intent on tearing down Belview Mountain, the towering peak above their house. Ashley and her family, who live in a little spot known locally as Dog Town, are “mountain people,” with a way of life and speech unique to their home high in the Appalachians. They suspect the mining company is violating North Carolina’s mining law, and they want Jay, a nonpracticing attorney, to stop the destruction of the mountain. Jay, a devoted naturalist and fisherman, quickly decides to join their cause. So begins the epic quest of “the Dog Town Bunch,” a battle that involves fiery public hearings, clandestine surveillance of the mine operator’s highly questionable activities, ferocious pressure on public officials, and high-stakes legal brinksmanship in the North Carolina court system. Jay helps assemble a talented group of environmental lawyers to contend with the well-funded attorneys protecting the mining company’s plan to dynamite Belview Mountain, which happens to sit next to the famous Appalachian Trail, the 2,184- mile national park that stretches from Maine to Georgia. As the mining company continues to level the forest and erect the gigantic crushing plant on the site, Jay’s group searches frantically for a way to stop an act of environmental desecration that will destroy a fragile wild place and mar the Appalachian Trail forever.
How to Make Great Love to a Man
Author: Phillip Hodson
Publisher: Robson
Published: 2015-06-04
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 191023253X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs agony aunts and long-term partners, Anne Hooper and Phillip Hodson are more than aware that men and women see sex differently. In 'How to Make Love to a Man' they discuss the fundamental differences in men and women's expectations of sex, and how these differences can be reconciled to both partner's satisfaction. Beautifully designed and illustrated throughout with photographs and line drawings, this unique book helps men understand women and women understand themselves.
The New Fall of Man:
Author: Troy Veenstra
Publisher: Veenstra Publishing
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the late 1960’s the sexual revolution and the birth of Feminism, the simple thought of men being masculine has significantly changed from something that man was suppose to be and do, to something that the world has deemed to be wrong and immature or improper. The bible however, shows proof that man was created something complete different than that which we have become.
