The Ultimate Book Of Heroic Failures
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The Ultimate Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-10-20
The Ultimate Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-20 with Humor categories.
THE SUNDAY TIMES HUMOUR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the few books to make me laugh out loud' Sunday Express With Stephen Pile's The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures, celebrate the very best in failure with this all new collection of outrageously funny misadventures from the author of the classic number one bestseller The Book of Heroic Failures. Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These are the all-time greats, Gods in the field of failure, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success ('I'm a winner, Lord Sugar') to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong. Any of us could make a mistake, but these great souls can turn the simplest everyday task into a scene of jaw-dropping wonder. These are the immortals. Failure is everywhere. The Book of Heroic Failures, takes us on an all-new and mind-bendingly hilarious tour to celebrate the most spectacular and absurd failures of the last twenty-five years. There are 235 stories in total spread from the Outer Hebrides to America, Ireland, Australia, Europe and Africa. From the most driving test failures (959), the most pointless election (in Dakota, in which not even the mayor voted), the worst robbery (when two different sets of bank robbers struck simultaneously) and the worst mugger (who left his victim $250 better off), to the holidaying rugby team of fifty-somethings from Dorchester who, due to a mis-translation, ended up playing the top team from Romania live on state TV, this is the ultimate book to make you feel better about yourself and the world around you.
The Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
The Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher: Longman
Release Date : 1999
The Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by Longman this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Curiosities and wonders categories.
It is difficult to be really bad at something, but the people in this book manage to succeed The book features tales of drivers who can't drive, travellers who get lost all the time and policemen who can't catch criminals.
The Not Terribly Good Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-10-04
The Not Terribly Good Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with Humor categories.
Last year Stephen Pile attempted to deliver a daring blow to the success ethic that so pervades Western culture. To his dismay, The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures sold many copies and even became the Sunday Times 'Humour Book of the Year.' Nothing daunted, Stephen returns with a new selection which brings together the very best of his original classic titles - The Book of Heroic Failures and The Return of Heroic Failures. The heartwarming news that stays news is that there really is no limit to what humanity can achieve, as we move onwards and downwards to ever more immortal and breathtaking feats of incompetence. The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures lovingly chronicles the all-time heroes who have been so bad at things that they shine as beacons for future generations. It is hard not to feel boundless admiration, for example, for the fifty Mexican convicts who dug an escape tunnel out of their jail and came up in the courtroom where many of them had been sentenced. Or for the world's worst tourist, who spent three days in New York believing he was in Rome.
The Darwin Awards Countdown To Extinction
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Author : Wendy Northcutt
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-10-28
The Darwin Awards Countdown To Extinction written by Wendy Northcutt and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-28 with Humor categories.
The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift! The Darwin Awards are more than just a brand. They're a pop culture phenomenon. With six books and a website that draws in more than a million unique visitors every month, the Darwin Awards rivals The Onion and The Simpsons as one of the biggest humor franchises in the world. Fully illustrated and featuring all-new tales of the marvelously macabre, The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction chronicles the astonishing acts of individuals who have taken a swan dive into the shallow end of the gene pool. From attaching a five-horsepower engine to a barstool, to hammering a metal hook into an explosive device, to using a taser to treat a snake bite, these gloriously gruesome incidents prove that the countdown (to human extinction) is well under way. And we won't exit this mortal coil without one last laugh.
The Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Failure (Psychology) categories.
Heroic Failure
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Author : Fintan O'Toole
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-22
Heroic Failure written by Fintan O'Toole and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-22 with Political Science categories.
'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative' David Miliband. 'Hugely entertaining and engrossing' Roddy Doyle. 'Best book about the English that I've read for ages' Billy Bragg. A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engages in the dangerous pleasures of national masochism. Trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact came to define the style of an entire political elite; a country that once had colonies redefined itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation. Fintan O'Toole also discusses the fatal attraction of heroic failure, once a self-deprecating cult in a hugely successful empire that could well afford the occasional disaster. Now failure is no longer heroic – it is just failure, and its terrible costs will be paid by the most vulnerable of Brexit's supporters. A new afterword lays out the essential reforms that are urgently needed if England is to have a truly democratic future and stable relations with its nearest neighbours.
Five Days At Memorial
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Author : Sheri Fink
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Five Days At Memorial written by Sheri Fink and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with History categories.
In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amidst chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing. In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are for the impact of large-scale disasters - and how we can do better. A remarkable book, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms our understanding of human nature in crisis.
The Puffin Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher: Puffin HC
Release Date : 1991
The Puffin Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by Puffin HC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Disasters categories.
The Incomplete Book Of Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher: Plume
Release Date : 1979
The Incomplete Book Of Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by Plume this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Fiction categories.