The Book Lover And The Football Fan

Vera and Brian is a bit more than middle-aged married couple. Maybe they are having a little more trouble with each other than most. In fact, some of their friends are beginning to wonder whether their marriage is approaching retirement age, fearing that it will end up in a divorce shortly before their silver wedding, which is orherwise fast approaching. beacuse it is not just that Brian would rather sit and watch sports on the TV, while Vera has so many other interests.

This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair.

Put your bookworm reputation on the line and prove your literary knowledge with this collection of quizzes for book whizzes. Book lovers can answer questions by themselves or host a quiz among friends with twenty-four quizzes to keep you guessing with a variety of question styles including: - 'Blankety Books', where you must fill in the missing word in each title - Anagrams to decipher - 'Two of a Kind', where you must identify a character and author who share the same initials - Guess the book with 'Say What You See' pictures and badly drawn covers - 'Book Bingo' The quizzes are carefully weighted so avid bookworms will get a workout, while more casual readers can still have lots of fun having a go. All questions are designed to aid guessing, with multiple-choice answers and hints, and make the reader smile with amusing wrong answers, clever red herrings, little-known facts and footnotes.

Common sense meets formal syllogism. This book is for you if you have never studied logic, if you believe you have no use for logic, or if you have no idea what logic is. Just a few basic ideas in logic are presented with a lot of examples from current events and literature. If you wish to prepare for competitive exams - MBA, CAT, IAS, PCS, State Civil Services, this book will definitely enhance your logical reasoning skills to help you tackle exam questions and life equally logically. Enjoy finding out how textbook logic pops up everywhere in life. About the Author: Aparna Tulpule is a logic enthusiast, not an expert. She is inviting you to share something she found interesting — the academic subject of logic and the way it pops up everywhere.

The recognition that identity is mutable, multi-layered and subject to multiple modes of construction and de-construction has contributed to problematizing the issues associated with its representation in discourse, which has recently been attracting increasing attention in different disciplinary areas. Identity representation is the main focus of this volume, which analyses instances of multimedia and multimodal communication to the public at large for commercial, informative, political or cultural purposes. In particular, it examines the impact of the increasingly sophisticated forms of expression made available by the evolution of communication technologies, especially in computer-mediated or web-based settings, but also in more traditional media (press, cinema, TV). The basic assumption shared by all contributors is that communication is the locus where identities, either collective, social or individual, are deliberately constructed and negotiated. In their variety of topics and approaches, the studies collected in this volume testify to the criticality of representing personal, professional and organizational identities through the new media, as their ability to reach a virtually unlimited audience amplifies the potential political, cultural and economic impact of discursive identity constructions. They also confirm that new highly sophisticated media can forge identities well beyond the simply iconic or textual representation, generating deeply interconnected webs of meaning capable of occupying an expanding - and adaptable - discursive space.

Learn to bend it like Rooney and dribble like Torres with this ultimate visual guide to planet football revised and updated in time for the World Cup 2010 Get in training for the 2010 World Cup. Experience the excitement, the passion and the glory of arguably the world's greatest sport - football. You'll relive the finest moments of the players, coaches and teams who have created football history and learn everything from match highlights to the inside stories on players, managers and fans. Discover all you need to know on the clubs, the rituals, the stats and the results. Plus find out about the laws, the tactics, the science, and the art of the beautiful game. Includes a fantastic pull-out chart on World Cup 2010 teams and groups.

In rhyming text a child, home from a game, bids goodnight to all the sights and sounds of a school football game.

Fred Van Lente’s brilliant debut is both a savagely funny homage to the Golden Age of Mystery and a thoroughly contemporary show-business satire. As the story opens, nine comedians of various acclaim are summoned to the island retreat of legendary Hollywood funnyman Dustin Walker. The group includes a former late-night TV host, a washed-up improv instructor, a ridiculously wealthy “blue collar” comic, and a past-her-prime Vegas icon. All nine arrive via boat to find that every building on the island is completely deserted. Marooned without cell phone service or wifi signals, they soon find themselves being murdered one by one. But who is doing the killing, and why? A darkly clever take on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and other classics of the genre, Ten Dead Comedians is a marvel of literary ventriloquism, with hilarious comic monologues in the voice of every suspect. It’s also an ingeniously plotted puzzler with a twist you’ll never see coming!