Common Nonsense is Andy Rooney at his best--acerbic, teasing, witty, insightful, and wise. Each chapter is devoted to a topic close to his heart--food, morality, money, sports, home and work life, government, politics, health, doctors, and the English language. And readers get an inside peek at Rooney as a person, including a whole raft of contradictions.
Carnegie Hall is one of the great civilized places in the world. Going there to a concert gives you the feeling that we are living in a civilized world. To tell you the truth, Carnegie Hall is more civilized than I am.
. If you're looking for an antidote to the Beck dreck that Time magazine recently passed off as journalism, this is it."—Kevin Drum, Mother Jones "Despicable, yellow journalism." —Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel Common Nonsense What kind ...
This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists.
" ?Joe Conason, The New York Observer "Edifying." ?Todd Gitlin, Talking Points Memo "Terrific. . . . If you're looking for an antidote to the Beck dreck that Time magazine recently passed off as journalism, this is it.
Best known for his patented curmudgeonly commentary carried weekly on the television news show, 60 Minutes, Rooney here brings his style to the written word.
NONSENSE & COMMON SENSE A Child's Book of Victorian Verse The old-fashioned pleasure of read-aloud verse returns in this collection of over 100 poems gathered from the golden age of children's poetry.
A mouse catching a cat? What’s wrong with this book from the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Yes, there’s something strange, something funny and even downright preposterous on every page of this book.
By this and this alone, U.S. politicians are partly to blame in the deaths of innocent people. Anyway, this book is not about murders or guns. In a way though, it's about "death"- the death of reason and sense in politics.
This book guides managers in using this approach to dismantle six widely held—but ultimately flawed—management beliefs in core areas including leadership, strategy, change, talent, financial incentives, and work-life balance.
Tate is different, and not just because he came from a pumpkin patch.