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Author : Richard Lederer
Release : 2007-11-13
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 949/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Revenge of Anguished English by : Richard Lederer
Download or read book The Revenge of Anguished English written by Richard Lederer. This book was released on 2007-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anguished language expert provides the latest collection of unfortunate typos, tragically misplaced modifiers, and other hilarious language snafus.
Author : Richard Lederer
Release : 2006
Genre : Humor
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 814/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anguished English by : Richard Lederer
Download or read book Anguished English written by Richard Lederer. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of humorous language bloopers including misspelled words, bungled translations, mangled modifiers, and much more.
Author : Richard Lederer
Release : 1994-09-04
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 773/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis More Anguished English by : Richard Lederer
Download or read book More Anguished English written by Richard Lederer. This book was released on 1994-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the joy of the best-selling Anguished English is back! 2,000 all-new side-splitting flubs, fluffs, and hilariously funny accidental assaults on our language.
Author : Richard Lederer
Release : 2010-05-11
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 94X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Crazy English by : Richard Lederer
Download or read book Crazy English written by Richard Lederer. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.
Author : Thane Rosenbaum
Release : 2013-04-10
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 614/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Payback by : Thane Rosenbaum
Download or read book Payback written by Thane Rosenbaum. This book was released on 2013-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized and immoral, an impulse that individuals and societies should actively repress and replace with the order and codes of courtroom justice. What, if anything, distinguishes punishment at the hands of the government from a victim’s individual desire for retribution? Are vengeance and justice really so very different? No, answers legal scholar and novelist Thane Rosenbaum in Payback: The Case for Revenge—revenge is, in fact, indistinguishable from justice. Revenge, Rosenbaum argues, is not the problem. It is, in fact, a perfectly healthy emotion. Instead, the problem is the inadequacy of lawful outlets through which to express it. He mounts a case for legal systems to punish the guilty commensurate with their crimes as part of a societal moral duty to satisfy the needs of victims to feel avenged. Indeed, the legal system would better serve the public if it gave victims the sense that vengeance was being done on their behalf. Drawing on a wide range of support, from recent studies in behavioral psychology and neuroeconomics, to stories of vengeance and justice denied, to revenge practices from around the world, to the way in which revenge tales have permeated popular culture—including Hamlet, The Godfather, and Braveheart—Rosenbaum demonstrates that vengeance needs to be more openly and honestly discussed and lawfully practiced. Fiercely argued and highly engaging, Payback is a provocative and eye-opening cultural tour of revenge and its rewards—from Shakespeare to The Sopranos. It liberates revenge from its social stigma and proves that vengeance is indeed ours, a perfectly human and acceptable response to moral injury. Rosenbaum deftly persuades us to reconsider a misunderstood subject and, along the way, reinvigorates the debate on the shape of justice in the modern world.
